Bradford v Argyle. Match day thread.

[StevePAFC]

The season is far from over but if we keep starting games slowly like today and at Colchester then it won't be long before we do have to settle for the play offs at best. Start Hardie & Jephcott on Tuesday with Moore at wing back with Cooper on the other side. And please try and shoot more.

 

[Taxman Dave]

Worst refereeing performance I’ve ever seen at any level

I wouldn't say the worst but he's certainly been poor.

Unbelievably he got worse as the game went on

 

[Green1995]

Playoffs here we come!

Have youlooked at the table recently. We have a game in hand to be played on Tuesday night. There is no reason to panic as the we still have to play scum and scum have to play Crewe.

 

[PL2 3DQ]

We now have two home games and two away games that we should win. We are only two points away from third, despite today's disaster it's not over by a long way.

 

[Guiri Green]

Even the BBC Devon round up bloke gave up on our summariser, cut him off just as he started to go to Exeters Manager - no one likes us anymore

 

[The Doctor]

It’s ironic that just this week, Simon Hallett announced that this is not now the ‘same old Argyle’ but just a couple of weeks ago we were fantastically poised to hit the automatic promotion places and then we take just 2 points from 9...

There’s still everything to play for this season, but we’ve messed up badly in the last few games.

 

[EyeOpener]

The season is far from over but if we keep starting games slowly like today and at Colchester then it won't be long before we do have to settle for the play offs at best. Start Hardie & Jephcott on Tuesday with Moore at wing back with Cooper on the other side. And please try and shoot more.

Put Joe Edwards back in the middle in front of the back three. No idea why Lowe moved him out of that position. He has energy, breaks up play, is composed on the ball and is able to carry the ball up field if needed. Bakinson needs some time on the bench

 

[Metal Green Mickey]

35 games in and the defence make similar mistakes all season. So with 11 games to go that won't change.

Lowe has to find a way scoring more than we concede in these finally 11 games.

The performances in January weren't convincing, but we won. Personally what we are seeing last few games is same level of performance but without the good fortune eg Crewe open goal miss. Isn't a surprise the results in all honesty.

Got to stick by the manager and the team and hopefully he finds a formula to carry us over the line.

My hope in that Aimson could add more defensive stability. And he gets G Cooper in the side with Mayor but not at Wing back.

 

[moles40]

How can it be play offs at best with 10 games to go,some of our supporters that post here are really clueless how the league table works.

Three points for a win and a point if you draw,but let’s just say play offs at best

All to play for still for level headed supporters.

 

[Bristol Rich]

2-1 to the referee.

That's all I can say.

Poor teams make excuses.

 

[StevePAFC]

The season is far from over but if we keep starting games slowly like today and at Colchester then it won't be long before we do have to settle for the play offs at best. Start Hardie & Jephcott on Tuesday with Moore at wing back with Cooper on the other side. And please try and shoot more.

Put Joe Edwards back in the middle in front of the back three. No idea why Lowe moved him out of that position. He has energy, breaks up play, is composed on the ball and is able to carry the ball up field if needed. Bakinson needs some time on the bench

Agree with that. Tuesday I'd definitely have him back in DM with Moore going to RWB supplying Hardie and Jephcott up front.

It'll be interesting to see who will replace Sarce in CM as well, Cooper or Conor Grant I suppose.

 

[WoodfordWall]

Stop blaming the referee and give your heads a wobble. Some of you are sounding so lemon it’s embarrassing.

 

[IJN]

The referee was abysmal, a real homer. Took everything they gave him.

Wooton went missing for the first and the biggest cheat scored a worldy.

Perhaps you're wobbling.

 

[jerryatricjanner]

I think many Crewe fans would claim we had a homer a fortnight ago. I think we were 2 down before we saw the worst of the referee today. We played plenty of pretty pretty stuff in the conditions and were very pleasing on the eye most of the first half but the cutting edge in the final third was too often absent unfortunately.

 

[philmeboots]

I don’t like the way the manager is slagged off when we are losing.

I understand he has a responsibility, but when you have defenders contracted to the club and you can’t afford to pay them off or move them out then your stuck. He already removed Riley, T Moore and Smith-Brown.

He isn’t responsible for signing those defenders.

Maybe Lowe thought he could score enough goals and have enough possession to ‘get away with it’ at the other end of the pitch. We all saw them last season in terms of their ability. I don’t understand why we thought there wouldn’t be issues at the back especially when we seen it continue this season.

Personally, think Lowe is doing a good job considering half the squad has Adams signings still.

It’s frequently been the way. Not sure where all the people are when it was “Adams out. He doesn’t play good enough football. It’s how we play rather than the results that count.” As for “we’re not good enough for automatic promotion“ that will be revealed in the fullness of time. There’s a lot of twists and turns in every promotion season and an awful lot of points up for grabs yet. :scarf: