The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Bradford City vs Mansfield Town Saturday 16th March 2024 3:00pm

Well, I have just got back home after my 4 hour, 160 mile round trip. I have been watching City for over 40 years, my dad for over 80. I can’t remember a time where we played as badly as that performance today. It was shambolic.

As others have said already, there was laughter when goals were going in, but there was also some pretty toxic things being said. I drove home tonight without really caring about the match. That’s not right is it. I should be bothered about how my team played and the fact that they lost, but it’s just the norm now. I work with fleetwood, Blackpool, Preston, Blackburn and port vale season ticket holders, all of whom are in divisions higher than us and who laugh at me daily! I don’t mind too much, it’s part of being a football fan, but it’s different now this season. We are the laughing stock of the football world with our pitch, our owner doesn’t seem to care less, our players are not good enough and I don’t see how that is going to change overnight. If I thought long and hard about it I would probably make myself ill and get depressed.

Where do we go from here? When are things going to change? What on earth can we do now?

 

I really hope Rupp is ashamed of himself.

I hope he's embarrassed.

Imagine sitting in a box watching the club so many love so passionately and realising 'I've done this. Me. I'm the absolute mug who is destroying this club.'

Shame on you Rupp.

You're a disgrace.

 

That could and should have been 10 goals to them.

We were woeful!

@wetherbywhaler if you really are a fan of this club then tell Ryan Sparks to do the right thing and resign.

 

Even on here good posters are tearing into each other.

The sarcastic comments from the 'uber fans' has been unnecessary poison in the well, but now both sides having a go and getting personal and tagging others.

Very, very sad to see.

Rupp and Sparks have torn this club apart and I pray they leave it in tatters for someone else to fix, because they ain't turning it around on a reduced budget with their nonchalance and complacency.

 

At least you could be bothered to attend. I'm writing this sat on the couch and wondering if @Park bantam is enjoying the new "atmosphere" now all us plastics aren't there.

 

He was the root cause for that starting 11, for that alone he deserves all he gets.

 

Worst beating down i've seen us take since Bristol City about 7 years ago. In fairness 5-1 flattered us, could easily have been 8 or 9, but primarily we lost this game before we'd even kicked off. Not to take anything away from an excellent Mansfield side who showed why they are top, as an attacking threat they simply tore us to shreds time and again. But going with that formation and line up was always an accident waiting to happen. Which by half time turned out to be terminal. Ranks amongst some of the dumbest managerial decision making i've seen in my time watching City, its the sort of thing i saw Bowyer, Adams and Hopkin do.

 

Sadly, I agree.

We must have scored 5 or 6 goals since Christmas that I haven't even stood up for, let alone cheered.

Some of them I have, of course, but not all of them.

I certainly don't get upset when we concede anymore.

It's baffling watching people get angry about it.

 

Its A Bantam Thing



Sign me up for a season ticket if this is what is on offer

At least the absent owner wasn't here to see this
O Hello

Wearing a bright red cap an' all, attention seeker
Was the club shop out of city hats?

Have no idea why Alexander keeps getting the sack in football,
Well i do, two right backs left on the bench and Gilliead played instead,weakening the midfield as the Stags ran riot early and often.
Cookie benched as well
Needs to follow rupp and sparks out the door pronto.

MOTM ?
Brad Halliday for me, for obvious reasons today

Tinpot effort all round
But at least it is sustainable
For Now

 

This is the same mighty Mansfield that lost to Tranmere on Tuesday.
They aren't anything special, it's just that we were set up to fail today and obliged spectacularly.
It's like us at Accrington, played a team on a poor run and we looked great.

 

It's not easy being this right all of the time.

 

If Rupp sacked Sparks and replaced him with, say, Paul Jewell (I dunno, a football man who has run a club before), I'd renew in an instant. I would have massive, massive doubts over Stefan himself, who appears to be completely inept and should be nowhere near a football club after dishing out Edin Rahic and then Ryan Sparks, but someone like Jewell alongside maybe another legend or two in the board room would tell me we're finally focusing on what matters - the football - and not just leaving it to random uni graduates and whoever happened to be employed at the club at the time.

More likely, though, is another internal promotion.

 

Look on the bright side @Park bantam - next season you can watch this sh*te with 6k fellow hardcore fans.

 

Same. Zero smugness here, genuinely. Chose a day out in Leeds with the Mrs. Not a single regret other than a tinge of sadness that I know the love has gone really. With City, not the Mrs. Spent 20 years of marriage making football a priority on Saturday afternoons and now its time to put the Mrs first for those few hours instead. She's actually more interesting and better company than I thought....and there's all sorts of interesting sh*te to watch on TV instead apparently!!

Chin up folks.

It'll get better again at some point. But these clowns need running out of town.

 

They are just acknowledging @Park bantam who is clapping their efforts.

 

Forest Green maintain their stunning form, losing at home 1-0 to Sutton.

 

This is an incredible interview. Just making out we were beaten by the much better team and that he wasn’t surprised by the result. I give up.