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Most liked posts in thread: In defence of Stefan Rupp

  1. Onside87

    Onside87 Impact Sub

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    Sticking up for himself! He deserves everything he gets. When was the last time he communicated with the fans? He is utterly useless and his wife gave the fans a gesture that showed their utter contempt for us.
    Had that fan not confronted him he would have scuttled off and not be seen or heard from for another 6 months. Nothing about that man’s ownership of BCAFC has impressed me, if anything it’s just driven a huge wedge between me and my club. Not his club! My club!
     
  2. Lordofthemanor

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    We all want Sparks gone but some people seem to be suffering from some delusion that there's a queue of people desperate to buy us.
     
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  3. Keefly Bantam

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    There is 1 that we know of. That's all it takes.
     
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  4. Bantam@{Lancs}

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    Rupp is 100% to blame for the whole of the sh1t show we're currently witnessing, purely because he allowed himself to get duped into an investment he neither had no interest in nor knew anything about.
     
  5. Loyalbantam

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    Was he to blame for Billy Clark missing that sitter at Wembley or the linesman not putting his flag up for Millwall’s goal?
    Was he to blame the following season when players downed tools?
    Was he to blame for our relegation when we had probably one of the biggest budgets in league 1 with players such like Jack Payne, Lewis O’Brien, Eoin Doyle, Sean Scannell etc.?
    Was he to blame for the 2 Covid seasons?

    We can only blame Rupp for the appointment of Sparks as CEO and allowing him this long in the job.
    Maybe he’s over here to sort that out on Monday. I can’t think of any other reason he’d be here when he’s been absent all season.
     
  6. AngryGaz

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    If nothing happens this week then it simply wont happen :(
    Remove Sparks and the recruitment team then we may have a chance but if they re.ain then clearly he aint got a fooking clue.

    Remember the mediocrity quote ????? That in itself should be enough for him to get the boot
     
  7. Inspector

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    Rupp doesn't have the required knowledge, time or location to get the next appointment right. He'll be relying on Rhodes again and look where that got us. He has until the end of the season to consult with various independent footballing bodies or people, to either sell up or put in place a structure for footballing success. If nothing changes then I fear for the future of our club.
     
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  8. Dennis

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    You and I and probably thousands of other fans judge success by what we see on the pitch and whether we achieve promotion or not after so many years. I simply don't believe that Rupp and therefore Sparks measure success in the same terms.

    Sparks let the cat out of the bag when interviewed by Raynor not long ago. His two criteria for success are being able to balance the club's books each year and keeping the club in the EFL. There was no mention of seeing the club progress. No reference to getting promoted. If they are Sparks' measures of success then I doubt very much that they are any different to his boss's. Some fans already understand that; the rest of us still have to get our heads around it.
     
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  9. Onside

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    That might be one of the criteria used as part of your plan to achieve success, but it cannot be a goal in itself. Competitive football cannot stand still and if you try and achieve that it will go backwards as we are seeing. Your core business is competitive football. Amature football is a different beast but even so there are strong competitive leagues to conquer.
     
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  10. loz

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    Sparks seems to be suffering from the delusion that if I dont't reserve my seats by early April, there is a queue of people fighting to buy them.
     
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    Looking at Sparks face yesterday, i think he has bigger worries than selling season tickets.
    Looked like a condemned man to me.
     
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  12. trevor

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    Let's hope so. There can be no better help to the club than him leaving
     
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  13. Ulysses S Grant

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    Interesting thought. Prof Rhodes was sat next yo him yesterday.
     
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  14. Tom Hallett

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    I seem to remember that Mark Lawn said that they'd done a due dilligence test on Rahic and Rupp.
    Oh yes, money well spent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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  15. JonButterfield

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    Rupp's Performance Index:

    Financials: OKAY
    Everything Else: ABYSMAL
     
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  16. Keefly Bantam

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    Go on then. Who is stopping you?
     
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  17. JonButterfield

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    But you won't do it.

    You won't put pressure on either Rupp or Gibb. You run fans down for wanting to do just that.
     
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  18. Fordy117

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    He doesn’t give us a decent budget! The budget is generated through fans, commercial deals etc. He doesn’t spend a penny on us now.

    Don’t look at others, look and judge your club Under Rupp we have gone backwards, we are a poor team in a very weak league. Still has Ryan Sparks as CEO who is a complete shambles.

    Anyone that defends Rupp is a fool. He needs to go!
     
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  19. Smartmart

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    We are a lower middle team. That’s what the league says. The teams at the top have hammered us on a couple of occasions to underline this regression. Is the overall league stronger than last year possibly. MK Dons could have had 10 earlier this year like Mansfield. Notts county smashed us. Last season there wasn’t anything like that. Easily lost at Orient but not by 5. Overall we are weaker. The league possibly slightly stronger. Either way we are going nowhere. Owners can be absent and yet run successful clubs. But these rely on the best management beneath within all aspects of the club. I’m not saying Alexander isn’t culpable but he didn’t sign a huge squad at the start of the season nor has he been involved since the malaise began. Rupp has. Sparks has also presided over years of regression on the pitch. And he should be judged on that as much as anything as we are firstly a football club.
     
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  20. AngryGaz

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    So years of failure are forgiven because he probably fed one fan a load of shit
     
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