Evans defends goal celebration after incensing Bantams fans (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans.

Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well.

Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade.

Jog on son!

I agree had completly forgotten about him had a bit of pace and that was about it.
As for his goal celebration what a total ham shanker he really is.Just wait till you get to V.P.this season Mr Evans thought you were singled out then you aint seen nothing yet!
As for championship interest i think Mr Evans senior has been sniffing glue.

OutOfBradford wrote:
The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans.

Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well.

Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade.

Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order.
i would have done same celebration.
he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse.
no wonder nobody likes us!
seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence?
i doubt it.
shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

1 bingley bantam wrote:
I agree had completly forgotten about him had a bit of pace and that was about it.
As for his goal celebration what a total ham shanker he really is.Just wait till you get to V.P.this season Mr Evans thought you were singled out then you aint seen nothing yet!
As for championship interest i think Mr Evans senior has been sniffing glue.

if you forgot about him why single him out?
try cheering our team when they come and leave him alone if you don't rate him.
sad, really sad.

I do believe if players get it then they should dish it out. In Evans' case I don't recall him getting too much abuse on Saturday or in the past (until he scored...).

I remember when McCall scored for Sheffield United at VP and just turned around and walked away. Obviously Evans will never be held in as high regard but his actions made him look like a chav.

I remember the 2 stunning goals and performance he put in against on Northampton when we remembered the 25th anniversary of the fire. Unfortunatley I've lost all respect for the man after his yobbish behaviour on Saturday.

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:
The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans.

Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well.

Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade.

Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order.
i would have done same celebration.
he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse.
no wonder nobody likes us!
seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence?
i doubt it.
shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

Which of the City fans injured Evans last season? NONE And what abuse was he getting BEFORE his goal "celebration"? NONE.....Like many fans,I always thought Evans was a hard working player who struggled to make an impact at City because he was often asked to play too wide,and all he needed was a few goals to bring his confidence back. He is clearly getting that from his time at Rotherham. What he did after scoring will have cost him a lot of respect from fair minded City fans (and contrary to yangyeight's comments above, there are a lot of us) and he WILL now get some stick at VP.

BigFigure wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

Which of the City fans injured Evans last season? NONE And what abuse was he getting BEFORE his goal "celebration"? NONE.....Like many fans,I always thought Evans was a hard working player who struggled to make an impact at City because he was often asked to play too wide,and all he needed was a few goals to bring his confidence back. He is clearly getting that from his time at Rotherham. What he did after scoring will have cost him a lot of respect from fair minded City fans (and contrary to yangyeight's comments above, there are a lot of us) and he WILL now get some stick at VP.

Well said BigFigure gotta agree there mate had no problems with him before and also dont recall him getting much stick during his time with us.

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:
The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans.

Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well.

Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade.

Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order.
i would have done same celebration.
he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse.
no wonder nobody likes us!
seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence?
i doubt it.
shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

"typical city fans, give all ex players abuse"

This is not true at all. I've been going 30 years and now more so than ever fans welcome ex players quite well in general. I've seen ex players given good ovations when subbed, etc

Even Joe bloody Colbeck got a decent reception.

It says a lot about Evans and the type of person and player he was/is that he gets some stick from fans.

To be fair though, Steve Evans if a huge influence on players with limited intelligence like his namesake.

Both Pringle's and Evans' first reaction after scoring wasn't to run to their own fans and celebrate, it was to gloat in front of us. Pringle had no reason to. But Steve Evans pushes that sort of mentality and behavior onto his players.

The whole day is best forgotten frankly and I'm stunned the T&A think it's a good idea to even run this story.

Forget it and move on!

Never a big fan, always liked his work ethic though, can't say i was concerned when he was named in the RUFC line up by fat knacker. Just goes to show what poor marking and questionable goal keeping can do for any pro. He'll probably go missing at Valley Parade or get carried off. I fancy fat knacker and his nutty sidekick will need police protection in the replay...sounds like a good atmosphere building already... said with arms akimbo lol.

I agree Big Figure, I don't remember any one of us running on the pitch and injuring him. I also think fat Steve Evans is off his head if he thinks Championship clubs are after him, run of the mill journeymen aren't usually needed.

