We want your manager!
 

Bradford City want your manager please................... :)

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Not as much as we want him!!!!! :) :)

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It wouldn't work. He doesn't have any experience of working with money, or a large fan-base .... :)

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So you want a manager who has God like status at his present club, works with the smallest budget in the division and will jump ship to a club further down the league just because that club thinks it is bigger.

You're on the wrong forum, go and ask on the Bolton forum ;)

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Nope, we have made our minds up, we want your manager.............and his assistant:)

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Nice one LD :D

Hope we have more success than you :)

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:) Nope :)

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That's just been Bitter Dave..........:nono8::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl 38:

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You can have both of them:

£10,000,000,000 for one week only in 2040.

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Where the **** is Bradford? :D

John Coleman to Bradford
 

We want your manager, natural progression, hes done a fantastic job for accy.

PLEASE COME JOHN COLEMAN

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Come to Bradford!!!!!!!

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Oh no another..............

HES NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!!!

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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Quality with a capital Q :rofl38::rofl38:

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Brill

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Why not he has earned his chance with your tin pot club and should be given the chance to progress with a proper club.

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look at the table lad....facts dont lie, look at newcastle and leeds too, you might THINK your a big club but in reality your not... SIMPLES...:thefinger

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I now hate bradford city with a passion theres no way coley will leave to go to your club, and dont have the cheek coming on here calling us a tin pot club we might not have the biggest support but we certainly make it up with the passion shown week in week out.

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when a proper club comes along then maybe he'll think about it. You are no longer a 'proper' club

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sorry I was a bit harsh saying tin potclub I meant incy wincy tiny club.

My apologies

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look at the table mate where are we and where are you.And as far your next manager you will probably end up with dean windass.

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Dean Windass ? Thats a stepdown from skysports commentator.

Bradford are no longer a big club. Bigger gates but thats all.

Coley wouldn't move to yourselfs when he is on the verge of acheiving greatness here by taking us one league above your 'big' club.

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Bradford
Can
Forget
Coley

What a pity its a "C" on the end and not an "O" :D

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2 exact topics coming from Bradford fans so merged into one thanks:D

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spat my brew on the monitor - nice one

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Bradford City Football Club • View topic - John Coleman!!! Yes Please!!

fortunately other Bradford fans think he is a knob as well

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I wouldn't be so quick to discount the rumours, it may come back to haunt us (ala Coyle scenario)

I would hope that when Coley gets offered a job somewhere else, he remembers that Mark Cooper went from employed, to Championship to dole in under 10 games or so.....

Stay Coley, job for life fella!

Have to be careful here as Mrs Bedsred is a bratfud lass. Having once had two years I'm the top flight does not make you a big club. Ask Darwen. I've kind of resigned myself to Coley leaving for bigger and better things at some point (once we're in the Championship) but Bradford is only bigger. Surely if he wanted to work in a mickey mouse outfit he'd be at Disneyland. Ilyas, if you're reading this, tell them no deal. And Lancsdave thanks for the post - brightened up a shocking train journey.

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pem champ 1 league 2 league f it up so .. why would sum one go to a big **** club . accy are going up the leagues not down them next up league 1 . city could be on the road to oxford next year ... now ****\off

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I think you'll find we have a champions league final to play on that week. :) so it will have to be another time :o

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Coley & Jimmy as with certain players through their achievements so far this season are going to attract interest from other clubs that is part and parcel of the game.

Bradford may have a large fan base, great training facilities, a great stadium but they are still very much a Club in transition, unlike the Reds who have come through the Leagues and with everything that has happened this season are probably as daft as it sounds maybe on a more sound footing?

All we can hope is that both the management duo carry on enjoying what they do and carry on building upwards with Stanley

On Stanley On

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Apologies for the prick above. I am a city fan, but nothing like him.
What i think hes getting at is that we have massive respect for your management team and cant quite understand how a team can improve every year for 10 years seen as we've managed the opposite.
The majority think he would be a great replacement for McCall because for his outstanding record at Stanley.
As much as you are above us in terms of league position, you cannot doubt the potential of our club and whilst our current position is deserved, should have the means of getting out of this position soon.
Surely the prospect of a massive budget (in comparison to Stanley's) and the relative potential of the club are an attractive propect to your manager.
I for one want him to come to the club after he has done such an outstanding job over there in Lancashire on a tiny budget.

