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Most liked posts in thread: January Transfer Window

  1. JonButterfield

    JonButterfield Star Player
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    Devitt could potentially be the most important player to return this season.

    An actual attacking midfielder who attacks.
     
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  2. brisbanebantams

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    imagine if he hadn't of signed an experienced 'keeper on loan after o'donnell's injury and scunthorpe put a few past sykes-kenworthy.. bowyer would have been crucified for not bringing someone in. he can't win with some. he reacted to an unforeseen circumstance in the correct manner.
     
  3. Jab88

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    you obviously never had to experience the likes of Joe Colbeck, Tommy Black and the Scott Neilson's of this world.
     
  4. The Granby Mullet

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    Best midfielder by a country mile available on a free and we aren't taking the opportunity up. This club is a disgrace. Good quality midfielder decent age and potential to develop and we don't want to take the option?? Baffling. We are skint. Rupp pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and blatantly lying in the programme notes, The ambition this club shows is disgusting. We deserve to be where we are, don't know why I'm shocked but this is a disgraceful decision.
     
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  5. Onside87

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    Doyle has that already for Swindon this season. He couldn't hit a barn door for us. We do need a striker but the problem lies behind the attack. We are all concentrating on the strikers yet we create next to nothing for them. We could sign Jamie Vardy and yet unless we have anyone with the ability to create anything then its absolutely pointless.
     
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  6. Faithful Bantam

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    I genuinely think that only at Bradford City could you have a situation whereby:

    a) We loan a player out, contributing half of his wages and then see him become Europe's most prolific striker by January
    b) We recall him and he spends 4 games scoring a grand total of zero, barely getting a single decent chance
    c) We then sell him, and some fans aren't arsed because 'he's a flop'.

    Some fans will never, ever look at the way we run, manage and coach the football club as being fundamentally at the heart of why we're sh*t.
     
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  7. Dubois

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    So we go to Oldham without Doyle, Vaughan, Oteh, Patrick, Novak or any other striker we might sign. And Donaldson can only last about an hour. Brilliant.
     
  8. Faithful Bantam

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    Meredith was given plenty of licence to get forward.
     
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  9. Chad

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    McCarten gets loaned to Swindon to shut them up and then he scores 23 on the bounce
     
  10. Rogered Tart

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    Yup, if we can't go up with that squad then Bowyer needs sacking as soon as the final whistle has gone at the last game.
     
  11. Biker

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    You inherit a squad from the league above and sign umpteen players from L1, coveted strikers, no excuses now, this 3 window thing is absolute crap.
     
  12. NorthernMonkey

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    "Overstocked" as in, haven't got one?
     
  13. The Granby Mullet

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  14. Onside

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    I am not expecting any incomings! We have been here before, messing about on the last day. I also think we have given up on promotion as we are not prepared to invest in January on filling the gaps. Our rivals are doing just that. I don’t care what the club say about priority no 1 it’s their actions that tell me a different story. They are not being honest with the fans. You do not get promotion by playing negative football, and that will get us precisely bugger all in the playoffs if by some miracle we cling onto a spot.
    I have no idea what is going on at VP Towers, but what I see is a manager struggling to get players to play some kind of system ,key players wanting to exit and in fact the club has meekly just let them go. No attempt to resolve the problems, they are adults for ffs!!
    I hope I am wrong on all fronts I really do I would more than happy for ppl to pull this post up having gained promotion. I would rather be wrong and ridiculed, than see my club and team in this incredible mess.
     
  15. Tony Wilkinson

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    Reporter got his finger stuck on '0' ...
     
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  16. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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    Can we concentrate on getting Bowyer out now?
     
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  17. bantam2708

    bantam2708 Squad Player
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    Get rid either loan or permanent: Devine, Anderson, Akpan, Longridge, Taylor.

    Send back: Oteh

    Sign: RB (unlikely), LW, ST x2
     
  18. bantam2708

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    Cooke is twice the player that taylor is but the latter is Bowyers mate so you're probably correct.
     
  19. Neil Smith (Smithy)

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    I’d like to think that Palmer would return to his parent club before Cooke. Or even better, we keep both on loan and get rid of Devine, Akpan and, if there’s a God, we can remove ourselves of Anderson too.
     
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  20. Dennis

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    I'd like to think that we will have that kind of discussion in the future. But I really doubt it will ever happen.

    We've lived hand to mouth for more years than I care to recall and that mindset is embedded in the club and particularly in JR. When he and ML owned it, there was no investment to take the club forward despite them both recognising that without investment, the club wouldn't progress. And now with JR in an influential position but without any personal financial commitment to the club, you'd think this was a good time to get these ideas on the table at no risk to JR himself. But no. It's just more of the same and it will take a major change in the club's mindset before the club can progress much further.

    We might get promoted into Div 1 this season or maybe next but there are millions required to improve the club infrastructure and put in place a real, well funded, well resourced development programme which will sustain the club moving forward. We've had a couple of goes at it - eight years ago when Archie came on board and then of course the Rahic three year plan - but in both case, the club, for which read the then owners, wanted to do it all on the cheap. If it could be done cheaply, lots of other clubs would do it that way. Unfortunately, it can't be done on the cheap and it will be those clubs with a bit of vision and an ambitious owner with access to additional investment who will be much better placed to progess than ourselves. I wish it were different but I don't see any signs of a change in our approach.
     
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