Ryan Sparks

As long as it's not just some guy who bounces from rubbish club to rubbish club like Turnbull, who is now at Hartlepool.

 

Exactly. Who needs a head of recruitment who rarely signs anyone except Scunthorpe cast-offs?

 

Wouldn't mind a decent free agent, central defender though BB, even if only to the end of the season.

 

Andre Wisdom ?

 

He is still training with and trying to earn a contract at Birmingham City.

 

Yes, fully aware. Hence why I mention him.

 

Your brain wouldn’t allow you to think of an non ex Bradford player.

Wisdom was on big money hence why Derby had to let go and he wasn’t Championship football at least.

 

As I’ve mentioned in another thread. Terell Thomas who played under Hodges at Wimbledon is a free agent and has been since Jan 22.

 

Anyone actually believe a word he says anymore?

The constant flip flopping certainly makes it very tough to do so.

 

anyone that carries on the guess who shenanigans of alluding to issues and not saying what they are can absolutely do one. it sounds petty but sparks has lost a lot of my goodwill coming out with something like that

 

No, I ignore him. Soundbites.

"I know what went went wrong but will keep it in my brain" - Yes, I do also. You were shite and made shite decisions that cost the club this season. Let Adams get you to change your mind on things and lost total control of what a CEO is meant to be doing to help generate results and improve the club on the pitch.

Let's hope he has learnt.

 

I don’t think the Wisdom case is former player love in. It’s more as a former youth player he might be more willing to come on a short term deal for lower money-like butterfield’s loan

 

You mean the Hartlepool that are above us? Funny the disrespect people get when things go south here. Turnbull was seen as a god move when he joined.. Ill happily copy and paste all the comments if you like. Adams moved him on to bring in his own scouting network which is fair enough but to suggest Turnbull identified all our signings and they were all just signed off on his say so is just plain stupid.

The same happened with Drury.. People wanted him gone. People were putting the blame of the downward spiral of the club partly to him. Nothing has improved since he went back to coaching the kids and hes actually doing a cracking job at the moment. Just another example of not many people knowing what they are actually talking about.

Individuals as such aren’t the overall problem at BCAFC. The whole structure has been broken. We are basically rudderless. I hope Hughes can identify the issues others haven’t but im sceptical.

 

The exact same happens when people attack individual players within this rudderless set up. Best is when they expect loan players signed with no strategic intentions to come into the rudderless club and completely turn around our fortunes. But these very folk are usually the ones with their heads up their backsides, the same ones who thought this rudderless ship could still hit the playoffs despite the most obvious warning signs.

 

I doubt anyone at the club knows he used to be here.

 

Putting people in the right positions is critical for a club in our situation. The problem with the Turnbull appointment looked to be - and turned out to be - that there was no gravitas.

The thing I liked most about his appointment was it was a club appointment, and that meant it didn't matter if the incoming manager wanted to work with him or not - the incoming manager simply had no choice.

Hand over your list of targets/requirements, and let Turnbull do his job.

Ryan Sparks has shown such weak leadership that unless you have a name, you don't get any support.

We saw this with Trueman and Sellers in the position as manager EVEN AFTER they got an 18 month contract, and we duly saw it with Turnbull. We've seen it with endless numbers of players, too, most recently Canavan .

The reason I say I don't want someone who bounces from rubbish club to rubbish club (you act like I'm pretending we're good, btw) is everything is so damn transient.

It feels like Mark Hughes might just pack a bit of punch, and be able to stay in place a bit longer, and I hope that's the case. Then again, some thought that Adams had been given full control and would be harder to depose.

Wrong.

It's clear we never replaced Turnbull despite signing three scouts, given those scouts still appear to be in place and yet we STILL want a HoR.

Forgive me for hoping that new HoR is a big deal. He (or she) needs to be. The lack of expertise and leadership at the club has hamstrung us immensely. Time to move upwards, and a signing akin to Turnbull - as has been proven - is not enough to make a difference.

Hope that clarifies my position so it's not seen as simply an attack on Lee.

 

Not anymore. Left there and now at Peterborough ‍♂️

 

Moving up a category possibly?