Most liked posts in thread: Open Letter to Ryan Sparks

Get to his spam and your his new CEO replacement

 

Cool story bro.

 

When is that fans forum??
Read that to him at that

 

You'd have got less pelters if this hadn't been your first ever post.

 

See you at the Latvian Club on Monday then?

 

As first post go its on a par with that idiot who wanted to fight everybody who questioned the Spanish trip.

 

It’s quoted by plenty of fans,so some people actually think it’s a reasonable response to any criticism of the club.

 

You’ll just get the generic response that all officials who aren’t up to the job give.
I started this job to get us promoted.
I think I’m the best person for the job and still think we are capable of that aim.
The owner has put faith in me to achieve promotion and that is still my aim.
Nobody ever said it would be easy but we need everybody pulling in the same direction.
I’m a fan as well and this hurts me just as much as it does you.

Etc.etc.etc.


That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t send it.

I’m tempted to send it tonight.

 

The probable best outcome would be for Rupp to sell up. Worth noting this will take time to process through, so we're probably looking at this season and probably next being written off until its complete, and the new owners being able to implement their strategy.

I'd also think about the following -

1) If Sparks goes who does Rupp replace him with seeing that he gave Rhodes the job of finding his own replacement?
2) Will he do the same and trust Sparks find his replacement. If so would Sparks find someone less qualified and set up to fail, in order to say "look I was doing a decent job?"
3) Based on his current level of involvement, do you believe Rupp couldn't identify a suitable (football experienced) CEO if he saw one?
4) Would Rupp actually base himself in the UK to run things if Sparks walks?

I think the best case scenario is for Rupp to seek assistance from a Baldwin or Mason, and insist that a head of football is brought in immediately. This would then give him time to sell the club without hopefully causing too much damage during the process. Things can't continue in this downward spiral of failure. Something has to change.

 

I think the commercial side of things are/ were going well which may be down to him, but what does he know about football. As it stands there's no one in the organisation above GA that can set out the strategy of how we progress on the field.

 

Serious question, maybe should go in another thread. I don't pay much attention to other clubs, but what do we assume is going wrong at Salford? Seriously wealthy owner, "football men" at the club, seemingly willing to pay good wages. They seem in as bad or worse state than us

 

They've been through a large cycle of managers too. I was listening to Gary Neville on one of the Sky podcasts he does (or it may have been the Overlap programme), and he talked about how they'd made mistakes in the transfer market by panicking and reacting when they missed out on their primary and secondary targets. Basically, he was admitting that the lack of patience and adherence to a plan was costing them. I think they'll stick with Robinson and give him a good go. I'd have liked him here tbh.

 

Great letter should be the attached info to a petition quite easily gain 10k signatures if promoted well

 

When you put it like that, we owe captain admin a big thanks don’t we :-( Grooming him for the role, saving the club a few hundred grand by not employing a proper CEO, then Rupp not supporting Sparks after as we needed.

Typical City, doing it on the cheap, yet we are millions worse off in reality due to our regression under an incompetent leader.

We’re still employing Trueman, a failed manager, and prob only just finished off paying off McCall and Adams! Paying more staff out of the club than in it!

 

Was this hinted at during the fans thingy last week?

 

He’s since deleted the tweet Dave.

 

A very wise move, bang out of order, for all those who may not like Ryan you'd hope they wouldn't go to these sort of extremes to get him out.

 

Serious question. Is it well documented - I thought it was just a rumour?

 

I think its nonsense.

Don't get me wrong, I think Sparks motivation will be heavily driven by self preservation, and I'd believe that he may advocate against a sale, but to withhold that info from Rupp? Doesn't seem plausible to me for 2 reasons:

1. He's spoken openly (recently) about interest, so he's not exactly being coy
2. To withhold such info would be Gross Misconduct. He'd be fired on the spot, and be unemployable in anything like a professional capacity again. Not least of which, open to legal proceedings from Rupp.