Whatever he has thought of his reception by BCAFC fans to date is nothing compared to what he will now get. I also think one or two of our players who thought nowt of him before will think even less now and will shake a boot or two at him.

Makes for an even more interesting return game.

BigFigure wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

Which of the City fans injured Evans last season? NONE And what abuse was he getting BEFORE his goal "celebration"? NONE.....Like many fans,I always thought Evans was a hard working player who struggled to make an impact at City because he was often asked to play too wide,and all he needed was a few goals to bring his confidence back. He is clearly getting that from his time at Rotherham. What he did after scoring will have cost him a lot of respect from fair minded City fans (and contrary to yangyeight's comments above, there are a lot of us) and he WILL now get some stick at VP.

Your above comment is bang on the money BigFigure don't think weve heared the last of this incident there is one thing celebrating his goal,but his gestures to the City fans behind the goals were totally uncalled for as anyone could see on "the football league show"

I'm sorry but I don't know what all the hoo haa is about, I've never seen anything wrong in players celebtrating be it front of the away supporters or their own and all this "incitement" and getting yellow cards for goal celebrations is a load of tosh. For me they can drop their trollies and milk the moment for all it's worth, players are human not robots and it will never make up for some of the disgusting abuse you hear aimed the other way.

Maybe I am reading this article wrong, but it reads to me that Evans felt that he was singled out by the players at VP last year, not the supporters.
I remember the tackle by Flynn and It was a bad tackle, so it could be that Flynn has just done a number on him as payback for something that happened between them when he was at the club and Evans will know that
But that does not make it OK to wind us supporters up and he was lucky that one of the City players did not do a number on him again following those actions.
OK, it was a bad day at the office for City and the result was in his favour this time, but the thing to remember is this.......
When Gareth Evans looked across and saw the 2,300 city fans getting behind the team and compared it to the 500-600 Rotherham fans that attend there away games, he will of been jealous of the Bradford players and the support they had.
At the end of the season, both Wells and Hanson will have scored more than him, so if he wants to treat scoring against City as the highlight of his career, let him!
I'm sure him and his boss must pleasure themselves over BCFC videos!!!

spleen ventor wrote:
I'm sorry but I don't know what all the hoo haa is about, I've never seen anything wrong in players celebtrating be it front of the away supporters or their own and all this "incitement" and getting yellow cards for goal celebrations is a load of tosh. For me they can drop their trollies and milk the moment for all it's worth, players are human not robots and it will never make up for some of the disgusting abuse you hear aimed the other way.

Thing is when a player goes behind a goal to taunt an away end, not just run past but actually taunt them, thats when as a spectator there is a risk of getting caught up in the behaviour of idiots.

Wether you like it or not, there are always idiot fans at games acting Charlie Big Balls, and provoking them might lead to someone else, wether it be another fan or steward getting hurt. Particularly at these local away games where several thousand away fans turn up.

At Rochdale a few years back we had 2 very debatable penalty decisions go against us and numerous yob fans of our our were trying to get on the pitch, giving scant regard for the other supporters around them.

I was at Rotherham on Saturday. After Evans' antics there were several objects thrown at him and at least 2 people were arrested for it, the stewards did their jobs well.
What if those objects hit him or the fans, and what if some divvy lager louts try to get at him, diving over seats etc to get to the front?

Wether you like it or not, there are always idiots at games acting Charlie Big Balls, and provoking them might lead to someone else, wether it be another fan or steward getting it.

Like I said, Evans didn't really get any stick on Saturday or on other occasions to warrant the provocation and used the example of McCall to show how an ex-player can still have respect from opposing fans.

oops. Left the same paragraph in twice....

Evo was yet another player singled out for dogs abuse by certain sections of our support, and was a decent player in my opinion - Bit ragged, and certainly not the finished article, but he did have natual ability and pace - Just needed harnessing. The Rotherham fans love the man and he can do no wrong. Maybe he's finally found a manager who can harness his natural talent. It wound me up a bit at the time, and given the limited intelect of a great deal of our fans, was without queston the wrong call on his part, but why shouldn't he want to try and prove a point to fans who in the majority were unfair to him? 10/10 for the sentiment, 0/10 for the execution.

