Most liked posts in thread: Adams & Sparks out!

Morecambe fan in peace here. Let's be frank - you've probably got a decent budget still. Your season ticket sales alone will probably have been far greater than our entire budget last season.

But if Adams proved anything with us, money isn't everything!

The recruitment director getting the chop was not entirely surprising. Adams never struck me as someone who would want to delegate something that important, particularly to someone who was already at the club before he arrived and wasn't 'his guy'. Imo an expansion of the recruitment department that Adams would enjoy would be more scouts/analysts who follow his exact specifications and report directly to him.

Recruitment directors are there to think about the long term plan etc, while Adams is someone entirely focused on winning the next game of football. It was never going to be a good mix.

That said, Adams would presumably have had some say (even if he was reluctant on some players) on all of them, and a few of the signings are pretty clearly his choice entirely. Songo'o and Threlkeld are the obvious ones, but Angol and Ridehalgh also spring out - they both had very good games against us last season. Cook seems like one he'd have approved of as well, given he appears to have a few similarities to Stockton in his hold up play skills.

You're on a bad a run but that is probably a lot down to injuries. Even then, overall your results so far are probably mid-table, so nothing disastrous. The underlying numbers still look good (as they did for us for most of the season), and the goals will start going in at some point. Stockton missed a load of chances first half of the season, but Adams backed him and now look at him.

We never suffered anything like the injury issues you are having until the last couple of games of the season, but by that point the whole team was just so well rehearsed and laser focused on winning we managed to pull through.

So stop chucking your toys out of the pram! It's a long season. Adams is not a prolific long term planner at a club but he is completely focused on winning and good at it, despite a bad run. Some of the stuff posted on here is daft - he's completely worth backing to try and get you up.

 

Whilst not supporting the ridiculous Adams out view, I do though wonder whether managing a club with such high expectations, especially from a large fan base, as opposed to Morecambe, with the complete expectations and fan base, is proving harder than he thought?

I was expecting a side with a tougher backbone than we are showing at the moment.

It was very worrying how Barrow cut through our midfield at ease yesterday with players carrying the ball unchallenged frequently. The side is crying out for Songo'o and Sutton, are they both not match fit, or is Adams just being stubborn?

I don't think he will change his preferred formation.

I do think we are playing with two passengers in the side at the moment in Gillead and Evans, and it's time he shook them up.

 

Everyone on here needs to give their heads a shake, sacking the manager will not change anything. What we need is stability and that can only come with time.
People need to remember that we are not some big shot club with cash to splash, we are just a ordinary 4th tier club who managed to hit the big time and then had a spectacular fall back down the leagues. Too many football fans on here who think they know better on how to run a football club. Stick to FIFA and let the people who are in charge get on with the job.

 

Hes been successful at several other clubs, so he's clearly capable. This squad needs some serious work. We can't be starting again with another manager.

 

So we have money to spend but the budget was cut again in the summer. Thing is, if we do actually have money to spend as being alluded to by Sparks, why on earth didn't we spend it in the summer when the more important transfer dealings are made? Why wait till the notorious January window when it's difficult to get clubs to part with key players. And why waste half the season when that money could have gone into building a squad capable of promotion from the off.
Just a interview full of inane waffle.

 

Talk of Paul Cook, Steve Evans or anybody else is immaterial until the club is fixed. Grayson, Collins, Hopkin, McCall and Trueman and Sellars have done nothing and Adams is hardly pulling up trees. Either all of them are wrong or the club is.

Fix whatever is wrong with the club and a manager might succeed. There’s one constant in the period. A bloke sat in Germany. I’ll accept none of the platitudes about him saving the club, keeping it alive, where would we be without him or the worst of all, nAmE Me SOmeOne ELse WhO wILl bUy Us. As if that’s my job, we were doing fine until he turned up.

 

I don’t know if I’m becoming more intolerant recently but some in this site seem to be getting more and more thick. Where has one person said they are happy with the job Adams is doing? There is a big difference between being happy and slagging him off 12 times per day, everything seems to work in extremes these days. Some of use realise we’re a failing club and will take more than a few months to suddenly turn around, that doesn’t mean we’re enjoying what we are seeing. Nor does it mean we should go sack yet another manager, one of the only ones at this level with a track record of promotion when given time. That includes with Plymouth a club similar in size to us before anyone wants to bore us again with the rubbish he can only work at small clubs.

Im sure we’d all love a Paul Cook but this club is such an unattractive proposition atm we may as well talk about Klopp or Pep.

 

Part of my problem with the current set up is there isn't a single player, coach, manager, official etc at the club that I actually like and would be sorry/ gutted if they left.

In the past, and not so distant past, there would at least 3 or 4 that I would be sorry to see go.

Now there isn't a single one who I would give a stuff over, including Cook who gives me the impression he doesn't care who pays him.

This club has too many players with the Eoin Doyle attitude and not enough with the Greg Abbott I guarantee you in ten years time there won't be a single player in the current squad who is being interviewed by the T&A about his time at City, including the so called CEO.

We need epoch builders like Parky, Stuart, Abbott, before we can put any spine back into this club.

