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Rupp & Sparks Out?

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by JonButterfield, Nov 12, 2023.

  1. knaresborough bantam

    knaresborough bantam Fringe Player
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    Let's get the banners made for the Wimbledon home game calling for Sparks & Rupp to get out of our club
    No matter what the price we refuse to buy season tickets
    Fans pay to attend & buy ticket game by game
    It will tell them the truth less than 8,000 turn up each game
    Rupp if he has the guts to turn up may get the message we don't want him at our club
    Blackpool fans did it Reading fans are doing it
    Other clubs have forced there owners to sell up and are in higher division than us and are not a sinking ship like we are
     
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  2. Jordan

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    I reckon there will be 11-12K who just renew through habit. But if 3000 adults don't renew at £200 a pop, that's £600K we'd be down on..... or, what we'll likely make from Lewis and Young combined sales :sob: not that i'm half expecting the sales to cover the losses or anything.....:confused:

    Me and the missus will both likely renew, but we've both said we cant really be arsed anymore. We got a golden retriever puppy a few months back, and just watching him run around in the woods or a park on a Saturday becoming a muddy mess is far more is far more entertaining than leaving my car on a ropey looking street in Manningham for 3 hours to watch up limp to a 1-1 draw.
     
  3. Sergio Pinto III

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    I never drive in, always the train so I can have a few around Bradford before/after. TBH, that has been my appeal and the football has come secondary for a few years now but catching up with mates and having a few beers is losing its appeal because of what comes after.

    Im utterly fed up.
     
  4. Onside

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    As I have said as things stand we won’t renew, but I suspect we are open to persuasion on the pitch or elsewhere change at the top. Your puppy sounds adorable. We have kitty cats who enrich our lives no end.
     
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  5. Jordan

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    Yeah we looked forward to a catch up at half time just to chat nonsense in the group more than the game. It's a proper shambles at the minute, and over the last few years I suppose with odd moments of hope sprinkled in.

    No idea how they can make people invested again, as the fans are starting to vote with their feet.
     
  6. Jordan

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    I'm on the fence for the first time in a long time on renewing. Adorable is one way to put it..... he's 6 month now and has fully started getting his attitude these last few days :laughing: Pets are the best.
     
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  7. Rhino66

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    For the first time in a long while I really do fear for the future of our beloved BCFC. No ambition, no plan and no direction. ST sales likely to be well down for 24/25. Only going to carry on going one way with these two in charge and still not remotely considering reinvesting in a ST for next season
     
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  8. Onside

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    Yes that gorgeous cat you can see on my profile is a right princess, she has my male cat eating out of her hand.
     
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  9. Bantam Man

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    TIME TO GET OUT THE
    RUPP OUT & SPARKS OUT BANNERS
     
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  10. Ulysses S Grant

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    Wouldn't disagree with you on this. It might make the two happy clappers I go with realise that what I tell them is true, we are in a mess and there is mass unrest, and it's not just the "noisy ones" who post on forums.
     
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  11. SimonW

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    Isn't it a little easy to blame them though? Surely your issues this season have been a combination of tactical and recruitment and with recruitment how much of that was impacted by Mark Hughes input? If MH had a big say in it you can't really expect GA to turn things around this season until he has the chance to shape the squad as he wants which unless you do get rid of Young quickly is unlikely to happen until the summer
     
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  12. Ulysses S Grant

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    If that were the case for one manager I would agree, but this is a pattern that has repeated itself over the last 4/5 managers.
     
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  13. bantamlad92

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    Hughes was only a tiny part of a problem which stems from a much higher echelon than Hughes. The overall running of the club is stagnant/regressive and there are no signs of improvement under many years of the same stewardship, regardless of manager/playing personnel.

    Sparks is merely hanging on to a position he's under-qualified in, which flatters him and which boosts his ego for as long as possible. He will be in that position so long as he is appeasing the owner whose aim is to break even or turn profit, which he will do by selling our best players, not investing and sitting in the bottom half of League Two indefinitely, until he's bought out for £10m. It is a stagnant operational circle.
     
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  14. Bigrod

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    It’s 6.00 a.m!


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    Again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again:scream:
     
  15. Onside87

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    We shouldn’t even have to ask for Sparks to go. He should resign! He's picking up no doubt a very nice salary and is utterly failing. I don’t care about the commercial side as we are massively failing on the football side. Added to the fact he’s a liar and only ever appears to talk absolute rubbish.
    I think he will have been all over the Wright loan too. Bringing in a player that the fans thought highly of. Most of us can see through his crap.
    His position for me is untenable and he should resign.
     
  16. Bigrod

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    Whatever the performance of the club, then are you totally serious when you say he should resign?

    He would be mad, unless he had another job to go to. Sparks like everyone else will have bills to pay, commitments based on a reliable income.

    If he is sacked, he would get some form of compensation, which would give him time to sort his financial affairs out.
     
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  17. Dratsab taf

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    Nope we have categorically gone nothing but backwards in seven years. Across the majority if not all that time there are two common denominators, Stefan Rupp and Ryan Sparks
     
  18. ahar964

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    I know I've done this before, but if anyone on here has anything in their business we could use, it might save on costs....


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  19. Sunnybank

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    Fordy won't be happy you're using his car wash to try get Rupp out
     
  20. bantamlad92

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    There's absolutely no chance on earth that Sparks gets a job in a position as high as he's in now, certainly not straight from his current position.

    Therefore, there's no chance on earth that Sparks resigns. He would effectively be demoting himself, and unless you're mega-rich or close to retirement, who would even do that.
     
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