What's going to Happen Next Season.

[ChuckleBantam]

It was bound to be asked eventually.

So, what do you think next season will bring.

Are you optimistic with the appointment of a world famous manager and with the new investment that has "come into the club"?

Are you disappointed because of the same old same old "all talk no action" and none delivered promises from the boardroom again?

Will City excell at the bottom of the football league ladder and stadily start climbing again?

Or is the demise far from over?

Vote in the... I think Next Season City Will... Poll

[baldbantam]

The expectation levels are too high.

McCall it may be, but he is untested as a manager. The team is virtually being built from scratch out of bargain basement signings.

I think it's probably good enough to be mid/upper table in League 2, and we just might make the play offs, but we have no right to expect them.

Up to this season we've spent 5 years in freefall. I hope that's turning round, but so far all there is is a lot of hype. I hope that early results give us some credible reasons to justify that hype, but I'll wait for those results before getting too carried away.

[ChuckleBantam]

What's wrong with everyone??

Frightened to vote with your heart in case it comes back to bite you on the arse or with your head in case the "everything is rosy" brigade trample on your begonias?

[tony d]

Maybe everyone is waiting for you to vote...

How come no Administration and eventual demise??????

[Jamaica Love]

What's wrong with everyone??

Frightened to vote with your heart in case it comes back to bite you on the arse or with your head in case the "everything is rosy" brigade trample on your begonias?

You mean like all your predictions did?????;) :D

[ChuckleBantam]

Maybe everyone is waiting for you to vote...

How come no Administration and eventual demise??????

People know what I think. However I will stick Midtable in because I hope the McCall factor can inspire what he has been given, to overachieve enough to guarantee our safety.

You genuinley think that Administration cannot happen again? Do you honestly think that the position the club is in now has seen off that threat? Serious question. I personally think that the lack of gate money from the pay on the day audience will have us walking the tightrope again. The magnet is still on the leccy metere tone, that's why despite all the noises about building a decent team for the promotion bid has actually resulted in Macca scrapping round the shitpool and loan market again. Still....no doubt Colin Todd will get the blame again when it all goes tits up.

[ChuckleBantam]

You mean like all your predictions did?????;) :D

All?? Like??

[tony d]

People know what I think. However I will stick Midtable in because I hope the McCall factor can inspire what he has been given, to overachieve enough to guarantee our safety.

You genuinley think that Administration cannot happen again? Do you honestly think that the position the club is in now has seen off that threat? Serious question. I personally think that the lack of gate money from the pay on the day audience will have us walking the tightrope again. The magnet is still on the leccy metere tone, that's why despite all the noises about building a decent team for the promotion bid has actually resulted in Macca scrapping round the shitpool and loan market again. Still....no doubt Colin Todd will get the blame again when it all goes tits up.

No club can ever be sure that the Admin man will not pay a visit but boring the fook out of everyone each season predicting it really shows a lack of imagination mate..

The players coming in don't look too bad to boost what we already have ...Which initself is better than the majority of teams at this level...

I realise no matter what you will be down on the team ...Added to the fact if we have a blinding season you can say it was luck nothing more and that we are faves to drop...

So no matter what Dave you have a win win situation and by playing safe with your mid table gambit as you did last term whilst also predicting relegation and administration you seem to be setting us all up again with the usual shite...

Happy slagging Dave....This season you never know you may get one right then you will be able to gloat at how **** City are and how bad JR is.....

Fingers crossed for a **** season mate....:poo:

[Tarty]

Tony, you should know by now that Dave is always right. Even if we were to get promoted this season, Dave would still have to moan about it.

[ChuckleBantam]

No club can ever be sure that the Admin man will not pay a visit but boring the fook out of everyone each season predicting it really shows a lack of imagination mate..

The players coming in don't look too bad to boost what we already have ...Which initself is better than the majority of teams at this level...

I realise no matter what you will be down on the team ...Added to the fact if we have a blinding season you can say it was luck nothing more and that we are faves to drop...

So no matter what Dave you have a win win situation and by playing safe with your mid table gambit as you did last term whilst also predicting relegation and administration you seem to be setting us all up again with the usual shite...

Happy slagging Dave....This season you never know you may get one right then you will be able to gloat at how **** City are and how bad JR is.....

