Rupp & Sparks Out?

But not Sparks actioning msg to his failure on football matters.
Did you hear the sack the board chats at the weekend? The boos at the end were aimed at Sparks. It’s only going to get worse!

 

Isn't he (or seems to be) forever in touch with Darragh at Peterborough and on his podcasts? Darragh has been vocal in the past about how successful we should be and what a prospect we are I'm sure I recall? Given all that, you'd think that Sparks would be picking Darragh's brains, watching and listening to his every move and words and Darragh passing some of that on? Not sure it seems like that though....

 

A juvenile chant from a few kids in the North West stand which I and many more never heard, and how do you come to that concussion that the boos were aimed at Sparks.

 

Don’t be sure that DMc is saying anything any different to Sparks than… “ignore the doubters”.
The DMc relationship with the Posh fans , average attendance half ours, isn’t exactly sweetness and light.

 

That's not what I was getting at though Kev.

They have been 'successful' in his time haven't they....getting to Championship level on those attendances. I was thinking more in terms of tapping his and Barry Fry's experience - 'football' club structure, 'football' knowledge, 'football' experience, 'football' transfer policy etc. that kind of thing.

 

Because Sparkz wants to be seen as one of the boys. Ego. Doesn’t want to be asking advice. Sadly the very wrong attitude. He should be taking anything that comes his way. For what it’s worth, I don’t trust DMC much. Absolute big mouth who thinks swearing and being bolshy makes him some sort of hard man Gordon Ramsay type. For those who watched it…He’s Dan and Sparks is Alan Partridge.

 

I've not seen or heard enough from DMC to make an opinion tbh but thought he would be a prime candidate to be asking that sort of thing from.... but it's very short sighted and egotistical if Sparks doesn't want to seek advice....especially with his current track record on the footballing side of things!!

 

Some people give their opinion before the game is played

 

The whole Sparkes thing about how he came to appoint Alexander is telling. As others have mentioned, the fact that he had to sound other people out suggests that we do need someone on board who is a “football” person. Doing well on the commercial side but football is not his thing.

 

Absolutely , it’s Fry’s nouse and his agreements with Southern non league clubs that have sustained Posh . He got a player who played for the village team next door to where we lived and sold him for millions . Dwight Gayle .

 

Didn’t he say he sought advice from “ People I trust” . If it’s true ….. Radio Leeds interview on BBC sounds . The rest is irrelevant if it’s correct I think @Bronco posted the link ?

 

That could've been his mother, brother and cousin but what experience do they have in picking the right manager? Not a dig at you, but nameless people isn't being open and honest. He wants to be seen as top dog and his arrogance is beginning to grate. Nothing wrong with admitting you're struggling, but he falls back on the "giving top budgets" and expecting everything to fall into place. It's obviously more than that otherwise we'd be in league one by now, but he just doesn't get it.

 

Did you hear the chants? Yrs or no? Doesn’t matter who started them it’s starting and it will get worse.

Of course the booing at the end was for Sparks and Rupp plus people like @wetherbywhaler it wasn’t for the new manager or players.

Sparks is out of his depth and people like @wetherbywhaler and yourself are more interested in being his best mate. Rather than having the clubs best interests at heart,

The failing at the top is so bad that Sparks believes giving someone a good budget is the answer.. Come on you are not an idiot! Just accept when it comes to football matters our CEO is god dam clueless!

 

You obviously didn't read my post where I clearly say "A juvenile chant from a few kids in the North West stand which I and many more never heard" same old Fordy same old sh1te.
Your correct I'm not an idiot but I do worry about a few on here, and their understanding of what is expected of the position of a CEO.

 

Sparks is certainly under pressure for GA to work out.
The recruitment has been really poor. Sparks put too much trust in MH/SG regarding 3 year deals and Derbyshire & McDonald.
I get supporting your Manager, but some of these decisions are madness and Sparks should have pushed back.

 

The CEO has to have a plan involving football matters!

It doesn’t matter if kids started the chants. Still chants and it will get worse,

To think a CEO isn’t responsible for football matters is silly.

 

“We would have been in League One by now” . I wish you were right , alas , there are no such guarantees of anything of the kind. The most glaringly obvious example to the contrary is Salford, controlled, funded and led by multi millionaires with more football knowledge and experience than you can shake a stick at with a larger playing budget available than most L1 clubs in the last few seasons. Have they “ Got to League One by now” ? .

Im not having a go at you or anyone else , but some of the guesswork and comments on here just add to the narrative.

Yes it’s due to an absence of transparency you are spot on, but would it have changed anything, if we knew Mr X or Mr Y was involved and would it then to led another narrative, that Mr X and Mr Y are crap, cluless, of little experience, too much experience and so on ? It would just create another target and deflection from our woes.

Don’t mistake this for a defence, of Sparks, the Club, the owner, the manager who has been here a matter of hours before Saturday or anyone else associated with the club, far from it, rather it’s a challenge to the “ made up” narrative being used that just adds nothing to the bit that matters , improvements on the field of play.

Yes you are spot on , full transparency would help, but even then that would not bring a solution to the on field woes. The malaise goes well beyond any interview process for sure. Thankfully Rupp saw sense and got rid of the clueless idiot who caused this malaise in the first instance and has long since festered. That’s some legacy Rahic left behind .

 

But has not totally switched off from club. Yeah, let’s all thank Rupp for our failure now.

 

Completely agree. When it comes to football decisions our current league position and the number of managerial changes tells you Sparks ain't got much if owt right.