Oh, and our training facilities are **** so dont worry, that wont swing it.

James

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James
I am sure the lure of a City Club with all that brings would open most peoples eyes but big budgets count for next to nothing in League 2 & probably League 1.

I would have thought that any vacancy at the Bantams will attract high calibre & high profile candidates that may be more in keeping with your massive budgets?

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Im not suggesting we have a huge budget, we dont.
Just the success he has had with your club with such a small budget puts him in good stead for having a larger one. We had to make massive cuts this year budget wise but it is still massive compared to yours.
I know it counts for little but should mean we can attract better players.
If they are then coached in the right way, success should follow.
Personally i dont want anyone high profile.
I want a league 2 manager that knows league 2 and conference players.
I want the new man to build a good league 2 side playing decent football. Ala Rochdale, Bury.

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All things considered, I can't see Coley leaving for Bradford. Not now, not in the summer, not ever. Of course Bradford have a large infrastructure, reasonable budgets and a guaranteed big following for years to come... However it'll take time to sort out Bradford's squad and nobody gets enough of that in football these days, especially with how 'supportive' the bantams tend to be when things aren't going their way at home. Coley's built a brilliant team here and won't want to let that go (nor will Bradford be able to afford the players he'll want from us now we don't have to sell anyone). Here we have what most clubs don't; potential and room to grow in every direction. As a club, we're in the most positive position in the land; no debts, a young talented squad and belief oozing bouncing between the dressing room and the stands. There's no reason for Coley to leave as the journey is only just beginning.

Let's leave this silly talk and pick it up again when the inevitable nears its reality (after Rafa gets sacked ;))

:)

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Coley for Bradford!!!!! He thinks we are some of the best fans in the country and we want him!!!! Come on coley !!!!! Be a bantam!!!!!

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Gee someones on the giddy juice lol, u can dream on :) its always better the devil u know than dont :)
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The rubbish you are talking seems to me you have just come out of strangeways.Please dont come on here and disrespect our club with the comments you have made.

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I really thought post five by BantamAbroad , really summed up what i think :-

Bradford City Football Club • View topic - John Coleman!!! Yes Please!!

And thats your own fans !

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one name not mentioned in any of their threads is the McPartland fella who got bombed out of Notts County when they thought they had money. My fiver goes on him getting the job.

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You couldnt blame coley to be honest! Such a massive massive club with an enormous town! The facilities and ground are second to non and they have a massive fan base! But with the amount of years coley has been here and also with the team he has created this season there is no way he will leave! Its a little worrying as you can understand the temptation. Playing in an enormous ground, having 1,000 travelling fans follow you across the country, having 12,000 fans watching you at home, having indoor and outdoor training facilities, getting a bigger wage, having more options to get players in and having more attractive pluses to get better players to the club etc etc. It wont happen though, especially not this season and hopefully not for a long time to come!

Also aswell dont forget that this is a thinking time for a manager like Coley, he may be thinking if i dont go for this could i regret this opportunity because in all honesty all managers want to progress! He can do this with Accrington however not taking the opportunity to move to a big club and a big opportunity he could regret for the rest of his life! If he stayed at Accy forever he will always wonder how far he could have gone, given the right opportunity, it is human nature unfortunatly. Anyways i dont think he will, he loves Accrington Stanley and Accrington Stanley love him!!

LONG LIVE COLEY!!

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Great post fc!! If I were Coley - which I am not - I would stay after reading that!!! :D :D :)

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I heard Benito Carbone isnt doing much at the moment, that would be a good choice in my eyes.

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Burys manager ruled him self out of the Bradford job on tonight tv footie show.

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Look this is how it works, we are a big fish in your small pond, if we want your manager we will have him, its DOG eat DOG. He would def leave for the mighty bantams. Why begrudge a man a great chance in life.

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:) You might have been a big fish 3 seasons ago :rolleyes: But your just as much a tiddler in as you say our pond as us pal!!:D ps go away now your becoming a pest:D

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What chance? To be eaten by dogs in a few months time? That's a really attractive sales pitch for anyone who's daft enough to consider joining Bradford.

