Most liked posts in thread: Stefan Rupp - An Open Letter

Cool letter Ryan
Doesn't wash 2nd time around after Rahic
Proofs in the pudding get it sorted or resign
Not a penny more from me until I see some progress
Sincerely hope the protests still go ahead tomorrow
Surely this can't have fooled anyone

 

From reading it I think the first thing RS does next week is extend ST sales to the first week in May

Next will be to appoint a DOF who will answer to him (no chance of that)
Then hope things improve
No chance of anything changing
Protest carry on till we see improvement

 

Don’t know what people want? Damed if you do damned if you don’t. The hatred for the club is beyond belief.
It’s a season to forget, everyone is disappointed. If you have followed City for many years there’s been more disappointment than pleasure. That’s football.
Suppose in life you can make a choice and choose to follow or not.
What gets me is you don’t have to drag everyone down with you.
It’s time to get the pitch forks out and burn effigies of those you don’t like.

 

And where do we think we are heading now or do you really expect thousands of us to line the pockets of a man who couldnt care less.

 

I can't see how.

Rupp has said he going to invest in a top 7 budget.

Boycotting STs just means it costs Stefan more.

No big deal, frankly

 

Wish for what ????,
Non league football ?????.
You do realise that we are 17th and teams in the form we are in tend to carry it into the next season.

Honestly the way your talking you would think Rupp and co weren't such bad people.


We where a team knocking on the door to the championship with 18k fans all happy

Years down the line we stand 17th a fan base completely pissed off and guess what ???,
Rupp has been at the heart of that carnage by allowing Rahic and now Sparks to damage all rhe hard work that was achieved from 2012 to 2017.

Still keep hoping they get it right ............ how many years now of failure ????

 

Nope, those running the club are doing that. It’s a businesses responsibility to attract and retain customers not the other way around. If your supermarket would only provide you with out of date food, you’d move elsewhere. This isn’t a charity and shouldn’t be run just relying on goodwill.

 

That's another part of his statement that makes little sense, he says he has recently put money into the club (I believe denied by Ryan in the Radio Leeds get together) as he has in the past were given to believe yet we hear the wants his brass back.
Surely loosing money going forward is going to be more difficult to get a return on with that sort of financial management running a sustainable club adding bits here and there when needed, workout how much you've lost and what you could lose over several seasons and what sort of return you might get on it's sale.
I'd think the longer he keeps funding the club going forward without any success on the pitch will only add to his money problems with regards selling.

 

Possibly
But until the whole club is restructured i cant share your optimism

 

If we are to take this statement as face value ( I don’t by the way I think it’s bollocks)

He missed the whole point of why we are struggling, yes we need more budget to attract players who can play for this club (I have beens saying this for 6 years).

It’s our infrastructure that will hold us back:
Medical
Coaching staff
Trainning facilitates that are in operable from Nov - March
Poor pitch Nov - April

If these are not addressed it will be same results. We need a strategic plan to address those points. They’ve been neglected as much as anything else.

 

Although I won't be in attendance protest or game we have to see this one though, for no other reason that those who have organised it with regards the fans feelings will get ridiculed on this forum we've gone this far we have to finish the first part of what hopefully is a very short journey.

 

He turns a blindeye because we are sustainable his epic fook ups are covered by season ticket sales ............. once it starts hitting Rupp hard in the pocket then things may change

 

And, in as in the Bee Gee's song.

"It's only words and words are all I have"

 

Whilst most may appreciate that our owner has finally spoken up, and addressed the issues, from on-field performances, budget, ownership of the stadium, the ultimate turning point will be what action is taken from this

The understandable outrage from the statement isn't so much as to what was said, but the timing of it. It shouldn't of taken half a decade of League Two football to realise serious change is needed. It shouldn't have taken endless manager sackings, a relegation, years of fan unrest and wastefulness in the transfer market to realise we are an absolute basket case.

Ive gotten a bit tired of dwindling on the past, theres not much you can do to change what has already happened years ago. What can be done is lessons being learnt an action being taken. I don't think for a moment that Rupp is a terrible owner, I just believe hes very naive and lacks ambition, which is baffling considering hes a wealthy businessman.

He's realised the error of his ways. His immediate action should be to move Sparks away from the CEO role. I dont really care if it means pushing him onto the marketing side, its the one thing hes good at, but he cannot make any further football related decisions at this club

Bring a DoF in. A football man, not an accountant or a PR manager. Let him run the club in Rupp's stead. Get rid of Gent. Find a manager who plays attacking football and find a Head of Recruitment better suited to the task than Gent. And most importantly, make sure they are on the same page.

The irony in all of this is, Rupp does actually provide us a decent budget each season, but his inability to create a proper structure in the management of this club has allowed his investment to be pissed away time an time again, an its for that reason, the majority of blame lies upon his shoulders an it is now his responsibility to fix it, through whatever means neccessary

 

It's a huge appointment in the Grand scheme of things.
Like I said a massive opportunity to freshen up the club.
My obvious worry about the appointment is the man tasked to do the hiring isn't exactly renowned for his success rate when making major decisions.

 

Come on @king karl , if ever we needed the poop emoji back it's now.

Get it sorted or I'm starting a protest outside your house!

 

And the fact that anyone to do with TCA was receiving pelters on a daily basis being called negative and toxic with the club leading the charge at trying to identify people.

Now it seems that every man and his dog claims that they knew all along and are trying to take some sort of moral high ground that they were right all along!

It's a bit like the 8000 people that claim they were at in the crowd for the record low gate against Hereford.

 

Only in the UK, so nothing will change for dodgy stickers as they must already get the stream from some European host to get the sat 3pm streams. Only thing that's changing for UK fans is that they are taking away the option to buy a game for £10 om Tuesday nights and bank hols.

Sky released some more info on the new TV deal. EFL will have 10 games live per match window, 5 champ and 5 L1/L2. All L2 teams will have approximately 16 live games per season shown on Sky, so we'll probably have 1 in 3 shown on TV.