If the board are serious about promotion

What do you mean? Wait until the team are completely shattered! Then bring in a manager FFS!!

 

I defended Bowyer in the distant past but can’t argue with that mate. I know you go with your son as well which makes it worse, our future support is being put if by the crap. F off Rupp, Rhodes, Bowyer and Drury. Time for a total cleanse if we aren’t going anywhere o lose support to other clubs as we have in the past. Enough is enough!!

 

Long term, no hes not. But if money is the barrier to sacking Boywer, McCall might be the only one willing to come in and work for next to nothing until May. His sheer popularity might be enough to temporarily inject a bit of positivity. Cant see it inspiring an ST uptake though. The club is floundering, make no mistake.

Or put another way, if you only had two choices until May - Bowyer or McCall, I know which one most people would choose.

 

Think we have to look at the bigger picture, this situation will not change until Rupp has left the club and we have someone in who can actually move us on, Rupp may have money but he clearly has no intention of investing it to get us out of this mess, we need a total clearout from top to bottom otherwise if Rupp is still in charge we will continue to shop around for 2nd rate managers and bargain basement players. This is beginning to get like the situation after the Yeovil game and look how that panned out.....

 

The only common denominator left here is Rupp. He was hoodwinked by a chancer and had nowhere to turn hence Rhodes back in the saddle. I honestly think he's out of options now. Sell up for a loss please, your heart aint in it.

We we're tinpot under Lawn but we did manage to drag ourselves out of this league eventually. Give me someone who cares.

 

Drury = common denominator

 

Would be the first time Iv'e heard of an assistant bringing a football club to it's knees lol

 

He should walk. Seems like no length since this same conversation was had about Hopkin.

 

Bang on

 

He coaches the players, He is a amateur coach trying to coach professional players, We are not organised and look like the defence is not drilled, He has been let go as a coach at Amateur level yet we expect him to coach our players improve them and organise them in to a team,

 

Not defending him at all. Think it was odd that Bowyer didn't/couldnt appoint his own staff. That was an early warning for sure.

 

There are only two Company Directors on the board, Rupp and Alan Biggin. There are two honorary presidents and VPs, JCT and Lawn, the rest are associate directors, fans who pay a lot of money to be there.
Rupp doesn’t routinely attend games and Biggin is the club secretary, more of a statutory compliance role than an operational one
That neither was there shouldn’t have any impact.

 

the year is 2058 and the bcafc hashtag is asking how much the club receive for the transfers of andre wisdom, nahki wells and tom cleverly from adel grange residential home to cooper house care home.

 

Why the feck are we not hearing from the board I’d even take a chuffin vote of confidence that would be the start of the removal process !!!!

Disgraceful from Rhodes and Rupp

 

That's a very interesting point you mention about our younger supporters who attend with family.They are forgotten by myself and probably many more who have to witness our present plight.
Not good times to see and hear what's on offer know matter what age you are.The toxic atmosphere must upset the little ones and in some cases take some explaining after say a Wembley visit or a successful promotion season.

 

Funnily enough that's exactly what I was thinking about last week. The disappointment on the little faces of our younger supporters at Wembley, some of whom I was connected with, was quite heartbreaking. Life can be pretty grim in a place like Bradford and a successful football club can bring a bit of happiness and hope into young lives. We seem to be losing that community feel as a club which is a great shame.

 

My earliest football memory is Wembley against Notts County with my dad and his mates, these things stick with you. Then the next 8 years of good times really made me a life long fan, where as some of my best friends and school friends went on to support Leeds. These are important times to create an impression on the fans of the future.

 

I think we must all accept that the club have the mindset of wanting promotion but not prepared to really push for it.
We were on the cusp of promotion in 3 successive seasons in league 1 and they tossed it all away, putting us back to the dark days of league 2. They’ve missed a massive opportunity of getting the club into the Championship with guaranteed attendances of well over 20k every home game and possibly further promotion to the PL like Sheff Utd and maybe soon to be Millwall.
That missed opportunity won’t come around again anytime soon so I really feel sorry for the younger generation of our fanbase who will see lower league football for many years to come.

 

I think some sort of statement of intent from Rupp/Rhodes is an absolute must. It’s insulting we haven’t heard anything from either of them. Even if it’s backing Bowyer and trying to get fans back on board.
Isn’t Sparks meant to be Director of Communication? He should be banging on the boardroom door demanding some substance to enable him to do the role he’s paid for.

The complete lack of empathy and understanding from the guys at the top, comes across as crass and ignorant.