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With many injuries to both sides it will finish a bore draw 1-1. Goody first scorer

would take a point but think 2 1 to them

Goodison havin a great game

2 bookings so far need to keep our discipline, 1st goal could decide it

hope officials get a grip and it doesn't get messy second half.
Sounds like the lads are playing a different game and it's working

YAY Cvntry beeting utd too

get in there you beauty.

just saw it on tv nice finish

5 extra ?!?!?!

well done lads, and the SWA there

Player power in action..... Nice one.

Get in there!!!!! I did say our defence was looking a lot stronger last week. You play Lowe up front and he bags you the winner. Well done Ronnie and the lads, as well as the travelling SWA!

Get in there lads!!! S.W.A

Goody an absolute legend...put his body on the line for us and lead by example. Their manager a disgrace.

Why, what did their manager do?

A much needed and valuable win, lets hope we can build on the 3 points now.

Saw some of the action on SSN looked a fiery first half, their manager was having a go at goodi & lowe for a couple of incidents right in front of the dugouts. Don't know what was wrong with him their player ran into goody's elbow lol

Get in! Shows what were capable of when players are played in their strongest positions ! Great for Goody400 !

Yay won my bet too nice one !!!!

Totally gobsmacked! Actually looking forward to the Orient game now with a bit more confidence. Out of the zone and lets stay out of it.

Get in there nice little win for me as well SWA......

We can beat Orient. Bring them on! Tom Hateley was outstanding. Think we may have found a bit of balance in the starting 11.

nice one goosed TP, made up for you

Lobby with Coventry winning we are still in the relegation zone, hopefully not for too much longer.

Well done Goosed a nice little win that.

Oh dear sounds to me like an unhappy Bradford fan...Lets hope the O's are as miffed as Billy this time next week ...!!,

Oh dear a disgruntled Bradford fan, we can go from strength yo strength now as we get players back from injury we will eventually finish above them

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You'll just have to hope for another@#$%&set of officials that allow your boys to cheat. Enjoy league 2 next season, cheating, time-wasting @#$%&.

oh dear whats wrong lose to the bottom of the table team you thought you beat easy? poor you. You lost the game end of.

I take Billy's comment as a compliment. Makes a change to play a team incapable of scoring a goal against us. be ironic if they miss Playoffs by a point.....

Sparky should have been sent to the stands, but goodies should have been sent off also. Plus 3 stonewalling penalties turned down, the ref had a shocker, but then he is renowned for it. Sent Windass off previously when he was in the car park

what about your player booting Goodison from behind that not a red card?

Thought Parkinson was an absolute disgrace and should have been sent to the stands for the way he squared up to Goodison. Half wish Goody had chinned him.

No way was it a red card. He held their player back and was a yellow at most. The Bradford dug out and fans can scream and shout all they want but that doesn't make it a red card any day of the week. Will be interesting to see the replay.

Would like to say the ref got it right by showing Goody a yellow but how come he gave us the throw in and not them a free kick for Goodies alleged foul? Baffling.

Well done lads. Keep the faith. SWA

Why, what have I done?? Great win, lifts the spirits all round.

Great result and Bradford gans should just get over it. I saw the BBC stats and Bradford had about 6 or 7 more chances than Tranmere, but only bagged 1 more on the money so they can't complain really, as Tranmere had enough chances to get something and did.

It's a bit of justice I feel for the way the referee at Port Vale marred the result with that poor sending off.

Hopefully Tranmere can kick on and get another 4-6 points from the next 2 games. With the defence doing better recently, there's a better chance of that sort of thing now.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

great result does anyone have a link or website where i could see the goal. didnt get to go today as i had a footy match of my own.

With that ref I am surprised he didn't send Hanson off. Fair play to Tranmere, you took your chance, but it would have been nice to have an impartial ref - (he wasn't any better for you guys), referee the game based on the rules and not some agenda he has.

One of those frustrating days when the mixture of a 'park the bus' side and an inept ref led to a result that no one would have believed! We can all debate the Goodison incident til we are blue in the face but facts are trainers got a smash and grab with a ref that would not have seen time wasting if he was slapped with a large sticker right in front of the eyes! He was a disgrace but well done try mere the result doesn't lie!

