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Sparks as CEO has done more in 6 months , than Rhodes did in years. Give the lad a chance. You can not expexct an all conquering team from where we were at, when he took over. Turning round a failing business in any industry takes time. You of all people should know this Fordy ! In the meantime he is trying to improve things off the field, ready for the return of fans.

 

Our stand out moment of the season. Lee Novak wins the EFL goal of the season award with that amazing overhead - and then gets injured and doesn't play til last week. It's been an awful season, not quite as much as the one before this - and particularly, the one before that. But we go into the break, playing mediocre shit football.

 

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

 

That's more like it.

 

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

 

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

 

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)

 

Careful Ulysses!

 

That's why we need to get rid of as many people, both on and off the pitch, who have been associated with that decline. Unfortunately, that would include our owner and our CEO. We need a new manager with his own backup team and a whole load of players, all with a positive attitude and the determination to change the mentality of the club. One mindnumbing aspect of the recent negativity, dreadful performances and defeats is that it's so depressingly familiar.

 

Agree with clearing out the negatron and defeatists, but with slim chance of a new owner I’d stick with what we have in Rupp and Sparks. All depends on the amount Rupp is willing to put in this summer. He hasn’t been shy in backing managers, it’s the managers that Rhodes and Rahic brought to the club that have wasted the money and misused talented players.

I’d be interested to see the names of quality players people have identified to improve us, because I haven’t got a clue.

 

Dubois, it's exactly that depressing familiarity that really gets me down. Fits and starts, supposed new beginnings but it continues to feel like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Prove us wrong Ryan Sparks. You have one hell of a job to do. I wish you the very best, and I hope you do really understand that we're a 'secret basket case', not the ex Premier, 'big' club some still think we are.

 

With all of Rupp's motor racing and other business endeavours in Germany, we are way down his priorities. We need an owner/owners who regard City as their number one priority.

 

I think you're right Simon. Sparks has the biggest job to do and he'll be judged on that as CEO over the coming months. T&S haven't been able to take us to another level - does he stick or twist? If he sticks, does he bring in more support and wiser wisdom to T&S? If so, who? It's going to be a massive summer for us, in terms of future progress for the club.

 

Haven’t been able to take us to the next level. When they took over we were heading to the level below and they turned it round ,A few bad results doesn’t change that. They have earned their contract for next season

 

Ah ha! A sneaky Alan Partridge-esque reply!

 

Fordy inspired action? It’s going to be a long wait.

 

Its a bit like Citizen Smith with Fordy - come the revolution!

 

It is Steve and unlike other 'products' that continually let you down you cant easily take this one back and change it!