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Post by Hobhead on Dec 3, 2020 6:53:50 GMT
He might not be everyone’s cup of tea but imagine our hierarchy talking like this. Actually having the confidence to put themselves up against it. Contrast this with Sparks’ ‘shared will’ and you start to see why we’re slowly dying.
The inertia comes from the top down. We’ve no bollocks and no idea which in turn leads to no confidence.
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Post by Mossley Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 7:07:25 GMT
Imagine having someone with his drive and vision.
We would be Championship. 100%.
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Post by rahicscissorbudget on Dec 3, 2020 7:36:31 GMT
Has there ever been a proper link with him or is it just wishful thinking?
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Post by edin on Dec 3, 2020 7:53:56 GMT
Has there ever been a proper link with him or is it just wishful thinking? I've asked him in the past whether after Pboro he'd fancy it and he didn't say no
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 3, 2020 8:11:59 GMT
Has there ever been a proper link with him or is it just wishful thinking? He’s got a history of talking us up but no concrete link. It’s not necessarily about him specifically more the attitude towards pushing the club on. I know it’s easy to say from the sidelines but my point is more about how good it would be to hear something more like this from the people in charge of our club. I want some balls instead of this meek, hopeful, hand-wringing shit we have now.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 3, 2020 8:14:41 GMT
He might not be everyone’s cup of tea but imagine our hierarchy talking like this. Actually having the confidence to put themselves up against it. Contrast this with Sparks’ ‘shared will’ and you start to see why we’re slowly dying. The inertia comes from the top down. We’ve no bollocks and no idea which in turn leads to no confidence. Reading that makes you want to cry. We literally are the titanic sinking without trace yet McCall said this morning he would have played Evans upfront and is now thinking of rushing the pivotal Novak back. In your head your screaming 'enough is enough, no more'. And yet we as fans are helpless to stop this out of control descent to non league. If we lose Saturday I actually think we should just give up and call it quits. Stick a fork in us we're done.
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Post by Dick on Dec 3, 2020 8:41:18 GMT
He might not be everyone’s cup of tea but imagine our hierarchy talking like this. Actually having the confidence to put themselves up against it. Contrast this with Sparks’ ‘shared will’ and you start to see why we’re slowly dying. The inertia comes from the top down. We’ve no bollocks and no idea which in turn leads to no confidence. Reading that makes you want to cry. We literally are the titanic sinking without trace yet McCall said this morning he would have played Evans upfront and is now thinking of rushing the pivotal Novak back. In your head your screaming 'enough is enough, no more'. And yet we as fans are helpless to stop this out of control descent to non league. If we lose Saturday I actually think we should just give up and call it quits. Stick a fork in us we're done. I thought that too. Is he really that restrained financially regarding bringing in free agents, or is it his pure stubbornness with him preferring to rush another injured player back in (because it worked so well for Staunton) becuase he's put his foot down with free agent? Actually, thinking back, didn't he do the same thing in 2017 or 2018 - with Cullen or Jake Reeves? Forced him back in when unfit during a midfield injury crisis and made his injury worse. And this went on in a January transfer window I recall where he refused to bring support in. FFS, is this how other managers behave?
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 9:10:03 GMT
He might not be everyone’s cup of tea but imagine our hierarchy talking like this. Actually having the confidence to put themselves up against it. Contrast this with Sparks’ ‘shared will’ and you start to see why we’re slowly dying. The inertia comes from the top down. We’ve no bollocks and no idea which in turn leads to no confidence. He also said Sparks was 'brave' to take the job, but was on a 'hiding to nothing'. Adding that we needed a 'hard reset' inc new ownership and management. Hard to disagree
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 9:14:11 GMT
Reading that makes you want to cry. We literally are the titanic sinking without trace yet McCall said this morning he would have played Evans upfront and is now thinking of rushing the pivotal Novak back. In your head your screaming 'enough is enough, no more'. And yet we as fans are helpless to stop this out of control descent to non league. If we lose Saturday I actually think we should just give up and call it quits. Stick a fork in us we're done. I thought that too. Is he really that restrained financially regarding bringing in free agents, or is it his pure stubbornness with him preferring to rush another injured player back in (because it worked so well for Staunton) becuase he's put his foot down with free agent? Actually, thinking back, didn't he do the same thing in 2017 or 2018 - with Cullen or Jake Reeves? Forced him back in when unfit during a midfield injury crisis and made his injury worse. And this went on in a January transfer window I recall where he refused to bring support in. FFS, is this how other managers behave? Also remember the fans turning on Reeves, i think it was the Wimbledon game. Kinda felt for the guy.
