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Not liking this Leeds Utd love-in on here. If people want one, please create another thread in general football so I dont have to read when I am looking here for transfer rumours

 

I’ve employed good people who have done a good job but wouldn’t reemploy them because the dynamic of the team and the requirements we have have changed.

For me, for City to thrive now and for the next few decades a change is needed.

City’s fan base is arguably mainly white and ageing, that doesn’t match the demographic of the City it represents. A new CEO or owner needs to capture the imagination of the future fans, of the whole City or in twenty years there may be fewer fans. Or are they just hoping for a cup run or promotion and to exist next season.

Football was changing before Covid, the PL and increasingly the championship are attracting the majority of the money. Are City aiming for that elite or are they going to be self sufficient community club on the style of say Accrington, or do something different like FGR with their environmental awareness. Or are they going to plod on as they are hoping for a cup run or promotion and gradually be overtaken by the likes of FGR, Harrogate, Lincoln and so on.

The new CEO needs to rebuild trust with the fans, the fact that McCall or the club gets hammered for not signing a striker or a dodgy Twitter rumour of Woods leaving is indicative of the lack of trust. Fans just don’t trust the club or don’t trust Rhodes and Rupp. Or do they just want to plod on, hoping for a cup run or promotion and gradually be overtaken.

In my opinion Bradford City needs a clean break, to move on from Rhodes, Rahic and Rupp and to define where and what it wants to be and to do it. It needs someone like Peter Deakin did for the Bulls, transform them from nothing to amazing Summer nights in front of a full house against Leeds, put the excitement back in to it. It needs someone who has seen how T20 or Baseball gets crowds in, how it entertains and keeps them coming back.

 

My dad's a Leeds fan and my best mate is a Leeds fan, they've all tried to get me to be a Leeds fan over the years especially when I was a kid. Absolutely no way, I was born in the BRI and I have claret and amber running through my veins and wouldn't change it for the world!!

 

The genuine problem I have with trying to be positive in the current situation is that every aspect of the club just looks negative.

Firstly, I don't like the squad. There's barely 2 players at the club that I'd be fussed about if I never saw them play for us again. We're obviovsly missing players in key positions as well.

Secondly and added to the first issue, I don't have much faith in Stuart. He ticks none of my boxes for a "good" manager but more importantly given the context of #1, in all the time hes been here he's barely signed 5 players I rate and actually liked. I don't recall him making any "late" signings that ended up turning the views around.

Thirdly, I have no faith in Rupp and Rhodes to do the right things off the field to help Stuart. It's probably one of the worst combinations I can imagine, an uninterested money man and a hired gun who overall has an overwhelming record of failure.

So what should I be positive about?

 

If i'm not mistaken, which i'm not, McCall got us to within a hairs breath of the championship. Not only did the three you mention not do this, the football i had to endure under their tenure was as painful as anything i'd had to endure in my 40 years of watching City. Look, i get you don't like him and nothing he will do will as manager will change this. Just becomes tiresome to read when you shoehorn it into every post.

 

We have brought in 2 players in the last 7 days , have no league game until a week tomorrow and are apparently still in the market.
I am not saying our squad is perfect, but i think many a club is far worse off than we are , player wise.
When the window closes, you can still sign free agents and there are a lot out of work at the moment.
I personally do not think the club is doing too bad, given the circumstances.
After all we are a league 2 club operating in difficult times, with a vastly reduced playing budget from last season.
Amazingly between the end of this window and the winter one , its a short period of time this year, although i will say that is when we panic and make a fool of ourselves.

 

Good news , Devante Cole's joined Motherwell so wont be heading to us ,Phew what a relief that is.

 

Noticed some are now at the stage of saying every player who is released 'could do a job here' - we have waited that long for the additions the last thing we want to do now is just add to the squad for the sake of it, they have to be the right players to up the quality in the team

 

Stuart and Kenny haven't lost the plot.
Guthrie as obviously turned up for pre season with a positive attitude and want's to be at the club unlike a certain someone.
Good Luck to him hope he proves the doubters out there wrong.

 

Why, what's he done now...?

 

I read it was a Polish plumber,to stop the leaks in our defence.

 

It beggars belief our current recruitment policy.

So McCall is waiting for agents or managers to call him to inform him who is available, and then it is pot luck on who eventually ends up here

That's how that article comes across. In other words, he hasnt a clue who he wants, relying on agents choosing for him.

 

I respect your opinion on McCall's merit as a manager, fair enough, however, referring to him by crude names is crass, ignorant and totally disrespectful to a genuine club legend

 

McCall hasn't done anything to warrant these sort of comments. By all means question his mangerial decisions but lay off the insults, they're becoming tedious.

 

Are you from Bradford? Did you grow up in or around the city during the 60's/70's/80's?

You could count the number of City fans at my schools during the 70's and 80's on one hand. Whilst everybody and their brother seemed to support that team from the other side of Pudsey. And they weren't shy of reminding me on a daily basis just how superior their team was.

Then there's hooliganism in the 70's and 80's causing me no end of problems back then. Football was considerably more tribal and violent than it is these days. Not just at the games themselves either. I've still got the physical scars due to violent incidents with some of their fans.

So no, there's very little chance of me ever giving Leeds United even the slightest bit of support, encouragement or congratulation. In fact if they suddenly imploded tomorrow, there'd definitely be a party at my house, guaranteed. Hate is a strong word, but I have a very, very strong dislike of that club and its supporters and it'll remain with me and I suspect a lot of other City fans for similar reasons until I leave this life.

It frustrates me that not that many seasons ago. There looked to be a real chance of our team reaching parity, at least in terms of standard of football, with them. As it stands today, that gap looks almost as wide as it did at the peak of their reign in the 70's. Like the city itself, this football club has been mismanaged for far too long and we've seen footballing behemoths like Fleetwood and Burton progress whilst BCFC continually flounders.

 

My god we have some right moaning sods on here.
Everything the club do or say, people feel the need to disect and criticize.
We have actually only lost once in 7 games with this ultra shit squad and that was to a team at the top of the league above us, i believe.
Lets at least get passed the 10 league game before we all wring our hands , shake our heads and proclaim we are doomed.

 

He might have told Morecambe he wants out and he will only play for Bradford City, what difference does it make that he's sat on a 2 year contract .

 

And yet completely ran games... shows a deep misunderstanding of football this post

 

What part isn’t? Player recruitment? Consistently poor, which is why we never achieve anything. Our scouting approach is limited to the managers little black book - whoever is in charge. The pitch becomes an embarrassment every year, without fail. Financially, our owner let his partner run amok like a kid in a sweetshop, setting us back a few years - at least. We’re only financially viable because of sell on clauses - all of which only ever go to ‘plugging deficits’ rather than growing the club. We’ve created no real assets of any value over the last 10 years, the ‘interim’ CEO is on record as saying he doesn’t really want to be there. There’s no demonstrable strategy in place and we’re being outperformed by clubs with a fraction of our fan base and resource. We were relegated from League 1 with one of the largest wage bills in the league, finished 9th last season with the 3rd highest budget, 5 managers in 2 years.

Well run? Don’t make me laugh. We’re a shambles.