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Been keeping an eye on your board as an Argyle supporter.
Just huge amount of empathy with you lot for having had to sit through 8 months of Adams' football. Like some of you it was the one and only time I chucked the towel in and started doing other things on a Saturday. It wasn't just the monotonous anti football, it was more the ludicrous post match interviews in which he blamed all sorts of things, including moss for the 'performances', savaged journalists for asking pertinent questions, called the supporters (who pay his wages and ultimately his juicy pay-offs 'armchair fans' and then latterly 'yobs'.
He frequently embarrassed himself riling opposition managers and players (as he does everywhere: which is ok if you back it up but looks pretty feeble when your team and football is dire).
If he eventually ever succumbs to fan pressure to play a more creative line up, as he did at ours, he can't help himself but try to make some sort of point. We had a lad called Lameiras who was absolute boss but he got benched for half a season until Adams had no wriggle room...he came in the side and we rocketed up the table ...then come August the following season, where's the lad.....benched again!
Yes it's better to have stability, and firing managers at the drop of a hat isn't the right approach, but on this occasion getting shot now saves a whole heap of pain. Even if he had got you up, believe me, it would have been the least memorable promotion you'd ever witnessed.
Onwards and upwards, whoever comes in might just get the best out of some of Adams' signings...we had players who looked utterly tragic under him who then picked up to an extent after he left.

 

Latics fan in peace….Know exactly where you’re coming from, we’ve had 11 managers in 4 years!!!
Our owners are poisonous and we’re in danger of exiting league football.
We’ve got a club legend back now who has unbelievably got us winning again and we are unbeaten in 4 but still have the worst squad in living memory.
Don’t know the history with your owners but you have a great stadium and fanbase and should be in the Championship no doubt!
Ultimately it’s the players who are key but you also need stability with the right manager. You have massive potential and should be able to attract a top coach…..your next appointment needs to be spot on but will also need time to do the job.
You can still reach the playoffs in what is an absolutely shite division.
Good luck for the remainder of the season…after Saturday of course!!

 

How can it be excellent news when it represents a massive mistake from the club - yet again?

At best it's a relief for those that disliked Adams - but the reality is it shows what a total mess we are.

How did we end up making such a terrible appointment? And how can we assume anything other than we're about to make yet another?

 

Applicants already queuing for an interview with Ryan.

 

Not arguing about this again it was only a mistake in hindsight he was the best qualified for the job

 

Why are you so upset that Adams is gone? I understand the club is being run badly from above him but my god his football was utterly abysmal and there would be nobody left in the stands if he stayed.

He had lost the fans, the players, the media, everyone.

Regardless of what’s going on upstairs this is one step in the right direction. I for one feel a huge sense of relief that he’s gone!

 

The decision was right to get rid but we have bigger problems. An owner with no interest and CEO completely out of his depth.

 

The right move in the end. We have to put an end to this culture of firing managers but that’s goes back o getting it right in the first place. Sparks has yet to prove he is the right man to get it right either.

We ripped up our whole plan for adams and it never even looked like working. His football was dull. He was unlikeable and didn’t develop players. He was here to get us promoted on a shoe string budget only.

I hope sparks has a full recruitment drive now. Speaks to experienced people in the game and finds a good manager who fits Bradford City and wants to play attractive football. It’s really not much to ask. Fed up of going and watching shite.

Adams may well be a success somewhere else but it was never going to be here. Robotic man who I never warmed to. Good riddance. Onwards and upwards. Time for sparks to get one right

 

Look at the full squad, the starting 11 last Saturday and the bench last Saturday - over half of each were players brought in/sanctioned by Adams.
The majority of our best performing players - Sutton , Cook, Vernam, Paudie, Foulds - are players who were already here. The vast majority of the players brought in by Adams have either been perennial sick notes, have badly underperformed under his management or were not good enough and should never have been brought here. Ridehalgh, Walker, Hendrie and (possibly) Songo'o have been decent but that's about it.
Adams' style of play, recruitment, tactics, substitutions, man management and general attitude have been dreadful. Blaming Stuart for Adams' failure to get a tune out of the current squad is laughable.

 

It seems like there’s quite a few people on here moaning about Sparks pulling the trigger at this stage of the season an have forgotten whats been going on all season. So it’s provably best to do a quick recap on Adams Amazing 8 months in charge :


Shit negative football. Sits back on 1 Goal leads, We concede every game practically an we settle for a draw. Alternatively, We go 1 Goal down an we don't attack until there’s 5 mins left of the clock. That is if we can even manage to create a chance. usually when we go down we insist on hoofing the ball up front to our non existent target man despite having a team of somewhat technically gifted footballers.

Que the excuses.
• We have to respect the opposition : No we don’t. It’s League 2
• The stats showed we should of done more : Most of our chances fell outside the box an went heavily wide or over. The ones actually on target went straight to the keeper
• Injuries have hampered our plans : Stop overworking them then. They looked knackered after the hour mark
• We were unlucky to concede : We deserved to concede since we sat back for an entire half. I mean what do you expect?

