Hasta

Bradford’s last win at Ewood was 1921, until last Tuesday.

Ok. No probs. I tend to post, then reread and correct and I thought you were criticising the unedited grammar / spelling.

Didn’t realise someone would quote me 20 seconds after I posted before I proof read it.

“Trav wants to leave because we didn’t offer him a contract when he would have signed, and now myself, Rudy and Pasha are running the ship he doesn’t like our attitude or lack of ambition. Therefore he’s got a better offer we won’t match so he’s off”

On Tuesday we played a kid keeper and another youngster in Montgomery. There's an argument the rest are generally first team or in close contention. The only real excuse is a few of them are new to English football this summer. I think most of us will admit that there wasn't a ton of changes we could make that would make us significantly stronger. Keeper obviously. We expect a long old season. I'll not type it again but you can see the reasons why in my post here on another thread. Good luck at Stoke.

Cue the next person to say "but we still need to keep communicating", whilst all those that have genuinely gone out of their way to try this like @K-Hod and @Mike Graham are saying it is futile.

He's joining the Derby fans forum.

You were pointing out some peoples initial opinions could be wrong. I’m just pointing out sometimes those opinions are proven correct. Also, who wrote him off? The comment was on his game last night, and if that poster thought he looked awful then what is he meant to do. Lie and say he was ok?

Also, same people writing off Henriksson are the same people who wrote off Telalovic when he first came.

Im all for bashing the club, but we’ve always done this with large followings even pre-Venkys. Also it is not happened cos we’ve given Brum 7500 tickets, it’s cos they’ve sold them. Had we only given them 4000 tickets the issue would be worse. Id be amazed how many people who haven’t got tickets already will want to attend this but aren’t on the database.

I don't disagree. At the minute he still appears to have kudos with the fan base so his words are being taken at face value rather than ridiculed. He is a good platform for the club to spin their narrative. I doubt we will start seeing the frustration in interviews we saw from the previous managers. I really hope I'm wrong because in the past 10 years we've always felt like there has been some good fighting a lost cause within the club and usually it has been the manager.

Sell your best players. Re-invest the bare minimum in cheap Euro fodder. Eustace surprisingly had us solid and over-performing last year until injuries hit and the squad depth was shown up. Despite being in the top 5 we refused to invest anything proper in January (although the club said investment was 'significant') which saw us fall away. We also refused to discuss contracts all year with key players whose current deals were expiring in July 2026. Frustrated, and recognising it could only go one way, Eustace walked. Ismael came in. We plummeted, then rallied. Now we are selling the players who only have 1 year left and re-investing in more cheap Euro-fodder, so the squad is weaker again. A major struggle looks to be on the cards. Add in owners that now only send the bare minimum to keep us afloat (possibly due to an ongoing Indian court case which is clear as mud, which may or may not be the reason why we couldn't look at extending any contracts), everyone can clearly see we are running out of golden geese to sell, so where do we go from here? Even if we stop up, when the remaining out of contract players walk next summer and the taps remain turned off, it will be a grim situation - at the very least on the pitch. It's like we are now hitting a new period in Venky-run decline and it's happening in slow motion.

He didn't start a game after Mid-March and made fleeting substitute appearances. He'd gone off the boil and been dropped long before the season ended.

I can't help thinking Ismael is in on this. I think when he took the job he knew they would spend minimal and have to buy cheapies or promote from the academy. They needed a manager who would accept such a scenario, and he need a route back into football at a decent level.

"Let's talk about a new contract " "Ok , I want no less than £300k a week" "Fuck off" Is probably how that went.

Not sure if that’s meant to portray some kind of balance. Newcastle committed to pay Isak £6mill a year for the next 6 years when he signed, even if he turned out to be a flop. If rumours are correct he now wants £15mill a year then I wouldn’t negotiate either.

I'm surprised at the odds for this one. Regardless of the doom and gloom, I expected us to be evens or a shade odds on. As it stands we are only just favourites. Rovers 6/4 Bradford 13/8 Draw 12/5

We won the league at Anfield, And then the Worthy cup, We were the pride of Lancy Then Venky's fucked it up. They gave our club to agents Let Pasha run the place. And all they got in return. Is a snowball in the face. Allez, Allez, Allez ........

The City lads didn’t look happy during that mauling. Well played chaps.

I’ve not been following this, but if Mafoumbi came on for his 30 second cameo and converted his whatever to a whatever, could we then send him on loan? Because if I were him I’d want to go somewhere in league two where I might get some senior minutes, and would gladly make a first team appearance just to be able to get that? Or am I misunderstanding this?

And yet in the last 10 years I can’t think of many better holding central midfielders we have had than Travis or Tronstadt (Wharton excepted). He’s been better than Lowe, Evans, Grimes, Guthrie, Akpan, Bennet, Tunnicliffe, Williamson, Smallwood, Trybull, Whittingham, JRC, Davenport, Buckley, Johnson, Holtby, Garrett, Morton, Baker, Forshaw. The only one I can find is possibly Harrison Reed. And most of those above were brought in during eras when we probably paid more like the going wage in salaries and loan fees. Tronstadt is an absolute one off. There is very little chance that if Travis leaves we will get someone in of the same quality in the Euro bargain bucket we shop in. The damage was done 6 to 18 months ago by not renewing his contract. I reckon a lot of these would have renewed last November / December under JE. Money brought in doesn’t help the squad, so for the sake of our Championship status I hope we keep him and he walks on a free next summer,

I mean fair play for nailing your colours to the mast. It was only his first game, the team were not playing well in general and on paper he looks a very good signing. The fans of the club he signed from sing his praises and his highlight reel looks good. Hopefully he will prove to be a welcome addition. But watching the game if you had told me we had signed some big journeyman from the National League I'd have believed you. He looked lost.

And if they are of equal ability then fine, but when you’re in the pound shop market I’d rather prioritise mobility, defensive situational awareness, timing of when to make a tackle and the ability to head the ball away. It might be because we rarely have had that left/right combo throughout the 90s and 2000s, when we generally were defensively good, that I feel it’s over-appreciated.

That will be reflective at all levels of football. Craig Short and and Henning Berg were both right footed last time we got out of this league. If you have a choice of centre backs you think are even then get the left footer, but ultimately you should be getting the best defenders we can you can with our budget, not limiting our options by eliminating approximately 80% of the potential centre backs we could be looking at.

Modern football myths exposed. ✅ Partnerships with a Right-Footed + Left-Footed Duo 1. Rio Ferdinand (Right) & Nemanja Vidić (Left) ⚖️ Classic balanced pairing. Ferdinand on the right, Vidić on the left. 2. Sergio Ramos (Right) & Raphaël Varane (Right) ❌ Both right-footed. 3. Franco Baresi (Right) & Alessandro Costacurta (Right) ❌ Both right-footed. 4. Carles Puyol (Right) & Gerard Piqué (Right) ❌ Both right-footed. 5. Ronald Koeman (Right) & Frank Rijkaard (Right) ❌ Both right-footed (Rijkaard sometimes played in midfield though). 6. Lucio (Right) & Walter Samuel (Left) ✅ Balanced pairing. Lucio right-footed, Samuel left-footed. 7. Tony Adams (Right) & Steve Bould (Right) / Martin Keown (Right) ❌ All right-footed. 8. Fabio Cannavaro (Right) & Alessandro Nesta (Right) ❌ Both right-footed. 9. Laurent Blanc (Right) & Marcel Desailly (Right) ❌ Both right-footed. 10. Mats Hummels (Right) & Jérôme Boateng (Right) ❌ Both right-footed.