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McCall sacked... Scotland job next??? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42944703 Stuart McCall: Bradford City sack manager after six straight defeats McCall had two spells with Bradford as a player and also previously managed them between May 2007 and February 2010 Bradford City have sacked manager Stuart McCall after a run of six successive defeats in all competitions. The 53-year-old's departure brings to an end his second spell in charge of the Bantams, with whom he also started his career as a player. McCall took over at the Coral Windows Stadium in June 2016 and led Bradford to the League One play-off final last season, a game they lost to Millwall. Bradford are sixth in the table despite a run of five straight league defeats. However, that run of form has seen them slip 13 points behind the automatic promotion places, while they also lost 2-0 at League Two side Yeovil in the FA Cup. McCall's last game in charge was Saturday's 2-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Oldham, while the Bantams' previous home game saw them thrashed 4-0 by struggling AFC Wimbledon. In a statement, the club said the decision to terminate McCall's contract had "not been taken lightly". "Unfortunately, we have now suffered six straight defeats and the last two fixtures in particular have not brought about the positive change in performances or results that we all hoped for," the statement said. "We believe that our current squad is capable of performing to a much higher standard than we have seen recently. We must all accept responsibility for the recent poor run of form, including our players who now have the opportunity to put it right. "As such, we believe that a change is in the best interests of the club at this time in order to give us the best chance of finishing the season strongly." McCall spent 10 years with Bradford as a player over two separate spells before becoming manager for the first time in May 2007.

On that subject.... I noticed yesterday that rather than leave Thistle's players in an offisde position, our defenders started backing up when thistle player started his run up to take te free-kick, this happened almost every time, yet Thistle were happy to leave us in an offiside position. I personally think we should leave opposition in an offside position and make them make the decision to come back in line.

Tanner needs dropped from the starting 11. Both of the last games I have seen I'd have had him off early. He got away with the Hamilton game because he scored.. prior to that his decisions were suspect. Either too slow to pass or he dilly dallied that long and overthought he missed the chance to get the ball away. Then he scored the penalty and he started playing with a bit of confidence. Yesterday, he was back at the rush or dilly dally again and we lost the ball. He is starting to remind me of Skippy but without the end product, if things are going his way, he's fine but as soon as it's not he's dropping the head. At one point yesterday he dilly dallied about putting a ball into the box or passing to Hendrie who was free of a marker, by the time he decided what to Partick were back in numbers and any chance was lost. d As for Hendrie, defensively he done okay yesterday, including taking a knock to the head while clearing another Partick chance, going forward I felt he could have been used a bit more as an outlet, when he was he got a decent ball in that caused problems but too many times the play was going down our right hand side and we were getting bogged down. That should have been the signal to start using more of Hendrie and encouraging him to get forward to see what he could do. It was good to say Ciftci score and Main is looking threatening, however that's twice now when one on one he has went for a lob and not scored from them... I hope he has other options in his locker for those situations. Still, impressed with the start he has made. I am itching to see Hartley line up alongside Aldred as I think we'll have a decent defensive partnership there and Kipre can only benefit from it. Where it leaves Dunne will depend on what more we can do with the formation.If we stick with a back 3 then Robinson will want Tait or Frear there if we can't Hendrie playing more advanced. (I know as a kid he used to play wing\striker role and he knew how to put a decent ball into the box, if he still has it, we need to encourage him to play more like the other two mentioned.) Overall not a great game but the ref didn't help and Partick took advantage every time he blew to waste time.

He played with my oldest when they were about 11\12 and was looked at by a Motherwell scout back then. Shame he ended up the wrong side of the motorway. Hopefully he's now seen the light.

Great result in the end yesterday. Was delighted when the goal was given, immediately thought we got one of our previously disallowed goals back. Feel cheated after seeing the pics on here showing it was a goal. Thanks GazzyB for the twitch link ..... feel though I shouldn't have watched it as FHW scored as I brought it up.

I see McCall is having a hard time at Bradford the now. Vote of confidence during the week, a 4-0 defeat today and sent off, George Long in goal for AFC Wimbledon. Nicky Law in Bradfords team as well.

He was, signed June 2016, left this time last year.

Dean Brill in goals for Leyton Orient in their 3-2 defeat to Aldershot.

Zak Jules joins Port Vale on loan from Shrewsbury.

No text speak please.......

All the best to Hammy in his new role. He has been a true legend at the club. Hopefully he brings the next legends through.

Seen earlier on the Bristol Rovers forum that he was one of 3 that Rovers have knocked back bids for so far this window. Motherwell were listed against Gaffney as being one of those. This on Curtis Main posted today https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/striker-poised-to-depart-pompey-1-8313891

Interesting, CHarlton, West Ham or us? Who would you choose? http://jerseyfootballmag.com/news/1090/

It's still 2017 where it matters though

Missing the game today, been loaded for the last few weeks. Thought I was getting over it and the coughing back as bad as ever. With the weather not going to aggravate it. Hope we can get a result today and look forward to the winter break allowing players to get back fit.

Tv pictures show Jack sliding into Kipre after his slide.

Tanner dribbles past two and scores. Now lets put real pressure on this Thistle defence for the last 10 minutes.

Same reason that Boyle wanted to give the DC to Celtic for Skippy Sunday. So he could charge them more.

Alves will be the only action to be carried out from the game. #WinOrWin

I see the SPFL and the two clubs are in discussions over ticketing to prevent another Hibs.

I want to know where all the Rangers fans have gone, after getting goadied at work on Friday, not one in sight today.

Would it be worth sticking in Hammell instead of Dunne? Or do we go for the extra height that Dunne gives us?

Tickets bought yesterday... hope we tank this mob,.

One thing is for certain Dunne is a better defender than goalkeeper if his throw in skills are taken into account. I like Dunne for his defensive duties and winning the ball back, the same as McHugh but they are both just as likely to bring the pressure straight back onto us with their passing. I don't think we can afford both of them playing in the semi final and would look at Hammell for that game. That said I still think Dunne will help us win more points than we lose but I want to be able to watch him pass a ball without looking though my fingers...

My gripe is I just thought they may have set the semi finals out a little cheaper with it being on TV (20, 25, 30). Then that way they could go 25, 30, 35 for the Final. They haven't given themselves a lot of leeway for pricing if it's a Hibs\Motherwell Final. We are talking about it coming up to an expensive time of the year for some folk as well. If we make the Finals it's another £100+ just weeks before Xmas. We have also seen clubs all through the competition agreeing to keep prices as low as possible throughout the competition to encourage folk to get along then the "Gods" decide this is the appropriate pricing. Lets be honest the £25 section is going to be where those with family members U16 are going to go, I have a son at 17,still at school, not earning anything but I am now going to be expected to pay an adult price for him instead of a concession. Whereas he was able to get into the quarter final game at the cheaper price. I get sick fed up of hearing every year how they are empty seats for these games at Hampden but those in charge don't necessarily help themselves in that respect and a lot of it is down to prices, stupid kick off times and just not giving a darn about the fans. I am disappointed but I wasn't expecting to be anything else to be honest. I just hate it when the footballing bodies get involved and get greedy. Nothing new though.... I have been to all the ones in the recent past with both my lads and the missus but hitting 3 figures for tickets, let alone the travel costs, food, drink etc is a little gutting. The thing is if this their idea of pricing for the diddy cup, what's it going to be for the Scottish Cup... I just have to consider if I can be justify spending that sort of money, twice in the space of a few weeks. Cos if I think it's only going to be for one game then it's not worth going at all Moan over.... **Knowing me, I'll go anyway.**