Most liked posts in thread: Graham Alexander - “There are other issues”

Issues:

We don’t own the training ground
We don’t own the stadium
The pitch at the stadium is a disgrace
Only seen the owner once in 6 months
CEO is a joke
Head of recruitment is a shambles
The club is disconnected from its fans
Expectations haven’t been managed
Playing budget to low
Youth set up no not good enough
Mixed messages about the direction of the club.


The club is a MESS!

 

Lost the respect of the players ?????

So that gives the players the right to down tools when thousands of us are paying there wages ?????

How fooking low have we become now

 

He commentates as fan.

 

People will blame anyone when it's not going well. Like blaming Trueman.... which is pathetic really.

 

In the long term there are questions regarding stadium maintenance and the like which will need investment. The product on the pitch could always do with more, that's the same for any club, but with us it's more a case of how it's spent and the strategy that goes along with that. I've always said that it's too big a job for someone of Sparks experience, especially when the owner has no club about football matters and offers no advice as to where he wants the club to head other than to be effectively debt free other than his initial investment. If Rupp actually sat down with football people and garnered some advice he'd probably find it doesn't take that much to be successful at this level other than to be a well run club. The likes of Accrington and Morecambe showed what could be achieved with small crowds and limited budgets if you are organised and have the right people overseeing your company/business. He simply doesn't have that and he falls at the first hurdle, it's why I feel sorry in a sense for managers and players coming into the working environment at Valley Parade as it's doomed to fail before they've kicked a ball. Only so much a manager and his squad can do when there is no clear mandate from above them.

 

Like I said, I'll rather sack most of these players first but some more awful defeats and I think Sparks will pull the plug that what he usually does. I have my problems with Alexander in the last few weeks on team picks/tactics and his last few bullshit interviews but I would back him over these weak filled cry babies of a football team.

 

He worked at the club for a short spell recently as fitness and conditioning coach, he will know the facilities and the set ups involved.

Also whilst commentating on the notts county game he called Gillead's injury long before it went. Many times, even during the first half he mentioned him looking tired, leggy and as if carrying an injury.

 

There is literally no one in the club that is any good - the place stinks and is rotten from the inside out.
A full root and branch clear out is needed, including leaches like Trueman, who only has a role as its cheaper than paying him off.

 

We're in very real danger of all this becoming a self fulfilling prophecy, if we're not there already. Literally any manager can now come in and if it doesn't go well can claim its all down to some unspecified, unresolveable, behind the scenes issue.

And the players aren't daft, they'll know that too, our club must be among the easiest in the world to arrive at and down tools, and who can blame them. The entire culture of the club seems more rotten then the state of Denmark and has been for years.

 

Gone full Derek Adams look what happened there

 

Do sacked managers have to sign NDAs? I’d be very interested in hearing what Derek or Mark have to say about the behind the scenes

 

But apart from that, things going well yeah?

 

That's an easy way out.

Do you honestly think the last 5/6 managers have all been just pure crap? Despite having success elsewhere before coming to Bradford?

Take GA at the minute. There's something that's also affecting the players. Maybe most of them know they're gone at the end of the season? Who knows.

He is picking players he probably doesn't really want. He didn't sign them.

 

He should either shut up about things he can not talk about and stop stirring the pot or talk about it.

Either shit or get off the loo

 

Ah, so Ash Taylor is a defender
Thought he was some kind of static traffic island for players to run past.
You learn somefink new everyday on here

 

Agreed, the stick he gets is uncalled for imo. Also, he’s one of our own regardless.

 

No, if I thought it was a fact I wouldn’t have used the word apparently, that’s how language works. Does using the word twatter make you one? Probably

 

We are in league 2.
How does our player budget compare to eg. the current top 10 sides?
How does our training facilities compare?
How does our medical staff compare?

I haven't got a clue to any of those questions but surely we should be doing significantly better than 17th ?

 

I don't know about managers signing NDA's or not. But I can see why you very rarely hear any sacked manager badmouthing the club they've left. Who's going to employ someone in the future if they're going to be critical of the club when they're invariably sacked? There's probably lots of private conversations between managers about clubs behind the scenes, but pretty much every manager at every level maintains the omerta because they want to be employed in the future.