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Post by Dick on Dec 3, 2020 9:18:48 GMT
I thought that too. Is he really that restrained financially regarding bringing in free agents, or is it his pure stubbornness with him preferring to rush another injured player back in (because it worked so well for Staunton) becuase he's put his foot down with free agent? Actually, thinking back, didn't he do the same thing in 2017 or 2018 - with Cullen or Jake Reeves? Forced him back in when unfit during a midfield injury crisis and made his injury worse. And this went on in a January transfer window I recall where he refused to bring support in. FFS, is this how other managers behave? Also remember the fans turning on Reeves, i think it was the Wimbledon game. Kinda felt for the guy. Yeah - it was Reeves, I checked. He was carrying an injury from November 2017 into January and still being played which only ended up wrecking him completely. And we called it correctly on here it was madness to do that, even more so when you were in a transfer window. Awful, awful management. But because it was SMC people would not have dared criticise more openly - much easier to blame the player. And he looks like repeating himself again.
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Post by fish on Dec 3, 2020 9:26:50 GMT
I'd drag my balls over broken glass to bring him here to buy out Rupp.
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Post by bantam147 on Dec 3, 2020 10:16:55 GMT
He’s spot on. There’s huge potential at this club. There just is. But it needs the drive, the vision, the balls, from the top down, to lead us there.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 3, 2020 10:37:44 GMT
He’s spot on. There’s huge potential at this club. There just is. But it needs the drive, the vision, the balls, from the top down, to lead us there. Move Peterboroughs infrastructure here lock stock and barrel, the new upcoming ground, the proposed tier 2 academy. MacAnthony and his two ambitious partners and all that goes with it and we would be a championship club in waiting. Add that to 20,000 fans every week (not on cheap tickets either) and we're a match for anyone. Can but dream.
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Post by mikehunt on Dec 3, 2020 11:14:19 GMT
He’s spot on. There’s huge potential at this club. There just is. But it needs the drive, the vision, the balls, from the top down, to lead us there. Move Peterboroughs infrastructure here lock stock and barrel, the new upcoming ground, the proposed tier 2 academy. MacAnthony and his two ambitious partners and all that goes with it and we would be a championship club in waiting. Add that to 20,000 fans every week (not on cheap tickets either) and we're a match for anyone. Can but dream. We’re Bradford, we know our place, aspirations of bettering ourselves aren’t for people like us.
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Post by bantam147 on Dec 3, 2020 11:14:19 GMT
He’s spot on. There’s huge potential at this club. There just is. But it needs the drive, the vision, the balls, from the top down, to lead us there. Move Peterboroughs infrastructure here lock stock and barrel, the new upcoming ground, the proposed tier 2 academy. MacAnthony and his two ambitious partners and all that goes with it and we would be a championship club in waiting. Add that to 20,000 fans every week (not on cheap tickets either) and we're a match for anyone. Can but dream. And it doable. Not easy or cheap, but doable. Is anyone at this club capable of outlining and pitching that investment plan to Rupp? And if so, does Rupp have any appetite for funding a growth plan? As fans, I think we have a right to know where he stands on this sort of thing.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Dec 3, 2020 16:46:50 GMT
One thing you're all forgetting....We've always been shit so that's why we have to stay shit. Take your ambition and your Dmac and shove it up your arse. Nights at Southport and Park Ave are this clubs history embrace it you onion picklers
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 20:40:53 GMT
One thing you're all forgetting....We've always been shit so that's why we have to stay shit. Take your ambition and your Dmac and shove it up your arse. Nights at Southport and Park Ave are this clubs history embrace it you onion picklers I'm a 39 yr old, so i started following City in the early 90s. We were in the 3rd tier, although the late 80s 'nearly' team was still in recent memory. The 50yrs in the wilderness was before my time, so i never really regarded the 4th tier as our natural level. The 1996-2004 8yr stretch in the top 2 divisions coincided with my late teens/early 20s. I regarded the likes of Huddersfield, Barnsley etc as our natural rivals. The 2007 relegation was my first experience of 'the Khazie'. At the time it seemed a novelty to people of my generation. But the next 6 years proved a reality check, before we started to gain momentum in 2013. And now we're back in the Khazie and in serious danger of losing our league status. I worry because there is a new generation of fans who've never seen us in the championship or higher. Other than a few grainy youtube clips of the premier league years as the the only clue to better times. We'll lose a generation to Leeds/Huddersfield/Burnley as we fade into obscurity unless something drastic happens.
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Post by tetchyarse on Dec 3, 2020 21:17:39 GMT
DMac is a stratospheric twat, as any timeshare salesman is. But he's not wrong.
And I wish we had a bit of a twat in charge. Richmond was a twat. We need that twattishness back.
