Stability will be key to Bradford City's rise, says Reid (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

onwards and upwards city. im confident of a top 6 finish next season! as long as parky doesnt chop and change the squad every game!?

adamski90 wrote:
onwards and upwards city. im confident of a top 6 finish next season! as long as parky doesnt chop and change the squad every game!?

IT IS POSSIBLE but the formation and style of play has to change. a rigid back four constantly playing bog log balls 3 foot above hanson's head has got to STOP.

Wide players getting to the bye line regularly and midfielders playing the ball on the ground getting ahead of the two main forwards has to be the minimum requirement.

tyker2 wrote:

adamski90 wrote:
onwards and upwards city. im confident of a top 6 finish next season! as long as parky doesnt chop and change the squad every game!?

IT IS POSSIBLE but the formation and style of play has to change. a rigid back four constantly playing bog log balls 3 foot above hanson's head has got to STOP.

Wide players getting to the bye line regularly and midfielders playing the ball on the ground getting ahead of the two main forwards has to be the minimum requirement.

You should get on the coaching staff tyker.
Seems you have a gift for stating the total obvious.
Blue peter badge for you sir.

if pp is a good manager he will know all this so heres hoping for a top 6 next season.

Plus, let's get Reid tied down on a longer deal, I think his contract runs out at the end of next season.

If he has another blinding season as I've no doubt he will, then bigger teams will come knocking and take him for FREE!

Yeah reids got one more year. I think we will play more attacking football. to be fair at the first half of the season we were playing good football then towards the end it got very defensive so he probably changed that way as we were trying not to go down

Yeah reids got one more year. I think we will play more attacking football. to be fair at the first half of the season we were playing good football then towards the end it got very defensive so he probably changed that way as we were trying not to go down

Village Bantam wrote:
Plus, let's get Reid tied down on a longer deal, I think his contract runs out at the end of next season.

If he has another blinding season as I've no doubt he will, then bigger teams will come knocking and take him for FREE!

I think Reid is a good player but to say he had a blinding season I disagree how many times did he cross or shoot and the ball ended up in row z to me he is just another Omar.

prince35 wrote:

tyker2 wrote:

adamski90 wrote: onwards and upwards city. im confident of a top 6 finish next season! as long as parky doesnt chop and change the squad every game!?

IT IS POSSIBLE but the formation and style of play has to change. a rigid back four constantly playing bog log balls 3 foot above hanson's head has got to STOP. Wide players getting to the bye line regularly and midfielders playing the ball on the ground getting ahead of the two main forwards has to be the minimum requirement.

You should get on the coaching staff tyker. Seems you have a gift for stating the total obvious. Blue peter badge for you sir.

If Tyker is to be awarded the Blue Peter badge for stating the "total obvious",
i wonder what badge you would award PP ???

I wonder what the blue peter badge fixation is. I took my FA1 and 2 they never said I'd need one of those too.

ricky76 wrote:

Village Bantam wrote:
Plus, let's get Reid tied down on a longer deal, I think his contract runs out at the end of next season.

If he has another blinding season as I've no doubt he will, then bigger teams will come knocking and take him for FREE!

I think Reid is a good player but to say he had a blinding season I disagree how many times did he cross or shoot and the ball ended up in row z to me he is just another Omar.

You say that as if it's a bad thing to be like the most creative and individually gifted player we've had at the club in recent years. We are talking about the same Omar Daley who will be playing champions league football next season arent we? All winger's mis hit crosses, see the evidence of bale, nani, ronaldo, even our beloved beagrie and waddle overhit crosses. If you think there's better out there at this level for the moeny we have to spend I think you're mistaken! But please feel free to list them.

Reid. :)

Oliver's shinpad wrote:

ricky76 wrote:

Village Bantam wrote:
Plus, let's get Reid tied down on a longer deal, I think his contract runs out at the end of next season.

If he has another blinding season as I've no doubt he will, then bigger teams will come knocking and take him for FREE!

I think Reid is a good player but to say he had a blinding season I disagree how many times did he cross or shoot and the ball ended up in row z to me he is just another Omar.

You say that as if it's a bad thing to be like the most creative and individually gifted player we've had at the club in recent years. We are talking about the same Omar Daley who will be playing champions league football next season arent we? All winger's mis hit crosses, see the evidence of bale, nani, ronaldo, even our beloved beagrie and waddle overhit crosses. If you think there's better out there at this level for the moeny we have to spend I think you're mistaken! But please feel free to list them.

My point is quite simple Reid is a good player like Omar was but unlike Daley Reid doesnt get the flak he did to me there is nothing to choose between them both were/are good at this level but Reid is not outstanding as some might have us all think.This isnt a dig at Reid as I would rather him than not but people need to realise he has probably found his level. And whilst we are on about wingers I heard JJ has been released by wednesday wouldnt mind seeing him back at VP

I had heard that too but I'm told by a Wendy it isn't true.

I know exactly what you're saying and let's face it, neither Omar or Reid wouldve been at City at any point if they had that end product, be it assists or goals. One main area both fail in. Where I believe Reid to be better is his workrate, Daley was always interested going forwards but sometimes lacking in the tracking and often gave away free kicks when he did so. Reid seems to be more successful in both the work and winning tackles or blocking crosses.

The argument could be we don't want our creative men knacking themselves chasing back and forth but it is a part of modern day football.

ricky76 wrote:

Oliver's shinpad wrote:

ricky76 wrote:

Village Bantam wrote:
Plus, let's get Reid tied down on a longer deal, I think his contract runs out at the end of next season.

