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Rupp must be sat in Germany pissing himself, 14,000 people have paid 33% more for season tickets, hundreds have bought 1903 membership and there’s a commercial deal every other day on the back of promotion talk and I believe he’s not putting any money in. Everyone else is paying to rectify the mismanagement since he became involved in the club.

If there isn’t promotion in May, then all of the talk this season will come back to bite Sparks and Rupp on the arse because nobody apart from the most myopic fan will believe anything either of them say. That’s when the relatively small investment to fund promotion will look like small change, lose 4,000 season tickets and you’re £800k down.

 

Evening Mr Sparks

 

This year could have been a building year and I'm sure some, perhaps not all, would have accepted that. However when season tickets are raised 33% and the CEO tells us anything less than promotion is a failure then fans are entitled to show their displeasure at the same shit show as the previous 4 years getting rolled out

 

Think it's far too early to call it a building year. We are 8 games into the league, not 28. Literally a win off the automatic spots. We are just becoming a wasteful side in the last month or so. No goals from Cook since Mansfield on Aug 21st, and all his back ups seem to offer very little.

We currently have 3 of the top 7 shot takers in L2 so far but we have only scored 11 goals, with Vernam top of the shots list with 25 shots, 2 goals. Cook joint 2nd with 24 shots and 4 goals, and Callum Cooke joint 6th with 20 shots and no goals so far. These 3 have had 69 efforts in 8 games and only 6 goals between, it's a terrible conversion rate for the positions these lads get in every game.

You've got to think at some point it's going to fall our way and these chances start going in more often. The table is sort of irrelevant for now, as no team apart from FGR has any real form and you're still likely of moving 4 or 5 places up or down every Saturday.

 

Derek Adams has achieved promotion at every club he's been at that alone gives him time

There is nothing to suggest Adams is a bad manager and won't help this club progress if given time

Minimum of 18 months for me next January if we're in the poop then he will have to go I'm afraid but it is high time we gave a manager a bit of time so long as the manager is a good one

Adams has shown he is capable

 

Welcome to the forum for a new poster you talk so much sense, no knee jerk reactions, don't be brow beaten down by some on here.
I will be disappointed if Adams doesn't get up first time after all the preseason hype.

 

The profile of our signings do not point to us using this as a "building year" - if recruitment had largely been up and coming youngsters, and we were also playing our own younger players then you could argue there was a longer term strategy in place.

Instead we've gone for experienced players who you would expect to come in and do the required job, it seems to me that there has been a realisation that the standard of the players brought in might not be what it needs to be, and they have made Turnbull the scapegoat.

 

Could be a lot worse? Its league 2 football m8, not much worse than that.

 

Its criminal the way this club has a habit of crumbling, just when you think it might finally have turned a corner. The optimism kills ya!

 

It’s a nice thought, but no. 95% of supporters at Bradford City have quite simply had enough. We have had enough of waiting, we have seen managers come and go, players come and go and endured the frustrations. Adam’s arrived at VP with the intention of promotion, there was talk of all his previous promotions, he spoke about the time he arrived at Plymouth (later than at City and still got promotion), Sparks said the aim is promotion, the recruitment was promotion focused (supposedly!), and this was our year. We cannot start saying “maybe next year” after playing 8 league games. The focus is now Crawley Town, we need 3 points!

 

Exactly how many building seasons do we have to endure !

 

In summary. Sparks needs to keep his gob shut and tone his media (season ticket touting) down pre season. I think if he hadn't promised "promotion at all costs", we wouldn't all be so up in arms.

 

Today's T&A article clearly suggests Adams needs time to completely rebuild.

He is very unhappy with a lot of the players, especially the ones that featured on Tuesday.

The problem he now has, how to manage these players who were left in no doubt their futures here are very much in doubt.

As the number of players in the treatment room increase, Adams is going to need these fringe players

 

Sorry mate I'm a glass half full fan, until the situation above arises no point IMO discussing hypothetical situations, Adams is saying Angol and Eisa will be back in October lets hope its the beginning rather than the end.

 

Frustration seems to be spilling over in the club itself, confidence must have also taken a battering looks like Adams is feeling the heat with these injuries also, the next few games will be telling.

 

Surely he would have realised a "root and branch" rebuild was required before he took the job according to Mr Sparks he was involved before he was officially appointed even to the point of involvement in incoming/outgoing players it can't be a shock to him, not a great way to boost confidence in fringe players by publicly showing his displeasure towards them, the way he seems to train them the treatment table can only get busier and these maligned fringe players will have to step up to the 1st team
Can't see Mr Rupp releasing sufficient funds in January to boost any sort of promotion push he has to work with what he has got
He has to get promotion this season as fans who have paid more for season tickets won't be fooled by the impressive marketing campaign twice
Maybe he is now seeing guiding Morecambe to survival in L1 a more rewarding proposition

 

What he has built so far is no better than last season, and his signings are suspect . Saying it is a building year is saying we have wrote the season off all ready and don't expect anything. A few weeks back we were certs to go up, now it's a " building" year.

 

Dont think many are writing us off Dave
Just concerned as to how we are going to progress