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I get what you're saying.
The feeling of going back to league two after flirting with the championship, after watching similar sized clubs have more success. It pisses you off, it pisses me off.
However, feck rahic, feck the crap currently here. feck all the ill feeling.
You, me and everyone else bleeds Braford City.
We'll go down, but the bastards won't drag us down.
Footbsll isnt a museum, it changes quickly, years, seasons pass quickly.
What shit squad we have now, will be a squad to be proud of soon.
Man Utd will never hurt, nor will Man City or Liverpool. That's what sets us apart.
Take great pride in what and who you are, you're unique as a Bradford fan.

 

I'll buy a season ticket for next year without doubt. I've seen some people say they won't renew because we're facing shite like Forest Green, Grimsby etc, and I get that to an extent but surely we support Bradford City and who we are playing is irrelevant? I know for me we could be playing dog & gun fc in Sunday league and I'd still turn up because the club needs us more than ever when we're in the shit. You're no less of a supporter if you don't want to watch league 2 next year, but supporting a club also means you've got to stick together in the hard and miserable times too. Just look at Sunderland, successive relegations and they could've stayed away in numbers this year but still sell 25k+ season tickets and they're seeing the benefits. Well, because of that and investment, which brings me into my next point.

Just because I'll renew whatever doesn't mean I'm not sick of the club and how it's being run from top to bottom. Edin has left a monumental pile of shite to clean up but we have no idea who is going to be there with the sweeping brush next season. The club needs to tell fans explicitly whether Rupp and Rhodes will be here next season and if not, is the club up for sale? Also what are next season's ambitions on the pitch? Can we expect a suitable budget and support for the manager to get us straight back up?

In the week Bowyer talked about how well Luton are doing on the pitch because they have the perfect structure off the pitch. What are we going to do to make sure we have a structure in place?

If we start seeing some of these questions answered asap, we might sell more season tickets. A lot of people are not like me and blindly buy into the club, they need something to get behind and to feel enthusiastic about, and that's only fair.

@wetherbywhaler @Glenn Ackroyd I think it's time for another fans forum. I've heard the club will meet with supporter groups at the end of the month but for me this is too restrictive, the board need to be accessible for every fan who wishes to have answers to their concerns.

 

It took us over fifteen years, after going down from the Premier League, to get the club into a position where it could conceivably compete again above L1.

Eighteen months of mismanagement has ruined the club for the immediate future. It will take years, again, to recover from this. The squad is abject and not one saleable asset among them.

 

I go to watch one of my local clubs, Chertsey Town FC, and have more passion and desire to contribute to their future than I do for BCAFC at the moment. I’ve spent thousands of pounds and many hours travelling from Surrey for many seasons, far too much the past 1.5 seasons, clinging onto the hope things will improve. I can actually (reluctantly) accept a poor team or manager. However what I will not accept is the anamocity and aggression within our own supporters. I have a 2.5yr old and was always excited to take her to her first Bradford game. Abolsutely no chance I’ll be doing that in the near future. I’d rather her experience a club where club and fans come together rather than aggressively argue amongst themselves.

What has happened is an absolute traversty. At a time when we should all come together, I can’t feel anything but them moving further apart. The nail in the coffin for me was departure of James Mason. Even he took far too much unwarranted criticism from many on these message boards and now we sit like a lost club.

This will take many years to fix. What a sad outcome for a club with such a bright future ahead of them only two years ago.

 

Totally get this - I thought it was just me.

My Dad first started taking me to City in the 1980’s. His interest waned and I was old enough to start going on my own.

I would have never missed City for love nor money, and even turned down jobs that involved weekend working as I didn’t want to miss City.

Fast forward a few years and I have kids of my own. I take them to games and we’ve loved it.

However the tearing apart of what was a stable club has caused it to lose its soul.

I no longer have the affinity either as you quite rightly say. If we lose it doesn’t ruin my weekend. I don’t care anymore. I’ve missed more games this season than in any season for the last 32 years and often decided to do other things on a Saturday or midweek evening.

The club is a shell of its former proud self.

I am very close to not renewing the family’s season tickets next year. I don’t recognise Bradford City anymore. We are a disgrace and it will take years for us to recover all because of one man.

Basically it’s all shit on the pitch and in the stands. I take my hat off to those people behind the scenes trying to rebuild our club - a rebuild that should not have been necessary. We had it all - a good stable club and we threw it all away.