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One of those frustrating days when the mixture of a 'park the bus' side and an inept ref led to a result that no one would have believed! We can all debate the Goodison incident til we are blue in the face but facts are trainers got a smash and grab with a ref that would not have seen time wasting if he was slapped with a large sticker right in front of the eyes! He was a disgrace but well done try mere the result doesn't lie!

cheers Bantam

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You'll just have to hope for another@#$%&set of officials that allow your boys to cheat. Enjoy league 2 next season, cheating, time-wasting @#$%&.

Parkinson was an utter disgrace. HE caused the fracas in the Goodison incident when he ran up to him and pushed Goodison who pushed him back. Then he overreacted when Lowe nudged one of the Bradford players into him like a cannon in a game of billiards. At the end he stormed off up the steps while everybody else [his team included] were still shaking hands.Talk about throwing his dummy away and toys out of the pram.



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Park the bus? BBC stats at halftime had tranmere with at least three times the efforts on goal than Bradford. Until Tranmere scored, they were well ahead on shots on goal. Then I guess it was less 'park bus' more 'prevent the inevitable shots on goal from the home team'. As for possession, stats had both teams pretty even for most of the match.

Can someone from Tranmere let me know if BBC got the stats wrong and we didn't have more attempts than Bradford in the first half, with Bradford only having two wide attempts.

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With that ref I am surprised he didn't send Hanson off. Fair play to Tranmere, you took your chance, but it would have been nice to have an impartial ref - (he wasn't any better for you guys), referee the game based on the rules and not some agenda he has.

You cannot be serious-you should change your manager if he cannot control himself and he assaults an opposition player causing a mass hullaballoo . Oh by the way -HAND BALL- your lot shouted for it so many times it was laughable.

We finally played as a team,stood up to them in a very feisty encounter, took our chance and held on .Everybody gave 110%-they all were MOM. Well done everybody-including the fans of which I was proud to be one.

cheers for the report hoots.

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Sparky should have been sent to the stands, but goodies should have been sent off also. Plus 3 stonewalling penalties turned down, the ref had a shocker, but then he is renowned for it. Sent Windass off previously when he was in the car park

HAND BALL. Stonewall penalties my .....

Mal a prop. Assume u weren't at the game and just looked at the stats on ceefax! Your team were playing for a point from the first minute! Not saying we wouldn't have been in your shoes if we had been bottom of the league but this was a smash and grab with a capital s an g! Look forward to the return fixture - can guarantee there won't be a bus of any kind at our end !

Bantams, what type of wine do you like from your sour grapes ?

Another tranmere fan that wasn't there bigmart? Good luck Parkin the bus for the rest of the season. Mr Moore must have got his Hgv licence on his holidays in Rotherham during the summer

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Mal a prop. Assume u weren't at the game and just looked at the stats on ceefax! Your team were playing for a point from the first minute! Not saying we wouldn't have been in your shoes if we had been bottom of the league but this was a smash and grab with a capital s an g! Look forward to the return fixture - can guarantee there won't be a bus of any kind at our end !

I notice on your site that quite a few of your extremely bitter fans are actively accusing the ref of being bent. That's a very serious allegation.

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Another tranmere fan that wasn't there bigmart? Good luck Parkin the bus for the rest of the season. Mr Moore must have got his Hgv licence on his holidays in Rotherham during the summer

Stats on ceefax are often wrong and prove nothing. For example if you hit the woodwork 3 times that counts as 3 shots off target. And yes-I was there.

Surely Tranmere cant be happy watching that sort of none football!? Rotherham mark 2! shocking

[quote Hoots Mon][quote Bantam1345]Another tranmere fan that wasn't there bigmart? Good luck Parkin the bus for the rest of the season. Mr Moore must have got his Hgv licence on his holidays in Rotherham during the summer[/quote]

Stats on ceefax are often wrong and prove nothing. For example if you hit the woodwork 3 times that counts as 3 shots off target. And yes-I was there.[/

14000 fans vs 120 saying the ref was rubbish - know who I believe !

Well, the stats were backed up with a statement of who took each shot. Perhaps the BBC just like to make that up. or they dislike Bradford City?

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Mal a prop. Assume u weren't at the game and just looked at the stats on ceefax! Your team were playing for a point from the first minute! Not saying we wouldn't have been in your shoes if we had been bottom of the league but this was a smash and grab with a capital s an g! Look forward to the return fixture - can guarantee there won't be a bus of any kind at our end !