Coley ain't a fish, dog, or bantam. What kind of zoo are they running at Bradford?

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Friend, I think you need to learn how to use the smilies on this forum, nevermind matey, I have fixed it for you ;) :rolleyes: :) :)

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This has just appeared on teamtalk


Stanley: Bantams not after Coleman | Bradford City | English League Two | Football News from TEAMtalk

Something rather alarming comes up in this and that is that Coley and Jimmy are still not contracted to the club. If this article is right then they both could just walk away and we'd get no compensation and be left right in the brown stuff. I was under the impression that this had been sorted as soon as we dealt with the taxman in october.

Why the delay?

We don't have the luxury anymore of trusting to loyalty, Coley and Jimmy are starting to attract some major admirers and sooner or later an offer is going to be on the table that they might want to give a go.

Worried.com!!!

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You see no smoke without fire, hes coming to bradford!!!!! Woohooo

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Shall we stop feeding the Troll now? :)

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but its fun!!!!:D:D:rolleyes::rolleyes::D:D

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Ok peeps I am sorry!!!! I was only messing with the small club insults and was just trying to get a reaction! (hangs head in shame), it's great seeing you do so well and you must be one of the best run clubs in the country And yes I am jealous of your management team, you have something special at accy and I hope you keep progressing through the leagues!!!.

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We want him because his record is so good, I think he was an outsider on our boards but the closer we look at his record the better bet he looks, definitely a groundswell of support growing for Coleman now.

I think an ex-bantam is a no-no and the 3 top guys in Div2 (who'll know all about our squad) are obvious, Hill, probably going onto higher things quickly, Knill, said he's not interested (as if) but he is too ugly anyway, and Coleman.

We'll see, be bitterly disppointed if we end up with journeyman manager or a minging one like Dowie. I don't think anything will happen soon, I think we are going to see out the season and then make our move, no point in upsetting another club now and not much chance of a successful manager moving now.

What if we give you "big club" pre-season friendly as a sweetener:)

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that would be good a big club sweetner DO YOU KNOW A BIG CLUB THEN :D

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Thanks but we already have pre-season friendlies with a few "Big Clubs", all of which are BIGGER than Bradford and all begin with B
Blackburn
Burnley
and
Burscough :D

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I thought I had logged on to the pages of the Angling Times with all the Fishermen out for a bite on these pages:D

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BCFC fan in peace...Word on the street...JC has already agreed to join BCFC at the end of the season, this agreement has been in place for a couple of weeks now. Expect Jacko to take over end of this week/start of next and JC to join the mighty bantams once the season is up. Thoughts? As a city fan I couldnt be much happier with this news!!

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Chat some rubbish you people, I also feel this source is incorrect - Stanley: Bantams not after Coleman | Bradford City | English League Two | Football News from TEAMtalk

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Anyone else see that pig flying earlier today?:rolleyes:

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"However, I would like to think that John would like to continue and bring to fruition Stanley's promotion hopes this season. We are on a such a good run and it would be a devastating blow to us if he were to leave."
From the horses mouth Nickelson, Chief Exec Robert Heys. He's going nowhere.....this season.

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So he would take a club to a league higher than yourselfs, also a club in which he is already a legend having developed it from the darker non-league days. He aint no Owen Coyle ;)

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You say it as if a manager has never dropped down a league - we just need to look at our neighbours Leeds for proof of that. (And thats IF you guys go up). And whilst you bring up Owen Coyle, would he not have been classed as a legend at Burnley before moving on? Hence the unruly reaction he recieved from the Burnley fans when the two sides came head to head. I'm not going to justify it with that were bigger than you rubbish as others would (the main reason i dont post on the BCFC forums - a lot of our fans have that attitude as you have seen on here yourself.). We are who we are. A tinpot club in a tinpot league with a bit of history behind us. As far as I am concerned we are going no where fast. However, the view I take is how far can accy go really? And that too, it would seem, is the same opinion John Coleman has fortunatly for us (IMO) and unfortunatly for you in (it would seem) the majoritys opinion.

