The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Sutton United vs Bradford City Saturday 28th October 2023 3:00pm

We've just been second best to the team that's bottom of the entire football league.

Only one thing can fix this. Another minor sponsorship with a digital logistics partner.

 

Must have been in the sauna at HT.
He’s lost 2 stone.

 

The prospective of fine margins tell you if we (Cook) scores even just one of those chances, we probably stroll to a unconvincing victory, which papers over the cracks of the reality.

The reality is we are a mess of a club. That first half performance after Tuesday was very very poor - completely unacceptable. All these players “playing for Kev” (apparently) couldn’t even give him the respect to come out and make up for the shit they served 4 days earlier.

Genuinely, what are we going to do differently than what has failed us with every single manager since Parkinson? We can talk about a new manager over and over again but we need so much more than this. We are a failing professional sports club that is been masked by high attendances and decent enough off field activity. We have an unsustainable structure and a change of one manager is not sufficient to get us back on track in the current game.

 

Well done to you and the rest of the 650 city fans who made the journey.

 

Although we were poor yesterday, football is a game of fine margins like in most sports. If Cooks shot had been a couple of inch lower or he hadn't blown the one on one with the keeper we'd be more than likely be talking about a victory, Relate that to the Wimbledon game where we rode our luck or the Swindon game where Austin misses a sitter at 0-0. Our problems run deeper than that though, i don't blame MacDonald for our current position or generally our playing squad. I blame our current predicament on the fact that throughout these years of eternal struggle we have no long term plan or vision. Just blundering through from season to season in the hope we might get lucky and hit a home run. Hughes might well have done if he hadn't lost his bottle.
My worry is because of this we are potentially further back now due to a terrible transfer policy. Long term deals for average players and others brought in to fit some sort of system mean that a new manager coming in has little scope to change things, apparently we were gonna have a 'meaner and leaner' squad but end up with exactly the same bloated set up that lacks strength in key areas.
Could take a new manager a couple of seasons to change it around. Deary me.

 

It seems it doesn't matter who our manager is we have a soft underbelly late in games.

 

It's beyond making the players angry. We're a fundamentally broken football club. I saw this elsewhere, but it sums up perfectly the root of our issues:

Rupp is entrusting a business he owns, in an industry he doesn't know or has no interest, in a foreign country, to someone in their first CEO role - who 18 months before that was managing the Facebook account.

Would he do that with any other business he owns?

 

For me, the die was cast on the first day of the season with the 3-5-2 formation and the players starting, which had most of us scratching our heads before the start as to how would that work.

We've had the Hughes attempt to get us to play wing-backs without the players capable of dong this. Then switching to a back 4 midway through the game.

It feels like every player has had a bit of time on the pitch in various positions. In 16 games, we must have had upwards of 30 different line ups/players in use already. Yes, some of this has been enforced because of injuries. However, there is no consistency, no opportunity for partnerships and understanding to develop on the pitch and as a consequence we are now flailing around hoping for a bit of luck. I'm not knowledgeable on professional football training, but I can't see how the work we do during the week is adding much, if we are continually tinkering with the team - other than making sure we are running around a bit.

This is a serious mess now.

 

AK city have started brightly

Sutton score

AK city have started lethargically

 

Oh FFS! Talk about overreaction. He looks out of form and probably injured. But anyone who thinks that a fit Andy Cook isn’t a decent striker at this level needs to watch different sport.

 

What manager with owt about them would want to work at this clusterfuck of a club?

 

Got home about an hour ago. Everything about today was truly awful, the drive, the weather, the football. Sparks and Gent are the issue, first & foremost. Between them they have signed some god awful players. Right up there with one of the worst weeks I’ve had following City. Utter garbage

 

This is shambolic. No wonder the list of potential managers is so uninspiring.... who the he'll worth their money would want to take on this shower of shit.

 

No shots against bottom of the league. Pointon, Smith, Tulloch and Wilson are probably better for a wide start over yhe two picked. Cook looks like he can't be arsed. CBs move like tankers. Keeper who has lost all confidence.

Hughes is probably at a Costa Del Sol golf courses absolutely loving life right now. Cant believe the crap him and Gent have assembled.

 

Everyone associated with the running of this football club should be embarrassed.

Rupp - f**k off. Sparks can follow. Then maybe we can start again. Maybe.

 

34 years of watching City and honestly feel like this is our lowest point since I started watching them.

Appreciate we had some shitty times under Taylor a decade ago but f...me. i am sick tp death of us getting beat and handing over points to out of form league two dross.

Not sure I have the energy or want the emotional investment anymore. Its like a toxic marriage....

 

Yeah, let's not forget that, to be fair.

I wouldn't even contemplate it today, absolutely no chance.

650 brave souls heading down there, all right some probably live closer than we do, but still... great support.

 

Drop him for the toothless Smith?

This is on Hughes for focusing on defenders and not attackers during the summer window, knowing full well that Oliver would be out for months. Just as with Lewis, having one person for such a key position is sackable in its own right. Cook needs to recover form but trying to do that when injured makes the job doubly hard.

 

We wont go anywhere without change from the top down.

No one with any real talent will take this job on, and even if they would, I have no trust in Sparks and Rupp to make the right call and set that person up for success.

This performance should embarrass everyone associated with the club.

 

Cannot get my head around dropping Pointon for him