 

At this moment in time we are all fed up with the team, the manager, the board, really fed up, but come next August we will all be raring to go again. You'll See.
C'Mon were Bradford City Supporters, it's our club, and should support it whatever

 

At the end of the 62-63 season we fretted that City might go out of the league having finished 23rd in Division 4 and seeking re-election. The board had faith in the manager and next season City narrowly missed promotion, choking in front of a big home crowd against Workington.
We'll be down for the Blackpool match, our last of this season, and will continue to support Bradford City, as we have done through all the ups and downs of the past 60 years.

 

Good post but I don't understand the shit in the stands comment, without doubt the players should be doing much better, but even though many fans have missed games this season the ones who have attended have given the players their vocal support.
It's been a disaster behind the scenes within the club and even more disastrous on the pitch but apart from the odd game once again Bradford City fans have got behind their/our club we should never forget that, no fans no club.
The old adage use it or lose it.

 

Who to blame eh..? let me think...

 

And mouthpiece fecking Abbott preaching the gospel of Rahic!

 

You've only to read this thread to get a gauge of how passions run deep at our club,. Even the guys with many seasons of support under their belts, saying they've had enough. I do suspect they'll be back

 

Top post Big Rod.

This is the life as a Bradford City fan.

No affinity with the club?? Does that really matter? Yes we all love to know what's happening, communication from the club would be good but with the modern day of social media whatever they put out now would be taken totally out of content and used against them. They released details of season ticket deadlines etc yesterday and they got barrage of abuse. Is it worth it? We are in a position at the moment were results ONLY matter and they aren't happening.

No connection with the players?? They come and go so easily these days that I don't even think that's an issue anymore. Gone are the days when you have a player for 7/8/9 years making 400 appearances, it's the way the game has gone.

I even think all this talk of moaning and groaning in the ground is overinflated. We all love a good moan, even during the good times, but fans especially the ones that have been going for years almost accept that this is what happens to us and lower league sides. Yes we shout and get frustrated by what happens on the pitch but I think the acceptance with what will probably happen has been realised for months now.

 

I absolutely feel the same. I used to go to game and enjoy chatting to some great and passionate fellow supporters. The more games I go to nowadays the more I hear mindless and aggressive moaners who do nothing than berate our own players or manager. Justified this season, probably, but the aggression amongst our own fans makes me not enjoy games anymore. I’ve never once had one of our supporters speak aggressively towards me until today. I see young fans setting off flares having no consideration for others, which has never been the case at the club in the 25 years I’ve supported them.

The players on the pitch are a reflection of the mess that has formed itself the moment the Rhodes and Lawn sold the club.

 

What’s the obsession with a fans’ forum? I don’t want know nowt customers who struggle to string a coherent sentence together coming in and telling me how to run my business. Fine, grumble about the pies or the crap beer, but apart from the small things, what constructive solutions are going to come out of a forum? We want success? Edin was a know nothing dreamer? Anybody who has eyes and ears and works for Bradford City knows this. Let them get on with it and work out the solutions. Seriously, what are half of the wet wipes on here going to tell Rhodes and Rupp that’ll make them say oooh you know what, we didn’t think of that? Nowt.

 

[QUOTEMembers="Rogered Tart, post: 185510, member: 217"]Forgive me if i don't share your enthusiasm for league 2 football. It took us years of god awful football before we got out of there last time. Certainly ain't raring to go to a home game against the likes of Cambridge or Forest Green, no disrespect to them.[/QUOTE]

Personally I don't think the football will be any different to the football City play, we should feel right at home, I have watched City since 1967 and for most of that time have watched then in the lower reaches, very little to cheer about, because we have a couple of bad seasons you are all throwing your teddies out of your cots, you either support City or you don't Thats football!. Simples...

 

Now is the time to stand up and be counted. The clue is in the word supporter?. If the club were asking £300-£400 for a season ticket, then I could understand the reluctance to buy, but at £150. Who ever owns the club now or in the future, will need our support. nothing will be accomplished by not Buying a season ticket. We have all had the good times on the cheap, so lets pay the club back when they need us. Affinity doesn't just appear when we are winning. a lot of the lower league clubs go through cycles in their existence. We are just starting our next one. Would we not all rally round if there was a threat of going out of business, so lets rally round now to stop potential situation becoming a reality. Show your affinity now please

 

Saleable asset are the two words haunting Mr Rupp
We have absolutely nothing and some on here think he will dig even deeper !!!!
This may hasten his decision to get out then hopefully we get someone who is a City fan

 

I couldn't agree more. Some decision goes against us, a clear foul by a City player or an obvious offside, and dozens of people around me are up on their feet screaming obscenities at the referee or linesman. It's pathetic and laughable, but probably just a reflection of society in general where a rational approach to the world has all but disappeared.