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Expectations?

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Rogered Tart, Apr 28, 2019.

  1. JonButterfield

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    Speaking of, no more farcical season-long circus acts involving players training themselves.

    What a joke.
     
  2. BSABantam74

    BSABantam74 Fringe Player

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    A trip to Wembley for a Play-off Final will be failure!. For once we need to dominate season start to finish and I expect nothing less. Who should challenge us ? Scunthorpe ? Walsall we shouldn't be looking up at any one else. The football is dire and if we are not winning games and well that means we are still dire in the "Sink Estates League". So I expect . You should expect ..We all should expect. There should be no hiding place for Rupp, Rhodes or Bowyer and there can't be ?.
    My bar is set at an average of 4 goals per game for us in a 46 game season. Below 1 goal against. Not saying we should win every game 4-0 but we can lose 4 by the odd goal as long as we bounce a few out 5-0, 6-0 along the way. But no more than 4 defeats !. Bowyers not got long to get this up and running and if by end of September we've racked up 2-3 defeats we need to be ruthless and make the change. It's autos or bust for me !
     
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  3. Idlebantam

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    Deluded or WUM. No team in any league averages 4 goals a game
     
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  4. BSABantam74

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    Setting the bar high...if Bradford City cannot smash in 4 goals per game on average against the absolute "kack" in the Khazi League it's time we all packed up. Who's bigger who's better who has the biggest drawing power who has the history. Bowyers already got 70 players kicking his door in so we should have the pick of all the best players why isn't autos the expectation for all associated with the club ?
     
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  5. Park bantam

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    Average 4 goals a match 184 goals a season your joking aren’t you
     
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  6. WilsdenBantam

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    Blatant wum nobodies as stupid as this.
     
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  7. BSABantam74

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    That's right If I think Bradford City v Solihull or Salford or Forest Green at VP I'm expecting 5-0, 6-0 and 4-0 away. Ok I'll give them a pen or a fluke goal but I'm serious about the expectation being that we smash this lousy runt of a League to pieces. Promoted by Christmas !
     
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  8. Park bantam

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    Sorry you are delusional if you think we will get anywhere near that
     
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  9. Onside

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    Whatever is going on can they share it with the rest of us! Demanding auto, now how we beat teams!! Everything else is failure!
     
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  10. Rogered Tart

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    Your optimism is misplaced but admired. But what i do agree with is the sentiment of your post. make no mistake this club and Bowyer should be making automatic promotion a priority even though our history suggests we don't bounce back after relegation. Signings coming into the club need to be winners, this season has shown what happens when you sign players that have come off the back of relegation.
     
  11. BoingBoing

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    We have got to expect to walk the league, winning it by over 30pts and getting more than 100pts in the process. Failure to do so means we are accepting 2nd best. Right @Fordy117@Fordy117 ?
     
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  12. BoingBoing

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    Remind me where the Username comes from again? When the rest of us chant ‘City til I die’, do you chant ‘City til half five’ instead?

    Loyal? So long as we are successful, right?
    You can’t have been supporting us for long then, seen as you refuse to support a team finishing 13th or lower in L2?
     
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  13. BSABantam74

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    Not really look at the size of us compared to those teams. We have to start behaving like "who we are" . We need to have the approach that we will do this any which way and we start by setting the bar high ! No one absolutely no one in that League should want to play us at VP. Away from home they should be quaking at the prospect Bradford City turning up ?. I ask you Salford v City ? or Forest Green v City. .were on a different planet ? Or damn well need to be ! It won't be enough Bowyer coming on boring us all to death with " we wer'nt good enough in either box" ? "Or you can see the quality Salford have and where a bit behind them" ? Any of that and he's finished !
     
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    :laughing:
     
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  15. JonButterfield

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    I accused this guy of being a WUM before.

    Its pretty obvious.

    I just don't know who the joke is aimed at.

    Its like a parody of Fordy on steroids.
     
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  16. Daisy Mcniven

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    We're not on a different planet to the up and coming teams that you name. We'll be in the same league. And they'll love beating us. ATM we are a shambolic joke. Going to take a massive rebuild before we can even dream about rolling these teams over.
     
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  17. Bronco

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    If he's not on a wind up I'll have a pint of what he's drinking.
     
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  18. Fordy117

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    No, just going up automatically.
     
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  19. BoingBoing

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    My expectations can’t be determined yet until I know who Bowyer can rid himself of. We have 15 players contracted for next season and if we can’t offload at least half of them, we will struggle. I’m hoping we can get rid of the majority and Bowyer given a decent budget to bring in the players we desperately need.

    We certainly need a big shake up but if funds don’t permit, because we are stuck with the under-performers, how can we demand promotion? Bowyer simply isn’t a miracle worker. Allow him to completely shape his squad and I’d like to think we will challenge for the autos, but if he’s working with a millstone around his neck, that isn’t going to happen.

    Keep:
    O’Donnell
    Sykes-Kenworthy
    Mellor
    Wood
    Robinson (if available)
    Scannell
    Doyle

    Offer new contracts:
    Caddis
    Woods
    Ball
    Colville

    Release:
    Anderson
    Clarke
    NKP
    Chicksen
    Wilson
    Devine
    Gunner
    Jones
    McGowan
    Hawkes
    Clare
    Goldthorpe

    Negotiate Releases:
    A.O’Connor
    Wright
    Reeves
    Patrick
    Gibson
    McCartan
    Akpan
    Riley
     
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  20. Park bantam

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    When was the last time we scored 100 goals in a season never mind 184
     
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