OutOfBradford wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

"typical city fans, give all ex players abuse" This is not true at all. I've been going 30 years and now more so than ever fans welcome ex players quite well in general. I've seen ex players given good ovations when subbed, etc Even Joe bloody Colbeck got a decent reception. It says a lot about Evans and the type of person and player he was/is that he gets some stick from fans. To be fair though, Steve Evans if a huge influence on players with limited intelligence like his namesake. Both Pringle's and Evans' first reaction after scoring wasn't to run to their own fans and celebrate, it was to gloat in front of us. Pringle had no reason to. But Steve Evans pushes that sort of mentality and behavior onto his players. The whole day is best forgotten frankly and I'm stunned the T&A think it's a good idea to even run this story. Forget it and move on!

FLEXICARD!!! might not be in the right place...BUT: is the purpose of the flexicard to extract money from fans (albeit a small amount) and give nothing in return...LAST WEEK i travelled 230 miles from Somerset for MY 1ST GAME of the season...WHEN i arrived and produced my receipt at the ticket desk i was told to go elsewhere...the 2nd ticket desk told me to go to the turnstiles...NO ONE would LET ME IN!!..i hadnt got nor was a given a CARD like others were using..After pleading for several minutes that i had a receipt for my season ticket, the supervisor arrived and HE did not want me to go in either (230 miles for nothing!!!!!)...I mentioned that i would be heading down town and pop a note thru the T and A offices to explain what had happened...suddenly i got in..BUT ONLY Cos i mentioned the T and A...SO if my receipt for a £50 doesnt could MR LAWN>>>>>WHAT DOES...and WHAT HAVE U DONE WITH MY MONEY...thief springs to mind

OutOfBradford wrote:
The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

I witnessed that aweful tackle last season on Evans by Flynn, very unsporting..I also witnessed the so called CITY faithful crying out "reject"...So Now he scores twice..and celebrates...Arent we the dum ones for letting him go..IF we think on that performance and that at Gilly...that we will get promoted we are Dreaming...AND WHERE IS MY Season TICKET THAT I PAID FOR MR LAWN?????

OutOfBradford wrote:
The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

He was singled out by Flynn and it was not funny - how do i know ? because it was stated on player just as that match started that Flynn thought Evans was soft and he would ............. as soon as he could in the match.I seem to remember it took Flynn about five minutes.
If Evans had heard or been told about that conversation on air surely you can understand his celebrations - i can.
PS: note Syers scored two against Hull, hope for his and Doncasters sake he can keep injury free this season.
Even Ellison scored at the weekend !

pudseykid wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

"typical city fans, give all ex players abuse" This is not true at all. I've been going 30 years and now more so than ever fans welcome ex players quite well in general. I've seen ex players given good ovations when subbed, etc Even Joe bloody Colbeck got a decent reception. It says a lot about Evans and the type of person and player he was/is that he gets some stick from fans. To be fair though, Steve Evans if a huge influence on players with limited intelligence like his namesake. Both Pringle's and Evans' first reaction after scoring wasn't to run to their own fans and celebrate, it was to gloat in front of us. Pringle had no reason to. But Steve Evans pushes that sort of mentality and behavior onto his players. The whole day is best forgotten frankly and I'm stunned the T&A think it's a good idea to even run this story. Forget it and move on!

FLEXICARD!!! might not be in the right place...BUT: is the purpose of the flexicard to extract money from fans (albeit a small amount) and give nothing in return...LAST WEEK i travelled 230 miles from Somerset for MY 1ST GAME of the season...WHEN i arrived and produced my receipt at the ticket desk i was told to go elsewhere...the 2nd ticket desk told me to go to the turnstiles...NO ONE would LET ME IN!!..i hadnt got nor was a given a CARD like others were using..After pleading for several minutes that i had a receipt for my season ticket, the supervisor arrived and HE did not want me to go in either (230 miles for nothing!!!!!)...I mentioned that i would be heading down town and pop a note thru the T and A offices to explain what had happened...suddenly i got in..BUT ONLY Cos i mentioned the T and A...SO if my receipt for a £50 doesnt could MR LAWN>>>>
>WHAT DOES...and WHAT HAVE U DONE WITH MY MONEY...thief springs to mind

Seems fairly common knowledge that the ticket office don't process Season Ticket or Flexicard applications/collect
ions/queries on a match day. They haven't done for years.

