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The thing that I want to see happen in the summer is an overhaul of the fitness and medical department the number of serious soft tissue injuries is way more than it should be and the length of recuperation. Also we don’t seem to have coped as well as some clubs with the amount of fixtures which makes you wonder about the general fitness.

 

We’ve been dying a slow death for 4 years now, this summer is the season to gut the place if needed we need better.

 

Rahic has been gone more than two years and I think there is only RoD, AOC and Wood left from his era. He was at City for 31 months and has been gone 28 months. To suggest his influence still hangs over the club’s day to day business is wrong. Fitness, recruitment, sports science, coaching, players. Rahic can have an influence over none of those and cannot be blamed for any shortcomings in those areas. The owner and the previous interim and current CEOs have had ample time to repair any damage. Tellingly for me, it’s the current CEO making the effort.
The only areas I see Rahic’s legacy still influencing the club are probably commercial relationships with sponsors where trust may have been broken, finances and perhaps a lack of skilled back office staff who he drove away.
I expect somebody to tell me other wise but trying to blame Rahic or Richmond is like the Tories saying something needs to be done about the criminal justice system when they have been in power a decade or more.

 

It might sound like a daft idea but I’d like City to bring in Kiwomya as conditioning/ fitness coach. He evidently did a great job of it at Town a few years ago and is now in charge of L**ds Elite junior set up. He obviously knows his stuff when it comes to training & fitness, that together with his enthusiasm and obvious love for City could be a great addition to the coaching staff! Imagine doing a beep test with Andy screaming in your ear about how much it means to play for City......
And it gets him off the radio!!

 

Rahic was a disaster, but he’s also been overplayed as the ‘get out jail’ card for excusing why we continue to be so poor across so many areas.

 

Don’t often disagree with you but can’t agree with you on iFollow. It’s well meaning but an appalling product tbh, and if we aren’t allowed back in stadiums next season it’ll be a no from me this time there’s no substitute for live football. This has been my least enjoyable season ever, not just from a City fan point of view but watching neutral games as well. Football is simply garbage without fans.

 

Not even someone like Gary Jones?

 

Gary Jones didn't do too bad, I believe you need an old head in a side going for promotion who can calm things down when things look like they are not going well.

 

If I were Ryan Sparks right now...........
Dear European Super League,
I understand that you are short of English representation for your new footballing venture.
I would be most interested to discuss the possibility of my club Bradford City entering as an English representative. I firmly believe we have a truly unique offering which would be of great interest to both yourself and the European teams involved.
1) given the choice of playing Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan every week over Barrow, Grimsby & Harrogate Town I’m confident 100% of our fan base would be on board
2) As above the fans and club would not mind in the slightest being expelled from our current league, in fact most would welcome it.
3) Non of our players will worry about the threat of not being able to represent England.
4) We don’t mind loosing most games (we already do). I understand that English people aren’t too popular in Europe at the moment. We can help cure the pain felt by Brexit by getting hammered every week.
5) You are also struggling for a German team, our Chairman can help with contacts, I believe he has a Serbian business associate with close ties to a team in Stuttgart.
I hope to speak to you soon,
Best Regards,
Ryan x

 

Didn't a 36 year old lead is to Wembley twice within a couple of months? Also when we were in the prem, the fittest player we had was a 36 year old full back and think Kammy was 36 when he was the fittest on our books.

 

He does say all the right things and he looks to have the right attitude. So this isn't aimed at him - I've just lost interest in anything the club has to say now. I've heard it all so many times before. Every year at about this time we beat the same drum around what's going to be put right. 'We're going to do X,Y and Z'. We talk the talk and never walk the walk. All I'm interest in now, is whether we put together a properly competitive side that challenges the top 3. That's it, pure and simple.

 

Never bring a player back who's played for us before. He was shit then and the same now.

 

Would keep all 5 teenagers that have been in the squad. Let's give them a good chance to see what they can develop to.

 

That's a pretty glum assessment, I'm not going to lie.

Hopefully the vast majority (if not all) those we know and have spent so many years with made it through this pandemic and will be back at VP with the rest of us. We can but hope, mate.

 

Almost impossible to predict how people will react post pandemic
Maybe you are right they will return for the match day experience myself included the Saturday ritual (full English breakfast, various pubs pre and post match, good natured banter with opposition fans, a meal before returning home) is what I class as match day experience away days even better, the 90 odd minutes on the pitch is a different thing and judging by the last few matches on I follow has been pretty turgid to say the least (Bowyer ball at its best/worst) What the club do during the summer is crucial, yes I follow is sterile I noticed in a couple of your posts you haven't subscribed but given the choice of watching our performances of late in your own home or a freezing cold Valley Parade Tuesday night is not a difficult decision

 

Oh and never ever bring back an ex player as manager. Another rule. I'm enforcing this one

 

Shit rule .
Some good over 30's out there .
I'd take spearing and clarke from their team for a start

 

Wes Hoolahan + Cambridge United for starters