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For christ sake let's just wait till the season starts to pan out. Don't mind a bit of doom and gloom in all the discussions but I think we're in danger of relegation from some of the stuff I've read.

 

I don’t, Pattinson has it for me, age, able to play 90, play a full season, potential resale value, scores more goals and assists. How does Williams compare on each of those?

 

Wrexham struggling to sign players, due to the demands of the level of player they want compared to final having some kind of FFP to rule over. Danny Mayor the latest to have rejected them and he's gone to Fleetwood. Some of their key guys like Ben Tozer were struggling in L2 before dropping to NL, now 2 or 3 years older and might well struggle again. They will be up there but I don't think it will be the romp that people are expecting.

For me the title is between us, Stockport and Notts. Stockport have let go of some of their older lads, brought in mid 20s with some experience and are going younger but the general 11 will be very similar. Notts have a very interesting squad, Langstaff and McGoldrick could be the most dangerous pairing in the league. Midfield has a great mix of legs and experience. And I think our chances are really good as again the majority of the starting 11 all know each other, will have the odd one to bleed in and the new tactic (looking like a 352/532) will lead to some iffy results for the first 8-10 weeks whilst it gets going, but I really fancy us with the additions we have made so far.

 

Their crypto boys gone very quiet on social media. Cant handle the backlash.

Give Rupp has credit - he could have sold and got his money but he knew it wasn't rght.

 

Crichlow and Banks are a miss but the rest were absolute shite.

Our squad is stronger than last term already.

 

The opposition were poor yesterday but IMO Hendrie had a good game, setting up the third goal.

 

I'd be more worried if we did own the ground and people were queuing up to buy us because of that. We've done this a million times.

The value in the club is the name, the support base (customer goodwill), the history, the back story and the FL golden share and if the price were £5million it would be a steal for an owner who genuinely wanted a club that had the potential to get into the PL with it's support base and catchment area primed and ready to grow.

Imagine what we could do if we had the capacity and tapped in strongly to the Asian community.

There is zero or at least very limited long term potential in the likes of Salford, Stockport & Wrexham -a flirt with the Championship at very best. As Winkleman has found at MK Dons, you can only really grow a club organically if the locals are open to that. Their glass ceiling is way below ours, and owing their ground wont change that at all.

Our potential is more along the size of Sheffield United and their ground is owned by their owner not the club. There aren't that many football clubs where the ground is actually owned by the same Ltd Company as the Football club. It's a red herring is ground ownership.

As I've said before, for Bradford City Football Club to own the ground would create a much bigger liability on the balance sheet than paying rent. It would create a huge commercial debt, at double figure interest rates, therefore the alternative is for Rupp to buy it from his own funds, and if he did, we would end up paying rent to him.

 

Tbh i dont really care what he has done elsewhere when he was 18 and 19 years old. I saw a real asset at our club, playing our style and under Mark Hughes. It just clicked for him.

 

Gillingham, despite the US backers behind them, not having their own way in the transfer market this summer.

Tilt should be a good signing for Salford at this level.

Keep up your good work @Jordan updating us on league 2 rumours and activity

 

Cheer up mate, its only football, last season has gone, its a new start, lets hope the lack of wholesale changes means we hit the ground running and get off to a better start than last year, got to be beating Crawley and set down a marker.

 

Odusina clearly doesn't lack mobility, that's his main strength.

I'm also not convinced that Kelly lacks mobility. He looked absolutely fine last year.

 

A different angle despite the dull football, despite the baffling decisions and despite the recruitment being suspect in some areas we came pretty close to promotion. Of course, pretty close isnt good enough but I dont think we are a million miles away.

One thing I will give Hughes credit for is the need to take the burden off Cook. And the formation change allows us to give him further support in the final 3rd. I think he wanted to do this last season but losing Wright and the injury to Derbyshire stopped those plans - especially when the answers were Nevers and Costelleo.

I wasn't upset by our recruitment last summer. Despite a few duds I think we brought in players that did enough for me and with a different tactical approach could really prosper this season. I think we have a good team on paper, one that can definitely mix it at the top (maybe with another addition or so) so it is down to Hughes now.

Appreciate Crichlow and Banks have gone - but the season before we lost Paudie, Watt and Vernam who were 3 of the better players. Despite that, we improved and made progress.

 

We need 3 quality loan players - pacy CB, LWB and ST. Next 2 weeks are pivotal, get the recruitment right and we should have a good chance of promotion, if not.........

 

No, not fair Kev. Everyone is entitled to an opinion regardless of their background, rich or poor, a CEO of a multi million pound business or working in a car wash. We are all City fans and all have a right to our say.

 

We look so much better with a back four and the sooner we get back to that with the players to play it the better.

 

Stubbs has been excellent for us

 

Interested to see if the 2 new wingers make the 18 today after one training session. I'd just stick with Pointon and Wilson as the two bench options but Hughes might want to throw them in as an unknown.

Imagine Wilson after yesterday? Signs a 3 year deal and within 4 or 5 days they bring in another 2 players for your position. Hope we get enough parking spaces at Apperley Bridge!

 

Imagine the furore on here if Hughes or any manager wanted to sign a player and Sparks overruled him. The CEO job is to support the manager and he he is doing that