You can also get free tickets for under 11s, BUT not on match days, they MUST be collected before the day.

I'd have been tempted to ring ahead and arrange something before driving for 230 miles.

We're fast becoming the 'big club' with delusions of grandeur in the bottom tier!

Personally, Parky just seems clueless.

He ruins good players and deploys ridiculous formations and tactics when he purchases quality ones.

nowt fresh wrote:

BigFigure wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

Which of the City fans injured Evans last season? NONE And what abuse was he getting BEFORE his goal "celebration"? NONE.....Like many fans,I always thought Evans was a hard working player who struggled to make an impact at City because he was often asked to play too wide,and all he needed was a few goals to bring his confidence back. He is clearly getting that from his time at Rotherham. What he did after scoring will have cost him a lot of respect from fair minded City fans (and contrary to yangyeight's comments above, there are a lot of us) and he WILL now get some stick at VP.

Your above comment is bang on the money BigFigure don't think weve heared the last of this incident there is one thing celebrating his goal,but his gestures to the City fans behind the goals were totally uncalled for as anyone could see on "the football league show"

seen the goal on tv, what are these 'gestures' that Evans makes?

OutOfBradford wrote:

pudseykid wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

"typical city fans, give all ex players abuse" This is not true at all. I've been going 30 years and now more so than ever fans welcome ex players quite well in general. I've seen ex players given good ovations when subbed, etc Even Joe bloody Colbeck got a decent reception. It says a lot about Evans and the type of person and player he was/is that he gets some stick from fans. To be fair though, Steve Evans if a huge influence on players with limited intelligence like his namesake. Both Pringle's and Evans' first reaction after scoring wasn't to run to their own fans and celebrate, it was to gloat in front of us. Pringle had no reason to. But Steve Evans pushes that sort of mentality and behavior onto his players. The whole day is best forgotten frankly and I'm stunned the T&A think it's a good idea to even run this story. Forget it and move on!

FLEXICARD!!! might not be in the right place...BUT: is the purpose of the flexicard to extract money from fans (albeit a small amount) and give nothing in return...LAST WEEK i travelled 230 miles from Somerset for MY 1ST GAME of the season...WHEN i arrived and produced my receipt at the ticket desk i was told to go elsewhere...the 2nd ticket desk told me to go to the turnstiles...NO ONE would LET ME IN!!..i hadnt got nor was a given a CARD like others were using..After pleading for several minutes that i had a receipt for my season ticket, the supervisor arrived and HE did not want me to go in either (230 miles for nothing!!!!!)...I mentioned that i would be heading down town and pop a note thru the T and A offices to explain what had happened...suddenly i got in..BUT ONLY Cos i mentioned the T and A...SO if my receipt for a £50 doesnt could MR LAWN>>>> >WHAT DOES...and WHAT HAVE U DONE WITH MY MONEY...thief springs to mind

Seems fairly common knowledge that the ticket office don't process Season Ticket or Flexicard applications/collect ions/queries on a match day. They haven't done for years. You can also get free tickets for under 11s, BUT not on match days, they MUST be collected before the day. I'd have been tempted to ring ahead and arrange something before driving for 230 miles.

Pudseykid.....what an idiot you are! You can't get 50/50 flexicards, season tickets or tickets for future matches, before 5pm on a match day.

Everyone knows this! The ticket office or turnstiles will only sell on-the-day match tickets, on match days.

It's your own fault for not collecting your flexicard before the match day. Receipt or no receipt, you shouldn't have been let in without the actual card, they were doing their jobs.

