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We bring in a goalkeeper on loan and now we are about to sell O'Donnel to Hartlepool?

More money squeezed from the club for Heir Rupp.

Guy doesn't care about City or our clubs culture.

He only cares about his investment, he'll leave us sat in mid-table League 2 until he gets back on his investment.

People going on about sacking manager after manager, only person that needs sacking now is RUPP!

Also why the hell are we loaning players from Salford City? This Elliot isn't going to do anything we haven't seen before, he isn't special, he won't be another Nahki Wells, having any optimism for a loanee from another League 2 club is a joke at this point!

Why are people out to blame management?! It's clear our issues stem from the very top ahahaha, our club will continue to suffer until Rupp f***s off!!

RUPP OUT!!!

Graeme Lee reveals Hartlepool United have spoken with Bradford City over former Sheffield Wednesday, Rotherham United, Wigan Athletic and Bristol City goalkeeper following Jonathan Mitchell exit | Hartlepool Mail

 

I hate this idea that just because we’ve been a tinpot club in the past we should forever be tinpot going forward.

where’s your ambition?? The idea that we should just be happy to have a club to support at all these days doesn’t wash with me. I can’t keep buying into mediocre every year.

its just hard to get that vision, ambition and drive from the top when all the owner wants to drive is sports cars in Germany.

 

Nobody has ever called him nasty, I don’t think being nasty is a defining trait of destroying a sporting club. Lack of knowledge and incompetence however…

 

Imagine 5 years ago, when we were challenging to get into the championship, someone telling you that the new owners are going to undo all the hard work of the last 7 years or so, drag us down into League 2 and suddenly announce they're going the "sustainable" route AKA no more money. You'd be absolutely livid and protest against it til no end. If you wouldn't stand for it then, why stand for it now?

Boycotting now and forcing Rupp to sell (which affects the club in the short term) is far better than Rupp staying whilst we rot away in League Two and our fanbase dwindles, with our satellite towns showing more ambition and overtaking us in the leagues. It's about short term sacrifice for long term gain. Rupp's ownership has shown how effective good PR can be. All he's had to do to subdue the fans is bring up Edin, say something about righting the wrongs, and then feck off for another year. His time is up and quite frankly he should have fecked off when Edin did.

 

This shows how lazy and how much Bradford City fans need to drive Rupp out of the club.

Wrexham for example hired Peter Moore ex Liverpool CEO as an advisor then got the CEO from Burton to join them.

Rupp isn’t serious about this club and the Sparks appoint highlighted that. Plenty of CEO’s would love to join Bradford City and plenty are about.

What did Rupp do? Hire a novice that’s out of his depth. An awful appointment that is now damaging the club. Sparks needs to leave as does Rupp.

 

When supporters stop giving sponsors of the club money. Sparks will start to feel the pressure. The pressure will come from the sponsors also.

Fans are very very powerful.

 

Adams has every right in my opinion to say what he has said. We have a sole owner who knows nothing whatsoever about football and does not care about the club one iota, the only thing he's bothered about is protecting his investment, nothing else.
If rumours are true that he's taking out £300 grand a year then after 6 years he has already recouped 1.8 million of his investment, all he has to do is just sit on his arse for a few more years of 'sustainability' and he's made his money back without doing a thing, i mean he's not even arsed about coming over to watch a game or get involved, i read somewhere that he's only made three statements in the last three years.
As for Sparks, well he's just employed by Rupp to protect his investment, that's all and he's probably on decent money to do that. Sparks knows nothing about being a CEO let alone running a football club, he's a salesman ffs, he nowhere near qualified to do the job as Adams pointed out.
It's alright folk saying Adams out but when will folk realise that sacking managers every few months will do the club no favours as it proved over the last 6 years.
The problem lies with Rupp and Sparks, remember the days when the club had a chairman and a board of directors, now there's just two very unqualified people running the club and i'm not surprised Adams is angry and could this probably affect the playing staff i don't know. Adams knew all this before he took the job but was he just told a pack of lies from Sparks just like he told the supporters a pack of lies to sell season tickets.
This great club of ours is being run by a person not interested and his lackey, sad as it is to say the club will not progress at all until we have a proper run club and i agree with everything Adams had to say.
How can two people run a club on their own, as i say owner and his lackey.
Sunday league clubs have a better setup than City.

 

Bring back Big Geoff

 

The promotion season was special too. Jewell created such a good side. Attacking too. How city should play. Not this turgid safety first shite we have now

 

That's a departure from his comments 24 hours earlier. I wonder what could possibly have happened in the meantime....

 

Crikey Park, you have to be the most myopic person ever, as bad as @Fordy117 but on the other end of the scale. It’s ok to criticise the club if it’s constructive.

 

Nah sounds like to me the money isn’t reinvested if we need to make over a million. Sounds like it’s gone in to people’s pockets.

This is the thing of using bollocks words like SUSTAINABILITY! It just means that the owner won’t be putting hands in pocket and if so he wants his money back.

GET RUPP OUT!

 

I have no interest in any other CEO or their comments. Only the one at my football club. And for a lot of the time he talks hot air. But then he's also done some good work too. Just needs to cut out the David Brent stuff that has no substance to it.

 

I don’t like FGR for the dreadful football they play but I like their green ethos. I was actually invited as a guest of a friend of Vince to the game in early 2020 which ended up cancelled. I’d like to see City with a real vision and drive like that, I’m not sure what though, but I’d like to see them do something other than cheap tickets and serial underachievement that makes them stand out from the rest. Part of the problem in my opinion is the Luddite nature of a lot of Bradford, the city as a whole not just football, and my own belief that the demographics of the city are changing such that the future fan base is uncertain unless there is a sea change in the direction of the club.

 

I don't know if he's sold any more since this sale oc shares but 10% brought him £62m.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2068658-share-placing-in-listed-logistics-firm-raises-more-than-62m

If he was interested and still wanted to amalgamate football and rugby I personally wouldn't be adverse to that thinking, any sucsess would bring a much needed boost to our City.

 

He needs to either put up a few quid and back us properly, or sod off

 

I'm still very much Rupp Out. I don't think we'll move forward under Rupp. But there's not likely to be any real agitation to get him out over the next few months. This summer is key. He needs to be backed and frankly, if there isn't a clear sign that Hughes is backed more strongly to assemble a quality squad than Adams was, the protests could (and should) start up again. Its a massive few months for this club, and for Rupp's tenure.

 

I think we look a better side already. Hughes will sort out the striking blanks and Hodges will get the rest done. I think a few will be gone from here and then we go again..... 2022-23 yeeeeeeeeeeuuueeeeahhhhhhhhhh

 

My opposition to this 'self sustainable' idea is that it's been announced after Rupp has destroyed all the progress we made and now sit mid-table in League 2. It's so he doesn't have to put anything in after ruining the club, not so we don't end up like Bury, or because it's some noble cause that sets us apart from money clubs like Man City.

If we had a good academy and recruitment platform that allowed us to develop talent and sell them on for a bit of money then people would be far more open to being self sustainable. Instead we sign crap players that are on their way down the football pyramid and then have to pay off their contracts (as well as our bi-annual managerial appointment).

Sustainable under Rupp is letting the fans foot the bill on the promise of a promotion season, then signing shite players because he hasn't invested in a recruitment system, while he sits at the top of the tower declaring himself the custodian. If we want to be self sustainable then Rupp can feck off and we'll be fan owned.