Open Letter from the Independent Fans Group

This was released this morning. Certainly, there are some good points there.


https://widthofapost.com/2024/12/24/an-open-letter-to-bcafc-from-bradford-city-fans-independent-group/

 

Delete "growing" insert "total".

 

Well said Steve.

 

He couldn’t be arsed reading the last one.

Why will this one be any different?

It won’t is this answer.

 

Good letter
Regrettably I think it will be filed in the bin and remain unread
Can't see it having much if any effect sadly

 

I know its a bit of a soft effort, but what about something akin to the letters from the fans that the Independent supporters group sent to Rupp last year, except this time it's a letter of intent not to renew. Admittedly last time he returned them unopened ( I still can't believe Rupp or Sparks haven't been questioned over that by the way), but surely a couple of thousand or more stating they will not renew will at least attract media attention. The question remains though what will we be demanding as a minimum to persuade us to withdraw the threat and renew.

 

Agree hitting his pocket is the only way
A significant drop in season ticket revenue can not be hidden
It won't matter tho as ticket sales won't show a substantial reduction and the whole cycle starts again
Nothing will change unfortunately

 

i imagine Ryan will be doing his utmost to avoid Herr Rupp seeing this

 

I think Gent and co get an easy ride in that letter still good luck with it though but sadly we are being led by people who dont care and will openly lie to you to get your money in

 

Who's this Wayne fella who is replying in the comments. I fail to see his logic that Rupp isn't to blame when he is the sole person who can install the CEO at the club.

I see the good old line of us not owning the ground being an issue when this same not owning the ground existed when we were finishing in the play offs back in league 1.

 

Last couple of years I've bought out of habit and thinking there may be light at the end of the tunnel. If this season proves fruitless as it looks at the moment I would have to think long and hard this time.

 

We have to hurt financially by not renewing. Then the sponsors aren't as interested meaning more financial pain. Money is the only thing SR and RS understand - not football. We want our club back and as all else seems to have failed it needs to be the financial route we now take. Please everyone - get onside with this

 

So, let's assume 10000 ST holders don't renew. It depends on the number of pensioners and kids of course, but let's say that's £2.5 million. What happens if Rupp sits on his hands and calls our bluff? Enough from commercial side and remaining gate to cover rent, utilities and a much reduced playing budget? Cook, Walker, Pointon, Pattinson, Smallwood gone to make up the difference? Maybe enough left in the squad to keep us in the EFL? In what way has this course of action hurt Herr Rupp? The loudest cries last season were for a DOF. It's legitimate to ask what Sparkes is for, if he's not commercial manager and has no control over the footballing decisions, but we do now have a DOF, so it's a bit hard to justify continuing calls for Sparkes to go. Having said that I'd far rather the vitriol was directed at Rupp and his CEO, rather than abusing players and coach as happened at Meadow Lane. The fans screaming 'you're f***ing sh**e' at Bobby Pointon don't seem to have got the message that it's all Ryan Sparkes fault. Especially as they were calling him 'one of our own' a couple of weeks earlier.
Happy Christmas everyone.

 

Me too. Over promise and under deliver. Recipe for complete disaster being unfurled right before our very eyes. Some choose not to see it but many will.

 

Smallwood gone you say?

Well that's me convinced, I'm definitely not renewing now!

 

Well whether he does or not read it is a moot point. My guess is that he will hear of it and I doubt even Sparks can give PR version of that letter. I tell you what Rupp needs to look out for are the silent fans the ones who are so p’d that they can’t even be bothered to go to VP even though they have paid for it. I am living with one of those.