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Rhodes is old deadwood and we need fresh ideas. Rupp is at least sticking his cash in, for now, no idea on his long term plans though, unless I’ve missed something.

 

Me thinking posh mate..

Yeah, the little plane will do

 

I can see the logic in that reasoning.

 

A tad drastic perhaps?

 

I don’t like Bowyers football or football that requires a target man, you’re missing the point. At least people like you have been consistent you didn’t like Parkys football and stated so and didn’t defend him, where as those that did then suddenly turn on Bowyer for playing the exact same style I find bizarre.

 

Unfortunately with other people’s money

 

I'm not having that. Parky's football was ugly, no question, but we got the ball forward and created chances. We had direct wingers and overlapping fullbacks and were a genuine threat from set pieces.

Bowyer on the other hand, is reluctant to play the wingers he has, or if he does they're out of position. The fullbacks are instructed to not go past halfway. We're useless from set pieces, even with the height we have in the squad and the midfield produce next to nothing going forwards.

The biggest difference between the two, is Parky had an attacking plan. A plan that was ugly and not my preference, but a plan that still produced results and some entertainment nonetheless. Bowyer has no plan going forwards.

 

You're having a laugh if you dont think Meredith was an overlapping fullback under Parky. Just because his end product was better under McCall doesn't mean he wasnt constantly getting beyond Reid and Reach under Parky.

Both managers' styles are ugly, no debate. Both are long ball merchants, but that doesn't mean you have to treat them the same. There's also no question that Bowyer's approach and style is much much worse. Bowyer is more negative, defensive minded, cautious and has less ability to coach a team in the attacking third. It's as simple as that.

 

Things that should be not acceptable to the fans. Collectively we should say deal with the picth and ticketing or go sing for ST sales.

The pitch, we've known about the drainage for decades, but here we are 2020 in one of it's worst phases.
Ticketing, it's just pathetic compared to many tiny sub 1000 fanbase clubs. WTF can't I choose a seat, buy a ticket and then download it to my phone?
Publicity of games, there is none and club "noise" came and went with BFG.

IF we go up, I'll buy an ST but that'll mean I put less cash into the club, some will be happy about that, their minds will be at rest once I have an ST again, says a lot about our fans "suck it up no matter what" mindset.

 

What, so you're saying his end product did not improve under McCall? Just like McMahon and Marshall didn't improve their end product under him either?

 

And then bankrupt the club with his share dividend payout.

 

I thought the 4-2-3-1 coincided with our best spell of the season, Donaldson has been a loss. That said, if you have a striker with the qualities of Vaughan then as a manager your job is to get the best out of him. I'm very dubious as to whether Bowyer can and this has been proved with the return of Doyle who's had next to nothing to work with. I actually want Bowyer to succeed, like any other manager that holds office at VP, but if it carries on without what I see as improvement then he can walk come the end of the season.

 

Some only see his last season in charge, he delivered everything he said he would up until that point. I guess we should have just plodded along the decades like Rochdale or someone similar.

 

Might have been very different if not for ITV Digital going bust.

 

Well we’ll see at the end of the season, but when Bowyer has a target man we weren’t doing bad and Wood was getting in plenty of crosses a stat which was mentioned on Twitter. It’d have been interesting if Parky had key players out which were instrumental to his style of play as Bowyer has had for 3 months, something you’re happy to easily over look.

 

It wasn't difficult to like the man Dennis the times I heard him speak were usually fans forums which he did more regular than any other chairman I can remember, Stafford was good at PR but Geoffrey could sell sand to Arabs and had most at the meeting in the palm of his hand.

 

But at the time most didn't care, he had delivered most/all Bradford City fans dream.

 

It's been done to death on this forum as we can attest too Dennis, but others were culpable it's just that the sh!t has always stuck on Geoffrey