Match Thread Bradford City V Salford - Tue 23 January 2024 7.45pm

That was dreadful tonight.

3 points out of 15.

Now, I am not saying GA should go but it’s not good enough. The football is boring. GA seems like a Sparks yes man. He had no clue where to play Wright tonight. Wright looked like a Sunday league player because of it.

Cook looked lost, Smallwood should never take a free kick again. The central midfield in general barring one run at goal offers nothing. Basically, going into a game with 6 defenders (including the keeper) and it’s no wonder Cook and the front line offer nothing in most games recently.

It’s just a mess from the top down! Simple.

Bradford City fans do nothing also. The soul has gone from the club. Rupp and Sparks have ripped it out!

 

He had the best chance of the match and shot wide with only keeper to beat.

 

I can only think of the Shrewsbury game in the relegation season, that looked to have fewer there.

 

We're taken for granted that's the bottom line.
Interesting to read the heart felt views of seasoned supporters self included that's no disrespect to younger ones but we are not winging old buggers we have been and supported the team through thick and thin but this is like nothing experienced.
Foreign ownership controlled on our soil by an egomaniac it doesn't and can't get any worse.
This sad part is we're do we go from here?

 

Why ????
Do you think he could sort that fooking mess out ?????
I know GA aint really impresssed but in all honesty who can when you've got a complete div running the club who thinks that midtable is acceptable.

I dont care if we get Pep or Klopp fook all will change till these twats are gone.

As for folk not turning up or not renewing for next season i say well done in simply not giving a Twit who doesnt give a shit anymore of your hard earned cash.
Time folk started hit him and his puppet where it hurts

 

I think sometimes in the media he has a likeable demeanour that will win fans over. Sometimes he looks utterly fed up.

As I said I don't think he gets sacked unless something awful comes form wise. But if the budget is cut or the targets aren't up to scratch that Gent identifies, I wouldn't put it past GA to think the job isn't worth it.

 

And jamie raynor tried to blame the fans with the interview with the manager before backtracking.

 

This club is in a shambles and it is 100% the fault of non existent leadership by Rupp sparks lingo and gent. I’ll most likely renew my season ticket out of plain blind faith, some hope, and stupidity, but I think we’ll be lucky to sell 10k this time round after the turgid shite we’ve had to put up with for the last few seasons. Nobody - and I mean absolutely NOBODY - can possibly say it hasn’t been atrocious

 

Again, sharpness and he burries it. Think Chapmans 1 on 1 was a better chance.

 

They went to Wrexham in non league. Shows what a club with money, ambition and the willing to do whatever it takes can achieve.

 

It was bad Dave.

 

He told Parker he had to sack Hughes at the beginning of October because we were 18th in the table, somewhere Bradford City should never be. Yet here we are, three months later and just three points and two places above 18th. If we drop back to 18th, does that mean he has to sack GA as well, or will 18th in the table suddenly be acceptable? He's is such an idiot.

 

I thought it was 4 points from 18.

 

Think they were losing £2m-£3m per season in NL weren't they? Having owners who were happy to take a big hit per season because the plan is to make money down the road works, if you have owners willing and able to lose 7 figures per season whilst thinking about the long term....

Also, making stupid amounts of documentary money from FX per year helps that spending mentality. But I get your point, there's a plan in place and everyone at the clubs knows the plan.

 

A few of his recent quotes worry me. Its subtle, but I think the seeds of dismay are there in a few things he's said recently.

 

How windy was it in the ground?

im clutching at straws to find something to explain what a crap game of football that was!

its depressing that the season’s finished in January.

but even if the weather was crap, I didn’t like the team he picked. Slow defence. Odour was shocking. Cook got zero service.

people we saying 11/19 home games to go was a positive but is it chuff. The fans have had enough and the awful mood will bring the players down.

we need to boycott to get Sparks and Rupp out.

 

I certainly agree with you regards Smallwood. As soon as I see him lining up to take a setpiece, any anticipation in me disipates, as I know it's either down the keepers throat or overhit into the stands. Terrible delivery, and any decent ball is just the law of averages..
And in open play he persists in hitting most balls first time, even when he's time to look up and pick out his player.

 

Of course they look lost.
This is 3 different managers teams ffs

 

If he has any self-respect, he won't take the fall by being the modern age Jim Jefferies-style hatchet man.

But you know, I'm not convinced.

Like I say, I just think he's happy to have a job.

His comments about life at MK Dons were baffling. He's done no due diligence at all, and just come in blind and assumed it would work.

 

But ultimately money talks.
Mullin didn’t leave a newly promoted lg1 side to drop to the NL for any other reason than a big increase in wages.
Having a plan/structure is important but cash plays a massive part.