This final is ours to win or lose. If we play well, we will win - it's as simple as that. In the wide open spaces of Wembley we can pass Bradford to death. We will have more of a desire to win the match than Chelsea would have had so for Bradford I belive it will be a tougher match than if they played the Blues. Having said all that, it's a cup match and anything can happen.
WIN.........They Might as well put our name on the cup now as we are not going to lose in our centenary year that will make things perfect...4-0 no problem....we are no wigan or villa we are a top premiership team.....
Dai, that is being disrespectful to Bradford who will be absolutely up for this game. Make no mistake, they will fight and battle for everything and if we don't match that we could easily lose. They know when it comes to pure football, if they give us time on the ball, we will murder them, so they won't be doing that. They will be hassling and harrying all over the pitch, something we don't like. If they gain momentum and confidence we could be in for a difficult day and they excel at exploiting what is our weakest element - the set piece!! This could well boil down to a test of character. Can we cope with the physical side of things? Are some of our players going to sulk if we are not allowed to play our game? I'd like to think not but the longer the game goes without us scoring, the more nervous I'm going to feel. It's our big day, some say our moment of destiny but you can argue that is even more the case for Bradford. They will leave nothing out there, believe me. Don't forget that we had some hairy moments against Crawley and were pretty poor against Boro. We don't like playing teams like this and haven't had too much experience of doing so in recent years. Yes, all logic dictates that we are going to win this but logic flies out of the window in one off games and even more so in a Cup Final like this. Our lads are going to have to roll up their sleeves and be prepared to match Bradford's effort all over the park. This game is not going to be about our pretty football taking a "lesser" team apart. They will have eleven players on the field busting a gut to turn us over because, if they do, it would be one of the football fairy tales of all time. If so much as one of our players adopts a "Jack-the lad" attitude, we could be in trouble. We need every one of our players to walk onto that pitch totally focused and determined to be clinical from the first kick to the last. If we do that and play to our potential we will win. Anything less and there will be a lot of tears on this Board. PS: Wigan and Arsenal are both good footballing teams. Look what happened to them!!
Im not being disrespectful at all ivor, Im not going to lie and say Bradford are going to win because they wont, I think we will out play them in all departments and win comfortable in a major cup match, the only way they will win is if we dont bother to turn up and they have a walk over...
It won't comfortable and we won't outplay them in all departments . its Cup final and it means just as much to them (if not more)as us .We're the favourites which is something we're not used to and if the players go on the park with the attitudes that they've only got to turn up then we're in for a long afternoon.Confidence is one thing but being over confident is another.On paper we've the better squad but it's not being played on a piece of A4.
We know more than most what its like being the underdog and the team should know that only 100% given with blood n guts and our crowd on full voice will get us a big win against what will be a determined underdog . Bradfords coming games before the final will be watched with intrest by a lot of jacks !
Cup finals are never easy to predict and the way this competition has gone so far this season it could end up with a shock result. However our players will be well up for this game particularly after all this negativity from the media so if we can deal with their aerial threat whilst playing to our strengths then it could be a great day in our history.
I think alot of Jacks are forgetting themselves on here, some sound like right arrogent "premier league" football fans that we used to take the piss out of a few seasons ago!! Lets get this straight, Bradfor havent fluked their way to the cup final,they are there on merit. They have done better against Villa than we have over 2 games, in fact it should have been two victories for Villa against us this season,Bradford have had a win and a draw against them!! Isnt that warning enough not to be complacent ?? Bradford play exactly the kind of game we cant seem to master, that of the rough and tumble and percentage play. They will look to implement that against us and will run through brick walls for 90+mins . What we will need is a strong referee but i have a nasty feeling that in the intrests of TV he is going to want to keep it tight and perhaps not give us the protection we need, a few sneaky digs on chico and the wrong reaction and the ref will be there to even up any advantage we may have. Im not being pessimistic im just being realistic, i also hate the fact that we seem to be a little bit disrespectful to Bradford fc that is not us Jacks are all about, surely we leave the berty big bollocks stuff to the Chelsea,Liverpool and Arsenals of this world. Lets not go down the road of being too cocky for this game,Swansea have always failed to live up to being the favourite,dont any of you remember Havent ?? well , i can garentee the Bradford team will be watching a video of that game to see how a few hard tackles can give us the wobbles. This will come down to one thing, who wants it bad enough, if the swans are willing to match fire with fire and defend set piece play properly the game is there for us,anything below 100% and Bradford are more than capable of giving us the humiliation that we would deserve . The biggest game in our History is also the biggest Banana skin in our History...oh, the Irony ..
I think alot of Jacks are forgetting themselves on here, some sound like right arrogent "premier league" football fans that we used to take the piss out of a few seasons ago!! Lets get this straight, Bradfor havent fluked their way to the cup final,they are there on merit. They have done better against Villa than we have over 2 games, in fact it should have been two victories for Villa against us this season,Bradford have had a win and a draw against them!! Isnt that warning enough not to be complacent ?? Bradford play exactly the kind of game we cant seem to master, that of the rough and tumble and percentage play. They will look to implement that against us and will run through brick walls for 90+mins . What we will need is a strong referee but i have a nasty feeling that in the intrests of TV he is going to want to keep it tight and perhaps not give us the protection we need, a few sneaky digs on chico and the wrong reaction and the ref will be there to even up any advantage we may have. Im not being pessimistic im just being realistic, i also hate the fact that we seem to be a little bit disrespectful to Bradford fc that is not us Jacks are all about, surely we leave the berty big bollocks stuff to the Chelsea,Liverpool and Arsenals of this world. Lets not go down the road of being too cocky for this game,Swansea have always failed to live up to being the favourite,dont any of you remember Havent ?? well , i can garentee the Bradford team will be watching a video of that game to see how a few hard tackles can give us the wobbles. This will come down to one thing, who wants it bad enough, if the swans are willing to match fire with fire and defend set piece play properly the game is there for us,anything below 100% and Bradford are more than capable of giving us the humiliation that we would deserve . The biggest game in our History is also the biggest Banana skin in our History...oh, the Irony ..
The games ours to lose, but Bradford have had a great run and we MUST not be complacent as they've proved that the can upset the apple cart. I'm not counting my chickens, the fat lady isn't singing yet. It will be hell of a game!
