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Defining Rhodes as a cancer of this club is stepping over the line for me.

 

Maybe me being soft Onside. Just the tag 'cancer' being attached to any man. It dose not sit right with me.

 

I can tell you from first-hand experience that Ryan is a very accomplished operator.

During COVID the club has operated with a skeleton staff (even by City's threadbare standards!) and he has been liaising with the EFL and having to adapt to constantly moving safeguarding goalposts.

In the absence of staff, he's taken on additional commercial duties. He's secured many new 5 and 6 figure deals which have substantially increased commercial revenues year on year. All at a time when other clubs are losing commercial partners. JCT and Bradford College are just a couple of major deals secured. Just review the social media feeds to see some of the new sponsor's that have been signed up.

He also chairs the Supporters Group meetings. Feel free to attend the next one and I'm sure you'll be reassured after meeting him in person.

 

The club will never move forwards with him at the helm. Until someone with a modern, forward thinking mindset replaces him and move this club into the modern era, we'll continue to stagnate or move backwards.

 

Come on mate. Do you think they voted to pay dividends and then just turned a blind eye to everything else?? Not a chance

 

James Mason could be free again shortly as Welcome to Yorkshire could be closed down shortly due to lack of funding

 

As has been said many times, Edin had good ideas. He was simply incapable of executing them without making a balls up of everything he touched.

 

Rhodes has now been here nearly 2 years and what has happened in that time?

Further decline and general apathy on the scale of the pre-parky days, with no sign of that changing anytime soon.

Urgent change needed.

 

How I see it is i think Rhodes and rupp and sparks have done a really good job keeping this club afloat and even having a budget for this season bearing in mind there no money coming in just thank god we are not Macclesfield or Southend

 

First of all, Bradford City under Richmond had been spending far too much for years.

Was the time to step in was when we spent 1.3 million on Rankin? When we signed off on wages for players like Stuart, Beagrie, Deano, etc?

Very easy now, isn't it, to say 'but we shouldn't have spent on Carbone, Ward and Petrescu' when the main man had the bit between his teeth and would have told you we're now an established PL club playing European football and we need to go forwards not backwards.

Very rich of you posters here who bleat on about ambition now and how it's lacking and bleat on about how we should invest in training facilities, better players, infrastructure, scouting, and all by increasing ST prices and outside investment, which had been the whinging, whining narrative for years now.

Well we literally had all that, big money signings, stadium expansion, biggest shop in the UK, the kind of things we are demanding over and over, but yeah, a major shareholder should have stopped the owner from doing all that despite the fact that at the time it was working???

Reality check, I'm afraid guys, Rhodes was never in a position to stop that, and if you were in his shoes, you wouldn't have stopped GR either.

Do not be hypocrites in hindsight,it's not a good look.

 

Long post but quick question.

Was he in a position to vote against it turn down the £8m dividend paid out from a loss making company?

 

I don’t think the fans were clamouring for constant stadium improvements and were probably embarrassed by the claim to have to have the largest club shop in England. Most City fans knew the signings of Collymore, Carbone and Petrescu were the signs of a madman on one, but as board members the Rhodes family should have stood up to him.

Fans currently want stadium improvements in the toilets with hot water and the pitch to last beyond November. What’s wrong with wanting your professional football club, who earned millions from cup runs, to own their own training facility. Why keep renting when owning is cheaper in the long run? We own the square root of f%+k all at the moment. That’s not down to Rahic and Rupp, that’s down in part to Rhodes who sold everything not nailed down.

 

I think its actually Arrow not Amber whi have the LBA contract, but i thought it was Arrow that David Richmond was involved with. I might be wrong though

 

Nah, that’s unfair.

 

Who stole all the season ticket money?