Then you got the tactics :
• Doesn’t drop Watt : We actually had a fair choice of players in the middle available, Yet Watt was playing week in week out when he couldn’t string a pass together from 5 yards
• Gillead - A Winger who spends most of his playing time in the centre, Away from the wing, or the goal, or the ball for that matter.
• 1 Up Top - Never worked. We’d occasionally go back to 2 up front, play well, just for Adams to switch it back to 1
• Sutton - Plays well at the start, Adams drops him. Comes back in the team. Plays well again. Gets dropped. Logic
•O’Donnell - Plays shit most of the season. Hornby finally replaces him yet Adams is ready to drop him in a heartbeat despite giving OD half a year to prove himself


Then there’s the transfer logic
Strikers - We could buy 2 healthy strikers. Or 4 Shit ones. I can’t really tell which one is the more effective of the four. Id like to give Elliot an Delfonseo the benefit of the doubt but they both look useless. Oh An Robinson may be a marginal improvement on Guthrie, But he’s still equally shit

By the way; Where the feck is Lavery?

• Threlkeld - Playing a Lg2 CDM at RB. You really couldn’t make it up if you tried

• Wingers - Only players with pace in the team are Eisa an Vernam. Both injured. So its clear we need a replacement. Adams defo got in to the bradford spirit with this one as Lord Luton disappeared quicker than Dynamo.

And the icing on the cake
• Lets sell our captain an best CB to a League 2 Rival on Deadline Day no less an chose a CDM who aint that good with his feet as his natural successor

All in all a shitshow. There’s a lot of things wrong with this club right now; but the decision Sparks made this morning wasn’t the wrong one.

 

Hello Bantams hope you are all well, or as well as you can be in the circumstances! First of all I'm not here to cause mischief. I've enjoyed reading your forum for years now (even more so with Derek being at the helm) so thought it was about time I chipped in with my six pennies worth and thought you might appreciate the views of an outsider. Your forum is a good read, full of characters and plenty of content, everything required really, definitely never boring and often highly amusing!

I'm mainly here to discuss the common denominator that is the dour Scotsman. He's literally just been confirmed as the new incumbent at the Mazuma, but it's been the best kept secret since the other guy walked out on Monday. One things for sure he goes in to manage, not to be everyone's best friend. He might be abrasive and rub folk up the wrong way but you can't argue with his track record, before he came to yourselves that is. We have received decent compo now for the last three managers Bentley, Adams and Robinson so seem to be making a cottage industry out of managers walking out on us.LOL.

First of all I understand that you are all desperate for success. Having tasted the 'big time' a few years ago you want it back so much it hurts. Fair play! I must admit whenever I walk into Valley Parade I stand for a minute and gaze across from the MR stand at that massive stand opposite and think what the hell are this lot doing in the basement league, with their fan base and all. However eight managers in four years (most of whom were decent managers elsewhere) says it all. They seem to be put under massive pressure from the get go and you've got to admit you are very quick to slaughter them when it isn't going quite to plan. Just remember Rome wasn't built in a day and sometimes a bit more patience might pay dividends. Your CEO Sparks needs to have a look at himself too. No sooner had Derek walked in the door than he made that now famous statement "Anything other than promotion this season will be viewed as failure". Ouch, talk about setting someone up to fail. I get the impression Sparks is a salesman rather than a dyed in the wool football man. He is good at hype and spin but not the nitty gritty football stuff, but then I'm not telling you anything you don't already know! I know you also have issues with Rupp, but at the end of the day does anyone really know how much financial backing he is putting in? Anyway back to Derek. Square pegs for square holes and all that. He will certainly be given more time at our place and be under a bit less pressure to succeed. It would be great if he can keep us in league one and really wouldn't surprise me if he did, despite an incredibly difficult run of games coming up. However the bookies have us as long odds on to go down and they usually get it right so we'll probably be welcoming you back to Bradford on Sea next season in what is always one of the most eagerly awaited fixtures for us.

One last thing before I depart. I notice AOC gets bad press on here! Admittedly he had a shaky start at our place but most of us stuck by him and he's probably number two on the team sheet now just behind Stockton. He's club captain and is turning in decent performances consistently. Maybe that old pressure thing again. You can tell he puts massive pressure on himself to succeed and it hurts him when we lose, the last thing he needs is the fanbase crucifying him as well because everyone has a limit before they crumble!

Good luck with the next manager whomever that might be. Just maybe give him a bit longer than some of the others had.

Sorry for rambling on, all the best and see you next season probably.

 

Its what we do, haven't you realised that yet? This club is an utter shitshow from the top down.

 

They've done it to sell season tickets, not rectify anything that's actually wrong.

They just want another 12 months of our money lining the clubs pockets so Sparks can pretend to Rupp that it was all someone else's fault (again) and keep his job.

Sparks is the biggest failure at this club and until the people above the football management side get their jobs right then it matters not a jot who sits in the dug out.

 

Absolute farce of a football club. The worst era I've witnessed in 40 odd years of following city.

See you here next year for the same thread.

 

The form of Trueman and Sellars fell off a cliff because the defeat at Newport killed the season. Nothing to play for after what was an amazing run. The players were on the beach after that game mentally.

 

I'm not happy or even relieved to be honest. He clearly wasn't suited to the club but feel like it's all pointless with Rupp still in charge. I feel as if we're going to be in the same spot next year, which we've been in every year under Rupp...

It's a good start at least but the owner has to go next.

 

Correct. Those celebrating seem to forget that by the time the new guy (or gal) comes we'll have had nine different management regimes in just over 4 years.

We're making Ipswich, Sunderland and Watford look like models of stability.

The new manager had better be good. And if Flynn is seen as the answer, then we need to be very worried as he's arguably a downgrade from Adams.

 

Adams was literally goading Sparks to sack him with the crap he's been coming out with. Once you lose your audience there is no way back as Adams found out to his demise.