This Forum : Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:51 pm  

Is the malaise that seems to be sweeping through the club now effecting this forum.

Normally after a game especially a loss their has been numerous different threads kicking about. These have ranged from Sack the coach, keep the coach, were crap. Each one of these threads had the usual members of the NT and PT gangs fighting their respective corners normally till the bitter end.

What now seems to be very evident is that people just can't be bothered anymore . It appears that people now seem to accept that a defeat was just one of those things that were bound to happen.

IMO this apathy is effecting match day crowds no one I spoke to on Sunday seemed to be bothered we had lost and had been dire again in the second half. It seems that more and more people are having he passion for the club drained out of them at one time a win would pick me up for the whole week and a loss I'd be a right misery but now it doesn't bother m one way or the other.

Re: This Forum : Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:58 pm  

Ed the Pom wrote:

It seems that more and more people are having he passion for the club drained out of them at one time a win would pick me up for the whole week and a loss I'd be a right misery but now it doesn't bother m one way or the other.

Don't believe it, I'm still kicking the dog and swearing at lollipop ladies...

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:49 am  

I've said before that whilst people may not like criticism it is better than no reaction at all. The next step is that people that have lost interest will stop going. I'm afraid that the move to VP in order to start work on OSV will kill the club off altogether. (And I do know all the arguments, I am simply saying that I feel the timing could not be worse).

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:05 am  

It's odd this. Some of us continually argue and debate the same points and we get called boring. We stop in order to placate the masses and it appears that we lack passion? Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

FWIW, my opinion is unlikely to ever change on the issue. I still feel that we are being coached by a complete incompetent but the club seem to have every faith in him so there is not much I can add.

Quite why the club seem to be happy with this "building for the future" thing whilst all else seems to be declining is confusing to say the least.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:08 am  

The general apathy and acceptance that seems to be descending on the supporters is quite alarming.

I was going to post more, but I can't be bothered...

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:13 am  

Argument is, as ME points out, largely academic. We know Hood backs SM and while we can offer possible replacements for SM, we have none for Hood.

I think what we're seeing is the mirror image of the '96 feel. The potential energy stored up by fifty years with just one Wembley trip and fifteen without a trophy meant that the silver rush was a huge contrast that captured people's imagination. Now, the current situation looks all the worse when compared to what went immediately before.

As I've just posted on another htread, what I find odd is this 'It shouldn't happen to a Bradford fan' vibe. I'm hardly the oldest stager on here, and yet I've seen us significantly worse than this.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:43 am  

rugbyreddog wrote:

I've said before that whilst people may not like criticism it is better than no reaction at all. The next step is that people that have lost interest will stop going. I'm afraid that the move to VP in order to start work on OSV will kill the club off altogether. (And I do know all the arguments, I am simply saying that I feel the timing could not be worse).

You don't have to worry about that it's not VP that the club are looking at moving to.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:45 am  

af wrote:

Argument is, as ME points out, largely academic. We know Hood backs SM and while we can offer possible replacements for SM, we have none for Hood.

I think what we're seeing is the mirror image of the '96 feel. The potential energy stored up by fifty years with just one Wembley trip and fifteen without a trophy meant that the silver rush was a huge contrast that captured people's imagination. Now, the current situation looks all the worse when compared to what went immediately before.

As I've just posted on another htread, what I find odd is this 'It shouldn't happen to a Bradford fan' vibe. I'm hardly the oldest stager on here, and yet I've seen us significantly worse than this.

Yes most people would agree with that but the difference is a lot of those sides were expected to struggle this one wasn't.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:58 am  

mystic eddie wrote:

It's odd this. Some of us continually argue and debate the same points and we get called boring. We stop in order to placate the masses and it appears that we lack passion? Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

I'm sorry, but I agree with you

mystic eddie wrote:

FWIW, my opinion is unlikely to ever change on the issue. I still feel that we are being coached by a complete incompetent but the club seem to have every faith in him so there is not much I can add.

We disagree on this, as I have been saying for a while that Mac has got the dead man walking air about him although tbf he survived a dreaded chairman's vote of confidence about 6 weeks back.

mystic eddie wrote:

Quite why the club seem to be happy with this "building for the future" thing whilst all else seems to be declining is confusing to say the least.

But the club is having to build for the future, and I doubt that anyone is exactly "happy" 100% with everything. Many are "happy" with our re-emerging youth setup but that is going to avail us littel for a year or two. Do you think there is anyone who is "happy" with the decline of 2009? I doubt you do.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:59 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

But the club is having to build for the future, and I doubt that anyone is exactly "happy" 100% with everything. Many are "happy" with our re-emerging youth setup but that is going to avail us littel for a year or two. Do you think there is anyone who is "happy" with the decline of 2009? I doubt you do.

Plenty of people in Leeds, Hudds' and probably a few others.