2021/22: A Season of Struggle?

Me too. We haven't progressed on the field in four years and thats a worrying position to be in.

 

Every season we’ve regressed both on and off the pitch since Wembley, worrying Orient esk when they went from League 1 to non league. If you don’t have concerns then you’re deluded, our league position has got worse every year and season ticket sales have always been lower than the previous season. Let’s be honest this ownership has been a total disaster. Hope I’m wrong but until we get better stewardship at the top I can’t see us progressing very far.

 

good points these are worrying times.

all I can say is even though personally sparks was an underwhelming appointment but he has surprised me. he seems to know what he wants. plus with the addition of turnbull sacking a manager won't be as destructive as it once was. do think the club is on the mend.

 

If only today were the 9th of May so we could take solace from that. How does finishing 18th affect that average ?

 

This kinda tells you that it's nigh on impossible to predict the lower leagues. Who would have thought Morecambe would be near the automatics or that Cambridge would have done so well. My concerns at Bradford are the complete football inexperience of the two managers and the CEO in charge. Nothing to say they won't be successful but none of them have any real experience of their roles in professional football. And as Parky showed, it takes a certain type of manager to get you out of the bottom division.
Good luck to all concerned because they are gonna need it.

 

That's more like it.

 

Cambridge are the strange one. Adams fits the experienced Parky type role but isnt Bonners's background similar to T&S though not quite as swift ?

 

Some stat that. Is that plagiarism or of your own making?

If it's the latter, fair game guvnor

 

@River_City_Bantam.... He's your man for such!

 

Over 300 hundred league games according to the font of all knowledges that is Wikipedia. Doesnt mean you can't be a successful manager but most have either built up a career through being an assistant like Jose or Mark Warburton or non league like the Cowleys. Otherwise it's mainly players who have experienced playing in the football leagues. Its where Trueman could do with some experience alongside him, someone who has been there when the bad spells undoubtedly come along.

 

Live dangerously! Question a mod! Have you seen that photo of two gorillas to which people add various captions? One has G1 asking "Do you practice any dangerous sports?" to which G2 answers "I sometimes argue with the wife..."

Of course, a, say, 2-hour ban covering the time of tomorrow's match has its attractions!

But yes, one is concerned about next season, given the way players and managers together have wasted the good position they'd gotten us into. Will a handful of quality, in terms of playing ability and character, players be enough to raise the core we have to the appropriate level, or will the core itself need to be replaced? Will T&S mature into the first-team managers we need, and how long can we wait? And over all that the question of finances, and not just for the playing side.

RCB

 

Ha ha, I can relate to that. My selective ban limited to the match day thread was extended to a month for arguing. All I will say on the matter is its a good job the mods weren't the judge at the trial of the Birmingham six.

 

I think you might be getting your Mark Bonners mixed up - this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bonner played for Oldham/Cardiff but isn't the Cambridge coach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bonner_(football_manager)

 

My knee jerk Bradford City self wanted to disagree with this - but I can't. Your overview is correct. Season upon season, we have been moving backwards in terms of league positions, performances on the pitch, the overall character and identity of the club. Again, we go into an uncertain summer, many players likely (and mostly, rightly) to leave, another massive job of team rebuilding to do. Unless we get a good start to next season, I can see our support dropping big time. Wish I could feel more confident, but this is what it is.