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Give it a rest.

 

New CEO,
New Recruitment Director
New Commercial Director
New Commercial Manager
New Manager
New Backroom team
New players
Possibility back watching the game next season yet some prefer to knock the clubs passed, give if a rest and at least try and see some positives in our new begining.
We've endured 14 terrible months with this pandemic for Christ sake let's have a bit of positivity.

 

"Cloak and Dagger"!!. What absolute nonsense. Just because the Club chooses to do its business in a confidential and thus professional manner rather than telling the world and his wife minute by minute what is going on and thereby rendering the new Manager in Breach of Contract and open to legal action, you think that's confused.
Having been at the top level of a business many times larger than BCFC, I don't see confusion in this case I see clarity and logic of thinking and action. To have kept things confidential is the polar opposite of what you suggest.

 

We are not a big club in football terms . Spent most of our time in the lower divisions with a very brief spot in the limelight.
Threads like this must be a complete wind up.

 

We are not even the worst run club in Yorkshire

 

@Tight1-0Victory you are forgetting how cyclic football is. Next season only 3 clubs L2 have been in the PL. just because we are struggling on the pitch doesn't mean we are struggling off the pitch.

Oldham, swindon , Sheffield Wednesday, derby and rochdale are having real difficulties at the moment.

This sense of entitlement is disturbing and toxic to the club.

 

LOL......
A poor mans version of @Fordy117, no where near as good though, still keep trying, one day you might be as good as @Rcbantam, still you made me chuckle, and reply so not all bad for a Wednesday afternoon in the office.

 

I do think we have a bit more potential now than the old days with ground redevelopment after the tragedy. And we have built up a decent supporter base through cheap tickets.
Unfortunately we have pretty high fixed costs as well I think anything above the top ten in division one and we are over achieving

 

Our father who art in heaven, please give us something to talk about SOON.

 

Taking the 2003/4 season when in the following December Rhodes took full control, City finished 23rd in the second tier, 43rd in the pyramid. Stockport finished 19th in the third tier, so 63rd in the pyramid.

This season City finished 83rd, Stockport 95th. We’re 40 places lower, they’re 32 places lower.

When Stefan bought City we finished 5th in league one, so 49th in the pyramid, Stockport finished 125th.

Last 17 years under Rhodes/Rupp we’re -40 places or -24 in Rupp’s era. Stockport are +30 places in the last five years.

Excluding Bury and Macclesfield, I think only Scunthorpe (51st to 90th = -39 places), Bolton (44th to 71st = -27 places), Wigan (45th to 68th = -23 places) and Sunderland (17th to 48th = -39 places) are close to the number of places City have fallen down the pyramid in the last five years.

Might be wrong, and the numbers might be a little bit out, I’d need to do some better research than on my phone in the social club, but either way, the last five years at City have been amongst the worst half dozen or so in the top four divisions.

That alone is enough to say Rupp and Sparks need to do better.

 

We've spent all bar 32 of the last 80 years in the bottom league. Its our natural place. Get used to it. You don't have to like it, but its where we basically inhabit.

 

Arrogance does not get you promoted.

 

Others have tried to take Fordy's crown and failed - join the list

 

I think if we're honest as a fan base, we know that we're actually doing okay financially, we're not badly run in the same way that Bolton, Blackpool and most recently Sheffield Wednesday have been, and Bury obviously went bust because they were run so poorly.

However, with equal honesty, we're probably bottom five in terms of success since the turn of the millennium. We've had four relegations and one promotion, several indifferent seasons, and two that really captured the imagination with some incredible cup runs.

Thanks to the sale to Rupp and Rahic, we're back to being at the bottom of the pile in terms of a ratio of expectations-to-achievements. I'm sure like many posters on this forum, it hurts being in League Two and it's not nice to dissect the undeniable reality of the situation - we shouldn't be in League Two, IMHO, we're a big fish in a small pond, but we're here on merit unfortunately.

We need to turn this big oil tanker of a club round, and while there's signs of green shoots like @bantamdave41 says, we need that to bear fruit pretty quickly.

If we're crap again this season, everyone on this board will be questioning why a guy who was never interested in football bought this club, then entrusted it to Rahic, then entrusted it to Rhodes, then entrusted it to Ryan. For Rupp's sake, Ryan needs to win the football equivalent of the lottery to save Rupp becoming public enemy number one, and I really believe that.

 

Fair enough Jon. I hope the "handling of our next appointment" is a bit further down the line than your comment implies though!.
Sadly in this case comments on here have been fired by the media to a degree. Journos are supposed to respect their sources and in my view over the last two weeks in particular that has not happened.
Today we are where we are, we have an appointment which I assume is to be formally unveiled, let's move on now and be happy with that and the many other things, sponsorships, stadium works, etc I'm sure Ryan and team will disclose to us when ready.

 

I think we are doing pretty badly, it has to be said. But you only have to look at the league tables over the last three years and the number of managers we've gone through to confirm that. Massive rebuilding job needed and I believe it will be 2-3 years before we get promoted from this league. It will be horrible but now more than ever we need patience because you cannot buy yourself out of this league. It needs something special and something really ugly to get out of league two. We need to start making progress again, starting with this season. Get a manager in, get players in, get a backroom and data analysis all set up. Let's see how we can do with a blank slate and don't sack the manager until the end of the season.

 

This type of thread crops up every now and again. If you want to look at people’s thoughts on this, just look back at previous pages.

 

Trying hard not to swear at this guy. He is a total and utter..... We have spent all but around 10 years since 1903 in the bottom two divisions. We are a distinctly average club. To change that requires huge investment Man City style from overseas owners. Not going to happen.

 

Ryan has openly said we want promotion this season. Champions has to be our aim and there is no reason why we can't achieve it.Good stuff we're drinking eh Fordy.