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  1. WilsdenBantam

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    Beer and wank if it happens.
     
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  2. WilsdenBantam

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    Do you believe them? I know you believed them when they said Vaughan wasn’t leaving the day before he did.
     
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  3. Faithful Bantam

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    Should’ve known better. This club has no real desire to embrace ambition or forward thinking.
     
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  5. Biker

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    This article is a real breath of fresh air for me on how its possible to run a modern club.

    ‘Pale, male and stale’:grinning: sound familiar?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54911260

    would you welcome more women in prominent roles at the club? Even as a CEO.
     
  6. Biker

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    I’m not defining success on colour, or gender far from it, I think it’s just a great example at Brentford of moving away from the stereotypes in football and doing things a bit different in terms of the structure and dynamics, that’s got to be a good thing and seems to be working for them.
     
  7. Rogered Tart

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    The product might be unique in football but the principles are the same, you're the captain of the ship. How and where that ship sails is completely down to your instruction.
     
  8. bantam2708

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    Media man to Chief exec in less than 3 years. Only at Bradford City.
     
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  9. Idlebantam

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    You have heard its Fordy too then!
     
  10. Hoochy-Min

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    If it is Ryan Sparks then I hope the club don't announce him tomorrow. Give the lad a fighting chance at least.

    I think he'd do a decent job to be honest. He's shadowed JR for a while so knows the ropes. He could bring his own identity to it too. He's clearly ambitious. People are talking about a proven CEO but can we as a L2 club in this climate compete on salary terms with other organisations? I doubt it. Short of a Huw Jenkins type takeover then Ryan might be the best current option.

    It would certainly be a baptism of fire for the lad and he'd sink or swim. I've got a strange confidence that he'd be ok actually, I don't think he's the yes man that some make him out to be.
     
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    I know exactly what situation the club is in on and off the field, I've been banging on about it for years. Look, it doesn't matter what CEO we put in charge, until we have an owner who actively wants to move the club forward everything we do is fire fighting. We are desperate for a new owner whos ambition is more than just to unrealistically get his investment back without actually having a plan of how to do it. Until that changes, every CEO and Manager will be working under what they presume to be orders from above without knowing what they are.
    We do need experience in the back room, wether that be owner or CEO. But I expect Sparks will take an interim role until a new owner is found.
     
  12. Mike Hunt

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    You said that yesterday.
     
  13. PlatinumChaosX

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    Let’s see what Sparks can do. Time will tell.
     
  14. bantam65

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    With quite possibly more goal scoring prowess!
     
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  15. Lancaster Bantam

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    The guy who ran the Twitter account now runs my football club could not write it. Omg
     
  16. How

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    Yeah we knew it was coming in and did nothing about it to get ahead. We knew for months. We missed our chance this summer. Now it’s too late. That’s on the club
     
  17. Keefly Bantam

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    I can just imagine you running around the room in an angry rage kicking the midgets and wringing your shammy dry.
     
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  18. Dennis

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    He has a real opportunity in the near future to show everybody that he doesn't just talk the talk and deserves a chance to prove himself further. The transfer window opens shortly and given the holes in our squad, I'd like to see them plugged early on in the window to get the most value out of the transfers. If it's a repeat of last season when 3 transferees arrived on the last day of the window - Novak from Scunny, Middleton from Rangers and Guthrie from the Dog & Duck (incidentaly all of them surprise recruits to Bowyer who was sacked 24 hrs later) - then it will demonstrate to me that the club under Sparks' direction won't be a lot different to the club during Rhodes' tenure.
     
  19. JonButterfield

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    If we're not careful it won't just be 'someone to look at the non league market', we'll ALL be doing a very deep exploration of National League
     
  20. bailiff bridge bantam

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    I bet he did his feckin Mavis impression for a bit of extra spark.Did it on every other show he was on.
     
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