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And took a massive gamble on a player that has been plagued with injury throughout his career and surprise, surprise, has been injured for the majority of his time with us.

 

nobbut just....

 

I didn’t mention Rupp.
He has presided over this catastrophe.
However he has funded it.

The players aren’t fit to wear the shirt and deserve all of the brickbats coming their way.

 

Were down, thank god for that.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

It’s like they wanted to go down?

 

In our entire history, there has only been 5 instances of which we have lost more than 25 times in a season. We could be looking at our joint worst record ever, with 30 defeats over the course of a season.

 

#bcafc in 2003/4 in the old Division One we lost 30 matches finishing on 36 points

 

***WINNER***

 

Walsall and Wimbledon our fellow bedfellows then as they currently are now....

 

I suspect they were the only options we had left. It's obvious they weren't first or second choices. We weren't a club that players were busting a gut to join. Almost certainly a combination of the Rahic fiasco/reputation, our league position and limitations on funds. I feel fairly sure that Clarke and Butterfield only came because of the prior connections.
Conjecture but it doesn't make sense that a manager identifies the weak areas yet ends up addressing none of them.

 

You could be correct that's why IMO having a owner who has no interest in what the business is about isn't particularly a good thing, who knows if he did the above and wouldn't finance any more, where as a football man may have said we needed Payne and also needed to back Hopkin with the other identified targets and that might have given us a better chance of staying in league one.
Because I cant see him making money from league two football even if we do get promoted.

 

Thanks it seems more this season but can't argue with the facts.

 

Or, if it was a financial choice between keeping Payne or using that money to strengthen in other areas, a football man may have decided on the latter. With hindsight, this would have been the more sensible option but at the time, a non footballing man put all his eggs in one basket.

 

Just goes to show anything can happen.

Said it at the time but, We should have followed the Millwall blue print when they lost in the play off final. Kept the squad together and added 4 or 5 real quality players the manager wanted.

Instead we messed around and signed shite and McCall was sacked 6 months later. Now we are in league two without even getting above 40 points. Awful

 

It’s a killer isn’t it?

Imagine we sign Payne instead of McCarten?

We get the lad at the back from Millwall who McCall took to Scunthorpe etc?

 

OK just me and @Petrov then .

 

In all honesty, we have got worse as the season has gone on irrelevant of the manager. We had a very small purple patch but in general, this is true. Our stats have got worse, and worse and worse outwith December when gods knows what happened.

 

The team is too bad to win that! They'll finish 23rd instead!

 

Is football a results business?

Even on sky it said Bradford who have now lost 7 in a row! At no point it said because of the players!

Managers like in any business get judged on results or are you trying to change how the whole game operates?

Thing is if he isn't getting judged on results then what's he doing here? We might as well of hired him in the summer. Another fine mess by Rhodes but hopefully it works out because this appointment is on Rhodes head.