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Perfectly sums the club up

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Keefly Bantam, Oct 2, 2023.

  1. NorthernMonkey

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    Well that's absolutely made my mind up.

    #Ruppout
     
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  2. TallinnBantam

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    Anyone else wake up this morning with a horses head on their pillow?

    Scared to discuss anything on here now! Good game last night wasn’t it? Lovely performance. Fantastic club and super chairman. Long may it continue!
     
  3. Rogered Tart

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  4. Onside

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    I just woke up feeling depressed. Yet another season down the pan. The answers to our questions are going to cost big time. The owner and the fans are not on the same page and unlikely to be any time soon.
     
  5. Petrov

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    Who wants to be promoted anyway? League 2 is our natural home and I love it!
     
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  6. Onside87

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    If Rupp took money out of the club then he took money out of the club. Many owners do. I can’t see any point speculating over it but I think it’s funny that it’s suggested we can’t talk about it because of some kind of liable threat. That’s frankly ridiculous.
    Rupp needs to go. We all know that. People talk about his asking price etc etc but in reality we have no idea. The club isn’t worth very much at all I wouldn’t have thought. 3-4 million maybe but even that’s stretching it as we don’t hold any assets.
    I do think that it’s time to once again show Rupp and Sparks that we have had enough. Protests do work and they apply pressure. The flyover should never have been cancelled at the time but those who did pull it at least had the right idea to begin with. I’m done with Bradford City at the moment. I don’t feel a connection to my club at all. That’s down to Rupp and Sparks. Their time should be up.
     
  7. Johnny Yen

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    VP= 1933 Germany haha
     
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  8. Stevay_b

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    The fact he's got anonymous lackeys threatening people says everything you need to know. Man's more concerned with his image than actually running the football club he bought. Whether he's taking money or not doesn't matter, all that does is the fact that during his term as "proud custodian" the club has collapsed on its arse and shows no sign of rising back

    #ruppout
     
  9. Bantam Begins

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    Probably the worst recruitment I’ve ever seen and that’s saying something. Gent should be gone first, then Hughes agreeing to it and playing the way he does should be gone. Ryan next, he’s done ok off the pitch but without a football director or a football person next to him he’s failed endlessly and will continue to. This of course only works if Rupp either sells or for once thinks about the club and makes a complete change. New manager, director of football with an identity so we are not constantly chopping and changing, and a new CEO. It needs a huge shake up.
     
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  10. AngryGaz

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    I woke up this morning seriously not giving a shit :( honestly I actually cannot believe I simply don't care about it now because it's like a fooking circus down there :( I should be gutted yet again but when you prepare yourself for this in August then I suppose the element of this shit happening is no surprise at all :(

    Tranmere yet another sub standard side that our so called head coach has allowed to walk off into the night with another 3 points.

    He should be gone this morning and If he isn't then we are in for a season of mediocrity

    We
     
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  11. Ulysses S Grant

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    If he's going it needs to be today. Tomorrow is too late for the next match. If he's still in charge on Saturday I'm finding something else to do.
     
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  12. Stevay_b

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    Amazing how often that happens when we're a club that doesn't accept mediocrity
     
  13. Bigrod

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    Sadly l do give a lot of emotion to my team. The difference between Managers, Players, Owners and myself and virtually everyone on here, is that we are Bradford City!
    Managers, Players and Owners come and go, we tend to stick around.
    There are people on here who have been going for well over 50 years and have stuck with it.
    So l do care.
    I hurt and am fed up.
    But this is my Club.
     
  14. Mike Hunt

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    I think he’s an honourable man who has ended up with a business he doesn’t particularly want, but wants to stand by it and wouldn’t want to see it fail. I don’t think for a second he was behind any of the messages I received, and I don’t believe anyone directly connected to him or the club was. I’m told that’s not his style, good humoured and luckily thick skinned apparently. So that’s at least one more conspiracy theory that can be wiped off.

    If the club was top six rather than bottom six all this would be academic. A new owner won’t change our fortunes when money is spent on players like Bola, Samuels, Seedorf, Guthrie, Taylor, Reeves and McCarten.
     
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  15. Onside87

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    I don’t care what the blokes personality is. He has a legacy of nothing but failure. Abject failure.
    I don’t care if he is thick skinned or the world’s biggest cry baby. Can he not see that Sparks doesn’t have a clue about football? He may be good at getting local takeaways to sign up to partnership deals but football is not his game.
    When he sacks Hughes he should also bin Sparks.
    A new owner could absolutely change our fortunes. We see it all the time. Yes sometimes it doesn’t work but it can’t get much worse can it??
    The empathy of our fans is something I have a massive problem with. We have never been a fan base to do anything apart from boo at the final whistle. Rupp and Sparks won’t move until the fans turn. I mean protests and boycotts etc. While 17,000 of us turn up and sit there hoping something magically might change the longer this continues.
     
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  16. Onside

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    Yes the other half is in exactly the same frame of mind. He has been supporting them for 66 years. He won’t be going Saturday; no nice Saturday feeling anymore just an empty feeling. Parking near the ground a nightmare.
     
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  17. Tony Wilkinson

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    Possibly not this saturday ....
     
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  18. Onside

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    :joy:
     
  19. AngryGaz

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    Sadly I simply cannot be arsed putting any kind of effort into folk who are basically taking the pee ............ they've had there season ticket money out of me so I ain't going along to watch yet another sub standard effort and ruining yet another Saturday
     

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