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  1. Foghornleghorn

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    What our club needs at this moment in time is stability.
    We have he'd too much manergerial turmoil with the turnover in management and playing staff nothing short of ridiculous regards the numbers coming through the doors at Valley Parade.
    When will Bradford City ever have a season without all this constant chopping and changing.
    I'm sick of no longer knowing my club, it's playing staff or who's next in line to try their luck and revive our fortune's.
    Keep the present manager,get rid of all the deadwood in the summer and finally give the bloke a chance timewise to create a club we can be proud of with a stable identity.
     
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  2. thebantamhaslanded

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    Total b%ll%cks.

    The manager 'needs to' work with the kind of players he wants. Not the kind of players that were left behind after a disastrous spell of transfers/management.
     
  3. Tony Wilkinson

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    I'll give you a clue.....................most of us want to see Stuart succeed....
     
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  4. Faithful Bantam

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    Completely agree with that. At the end of LAST season, I said the time to judge Bowyer would be this season. It would have been unfair to make him accountable for lastly season. But he made a balls of things, didn’t shape the squad well enough and ultimately he failed.

    Same thing with Stuart. He inherited a mess. The time to start judging will be next season.
     
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  5. Keefly Bantam

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    Watched Stu quite a bit today during play.

    He is one frustrated guy. Kicking every ball. Spinning round in anguish as another simple passage of play is disrupted by a completely obscure footballing decision.
    For example

    First half AOC does some neat work down the main stand side. Gets a nice bit of open space in front of him. Connolly is off. we look to the skies to see the ball sailing towards Connolly. No instead AOC kicks the ball short to their midfielder. Stu gesticulates to AOC that he should have hit it over to Connolly. Everyone in the ground could see what was needed. Yet AOC decided that the better option was to ignore Connollys run. Madness.

    Mellor is the same. How many times is he out of position or loses possession?

    Akpan is the least shit of the available fit midfielders. I would imagine Cooke starts if fit at Salford.
     
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  6. Smartmart

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    A Sack the manager thread a month into any managers tenure is ridiculous. Get a grip.
     
  7. WilsdenBantam

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    Maybe just maybe it’s not always simple as a manager is clueless, and that extends to Bowyer who actually has a promotion and is respected at other clubs. Maybe if the club wasn’t run by clueless idiots and maybe if we had proper scouting systems and coaching systems we might just give managers the opportunity to thrive. Or we can just carry on as we are and keep sacking managers who are handicapped as soon as they come through the door.

    My boss is a Sunderland season ticket holder, and he puts their upturn in form under the same manager down to two things. Firstly Parky has been allowed to bring in his own fitness coach, and secondly get a bad apple out of the camp. These things don’t seem game changing but obviously they do make a difference, teams don’t just dramatically change over night. Good or bad there’s usually reasons for it.
     
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  8. Daisy Mcniven

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    People talking about a loss of identity in the club should be celebrating SMs return. Let's give the bloke a chance. See where is tenure takes us. I personally would love to see a promotion under his guidance. Wouldn't fancy the task he faces for any money.
     
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  9. Inspector

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    R & R won't publicly admit they've given up on this season. I doubt they'll comment until it's mathematically impossible to make the play offs.

    I'm absolutely sick of what's happened to our club since it was sold, as many are.

    We can't continue chopping managers, using 30/40 players per season and going backwards. Somebody has to grab the nettle and get a grip of this club before it's too late and we find ourselves out of the trap door.
    Stuart simply has to deliver a strong end to the season to give us hope that at least on the pitch we're moving in the right direction.
     
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  10. Fordy117

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    The transfer moves in January highlighted they had given up but the big question is why?
     
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  11. Onside

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    Thank you, I am totally enlightened now. So even if McCall manages to get us out of this division either this season or next, he will still be a poor manager or at best average? Asking for a friend.
     
  12. Onside

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    I will take that as a no then. Unlike you I will judge McCall at the end of this season (interim) end of next season,(total) and whether we should give him an extension or say goodbye. The past cannot be altered, but you can use it to learn rather than predict future based on the past. I will leave it there, and I will try and not use sarcasm when discussing issues with you.
     
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  13. Storck

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    Some people have no sense of humour
     
  14. Lard Arse

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    Teflon Abbo, at least Mason had the courage of his conviction to walk.
    Abbo could be a politician the way he points fingers at everyone else and accept zero responsibilty .
    Anoher charlatan in our recent history
     
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  15. Captain Grumpy

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    He should have been given the job. Rhodes just turns to the default option of bringing back McCall as it’s popular.
     
  16. bantam316

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    i'll give him one more half... if we're not 6-0 up by half time next game.. he should be sacked
     
  17. Captain Grumpy

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    Give it a year, in Fordys case about 2 weeks, and loads will be calling for his sacking. Width of a post will launch a save our Stuart campaign and the cycle will begin again.
     
  18. Fordy117

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    No, I think all eyes should be on Rhodes and Rupp now.
     
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  19. Aaron Baker

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    Did you see his first two spells here?
     
  20. XCIV_Bantam

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    Already talking about sacking stuart is pure bedlam. Was saying this with bowyer and im saying it with stuart.

    Give them time. This expection to get good results as soon as a new manger comes in is just stupid. I'm giving him two transfer windows myself.
     
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