Fingers crossed for a **** season mate....:poo:

If I wanted a **** season, I'd not have got a ticket would I? I just can't stomach people with NOTHING to back their outrageous predictions of success up, telling me how I'm the **** when I am the one nearer the mark. At least in your answer there you filled in a few gaps as to why you are happy and didn't take the I'm bored with this route. I, of course don't agree, because besides Wetherall and Bower, I see **** all that would make me optimistic about doing anything in the conference North. The fact that the noises coming from our new co chairman was that we were getting an inspirational new manager (correct) and he was being given the facilites to build a promotion capable side (lies) are not 100% true is the main reason I am cautious about our chances next season. Stu has already been made to look a bit foolish by having to go back on his, "I'm not going to fill the team with loans" statement and you have to ask yourself how long is Stu going to let the goalposts be moved.

As it stands, City are hopeful that lady luck will shine with the trialists and loanees and that Peter Thorne is as good in real life as he is on Championship Manager 4. I'm sorry if this makes me a miserable ****, but that's no way to build a promotion winning side, City legend as manager or no City Legend as manager. So when people tell me that everything is great and it's looking good, then they can go **** themselves if they don't like it when somebody has the mettle to say...I don't think they are!



Tony, you should know by now that Dave is always right. Even if we were to get promoted this season, Dave would still have to moan about it.

I'm always right and Always Moan. You post monosyballic **** with not content that everybody loathes on a Bradford City Message Board...As the French would say Dean; Ce'st La Vie!

[Jamaica Love]

All?? Like??

Ill never set foot in VP with Rhodes in the boardroom

We will never get McCall as manager

JR will never attract another investor

THe Cheap ST offer will never go ahead

[tony d]

Doesnt Thorne have a better scoring record than Deano and most played at a higher level?? and isn't he the same age as the messiah himself when he returned to VP???

Conlon although only scoring 12 last season at this level did score 12 which for a second striker isnt that bad considering as long as the rest put theirs away.......

As for the trialists and loans as long as they turn out to be the right ones why not trust Macca with his way of selecting players..

Not being an optimist dave lets your life as a footy fan drag on i imagine...

You stick to the doom and gloom Dave and the reason you bought a ticket pal is cos you would be a muppet to turn down 6 quid a game and you know it...

Right im off away for two weeks so enjoy yourself and hope to bump into you at one of the preseason game you mardy twat....

Laters girl pants...!!!!!!

[tony d]

Ill never set foot in VP with Rhodes in the boardroom

We will never get McCall as manager

JR will never attract another investor

THe Cheap ST offer will never go ahead

But apart from "We will never get McCall as manager, JR will never attract another investor and the Cheap ST offer will never go ahead what have the Romans ever done for us??????:poo: :sorry:

[Jantje]

I'm not prepared to vote until the eve of the season when i can see what sort of team has been assembled. For all we know the trialists could turn out to be shite or very astute signings.

There will for whatever reason be a couple of loanees and if they are season long loans i don't see a problem with that.

There is a definite over expectation by a huge majority of fans obviously brought on by the return of Stuart & Jakes. They are managerial novices though and i would be happy with a mid to top half finish this season and anything better would be a huge bonus.

Just like there is a huge expectation , i reckon Chuckles doom mongering is just as extreme. I hope the fact that he has bought an ST is a sign that he is being deliberately negative to provoke debate on here.

[briggus]

It was bound to be asked eventually.

So, what do you think next season will bring.

Are you optimistic with the appointment of a world famous manager and with the new investment that has "come into the club"?

Are you disappointed because of the same old same old "all talk no action" and none delivered promises from the boardroom again?

Will City excell at the bottom of the football league ladder and stadily start climbing again?

Or is the demise far from over?

Vote in the... I think Next Season City Will... Poll


It is far too early to make a call - we have only 2 new signings so far - let us look at who else he signs and how the individuals are performing in the friendlies. Predictions will still be difficult - for the team as it is difficult to know what skills / character some of the new recruits will bring - until a few games in to the season.

[Jamaica Love]

Stuart & Jakes are managerial novices though.
So was Kammy...and Jewell and they are our most succesfull managers in recent times!!!!!!

[Jantje]

So was Kammy...and Jewell and they are our most succesfull managers in recent times!!!!!!

Too right so lets all wait and see, give them a chance and get behind them from the off rather than looking at the downsides

[Skeptic]

I'm keeping back my predictions until we make all our signings. I think were going to need some luck this season, the seasons outcome IMO will rest on several things:


* McCall, specifically how good a manager he turns out to be, if he's even half decent then it will make a major difference, i stand by my opinion that most managers in this league are total poo and that anybody with a competent manager should be able to get even an average team out of the league.

* Whether Peter Thorne stays fit. He could be a real asset if he keeps off the injury table for about 30 games of the season, probably unlikely.


* Who we sign. If we sign a decent left back and a decent right back i honestly think we'll have one of the top 3 defences in our league. Conerned about the midfield but Leven and Evans would both be assets in league 2, particularly Leven who i really hope we sign.