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I can see the sweat starting to trickle down your foreheads..........

Anyway, you have had him for 11 seasons, why can't we have him for a bit? I read in 442 that he got some abuse from your fans at one time, "Scousers out" type of stuff, abuse of our leader would never happen at Bradford:D

"John Coleman's Bradford Army" will soon be echoing around the Crown, he won't be able to resist............

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For goodness sake, do you lot not have a forum of your own to spout on?
Or maybe you're all closet Stanley fans - you say you covet our manager but maybe you're all wishing you are part of the Stanley family :)

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Yes, there are several Bradford forums. All as rubbish as the last. As I said, AccyMad, I come in peace and am not looking to cause trouble. Being "AccyMad" I would imagine you would want info on the imminent departure of your manager at the end of the season. And youre damn right, I would love to have the kind of spirit, endevour and frankly quality your team posess, perhaps next season.

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4 nil at Northampton tonight .... sure you still want Coley? :)

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O.o 4-0 to Northampton? Looks like there's trouble within the team? I think it's all the speculation linking their manager to a big club???

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Like I 've said AccyMad, its not a case of us wanting him or you wanting to keep him, its a done deal already.

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And I'm assuming your part of the Bradford board and this is how you know this fact.

I must admit tonights redult hints at unrest.

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:eek: I surpose we're gona get this dribble all the way up to the home game on the 20th against you lot:rolleyes: :)

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Nope, I will leave it now, looks like some of you more sensible accy fans can see im being honest. For the rest, I will just pop back on come June time for a quick gloat.


I must admit tonights redult hints at unrest."
You're bang on it does. Bit out of character for you lot to get stuffed 4-0 albeit by a decent team. Like I said, I'll be back...

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Don't bother, when we get promoted in May, why would JC and JB want to walk away from a League One club back to a League Two has been club:confused:

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Not too bright you lot are you? Despite having a brilliant management team, the chances of you going up are slim. Plus (again with the not too bright point) its a done deal, the t's have been crossed, the i's have been dotted and he will be leading us out next season. So I suggest you enjoy him while you can. And I wish you the best of luck for the rest of the season. After we humiliate you that is.

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Mm a bradford fan calling stanley fans "not too bright " on the stanley forum isn't very bright either lol jonny coleman football genious long lives and propers in a stanley wonderland!
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Posted via Mobile Device i thought bradford where bringing back Paul Jewell!

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What are the chances of Bradford going up ? A lot slimmer than our chances. Plus you are skint, you are even now spending next season's season ticket sales money and at the start of this season your budget was cut by 25%. By the time next season starts you will have spent all of your season ticket money and be relying on gate money from the away fans. That's not very bright is it ? You will be lucky if you don't go into administration next season.

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Get Coleman & Jimmy signed up to long term deals, its the only way forward

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There you have it from the horse's mouth...

Jimmy Bell column (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Get it sorted quick...before someone else does! :eek:

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In peace:) I'll address your points so you know the facts.

Are chances of us going up are zippo.
We are financially stable, very.
We have not spent 1p of next years ST money, it's ring fenced for next season, it always is. I have no idea why you think we have spent money, it was an Xmas ST offer that sold 6k+ ST's. The real ST prices for next season have still to be determined and are not even on sale yet.
I don't know if your figure of 25% is right, it might be. But, the previous year we had the top budget and even with the cut, this years was top 5.

Keep hearing Dowie, but As far as I know one of our co-chairmen is "fixed" on Coleman, I hope he gets him:) You need to make Coleman (and Bell) an offer they can't refuse, sharpish.

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If you must have a Stanley manager you are more than welcome to the second most successful. He has experience as a director and you could pay him on washers. Can't see coley and jimmy leaving us now we are as stable as we have been in a decade for a basket case club so far from Liverpool. For the sake of harmony in my house I hope nothing comes of this. And Ilyas/Rob/whoever, think it's time someone put pen to paper

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Does the co-chairmen thing work?

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Lets be honest, Bradford have a fan base and infastructure to sit comfortably in the championship if not push to be back in the premiership.

As much as I would be devistated if John and Jimmy left, I could understand it.
It makes sense for them, they have alot to gain and not a great deal to lose from a footballing point of view.
If they get Stanley promoted our time in league one would be about survival. If they got Bradford into league one it would be about another promotion push.

