Looking foward to this, Leave early tommorow morning and watch the game, then having Easter weekend in Blackpool.

Was at Barnet and saw a very comfortable result with many regulars missing, and looked in 1st gear all night and that was enough.

This will be a tough game, Morecambe are a good side on decent form, as you said they beat Oxford at the Kassam on Saturday, I remember them coming to the County Ground when we beat them 2-0, they keep the ball a lot and wern't the most physical of sides but in the end was an easy win.

After Murray's well taken goal on Tuesday I would expect him and Benson to start tommorow as Paolo does reward a good performance with a start in the next game, and Tuesday was the best game I've seen Murray play for us.

You mention McEveley in your post, he was brilliant Tuesday he was my MOM. Defensively he is so much more assured than Cibbochi and Kennedy and Tuesday he showed he has a good left foot and isn't afraid to get foward, would love to get him on a permanent at the end of the season.

To get 3 points tommorow we're going to have put in a very good performance no doubt, I would be happy with a draw to be honest, but of course hoping for the 3.

STFCx

Good write up and will look forward to your match report. Looks like I may miss the radio commentary tomorrow, so a good balanced report will be most welcome. Have you seen Bostock play ? I see lake Ta-who has been bluntly told he and Kerrouche are now in the same team. Shame, as I see it as a waste of good money, but thats life.

I did mean to add, that I can't make away games, but I do have simply massive respect for the travelling army this season, They portrayed this club in the best possible light on every occasion, and have often out chanted, sang and supported the home side, and becoming that ellusive3 twelfth man and that is something to be very proud of, a VERY BIG WELL DONE TO THEM ALL..

Fan, I can't make home games! Nor can I go to Morecambe! But my heart is with all that can. The support, I'm sure, has given us points.
Will try to get to Bradford tho', poverty & flat feet permitting!

RED,

I do remember from the old 606 days that you had a strong affiliation with Bradford. Did you used to work up there or something. I can also recall the old Bradford PA, who used to tussle it out with Workington, Barrow and often Hartlepool for re election before the Conference

I'd be very happy with a point today. And it would be nice to see Billy put one past the Creepies!

Billy played the full game but didn't score. I see Austin scored another today, but the important goal came from Benson who was fed a good ball from Holmes.

We got the three points which I see as brilliant, Creepies are now 10 points behind on the same "games played" as us. Ling keeps up the pressure but could only score the one goal against Stanley.

Hope O.U win tonight so as to close in on Creepies, not that it matters but would just love the Slug to be forced down into the play off's and then loose.

Swindon Fan,
I went to uni in Bradford. Totally differentt to life in Wiltshire.
But I rented a hovel at the other end of Park Avenue from the ground, still only a 5 min walk.
I used to go there to watch matches 'cos it was cheaper than heating the place. I saw them get put out of the league. Then I watched them in the Northern Premier league......"We hate Wigan Athletic etc..."
How fortunes change. I was an outsider, but made a great number of mates. A pint with pie & peas after the game is one of my greatest memories, & those guys would never let me pay for it! One of them played Sunday league with me. He was so much PA that he wouldn't go to watch them at Bradford City, 'cos he begrudged them the gate money.
Salt of the earth!
We have to be grateful that we still have a decent club to support.
I can't change, neither could those PA fans.

Red,

Are Park Ave still going ? I always remember your fond remarks that their supporters were as you have just described. I suppose being that close to the club it gets in your blood, and there is nothing wrong with that. Sadly the world has changed since those days you refer to, I think you know what I mean. Nowt so strange as folk, and not going to the City ground, but you have to admire the man and respect him for his principles, not many like that today. They were good days and the less people had the more they wanted to share, as they knew only too well what it was like to go without.

PA still exist, albeit in a minor league & at a different ground. The old PA ground is gone, but it was a classic of its day. In some ways, similar to the CG of the 60's. You could change ends at half time, buying a pie on the way round! Guys with tea urns on their backs - remember them? - would walk round the pitch.
But, as their fortunes waned, the ground saw no improvements. Although, as a bonus, the other side of the biggest stand was a Yorkshire county cricket ground, where I used to go some Sundays to watch the John Player League games. Some cynics thought that it was built facing the wrong way!
I lived in Bradford for 10 years, as a student then working. Both my girls were born there, but there is only one side they support. COYR!

Yes, Red, I do remember the guys with the urns on their backs, also the Football Pink, the First Aid collections when we threw coins into the upheld blanket, the smelly god awful toilets between the Bank and Shrivvy Road stand where the river of pee used to run across the concrete after half time, and the small match day programmes that were 6d in proper money. The old green painted Shrivvy Road stand with the outside stair cases, and swapping ends at half time, especially if it was raining when we were stood on the bank. The pie's were always a bit so-so and Ginsters was an abbreviation for an upset stomach the following day. I don't know if todays youngsters would have put up with it all, and listening to Sports Report going home in the car, with a heater that was nowhere as efficient as the air con and climate in todays vehicles, windows misted up etc . Going back to Abingdon along the A420 and watching steam trains going by on the embankment and seeing the fire box briefly in the engine, a school boys dream come true, especially after a Town win on a wet windy and totally inhospitable winters afternoon, complete with cold fingers and toes. There always seemed to be a plane on its way to Lyneham passing overhead at some point in the game, sometimes two. I might be nearly 60, and don't ask me about yesterday, but yes, I can remember the best days of my life.

Wouldn't swap Swindon for any other club. But the pies were much better in Bradford. And the beer! Devilish v Tetleys, no contest!