I notice on your site that quite a few of your extremely bitter fans are actively accusing the ref of being bent. That's a very serious allegation.

The word isn't bitter the word is robbed oh and another word well two actually time wasters !

You are making up for it on this site, lol

wow Bradford fans crying cas they wanted a 4-0 scoreline and for us 2 roll over and die. i wasnt there but looking at stats Bradford only edged it at the end with shots which im guessing where mostly hope shots. and so wat if are team did play a bit of a defensive game wouldn't you guys against a side near the top and unbeaten at home.and u guys wont play defensive game againset us next game cas its the last game of season. so why would u ?

Bradford just cant beat teams who play the way tranmere did today fair play tranmere you won the game but if i were paying money every week to watch my team play like that id rather shove me co*k ina blender! The ref was diobolical NOT an excuse a FACT! i see tranmere in league 2 next season where ronnie moore belongs haha aka FAT JIMMY SAVILLE YOUR JUST A FAT JIMMY SAVILLE! CHOI!

oh dear you are just all so bitter its untrue.

The referee was a total shambles and tranmere parked the bus (how typical of ronnie moore...@#$%&) Fair play u did what you came to do score on the break etc timewasting,whinging BUT from an honest point of view tranmere i cant see you staying in league 1 playing like that i certainly wouldnt pay to watch football played like that haha good luck for rest of the season......UP THE BANTAMS #MASSIVE

Bradford Are Massive End Of!!!

[quote Bantams1345][quote Hoots Mon][quote Bantam1345]Another tranmere fan that wasn't there bigmart? Good luck Parkin the bus for the rest of the season. Mr Moore must have got his Hgv licence on his holidays in Rotherham during the summer[/quote]

Stats on ceefax are often wrong and prove nothing. For example if you hit the woodwork 3 times that counts as 3 shots off target. And yes-I was there.[/

14000 fans vs 120 saying the ref was rubbish - know who I believe ![/quote]

The fact that you quote a figure of 120 just shows how biased and wrong you are. You can't even get that right.When you have removed your rose tinted specs the only thing that will count is Bradford City 0 Tranmere 1

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Bradford just cant beat teams who play the way tranmere did today fair play tranmere you won the game but if i were paying money every week to watch my team play like that id rather shove me co*k ina blender! The ref was diobolical NOT an excuse a FACT! i see tranmere in league 2 next season where ronnie moore belongs haha aka FAT JIMMY SAVILLE YOUR JUST A FAT JIMMY SAVILLE! CHOI!

We get quite used to all these so called FACTS here

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Mal a prop. Assume u weren't at the game and just looked at the stats on ceefax! Your team were playing for a point from the first minute! Not saying we wouldn't have been in your shoes if we had been bottom of the league but this was a smash and grab with a capital s an g! Look forward to the return fixture - can guarantee there won't be a bus of any kind at our end !

I notice on your site that quite a few of your extremely bitter fans are actively accusing the ref of being bent. That's a very serious allegation.

The word isn't bitter the word is robbed oh and another word well two actually time wasters !

No the word on your site is BENT. As I said before a very serious allegation. No moderators obviously.

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Bradford Are Massive End Of!!!

Massive what exactly ?

remind me exactly what you have won in your history?

Some of the shite coming from our so called fans on this forum is frankly embarrassing.

Tranmere did a number on us today and whilst it wasn't pretty it worked to tee !

See you at yours for the return leg, should be a spicy one

City Loyal, well said its nice too have a sensible poster on here rather than somebody embarrassing themselves & their club.

On the positive side, being subjected to insults because we won is a nice position to be in for once.

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Some of the shite coming from our so called fans on this forum is frankly embarrassing.
Tranmere did a number on us today and whilst it wasn't pretty it worked to tee !

See you at yours for the return leg, should be a spicy one

Well said.

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Bradford just cant beat teams who play the way tranmere did today

Tranmere did what any good lower league team who's low on confidence should do - they got up in the opposition's faces and roughed them up. Bradford were clearly rattled by the way the players and managers reacted to some of the tackles and to Goodison's block (which was nothing more in my opinion, and would have been nothing more if it had been the other way round).

Did Rovers time waste? Yes. Would any team who's bottom of the league and in dire need of a point(s) do the same? Yes.

