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Hysteria is a bit strong Roger. I’m sure Ryan’s intention are the best, but he was very vocal in the summer about the upcoming season, he did a good job in starting to tidy up the stadium, the marketing was good, season ticket sales and sponsorship was strong and there was a real feel good atmosphere.

The reality is different, recruitment has been poor, we can’t buy a goal and the strikers signed are as bad as predicted by most, the football is dreadful and I’d argue the league position is falsely high when you look at the games in hand the teams below have. Add in that the manager is saying the same daft stuff week in week out about chances, xG, how we’re playing well and generally doing what he’s done before and getting people’s backs up, well to me it feels like as fans we’ve been led up the garden path a bit.

We have no right to promotion but in any other business transaction if the reality was so far different from the promises I’d be asking for a refund. That’s the problem, fans and local businesses have backed the club and they haven’t kept their side of the bargain in following up their big promises last summer. Ryan said anything but promotion is failure, why should the same fans and businesses back a failure again this coming summer? I’d like Ryan and Stefan to answer that.

 

I don't think it's hysteria, it's anger, and it's totally justified imo. The anger or 'hysteria' if you want, wasn't there with Parky because the club at that point hadn't made statements at the start of the season about 'anything less than promotion will be seen as failure' and 'we don't accept mediocrity at this football club'. The expectations for this season were set by the club, so it is understandable wouldn't you agree, that people feel cheated right now?

 

I’m sorry, but Adams is done and the longer he stays the more toxic the relationship between fans (the clubs only asset remember) and Ryan & Stefan will become. Next season will be a disaster with 1000s not renewing season tickets and another wasted season in L2 with this dour muppet in charge,

The calls for him to go aren’t coming from ‘keyboard warriors making noise on #bcafc’ but from the core support. Look at WOAP, City Gent, key members of The Supporters Board… Christ I think even Bantam Pete has turned against Adams!

Time to call it Ryan, Stefan for the sake of yours and the clubs future.

 

Parky won 1 in 21 and I was still backing him.
The usual suspects wanted him out.

I was still behind him because of the success he had brought in keeping us up. Getting us promoted. Taking us to a cup final. He had lots of credit in the bank and had demonstrated he understood what it took to take the club forwards on the pitch and although He was a bit one eyed like Adams didn’t chuck players under the bus in public. IE cleverly managed the club.
He wasn’t perfect but had a plan that you could see being implemented on the pitch and that plan took a team of players to deliver more as a group than their ability perhaps suggested. Adams is the opposite of this.

I understand you wanting to defend the club. I want to defend the club. It’s my club too. But Adams management at city has done nothing to suggest he is capable of taking us forwards to date whilst alienating fans with bizarre post match comments. I can’t imagine the players are a happy group. Would you warm to a manager who treats errors from some players by lambasting them in public yet others who maybe he has worked with and brought to the club seem to be viewed differently when making crucial errors. You can’t have that it creates division within a group.

 

Why is Flynn too big for us?. I'm not sure he has been in demand since he left Newport.

 

Part of your role as manager is to get the best out of the players in your squad. And if that squad isn't good enough you have transfer windows to change it. Adams so far has not excelled in either. And yet Trueman and Sellars, two completely inexperienced managers managed to get a tune out of a group of players that Bowyer didn't so a change of manager could get you playing better. Just because fans are sick of seeing managers being sacked is not a reason to keep hold of one who is failing badly.
That said I don't think the club will sack him despite what happens this season. What Sparks will bank on is Adams getting it right next season so he can tell everyone how right he was to keep his appointment on. Dangerous game though when your fans do not relate to the managers style of football or his persona. If fans keep relating to what he did with little old Morecambe (no disrespect) then he should be doing far better than what I am seeing at Bradford City.

 

The problem is that Adams now controls the club because of Sparks lack of football knowledge, Adams demanded a 3 year contract when an 18 month rolling contract should have been given, Adams demanded the sacking of the football recruitment guy and Sparks gave in, Sparks relies on Adams for all football matters and that is a mistake he needs to rectify

 

Jones and Morais? Ive heard it all now.

 

It’s clear that Adams view of what he watches each week is extremely blinkered. Ex pros commentating in recent games see a similar game and issues that many of the fans are talking about. Adams doesn’t or in protecting himself talks about other stats or singles out players for criticism. Management is about getting the best out of the players you have. I don’t see that. POC watt and Cooke three players who have been here a time and are young enough to have improved have not reached the levels they are capable of consistently. I cite these three as I believe they are some of the best we possess and feel the system tactics and coaching lead to this regression. Adams seems to have reverted into a bunker type mentality which Fergie used to get the best out of Man U players BUT Adams publically blaming the players isn’t something I remember happening at Man U. Adams is failing and doesn’t take responsibility for the team and performances. I can’t buy into this and although it is damaging as we need continuity Adams may have seemed the right choice last summer but patently is not.

 

Problem with leaving it until the end of the season is the club is in danger of fans turning against Rupp and Sparks fully.

Fans will start to vote with their feet against Adams and do the same against Sparks & Rupp.

The club needs to highlight its not taking fans are mugs and give rid of Adams now then go on a PR mission.

The club just needs to be honest and say” we felt we had to make a change for the fans” - say that then Sparks might stand a chance. Dont do nothing and the pressure will build on him-massively!

 

Good post but if Sparks wants to gamble in keeping Adams here next season then he’s a donut that’s out of touch with the fans. WE DON’T LIKE ADAMS! so keeping him here next season will result in some fans not going to games. The club will become toxic and protests against Sparks & Rupp will start.

Basically, it will be a foolish move and I don’t think Sparks is that foolish. Adams needs to go and go quickly.

 

Absolutely this.

 

Just posted similar without seeing your post. If the club can't accept that they have created this situation, we have a problem.

 

Be great to hear from Stefan Rupp or Ryan Sparks tomorrow. Ryan seems to have gone into hiding.

 

Adams has done the old success on a small budget, that needs to be put to bed as a reason the bring a manager in. I’m not sure Flynns the most likeable person, Newport fans weren’t bothered to see the back of him. I think we need to move away of looking at people who have a past with the club, unless they’re more than qualified. It’s easy to talk in the commentary box a good game, but doing it is another thing.

 

Morais, Flynn, Jones. There are managers out there who haven’t played for City before you know.

 

What bit of the Bradford City fans don’t like Adams don’t you understand mate?

You can’t compare the Parky days with Adams because we don’t like him. It was always different times and situation Parky was in.

 

That is because PP was always honest with his assessments and the fans, Adams has an aggressive confrontational personality that never accepts any fault on his own behalf, He is not open and honest with us, If he is so unliked by the fans he is almost certainly unliked by the players in private,

 

A manager, or a player, has a fixed term contract. They will be paid to the end of that contract if they leave or the difference paid if a player takes a lower paid job. Their job is to play or manage, even if they are doing it badly they are still doing that job. They effectively have a notice period to the end of their contract.
My job has a 6m notice period, plus a restriction on who and where and I can work after leaving if they want me to leave because I am underperforming they have to pay me that plus a figure recognition of the X years service. There is little than can’t be solved with a big enough cheque.

The only way to get someone out for free is gross misconduct and you need plenty of evidence for that .