So im saving my predictions for a later date.

[california bantam]

win the division,i have to say an believe that.

[Jamaica Love]

win the division,i have to say an believe that.
good on you for going with it...i want to believe we can do it, but think that the MK will do it this season...they still have mcleod dont they!!!!

[ChuckleBantam]

So was Kammy...and Jewell and they are our most succesfull managers in recent times!!!!!!

You forget one thing.

They had the backing that Stu could only dream of.

You ineverdently backed my whole point as to why City are in the **** they are in there bud.

[Jantje]

You forget one thing.

They had the backing that Stu could only dream of.

You ineverdently backed my whole point as to why City are in the **** they are in there bud.

But will you be getting behind the team however poor they are seeing as you have bought a ST?

[ChuckleBantam]

But will you be getting behind the team however poor they are seeing as you have bought a ST?

I'll be giving exactly what I put in. Six quid's worth per game. If they want more they will have to earn it.

[Jamaica Love]

You forget one thing.

They had the backing that Stu could only dream of.

You ineverdently backed my whole point as to why City are in the **** they are in there bud.
Nope....city are in the **** because of all the debts they carry after GR backed a series of managers with crazy signings!!! And then built a crazy stadium we have never filled!! Thats why we are in the ****.

[ChuckleBantam]

Nope....city are in the **** because of all the debts they carry after GR backed a series of managers with crazy signings!!! And then built a crazy stadium we have never filled!! Thats why we are in the ****.

Nah Mate. It's about as relevent to our predicament now as the 1983 near liquidation was.

Junior himself admitted the second Admin gave the club a clean slate. That was his own words. A clean slate is when mistakes are rectified and something is given an opportunity to start again from Scratch. Again, you are just hearing what you want to hear and blocking out the rest.

Mismanagement since coming out of the second Admin are the reason for this club's decline. You can try look beyond that to turn the situation to something more palatable to you personally, but you can't because of it's irrelavence. Besides if you could, you'd still see one person getting his hands dirty but shirking the blame as usual; guess who??

One would hope that this new clean slate that Mark Lawn's so called investment has bought would improve things, but nothing I have seen and heard since Lawn came in has changed my mind about anything.

[billybantam]

I fancy McDons and Buro to go up automatically but i dont know who'll take the third...

All the relegated team: Chesterfield, Rotherham, Brentford and Bradford all have new managers so its hard to work out at this stage where they will finish.

For example Brentford were in the L1 play offs one year, fell out with the manager in the close season , brought a new one in, sacked him by October, brought a new one in, and were relegated by April....

Wycombe, Lincoln, Grimsby, Notts Co., darlo, shrewsbury, wrexham, stockport etc.

We have to remember about 5 teams start aiming to stay up, 7 teams aim for mid table and the other 12 aim to go up in some fashion or another.

I think we will get in the play offs. It is incredibly difficult to predict who will win the "lottery" of the play offs just before they happen knowing whos in them, so it is even more difficult to predict who will win them a month before a ball is kicked.

However i will lean on the oppitmistic side now and say, having seen no other teams, we may well win the play offs.

[jimmy]

Newcastle United,crowds of 15k falling fast.
Kevin Keegan,a bunch of misfits,euforia sweeping the City,sell out crowds= promotion.

1980/81 A drunken bum and other misfits from the **** pool=promotion.

1984/85 A set of players that had failed elsewhere,young and old=promotion

1995/96 A manager with a will to win and succeed,with the same players a so called good manager and brilliant international footballer couldnt get to play for eachother=promotion.

1999/00 A manager with a will to win,a few misfits,Robbie Blake started to show us what he could do under the guidance of PJ,Mills a player who know ****er had heard of,turned into a 25 goal man.Peter Beagrie started to have the best period of his career.SM made all the players on the pitch battle for eachother=promotion.

The players will be carried on a wave of support,team spirit and a will to win,driven by a manager,who wont accept lazy twats and wimps.

[Tarty]

Got the feeling Notts County might be up somewhere near the play offs this season

[billybantam]

However i would still say, as much as macca disagrees, that a mid table place and the prospect of improving 08/09 would be a good thing....

[Skeptic]

Completely disagree, if we dont bounce back at the first attempt then crowds will shrink, the wage budget will shrink, the squads will shrink and so will the quality of players in it.

[BBB]

We will win the league after a slow 1st month not by a mile but we will win ittup:

[beerbantam]

Got the feeling Notts County might be up somewhere near the play offs this season

Good Call:chatter:

[Devil's Advocate]

Good Call:chatter:

Have you been looking at what I've been looking at? ;)

Or do great minds think alike?