Match Day Thread versus Bradford

Bradford have surprisingly dropped away from the promotion race and even outside the play off places currently. Their form over the last month or two has been well doggy to say the least. Whilst our's has dipped a bit it is nowhere near as dipped as their's.

I am not dismissing Bradford however because of late it has been debatable which Argyle will turn up for a game and we have been capable of dropping points we perhaps would not have earlier. However, we certainly can win this one and I will be a little surprised if we lose it. I do expect at least a point if not the three. Yet another Saturday where the weather could play a part.


COYG

 

Bradford having a precautionary pitch inspection at 10.30 am......if it's sheeting down anything like it is in NW Kent at the moment there could be problems.

 

Video of !0-30 am pitch inspection showed that the goal areas were not too clever...quite wet and muddy actually....The Ref will be inspecting again at 1-30pm.

 

Game given the go ahead.

 

Palmer, Wootton, Canavan, Sawyer, McFadzean, Edwards, Mayor, Bakinson, Sarcevic, Moore, Jephcott.

Subs.
Michael Cooper, Telford, Randall, C Grant, Taylor, Hardie, George Cooper.

 

Great start 1 - 0 down from a corner.

Man on Sky says the pitch is shocking and looks more like no man's land from the first world war.

 

!-0...Richards-Everton...6 minutes.

 

Red card for Gary Sawyer on 40 minutes.....not looking good on this allotment of a pitch.

 

Sawyer off for second time for probably identical challenge to his last Red. Deep joy all around then.

 

2 - 0 game well and truly over.

 

2-0...Connolly...45+2 minutes......Oh dear.

 

2-0...H/T.

 

Second red for us. Sarcevic. Even better day. We are going to struggle in the next match on Tuesday.

 

Red card...Sarcevic...84 minutes.....a bit harsh comment on BBC.

 

2-1...Hardie...87 minutes......good game to win.

 

Despite scoring this is not a possible come back. Pasoti reckon this Ref is as bad as it gets.

 

2-1...F/T......Game to forget it seems.....Ref not on Argyle's Christmas card list.

 

Games to play home and away........Interesting how our home games are in the top half except for Macclesfield.....and all the away games in the bottom half.

Home................Team................Away

....................;..Swindon..........
.......................Crewe..............
.....H................Exeter...............
.......................Cheltenham..........
.......................Plymouth A..............
.....H...............Northampton........
.....H...............Port Vale..............
......................Colchester.............
......................Bradford................
......................Salford................
.....H..............FG Rovers...........
.....................Crawley...............
.....................Cambridge...........
.....H.............Grimsby...............A.......
.....................Walsall................A........
.....................Newport................
.....................Oldham...............A.........
.....................Scunthorpe.............
.....................Leyton O.............A......
....................Carlisle...............
....................Mansfield...........
....................Morecambe.........A.......
.....H............Macclesfield...........
....................Stevenage.............

 

Surprising how one of the bigger clubs with the largest home following in the league play to their fans on a cabbage patch of a pitch....they surely deserve better than that ?
Ok in the 50s/60s/70s this was normal.....but most clubs have moved on from those days.....to have to play with 10 or even 9 men on an allottment such as that must be strength sapping......yet we scored the only second half goal in such conditions when we were down to 9....and Bradford were wasting time at the end

 

Those drawn matches will haunt us!