Most liked posts in thread: Just How Bad Is This Squad?

I assume they're percentages?

 

I saw that. Watch your self m8.

 

The squad Parkinson inherited from Jacko did not have Davies, Reid, Ravenhill in it ,Parkinson had to bring them in as well as Matt Duke. As for Wells he was just in the development squad as Jacko didn’t rate him. Jacko squad was the likes of Stewart, Hannah, Compton, Mitchell, Threllfall and two dreadful goalies on loan.

 

Yes certainly the squad that finished the season that Parkinson changed was significantly better than this lot. However I have no faith that McCall will have the contacts and transfer nous in January to improve this squad.

 

May be an unpopular opinion but I don't rate Novak one bit. A couple of early season goals masked over what were some pretty dreadful performances by him.

 

20+ goal striker? Clarke and Novak might not get that between them in the league, the other three won’t get 10 between them. Unbelievable and unacceptable that McCall thought they were good enough.

 

Don't worry about it mate. If he can't work out that Stuart McCall is an absolute fraud of a manager then i wouldnt expect his ability to talk face to face to be up to much.
McCall was a good player for us over many years. We can all agree on that. As a manager hes turgid. I want him sacked tomorrow.

 

Two wins against extremely poor opposition and a draw against a team that should have been out of sight at half time had the happy clappers salivating at the mouth when in truth it just papered over the cracks. Yesterday was back to normal with our frailties cruelly exposed. That trap door is getting closer and closer.

 

Has to have been, its the only time in the past 20 years something has worked at VP, so can't trust anyone else at the club to have implemented it.

 

Just a note. We didn't get relegated last season. That be the season before gents!!! We was 7th at this time last season..

Freudian slip?

 

Either I've misread or I'm daft as a brush. As a betting man, I'm on the latter

No alcohol for me mate. Gave it up on February 13th after a bad situation in Chester and a subsequent trip to the doctors. 281 days dry and feeling great!!

 

I remember 3 or 4 years ago reaching the L1 play offs for the second consecutive season, laughing about how terrible our first squad under McCall was in League 2, confidently yet in hindsight naively thinking things would never be that bad again.

How wrong I was. I hold no doubt that this is the worst Bradford City squad I’ve seen in almost 29 years of life.

 

Me neither but listening to Stuart's post match yesterday he has every confidence of at least a play off place (can't remember his exact words I was dumbfounded) Doeis he know something we don't or is he delusional
January is the telling month hopefully by then we have a new CEO with plans for progression in place which should filter down to the team and coupled with a few incoming players we should finish mid table at best building for next season, without this I fear we could well end up a non league team
Over to you Mr Rupp and Mr Rhodes make some big decisions or the club will suffer irreparable damage

 

Probably the wrong choice of phrase from me. You're right that Parky had to sign a few of those when he came in. Although the point remains that the squad that season who finished 18th was better than this one.

 

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are still a few good players in this team to build next years squad around. I'd keep Cooke, Watt, Wood and even Billy Clarke and Lee Novak.

 

i still think even if the squads not good if your players are 110% fit and harass the other team and don't give them a second on the ball you still have a chance,pretty much the way l$$$s play,but i don't think Mccall has ever had a team fit like that

 

So do I mate I'm a bit tied up this morning going for a walk in Myrtle Park . Bacon Sarnie and a cuppa to soon for beer.

 

Ideally. But whats more important is that we get a properly capable, ambitious, CEO whose backed to get stuck into the size of the task at hand

 

Agreed, but if this new CEO is not properly funded then he will soon be found out- it is by his deeds not words.
It cannot cost a fortune for the likes of harrogate/newport and other former non-league teams to have a decent scouting network.
But it will need patience for a few years as City build a squad from scratch.

Which brings me to the final part of your excellent earlier post- "And we'd never recover from that"
At least half of the teams in L2 are former non league or have spent a fair few years out of the league like Lincoln/Leyton Orient/Grimsby.
They have been able to compete, recover and make it back.
I mean its not like our current goons even want to spend the current salary cap, must be waiting for a rainy day.
Stuart himself must be ashamed of his current squad, 3 half-time subs speaks volumes.

 

Fordy117 it was the same when Rahic was here. Some just don't for whatever reason want or are incapable of seeing it.

The fallout from that era is still unravelling now. Whilst the Rahic era, will take time to fully unravel, the post Rahic era is now creating a secondary fallout, with the potential of relegation (which I strongly don't feel will happen) that could irreversibly damage the club.

Ive been saying for months that Rupp needs to go. Yes I know we need a buyer and in itself, that is an issue. I wish no harm on the man but under his watch this club has alarmingly gone backwards. And whilst I don't see relegation this season, their is absolutely nothing to suggest the regression will end. Rhodes going is all talk as far as I see it. Talk is cheap.

This club needs a reset. From the top. The reality some want to come on board, others will bury their head in the sand and accept mediocrity.