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City is so much more than the current owner, management and players. It will hopefully still be here long after they have gone. I'm not happy about the state of things at the moment but I'm not ready to give up on the club I have supported for 50 years yet, and I know that deep down, neither are you.

 

Supported City for about 70 years
Will I stop — No
It’s my club and always will be

there will always be tomorrow
CTID

 

I think there is still a point.

This is my 58th season and I think its 7 promotions in my lifetime.

I know we all crave success, the thing is, since our short spell in the Premiership, and the massive rise in season ticket holders since the beginning of the Mark Lawn era, a lot of fans think we have a devine right to be in the Championship or even league 1. It doesn't work like that.

Yes, the years under Rupp have been in the main fairly depressing and he has taken us a long way backwards under his tenure.

I still go, because I genuinely look forward to the pre match pint with family and friends and even the match itself.

Admittedly, I didn't have the appetite to rush home from work yesterday lunch time and attend yesterday, although I would definitely have been there for a league match.

As soon as we appoint the new manager, which I would expect this coming week, I think most fans will settle down again.

 

Started supporting City when I was very young, around 2002/3. Saw nothing but relegation's until the Parky years and still kept coming.
No guarantees in football but the high high's are always worth the lowest of lows.

 

A fair assessment of how most football clubs fans will feel. As you rightly mention about 2013, no one saw it coming and there was certainly no fanfare or brass band for the arrival of Phil Parkinson. No real plan then either other than to ask Parkinson to try and somehow get us out of the shit. What Parky did better than any other manager we've had in recent history is build a football team based on his own methods and principles, recruit players and a coaching /fitness set up to fit the pieces he needed. That's league 2 football folks, don't need schemes of grandeur, just a manager that understands the limitations of budgets and player ability and what is needed to get out of this division. Don't forget luck in all this, you need a massive slice of it, but couple that with a squad has a competitive spine then you won't be far off.
Surprisingly to say how simple it should be, for various reasons we've only been near that point once in the last six seasons. And thats down to nothing more than who keeps recruiting the managers.

 

Definitely there is still a point.

Football changes very quickly.
Just look at the Grimsby,Harrogate and Walsall home games.(only 5/6 weeks ago)

3 of the most uninspiring games you’ll ever see.
Fans not being bothered to celebrate last minute equalisers.
Many describing the whole match day as “a chore”
Others saying they won’t go until Hughes is sacked.

Hughes gets sacked after the Tranmere game and just 4 days later the whole atmosphere changes.
The Swindon,Grimsby,Wimbledon and Wrexham (21,500) games were like we’d got our club back after Hughes had sucked all the life out of us.
Probably just the new manager bounce but most fans got their mojo back in what was a relatively short space of time.
Admittedly it’s gone a bit tits up in the last few matches but that’s probably due to a little bit of uncertainty around McDonald and the new manager.
Hopefully a new manager (whoever it is ) will give the fans something to get off their seats and we can quickly forget the unadventurous shite we’ve had to endure for the last 18 months.

 

Some fans really need to chill out and stop been over dramatic.

 

And if Barton walks through the door, that'll just put the tin hat on things.

 

Ok I’ll reply in the mourning

 

Sorry mate. Wish I could have a pint/coffee/tea/water with you and chat it all through. Until then, take care of yourself.

 

Football goes in cycles and unfortunately we follow a club that has more downward trends than ups. I've followed the club for almost 50 years and in that time have seen just 6 promotion seasons - not great is it?!
We live in hope for the good times though which when they do come, feel all the more enjoyable. After more than 10 years of rapid decline including 2 admins nobody saw the 2013 season coming. I actually dont think we are in as hopeless position as we were post Taylor/Jackson although admittedly things arent great right now.

 

I’ve supported the club through much worse periods than we are currently in, I can only assume the OP hasn’t

 

He’s from Idle.

 

Bobby Pointon is the only real positive atm, it’s exciting he’s come through our academy so hopefully there’s more to come. He was the best player on the park against a solid league 1 side today, the sort of performance where opposing fans say we could do with someone like that.

But it’s hard overall atm, but it will get better but unfortunately I don’t know when. Crap owners, CEO’s and players don’t last forever. The club and its fans do.

 

The soulless part is precisely what gets to me. It seems to pervade everything. I just can't connect with the club, the players or anything. It just doesn't feel like my club anymore. There are no personalities to engage with, all seems dull and grey. Pretty depressing.

 

No I just read the title , you don’t care but have started a thread on a city forum on a Saturday evening, you’ve probably answered your own question

 

To put it more bluntly the club is owned by a German who couldn't care less about it, the CEO isn't a Bradfordian and will no doubt disappear in due course, the players are journeymen who'll disappear when a better offer comes up. Not one of them, apart from some of the juniors, has any connection to the city. As a Bradfordian, what have we got to get behind except our memories?

 

There was quite a few on here who didn't want Adams as manager myself included his persona was never a fit for us and never likely to be just ask fans of his previous clubs (excluding Morecambe) how bad an appointment they eventually thought he was
As for Hughes with all his experience was a gamble and yes one I would have taken but he should have gone at the end of last season all sounds good with hindsight but our problems are much deeper than the manager We need an interested owner a CEO that knows the game and a DOF who will guide a new up and coming manager all currently lacking how you bring about those changes goodness only knows !!!
Not a lot to ask for in a professional football club but that's the root of the problem
As for appointing Barton I agree he wouldn't be my choice