Quote ="Highlander"Ok. I’ll try.
We’re cutting our cloth, keeping to a budget and have had zero financial implosions for 3 years. We seem to be building bridges with local businesses and increasing corporate income at the same time that ticket income is tanking.
We’re running teams in 7 competitions. The first team, despite being on a reported 5/6 biggest budget in the league is in 8th place and completely devoid of confidence. Academy/scholars doing well. Womens team a bit inconsistent. The wheelchair team been winning, don’t know if the disability team are playing yet.
Some great youngsters coming through the academy.
The stadium. We’ve all been there. Many times.
I was actually happy that there were at least discussions happening in the background. And the picture we were shown did have a Bradford council planning document logo on it. But. I need to see diggers on the ground.
That’s all I’ve got.'"
To be fair, a very sensible post.
None of us want to see yet another admin or worse. I don’t think fans are calling for us to spend what we can’t afford, but I think the issue is that we’re clearly underperforming and the coaching appointment feels like the club are happy to accept that.
Playing underperforming and unfit players again gives the same impression.
Fans rightly can’t / won’t hang all their hopes on the potential stadium development because we’ve heard it all before.
If it doesn’t happen, is the aim to carry on as a small club just to keep the name alive? I’m not sticking around for that and I genuinely think next year will show that many others feel the same.
This is why I think the coaching appointment is so short sighted. Get that right and there’s a reason for optimism, a reason to renew STs. At present I can’t find a reason and I have zero faith in Nigel Wood to give us one.
