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I can understand the reaction on here but I am going to buck the trend a bit and say I am behind todays announcements - what is killing this club is the total uncertainty as to whats going on and that has now been answered. I am not looking to persuade anyone over but as I see it Rupp, Sparks and McCall now have an obligation to deliver or this club goes to the dogs. We need to see what happens in the days ahead as further plans are revealed but I just sensed a difference in Stuarts comments the other night about changes ahead (before he has toed the party line that he has what he wants)

I hope over the next week some of the fiercest critics on here will mellow a bit but I agree it is down to the club now to win the fans back - we dont choose our club, it chooses us! A true fan cant switch his football club like he can a bank, holiday, car choice etc but for too long this emotional tie we have to the club has been taken for granted - I just hope today is the first day of a better future for Bradford City and all its fans.

Please dont over abuse this view and cast me just as a happy clapper - I honestly am not (but in case I still might lie low until tomorrow )

 

To be honest I’m surprised at the massive negative reaction on here. Some people have a very short sighted view of things.

When McCall arrived last season it was was clearly already a write off. We had the likes of Hope Akpan, Chris Taylor, Kelvin Mellor and Jermaine Anderson in the squad FFS.

Fast forward to this season - against the backdrop of a pandemic - most of the players (who we should know better than anyone aren’t good enough) are still here.

So far McCall has signed Clarke (who is turning out to be pivotal to our squad, despite - as usual - most fans despairing that he signed), Cooke (who was good last year but had taken time to settle this year), Evans (lots of experience since he left the first time). DME has been a disappointment. Hosannah has been great. Samuels looks like he’s starting to get up to speed (good game on Tuesday).

We’ve got/had injuries that are hurting us - Hosannah (although French has been doing OK), Staunton, Novak (our most reliable scorer), Cooke, Evans, Clarke. These are all starters.

This club needs stability, not uncertainty. We are still suffering from the Rahic era, and now is finally the time to put it to bed. What happens if McCall went at the end of the year? A new manager again, new players again.
Everyone talks about us lacking an identity. Ryan and McCall and everyone else are trying to build an identity. You don’t build an identity by chopping and changing every few months. I thought Bowyer was the answer. A good guy, but sadly the wrong manager for this club.

We now have a solid and consistent base of staff from the CEO to the manager through to the coaches, physios, fitness manager, and down to the youth team where good things appear to be happening.

Some of the vitriol on here is painful to read and I’m considering deleting my account and leaving you all to it. Call me a happy clapper all you want, but these are my thoughts. Not saying I’m right, but I do think a lot of people have a very short sighted view of the whole situation and how we got here in the last 2 years. Now is the time to arrest the decline and move forward. They’ve chosen the way to do it, let’s come together and get behind it.

Cheers.

 

We need stability. Just hope club give him the tools to help him out now. (Director of Football, Scout & a budget)

He's got January & Summer transfer windows to build not only a team but a squad. Let's see what happens

 

City has been my team since my first game in 76 Get Rid and always will be, I have lived in Woking for the past 20 years so I have grown a real affinity with them as my 2nd team. I am an FA coach and going to offer to scout again for City (I have done this once before under Bowyers team) and will advise them on NL players they should keep an eye on - and I will state now we will not be a NL club next season

 

SHAMBLES!!!!

THIS CLUB IS A JOKE!!

 

Stuart’s quote from Tuesday of give me 18 months makes sense now

 

Won’t be Donaldson then

 

We get knocked out of the cup mate. Thought you would have known that. Basic stuff.

 

Yes exactly this! The amount of flak ryan got was absurd. Did any of those people listen to his interview on bbc leeds? Id bet that they haven't. He was saying what a lot of posters on here have been saying such as failing to get targets in the summer and that recruitment/scouting needs to be improved. Whilst i was a tad disappointed with the appointment he is saying all the right things. He will have my full support and hopefully other posters on here will do same!

 

Well today gets more bizarre with each announcement

 

Why for Gods sake why?? No other club will poach him. See how the season pans out then decide: Probably cost us a years compo when it all goes wrong as it inevitably will

 

Is there any other club who would extend the manager's contract when they're sitting 20th in the league? Let alone 20th in the bottom league!

I would be absolutely laughing my tits off if this was any other club. I'm just baffled when it's the one I support.

 

I’m sorry but this has to be one of the most bizarre decisions I’ve witnessed in my 40 years following this club.

It is absolutely sheer madness of the highest order! I just can not think of one reason why you would even discuss this, yes give him the season if you want but how can you possibly reward a manager with an extended deal when we are dropping down the league like a stone.

ABSOLUTELY CRAZY DECISION, it’s like Julian Rhodes is deliberately trying to stitch us up before walking away!

 

Think we need to have some action to back up words. That’s the issue. Plenty of angry fans out there who are fed up with the same old sound bites coming out of VP

we had rahic and Rupp saying quid tickets in the premier league in however many years. We’ve had we will get back to league one ASAP to we are now using this year as a stop gap.
We’ve had talks of competitive budgets to not selling top players to Vaughan’s departure and a squad who can’t even cover for injuries.

So yeah, talks cheap. Let’s see some action for a change

 

What an insane day down at VP towers.

 

I've got to break cover and come out from a long period of lurking on this one. I get the need for stability, I get we have the chance for a full squad cull in June, and I really get the fact that for some SM could be Peter Sutcliffe in disguise and would still be loved.

BUT sat where we are in the league, this is madness of the highest order. Its up there with appointing Collins. Stuart is currently failing, that might not be the case in May, in fact I hope it isn't. Anyone with an ounce of sanity would at least wait until we had pulled clear of where we are now.

That might be a month, it might be three, it might be May. But for gods sake wait

Right, I'm off back into the shadows again.

 

Thanks for popping in.

 

Now I realise where his "give me 18 months and I'll have this club back where they were" comment came from in his post match interview, I'd suggest he knew what was being offered.

 

Why are you behind the contract extension? He’s not performing out of his skin where someone will come in for him and he’ll bolt. He’s performing horrendously in each and every department. Why not leave his contract as it is - the end of the season, and review there? The extension makes zero sense at all, I’m not buying this stability b0l1ox either, there is no logic behind the extension, I’ve racked my brains and I can’t fathom it, never mind agree with it.