Most liked posts in thread: Where do you think we will finish.

You can’t compare a squad with the likes of Campbell, McCall, Jackson and Hendrie in it, and with two internationals in Yorath and Cherry around with the squad of day. There’s not one of today’s lot fit to lace the boots of the 84/85 team.

 

Gilliead and Kelleher have 18m left on their contracts, Robinson, Evans, Foulds and Lavery six months.
You’ve got to convince someone to take their contracts over or pay them off. Let’s say we do a bit of both but that’s a couple of hundred grand, then you have to sign six quality players, that’s another big spend.

We apparently maxed out the budget to sign Robinson, a player so valued by Adams he won’t play him when the players are on their arses.

That’s the reality of the club that Stefan Rupp built. There’s no money. A big hike in season ticket prices so you pay for his mistakes over the last five years so that he can sell and get his money back.

There is no white knight arriving in January, this is the future of Bradford City under Rupp. Bargain basement football and hoping to get lucky by getting promoted.

 

Where is the money coming from to fund January? We've got what is probably a nominal fee from Crankshaw to add to the already maxed out budget from the summer. That isn't going to be enough to sign the 5 first XI ready players we need. Unless Rupp invests, January will be yet another disappointment.

 

Yep, i have seen far too many lets wait till January messages creeping in here lately.
They must have been asleep at the end of August when Derek wanted to bring in another midfielder and a forward to offset the Angol injury and the taps were turned off.
rupp aint helping out, if anything he is looking to help himself get some monies back.
Wont be long before the one out, one in rumours start up.

 

Definitely the latter. Look at all the 'best January window for years' comments earlier this year that turned out to be some what premature. Vernam and Canavan have turned out to be decent enough signings and Cook who was on loan at that time and is now our player I would also put in that bracket. The only other player singed in January that is still at the club is Foulds because we offered him a new contract - is he good enough if the aim this year is promotion? I'd say no.
The summer signing of Angol wasn't seen as a good signing at the time, but he made an excellent start for us before his injury and we can only hope that he continues from where he left off when he returns, and that he manages to stay injury free for the rest of the season (doubtful imo).
Eisa might yet turn out to be a decent signing, but he's already missed nearly a quarter of the season and it looks like he is going to miss a considerable amount more.
I think Songo'o is a decent addition but no more than that at the moment. I have a feeling that he is not 100% fit and hope that he will get better.
Ridehalgh has done alright. Threlkeld is no better than FCD imo. Gilliead flattered to deceive in his two previous spells at the club and continues to do so, Kelleher is a non league footballer, and nobody ever thought Lavery and Robinson were good signings full stop, never mind 'on paper'.

So what we have is a handful of 'decent enough' players, and whilst 'decent enough' players don't get you relegated, they don't get you promoted either.

 

Sorry mate can't agree our performance in the first 52 minutes was outstanding, unfortunatly our finishing wasn't, wonder where I heard that before.

 

I'm sorry that's just wrong. They made themselves look bad, jeez they struggled to even pass 5 yards. We played some decent enough football but I've never seen a team look so utterly incompetent. Worst side I've seen in the division by some distance. And they walk away with a point.
In no way can that be classed as a good performance.

 

I haven't got to number three yet. Thankfully, number two upped her game just in time.

 

Top. We will click soon. 84/85 we didn't hit top until mid November and then romped it.

 

Why wasn't Adams asked about transfers then? He must have known who was coming in? Lets not forget Adams is now back tracking on he was involved in the decisions in Jan.

If the CEO and manager can't get their communication levels right then this won't end well.

 

Any team looking at promotion as a realistic aim would be putting games like yesterday to bed in the first 45 minutes. The fact we were hanging on for a draw by the end is a good indicator of where we currently are. I've gone 8th tn 12th.

 

Gone 8th to 12th.

Not seen enough yet to convince me that we can get promoted.

Thr January transfer window will be really crucial as to how we finish the season.

 

Out fishing early today !

 

I have issues with Adams but we are one point of the play offs and the first half performance yesterday was probably better than anything we have seen in recent years. There is still a lot to play for

 

To add context that first half display was against the worst 45 minutes of away team football I've seen for many a year yet we only have 1 goal to our name. Our first half display wasn't as good as Adams likes to think it was.

 

But finishing is part and parcel of football. People don't seem to be taking into account just how bad Bristol Rovers were that first half, credit to Barton for turning it around.

 

That “Crankshaw money being saved for January” will be forgotten about due to an exit from the FA cup in the first round/Covid passports reducing capacity/being knocked out of the JPT Pizza Cup*

*delete or add an excuse as you see fit

 

I voted 8th to 12th but, really thinking about it, I might be over optimistic with that and we may well be heading for lower mid table.

We've won 1 of our last 10 games, in the league the highest placed team we've beaten as things stand are 17th, and 9 of our 12 opponents to date are in the bottom half.

There's another thread on here about our xG being high and showing we are underperforming, I wonder how that will stand up once we play more of the better teams?