Fan boycott against Swindon 5th March

Oh! My hero.

What would we do without your 'Rob Roy' heroism?


Meanwhile back in the real world.................

Doing something is not the answer. Doing the right thing, is.

 

What a mess, we’re not in admin so be careful what you wish for folks, no sugar daddy is on the horizon. I do think Rupp biggest mistake was trusting other people who are not fit to run the club or make football decisions.

Sparks out.

 

His interest in football is irrelevant. Man City's owners rarely get involved and bought them as a pure business investment.

Sparks, is the one who should be doing everything else you said - that's why he's been employed.

Lawn and Rhodes made themselves "self sustaining" by backing Parkinson and not sacking him at the first minute of trouble.

 

Indeed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7478849/Bradford-hold-takeover-talks-owner-Stefan-Rupp-wants-10million.html

 

At best Stefan isn’t putting money in, at worse one of his companies is allegedly taking money out. I’m not sure how his bank balance helps.

Mid table league 2 this season and we will fall further when the other teams catch up.

With an inevitably reduced budget next season there’s the possibility of a relegation fight.

How can we end up worse than that? Nobody is coming to asset strip and close the club like Bury because there are no assets to sell, and even if the club owned the stadium it’s in a poor part of one of the country’s poorest cities.

Rupp might have kept the lights on after his mate Rahic shafted the club over, but don’t go kidding yourself there is this altruistic white knight in Bavaria. Rupp’s sole interest is in not losing a euro more than he already has. The threat of low season ticket sales next season will get him thinking. Lose 5,000 STs and the budget is down by say half to two thirds of a million before we need to recruit better more expensive players.

That will hurt Stefan more than any boycott, flags, banners, fly overs and name calling.

 

Correct. Since some seem to think that there's a queue of people interested in buying us - you'd think that just one would be out there moaning about Rupp's ridiculous price. That could be stated without disclosing anything.

We simply don't have such a "queue". We are unlikely to find anyone who give us more than the current playing budget.

And I'm not interested in some benefactor over-investing and then pulling the plug, when they get bored when we're still in L2 in 3 years.

 

A Bradford spokesman told Sportsmail on Wednesday night: 'We were approached earlier in the year by a couple of different parties, though offers never materialised. Only a few, brief conversations took place.

 

I wonder what could possibly have deterred interested parties that early in the process eh?

 

See my comment in the post below.

I wonder what deterred the interested parties? Do you reckon it might have been the price tag?

 

Of course they're not going to materialise if this ding dong is quoting a selling price of ten million.

Ten million for what exactly?

You're proving nothing here outside the fact people WILL buy us if the price is right, beyond which they can run us sustainably.

You and @banbrotam are making nonsensical arguments.

Again, the ONLY barrier is Rupp's asking price, and the reason it's so high is because he's done such a poor job he's cost himself a ton of money.

He needs to deal with that, not us.

 

They didn’t have the wherewithal but if that’s not the case they are not under any NDL at the moment let them come forward and say that Mr Rupp is acting unreasonable

 

Spot on Jon.

 

NDA or not, that isn't the conduct of professional business folk. Its a nonsense to think otherwise.

 

Without taking sides in this, it is the Daily Mail, and the article gives absolutely no facts. It doesn't even name the "Bradford Spokesman" or any of the involved parties.

 

Here's an example for you.

Australian group Bunnings bought Homebase for 460 million dollars.

They sold it for a pound.

They sunk 2.3 billion dollars into it in total.

Again, they sold it for a pound.

That's business, boys. You're not entitled to getting your money back.

It's time for Rupp to cut his losses and piss off for good.

 

What I am saying is boycotting is only going to hurt the fans because it will only reflect on the playing budget. I won’t be joining in and couldn’t be persuaded unless I thought there was some group of people or an individual who had the means to take the club forward and was being knocked by an unfair price tag. So there is Zero chance of me not attending the Swindon game

 

That's just fantasy Park, its not remotely how professional, multi million pound business is done. These interested parties will have other business interests and a professional reputation to protect. What do you think it would do to their credibility if they were to come out publicly and start slinging mud? It'd be potentially very damaging in terms of who'd be willing to enter into future business with them.

Whats much more likely is that they'd likely leak something to the press to stir the pot anonymously, with the hope of public pressure driving a more reasonable stance. That was almost certainly what happened here, but for all the bullshit spouted about our 'toxic fanbase', did anything happen? Did it balls. Because far too many of our fans are like battered spouses, who keep coming back for more and swallowing false promises of change and best intentions, then being blamed when the next blow lands.

 

Maybe there isn’t a queue because potential investors are scared off by the price?

Perhaps they make informal contact with an intermediate who tells them this is the price and then they walk away.

Buying a football club isn’t like Karen moaning on Facebook about the price of Turkey Twizzlers in Aldi. Investors don’t go on Twitter or Bantam Talk to moan about the price, they shrug their shoulders and look for somewhere else to spend their money.

On the field the club doesn’t need more than the current playing budget so that’s a moot point, it needs off the field spending to make sure that the good budget isn’t wasted on players with glass hamstrings or missing loanees.

As for investors who get bored after three seasons in league two, remind me, just how much interest have we actually seen from Stefan? He’s spoken publicly three times in the last three years, and Ryan tells us so often that he speaks daily with Stefan that I’m starting to suspect it’s not true.

 

I wouldn't expect you to. It's not in your nature to want to drive change.

No worries, enjoy the game and I hope you get rid of that covid soon, mate.

Listen, we don't need to convince everyone to boycott. I'm thinking we rebrand as a walk away protest. Arrive at the ground, stand outside until three, then off to North Parade.

Thoughts? @king karl