Rovers were - as pointed out above - desperate for a result. Ronnie Moore needed something out of the game, his job was on the line. He got his team to put in effort and commitment and asked them to battle for every ball, which they did.

In many ways, it was the perfect away performance. They sat back when necessary and pushed forward on the counter attack when they could. The fact that Tom Hately, our defensive midfielder, had three shots from 20-yards out suggests that we didn't "park the bus", because he was obviously getting forward.

We used the long ball a fair bit - so did Bradford - and most of it was gobbled up by the giant centre back. But at the end of the day, we defended admirably. Goodison and Taylor were superb and I was impressed by Danny Holmes.

My question to you is WHY can't you beat teams who play in that manner? You've got a team of giants - many of them who look like they gone through a few maulings before (the aforementioned centre-back and Hanson to name just two).

That should play right into your hands! It's a proper brand of football - not the most attractive but enjoyable to watch and pleasurable when it works - and that type of fight and battle is a major reason behind your league cup run last year (as it was for us in 2000).

So if anyone's to blame (referee made some poor decisions for both sides but personally didn't think any of the penalty shouts were that clear cut), I'd question why your players didn't stand up to that battle.

As an asides - very impressed with Kyle Reid. Thought he caused all sorts of problems, regularly beat his man and floated wonderfully across the back four. He just didn't release the ball quick enough.

Oh Dear talk about being bitter! How embarrassing being a Bradford fan. If Ronnie Moore is a fat Jimmy Saville then your winger Kyel Reid is sh*t purple aki! Would like to add congratulations to Ian Goodison on his 400th appearance, TRUE WARRIOR

Ha Ha, makes our win even better with all these Bradford fans coming on the board. They had a good year last year and I applauded them for their efforts in the league cup but at the end of the day they have spent years in the lowest level of the football league, couple of years back they were getting 4000 crowds, today 14,000, just goes to show how fickle their fans are, no doubt they will loose the extra 10,000 fans as they tumble down this division, also proved today how relient they are on certain players, something all league 1 teams suffer from. Lets see what the league looks like in February.
Brilliant result today, well done to Ronnie and the boys, made my weekend.

All fans have rose tinted glasses about their clubs, all clubs time waste when winning and if say you dont you're a fibber.
And most players go down at the slightest touch nowadays and roll round floor as if dying.

Good result but now we need to build on it and get more points on the board, a win every couple months wont keep us up.

True but it's always good when you get an unexpected win like this and especially when the home fans and management get so wound up about it. Most of them[there are a few sane exceptions] seem just as bitter about it this morning.

BigMart, when I posted we were out of the relegation zone. !0 minutes later we were back in it.

Bradford fan here. I'll admit when I got home yesterday I was annoyed at a lot of things, however,looking back at the game I'll admit that in reality we probably didn't do enough to win the game and despite not necessarily agreeing with Tranmere's tactics myself, you executed them well with ample success - so congratulations for that. Anyway our highlights are out and I reckon everyone should watch them (link below) - in all honesty, tell me that the 'forearm smash' wouldn't rile you if it had happened to one of your players. I've seen people sent off for much less before...

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Swings and roundabouts bcfc im sure you will get the rub of the green during season.
How many metaphors can i get in.

There was nothing in it other than shielding the ball out. Unless your player got shot from the Stand on that side he went down far too easily.

Parkinson seems totally innocent in all of this despite clearly shoving Goodison in the chest. I hope retrospective action is taken against him.

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There was nothing in it other than shielding the ball out. Unless your player got shot from the Stand on that side he went down far too easily.
Parkinson seems totally innocent in all of this despite clearly shoving Goodison in the chest. I hope retrospective action is taken against him.

Totally agree-some of them are calling it a forearm smash some are calling it an elbow!! Parkinson was the person who caused the fracas, nobody else.

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Ha Ha, makes our win even better with all these Bradford fans coming on the board. They had a good year last year and I applauded them for their efforts in the league cup but at the end of the day they have spent years in the lowest level of the football league, couple of years back they were getting 4000 crowds, today 14,000, just goes to show how fickle their fans are, no doubt they will loose the extra 10,000 fans as they tumble down this division, also proved today how relient they are on certain players, something all league 1 teams suffer from. Lets see what the league looks like in February.
Brilliant result today, well done to Ronnie and the boys, made my weekend.

