Simon Parker's opinion on his 17 Bradford City bosses

Raynor on Twitter has the scoup. Yorkshire Post another. There are quite a few podcasts now that discuss recent news....

 

Parky had a core group of players for about 4/5 seasons (Wells, Jim, Rory, Darby, Mezza, Reidy etc), Dont really see that anymore. Hopefully the current crop remain as a unit with quality editions each summer.

 

I do but then I'm an ex printer.

 

I never really rated him at the time, but in retrospect admit I was wrong and he was a decent manager - struggling to stop a runaway juggernaut.

 

I'm not sure he did when you look back.

I accept we'd sold players from under him but I don't accept this "we wouldn't have been relegated with him in charge".

We'd won just once in 10 before he was sacked, had 16 points out of the last 20 games, were just 3 points off the relegation zone and we'd been dropping like a stone since the end of September.

Add to that, the fans were incredibly negative about his 'beige' tactics and it liked like he'd completely lost the remaining players. I'm absolutely certain that our season was ending in relegation under him.

The mistake the club made was not replacing him correctly as a new manager bounce was literally the only thing that might have saved us and Wetherall sadly wasn't the man that was ever going to give us that.

 

Julian was very complacent wasn’t he. Windass carried that team and bagging 28 or whatever it was, was remarkable at his age. We just couldn’t live without him.

We’ve had some rough years supporting this club, with many bad decisions made in the background taking us down the leagues.

makes the current period even more enjoyable!

 

We were above Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford.... and look where they are now

 

Taken over by billionaires?

 

No firewall for me clicking on those links. Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

 

You wouldnt mind if it was down to footballing issues why we went down but the majority oftimes over the last few decades was down to owners making a fooking mess of it

 

On the flip side well below Scunny and Yeovil and look at them

 

We have been relegated twice in my lifetime from the third tier, both were down to off-field issues, sadly, rather than footballing issues, although some on here don't believe the off-field matters can affect a club, etc.

 

Seen us drop 5 times
1990
2001
2004
2007
2019

The last four being down to fook ups at boardroom level thats what does your head in sometimes .........what happened over them four relegations was deffo down to errors at boardroom level.
Richmond and his ego in 2001
Rhodes and Gibbs fallout in 2004 and having to dealwith the aftermath of Richmond
Rhodes selling off our only chance of staying up and putting a rookie at the helm
Rahic and his bullshit knowledge of football in 2019

 

I dont want to go there mate add a few more to @AngryGaz list, thats why when we get the sort of times like we're having at the moment we have to enjoy.

 

The thing is it really has come out of knowhere no real build up to it at all had anyone said we would be sitting 2nd in league 1 at the start of this year you would have thought they where barmy .............the club for the first time in years has all the right pieces to go on and do something or the very least be a stable league one side which considering where we have come from will do me.
Saturday another plus 22k gate with a decent away following just bliss at the moment

 

I was there for 2001 and 2004. I was specifically referring to the drop from league 1 to 2. A club that is our size in the modern day can easily avoid it without the mess up at the top. I acknowledge it was different years ago when we were getting crowds of a few thousand. For some reason we seem to do better at league 1 level than 2, until it goes wrong at the top.

 

I enjoyed most of the Colin Todd era too. Beating town twice and Wednesday twice in the same season.

Lee Crooks, Steven Schumacher. Nicky Summerbee.

Around about the time the Shipley Bantams started.

 

I’m sure those upstairs will like the financial rewards of the high gates and very decent away followings, but as you allude to, it’s great to see visiting fans turning up in really good numbers. It all adds to the occasion. Long may it continue.

 

Jermaine Johnson, MBW, Omar Daley, Donovon Ricketts, Paul Henderson, Gus Uhlembeek (or was he Nicky Law era?) big Dele Adebola and Deano bagging for fun too!

 

Darren Holloway goal away at Hull