last year, at the end of September
Believe your own eyes not a person on a message board
If you go to enough places you can find some big idiots. Football is full of them.
Like at Watford at the weekend. You can bet your bottom dollar that some of the Watford fans were telling others to sit down and stop being so biased to say that that ball didn’t go in just like City fans can watch Omar Daley do the exact same trick that wins penalties off clumsy defenders week in week out and still moan that he wasn’t touched.
You can find people ready to forget what they see and say what the thought they should have seen everywhere. Sometimes I wonder why some people bother going to games when they ignore the evidence of their own eyes.
Last week is was morons booing totally ignoring that fact you could see City had played well. This week it is people taking a pop at McCall and Jacobs after we lost 3-1.
First the Jacobs factor. I’ve no respect for people who single out Wayne Jacobs. These people are cowards too scared to have a go at Stuart. They don’t want to comment on the hero so they act like they know the difference between what the manager and is assistant do and blame the softer target. Cowards.
I don’t have much respect for the things thrown at the manager either. Reading the monotony of tripe that is the Official Message Board I read people saying McCall has on Plan B two days after I’ve seen the skip replaced by Barry Conlon and City play a 343.
I read that McCall has lost the plot. I’m speechless! We went into the game top! Did he lose that plot between 3 and 3:45? If so it is probably on the touchline somewhere.
It is not that I think that Stuart should be above comment it is that I worry that people might take this idiot commentary seriously.
Have a go at anyone but make sure when you do it makes sense and isn’t just ignoring what you see so say something else. Say Stuart’s plan B was stupid but saying he doesn’t have one just means you were not paying attention.
This is the age of the Internet and and everyone gets their opinion listened (including me, which so I’m telling you mine now) to but I just hope that the when listening to the sort of people who make the kind of moronic comments aimed at Stuart and Jakes this week people remember what they saw with their own eyes and ignore the kind of voices that complain at anything.
These kind of people who want to be negative about everything are not the sort of people who deserve listening to. They are not the people who saved this club, they don’t represent the people who saved this club, they are not the people who the club was saved for.
September 22nd, 2008 at 22:05
Good article. I also feel people hide behind Crackers to have a go at McCall. Either that or they are oblivious to who really rules the roost. I am not one of those.
McCall is a legend and a lover of the club, of which we have very few. I would not want another manager. Our start to the season has been brilliant. The second half display last week was a joy to watch.
However, get many a City fan in the pub and get them speaking in hushed tones and many will tell you that Macca is tactically naive at times.
Many of the message boards today say he has no Plan B. I am paying attention. This sadly, on evidence, appears to be true. He is learning and will get better, no doubt but the fact is he struggles to swap and change when it is needed.
He also seems to favour certain players. Conlon is open to debate, but the fact remains that he is played and played as a sub. Why not give a chance to Willy Topp or Rory Boulding?
Long live McCalls reign at City, but lets not live in claret and amber tinted specs.
September 22nd, 2008 at 23:41
You’re right Roland, the Official Message Board is a joke. Not only because of your points in this article but the way they act in general, it’s an embarrassment to the club and needs closing down.
There’s nothing worth reading and the amount of dross on there after a loss is unbelieveable. There are other Bradford City message boards like ‘The City Gent’ and ‘Claret and Banter’ which are much better and the opinions of posters on these sites should be respected much more than those on the Offcial site.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:19
I feel that Bournemouth played superb. Executed their game plan flawlessly! We created a couple of chances and were unlucky they didn’t go in, but you have to look at some of the defending for all of their goals, especially the third. Are individual errors the fault of McCall & Jacobs? I personally don’t think so. As McCall said ‘A bad day at the office’.
We have had an excellent start to the season, a credit to all the staff and players hard work so far!
September 26th, 2008 at 0:25
Totally agree with you Roland on this subject. I posted a comment on a similar article the other day (on this website) regarding the ‘tatical naive’ statement. I agree McCall does have a plan b and probably has a plan c and d too. The problem is that he is still learning his trade and tactically, he isn’t there yet.
However, he is our manager and is doing a great job. He will make mistakes as his career develops, but I want to see him develop into a top manager at my club, not somewhere else.
On Saturday, he noticed we were getting out-battled in midfield and came down to pitch side to address it. Did he bring on an extra midfield as we were crying out for? No, he swapped one midfielder for another. We were still getting out-fought in the middle. Come his next change and he takes off a centre back and throws on another striker. What for? We weren’t getting the ball to the 2 strikers already on the field. We needed another midfielder and, yes, he was right to sacrifice a defender, but it should have been for another midfielder. It was a game crying out for Nix’s battling qualities. Only McCall and Jacobs didn’t see it.
This is why fans have been saying they are tactically naive. I don’t agree with comments that he hasn’t got a plan b, but I do agree he is sometimes naive with tactics. However, he is learning and has done a fantastic job so far.
The calls on the numerous websites this week are sickening and I spent most of my week responding, in vain, to these ’so-called’ City fans.
A win on Saturday and it will all be forgotten about… until the next loss!