In defence of Stefan Rupp

But you won't do it.

You won't put pressure on either Rupp or Gibb. You run fans down for wanting to do just that.

 

Indeed. More faces than the Elizabeth Tower.

 

Trying to defend Rupp ffs hes the main reason we are in this posistion ..........i hope the empty seats have really fired a bleak warning for whats to come

 

If the purpose of the letters to Rupp are to convince him to buy back VP or negotiate hard with Gibb I’m onboard.
If the letters are to tell him he’s a c£&@ and insist he sells the club I’m out.

 

They’re isn’t in terms of Bradford city since august 2016… metrics don’t lie. Sorry terrible tone deaf post and sick of these.
He’s to blame full stop!!’

 

Rupp was duped into nothing, he's a business man who will give everything diligence. Some you win some you lose.
Sell up and feck off, you're not wanted here

 

Also Johnny Yen:

Looks like you change the nuance of your posts daily.

Rupp in! Rupp out! Rupp in! Rupp out! Tell him to do one! No, wait, don't! Now do! Don't! Do!

 

Ah, Hello Mr Flip-flop.. I cant see any change in nuance there.
Perhaps you'd like to tell us all how you didn't want MH sacking, then again you did??? Hahaha

 

"GET LOST RUPP, YOU'RE NOT WANTED - but we shouldn't tell Mr Rupp we don't want him"

You.

 

He doesn’t give us a decent budget! The budget is generated through fans, commercial deals etc. He doesn’t spend a penny on us now.

Don’t look at others, look and judge your club Under Rupp we have gone backwards, we are a poor team in a very weak league. Still has Ryan Sparks as CEO who is a complete shambles.

Anyone that defends Rupp is a fool. He needs to go!

 

Rupp impressed me today by not hiding and sticking up for himself when a fan was having a go at him and even had a discussion with the fan during the second half! Sparks did not look a happy man!

 

We are a lower middle team. That’s what the league says. The teams at the top have hammered us on a couple of occasions to underline this regression. Is the overall league stronger than last year possibly. MK Dons could have had 10 earlier this year like Mansfield. Notts county smashed us. Last season there wasn’t anything like that. Easily lost at Orient but not by 5. Overall we are weaker. The league possibly slightly stronger. Either way we are going nowhere. Owners can be absent and yet run successful clubs. But these rely on the best management beneath within all aspects of the club. I’m not saying Alexander isn’t culpable but he didn’t sign a huge squad at the start of the season nor has he been involved since the malaise began. Rupp has. Sparks has also presided over years of regression on the pitch. And he should be judged on that as much as anything as we are firstly a football club.

 

I agree. It is too easy to concentrate on the manager and players short comings rather than the route of the problem. I said at the time when we had the protracted manager interviews, we cannot hold the appointed manager responsible as we allowed MH with Sparks and Rupp’s permission to sign all these players. I would go further and say we have not got to the bottom of our dilemma yet. Rupp is responsible for losing the fans goodwill. Trying to get City going again on a shoestring without a plan is now looking like a very bad idea. Now the fans are going to leave in their droves, who quite frankly have had enough. Football at its best is exciting and good fun. Competitive clubs mark out their own identity, we lost ours when Parky left and has not been replaced.

Our club is going to need meticulous construction, it is not a big club anymore. We are struggling with the basics ie back room staff arguing with a customer about renewing his ticket. It sounds trivial doesn’t it, but for me it signify’s very poor training in customer relations. The answer to “I want to renew my ST please” is yes sir, let me do that for you. Not a protracted argument about the customer coming back next week. He might never come back.

Rupp if he is to continue needs a full independent assessment of the whole of the running of the club to identify weakness in staffing, training etc., and a broad analysis of how much it will cost to put right. Yes the rental of VP is draining our resources and that needs to be looked at. Sparks needs to be let go and an appointment of CEO/Director of Football.

 

So years of failure are forgiven because he probably fed one fan a load of shit

 

Mark Bower summed up the problem with our club after the match yesterday, we have no plan for the club on a long term scale. We appoint managers who want to play in a certain way then when it goes belly up he gets sacked, the next manager then rips it up and starts again.
Without such a plan we will continue to repeat this mistake each season, while the ultimate aim is promotion there is no plan as to how we will achieve this.

 

No.
He's seen for himself now first hand just how bad things are so if he doesn't act after that then there really is no hope going forward and he will continue to deserve all the criticism that is directed towards him. However, if his visit yesterday turns out to be the catalyst for change then that will be a good thing. It won't excuse his dereliction of duty over the past few years but at some point surely he has to realise he needs to take drastic action. Let's just hope that yesterday was the day the penny finally dropped.

 

What you can blame him for is convincing one of the most successful managers in our history, in Phil Parkinson to give up all his hard work and get away from VP within weeks of meeting him. Any businessman or consortium taking over a successful brand (or team in this case) doesn't bulldoze over everything and everyone. I'd expect that if they bought us as we are now, because that's what's needs to happen. It was his negligence in allowing Rahic free reign, his promotion of an inexperienced youngster, his continued lack of investment to push us forward, his continued lack of interest, his utter contempt for the supporters. That's all at Rupps door.

So yes, he is to blame as the rot started the day he set foot in the club.

 

I thought the letters were to let him know what's happening and to request a meeting?

 

Agreed, if ever there was a good time to lose 5-1 at home it was yesterday whilst the owner was there to see it.
He absolutely now must relieve Sparks of his duties and make a statement to the fans ahead of the ST deadlines that he will provide sufficient funds to GA to challenge for the automatic promotion spots next season.
Then he’s got 3 years to negotiate on the VP lease problem with Gibb but any suggestion of renewing at current rental levels and expecting fans to fund it whilst the playing budget suffers and I’ll also be sacking this club off.