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  1. trevor

    trevor Squad Player
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    Talk is cheap, We have it season after season, Time for some action to prove the club wants to go forward
     
  2. Chris Withe

    Chris Withe Fringe Player

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    I was thinking something similar over the weekend. Clubs like Lincoln and Oxford have fallen into the non league, returned to the football league and are now challenging for a place in the Championship. Whilst City struggle to make mid table obscurity in League 2. There's no doubt about it, we've been a very poorly run football club for far too long.
     
  3. Rcbantam

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    You ok hun.
     
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  4. hornseabantam

    hornseabantam Squad Player

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    Of course not! We're supporting a shit club but we can never stop supporting it. We're in there til we die.
     
  5. Faithful Bantam

    Faithful Bantam Squad Player

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    I agree with much of that. However, the biggest predictor of future performance is past performance. If we have the same people running the show next season, why would it be any different to this? A chronically disinterested owner, a CEO with less than 12 months experience of being one, and managers with less than 6 months experience of being so. That's not a recipe for success.
     
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  6. Park bantam

    Park bantam Regular Starter
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    I tell you what we are just half a season in to a new CEO who has promised us better things. Big changes have been promised so why not wait and see what he delivers before starting a thread like this
     
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  7. bantam316

    bantam316 Fringe Player
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    We are as our neighbours call us.. Sadford City

    Embarrassment of a club run by clueless bafoons. Glad to have been part of the Richmond Era and the cup runs but I fear the way we are currently run we wont see City in a higher league in our lifetime.
     
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  8. JonButterfield

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    It's not a question of whether we'll get back into League One or not, it's a question of how quickly.

    We're all fed up, and want promotion next season - but we're taking risks that might impede our progress because we've got a super inexperienced CEO working for someone with zero interest in English football aside from the fact he foolishly bought a club.

    However, I've been on forums long enough to know that City fans can't see past the current run of form, so I'm not surprised to read you guys are so down in the dumps about it.

    This season's performance isn't indicative of what we'll get served up next year, although the worry is we're just wasting time until we install an experienced manager.

    Still... maybe T&S will surprise us all.
     
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  9. bantam65

    bantam65 Important Player
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    A box of Akpans?
    No thanks!
     
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  10. hornseabantam

    hornseabantam Squad Player

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    Look at our consistent regression over the last few seasons. In league positions alone, we have gone from relegation to bad to worse. As a supposedly 'big club' our coaching, analyticals and conditioning standards are bloody poor, even for Lg 2 standards. Many non-league clubs are far more professional and forward thinking. We've chopped and changed to no effect with a myriad numbers of players and managers and end up where we are. Bang average in the bottom league of professional football. Well over taken in terms of performance and stature by former non-league clubs like Cheltenham, Harrogate, Morecambe and Forest Green. How bloody bad is that?
     
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  11. pns1945

    pns1945 Impact Sub

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    We need to employ people that can do a job and get the job done...then back them to the hilt with whatever funds are available with the one aim ....Promotion!
     
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  12. Mclowne

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    In the famous words of Brian Clough - "If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
     
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  13. Chad

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    An infallible chairman doesn't exist and it's much better to have one that admits mistakes rather than a stubborn one. Hindsight is 20/20 and Sparks would've been criticised for not appointing them as permanent managers.
     
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  14. Mclowne

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    Well, lets be fair here, we've been better than we were under the Mclown era.... We have been "one million percent better actually" - if you don't understand the one million percent joke, I refer you to his last interview before he was finally sacked v Oldham.

    Don't you guys worry about that! We are a big club, and according to the clown, people will come banging on our door - next season, title winners!
     
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  15. Petrov

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    The problem is Jon, it is difficult to see past the current run of form when we've had regression every year for the past 4 seasons.

    Good to see you back btw.
     
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  16. Petrov

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    Eeyore? Is that you?
     
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  17. bantam65

    bantam65 Important Player
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    Someone is selling this "Unused Hope"....I'm thinking of buying it as iused all my hope up last season... ;) Screenshot_20210510-080122_Facebook.jpg
     
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  18. hornseabantam

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    Y'know I seriously worry that you're going to be proved right. On the terraces since aged three, could never support another club.Maybe we all need to get used to total mediocrity and not pretend we have an owner or a management that can take us anywhere further. This is in no way what I want, but it is in every way what we currently have.
     
  19. Bantam1969

    Bantam1969 Emergency Backup

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    I don’t know whether I’m sad for this season, or sad to know it will be exactly the same next season.
     
  20. Petrov

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    Don't be tempted, looks like a knock off to me. If you open the box, I bet it's full of false hope.
     
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