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Rupp isn't totally shite, but I do think he's been badly advised.

As a non-football man (and by non-football, we can say 'not legitimately interested'), you would have thought he'd go out any hire some real serious advisors.

I wouldn't go into the helicopter seat business, which I know nothing about, without hiring an expert in the field. If that initial expert turned out to be a wannabe like Rahic, I'd then make double sure the next guy I hired was, in fact, a real expert.

But Rupp hasn't done that, possibly because he hired a bean counter in Rhodes (which is disrespectful, but it is what it is), and his next move therefore was entirely budget-oriented with the appointment of Sparks as CEO.

Unfortunately, after Rahic he's made all the wrong moves based on (no doubt) bad advice from people within the club at the time who thought it would all be hunky dory and worth a go. But we're not really in a position to 'see if things work out', we need to be more aggressive and get this club up the leagues and into the hands of someone who gives a toss.

However, all of this is easily counterbalanced by the fact Rupp is capable and willing to finance the club sensibly. We're not getting any of the 'overspend' guff we got from Lawn when he continually backtracked on spending hard earned cup money and that generated from player sales, so while we're not bullying everyone with our financial might, we DO seem to be running a bit smoother.

All the nonsense comes directly from Sparks, not Rupp.

 

Agree with most of what you’ve said but can’t agree with this statement. In my opinion we’ve been the better side in most of the games we’ve played. But for better finishing, we’d probably have another 10 points. All ifs and buts I know, but we’re not that far away.

 

He was at the Forest Green game, but I cant see Adams wanting any sort of input into the way he runs the football side, very much like Phil Parkinson.

 

Only time McCall should be at city again is for the half time draw ! How many chances does one man can get a club ? You wonder why we’re crap when people come up with these sort of suggestions

 

To be fair he does catch a fair few whoppers on here though, literally jumping in the net before he's thrown the bait off the boat.

 

I wouldn’t say Adams is inexperienced at all. He’s probably the most successful manager we’ve employed and he’s experienced what clubs need to get promoted. He’s already sorted the scouting role out, although we won’t know how successful that is until January. As @Bronco has said, I can’t see Adams working under a DoF at all, particularly another inexperienced one.

 

Good point about January to May is a better time to bring loans into the club, sounds like this could happen.

 

Just before he wipes his a@@e on them

 

Just had a listen. Bottom line = don't expect anything different in how we approach our transfer business in January, than how we approached the summer. So we'll be in this league for the foreseeable.

 

A club that doesn’t think of finance will fall

 

West Ham don't own their ground, not stopped them progressing.

Do not see the obsession with owning the ground and training facilities

 

Here you go @Faithful Bantam

 

Rome wasn't built in a day. But various other clubs manage to go from being utterly shit, to pushing top 3 within then space of a summer. And without putting their club at risk of bankruptcy. Look at Port Vale this season as an example.

 

I think the saying all wind and p@@@ spring to mind

 

No, that makes perfect sense and is far too obvious. There must be some kind of behind the scenes power struggle or conspiracy behind it!

 

Rupp is based in Germany and unlike Rahic doesn’t claim to know football that’s why he employs Sparks to make the football decisions on his behalf. Sparks is doing well but he won’t be at City long as he will go on to better things.

 

Pre asked questions are the only way to run a radio forum successfully as usually with a free for all you either get someone who won’t get off the airwaves waffling on, or long silence when nobody rings in and the presenter then asks his own questions while waiting for someone to call.