Fan boycott against Swindon 5th March

It is what it is, mate.

We really are a club full of 'at least we have a club to support' fans.

So be it.

 

Rahic. Plane banner. Threat of.

 

Unfortunatly he can ask what he wants Jon, and if that figure of £10 mill is true its a fantasy figure plucked out of the fresh air, at this present moment in time it is totally unjustifiable, as you say where we were when he bought us and where we are now your £3 mill is far more realistic.

 

He can, yes, and he will do for the foreseeable future.

The fans clearly don't have an appetite for change, so it is what it is.

He asks £10 million, nobody in the world is going to pay that, so here we are.

No board.
No DOF.
No expertise.

Just Rupp and Sparks playing train sets.

 

No I am not against any fan protesting in any way they see fit. The fans of this club have had enough. This season has been dreadful. I am not buying a season ticket until this club decides to listen and make changes that are beneficial to the long term interests of this club. Plus there is no point in buying a ticket you won’t use.

 

Fair enough, sorry, misunderstood you.

 

Well he's living in cookoo land if thats the case he's obviously no fool anyone who has a personal wealth over £100 mil were given to believe can't justify that figure then again why should we be suprised this is Bradford City Footbal Club.

 

I just want to say this. I have supported this club since 1967, my first match. We have gone through trials and tribulations over the years. This is a first, our owner couldn’t care less about a club he own’s The consequences of not caring or sitting around waiting for a mythical figure is devastating our club. Ryan Sparks is doing his best, but this cannot be down to one man to run this club!

You only had to look at empty seats last night, when was the last time that happened? The club have had our support through thick and thin, but now due to a lack of care, the fans have also decided they don’t care either. That is the situation; it can be retrieved, it will require investment and a feeling/ a plan that our club and the fans not only deserve much better, but also action to sort this terrible malaise.

 

Maybe before the Swindon game those who feel so strongly about the present situation should take banners in protest on Saturday against Mansfield to make their concerns known, I would think any photographers in the ground would send said pictures to the press and the ball is in motion.
I'm far from happy with the present situation in no way am I trying to put down those who want to protest, maybe start with banners and build up the protest from there.

 

I'd certainly agree as a fan Rupp doesn't seem to care enough, his last public statement was to tell us all he is a "proud custodian" of Bradford City sorry Stefan talk is cheap.

 

If you want future guarantees then you're going to be waiting a long time. All we can do is assess the past and make a judgement call.

One thing is for certain though, many fans see any chance of progress under Rupp and Sparks as very slim indeed and in fact many have stopped attending because of the lack of success. That alone is a reason to seek change.

 

I have it on good authority from the Facebook lot that the reason we had empty seats is because it was a bit cold and we had a couple of stormy nights lately.

I'm not kidding.

This is the level our support is at.

 

Whatabout the rest of the nights and Saturday afternoons then? Ridiculous comments to make.

 

Absolutely pointless exercise. Far better to get as many in the ground as possible with a very vocal anti rupp protest all match.

 

You'll struggle.

Plenty of the opinion Rupp is doing a jam up job.

 

Stefan might view it as a sunk cost. Sure he’s not getting his £6m+ back, but at the moment it’s not costing him anything either. Maybe mentally he has written off that investment and as long as the club doesn’t cost him anything he stands a slim chance of getting his money back.


Imagine you suddenly came in to £250k and you bought an apartment in Spain for £250k. Brexit means it’s now worth £100k. You’ve ‘lost’ £150k but it’s not costing you a penny to keep owning it, in fact your mates give you a couple of grand a year for some cheap holidays and there’s a chance the immigrant housing market in Spain might pick up, so you keep on owning it. Why wouldn’t you? It’s not costing you a lot. But now the roof starts leaking and you need to spend £30k a year repairing the roof. You’re selling up aren’t you because it’s not worth the hassle, even if you only get £50k for it because the roof is leaking you decide that’s better than spending £30k a year.

It’s a shit analogy but I imagine that’s not a million miles off Rupp’s position.

 

When it comes to protests you're not going to have everyone onboard and I think we just have to accept that. Social media is a powerful thing and word of a serious organised boycott would spread fast. What's the explanation for such a sparse crowd now that Adams is gone? People weren't staying away simply because they didn't like Adams, it's because they can see there is a much deeper problem within the club.

I know that some people who are anti-Rupp are also anti-boycott, and I'll just have to respectfully agree to disagree with them.

However there are a bizarre few that take fans discontent and outrage as an opportunity to voice their superiority to all us 'hysterics'. It's as if they're conditioned to think that only proper city fans would sit idly by as their clubs destroyed right in front of them, and well if you complain then you're just creating a toxic environment that no manager or player would want to operate in. For 5 years fans have come in their thousands, and completely swamped the rest of the division when it comes to support, to be let down every time. We took 2000 to Oldham in terrible form and weather to watch us get shat on by a team 22nd in the division. 5 years of unwavering support from the fans has done jack all in relation to the performance of the club. All it's done is enable a constant year on year decline to the point where we're at risk of losing our FL status.

And now...all of a sudden, fans will be going too far boycotting attendance and ST sales because then it'll affect our playing budget next season! Well either Rupp is "investing" (hint: he's not) in the club, as one user has said, and could supplement the playing budget with his own cash - or, he doesn't give a shite about the club and we'll operate on a smaller budget.

Well a smaller budget shouldn't be a problem as we're told time and time again that many of the clubs having success in this league have a smaller budget and it's all about the setup. So then we return to the manager merry-go-round and the infallible logic that surely THIS time, our 12th manager, will fix everything!

I would go on about how daft the idea that no one would buy us is but it's absolutely ridiculous. Oh and remember everyone, if someone did buy us, they'd spend 8m only to asset strip us just like they did to Bury, even though we own absolutely nothing!