Most liked posts in thread: Ryan Sparks (New Poll As At 28 March 2024)

I wonder if he and Stuart will continue to lie to the fans and be caught out as we’ve seen so far this season? Vaughan, budget, ambitions, etc

 

I'll tell you what will make him an excellent CEO: someone who can stick the ball in the back of the net on a regular basis.

 

The fact that we are even mentioning the fact that we need a proper fitness coach is worrying.FFS this is a fitness based profession that we are talking about.Should be an absolute pre requisite that we have one in place.Even more so if you go down the small squad route.

 

Look at the replies to the season ticket post from the club. As someone has said, tin eared and tin pot.

Absolute silence since the Harrogate game waiting for it to blow over then back at it begging for season ticket money as if nothing at all is wrong.

 

Agreed. Its so frustrating. He can pay Sparks’ severance pay or lose close to millions from lost ST revenue, which he can plug himself in the budget, or leave unplugged, to effectively kill next season too.

Im amazed this bloke has been a successful businessman. Comes across as a clueless, disinterested muppet here.

does he really expect to get his money back after making so many dreadful decisions?

 

Me and the wife have barely been since December, think we've been to two home games from memory since. We haven't renewed yet and don't really fancy going again this season. We probably will, I think we need to by the 8th to keep our seats? But I have a similar mindset that if not much changes as the season progresses, that might be it for a while.

 

You can have your own stand.

 

I can't believe 30% of people are still in either the yes or undecided camp.

 

Not sure what people are not getting here:
We will still be in League Two at the end of this season regardless of results to the end of the season, again!
We might be lucky to still be in League Two at the end of next season.
If we aren't then it's bye bye BCFC as we cannot "sustain" NL football
We need change, or a change of attitude, at the top - end of
We all (and that includes RSv and SR) should be under no illusions of the perilous position our beloved football club is in right now - it really ain't pretty

 

How is Blinds Direct a major sponsor?

 

In a previously well run and forward thinking club this may have been seen as a progressive appointment. In Bradford City's case though it feels like yet another thing that's done on the cheap and if I was Ryan I'd already be feeling like I'd been set up to fail.

If he does the impossible and actually turns the club around in the short term he should be off at the first flutter of eyelashes from elsewhere because unless there's a huge change in the apathy from the bloke above him he'll only ever be treading water until the inevitable down turn.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if this contract extension has been agreed for a while and Rhodes thinks fans will be so happy with the announcement that Stuart is signed up that will deflect attention and anger away from the baffling appointment of Sparks.

The sad thing is he might not be wrong.

 

Yeah but it's a sport that's primarily led by sportsmen who know enough science to manage their own careers, then suddenly they're coaching and managing a squad and you need ACTUAL science-led approaches led by actual scientifically-minded people, and that's a bit of a jump.

Absolutely right that it's crazy, though, but that's where every leader at every club should be putting that in place first and foremost, and not letting fitness coaches come and go with each passing manager as if they're an assistant manager or a goalkeeping coach part of a certain manager's travelling team. Clubs themselves should be equipped with their own staff in those areas, and if Stuart doesn't think he needs it eating up part of his budget because he played until he was 40 and played through the pain barrier because he was hard, then more fool him and the people that let him make that choice, frankly.

The manager is NOT the club, but at Bradford City it pretty much feels like that's the case, and it's a catastrophe every time a manager leaves and a new manager is unable to do a better job, and THAT'S a key reason. Because Bradford City doesn't have everything in place that it needs in place from a Director of Football down a fitness coach. Just because other badly run clubs also don't necessarily have a DoF or a fitness coach is not an excuse for not gaining an advantage over them by employing a full and rigorous team before you even think about employing a manager.

 

Changed my vote from uncertain to no.

 

So he took over when we were 20th. If he leaves now he can claim on his CV that he improved our league position over his time in charge

 

Changed from uncertain to no. If he had learnt from past mistakes then fair enough, but to keep rolling the dice and gamble with the league status of our club, is unforgivable. Admit you're out of your depth and either get help or resign. Pride comes before a fall...

 

Changed my vote to no from uncertain.

In reality though, the top man shoulders the ultimate blame