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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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  2. no give them chance to work next season

    45 vote(s)
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  3. dont know

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    15.3%
  1. Bronco

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    Do you have a link to the Ryan Sparks interview ?.
     
  2. Bronco

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    In our family the title is not the CEO but the wife ;).
     
  3. Petrov

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    I don't think he's done an interview, he's just been posting on Twitter.
     
  4. Bantam@{Lancs}

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    I was all behind giving these 2 guys a go at the job but hugely disappointed that once we were clearly safe we havn't totally gone for the juguller in games and we've kept this dull awful approach. I don't understand this thinking and as a result I now doubt them totally and don't want them at the helm next season I'd rather spin the manager wheel again unfortunately.
     
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  5. Bronco

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    This ?.

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  6. Petrov

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    Yeah, he's responded to a couple of people as well. Someone said something to him along the lines of they were getting tired of the lack of ambition on the pitch and he replied 'I am well aware of that, trust me'.
     
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    Sounds like utopia kind of situation to me. We keep getting reminded/excuses that the club will take 5 years to get over the Rahic & Rupp disastrous period, so we have about 2.5 years to go of playing personnel, management and a mindset from upstairs that need to address the Rahic & Rupp calamity, before you can consider such adventurous thoughts.
     
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    I think a place in the side has to be earned especially where there is competition and Cook and Donaldson have earned their place Rowe hasn’t
     
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  9. trevor

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    How have Vernon,Clarke and Evans earned their right? Trueman claims we did not take our chances in final third yet leaves Rowe a proven scorer on the bench all game? They play Rowe as a one up top something he has never played then drop him when he disappoints, He is a proven scorer as a No10 but has not been played as one because of the ultra cautious system we play
     
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    That’s rubbish, at the end of June when AOC and Wood’s contracts expire, there will be only ROD left from the Rahic era. The fans, players, staff and everyone else associated with Bradford City need to stop blaming Edin Rahic for the predicament the club is in. The majority of the squad were signed whilst Julian Rhodes was CEO and McCall was manager. Different decisions last year, including the decision to hire McCall which I maintain was purely with an eye on ST sales, and this club could have been in the playoffs or automatic spots.

    Hiring McCall and signing Guthrie, Clarke, Samuels and Evans have had far bigger impact on this season than the actions of Rahic.

    In my opinion Julian Rhodes and Stuart McCall have a far bigger responsibility for this season’s failure to gain promotion than Rahic, it’s just far easier and more convenient for some to blame someone who hasn’t been at VP for over two years than look closer to home.

    It’s time to stop with the excuses and accept nothing less than the absolute best. Sparks seems to have that attitude.
     
  11. bantamdave41

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    Morning Mike.

    A well detailed response and a lot I agree with. Some of those players you list, crikey....

    My initial post was in relation to a certain poster on this site, whom said it would take 5 years for the club to recover from the Rahic era. As he 'left' in December 18, we are about halfway through that 'recovery' period.

    I thoroughly agree the excuses have to end.
     
  12. Mike Hunt

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    Apologies Dave, I should have made clear it was the five years and not your post I was referring to.
     
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    Like @bantamdave41@bantamdave41 I agree with a lot you say. I would add to those players Ismail and to a lesser extent Pritchard.

    I guess the damage done by Rahic could be compared to turning a ‘Super Tanker’ round, the momentum started is difficult to stop and put the ship back on course.

    Having said that, I look at how Bolton are doing with some degree of admiration, although I admit I don’t know whether or not they will be revisiting the rendezvous with the taxman/creditors. What struck me, is they took a gamble with the manager and importantly signed players in the summer.

    I would hope that with some judicious work in the transfer market, we would be able to assemble a balanced squad, which meant that we had enough players to fill spaces if crucial payers were injured.

    Watching the Harrogate game yesterday and the tiny ground they have, the chance for players, relatively speaking to play for a ‘big club’, at this level, you would think would be a massive attraction.
     
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    That certain poster has never backed up why. Just a statement.
     
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    Wow even Sky Sports taking the p&ss out of us.

    Saying that when we were in the PL that Harrogate were in the 8th league and now they are both in the same league with Harrogate doing the double over them.

    Shameful!!
     
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    Not a lot wrong with this.....
     
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    Sparks wants success, that is clear from his continual correspondance. Question is how badly does our current owner want it? Because thats why clubs like Forest Green, Salford, Fleetwood and even Harrogate are now our equal and in some cases even better. Owner like Andy Pilley, Dale Vince, Gary Neville etc all have one thing in common. A ruthlessness and desire to be successful. If our owner doesn't have this ambition and vision then we're just pissing in the wind no matter what statements Sparks puts out.
     
  18. Petrov

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    Another embarrassing stat to accompany this one - yesterday's loss to Harrogate was our 400th in league 2. Don't expect the club will be putting out a tweet about that particular milestone.
     
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    The players are letting us down right when we really need them to up their game. Where was the tempo yesterday?

    Crawley and Harrogate should have been despatched clinically and we should be sat in 7th place BUT we aren't and that is solely down to the players on the pitch.

    If we had Cooke and Canavan fit I could see us comfortably in the play offs but we don't have the players good enough to back fill hence why we look like a mid table team devoid of ideas on the pitch.

    At this level a team with 2 or 3 really decent players can go places. We need to get those players for next season.

    We definitely need to bolster GK RB LB CM and CF as a minimum
     
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    Is it solely down to the players? I'm not sure. Ever since the Bolton game the players look like they're playing to a very cautious and pragmatic instruction. And our use of the ball looks increasingly to be poorly coached.

    The squad is poor, but its better than the last 7 or 8 performances indicate.
     
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