What does relegation mean to you ....

Similar to what happend on C& B unfortunatly.

 

Closed season is almost here too

 

Going to be a long one....

 

To be fair to Ed and the other mods on there it didn't stop you going on there.

 

And why should he Fordy? The minority shouldn't stop a majority should it....

 

It is tedious beyond belief. If it degenerates to the level Ed’s forum, I am out of here. It starts to invade every damn thread, and you can’t have a proper discussion.

 

I know he got banned a few times.

Maybe, he should of expressed his concerns to the mods about the direction of C & B.

 

I'll ask the exact same question to you as i asked to your mate Cougar. Was the source of this argument you mocking a poster for his opinion with a new member signing up to pull you up on your attitude towards other fans, or was it TCA members making an unprovoked attack?

Nearly every single argument you're involved in can be traced back yourself and I'll be happy to point this out to you in the future. Always an innocent, picked on victim eh?

 

To be fair Tolly, I can think of one user who I'm pretty sure the majority of his posts are aimed at Bronco. It's quite obvious it's targeted, and if Bronco was to tell them their seat number, fair play! He's probably sick of the crap that people think they can get away with because they have the internet to hide behind.

It's not about fisticuffs is it, Bronco I imagine would say something like that because he's bored of it. If someone has a problem, go talk to them rather than bunch of you hounding someone and pushing them to the point of biting.

It's absolute pathetic from a bunch wind ups, if you don't like BT and it's happy clappers, don't post on here or don't read it. As I say a negative of the internet is the anonymity it offers, but the beauty of it you can switch it off rather than reading what you don't want to read.

 

Which could be why he decided it wasn’t worth the constant hassle and moaning.

Only way to stop it is to ban one half of the argument but then it becomes a naval gazing session

 

Kettle v frying pan ring any bells?

 

I said to a 36 years season ticket holder " he'd be sadly missed" IMO anyone with that length of time watching Bradford City isn't a johny come lately.

 

It was entirely Ed’s decision to close the old board down, I certainly thought he made the right decision, the whole ethos of the board was becoming unmanageable.

I dealt with arguments between my children equitably, I didn’t want to hear she said he said, they needed to stop or otherwise both would lose a portion of their spending money, and if it continued all of their spending money, needless to say after a couple of times when I had to deduct money, it stopped and they started to sort their own arguments out, without the shouting, threats of violence etc., A lesson in how to take responsibility for your own behaviour, and conflict resolution.

 

Why would a mildly sarcastic remark lead to a Nasty personal attack like that one

 

Hardly nasty Park, asks a couple of questions and ends up with Tolly’s opinion. You might agree or disagree but it’s hardly a vicious attack

 

You'd think that after you publically talked about knocking your ex wife about you'd have learnt no to try and incite violence.

 

In fairness, I'm a TCA forum user and I've never been banned from any forum.

Can you say the same?

 

So am I, but I find it hard to believe anyone would be banned from the TCA

 

Its slightly ironic that our worst season in Living memory (for many) also featured our best performance for many a year - Rochdale away. We were outstanding that day. It also happened to be Jim O'Brien's last game. Letting him go was a mistake and we then made such a mess of the January window - every move we made was a mistake; keeping Payne, Keeping Miller, every signing was wrong.

As for what relegation means; the answer will be laid bare over the next 1-2 years. IF - and its a massive IF - we use it to reset the club, invest in growing the club as part of a long term strategy that looks at every aspect of what we are, from the ground, training facilities, supporter 'experience' on match-days, scouting, ticket pricing, recruitment etc. then it could be a good thing in the longer term. But if its just the latest step in meandering along, then we could drift into permanent obsolescence.

We need to decide what we want to be going forward. Are we just a lower league club, that considers the majority of its supporter base to be impoverished and only willing/able to pay low prices, with facilities that are beg/stolen/borrowed and with aspirations of just being happy to survive? Or are we an ambitious club that's willing to invest in a plan to become a championship standard outfit in every way that matters? We need to think about the longer term make up of our fan base and to my mind we're missing a huge trick. Every person that I know who attends games - and I'm talking 25-30 people in terms of friends, family and people I sit near, earn decent wages and want to see, and would be willing to pay for, a competitive outfit. I'm not trying to exclude anyone, but our future fan-base is in the sub 40 year old category and we need to tap into it more.

Investment is the word. From within, from new investors/sponsors and from fans. We need an open discussion on what our 5-10 year plan is. Because right now we're just drifting and every club I look at who's going anywhere, isn't doing it by accident. If I saw a proper plan, I'd happily pay double what I pay now. And I think most would do the same, especially if monthly payment plans etc were an option. Its time to stop penny pinching and accept that moving forward brings a cost. If we're not willing to pay it, we'll just bumble along and eventually die off.

 

My finger was hanging over the ban button when Park Banchum paid us a visit. He still does under various aliases.