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Time to draw a line under the negativity for the rest of this season

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Skp, Jan 31, 2020.

  1. Sergio Pinto III

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    This hasn't aged well. Still feel the same?
     
  2. donhutchinsaffro

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    Pray tell who we can beat? Everyone looks like Barcelona when they play us and I mean even teams who can’t buy a win, a bit like last season. Keep clapping my North Korean friend.....or is chemical Ali your Papa? Not depressed not upset just a bad reality we are in a bad place. 2 k supporters there yesterday so we are doing our bit alas Gazza tango and the lads are not
     
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  3. Biker

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    Really really really dark days for the club.

    ive slept on it and still feel the same. Bowyer and Drury MUST be relieved of their duties first thing on Monday morning, and a new face brought in at the very least to the end of the season.

    if they aren't removed and the longer this goes on, i fear the whole future of this football club is in jeopardy, supporters cant take any more of this failure and less and less will turn up to games with that man in charge.

    Desperate times.
     
  4. Fools Gold

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    Your right , the longer this goes on the more fans will switch off and go do other things it’s than a lot harder to get people back involved again . I don’t remember it ever been like this . The whole club is ruined and the German takeover has failed drastically. We may be better points off wise than 12/13 season or was up until recently but we had a full support behind us , a manager in charge who cared and a team full of players we could all relate too . This time we have nothing . There is not one player in that squad who I would be bothered if that stayed or left . Bowyer has too go now . We need to make a appointment with a 3/5 year plan in place . Clear the decks at the end of this season and start again in the summer . We need a Baldwin : mason type bloke in who can sell the club and keep us engaged . The current set up is run by people who don’t even support the club and I don’t think this works . There’s no passion about the place . The sooner we can start again the better for us all
     
  5. Lancashire Bantam

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    Just how low can we sink? It really scares me to think it only seemed a few seasons ago we had a team of lions that were proud of wearing claret and amber, now I don’t recognise this team as being Bradford City any more.
    The crowds are demonising every game and we are having the heart ripped out of our club, but the really sad part is I don’t know how it’s going to end?
     
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  6. Fools Gold

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    The next appointment is crucial . Balls this up and we’re going to lose thousands of fans that we built up Over the last eight years
     
  7. Rogered Tart

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    That was a new low yesterday if that's possible. In the space of a week I've seen two of the worst performances in 40 years, proper drubbings by clubs who were badly struggling themselves. Both results should have been at least 6 - 0. We haven't had a performance of the likes of what Oldham or Mansfield produced all season. When I said a month or two ago that Bowyer had been lucky I was lambasted but I was right, the performances didn't merit a playoff place let alone the automatics.
    Summer time is the only time this club can start to heal, the wounds are too deep. But that needs a clear out from top to bottom, the January transfer window showed that no one at the top really cares about the direction we are heading. I love this club, I always will but the organisation itself stinks the place out.

    I know it won't happen but Rupp out, Rhodes out and Bowyer out.
     
  8. NorthernMonkey

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    Aye, clap harder you b******s. That'll make everything alright.

    While you do though, have a genuine think how we get behind and support a team that has had just 12, yes TWELVE shots on target in the last 8 games and yesterday a previously poorly placed Oldham team had NINE.

    Oh and it isn't just poor finishing. In the last four games we've had 25 shots whilst showing our 4 opponents 75, that's 3 shots faced everytime we have 1.

    Any ideas how to clap that absolute bag of s*** performances?
     
  9. Skp

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    It looks very unlikely that we can recover our early season form, but the problems likely run much deeper than the manager. We had two managerial changes last season and it didn't arrest our slide into league two, if the same thing happens again and we continue our slide into lower mid table then the new manager will start next season as a marked man and the cycle potentially continues.

    I can understand sacking Bowyer now if it's going to turn around our form and increase season ticket sales, but i'd say the prospect is unlikely and if it doesn't work we have just handed the new man a poisoned chalice.
     
  10. Biker

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    Whilst its now clear Lawn and Rhodes sold out to the first bloke with a cheque book, a football clubs whole identity and atmosphere is influenced exponentially by results on the field.

    It is my view this situation on the pitch is primarily down to the coaching staff and has led to what must now be rock bottom team morale, We are not as bad as our recent results suggest.

    I firmly believe we still have an outside chance to rescue the season if urgent action is taken on Monday to get a new manager in the building.
     
  11. Mike Hunt

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    You’re spot on with the long term plan, getting a Mason or a Baldwin who type in. Look what Peter Deakin did for Bulls 25 years ago. Or even Andy Holt at Accrington. I don’t think you’ll ever get that with Rhodes, the club needs a proper figurehead. Say what you want about Edin, he had a plan, shouted about it, and put someone else’s money where his mouth was. Completely ballsed it up granted but he had a plan. Until Lawn and Rhodes got lucky with Parky, we were in the same state as now.

    I think the the malaise at City and Bulls is a reflection of the decline of Bradford as a city and that’s not going to change anytime soon.

    My worry is that Rupp gets so fed up he decides to sell at a knock down price and Rhodes buys it.
     
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  12. Faithful Bantam

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    Rupp wont be going anywhere until he can pocket the McBurnie money in the summer.
     
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  13. Biker

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    Rhodes should consider stepping away from the club for good. Not content with flogging us to a nut job and his rich mate, he is still here managing to screw us over with his dumb actions.
     
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  14. Faithful Bantam

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    Now's not the time for slagging the players Northern. They need us more than ever. Promotion will be decided by which clubs are most pulling in the right direction. With our following we can be the 12th man. Or if Henley is playing, at least the 11th.

    We can't be divided on this.

    It's time for unity.
    It's time for belief.
    It's time for scarf parade.
     
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  15. The Granby Mullet

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    There's something called a log out option. If you don't like it, sling your hook. Keep burying your head in the sand and let GB keep making us into a laughing stock, that's the spirit. Sorry I forgot it's our fault. #JGBTLFFS
     
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    every thing will be fine again if we have a scarf parade , that,s we we lost yesterday ,no scarf parade .
     
  17. Mike Hunt

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    I thought it was a collective will to do well? I’m confused now. I’ll just clap harder. That will make Taylor actually resemble a footballer.
     
  18. The Granby Mullet

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    #JGBTLFFS promotion here we come.
     
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  19. Faithful Bantam

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    A collective will to do well is important. Remember, nobody wants success for this club more than Gary Bowyer.
     
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  20. The Granby Mullet

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    It's in his DNA remember. There's no way it can be denied.
     
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