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Although Exeter had a lot of possesion , they were lucky their late goal was an equalizer not a consilation. We hit the woodwork twice ,the keeper made the worldy save and Threkald should have scored from the rebound when a yard out, but somehow hit the side netting.
We have the making's of a good team, but as we all seem to have said, the inability to take our chances will ultimately cost us.

 

I just think this negativity over Sparks is simply down to some average results. If we’d have taken the points we should have from games like Walsall, Bristol Rovers, Forest Green, most would be happy and not bothered about club politics. A bit harsh describing his appointments as mates from the pub, apparently Davide Longo is a fantastic sales guy. I note you didn’t want Sparks from the beginning so probably explains your negativity towards him now. Anyway time will tell, we can argue the pros and cons of Sparks all day but in the end it will come down to results on the pitch.

 

Only because his recruitment in the summer was an unmitigated disaster. DMH and Austin Samuels. Come on.

 

I can't believe I have been found out!

 

You’re not getting it.

You can have all the managers in the world but you need a style of play and a direction that’s over seen.

A manager is judged by results and needs to be sacked if the results are bad.

Adams comes in with his style. If he’s sacked then what? We rip up his style with another manager that plays totally different?

It’s not worked for us. Our board are clueless! It needs help!

 

Not sure how you got that out of the interview when Sparks' first 2 answers to listener asked questions covered the following:
- Club has recovered financially
- Club is now operating sustainably
- No need to rely on player sales or cup runs to cover shortfalls, all future "football fortune" will go entirely on football side
- Accounts will be published in March
- Money in budget available in January
- Possibility of SR/RS increasing budget if Adams thinks we need to

If anyone wants to hear, it's from 6m 30s to 10m - 40s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b3wv0d

 

what relevance do assets have apart the ability to create debt using them as collateral ? If we owned the ground it would require a mortgage. Commercial mortgages are around 6% so would cost vastly more than our rent. Do you even know what rent we pay for use of the top quality facilities at woodhouse grove ? Less than the mortgage on our own training ground I would wager.

do you own the land your car wash is on ? Do you spend more than your business' income ? The future of football below the premier league is self sustainability. Ultimately all booms lead to bust and consistently spending more than you have will result in two things, the owner pulling the plug or administration.

does your one track mind not compute that having been bust four times already, a fifth time would lead to more than the standard 12 point penalty

 

I reckon Fordy has caught more in his nets today than a French fishermen in English waters!!!

Great stuff @Fordy117

 

Using 6%, which is about right for a 75% loan to value commercial mortgage and a loan of £3,750,000 on a 25 year term, the payments would be £18,000 per month on interest only (so still need to find £3,750,000 in 25 years to pay off the loan - effectively meaning another £5,000 per month needs to be put away for a "repayment vehicle") or £24,200 per month on a repayment mortgage.

Still cheaper than the rent @Fordy117 ? And this does not allow for the requirement for a deposit.

Or alternatively on what planet do you seriously expect that Rupp would/ should stump up £5,000,000 to buy the ground out of the goodness of his own heart to save a self sustainable club £350,000 a year in rent ?

Football might not be a profitable business but it's also not altruism. Get real.

 

You are the one who is clueless if you think spending £5million on a piece of land worth next to nothing (other than as a football ground) will increase the value of said club by £5 million. Even more so if you think Rupp would then be able to sell for £5 million more.

Bradford City FC only survived the Edin Rahic debacle due to a loan of £1,8 million from Rupp to cover the losses it made in 2019, a loan that is interest free (unlike the near 10% interest Lawn charged) and of which there are no plans to repay the loan. Effectively that means Rupp has already put £5million of his own money into the club. Without Rupp we would still have Captain Clueless as at least joint owner.

No-one wants to buy this football club, no-one is going to buy the ground, no-one is going to lend us the money for an expensive training ground, no-one is going to fund one when we have a perfectly good one.

Watch the program on Macclesfield. Rob Smethurst bought Moss Rose for £500,000, presumably it was so cheap because the cost of dismantling the ground would exceed it's value as it was being sold as a football ground with no planning permission.

If you think that anyone out there, with clean money at least, is going to ride in on white horse and throw money at the club (the way Hoyle did at Huddersfield before he saw sense) then you are going to be banging your drum longer than Owain Wynn Evans.

 

Our revenue is higher than the rest of the league too. The ground situation needs to be resolved, but its not the reason we don't progress. Incompetence is the reason why we don't progress.

 

Ross County 2 promotions
Plymouth Argile promoted
Morecambe promoted
And all with finacial limitations

 

That comment is so frightening but so true, what makes it worse is he put his trust and money on a no mark who could sell sand to Arabs.
I'm not writing this season off (I have money on it) but if we don't achieve promotion many die hard Bradford City fans will have to question where do we go from here, Rome wasn't built in a day sounds familiar but many are going to question how much of an appetite does he have for running a football club with minimum input from the owner.

 

No! It's just pointless and boring.

Shite owner ! Shite CEO!

 

just seemed a strange question to send in when it hadn’t been suggested by anyone unless the reason is to moan after the fact when it isn’t asked

 

What an intelligent reply,not surprising from you. You hated Mason and wanted him out,you despise Rhodes and now you despise Sparks. Common theme here.

 

You forgot to add brilliant commercial acumen. I was commenting at the game on Saturday how virtually every surface around the ground was now sponsored, even when we get a corner a sponsorship message comes up on the scoreboard. We haven't finished this season yet so its harsh to judge him until its over. If we are no where near the play offs then criticism will be more than justified.
Also the marketing department is now on point.

 

But someone actually has gone and done just what you have said wouldn't happen. He is called Stefan Rupp.

 

Sacked every manager he has appointed in the last 12 months. Pointing to the wrong decisions in the first place.
Sacking a head of recruitment less than a year into the job who was working with a budget set by him or the owner.
Installing a new fitness/medical team only to see no improvement in players fitness
Promising a focus on youth only to abandon that after 2 months of a new manager who he cherry picked who was totally against his philosophy
Signing players on deadline day the manager didn’t even want and upsetting him less than a month after appointing him.

you can have your sales boost but I’m a fan of Bradford City and want to see us do well on the pitch and move up the leagues. I couldn’t give two shining shites over the fact we have more sponsors than last year or seats without bird shit on in the sunwin ffs. I don’t care if we take more money on a match day. At Bradford city he is CEO of all and makes all footballing decisions and so far every key one he has made he has got wrong. His track record in less than two years is woeful.

if he goes to a bigger club he would need to have no involvement in the footballing side and rightly so.