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Quite right Idle. Colin Murray has fallen into the usual trap of assuming an automatic return whilst the stats are against that, just looking at the League tables as they stand today and those who have been relegated over say the last 2/3 seasons.
Last season - M.K. Dons may make it back after 2 successive relegations and big money spent on retaining a high budget by a wealthy owner.
Bury - a chance in the play-offs but on the brink of Admin, gambling on getting up.
Oldham - nowhere, big problems financially so it is rumoured.
Northampton - mid table going nowhere.

Previous season - Port Vale - bottom half L2.
Crewe - mid table L2.
Swindon - Same as Crewe.
Colchester - fringe of play off, no chance and a serious lesson as to investing big in development can seriously damage your health (financially and performance results)

In addition Crawley and Stevenage - nowhere.

So it is not easy by any stretch but I for one am hopeful, I sincerely thank all who have renewed ST's and as has been said it's all down to the summer.
I can say the football world of L1 at least is shocked at our position. Since Christmas every Boardroom we have visited has expressed sympathy, we are the talk of the industry but we also have many players under contract who perhaps should not be here and there is no interest in them either. As the Coventry Chairman said yesterday, the only answer is paying off those who are not required but that will cost.

As I said on another thread two months ago, the mess left by ER will take five years to remedy in my view but that does not mean L2 for five years so lets see this season off, peacefully with no pitch invasions please, ( I am almost on first name terms with the F.A. Discipline people) and we move on, up for the fight, back on the M5 to Forest Green, Exeter, Cheltenham and Swindon and back home with three points!

Thanks again for your brilliant support.

Roger Owen.

 

Seriously? The club's on its knees financially - rammed full of useless players on high wages that we will struggle to offload to pay for the squad we need. And you want the club to forgo hundreds of thousands of pounds of potential income by giving away replica shirts at seventy odd quid each. And still achieve automatic promotion.
I'll have some of what you're smoking please.

 

Based on what? You have no idea on what the summer recruiting will bring us

 

I never leave early, especially on the last game of the season. But this year I will break with tradition. I will join in the minute’s silence before KO and the inevitable chorus of ‘Never forget the 56’ in the 56th minute, but as soon as that ends, i’m off.

Don’t want to be there for the football just as the footballers haven’t wanted to be all season..!

 

You're seriously saying a play off final next season is unacceptable?, you are truly a WUM then.

Too big for league 2?, try telling that to Notts Co fans, who would bite your arm off to be playing league 2 next season

 

I'll not be staying after the final whistle goes I very rarely do, I believe it will be the usual " please keep off the pitch and the players will come back out to show there appreciation".
As I say it will be the normal last game of the season situation, I would hope Bradford City fans who attend the Wimbledon game possibly to offer their respects to the 56, think about the crap us fans have had to endure for the last 18 months and show their appreciation by walking out.
Not that I think that would have the slightest effect on most of this gutless squad.

 

Education is different from natural intelligence. Natural intelligence gives you the ability to learn, Education the means to gain knowledge. People often conflate the two aspects of learning. I would never describe anyone as ‘thick or dim’ as they may not have received the appropriate Education, it is hardly their fault. Poverty also plays its part. I could go on but I won’t, this is a football forum.

I must mix in different circles to you then, not my experience at all. Proud Bradfordian born and bred and lived all my childhood in Bierley on a council estate.

 

@wetherbywhaler would it be possible for you to have a quiet word with whoever plays the music and have the team come onto the pitch with EMBARRASSMENT by madness booming out of the tannoys

 

if we go into next season spouting about how we’re a massive club, too big for league two or the likes of forest green or salford (if they get promoted), that we’re going to walk the league and if we don’t give clubs the respect they deserve then we’re already doing every opponents pre-match team talk for them.

 

if you are all willing to put £20 on it, why not each go to the bookies and put your £20 on with all proceeds if you win going to the burns unit - will make a larger donation that way.

 

Yeah Colin Murray attempted to "spin a positive out of it" We should easily make it back to League 1 it shouldn't be a question and you (we) should get what we deserve ! It's a'simple enough task (or should be) against basically "quasi non league" opposition so for me the demand is a copy of Lincoln City's 18/19 campaign! We are way too big for League 2 and coming at it from a bigger stand point. Rather than Imps who had to "step up" from their stand point !. Anything less for me will be unacceptable. Even a Wembley play-off final wouldn't be acceptable ? So I wouldn't join any "happy clapper" day out at Wembley in a "lottery"attempt to scramble out ! That's the extent of Bowyers task next season scrambling to get out won't be anywhere near acceptable.

I had a thought the fans have been the only ones who "deserve" any credit. So what Rhodes & Rupp can do if they're bringing "stripes back" ? As a goodwill gesture every one of us should be able to go down to the Shop and pick up a new City shirt for nowt !
So at least we all look like it's "Our City" when we turn up to be put threw this 12 months of football drudgery next season !

 

Took us big budget after big budget and 6 years to get out last time? It’s not an easy league it’s a real slog.

A strong and physical spine and pace and creativity out wide will do us.

 

Why are you insulting fellow fans for showing support to the club

 

Let’s have a bet then?

 

Leave Park Avenue out of this please.

 

I can understand you wanting to play down expectations @wetherbywhaler however didn’t Coventry go down 2 years ago and came straight back, also fairly sure that Doncaster and Blackpool bounced straight back as well. You’ve quoted a few who have struggled but it’s not all gloom, there is recent history of clubs also being in the short stay section as well.

 

Excuses mate.

We've a man worth 120M euro now in charge.

A manager that's done it all at Blackpool.

13k fans.

 

But how many actual season tickets have been sold? How many free ones have we given to the kids and how many have bought a flexi card at just £50 with no guarantee of turning up to watch games?

Unless we know these numbers, I wouldn’t be too happy to be quoting season ticket sales of 13k for 2019/20. We could quite easily be sat watching Salford next season with less than 9k Bantams’ fans in attendance

 

To anyone who doesn't think we're the biggest club in L2 next season, to put it quite simply you're talking out of your back side. That doesn't mean that we have a divine right to be successful though, we found that out in our last spell.

Comparing us to MK and Salford is hilarious though.