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T&S..... sacked

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Rcbantam, Apr 10, 2021.

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Should T & S leave now

  1. yes for sure

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    59.3%
  2. no give them chance to work next season

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    25.4%
  3. dont know

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    15.3%
  1. wetherbywhaler

    wetherbywhaler Impact Sub

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    Thanks, believe me, seeing Harrogate smash 5 past Cambridge whilst having made 8 changes from the team they will likely put out at Wembley on Monday, gives me no pleasure.
     
  2. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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    Bradford as a city is just talked about in a negative light. The T & A are a disgrace. Look, many people from Bradford or live in Bradford have money. Certain area's now in Bradford you will be lucky to get a house for 100k plus. My thoughts on Bradford is Bradford Council get paid money for homing refugees etc and don't want to improve the city. They want it to be known as this run down place but its not true. Bradford has some lovely areas. Leeds has many area that are worse than Bradford by the PR in Leeds is vastly different.

    Bradford City doesn't help the City by leading the way of improvement. Luton is a dump but look where Luton are in the footballing world. So Bradford City need to stop using the City's economics as an excuse because its a poor one. Rhodes master idea of cheap season tickets highlights that for now. Like don't go above you station. Some fans are fooled by it but a lot are waking up now and understanding football isn't just about what happens on the pitch it's off it also.

    Rhodes and Lawn sold to Rupp because in Rhodes words he can do more with the club than he could. Well Rupp needs to take us to the next level. If he can't do it on his own he needs to get investment.

    As for Sparks, hes a novice in the role and needs to prove he isn't Mr Soundbite. People are getting bored already! We need this club now to be taken seriously and actions required. On and off the the pitch.

    This season has been an utter disgrace! Disgrace and all connected should be ashamed. Fans can only do so much. We back to club during different times for all and the club produces rubbish. We can't go into next season with T & S and we need a statement of intent that the club will be doing everything possible to go up.

    What's funny is that when Sparks and the Vale Chairwoman both said they wanted last season to end even though close to the play offs you never really got the impression both we confident that the next season they would be in the mix. While at Peterborough and Salford you could see a determination. So Ryan needs to stop sound biting and highlight hes a winner! Rupp needs to stop hiding and start showing he wants to take us forward or in my mind both can go!
     
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  3. fredm

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    Fordy - No doubt Rupp would go in a flash..........................if someone came up with the figure he is asking.
     
  4. Park bantam

    Park bantam Regular Starter
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    I’ll tell you what of he offered to give it away there would be very few takers
     
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  5. Rogered Tart

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    Let's not be silly, there are potential buyers out there if the price is right. Unfortunately there isn't anyone that would be stupid enough as Rupp to pay what Rupp did.

    Let's forget this idea that he's somehow doing us a favour being here. He isn't. This club was a league one playoff club before him and his dodgy mate turned up.
    He owes us big time.
     
  6. Faithful Bantam

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    Agree with the comments on the club reflecting the City as a whole.

    You’re closer to the financial detail than I am, but I’d challenge the idea of Stefan doing more than we’re aware of to keep us afloat. Or at least, if he has, its because he’s taken a forward moving, self sustaining club and turned into a regressing, loss making one. It’s on him, the buck stops there. His tenure has been a disaster, there’s no dressing it up.

    As for needing someone significantly more wealthy, again I disagree. Other clubs at this level manage to achieve a modicum of success without pumping in mega millions. A level of investment would certainly help, but you’re talking maybe 10-20m, properly invested to get this club knocking on the door of and maybe even consolidating in the championship. Rupp has that sort of wealth. It’s not the money that’s missing, its the interest, the vision and the capability.
     
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  7. Rcbantam

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    Frauds. Get out of this club!!!!
     
  8. Rcbantam

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    Frauds. Get out of this club!!!!
     
  9. WilsdenBantam

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    feck off now:zzzz::zzzz::zzzz:
     
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  10. How

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    i am sorry but we do not need an owner at the level of Sunderlands wealth to get the club moving up the leagues. That’s rubbish. You might need one to get to the top end of championship but otherwise you need an owner with a football brain or a good set up below him.
     
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    twice?
     
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  12. Bantam Begins

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    As Bob Seger once sang... it’s still the same ! Whole sale changes are needed this summer is our biggest in twenty years we need to stop this average mediocre mentality from top to bottom !
     
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    Spot on. Bradford is no where near as run down and poverty stricken as BMDC, the T&A or Look North would have us believe. We are in the running for the Capital of Culture 2025 and given the culture in this city it should be a walk in the park compared to Central Lancashire, Southampton & the team Valley who are the others, but not one of the aforementioned is bigging it up and giving a real shot at this.
     
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  14. wetherbywhaler

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    If you disagree on the finances, fair enough but tell us what / who those clubs are without pumping money in.
     
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    I'll start. Accrington.
     
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  16. Faithful Bantam

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    I won't profess to have vetted the finances of each, but are the likes of Morecambe, Newport, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Exeter operating on much higher budgets than us?

    Who's pumping millions into Lincoln? Are Accrington and Fleetwood being bankrolled?

    Didn't we get relegated from League 1 with the third highest playing budget in the league? Big money would be nice, but what would be even nicer is simply having a well run club with an owner actively interested in making us a success.
     
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    Me next. Oxford,Gillingham,Burton,Crewe,Shrewsbury,
    Wimbledon all comfortable mid table league one clubs.
    The previous list obviously doesn’t include the 13 teams above us (except Bolton and Salford) in the arse end division of professional English football who I also suspect aren’t spending a fortune.
     
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    We had no interest in being promoted this season, if thats the message from the top at the beginning of the season how do you expect the players to do it on the pitch?
     
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  19. Faithful Bantam

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    Exactly. This season’s been a farce from the get go.
     
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  20. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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    I don't know but we are not even trying to seek investment. We let likes of Morrisions, JCT 600 and other big companies in the area just dance about make excuses. Gibbs another one that laughs in our face. Bradford City is a mess. A failure. It needs a serious owner.

    As I say Bradford as a city does have money but if the owner seems not interested in the club then why would anyone else be?

    We will see what Sparks is about now also because sticking with T & S isn't what fans want. We are bore of them two already and don't believe they have what it takes to take us up.
     
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