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Park bantam · Oct 29, 2023

Ashton Bantam said: ↑

I hope to god that isn't true. No wonder we've gone nowhere.
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He is one of very few people over here and I believe stops at his house. There is no suggestion that it’s any more than that

Park bantam · Oct 29, 2023

It’s amusing how these little rumours appear always after a couple of bad defeats

Park bantam · Oct 30, 2023

SydneyBantam said: ↑

your boy friend roger owen sat next to social media fella sparks on Saturday.

I still got the recorded clip of Roger spouting off, I know he's on here too.

Club is a mess from top to bottom
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Wow what a deep and meaningful post. What the xxxx has that got to do with anything. One thing for sure you only come alive when things are bad.

Silverbantam · Oct 30, 2023

SydneyBantam said: ↑

your boy friend roger owen sat next to social media fella sparks on Saturday.

I still got the recorded clip of Roger spouting off, I know he's on here too.

Club is a mess from top to bottom
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Fordy117 · Oct 30, 2023

SydneyBantam said: ↑

pretty sure Rhodes is a dodgy fella going by social media but yet width of post will keep crediting him

thats whats wrong with this fan base, still fans of julian and edin. sad buggers.
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The Width OF The Post are a pointless outlet. They’re scared to tell it how it really is and don’t want to upset Sparks and Rupps. Set of cowards! The fans know that the problem with this club is Sparks and Rupps.

Issue with this club is that certain groups and the senior management think the fan base are a set of fools and mugs.

This club is starting not to deserve its fan base.

Fordy117 · Oct 30, 2023

Silverbantam said: ↑

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Unfortunately, for us @wetherbywhaler is part of the problem and needs to do the right thing!! No better day mate!

Onside · Oct 30, 2023

Dennis said: ↑

That's a good summary of where we are currently and captures the issues well.

I start from a slightly different position to yours and that relates to Rupp's own priority for the club. He has little interest in football; I doubt that he has much understanding of lower league football and has no emotional attachment to the Bradford area. His sporting interest lies elsewhere. His priority appesrs to be to avoid having to dip into his own pocket to underwrite the club or to invest in its future. And he doesn't have to do that now with the good work which David Longo, the Commercial Durector and the likes of Mick Shackleton have done in bringing more commercial income into the club. But it will be required to take the next step forward

It would have been good to have seen some of the extra money being directed to the playing budget but that hasn't been the case. As an aside, this year's playing budget of £2.8m as Sparks said in his recent article in the Athletic is in line with what it was 2 and 3 seasons ago. That was a big surprise to me. I'm of the view that we are in a standstill. Rupp doesn't want to commit more funds to the playing side and is simply waiting for the right buyer to come along and buy the club at the price he wants.

I keep hoping that the delay in appointing a new manager is linked to an imminent takeover but it may just be wishful thinking on my part. The delay may be just another indicator that Rupp isn't really bothered about the club's future other than getting the books to balance. The squad will need yet another rebuild and that will cost money. Any new manager worth his salt would understand that and require assurances that it will be provided. It's speculation on my part but maybe that's a sticking point for some giving rise to a delay in the recruitment of a new manager? Time will tell.
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Could Rupp be taking the extra money out of the club because he realises he can’t get his original investment back? Plus he want interest on what he has paid in. That might be holding things up?

If that is the case then it is no wonder there is gloom everywhere.

Park bantam · Oct 30, 2023

Rogered Tart said: ↑

WOAP has some good articles on there but will generally flip flop depending on the result on Saturday afternoon. The general air of malaise amongst the fans isn't down to the last two results nor is it down Kev MacDonald who has been thrown in the deep end. Its down to decisions made over the last five or six years under the ownership of Rahic/ Rupp and now individually Rupp. Things like sacking Hughes but with no real idea of what the next step is other than to throw McDonald in. I don't always agree with you Fordy but i do usually agree with your generalisation that the club has no go forward strategy. We should have had a new manager in by now, its unfair on the players and the fans.
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It was only last weekend when many were saying keep Mac on for th we time being after he had won three and drawn one

13eta · Oct 30, 2023

From what I remember Rupp put in money to cover Rahic’s over spend and for Covid losses. Took money back from the McBurnie sale and may still have a £1M+ interest free loan the club owe him.
Let’s not forget our youth sales too which generate a bit of income

Onside · Oct 30, 2023

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£2.8m / 25 players is £2243 per player per week. (I’m making an assumption that the loans in and out are cancelling each other out)
Seems a pretty decent figure and I’m including a few of the promoted youth players in that.
I’d say that’s pretty competitive, just not been spent well
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It is but we needed a very decent striker and midfielder. Defenders x2. We haven’t got any of those.

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