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I wish as much as you Knaresborougn. Just cannot see it happening anytime soon though.

The decline of our club since the Germans rocked up in town is alarming.

Rupp isnt going to sell for a loss though, so I think we are stuck with an owner who has zero interest in us and our city

If he is still here in 2 years, I think we will have done a Chesterfield, Notts Co etc, a club thinking its too big to go down, suddenly finding itself playing non league football.
Worrying times.

 

Salford were spending the best part of £2m in the conference, Forest Green spent £3.3m on all staff last season, Scunthorpe in the 17/18 season, so league one, £5.7m.

City have a competitive budget but it’s wasted on utter dogshit.

Guthrie, Anderson, BRE, Devine, Akpan, Taylor, Novak, Mellor, Henley, Riley. I’d bet there is at least 750k a year going out on that lot and not one of them is good enough.

You can have a great budget but if you spend it badly it’s useless

 

Would like to hear from Rupp this week rather than the usual player lying through their teeth on “how we go again, will give 100%” bollocks you get in the T&A. Captain Admin’s silence is no longer acceptable. Season ticket sales are taking a nose dive and at the prices they are the figures will not add up next year. Rhodes has screwed up yet again.

 

Even if he coughed it up would you trust Rhodes to get all that done adequately?

No me neither

 

They're not funded by him but he owns about 70%. Eh?

 

Rupp’s asking price for Bradford City is £10m.

Rhodes sold to Rupp & Rahic.
Rhodes put the club in admin to get rid of Gibb.
Rhodes lost Valley Parade to Gibb.
Rhodes is the best man to run Bradford City? Here lies the problem.

No change at Bradford City until there is REAL change at the club and that is at the very top. Rupp should have sold out at a fair price when he had chance in the summer.

club is screwed.

 

There’s that word again ‘invest’

What we actually mean is ‘give’.

Premiership and some Championship clubs ‘invest’ because there is a REAL chance that there will be a financial return on that investment.

The chance of any ROI on money spent in League Two is probably close to zero.

It may sound like I lack ambition but we really need to get over this.

Bradford City is a low level League 1/League 2 club with a core support of around 10k (cheap STs inflate this) within a city with poor services and is financially poor, it does not own any assets and the city has a population demographic that does not show any particular interest in its professional sport teams.

So the word ‘invest’ really doesn’t work does it?

 

Stuart appears to be going through some pre-season rotation of players in the middle of the season. He should just stop all the changes, pick a system and a team and stick with it. Who cares if those on the bench or in the stands get angry, they were bloody rubbish anyway.

 

I said before Bowyer left nothing will change if we just get rid of him, it was plain as day, but some celebrated like we were on course to win the league. I stand by what I said, it’s far more important to get rid of Rupp and Rhodes than any managers, too many managers have come and failed to just be coincidental bad appointments, there’s more to it.

Nothing against Rupp seems like a decent human, but he was naive enough to put decent money into a project he had no interest in by a con man because he probably thought he could make more money and get the fame and glory which successful football owners get. Now it’s blown up in his face he’d be better just cutting his losses, even if he only gets a million it’s better than having spunked potentially another £4/5 mil just keeping us competitive at this level. I honestly think Rhodes or someone who knows football needs a serious chat with him and give him some good advice, because barring a miracle the losses will just keep on going up.

As for Rhodes he’s always reminded me of the Tories of 2010, austerity, austerity, austerity. I can just imagine him sat looking at spreadsheets thinking of how to keep the club in the black even if it bottoms us out as a lower half league 2 club again like when he last owned the club. Or worse! Make no mistake under Lawn and Rhodes we were going to non league without Parkinson in 2011/12, still his most underrated achievement with us imo was keeping us up that season and that would have finished us off.

I’m sure there’s buyers out there but only at a knock down price, we need someone to convince Rupp to sell imo, or do something which makes him want to.

 

No it is not ‘know your place’.

But we can’t magic the money out of thin air. Somebody, somewhere has to provide it. Put their hands in their pocket and hand it over. The fans, the board it really is those two and only those two that can materially affect our income stream or ‘investment’.

What can we do? We can add to the pool by paying higher ST and game ticket prices, buying more shirts, shorts and pies.

We can’t force the board to do anything but we can try to influence by our actions (see above)

We can sit here and complain all we want about Rupp but if we were honest and it was our money we would probably be reluctant to throw more money at a business that was going backwards and ultimately had a very limited upside and where you were unlikely to ever realise any return never mind significant return.

I am not without ambition but as a realist that ambition has boundaries because of our history and location,

 

Well he ain't selling for a profit Idle.
He'd be better cutting his losses.

 

No they will not, but he will get 1p in the pound if we drop into the conference, as we will lose the stadium and the club. This is in no way the fans fault, if he loses money, he is responsible and no one else.

 

Because he's another walking disaster like edin.

 

Julian will buy the club he is just running it down to buy it back cheap.

 

How can anybody say Stefan hasn't put the cash in? Didn't he put his own money in to fund Jack Payne's loan and cover the loses made by Edin?

We probably have the highest budget in L2. Bowyer was backed - Donaldson and Vaughan aren't playing for peanuts.

Blame the abysmal recruitment, manager and tactics. Not Stefan, he has backed the manager.

 

I am merely stating a fact. He quit here first time round and he quit at Motherwell. They are not opinions they are facts.

And what he did as a player is of little or no interest to me as a manager. I could sit here and spend the next 3 hour listing out ex players who were top drawer, never took a step backward, never say die mentality, who carried teams on their back and drove them to success, who were then complete failures as managers.

A players record does not necessarily give any indication on how they will fear as a manager.

Bradford City seems to be unable to separate McCall the player and McCall the manager.

 

I don't nessarily agree with McCalls appointmemt, there are plenty of other candidates out there who may or may not have been available. In my view the appointment was made for one reason only, because it was easy for the people running the club. We will never know how good or bad another candidate may have been its all conjecture. But to say expectations are higher of McCallbecause of the alleged evidence you've given are just opinion. I certainly don't agree with it. There is no factual evidence to say what McCall knew/didn't know would in any way help him in his return, it's a completely different animal to the one he was sacked from. Different backroom staff, different CEO, new set of players. Buildings are the same but have bearing on a managers performance.