I seem to remember that bad tackle and I also think that Evans was a good player with us but as one poster mentions, he was always played out wide and not in his strongest position. Now this business of a player getting booked for taking his shirt off is a bloody joke. What Evans did was a lot more serious and for what he did when he scored should have been booked in my opinion for that action. He is a proffessional footballer and should have known better than that. Yes, a bottle was thrown and I hear coins too. At that split second I also reacted in an angry manner and stuck two fingers up at him and shouted at to go forth and multiply. Can anyone remember Stan the Man and what he did after that glorious goal against you know who? Now that was dicing with death and of course we all loved it. In my opinion, every footballer who taunts the away end after scoring, then he should be booked.

Danstarr69 wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:

pudseykid wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

"typical city fans, give all ex players abuse" This is not true at all. I've been going 30 years and now more so than ever fans welcome ex players quite well in general. I've seen ex players given good ovations when subbed, etc Even Joe bloody Colbeck got a decent reception. It says a lot about Evans and the type of person and player he was/is that he gets some stick from fans. To be fair though, Steve Evans if a huge influence on players with limited intelligence like his namesake. Both Pringle's and Evans' first reaction after scoring wasn't to run to their own fans and celebrate, it was to gloat in front of us. Pringle had no reason to. But Steve Evans pushes that sort of mentality and behavior onto his players. The whole day is best forgotten frankly and I'm stunned the T&A think it's a good idea to even run this story. Forget it and move on!

FLEXICARD!!! might not be in the right place...BUT: is the purpose of the flexicard to extract money from fans (albeit a small amount) and give nothing in return...LAST WEEK i travelled 230 miles from Somerset for MY 1ST GAME of the season...WHEN i arrived and produced my receipt at the ticket desk i was told to go elsewhere...the 2nd ticket desk told me to go to the turnstiles...NO ONE would LET ME IN!!..i hadnt got nor was a given a CARD like others were using..After pleading for several minutes that i had a receipt for my season ticket, the supervisor arrived and HE did not want me to go in either (230 miles for nothing!!!!!)...I mentioned that i would be heading down town and pop a note thru the T and A offices to explain what had happened...suddenly i got in..BUT ONLY Cos i mentioned the T and A...SO if my receipt for a £50 doesnt could MR LAWN>>>> >WHAT DOES...and WHAT HAVE U DONE WITH MY MONEY...thief springs to mind

Seems fairly common knowledge that the ticket office don't process Season Ticket or Flexicard applications/collect ions/queries on a match day. They haven't done for years. You can also get free tickets for under 11s, BUT not on match days, they MUST be collected before the day. I'd have been tempted to ring ahead and arrange something before driving for 230 miles.

Pudseykid.....what an idiot you are! You can't get 50/50 flexicards, season tickets or tickets for future matches, before 5pm on a match day. Everyone knows this! The ticket office or turnstiles will only sell on-the-day match tickets, on match days. It's your own fault for not collecting your flexicard before the match day. Receipt or no receipt, you shouldn't have been let in without the actual card, they were doing their jobs.

Pity the Team are not as efficient as the ground staff. Just lucky Evans didn't score four.

Who cares? I'll only ever remember him for flattening a kid near the corner flag from a penalty! Funniest thing I've seen in years.

340stopper wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:
The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

He was singled out by Flynn and it was not funny - how do i know ? because it was stated on player just as that match started that Flynn thought Evans was soft and he would ............. as soon as he could in the match.I seem to remember it took Flynn about five minutes.
If Evans had heard or been told about that conversation on air surely you can understand his celebrations - i can.
PS: note Syers scored two against Hull, hope for his and Doncasters sake he can keep injury free this season.
Even Ellison scored at the weekend !

And Smalley has scored at least a couple back at Oxford.

Correctness wrote:

Danstarr69 wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:

pudseykid wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote:

yangyeight wrote:

OutOfBradford wrote: The thing that was strangest about his celebration was that he obviously cares more than most City fans. Literally until the moment I saw him on the pitch, I didn't even recall he played for Rotherham. I'd forgotten about him a long time ago, as most City fans around me were saying as well. Thinking he was singled out is funny, he's obviously got a very high opinion on himself. He'll hardly go down as a legend at Valley Parade. Jog on son!

i remember the tackle last season and it was bang out of order. i would have done same celebration. he never did anything wrong but typical city fans, give all ex players abuse. no wonder nobody likes us! seem to get a lot of ex players putting extra effort in against us, coincidence? i doubt it. shame none of our own team put in that effort saturday!

