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Rupp & Sparks Out?

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by JonButterfield, Nov 12, 2023.

  1. Rogered Tart

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    If it hasn't it should be, was never a goal for Cook.
     
  2. Rogered Tart

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    I've seen long standing supporters venting their frustrations after last night, decent club men like Adam Baker and others like him. When it gets to this stage the writing should now be on the wall.
    Will be interesting to see how many we take to Swindon on Saturday and what the reaction is?
     
  3. vin weasel

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    Like a politician, self serving.
    Time to go Ryan.
    Your decisions over the last 4 years have gotten us no where on the pitch where it matters most.
     
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  4. donhutchinsaffro

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    Fordy has called it for years. We are run very poorly. Do we have hot water yet?
     
  5. Jordan

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    It was recorded as an own goal. The one WOAP is referring to was his pen against Walsall in September. Since then, Cook has gone 8 home games without a goal. Just 15 goals scored at home in 13 games for the squad.
     
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  6. bailiff bridge bantam

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    Turgid,dreadful,lamentable.

    Bradford City’s new what3words.
     
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  7. Rogered Tart

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    His general view on the club has been proved fairly accurate. For any long term progression this club may have visions of, the only hope we have of any of it happening is new owners. Someone to breathe life into the stagnant corpse.
     
  8. Sergio Pinto III

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    4 home wins this season. Pitiful. And its something pathetic like 30 in the last 90.
     
  9. Onside

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    You can’t sell season tickets on that kind of entertainment. We have hardly attended any home matches this season, some of our lack of attendance is health problems, but the majority is lack of entertainment. We opted for the DD system to pay for our ST this season which ends in March. We are paying £67 per month for both executive seats with suites. As things stand at the moment we will not renew them. We will lose our lovely view and comfort seats. We have had a season ticket since they opened the upgraded MR so not sure how long, but a long time. It just feels like an end of an era and it will take sheer guts, money and determination to turn this club around.
     
  10. bailiff bridge bantam

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    I still don’t get the fact that some on here give Sparks a big portion of the credit for all the commercial improvements when I presume we have Longo and his team doing most of the donkey work but then he has no accountability for the shit state of the football side
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    You can’t just pick and choose when you take credit and then disappear when the criticism is being thrown at the club

    You are CEO of the whole football club and everything that comes with it.
    Good and bad.
     
  11. Captain Grumpy

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    Fordy has criticised the owners whoever they are, he wanted Mason out when he was in charge. It’s easy to just say resign to everyone when you need an end game.
     
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  12. Captain Grumpy

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    That also must include the appointment of Longo, had it gone wrong he would rightly be criticised.
     
  13. Fordy117

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    Mason wasn’t good enough either.

    Look, this club doesn’t need a novice. It needs someone that knows what he is bloody well doing! Not trying to learn on the job.

    Where is Mason now? Not in the game. Think I was proved right on that one also.
     
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    Seasons over . We need new owner probably CEO and manager. Sparks needs to step up and stand his ground . Many things wrong at the moment . Screenshot_20240124_085151_YouTube.jpg
     
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    100%
    It’s the fact the commercial side always appears to be a joint effort(CEO & CCO) but the shit state of the football side(the only bit that 99% of us are interested in) is not his problem and is solely down to managers not getting the best out of the “quality” players that we apparently keep acquiring.
     
  16. Sergio Pinto III

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    The 14-15k season tickets we have been selling will be under 10k next season.
     
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    Yes probably but it is so sad. Vast improvements are required from the top.
     
  18. Fordy117

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    That’s because we have an owner not interested one jot about the club.
     
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  19. SteveC

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    I think I have always been vocal enough on here of my opinion of Sparks. Came as a nobody from a Rugby league background, and was promoted through the ranks very quickly, probably thanks to others seeing the light and leaving the business rather than his own success. All the while he was gladly taking all the plaudits, and giving himself a good old pat on the back, the self righteous prick. But then goes into hiding when everyone sees the light and stays there, except for the odd staged interview with Parker of the T&A, who is a frustrating figure in his own right

    CHANGE REQUIRED ASAP!!!!
     
  20. Home Alone

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    Sparks was always a car crash waiting to happen. No rigorous recruitment process to find a CEO. He was the cheap option and now we suffer a slow death at the hands of a man/boy who cries ageism rather than admit he is not good enough.
     

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