"It could be worse".
Can't wait for 2030 and struggling to get out of the Conference North while idiots type the immortal line of "yeah but, we could be Bury" ...........
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NorthernMonkey Squad PlayerP.L. 20/21 Entrant P.L.23/24 EntrantTodmordenBantam, Faithful Bantam, Ponty City and 5 others like this.
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bantamlad92 Squad PlayerP.L. 21/22 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Entrant
This man is taking us lot for absolute mugs of a colossal magnitude.
He doesn't even have to run a remotely successful football club to have the fans turn up year after year en-masse. Heck, he can even run a club on the regress and he'll be sat there in Germany while we all keep him afloat. All the while we are being subjected to dismal on-field misery on a weekly basis overrun by a complete rookie and non-football people hired on the cheap.
We've had endless false promises from Rupp. We've made absolutely no forwards progression under him - we've only gone backwards in terms of league positioning and playing staff. The communication from the club has been abysmal on all fronts.
We're run like non-league fodder. In fact, non-league clubs are almost certainly better run than we are.
What an absolute mess the once proud Bradford City AFC are in.Onside, Fordy117, TodmordenBantam and 3 others like this. -
Hulmebantam Squad PlayerP.L. 21/22 Entrant SupporterStop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Inspector, Bantam-in-Greece, Fordy117 and 3 others like this.
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Sustainability is a nonsense anyway. What they actually mean is not adding any debt.
When in reality debt = growth. Being sustainable means being able to service your debt not sitting there living month to month for your paycheck (or season to season for season ticket sales, in City's case).
I have a 250k mortgage. That's debt. But I can make the repayments so it's fine. This club needs to get its head round the fact that without leveraging sensible debt we will never grow.borderlescott, WilsdenBantam, Inspector and 3 others like this. -
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Who exactly are these “right people” though? Do the “wrong people” actually exist??
Rupp turned down the wagmi lot, saying it didn’t feel right. Well Crawley are above us in the table as it stands, so to me he 100% made the wrong decision to sell
Him and sparks are talking absolute bollocks that they turned wagmi down based on their intentions/experience etc. He turned them down cos the coin wasn’t enough, simple as
Time Rupp went, along with Sparks and Gent. We’ve had to ensure this shite for long enough now, and “Mr Head of Communications” or whatever the feck else he calls himself nowadays is nowhere to be seen. It is shithousery of the highest order and we are all being taken for mugs!bantamlad92, Stevay_b and BantamJ like this. -
The club is a shambles. Need professional people and an owner who knows the football industry in all departments.
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DimitriPayet Squad PlayerP.L.23/24 Entrant
We need a City fan to become a YouTube boxer. They make millions and then can afford to buy us!
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The football club incurring debt at all one time would be fine and manageable and sustainable, but it doesn't guarantee success, and generally isn't how it works either. You don't just buy debt once, the expectation is to keep spending even after you've spent.
So we could be looking at a club that is £0 in debt and in the exact same situation as if we were £5,000,000 in debt.
Money is easily squandered and wasted in football - and at this level, there's little need for it.
No, what would be better is if we had an owner who knew what he was doing and employed football people to run his football club. That should be more than enough to get us out of League Two.
Unfortunately there is stiff, stiff resistance to that from the owner, the board, and many fans for some reason.CRASS likes this. -
But what I do think is that until we're willing to invest properly as a club, then we'll forever yo yo between the arse end of the Football League.JonButterfield likes this. -
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Most of all we need to get to the Championship level so we can actually keep our super talented young players that we end up signing, but never retain because we're a dross club.
Sure, it's great that we got a bit of money for the teenagers that left for Premier League clubs, but if we were where we should be, I'd like to think we'd have enough to keep some of them until they turned into senior pros.Ashton Bantam likes this. -
Birky Bantam Impact SubP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
Struggling to see how all of this is worth sitting 1 point ahead of us after 16 games.
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Why did Stefan even buy this club ? idiot... LEAVE NOW!
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Chris Redfield Fringe PlayerP.L.23/24 Entrant
Last seen drifting down Willy Wonka's chocolate river.
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Everyone.... Please put the ribena down
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