"typical city fans, give all ex players abuse" This is not true at all. I've been going 30 years and now more so than ever fans welcome ex players quite well in general. I've seen ex players given good ovations when subbed, etc Even Joe bloody Colbeck got a decent reception. It says a lot about Evans and the type of person and player he was/is that he gets some stick from fans. To be fair though, Steve Evans if a huge influence on players with limited intelligence like his namesake. Both Pringle's and Evans' first reaction after scoring wasn't to run to their own fans and celebrate, it was to gloat in front of us. Pringle had no reason to. But Steve Evans pushes that sort of mentality and behavior onto his players. The whole day is best forgotten frankly and I'm stunned the T&A think it's a good idea to even run this story. Forget it and move on!

FLEXICARD!!! might not be in the right place...BUT: is the purpose of the flexicard to extract money from fans (albeit a small amount) and give nothing in return...LAST WEEK i travelled 230 miles from Somerset for MY 1ST GAME of the season...WHEN i arrived and produced my receipt at the ticket desk i was told to go elsewhere...the 2nd ticket desk told me to go to the turnstiles...NO ONE would LET ME IN!!..i hadnt got nor was a given a CARD like others were using..After pleading for several minutes that i had a receipt for my season ticket, the supervisor arrived and HE did not want me to go in either (230 miles for nothing!!!!!)...I mentioned that i would be heading down town and pop a note thru the T and A offices to explain what had happened...suddenly i got in..BUT ONLY Cos i mentioned the T and A...SO if my receipt for a £50 doesnt could MR LAWN>>>> >WHAT DOES...and WHAT HAVE U DONE WITH MY MONEY...thief springs to mind

Seems fairly common knowledge that the ticket office don't process Season Ticket or Flexicard applications/collect ions/queries on a match day. They haven't done for years. You can also get free tickets for under 11s, BUT not on match days, they MUST be collected before the day. I'd have been tempted to ring ahead and arrange something before driving for 230 miles.

Pudseykid.....what an idiot you are! You can't get 50/50 flexicards, season tickets or tickets for future matches, before 5pm on a match day. Everyone knows this! The ticket office or turnstiles will only sell on-the-day match tickets, on match days. It's your own fault for not collecting your flexicard before the match day. Receipt or no receipt, you shouldn't have been let in without the actual card, they were doing their jobs.

Pity the Team are not as efficient as the ground staff. Just lucky Evans didn't score four.

How so? Any analysis that would prove luck or any combination of skill would have enable Mr Evans to score two more than he did? Any analysis to show how we could possibly have stopped him scoring the two he did? Any analysis to compare the ground staff's performance against that of the players? Any analysis at all or is it just a tumble of words from the end of your fingers onto a page. Words in a box, mean nowt fella but show us lots.

Footballers absolutley thrive on getting abuse from supporters, do supporters not realise, the more stick they dish out, the bigger the pat on the back for the player.
The best way is to be silent, almost as if you can't remeber who it is. As a footballer I would love abuse as opposed to silent treatment.

Can't remember anyone giving Evans the player much grief, the fella was hard working, that was it. He got tackled by Flynn which ended in injury for Evans, my thoughts at the time was, hmmmm i bet his replacement will be more of a threat. Evans got little if any abuse for the small amount of game time he had, for me this stems from fat knacker the wind up merchant, the only way to answer fat knacker is to keep cool and collect the points, his whole game plan is to play as little football as possible and to upset the opposition, in hindsite, we should have gone down there to play as little as possible and come away with a point minimum, Parkinson needs to wise up to this joker. Bradford City are at a disadvatage having very passionate fans. Next time let's play the crank and his nutty sidekick at their own game, save the abuse til we're 2 up or til the end of the game.. CTID