If he has another blinding season as I've no doubt he will, then bigger teams will come knocking and take him for FREE!

I think Reid is a good player but to say he had a blinding season I disagree how many times did he cross or shoot and the ball ended up in row z to me he is just another Omar.

You say that as if it's a bad thing to be like the most creative and individually gifted player we've had at the club in recent years. We are talking about the same Omar Daley who will be playing champions league football next season arent we? All winger's mis hit crosses, see the evidence of bale, nani, ronaldo, even our beloved beagrie and waddle overhit crosses. If you think there's better out there at this level for the moeny we have to spend I think you're mistaken! But please feel free to list them.

My point is quite simple Reid is a good player like Omar was but unlike Daley Reid doesnt get the flak he did to me there is nothing to choose between them both were/are good at this level but Reid is not outstanding as some might have us all think.This isnt a dig at Reid as I would rather him than not but people need to realise he has probably found his level. And whilst we are on about wingers I heard JJ has been released by wednesday wouldnt mind seeing him back at VP

Oh right, only problem is you forgot to explain your point, as simple as it was. Daley got flak because he didn't defend. That's like chastising your goalkeeper for not chipping in with enough goals in my opinion. City fans will find and extract the worst from most players though, even those who get into the team of the year like Daley.

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
I had heard that too but I'm told by a Wendy it isn't true.

I know exactly what you're saying and let's face it, neither Omar or Reid wouldve been at City at any point if they had that end product, be it assists or goals. One main area both fail in. Where I believe Reid to be better is his workrate, Daley was always interested going forwards but sometimes lacking in the tracking and often gave away free kicks when he did so. Reid seems to be more successful in both the work and winning tackles or blocking crosses.

The argument could be we don't want our creative men knacking themselves chasing back and forth but it is a part of modern day football.

You say Reid has no end product ie assists he had 10( the third highest assists in the division) in a team that didn't do so well and if you look at all the assists throughout the divisions 10 is pretty respectable Omar only had four for the same number of games 2007-08 season. http://soccernet.esp
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I'm not knocking him, I like him, I just say if he was more consistent and had a better end product he'd still be at whu or equivalent. I know he has had bad luck with injury early in his career and he may be still building, please don't think I'm having a go at him. Nor Omar really, I was simply stating that if they were knocking 8 to 10 in and providing 15 + assists we wouldn't have seen em in claret and amber.

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
I'm not knocking him, I like him, I just say if he was more consistent and had a better end product he'd still be at whu or equivalent. I know he has had bad luck with injury early in his career and he may be still building, please don't think I'm having a go at him. Nor Omar really, I was simply stating that if they were knocking 8 to 10 in and providing 15 + assists we wouldn't have seen em in claret and amber.

But he been consistent and in my opinion could be playing at a higher level.

we agree, if he was more consistent he would be, not playing for the team 86th in the English pro leagues. Ten assists and four goals, your stats, do not make him any better than an average midfield player in our division. He has it in his locker to do more. We may see this next season as he becomes stronger and we are hopefully a more attacking looking side. I rate Reid and would like to see him hit double figures next season, he has the ability, we've seen it. We have also seen him tackle his own man, run straight into an op and set off without the ball. All areas for improvement to turn him into the player he can be. This failings are seen less often in the top players.

Oliver's shinpad wrote:

ricky76 wrote:

Village Bantam wrote: Plus, let's get Reid tied down on a longer deal, I think his contract runs out at the end of next season. If he has another blinding season as I've no doubt he will, then bigger teams will come knocking and take him for FREE!

I think Reid is a good player but to say he had a blinding season I disagree how many times did he cross or shoot and the ball ended up in row z to me he is just another Omar.

You say that as if it's a bad thing to be like the most creative and individually gifted player we've had at the club in recent years. We are talking about the same Omar Daley who will be playing champions league football next season arent we? All winger's mis hit crosses, see the evidence of bale, nani, ronaldo, even our beloved beagrie and waddle overhit crosses. If you think there's better out there at this level for the moeny we have to spend I think you're mistaken! But please feel free to list them.

Stew & Mitch.

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
we agree, if he was more consistent he would be, not playing for the team 86th in the English pro leagues. Ten assists and four goals, your stats, do not make him any better than an average midfield player in our division. He has it in his locker to do more. We may see this next season as he becomes stronger and we are hopefully a more attacking looking side. I rate Reid and would like to see him hit double figures next season, he has the ability, we've seen it. We have also seen him tackle his own man, run straight into an op and set off without the ball. All areas for improvement to turn him into the player he can be. This failings are seen less often in the top players.

Those stats make him better than average third out of the whole division isn't average

well done to york city: a local away game:far better than the away trip to Hereford!

Joint 3rd on assists with 6 others makes him just above half way, ie average. I cba checking his tally v that of other midfielders but I would imagine if I were to configure those stats we would end up with him dropping further than joint 3rd. Quite welcome to prove me wrong, as I say I rate him and expect more from him next season but too much more will see him being snapped up by someone else.

Kevin Ellison, same position, 15 goals, Liam Dickinson, 10 goals, Louis Dodds, 8 goals. All midfielders, all making Reid's season look more and more like he could give us a bit more, which I fully expect. I stand fully behind my point that if he produced more on a more regular basis he woul dnever have nor ever would play for City.