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Well Fordy is a hugely wealthy man, so he can be forgiven for being a bit out of touch with us commoners.

 

All about how you build a team, Parky was brilliant at it in his time here. He stuck rigid to a formula and recruited players around this. No one really expected the success of players like Jones, Meredith, Darby, etc. Wells was his joker card and every manager needs one or two, Vaughan should be one of them at this level. The players McCall has brought in so far aren't bad buys, I'll reserve judgement on DMH who is 23 and hasn't done anything. This young kid Elliot Watt could be another Josh Cullen, who knows. But with all the players currently looking for work it would be nice to see us sign a few players without a link to either McCall or the club.

 

At this moment nobody knows , how it is going to pan out. Thre three clubs you mentioned are taking a calculated risk. It does appear that a salary cap is going to be favoured by most clubs in league 2 and who can blame them, as it will put the smaller clubs on a par with the larger or more affluent clubs by reducing there spending power.
By the way Fordy , i have never seen a positive post from you on any point regarding Bradford city. If you are this wealthy business man you say you are, why not front a consortium , to buy out Rupp , sack Rhodes , buy the ground back from Gibb,s pension fund and build our own training facility, i am sure it would only cost you the best part of £20 million, then you can show us all how a football club should be run.

 

As far as I can see there's no salary cap enforced currently (but correct me if I've missed it), so surely it's business as usual.
Retrospective sanctions would be ludicrous and wouldn't stand up in any court.
I live on a road which had a 30 mph speed limit and two speed cameras. In March as part of "traffic calming" the limit was reduced to 20 mph, can I expect tickets for the several thousand times I've driven at over 20 in the past?

 

Have you got something wrong with you ?

 

Surely a player such as vaughan who is already under contract wouldn’t count towards a salary cap? We should be using that as an advantage. But seems we are cost cutting as Rupp will only fund the bare minimum

 

Never mind ok, Will Atkinson was dire. I remember him improving from completely invisible to just about noticing him and everyone making up some nonsense about his ball retention being good.

So would mine be if as a winger I passed it sideways or back to the fullback the first chance I got.

Pop Atkinson on the Tony Mcmahon list. We can and we must do much, much better.

 

Part of me would love them to announce Tony McMahon and Will Atkinson, not the part that actually has to watch them play but the reading on here and Twitter part.

 

If we signed him you would be moaning he is too old.

 

But then maybe that is why it is a little unfair to write him off. Agree completely that the circumstances did not help at all. However, to write him off after 20 minutes against Stevenage just seems a little harsh. As I said I would agree he looked poor against Stevenage, maybe playing against a defence who knew his strengths/weaknesses well. I cannot fathom why I feel like I am sticking up for him, I just feel like he has been written off with very little opportunity to see what he can actually do.

 

In the conversation of judging a player before they play based off their previous form.... worth noting in the calendar year before he signed, Kurtis Guthrie scored 13 in 31 starts for a struggling Stevenage in our division. Which is a way better goal return that anyone in our squads previous 12 months before signing for us, and he has seemingly been written off by the fan base after 92 uneventful minutes in a city shirt. Didn't help he looked woeful, but just shows going off what a player does elsewhere wont necessarily show how he will fit into our tactic.

Guthrie's 13 in 31 for a poor 4th tier team gives him an average of a goal every 2.38 starts
Tshmanga's 19 in 37 starts for a succeeding 5th tier team gives him and average of a goal every 1.95 starts

Not a million miles apart when considering Boreham Wood were creating and scoring way more per game with 55 goals in 37 games through the team, compared to Stevenage they had only scored 21 goals between the squad in 30 games, Guthrie was top scorer with 5.

 

It is what it is, Rupp's stuck by us so far lets see how the coming season pans out.

 

1400 desperate out of contract players. A raft of quality players available at a fraction of the price they normally would be, but we might just sign 5 kids on loan because they're free.

More fool me for expecting anything better with Rhodes running the ship.

 

If they are the right calibre of player I dont have a problem maxing out on loans until we see the way forward with regards Covid etc.

 

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Jordy Hiwula given a free by Coventry he's still only 25, I think Stuart wanted to keep him last time he was here but was out bid by Fleetwood I believe ?.

 

I can confirm it's not me .

 

All quiet on that front. Strangely, Power hasn’t been seen or said one word since we got promoted - no word of thanks to Wellens and the players. The judge told all parties to sort it out between themselves and not to go back to court. I honestly don’t think he’ll be around for long but have no idea who’ll possibly take over. I think his exit strategy was to chuck (somebody else’s) money at getting promoted and then sell a L1 club. Covid has probably but the kibosh on that. As you lot know only too well, us fans have no control over who buys/controls/ruins our club.

 

Theres nothing they can do about it if clubs like Mansfield want to sign players now. They're not breaking any rules.