Under-fire However, he concedes that the upcoming few weeks “will be demanding for everyone,” as evidenced by Bradford City manager Mark Hughes’ team’s ‘making too much noise’ start to the League Two season.
For the first time since December, City plummeted to 18th place after losing two straight league games, and Hughes once again heard chanting of “You’re getting sacked in the morning” from certain supporters.
After Saturday’s extremely discouraging 3-1 home loss to Walsall, he commented on the latest setback, saying, “People have to keep their nerve and understand you are going to have periods like this in the season.
People assume it will set the tone for the entire season if it happens at the start. It isn’t.
You have these periods in the middle and the conclusion of the season, and right now, because of the timing, a little amount of attention is being paid to us.
But we simply need to settle down and unwind. We still have a lot of games left in the lengthy season, so we just need to turn this brief slump around.
We simply need to quiet it down because it’s making too much noise right now, and the only way we can do that is by winning games.
Hughes believed that his team’s defeat against lowly Rovers, when Keiron Morris scored the game-winning goal in the 83rd minute, was unfair.
On a night when Harry Lewis atoned for a poor surrender to put the Wirral side 1-0 to stop a penalty, home player Regan Hendry had earlier seen his earlier attempt cancelled out by Andy Cook in the second half.
We need to carry on from the first half, when I thought we were brilliant and there was a genuine energy and momentum, said Hughes, whose team will host Swindon on Saturday.
The following two weeks will be tough for everyone, but then we’ll be OK.
We are aware of what happens when we lose and anticipate criticism and jeers.
Even though the game and scenario are emotionally charged right now, if people were to simply judge this performance by itself, I believe they would conclude that we actually weren’t that horrible and didn’t deserve to lose. We’ll have to wait and see if individuals are willing to do that.