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I am sure someone has the answer, but in my 62 years supporting City l can't remember so many league defeats in a season.

 

Possibly, or maybe once he'd forked out to keep Payne for the rest of the season he moved the goalposts in terms of what funding he was prepared to offer for new players?

 

I believe if most fans were honest they thought the same.

 

It was clear to all what we needed in January and it sounded like Hopkin thought he would get the money. Keeping Payne seemed a must at the time, with hindsight it’s cost us dearly. Something else must have changed. Perhaps Rupp found out just what a mess Rahic had really done with the finances and that suddenly made him reluctant to commit even more? When Rupp said he would put it all right he may not have understood just how much it was going to cost him. Bringing in more midfielders instead of what was required was just bizarre and perhaps Hopkin felt he was let down and he would be the one left to take the blame for relegation.

 

Be glad when this season is over and we can wipe the slate clean and start again.

One thing that’s annoyed me is Rahic went ages ago and the players are still hiding behind it and getting a free ride and every post comes back to Rahic. At least next season we can face the players up and they can have no excuses.

How a O’Connor was allowed to continue playing for this club after Portsmouth is beyond me. He was lucky a new manager came in when he did.

The rest have had a free ride since and it’s shocking. Not one can come out with any credit for me.

 

I'm gutted about our relegation, but yes I try and garner positivity because that's better than remaining pessimistic.

I wasn't positive throughout this entire season though, you'll of seen plenty of negativity from myself during Edin's dictatorship, but now he has gone the damage is done. We must remain positive whilst the club start rebuilding. It'll probably be a tough few years to get back to where we were, but I intend to remain positive throughout and give the club my full support.

COME ON CITY!!

 

In solidarity Ronnie, but you do know if you put in caps on tinternet it is classed as shouting that is why ppl think you are losing it, lol

 

Been a long time
Coming

 

Officially relegated.
Here's to League Two Champions next season!

 

who is Hopkins?

 

I do apologise my pedantic friend.

 

At least we still have a club to support.

 

what about the signings of NKP, chicksen, mcgowan, reeves? then there was mcnulty and harris vuckic. some of our signings have been poor whether it was mccall, rahic, abbott, collins, drury or hopkin that brought them in.

 

They present side are by the most underachieving

 

Rupp shares none of the blame? Really?

 

I keep hearing he has funded this season but has he actually? Debt around £2m according to JR earlier in the year. If he funded it why such debt?
@Dennis made a compelling argument around Rupp, the covering of debt and companies House. If this was the case, why did wetherbywhaler say it would take us 5 years to recover?

Agree on the latter part mind.

 

The way Hopkin was speaking weeks before the window opened gave a lot of people (myself included), false hope. He was incredibly gung ho about it, stating not only that he had targets in mind, but that he was going to sign them up at the very start of the window and have them ready to go in the match day squad for New Year's Day. Of course, that all turned out to be a load of codswallop and made me start to question Hopkin's credibility.

 

Could the none signings be because Stefan would not fund them after he'd seen what money he was losing with regards the so called quality Rahic & Co brought in during the summer.

 

I think it was Hopkin decision, but I doubt he did it blind. Maybe Rupp told him this is how much we can spend, if you want I will sign Payne, but x is left. However, don’t know why Hopkin signed more of the same, better we sign none, although they won’t cost us anything further, but still!

I would prefer Rupp et al to tell us straight.

 

I'm not sure Rahic would have been happy with that situation @How (I'm 100% behind you) the more we look back at what happend the more annoyed I get that Rahic actually thought he could keep going against logical thinking and still keep the club going forward.