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I've never read so much utter tripe as this in my life. Bullying and shouting at a mismatched bunch of players with already low morale is the way to get them performing is it?
Thankfully the board have ignored your simplistic nonsense and appointed a manager with a track record of turning round troubled clubs. The chances of Bowyer keeping us up are slim, but with Evans it would have been nailed on relegation in front of a divided and rapidly dwindling support base.

 

"the opportunity to manage Bradford City doesn’t come along that often" really Gary? Really?

 

How can getting a successful manager at our level be boring some of our fans talk shit

 

I'm not happy if it's only a deal to the end of the season. The last thing we need is to be managerless in the summer yet again.

 

The way you talk he is the second coming he had loads of money at the Posh and blobbed. There are other better ways to motivate. I don’t ever want Evans at this club especially with his history at this club

 

Might have changed his mind after that.....

 

OK !

But FIRST ........ Bowyer has not even been measured for a trakkie top yet, OK ?
WE (as fans) have therefore seen feckall to suggest he'll keep us up, or take us down.

Christs sake ............. Some screamed for Hopkins sacking .....
Others screamed at the list of candidates ......
And NOW some are screeching at what (they think) he can't do - NOT what he can.

Give the bloke some time ........ FFS !!

 

Yeah, good old Pauline, great to have her back.

 

There just stiching the captains armband back together first give them chance

 

@Old city man is right. Whoever walks through the door this morning has to have our full support, yes we have different ideas of who we might want to be manager, but that ends today. Let’s hope they are successful.

 

To me Hopkin left because he doesn't think the club has hit rock bottom yet, he could have stayed around to try and get promotion from league 2 but chose to desert the sinking ship. If Bowyer didn't realise just how bad a squad he has inherited then he does now. Saturday reminded me of the Walsall game, a must win game in the circumstances but ultimately a pathetic performance. When the dust has settled on this season we will be able to look back and realise there was nothing that could be done with this patient, not by any manager. Sometimes the inevitable is staring us in the face, and when Rahic took weeks deciding a new coach then plumped for Collins the truth was slapping us across the face. To be fair to Collins, our predicament now should absolve him of much of the blame. Proven now no one could turn it around, the damage had been done way earlier than when Collins took the reigns.

 

I beg to differ. As soon as we concede the first goal in any game, it is game over, the players do not have the mentality to fight for anything. That is not something that any manager can come in and change over 11 games.

 

Ironic if O'Connor needs stitches....

 

Bowyer has apparently arranged a behind closed doors game with Hudders tomorrow so that he can take a look at players that haven't been involved recently. Good on him.

 

The season is far from over. We are not down yet.

 

He has nothing to lose if it's until the end of the season and everything to gain.

 

It's quite simple and suites both parties. The absolute immediate remit is to stay in the division and GB will incentivised on that basis. If we go down with a wimper, the deal allows flexibility on both parts to decide on whats best going forward. If we go down fighting, we can offer him an extended deal centred promotion incentives, win bonuses etc. The situation now is totally different to what it will be in the summer.

Goes without saying that if he keeps us up, give him a new deal and the keys to the city.

 

Maybe so. But at the moment we are focused on trying to avoid dropping to L2. It's a very tall order but it is still possible. Bowyer has a track record of turning round troubled clubs and is a far better bet to help us beat the drop than Evans would have been. I see from today's T&A article that he has started going about doing that the right way.

And not every team in L2 plays neanderthal football. Parky's promotion-winning History Makers were undoubtedly direct, and tough at the back, but they weren't wind-up merchants and cheats like Evans's teams are. I don't want to support a team that takes professionalism beyond reasonable limits and is hated by fans of all other clubs, even if you do. As I've already said on here, if Evans were to be appointed I would buy my ST, to keep the seat I like, but I wouldn't attend until he was gone. Many others feel the same way so his appointment would massively split the fan base and lead to lower attendances. Thankfully it won't happen, certainly while JR is involved with the club.