 

Given the absolute melt down on all media channels. Given the absolute implosion of the "Derek Adams project". Given the "acquisations" of a sheer lack of effort by this totally inadequate group of players. Given the unacceptable position of this once honourable football club. Given the absence of the actual Owner the custodian charged with all responsibility for the club on and off the field. Given the particularly "sensitive nature" of the relationship between the club and its supporters now and past. Given that all evidence points to Bradford City being the first former Premier League club (yes read that again) to exit the English Football League in the very near future. Given all that and more !

Now is not the time for Ryan Sparks to hide in the "bunker" he must front up and explain properly just what the hell is happening to this club on his watch? No spin no double speak no 'jam tomorrow" messages; No new seats; entrance tunnels; stand sponsors. No more January garbage transfer windows ! No what the supporters need to know and now ! Is how and when Bradford City propose to extract itself from the total mess it has gotten into ? Entirely I might add of the creating of the current owner and his regime over the past 5 dreadful years. So head up my friend over to you and good luck.

 

Ah well that's simple. When it goes tits up, we'll give Stuart McCall a ring and ask him to help out. And when that turns to shit, we'll decide its time to think about the long term, we'll hire a DoF type or recruitment director and decide that Trueman has acquired the experience to come in as a modern, forward thinking coach. Then, when that goes to the wall, we'll bin off the recruitment director and hire an old school manager to run the job lot and sign a few 6'4 shit houses who run around a lot. Then when it doesn't work, we'll give Stuart a call....

 

The actions of January will speak very much louder than a few sound bites in a local newspaper article.

 

Some on here will suck farts out of the arse of a complete novice CEO but berate a guy who's owned a football club for over 15 years, currently in the championship and been involved in over £60 million worth of transfers. I know he's a bit lairey at times but is have him at my club any day of the week.

 

I know the logic is you make decisions based on results, success, progress, form, style etc but it is increasingly striking me that with Adams he is just not the right fit for the club. There is a distance, an arrogance and aloofness that just doesn't feel right.
There is a lack of enjoyment, excitement and no general feeling of happiness surrounding the club at present that transcends the simplicity of results.

With Stuart I emotionally sad that it didn't work for him but Adams...well there is just nothing. My apathy and lack of attachment to the club is growing. We have had many poor teams over the years and frustration and anger have been common themes but with this lot....nothing.

I hate feeling like this, I want to feel passion again (be it good and bad) but it is so difficult under the current regime. Hope some of this makes sense

 

This is all Rupps fault, we were on the up when he joined all we needed were a few extra players and boom we’d have been a championship side.. but nope him and the other prick decided to screw us over and within 3 years took us back 40 odd years..

Adams IS the man for the job but Rupp needs to fork out to fix the mess HE allowed his mate to put us in… You get nowhere without taking risks.. come on Stefan take a risk and get us out of the mess YOU allowed to happen.

 

All we get are excuses and platitudes. I'm very much of the view that Adams needs to be given at least this and next season. However, things need to improve quickly.

Has anyone watched the 'Making Macclesfield' documentary on BBC?

Earlier this year, you have an entrepreneur buying a dead football club, whose stadium had been mothballed and which had no operational or playing staff. Within 3 months, he'd fitted a 4G pitch (which the public can rent), a gym and a quality bar/restaurant open to the public. He's made it profitable within 3 months from a standing start. He's recruited a DOF, a Manager and Assistant, back room staff and a playing squad. All from scratch. They're 2nd in their league. Because he was massively interested and worked to make it happen, investing strategically to make a huge difference in quality.

This idea that you can't transform a lower league club very quickly is nonsense.

 

If i won the euro millions, Bradford City would be the last thing I would spend my money on. I'd buy Huddersfield first and turn them into a basket case just for a laugh.

 

I honestly couldn't give a monkeys about dialogue. Weve had dialogue before. At best, empty and naive sentiments, at worst outright lies.

The only thing that truly matters in relation to this club moving forward, is the owner selling up and f****g off. Nothing else will make a difference.

 

You're misunderstanding me. I'm not giving him credit and I don't rate what he's done so far. Its not about backing him because I like what I see.

What I'm saying is, he inherited a shit show. Port Vale have shown that if you're organised properly, you can transform your side fully in a single summer. We weren't organised properly, and I doubt the extent to which he was backed. How much of the recruitment decisions - such as selling Crankshaw and signing Robinson, was down to him? I don't have a problem with him loaning out the youth either - with the exception of Staunton, they aren't ready yet. Injuries - again, are we signing sick notes? Is the training and sports science dept up to scratch? Adams says he's using the methods he's always used and never had the problem before. So, again, the problem seems deeper - as it usually is with this club.

What I'm saying is, there are no more excuses - he's had time to assess his squad, he's now been given control of recruitment, he's deployed his own scouts. So the ingredients are there for him to go and strengthen properly in Jan. What would bringing a new manager in do? It'd reset the excuse clock, that's what itd do. And thats what I'm against.

If he's backed in Jan and there's no improvement, then its on Adams and he may need to go.

If he's not backed, its on the club. And whichever manager replaces Adams, they have the same limited tools to work with anyway, so whats the point?

Until we show some proper ambition and capability- which starts with the owner, I don't see us going anywhere. We're a pointless, embarrassing entity.

 

If he’s so interested in what’s going on at our club then he should sell his 50% in Posh and come here, if not suggest he focuses on his own club. Steve Evans hasn’t had success anywhere in years and is the most hated man in football, still can’t get my head around the appeal anymore.