Maybe Accrington has more appeal from a personal point of view for Jimmy and John as it is far easier to commute to from Liverpool; getting to Bradford in the morning rush hour can take upto 2 hours. There is lots for them to consider both on and off the pitch.

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At last a sensible stanley fan!!!

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Do 2 co-bosses work in any business? :) The investor, Mr Lawn owns 49% and Mr Rhodes 51%, Rhodes can't, for complex historical reasons, afford to leave until the club is reasonably successful again, say, mid-championship.

It seems Rhodes is a cautious man, (although not cautious enough to stop our ex-chairman runnning amok for 6 weeks in 2001 giving out 20-40k a week contracts) rarely makes a public utterance and Lawn, a self made man, is a big, loud bloke in a rush, fair enough, he has the balls to invest in the debacle that is Bradford City, but not a marriage made in heaven that's for sure.

What's the latest on the contract for your two?

DAV007, Ok, not in rush hour but Valley Parade to Liverpool is 1h 20 mins, VP is 10 minutes from the M62 he wouldn't be going the Skipton route!

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For 8 months I commuted between Otley and Manchester @500 miles a week via the Bradford Ring Road - it half killed me and put about 17000 miles on my car. That was 16 years ago - it would not be possible for me now. The traffic is a lot worse now. Then I had to regularly divert off the M62 because of accidents.

Fuel was a lot cheaper then. Cars and fuel are going to get a lot more expensive.

I am sure John and Jimmy would rather spend their time with their friends and family than sitting on the M62 with all the sheep.

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Come on someone, get those soddin' contracts drawn up tomorrow and get 'em to sit down and sign. You hear me?

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Im currently driving to doncaster daily and unless I leave at 6am, it can often take 2 hours to get past the Bradford turn off.

Thats one of many things for them to consider. What I would like to know; was Stuart McCall just not up to it or did he not have the resource to make significant changes to the playing squad?

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:confused: Why as this thread gone to 6 pages of speculation and hutter garbage carrieing on!! if Bradford wanted JC & JB then why haven't they been in for them this week?????And if JC &JB were intrested in the job whats stopping them moving on??????? no written contracts just verbal one's:eek: The answer must be THERE NOT INTRESTED so lets stop feeding the TROLLS:rolleyes::D

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Getting Coley & Jimmy signed up is more important than any of the plsyers IMHO, lets just keep harping on about it as folk do read these ramblings....

Pen
Contract
John & Jimmy
Locked boardroom

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personally i'd offer them both a directorship. Tie them to the club permanently and see if their ideas and enthusiasm can help in that direction as well.

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I understand the sentiments Rob but football can be a very fickle game, one week your the best thing since sliced bread the next your as much use as a chocolate fire guard.

The contracts do need sorting a.s.a.p. with perhaps clauses built in about approaches from other Clubs.

I would think Coley & Jimmy would be just as keen to know as we fans are what are the Long Term aims of the Club in terms of maybe a five year plan for playing budgets, facilities, aims & objectives etc. that may be just as important to them as anything else?

Time maybe of the essence?

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Bradford City Football Club • View topic - Who do the public actually want?

Coleman is proving quite popular.

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I think the Dowie vote thing is a fix TBH. Coleman is more popular.

I wonder if we'll offer Stuarts wage to the next manager, reportedly £140K per annum? :eek:

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Whats your user name on the official BCFC website???

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Totally agree. All this "they'll never go to Bradford" stuff is just whistling in the dark. Sorry to post this link again, but people need to understand that if the assistant manager is saying things like this in public, the situation needs sorting urgently.

Accrington Stanley blog: We need to get new deal sorted (From Lancashire Telegraph)

As Willie says, folk do read these ramblings, so...

D'ON AND ROB, GET THOSE CONTRACTS SORTED...TODAY PLEASE!!

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Pen paper......... please

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No point in asking us mate! Better be asking John Coleman. But he will say no to a club like you. He would rather stay at a better club that are higher up in the league!:):rolleyes::D:p

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Coley very popular to the fans on that forum... sing em up quick!