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The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Harrogate Town vs Bradford City 23rd March 2024 1:00pm

  1. DimitriPayet

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    The issue is, who is out there to come in as CEO? Would we have to poach someone from a rival club?

    If GA goes, do we trust Sparks to bring in the right man for the job?

    With a new manager, will they have to pick players based on Gent's recommendation?

    The only way it can work under Rupp is if we have completely new everything. CEO, manager, head of recruitment and then we have the problem of arguably the worst captain in a while, players on 2-3 year deals
     
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  2. Wolfysmith

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    There is no Board. That's one of the biggest issues at the club. Sparks is left to run the shit show and only has to answer to Bradford's answer to Lord Lucan.
    Sparks will chuck Alexander under the bus this weekend and hope it placates the fans.
    The thing is, it doesn't anymore. We can all see that this hasn't worked and won't work now.
    At the very least Rupp needs to get Sparks away from the football side NOW and get and experienced DoF in who can run the rule over the football side of this club and make the right calls on the hiring and firing of coaching and players come the end of April.
     
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  3. Faithful Bantam

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    'What can Rupp do?, what can Sparks do'?

    F**k me. The owner and CEO of a business.
     
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  4. Rogered Tart

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    Had to turn off, can't listen to the chicken suited whopper.
     
  5. Steve1970

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    But you also told us that the team play better at the smaller grounds when the pressure of home fans isn’t against them I know Harrogate broke the record for the attendance today so maybe that scared them
     
  6. Kevin1954

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    The owner needs to sell and then the new owner brings his own team in. As long as the current owner refuses to invest then incoming new manager, CeO , Scout will still be trying to operate with both hands tied behind their back?

    The captain needs to go and then a new first mate can be brought in to sell tickets for the rearranged deck chairs. .

    Leadership of any business or Government starts at the very TOP. Remember a fish rots from the head!
     
  7. Chris Redfield

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    I'm going to delete my Twitter account so I don't have to witness the inevitable Liam Ridehalgh one year contract extension.
     
  8. shoatsy

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    Lowest I've ever felt
     
  9. Super bantams

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    MK Dons had a plan when they sacked him, we didn't have a plan when appointing him
     
  10. Petrov

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    Coming from a self proclaimed happy clapper that's really something. Are you at last starting to see the light?
     
  11. DimitriPayet

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    I'd leave the loanees out for the remaining league games. We won't have them here next season and so it's pointless giving them game time. Plus, they're all crap
     
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  12. Campbell's soup

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    What d'ya do that for - I was enjoying a lovely spring morning ... ar5e!
     
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  13. Jordan

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    Hopefully we can cause an upset and get an unlikely win, against the mighty Harrogate Town :weary_face:
     
  14. Botswana Bantam

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    Disagree.

    We have two fit centre backs. Play them both in a back four. Why play people out of position at the back? The team and formation needs to be picked based on the players available.
     
  15. bailiff bridge bantam

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    His name’s Andy Cook if you don’t mind.
     
  16. Kevin1954

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    What did I say about that defence.

    Ridehalgh and Oggy ..absolute gash.
     
  17. Botswana Bantam

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    Well, he's not a centre back to be fair to him. Now I'm not saying he'd do better somewhere else but GA has two centre backs available and he's choosing to play one in a back three. That goal is more on Alexander for me.
     
  18. SimonW

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    Because the FA & Premier League destroyed the youth system. I've said it before but the old reserve league was great, you got this good mix of seasoned pros and youngsters and the youngsters learnt a lot from having to lineup against seasoned pros who have higher football iqs. Now they play against players in their own age group as the number of senior players allowed is so few that it makes no sense playing any of them so they arent really tested, especially on the physical side. This then sees more players sent on loan but they arent ready so they often get limited minutes or if they play they struggle which hinders their development. And back in the PL2 clubs then have to play their u18 players which makes it even worse for development.

    Basically unless a Premier League youngster breaks into the first team before they are like 20 the chances of them making it at that club are basically zero and every year they remain in the setup after that the less chance of having a career lower down becomes
     
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  19. Jordan

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    GA hasn't shown enough at all to be trusted with a rebuild. But as per usual at City, he got a 3 year deal..... it's a bantam thing.
     
  20. bailiff bridge bantam

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    Tyriek Wright absolutely ambling through games is very sad to see.
     
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