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Great points. Jewell leaving was a tipping point. And as daft as it sounds, we'd have been better off not beating Liverpool on the last day and going down, but you can't change history. That period in the last 90s was golden for me. It coincided with my teenage years and life was just a blast, watching City punch above its weight, showing real ambition, bringing in exciting players, improving year on year. I'll always be grateful to Richmond for that.

Burnley are an excellent model. And when I talk about bringing in an ambitious owner, it doesn't even need someone who's willing to prop up the budget each year - it needs someone who's willing invest in the fabric of the club. Buying the ground back was be a huge start.

 

It was mental wasn't it? The ride was crazy, Bradford at the time was buzzing with both huge success for both City and the Bulls and the nightlife in town was buzzing. Look at the state of all this 20 years ago, the city is falling to bits with a non existent nightlife and both sporting clubs are a joke. Halcyon days gone by m8.

 

Gibb is as you say an astute businessman, realising Bradford had no other option available to them as the banks wouldnt lend them money. Would have been interesting if Gibb had been the guy to hang around long term at the expense of the Rhodes family.

 

Bang on. The club will remain at Valley Parade, there is neither the money nor the will for a new stadium in Bradford.

 

Dirty Twit, one disalushioned guy. Maybe he needs a catch up with former staff and players he drove out of our... the fans and not his club.

 

Yes he is right in that he was not to blame for relegation, Rhodes was entirely to blame for that,

 

Are you okay? He’s funded one of the best transfers in a while!

 

I'll have a look, it was Ryan sparks comments about the fees helped being paid by the extra ifollow revenue and the club in general which in a sense is a good thing because it shows that we didnt actually pay out large fees in January and that we are getting value for money in a time when most clubs won't be spending.

 

Weren't we at the start of a tipping point despite the efforts of Richmond 6 weeks of madness? With no sugar daddy to speak of hadn't we started to over stretch ourselves, relegation just making the process quicker.

 

Yeah. I'll be honest, my memory of exactly when Jewell left is fuzzy. Was it before, during or after the 6 weeks of madness? Either way, if we'd kept Jewell and allowed him to lead our recruitment plans, we'd have had a good shot at staying up. Who knows where we'd be now? In any event, our worst case should have been that we were a strong championship club with the occasional dabble with promotion. Maybe like a West Brom.

 

Loving your posts mate. Talking so much sense!

City fans got played also. Blinded by cheap tickets and then what seem to be an agenda from within to make excuses not to do off the pitch improvements. Even have to listen to Sparks now and some one on here to understand that investing in the fabric of the club is something that we seem unwilling to do and fans seem not to understand why is important.

Getting the ground back would be a massive step forward for this club.

 

My main thought is around the commercial benefit. i.e the potential to save on the rent (£350K per year)? But more than that, its a tangible asset against which we might be able to borrow in order to fuel growth across various areas of the club.

 

I agree can’t get carried away and still work to do, but you must admit 18 points from 8 games with 5 of them away from home is pretty impressive and compares well to the McCall disaster of 13 points from 16 games and is the reason we are currently in the bottom half

 

Exactly it. We need to remember where we were and what has happened since of course there are going to be set backs but Exeter is the only match we have lost and that was in a weakened team. A few weeks ago we would more than have settled for a mid table finish and that is still the case

 

One major stumbling block, the Flamingo Land Pension Fund, tell me where they could get a better guarenteed income in this day and age, and I believe that is what is needed if the pension fund were to sell their asset.

 

So the new players in this fantastic transfer window are a weakened version of the pre window?

I agree, I would and still would be content with a mid table finish. But that's part of the ethos that is Bradford City, accepting a mid table finish

 

I have a copy of the plans, uploaded here its a PDF. Would have been a great addition if finished.

 

True, but in order to make plan "A, B, C and D" feasible, you have to make them public, otherwise your bluff is pretty easy to call.

"Or else we'll move to Odsal."

"No you won't."

Where do you go from there?

And the problem with making the 'plans' public, even as a bluff, is that a bunch of babies wouldn't be able to help themselves cry fast enough about the idea of moving to Odsal.

 

Any away game over 3 miles away must be a real bind.