The Voice - Match preview Colchester United vs Bradford City Saturday 13th January 2024 3:00pm

Out of interest, how long is Jamie Walker contracted for?

His loss is proving gigantic right now.

 

Slightly off topic but I'm watching Ipswich take on Sunderland. Now that's a club on the up after a few years in the wilderness.

 

Ok , so do we have 10000 fans willing to put money into a fund to buy Rupp out, its £1000 each to reach the £10 mill, oh and we also have to pay legal fees ,due dilligence and bank working capital i believe, so probably £1500 each.
No guarantee of any success or seeing that money again.
Any takers.

 

If I was Bobby Pointon I wouldn't be signing a new contract. I wouldn't want to progress as a footballer playing under those sorts of tactics, nor the baffling limited amount of game time he has been getting.

 

GA “first half we were first class and should have been two up”.

Second week in a row he’s seeing a totally different game than I did

 

I don't blame Walker for the goal.He covered his near post,as he should,he can't cover them both at the same time time.I thought he did alright today.

 

Realy....................a strange comment when Cook is the top assist at the club, can you explain that one ?;

 

The times he goes for headers that he's never ever gonna get only to flick it out of the way of incoming players in better positions, times when he tries to dribble past players 30 yards out when an easy pass is on only for him to lose it.
The stat of assists shows we don't have Pattison or Walker playing the whole season which Cook has so naturally he contributes, but I know what I see when watching us.
He piss whinges at players and is greedy, so yeah, plays for himself.
But the way we are at the moment in playing style and lack of quality around him, does contribute to that.

 

Maybe because Osadebe wasn't on the bench

 

Why should they celebrate though?

They're professionals, putting in effort to run around and try and score, that's what they need to show. If someone scores, so what? "Why do I care and want to celebrate for a team when I've been chucked on the bench for ages and less skilful/worse players have been picked ahead of me". They'll be thinking they just need tk get through the season and move on.

 

Why would we pay 10 million for it when the loon paid 6 million and has probably wiped millions off its value.

The mans a fooking loon if he think hes gonna make millions on the back of years of fooking failure.

He should put it up for sale for what its worth not what he thinks it is then we may see some interest ...............

 

First half we were alright. Scored and had a few half chances but nothing clear cut. Colchester clearly a poor side but we just didn't capitalise and never looked like doing so.

Second half was a shocker. Poor defending from Taylor (shock) and from the away end it looked like a very tight angle to score from so I'm questioning Walker on that too, albeit will need to see it again.

Chapman and Pointon didn't have the influence they did on Tuesday but were still the only players who looked like making something happen. Bringing Oliver and Oduor on was laughable. Bring another donkey on and boot it long. Brain dead football.

Another thoroughly miserable weekend of Bradford City.

 

It's a strange thing isn't it? I've watched them since the early 60s and they'll always be my club. Forever. But what does that actually mean? I don't own the club. That's a bloke who has no interest in it. I don't run it. I don't manage it. I don't play for it. We no longer own our ground. The local council couldn't care less about it. All those roles are performed by people who come and go and certainly don't have the connection to this mysterious entity that I have. As the immortal Leonard Cohen said, 'I'm just a station on your way, I know I'm not your lover.' At the moment all these people, and those before them, have combined to make many of us totally disenchanted and many are thinking of walking away, not renewing season tickets etc. But although we may walk away from attending, we're not really walking away from Bradford City because the only constant over the years is us. We, literally, are Bradford City, and we can only hope that at some point in the future we can be proud of that again.

 

We weren't poor but we were anything but class. Alexander was always gonna struggle after coming into such a badly run football club, it might be coming apparent to him now why so many managers have failed here in the last 5 or 6 years. Forget the big crowds off cheap tickets and a big capacity ground, we are just a run of the mill middle of the table league 2 side with no direction. I don't blame Alexander for wanting to come here, but without that direction the club is looking at yet another rebuild.
It's painful to see us just aimlessly bumble from season to season with no genuine plan of how to move forward.

 

Usually teams with a desire to succeed show a passion when winning. It's clearly not there.

 

Because that apparently is Mr Rupp's asking price, and whilst he actually is not losing money , he will stick to it.
I obviously do not know the guy, but i believe he has very little interest in us and is quite happy for the club to stumble along until someone comes along that might be interested and has the finance to actually buy him out.
As always , its us the fans that are shafted by business men, who only see the asset and not what a football club actually is to the local community.

 

If you are NZ surely you can't get farther away? Joking aside I decided awhile back that under Rupp we are declining year on year. We need new owners with a plan. I'm out until that point.

 

We're in the middle of the 'easier' run of fixtures that started against Crawley, and thus far, 1 point...

 

They know they've not got a chance to do anything this season and just want to make sure they do enough to get a contract somewhere else next season.

 

Thoroughly depressing isn't it?