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Maybe Rupp actually saw with his own eyes yesterday the shitshow we are rather than being told the kind of Shizzle that Sparks puts out in fans forums about sunlit uplands etc.

I won't be there Tuesday and I have passed on my Harrogate ticket to someone who wants to tick the ground off.

I'd hope Sparks was told to clear his desk yesterday and as you say someone in the media managed to get a good 15min with the man who holds the keys to the club.

I see on Facebook idiots saying Mansfield are top for a reason, but this isn't just about yesterday, we were dire on Tueaday, the previous home game v Doncaster was dire.

I can count on one hand the number of games where I have left the hame feeling we have given it all. Wycombe, MK Dons, for example. I said at the time I don't mind losing like we did at Wycombe if I feel the team and club have put it all out there. Recently that is far from the case.

The embarrassing sight of seeing a season ticket advert on the scoreboard every 5min whilst the score below it was forever rising is just how tone deaf this club is.

 

The club have to sell season tickets, currently an almost impossible task. The score board is theirs and free, so bound to be adverts running on there during matches. just because we were being ragged, doesn't make that any different.
Did the press know Rupp was attending yesterday?
He may have flown in and straight back out after the game, hopefully not and he is here for a day or so to try and sort this mess out.

 

If Rupp hasnt got a clue what mess we are in before yesterday then he seriously needs to fook off .............my god he let Rahic cause carnage that should have bern a real eye opener but to let another loon go down that same road is fooking embarrassing

 

As i said in another post, Who would not accept the position offered to Sparks at the age of 30, CEO of a football league club and the decent salary that will go with it.
All on the word of Julian Rhodes, who is part of the reason we own nothing.
Sparks is so far out of his depth, Yes he is at fault for lots of things, but should have been left in charge of the commercial side.

 

And the reason he wasnt was down to mr invisible yet again..............i honestly hope that yesterday was a huge wake up call for him and actually does something about it but sadly i doubt he will.

We are heading one way at this rate and we can all see it apart from the so called loons that run the club.

 

I'm only there on Tuesday as my lad is back from University and it's only his fifth game of the season. Otherwise I'd stay at home. Fact we are still in with a slim chance of the playoffs just shows how poor this division is.

 

Notts County is the kind of higher profile game I would look forward to. A decent away following from a club with alot of history.

I just can't be arsed at all at the moment. The crowd would be embarrassing if they announced the actual people who turned up rather than a fantasy figure like they will do.

 

A family of 5 of us won’t be there on Tuesday- we’d all rather do something else. A crying shame after many years of giving support to the club.

Also a terrible time for a season ticket campaign to be kicked off and the rising of prices. Bet we have under 8k ST holders next year.

 

I'm in the same boat. This was one of the games I thought would've been a great atmosphere between two sets of fans, with an end to end match thrown in. I won't be finishing early to go to the game to watch either. Its not just on yesterday's result, but I'm perplexed by the team selections and don't have confidence in GA making the right calls. He's actually weakened us in the last 2 home games.

 

Got to 2:30 yesterday and i thought sod it im staying in the pub and i actually felt bad about it til 20 past 3 .............sick and tired of going down there sitting through 90 minutes of dross and trudging of into the night yet again peeed off
We have all seen bad times we have all seen poor teams but at least you could see the heart was there but this lot now they simply couldnt give a shit.

The FGR game should jave had a huge reaction yesterday but what did we get ?????
More pathetic uncaring shit ......... still cannot wait for the upcoming quotes saying " we must do better pt XXV "

7 points off the play offs with two games in hand should give any side at this level room for optimism except one and thats sadly that shower of shite down the road

 

He didn’t fly straight out after the game, I had a brief chat with him in Tesco at half six last night. He has a house over here.
He was pleasant, frustrated and called out certain team selections, acknowledged it’s not good enough but I’m not sure he understood the gravity of the situation.
He suggested this is football and this time next week we might be celebrating two wins
His wife and I had to correct him when he said we remained 12th despite todays result.
I kept it short as, no matter what’s going on at the club, he was in a supermarket with his wife in his personal life so didn’t vent at him.
Edit: I did say it’s not good enough, needs to change and quickly, it’s been a year on year decline for 8 years running

 

Thanks for the update. Interesting that he referred to team-selections when by his own admission he doesn’t even really like football and has never followed it.

 

His wife was very good at giving the w**ker motion to the lad who was shouting up to Rupp from the main stand.
The lad was sat just in front of us telling Rupp to spend some money or sell up.
Seems Mrs. Rupp didn't like that, hence the hand movements!
What are we told over the tannoy before games? "if you see or hear any foul and abusive language, or offensive actions.................."?
Perhaps it doesn't apply to the owner or his family?

 

I've also got 3 Harrogate tickets that I'm seriously considering cancelling and getting my money back

The fact I've never been is the only reason that I haven't already.

 

He mentioned Cook (the obvious one) first - which to be fair anyone could question.

 

Feel a bit bad saying this - as it gives away where he lives roughly, but it was Tesco at King Cross in Halifax. He said he lives in Halifax (I’m presuming Hebden Bridge or surrounding areas of the Calder Valley rather than the town centre lol)

 

This just confirms my fears… he hasn’t a clue. Now the man has said himself he doesn’t know anything about football and that’s fine but he MUST employ someone who does. Sparks isn’t the answer as he has lied and failed consistently for a while now. To think our fortunes might change in the next 2 games is just ridiculous had he watched us all season. We could well win the next 2 but all it does is paper of the cracks. We aren’t in anyway ready for league one football even if a miracle did happen.
Commenting on team selection is also bizarre.
People are suggesting he might be here for a few days to try and sort the mess out but how can he? He doesn’t know football? Unless he’s here to sack Sparks and hire a football mined person then he might aswell have not bothered leaving Germany.

 

If fans like yourself and your family aren't going then the hierarchy of this club have failed. You've always seemed fair in your appraisal of the club through your posts and not one to act over dramatically. Things have to change.