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@Bronco didn't see them. Goes home and Away, crowd singing boring boring Bowyer and your football is shite, your football is shite Gary Bowyer your football is shite...

Still wasn't enough for him to see or hear what was going on.

Gary Bowyer dreadful manager! One of the worst the club has had.

 

Rhodes isn't going to help Rupp get his money back. Rhodes needs to go but is he what we need in times like this?

I don't know.. i don't rate him at all.

 

If I go home and away ( which is correct) why wouldnt I see them.

 

Think you might get confused on where to sit. Bradford matches you sit in the the away end and Bradford away matches you sit in the home end ..

Everyone, could see Bowyer was shocking barring you and @Park bantam(no shock with him)

 

Mate, i laughed at that post. Had to laugh or I would cry.

Vaughan fell out with Bowyer because he's football was dire. The fall out was back in October as well. Donaldson went missing.

Reeves played 2 decent games then got Bowyered. Shocking manager.

 

In the world of @Park bantam and @Bronco under Bowyer we were great under Bowyer. Don't know what they were watching but it wasn't football but Gary Bowyer was one awful manager. Has to be up in the top 5 worst ever in the history of the club.

Just pain awful! Shame Rhodes didn't sack him in Oct/Nov. He had a bigger budget then Fleetwood Town and wasted it. Played some of the worst football I have seen and was so cocky and rude to reporters. The man was a disgrace to this club. He didn't suit us at all.

 

If AOC and Vaughan want to leave then let them go free up wages. Agree Guthrie made zero impact and looked disinterested. He needs to make an impact or he won’t be in the EFL much longer. That’s an incentive.
TBH none on that list fill me with much excitement. Hopefully Stuart has a free hand to use his influence and contacts in a positive way. Suggestions of a Moneyball approach may work however how much patience would our fan base have for players who are a work in progress. See Wood who made many errors before improving latterly. Our fans expect to win the league so a balanced approach is required to manage the here and now as well as the future.

 

Do you genuinely believe they will just walk away from a bona fida contract without any recourse ?

 

I think with so many football clubs on the brink the PFA are going to need to change and allow footballers to be made redundant like so many other people are

 

taking the 85/86 season as example 15 played more than 10. This season it was 16 played more than 10, so the core number hasn’t really changed it is the more fringe players that now get tried and binned. 9 fringe players in 85/86, 19 this season.

 

Probably some formula will be devised for the likes of Salford and say the Div 1 relegated teams who will have players on above average wages. Ideally it will be one that not quite alleviate all the extra costs of those players. The trick is doing enough so that the affected clubs will vote for a wage cap.

Other issues that will need to sorted are such things as signing-on payments and bonuses. If they are not covered that some clubs will just use them to bypass a salary cap.

The final area I think that will need sorting is loans. These could also be used to bypass salary caps. Personally I think that Loans should be suspended for at least the next season. There will be plenty of out of work footballers who would willingly sign short-term deals to cover shortages without giving employment to an already in work footballer.

 

No.

 

My original note was more in hope than expectation. Talking of hope at least Akpan is off the bill.

 

And there's also a bit more rotation in the core players -- back in 85/6 there were 9 with 40+ apps in the league alone; last season we had 4, and this season we would have had at most 4 (again, all just in the league). Even Parky's promotion side only had 4 such, though a couple more just missed out. All the same, I would prefer to see a greater number of core players making up the bulk of the total apps.

I wonder what the salary breakdowns as compared to income would be, then and now, for this core/fringe split. Add loan fees and expectations to be contributing to loan players' salaries, to the greater number of fringe players, and I would expect that, erlatively speaking, the current fringe would take up more of the money available than the old fringe.

RCB

 

Retained list not announced yet. McCall waiting for confirmation that season is officially over before announcing. So, Akpan still with us, for now

 

don’t their contracts expire at end of the week anyway so without signing a new short term deal they wouldn’t be able to play anyway.