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Time To Go, Stefan

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by JonButterfield, Nov 28, 2020.

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  1. Park bantam

    Park bantam Regular Starter
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    He remains friends with Rupp that’s all
     
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    #141 Park bantam, Oct 29, 2023
  2. Ashton Bantam

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    I hope to god that isn't true. No wonder we've gone nowhere.
     
    #142 Ashton Bantam, Oct 29, 2023
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  3. JonButterfield

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    I think it's a bit more than that.
     
    #143 JonButterfield, Oct 29, 2023
  4. SydneyBantam

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    pretty sure Rhodes is a dodgy fella going by social media but yet width of post will keep crediting him

    thats whats wrong with this fan base, still fans of julian and edin. sad buggers.
     
    #144 SydneyBantam, Oct 29, 2023
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  5. SydneyBantam

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    sadly too many snowflakes
     
    #145 SydneyBantam, Oct 29, 2023
  6. Park bantam

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    He is one of very few people over here and I believe stops at his house. There is no suggestion that it’s any more than that
     
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    #146 Park bantam, Oct 29, 2023
  7. Park bantam

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    It’s amusing how these little rumours appear always after a couple of bad defeats
     
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    #147 Park bantam, Oct 29, 2023
  8. SydneyBantam

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    your boy friend roger owen sat next to social media fella sparks on Saturday.

    I still got the recorded clip of Roger spouting off, I know he's on here too.

    Club is a mess from top to bottom
     
    #148 SydneyBantam, Oct 30, 2023
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  9. Park bantam

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    Wow what a deep and meaningful post. What the xxxx has that got to do with anything. One thing for sure you only come alive when things are bad.
     
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    #149 Park bantam, Oct 30, 2023
  10. Silverbantam

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    #150 Silverbantam, Oct 30, 2023
  11. Fordy117

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    The Width OF The Post are a pointless outlet. They’re scared to tell it how it really is and don’t want to upset Sparks and Rupps. Set of cowards! The fans know that the problem with this club is Sparks and Rupps.

    Issue with this club is that certain groups and the senior management think the fan base are a set of fools and mugs.

    This club is starting not to deserve its fan base.
     
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  12. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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  13. Silverbantam

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    It’s not Rupp who is taking forever appointing a manager. The buck stops with Sparks. A marketing man with only experience of Rugby league.
     
    #153 Silverbantam, Oct 30, 2023
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    The situation is far worse than a couple of defeats.
    It’s been perpetual decline since we dismantled the teams of 2016 and 2017.
    All under Rupps tenure and latterly under Sparks
     
    #154 Gardscoigne, Oct 30, 2023
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    WOAP has some good articles on there but will generally flip flop depending on the result on Saturday afternoon. The general air of malaise amongst the fans isn't down to the last two results nor is it down Kev MacDonald who has been thrown in the deep end. Its down to decisions made over the last five or six years under the ownership of Rahic/ Rupp and now individually Rupp. Things like sacking Hughes but with no real idea of what the next step is other than to throw McDonald in. I don't always agree with you Fordy but i do usually agree with your generalisation that the club has no go forward strategy. We should have had a new manager in by now, its unfair on the players and the fans.
     
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    Somethings weird at this club, really weird. I said this at the start of the season on here, that after pre-season there just seemed a weird energy around the club. Like, the players didn't look chipper to start the campaign, the management looked annoyed, recruitment was very uninspiring. First few home games the atmosphere was really off. There has never been a connection between stands and pitch this season, like we tried ripping up the playbook in the summer for promotion when in reality, we just needed to tweak a few things from last season but by the point we dropped the revolutionary back 5, the boulder was already going downhill for Hughes and the fans had kind of already seen the writing on the wall.

    It will be 4 weeks since Hughes was sacked on Wednesday, and just to hire a bloke who was always out of work seems really odd. I get you want to interview and finish due diligence, but c'mon, 4 weeks?! Either the mandate has changed, ownership is on the way out or we didn't know exactly what we wanted. The radio silence after all this time is just laughable. Only thing we have heard from Sparks was him talking budgets and blowing some smoke up the Wrexham way. I cant believe it feels like the season has been a write off since early October, but I just have no faith that this leadership will get this club right this season.
     
    #156 Jordan, Oct 30, 2023
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    Hopefully it is taking so long is Rupp selling the club because I don’t believe that a longer process looking for manager from the people who decide at our club will make any difference.
     
    #157 Manningham bantam, Oct 30, 2023
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    We can live in hope
     
    #158 Rogered Tart, Oct 30, 2023
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    That's a good summary of where we are currently and captures the issues well.

    I start from a slightly different position to yours and that relates to Rupp's own priority for the club. He has little interest in football; I doubt that he has much understanding of lower league football and has no emotional attachment to the Bradford area. His sporting interest lies elsewhere. His priority appesrs to be to avoid having to dip into his own pocket to underwrite the club or to invest in its future. And he doesn't have to do that now with the good work which David Longo, the Commercial Durector and the likes of Mick Shackleton have done in bringing more commercial income into the club. But it will be required to take the next step forward

    It would have been good to have seen some of the extra money being directed to the playing budget but that hasn't been the case. As an aside, this year's playing budget of £2.8m as Sparks said in his recent article in the Athletic is according to the club in line with what it was 2 and 3 seasons ago! That was a big surprise to me. I'm of the view that we are in a standstill. Rupp doesn't want to commit more funds to the playing side and is simply waiting for the right buyer to come along and buy the club at the price he wants.

    I keep hoping that the delay in appointing a new manager is linked to an imminent takeover but it may just be wishful thinking on my part. The delay may be just another indicator that Rupp isn't really bothered about the club's future other than getting the books to balance. The squad will need yet another rebuild and that will cost money. Any new manager worth his salt would understand that and require assurances that it will be provided. It's speculation on my part but maybe that's a sticking point for some giving rise to a delay in the recruitment of a new manager? Time will tell.
     
    #159 Dennis, Oct 30, 2023
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    If we don’t hear anything from the club today surely there has to be something bigger than appointing a manager going on? The silence is deafening and if it was just being unsure who to choose, they would have given it to Kev for the next couple of months. We must hear something today.
     
    #160 Two Legs, Oct 30, 2023
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