Ryan Sparks

Oh stop bleating will you. RS said in that interview the club as fecked up in many ways. And he wants to reverse that.

Get off your high horse and get behind the new set up and stop going on and on about the past.

 

I suggest we see what happens in the next few weeks before judging sparky. He is going down the right route by taking applications and for the first time for a long time speaking and evaluating potential managers and taking soundings from others in football. He also recognises our short comings in scouting and has promised to set one up these are things people have been asking for. So we need to give him the benefit of the doubt until we see if he delivers. But he is an impressive interviewee

 

Bless. You have no idea yourself have you of what experience RS has of managerial negotiations in football or Rugby yet you assert he has no experience. RS said in that interview he has experience in being involved in managerial appointments, You just refuse to believe him. Why?

 

I'm not on a high horse, and you don't need to reply to every single post I make if you don't want to.

This is an unfair appointment. Ryan Sparks should not have to be in this position. It's ridiculous to expect him to achieve all that he has to in order to turn this club around. His appointment is a failure of leadership YET AGAIN, and I'm not ready for that to be considered one of the 'past mistakes', thank you.

Rupp and Rhodes failed massively in dumping this in Sparks' lap.

You obviously disagree and think it's a superb appointment. I guess we all see things quite differently. Nothing wrong with that, although it obviously offends you somehow.

 

Doesn’t it make sense to see what he does over the course of time before coming out with judgments like that

 

Once again your low estimations of Ryan are exposed. Why are you an expert in managerial appointments?

 

At last you see sense. Hallelujah.

 

I haven't judged Sparks, though. I've judged the appointment, as it appears, alongside all the data I have. It's an inexperienced chap walking into a hideous monstrosity of a job. If he succeeds, and I hope he does, it will be nigh-on Biblical. He'll probably have appointed three or four perfect staff members and addressed our myriad issues overnight just to stay in the EFL.

Keefly, I'm assuming you mean 'managerial' appointments as in managerial level, rather than football managers.

I'm not an expert.

But the last time we were SUCCESSFULLY appointing young, up-and-coming staff members to top positions, Kamara and then Jewell both walked into very well-defined hierarchies and worked within them. There's no doubt Kamara and Jewell both knew who the boss was and what he expected of them - allowing them to focus on a specific task at hand.

It would have been very nice had Sparks been afforded the same courtesy / privileged position. But he hasn't been given that. He's been given a ridiculous task.

 

All people like me, who have real doubts that can't be dismissed by flippant remarks from Keefly, can hope is that the situation is addressed as quickly as the one with Collins' appointment was if it's not working out.

And no. I don't mean Sparks leaving the club any time soon. But the top job, be it Director of Football or whatever else we want to call it, must go to a real, true football person with experience and knowledge and who knows what weaknesses they have and what they need to compliment their abilities.

In that sense, it isn't too late for changes

I apologise if I've bored anyone, I'll happily stand back from this thread and we'll see what happens over the next few months.

 

Strangely his phone seems to be constantly engaged

 

For fear of actually getting a straight answer i'll ask again. Up until the appointment of a new manager at Bradford City, where has Ryan sat down an interviewed a potential candidate for football league managers job? Its a very simple question.

 

It needs a professional team at the club, Sparks doesn’t need to be cook and bottle washer. Sparks needs to surround himself with the right (football?) people which he seems well aware of.

He is not setting up a new business from scratch and building a team of 500 with complex technical job roles he needs to research in depth. Footy Manager, 11 blokes, get them to try hard and work as a team .

Interview questions are usually quite generic, judgement is key here and judging personalities is key. You wouldn’t usually find one person interviewing so i wouldn’t expect that here.

Experience is great but i think we needed an ideas man too so its a trade off with Sparks perhaps. One where so far he is so far coming across very well.

So far so good for me, I expect a worthy managerial appointment to come, with that hunger, professionalism and judgement required.

 

Never take work home mate.

 

Why does that matter

 

Ryan has said in that interview he has been very close to the process of recruiting managers both in football and rugby over the last 10 years. That may have included being in the room at interview. You would have to ask him yourself.

 

To be honest Campbell I think mine would be too if was a case of speaking with some of the negatrons on here - Ryan spoke a lot of sense last night but none of it will mean jackshit if things dont improve in a whole range of areas, so I am happy to let him crack on with the job in hand

 

I wasnt asking you.