bcfc1903 wrote:
Can't remember anyone giving Evans the player much grief, the fella was hard working, that was it. He got tackled by Flynn which ended in injury for Evans, my thoughts at the time was, hmmmm i bet his replacement will be more of a threat. Evans got little if any abuse for the small amount of game time he had, for me this stems from fat knacker the wind up merchant, the only way to answer fat knacker is to keep cool and collect the points, his whole game plan is to play as little football as possible and to upset the opposition, in hindsite, we should have gone down there to play as little as possible and come away with a point minimum, Parkinson needs to wise up to this joker. Bradford City are at a disadvatage having very passionate fans. Next time let's play the crank and his nutty sidekick at their own game, save the abuse til we're 2 up or til the end of the game.. CTID

Yes he may well be a joker and hated/disliked - but place your money on Rotherham being promoted.

Unfortunately you are more than likely right. Sad that such a couple of **** are likely to be successful this season.

Lets hope when we play Rotherham in the home game that the fans for get whats his name and get behind the team. We tend to put too much emphasis on things like this instead of cheering for the team and that can distract players from the job in hand. The on with Hughes from West Brom I recall and he had a field day against us. It raised his game also Ellison last season pops up to score an equaliser. I don't like to crisise players but I thought some of the goals on saturday were goal keeping errors teams should never score from that distance one in particular Duke was too far off his line but he probably knows that himself by now. Come on City lets bounce back against Accy.

Evans should have been booked for inciting the crowd. He's lucky a City fan didn't run On and punch him -we were close enough.
Last season we seemed to have a plan of tackling Evans early in the match which would neutralise him. Flynn overdid it and Evans had to go off and was out for a few months. Pity someone else couldn't have done the same job on Saturday. What is so annoying about Evans is why he is so much better now than he was at City !

Babbsy wrote:
Evo was yet another player singled out for dogs abuse by certain sections of our support, and was a decent player in my opinion - Bit ragged, and certainly not the finished article, but he did have natual ability and pace - Just needed harnessing. The Rotherham fans love the man and he can do no wrong. Maybe he's finally found a manager who can harness his natural talent. It wound me up a bit at the time, and given the limited intelect of a great deal of our fans, was without queston the wrong call on his part, but why shouldn't he want to try and prove a point to fans who in the majority were unfair to him? 10/10 for the sentiment, 0/10 for the execution.

Agree with you totally Babbsy.....If the fans give it out, they should expect to get it back from the players that they abuse, and not whinge and moan, when they are on the receiving end.
I was at the game and I blame the midfield for not closing down the players who made those amazing strikes. When the opposition has the ball in such dangerous areas, then the first option should be to close them down asap, and not let them get within sight of the goal. Poor management I think. After the first goal, the management should have made it known to the players to close down quickly.

Tinybantam wrote:

Babbsy wrote:
Evo was yet another player singled out for dogs abuse by certain sections of our support, and was a decent player in my opinion - Bit ragged, and certainly not the finished article, but he did have natual ability and pace - Just needed harnessing. The Rotherham fans love the man and he can do no wrong. Maybe he's finally found a manager who can harness his natural talent. It wound me up a bit at the time, and given the limited intelect of a great deal of our fans, was without queston the wrong call on his part, but why shouldn't he want to try and prove a point to fans who in the majority were unfair to him? 10/10 for the sentiment, 0/10 for the execution.

Agree with you totally Babbsy.....If the fans give it out, they should expect to get it back from the players that they abuse, and not whinge and moan, when they are on the receiving end.
I was at the game and I blame the midfield for not closing down the players who made those amazing strikes. When the opposition has the ball in such dangerous areas, then the first option should be to close them down asap, and not let them get within sight of the goal. Poor management I think. After the first goal, the management should have made it known to the players to close down quickly.

I agree to some extent that fans dish it out they should learn to take some back. If you were at the Crawley game last season you would have seen Steve Evans contesting every ball my God I the Wenger was bad. This guy did it every single time for things their player had done. I used to cringing when we had Jackson jumping up and down on the touchline but at least he only did it when there was a poor decision.

So, was Steve Evans contesting every ball on saturday, or did he leave it to Parky and the City fans to get worked up?