Match Thread Home Vs Rochdale Sat 2nd Oct @3.00pm

Did I say I booed? Did I moan?

Can I change the the context of ownership. U know the answer.

So ill reverse the question. As I walked out today, how should I have reacted?

 

zzzzzzz boring quote. Grow up

 

Offer me L2 football with purpose and structure as a starter.

 

Quick to throw insults but not solution.

 

Says the guy who just told us all to clap harder.

 

And what should change? Dodging the question I see

 

Quick to throw insults but not solution.

Very weak. I'll leave you be.

 

stay away from the ground then if it’s affecting you so much…. Your chairman has spoken haha.

No answer???? My answer would be to be patient with Ryan and derek because life could be worse.

 

That’s exactly how it started. I can’t remember many fans not starting the season with optimism. HMS piss the league memes all over Twitter I seem to remember. Songo’o was the missing link and the signing we’d been waiting for all summer.
The negativity from the fans really kicked in with the signing of Robinson and the Walsall game 4 days later.
We have looked good once this season IMO which was the Stevenage game. We scraped past Oldham with a 98th minute pen and got a last minute winner at Mansfield. We’ve also been panned by Lincoln and Man Utd D team.
I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t have ambition. I go into every August with the same hope I’ve had for over 30 years. We’re rubbish and unless we get taken over by someone who really cares about the club or is a billionaire then like our history suggests we are destined to fight it out in these 2 leagues for the foreseeable.

 

I don't do optimism but try to aim at realism. My expectation was promotion, my thoughts pre season was unsure.
I try not to get wrapped up in the cheap words from the club but I'm not going to pick apart each and every statement, neither.
I think your right in your timings around Walsall and Robinson. I think as a fanbase, including myself, I was a little disappointed in the signing and the performance against Walsall after two very good performances at Mansfield and home to Stevenage. Standards were set, expectations determined.

Of late, performance and standards lack.

Shape, communication, desire are becoming an unwelcome issue. So as I stated above, purpose and structure, especially after the early season start. Its lacked of late, needs to change

 

Is he back again again again again again ?

 

Throughout our history we've spent more time in the bottom division than anywhere else. But because of our relative success built on the big spending of big Geoffrey a lot see us a supposed big club, usually by a lot of outsiders who don't really know or understand the club. Take the Richmond era out of it and his redevlopment of VP and we'd have been no different to any other teams in the lower leagues who yoyo between league 1 and 2.
All this talk of new owners just around the corner if Rupp lowers his demands, its all hype. We never had a queue of perspective buyers even under the height of success of Parkinson, just a deluded Serbian/German and his naive business partner.
It pains me to say but unless a ruthless ambitious BFG type charcter suddenly decides he wants to take lowly Bradford to a higher echelon we are no better or worse than pretty much every other team at this level. We are what we are, no amount of new official partners or refurbished toilets can change that.
A dose of realism is needed and Adams kinda alluded to it in interview. You're gonna have let go of the past if you want to move forward. He knows what he needs to achieve success, he knows he currently doesn't have it. Time for our CEO to do his job and get Adams what he wants in terms of squad strengthening. None of this ringing his mate Dmac begging for freebies, its time to get on to his boss and tell him a few home truths. Thats if he can be bothered answering the calls or replying to emails.........

 

As individuals in life you generally hold values and strive to be the best and in sport you also want to see your team do the same.The galling thing is, when you've trod water for so long and see promise and ambition thwarted.Success is never guaranteed and few achieve it in reality but it's nice to give it a real go. Make good judgement, take the right decisions and find the correct balance and chemistry and you're getting there. We all envy those who make it and long for it to be us, but you need business AND football acumen integrated throughout the management of the club in my view.I think the priority is identifying and aquiring your key players to form the foundation and cornerstones for progress.That is where Chairman and all have to sing from the same hymn sheet.Difficult to understand whether the budget's have been misused or targets been below par either way we need people who have a solid football understanding.Sparks and Adams were appointed to drive us forward and indicated ambition but how far is the Owner prepared to facilitate progress? Clarity is needed.

 

You happy with this season ?

 

They're just happy to have a club to support by the looks of it. We could be Bury or summat

 

We're definitely "summat"!!!

 

No doubt he will pick the same poor players that let the rest down then blame everybody else when we play poor and do not win, How in heaven Evans, Gilliard , Threlkeld and Keleher play every game is a joke when we have better players,
FCD did little to be dropped and is better than Threlkeld who has been poor, Staunton is a better more mobile centre back then Keleher who is slow and not very good, Sutton is far better than Evans who has no legs and lacks work rate that Sutton brings to the party, Gilliard words fail me how he is picked week after week Crankshaw may not be the answer but is hell of a better choice with much needed pace and running/
We are not good enough as a team to go in to matches giving the other team a helping hand with these players in the team week after week

 

Completely agree. I posted last week that the kids who've been literally bombed out by Adams were all better picks that those who've replaced them.