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I think it will be tough for many in the lower league's.
Let's face it dress the situation up with gimicks,offers and the like but football as we knew it will never be the same.
Our club was damaged severely under Edins tenure.
Unfortunately along came Coivid which will inevitably take it's toll on the club's valiant efforts to move forward.
History he may be but but I for one will never ever forgive Edin or his regime.
Everything the club built after the fire tragedy was wiped out by his inappropriate behaviour and decision making.
I wish Ryan Sparks well in the coming months with his quest to build bridges and move the club forward but it's a task that's grown in size due to Coivid and it's baggage.
Uncertainty in abundance at EFL headquarters doesn't help matters either.

 

Let’s face it, this whole issue of communication only crops up when we’re underperforming. Deliver on the pitch, give us a team we can be proud of and I’m not sure anyone is really interested in what the likes Sparks, Rhodes etc have to say.

 

Dont blame you at all mate for feeling that way, my main hope is the club MUST know how this is going to look if they dont have an adequate replacement lined up - be a lot more pissed off fans joining you! As I said in last post losing Vaughan, who has obviously wound Stuart up with his half hearted efforts, is not the issue for me (I think in old fashioned terms he is a bit of a bad egg) its what we do about it

 

I know age sometimes dulls the memory, Dennis but you and Mike H are a little wide of the mark. I can say this as I was in the Board meetings when most of the content of this particular discussion was taking place. To deal with as much as I can in some form of order.
The late Archie Christie did not deal with the sale of George Green, JR did. We had offers from Everton and Spurs and Harry Redknapp actually went to the Green household in Ossett but Julian believed the lad would be better nearer to home than London's distractions, hence Everton. When JR told us this at Board we all agreed.
You are right to suggest Mega introduced Nahki, he joined Archie's Development Squad, in fact I saw his first few games against Trinity and All Saints College with the rest of the Board, then Rotherham at their training ground with Jacko then I think he played at Silsden. Archie didn't want him largely because someone else had brought him and he had a shocker in his first game but the rest is history, just setting the facts. It was JR who signed him on the recommendation of Jacko then PP.
Mark Stewart and the late Chris Mitchell and Jack Compton were all Christie signings along with the rest of the Development Squad, non of whom made it apart from Nahki. The freedom to deal with that squad was Archie's alone and he failed to do the proper checks on our liability for fees foe Mark Stewart which cost us the money to Falkirk.
Jacko and Peter Taylor were joint decisions with Mark which they both regretted.
In terms of Admin, this was a fall out, as were the relegations from the PL days. Even with the now massive parachute payments which we didn't have look at the plight of others who have been in the PL. Bolton, Blackpool, Boro, Hull, Sunderland and now Huddersfield. We are not alone.
I'm not sure about Willy Topp but that is really scraping the barrel, I will however give you Colin Todd which JR regrets .
Remember from 2007 Mark was there as well and I know he takes his share of some of the mistakes I have noted.

 

Is this about right?
Dear Ryan

I demand change and I am ambitious.

I demand we get an owner who has money to throw at us willy nilly

I demand we get a new CEO who can take us to the top

I demand you are replaced with someone who isn't a mouthpiece for the CEO and owner

I demand the club is bought from the landlord to turn it into an asset

I demand that only the best players are recruited-no Josh Wright's again please

I demand that you put up ST prices so as to show we are a serious football club

Love @Fordy117

 

Wasn’t it Archie Christie who negotiated the sale of Green to Everton?

Mark Ellis recommended Nahki didn’t he?

You can balance all that out with:

Mark Stewart cost over £200k
Aaron McLean
The disagreements with Gibb
Administration
The last transfer window was as bad as anything under Abbot and Rahic
Waiting too long to sack Bowyer
Jacko as a manager
Peter Taylor
Billy not Willy Topp
Three relegations
Sacking Todd at the wrong time

 

Any remaining enthusiasm i have for lower league football is slowly being eroded. I'm really not sure i can be arsed anymore with what increasingly feels like a tinpot organisation running a shitshowin the form of the EFL. Its clear they care nothing about the pilght of its own members and haven't for years. If this is the professional game i'd much rather go to non league and have a few pints stood on the touchline. Then again our club don't help, everything always feels like an afterthought, just like our January transfer window. Nothing seems proactive, the lack of news or action coming from the club an indicator of whats going on at VP.

 

You really are a WUM, how being in non league football could be a GOOD thing for the City of Bradford, Bradford City Football Club and their fans is beyond belief.

 

just feck off then

 

Don't get me wrong, I'll be absolutely delighted if we sign a decent replacement and I will give credit where it's due if we do. However, at the moment the noises come out of the club do not fill me with any confidence that is what is going to happen so forgive me if I sound a bit p!ssed off because right now, that is how I feel.

 

@How I have it on good authority that your hunch of being forewarned about something to be announced that will send shock waves of excitement through the fanbase is correct.

@Fordy117 is to be revealed as director of business development, recruitment, sponsorship, communications, hospitality, ticket sales, pitch management, stadium manager, safety manager and will be pictured with one of those really big cheques showing how much the club has paid for his in demand services.

The future is bright.

 

WOAP have always been largely complimentary of Rhodes IMO.
If City are to flourish they need a CEO with vision that extends beyond the end of the current season.

 

Waste of time reading that.

Club know of two possible start dates late August and early September.. They just need to crack on with things now..

Stop making excuses. Everything else in terms of this virus is out of their control.