Stefan Rupp Interview

Ultimately, he's spent 10 years learning about football and how to own a club.

We appear to be taking an approach that we were desperate for after SM's first season here, but Rahic royally screwed that up.

Honestly, I'm loving how the club has made the progress it has in the last 18 months. It seemed very unlikely, but it's been done and hopefully it'll continue as we build on last season.

 

Lucky or smart compared to say Nagle?

 

The behind the scenes structure has improved no end, we now see the rewards of excellent stewardship.,

Sparks has learned how to do the job by making mistakes and the club is now seeing the rewards
Ditto Rupp has become an engaged owner
The introduction of David Sharpe , overseeing the footballing side has been a relevation .
Commercial revenues remain on an upward trajectory .

 

Reading between the lines, it seems there was a lot to sort over the years in terms of how the club was run and how we sought corporate sponsorships, investments etc. So whilst it might have been nice to have a sugar daddy to come in and throw money at City, it might have ended up going down black holes just trying to tread water.

But having some stability at the top, along with what seems like a more competent board & backroom has got to a position where we can (or at least should) be able to hold our own at L1 level whilst building for a Championship push. After over 20 years of spiralling backroom chaos, that can only be a good thing, and that puts us into a better place for future investment or takeovers which could mean we attract better options instead of dodgy actors with a bit of cash to splash. I feel more confident in how the club is being run that I have since the early Richmond days.

Bantam Progressivism is making a comeback!

 

OK having the moment in the sun but it's what goes on after do we really want another epic fook up like we had in the early 2000s where we nearly went bust and magically thousands of HARDCORE City fans went missing................just see what happens over the next few years because I think a hell of a lot of clubs are gonna be in bother because they also wanted there day in the sun

 

Well he is German after all .

 

There will be more downs than ups (that’s the way football works), the foundations have been laid for the club to move forward and I would like to see us progress as we have done over the past few years, throwing money at getting the club higher up the leagues is not the way to go. We need to continue to build the club to allow us to be sustainable and still be competitive too whether it’s in this league or however high we get.

 

We’ll see, people have been saying clubs will go pop for years. Just look at Sheffield Wednesday, clubs have more lives than a cat. Heck I don’t like it but I want my club to be competitive and sadly that means running at a loss.