Fao kiws - I came on here last night to congratulate you on your game plan and victory and also disagree with some of the BCFC fans comments however this my friend is a laughable post. Fickle fans !! We've averaged well over 5 figure crowds in the last 7 years in the khazi league , admittedly our season tickets are only 200 quid but I think averaging 15k each week is pretty good going for league 1. I guess it's a while sinse rovers got that many eh ?
In addition I think we will bring 4 x your paltry 400 when we make the short 70 mile return journey.

So like I say credit for yesterday's win but easy on the fickle fans comments

Oddly elements of this thread really echo that of last week about luck/bad luck. Supporters of defeated teams often think that it is bad luck and those that win think it is deserved.

The win is great but we need a good run before we can remotely justifying crowing.

The debate about the number of supporters is sterile. I have seen non league clubs with gates of 500 where support is full of passion and games with 40,000 where there has been no passion from supporters

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Ha Ha, makes our win even better with all these Bradford fans coming on the board. They had a good year last year and I applauded them for their efforts in the league cup but at the end of the day they have spent years in the lowest level of the football league, couple of years back they were getting 4000 crowds, today 14,000, just goes to show how fickle their fans are, no doubt they will loose the extra 10,000 fans as they tumble down this division, also proved today how relient they are on certain players, something all league 1 teams suffer from. Lets see what the league looks like in February.
Brilliant result today, well done to Ronnie and the boys, made my weekend.

Fao kiws - I came on here last night to congratulate you on your game plan and victory and also disagree with some of the BCFC fans comments however this my friend is a laughable post. Fickle fans !! We've averaged well over 5 figure crowds in the last 7 years in the khazi league , admittedly our season tickets are only 200 quid but I think averaging 15k each week is pretty good going for league 1. I guess it's a while sinse rovers got that many eh ?
In addition I think we will bring 4 x your paltry 400 when we make the short 70 mile return journey.

So like I say credit for yesterday's win but easy on the fickle fans comments

Having seen how full the other stands were,particularly the one at the opposite end from us[how high does that go?] I would have to agree wholeheartedly with City Loyal's comments. Their fans are very unhappy at yesterday's events[many excessively]but the word 'fickle' is unfair.

Their attendances I think were the biggest in league 2 in all their time they were there and even Swindon a couple of years back got around 7,500 I think, which was 3,000 less the Bradford.

Some Bradford fans may be grumpy, but it does sound like sour grapes and misrepresenting their clubs image.

I don't think Tranmere will go down anyway, as 5 out of the last 7 games have seen 2 concessions, both from deadballs not open play, so if that kind of defending persists, the team will have a good chance of recovering some form providing the goals come a bit more easily.

I'm not convinced Goodison deliberately caught their player as he's not even looking at him when does it, as opposed to taking a sneeky peek at him just beforehand, as if possibly trying to see where the ref is before the incident.

He deserved a yellow for that but not a red, but he was carded for shoving Parkinson when the ref didn't didn't spot the original shove by Parkinson.

As for Phil Parkinson, he's a good manager, but running at Goodison like a scalded cat didn't looks smart, even if he was agrieved for his player, he needs to show more constraint.

As for Tranmere allegedly parking the bus, when you're playing away from home against form sides, then 5-4-1 or 4-5-1 can be a good thing, because why should Ronnie go 4-4-2 or 4-3-3, let Bradford have a 2, 3, 4-0 win and then have to say you can't defend like that against teams like Bradford.

The sour grape types need to get over it and focus on their teams next game.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

Agree with Matt their fans need to move on and I'm sure they will have a good season despite Sundays result.

retrospectivelly if pkson gets no punnishment ?!?!?!? game is a farse, on the streetes he assaulted Goody ! what a **ck, hope tomorrow v poland our lads win, but seeing what they and it represent it's so f'ken mt, no pride passion humil;ity when in defeat, sod your cheque books

Parkinson has now apparently appealed for ''protection for his flair players'' in the wake of the Goody ''incident''. How about other teams' players being given protection against his actions?

And yes, they're still whinging about last Sunday.

Last night , England needed protection from flare supporters.

Look at the sky video . Just before he runs onto goodison, he puts his arms up. The speed he comes in at makes a collision inevitable. His reaction was that of an actor pretending to be hurt. No sympathy from me.