Andy Todd, Stefan Rupp & City's Financial Position

Depending how long any possible sale will take it would be suicidal not to make sure the the team has enough money to compete. I am not talking about paying silly money in transfers or wages but enough with good management to be in the mix in division 2

 

Good point SB unless Bowyer automatically assumed that Todd's would be sorted out after he had signed his what with all the talk of everything being sorted and a good budget for next season etc. If so then I would imagine he is more than a little p*******d off.

 

Yes agree Parky did say that he would sign when the rest of his backroom staff were happy ti sign.

 

Burling and mending is a dying art, Mrs O.

 

Steven Parkin envisaged sporting Bradford with City and the Bulls coming together there was very little support for it among both sets of supporters

 

You've replied to my other post Park .......... But no worries, I understand what you mean
As for a sports village - Of course it will be opposed by many, yet as it's construction progressed, many would relent and come onboard, purely because people find it difficult to handle 'change'. I was born just 250 yards away from VP, and like City in general, VP is a part of my DNA - Yet I would not oppose a move to a superior sporting village, if it meant that sports of all genre progress for years to come, beyond mine and my Grandkids life times, in Bradford.

 

The Gary Bowyer love in is embarrassing to be honest. Yes he has had a couple of successful seasons but managers in the lower leagues are all working under huge constraints. Sol Campbell managed to keep Macclesfield up this season with a non-league budget and his players not being played. The same as Ryan Lowe at Bury. Lee Bowyer at Charlton has done a fantastic job. He has had a terrible start here and while he needs to bring in his own players, I have seen nothing to suggest he is this great coach that we are lucky to have. These types of managers are ten a penny. We are lauding him up as untouchable at the moment.

 

What an exaggeration. Who is lauding him as untouchable?

He’s a good coach and will do a good job given the right tools is most people’s opinion.

 

He has a lot to prove. His excuses are ready made though unless he is given a top 2 budget. Let’s not beat around the bush. If we had a top 3 budget this season then based on what you are saying then we should absolutely batter League 2 with him in charge.
Newport are off to Wembley next week. They had a bottom 3 budget. Was there manager given the right tools or did he work with what was given?

 

And ultimately will never see again

 

Depends how long he is here there may be no interest at all at the moment which means he is here for the season at least first division club is worth more than one in the second division

 

Famous last words Park
He does have other alternatives !!!!!!!
Not good i grant you

 

Micheal Flynn has been at Newport since 2015 in various positions, 2 seasons as manager, nothing like having faith in your manager even with a poor player budget.

 

What do we think newport County's expectations of Flynn are compared to ours of Bowyer?

 

About the same at the moment

 

Eh? Newport's goal is to stay up, ours is to get automatic promotion.

 

Could well be in a league above us shortly

 

massively disagree, this is easily the worst city squad in our lifetimes so you could have put (Lee) Bowyer, Lowe or Campbell in charge here and theyd have all probably ended up with the 1000 yard PTSD stare the squad have given our Bowyer and Hopkin before him. Management aint our problem. Our bowyer also has experience of working under massive constraints and actually excelling under them (Blackburn/Venkys Pool/Oystons name me two worse nutcase owners apart form roland at charlton) which makes hime well suited to the inevitable massive rebuild we need.

And also, pretty much every good manager has said it takes at least a season to identify who in your team can play and who needs to move on. Brian Clough almost got Hartlepool relegated at his first attempt Whilst Hopkin took livingston down in his first season before back to back promotions. My point being that we havent seen a proper bowyer team yet and need to give him time to build it before we start carping for his head. We've tried the managerial merry go round this season and it gave us pretty much the worst pro team in the country. and relegated bottom of the league. When will folks realise you have to give a manager at least a season to bed in come what may. If you don't then you should never have appointed him in the first place.

- For the record i dont think bowyer will take us down again so we should give him time to build a proper team, not a five mnute sticking plaster job so many seem to want.