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Post by Mossley Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 21:26:50 GMT
One thing you're all forgetting....We've always been shit so that's why we have to stay shit. Take your ambition and your Dmac and shove it up your arse. Nights at Southport and Park Ave are this clubs history embrace it you onion picklers I'm a 39 yr old, so i started following City in the early 90s. We were in the 3rd tier, although the late 80s 'nearly' team was still in recent memory. The 50yrs in the wilderness was before my time, so i never really regarded the 4th tier as our natural level. The 1996-2004 8yr stretch in the top 2 divisions coincided with my late teens/early 20s. I regarded the likes of Huddersfield, Barnsley etc as our natural rivals. The 2007 relegation was my first experience of 'the Khazie'. At the time it seemed a novelty to people of my generation. But the next 6 years proved a reality check, before we started to gain momentum in 2013. And now we're back in the Khazie and in serious danger of losing our league status. I worry because there is a new generation of fans who've never seen us in the championship or higher. Other than a few grainy youtube clips of the premier league years as the the only clue to better times. We'll lose a generation to Leeds/Huddersfield/Burnley as we fade into obscurity unless something drastic happens. Same for me, born in 1990 and my first proper season ended at Wembley and three years later being in the Premier League. At the end of this season it will be 17 years since we last graced the Championship. We've basically gone a full generation in the lower leagues and you could be (almost) a fully grown adult now and know nothing else. As you say, we will lose fans to Leeds/Town/Burnley and of course the plastic Mancs and Scousers. I've mentioned it before but in those 17 years the likes of Yeovil, Burton, Peterborough, Scunthorpe, Blackpool, Wycombe, Doncaster have all been in the Championship. Bloody hell, Luton were relegated from the Championship in 2007, fell all the way to Non-League spending 5 years there, and are now enjoying their second season back in the Championship. Rotherham and Barnsley have spent significant time within the past decade at that level. Huddersfield haven't been lower than the Championship since 2012. Leeds left League One in 2010 and we all know where they are now. Christ, Leeds spent 16 years outside the top flight and for *not a single one* of those seasons did we grace the same league. FFS. When will someone grab this club by its balls and do what it is *potentially* capable of. Why are we the also rans? I'd kill for someone like DMac to come buy us. I'm frankly bored of being shit. I'm bored of being embarrassed by clubs like Barrow, Newport, Harrogate. And thats not being dismissive of those clubs, they're likely much better run than us. But that's the point, we could and should be so much better. DMac isn't always the most likeable character, but he gets shit done and we would 100% not arsing around the wrong end of League Two. 100%.
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Post by Hoochy on Dec 3, 2020 21:46:39 GMT
I'm a 39 yr old, so i started following City in the early 90s. We were in the 3rd tier, although the late 80s 'nearly' team was still in recent memory. The 50yrs in the wilderness was before my time, so i never really regarded the 4th tier as our natural level. The 1996-2004 8yr stretch in the top 2 divisions coincided with my late teens/early 20s. I regarded the likes of Huddersfield, Barnsley etc as our natural rivals. The 2007 relegation was my first experience of 'the Khazie'. At the time it seemed a novelty to people of my generation. But the next 6 years proved a reality check, before we started to gain momentum in 2013. And now we're back in the Khazie and in serious danger of losing our league status. I worry because there is a new generation of fans who've never seen us in the championship or higher. Other than a few grainy youtube clips of the premier league years as the the only clue to better times. We'll lose a generation to Leeds/Huddersfield/Burnley as we fade into obscurity unless something drastic happens. Same for me, born in 1990 and my first proper season ended at Wembley and three years later being in the Premier League. At the end of this season it will be 17 years since we last graced the Championship. We've basically gone a full generation in the lower leagues and you could be (almost) a fully grown adult now and know nothing else. As you say, we will lose fans to Leeds/Town/Burnley and of course the plastic Mancs and Scousers. I've mentioned it before but in those 17 years the likes of Yeovil, Burton, Peterborough, Scunthorpe, Blackpool, Wycombe, Doncaster have all been in the Championship. Bloody hell, Luton were relegated from the Championship in 2007, fell all the way to Non-League spending 5 years there, and are now enjoying their second season back in the Championship. Rotherham and Barnsley have spent significant time within the past decade at that level. Huddersfield haven't been lower than the Championship since 2012. Leeds left League One in 2010 and we all know where they are now. Christ, Leeds spent 16 years outside the top flight and for *not a single one* of those seasons did we grace the same league. FFS. When will someone grab this club by its balls and do what it is *potentially* capable of. Why are we the also rans? I'd kill for someone like DMac to come buy us. I'm frankly bored of being shit. I'm bored of being embarrassed by clubs like Barrow, Newport, Harrogate. And thats not being dismissive of those clubs, they're likely much better run than us. But that's the point, we could and should be so much better. DMac isn't always the most likeable character, but he gets shit done and we would 100% not arsing around the wrong end of League Two. 100%. Can someone with mod* privileges sort this boy an avatar. *
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