Hurst in running for Bradford job according to my Bantam mate.
The players today were just not good enough in both ability and attitude.
Swanny’s policy of getting rid of the better, more experienced and ultimately more expensive players over the past two transfer windows is looking like false economy.
What he’s given us is a larger, yet inexperienced and unbalanced, squad comprised of players who are not EFL standard. Maybe half a dozen are good enough along with some of our youngsters, like O’Malley that given time will be.
Injuries haven’t helped but that doesn’t excuse the poor attitude of those who took to the pitch today. What wouldn’t we give for Matt Lund or even a Rory McArdle now?
,but the racist abuse of chanting or shouting has been virtually eliminated from grounds up and down the country.
You’re lucky. I witnessed an incident at Spennymoor Town v Chester last year. Encouragingly, everyone around the guy shouted him down, but the fact he needed to act in that way is depressing.
I was also sat behind a family in SoL at a Sunderland v Carlisle tie in the EFL Trophy, who were using what I can only describe as colourful non-PC terminology.
Repeating for the umpteenth time, this is not JUST about what happens in sports stadia. It is about drawing attention to injustice in all walks of life.
Sportsmen and women support this because they know people look up to them and that their actions are visible.
The fact you have never witnessed it is neither here nor there.
IITB, you were one of a number of posters who say it should be “All Lives Matter”. I’ll explain why it isn’t.
As in a previous post I’ll refer back to the Suffragette Movement of the early 20th C. Their slogan was “Votes for Women”. It was not “Votes for All”.
Two reasons for this. 1. It was highlighting one particular demographic, the one that was suffering injustice. 2. Men already had the vote. It was about raising the rights of one group so that it was on an equal footing with the others.
We have had 300-400 years of “Only White Lives Matter” or to put it another way “Black Lives Don’t Matter”.
Many white people think that everything is now hunky-dory in our modern, enlightened age, but incidents home and abroad prove that it isn’t. That is why we need to show solidarity.
If Eisa & McAttee are wanting a big money move, then they’re going the wrong way about showcasing their skills.
I’ve never seen a player who runs hot and cold as much as Eisa. He makes Hakeeb look like Mr Consistency!
Jarvis does look no better than National League standard but I think there’s a player in Devarn Green, but he needs a run of games in the same position.
Too many other unknown quantities also. Hippolyte, Mooney, Dunwald-Turan (I’d even add Taylor to that).
Catch-22. When Cox can field his best players we look okay. But through no fault of his own he can’t and the second string don’t look good enough.
Been out today with a couple of mates including Sunderland and Bradford fans.
My Bantam pal wants McCall sacked and Parkinson reappointed. And my Mackem mate was bemoaning the fact that Johnson has done nowt and is no better a replacement.
It’s the old managerial roundabout of course and who’s to say manager x will do better than manager y? That’s why I’m prepared to give Cox more time.
The fact is that this Cox guy thinks that he knows best.
This “Cox guy” is getting paid to do what he thinks is best.
He has shown that given a fully fit squad he can get us playing decent stuff. Unfortunately, for various reasons he hasn’t been able to do so for any length of time, and the back up players are not doing the business as yet. As MKI states above, many haven’t had the game time to prove themselves. Others have and proved they’re not up to L2 standards.
If Neil keeps us in this division in such bizarre circumstances. He deserves to be in charge for 2021-22.
