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Utterly embarrassed by this one - BFC shoot themselves in the foot again

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I'm pretty sure we can fill this thread with lots of good stuff over the season.

You're right Sheriff - terrible decision.

Not in the same scale - but Celtic selling vuvuzelas in the club shop didn't please me. They've been taken off the shelves now apparently.

Surely Barnsley would want him in simply because of the revenues generated at the pie stand.

Good shout, especially as I'm giving it a miss!

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Signing Diouf not Anelka. The day Aldridge left. Trying to sign Barry over Alonso.

Surely no club can compete with Real Madrid for stupidity.

Sacking Bobby Robson;

We had a bad start to the season so we sacked him with no manager in line.

And it pains me to see Bobby Robson documentaries with him saying "After I was sacked from Fulham I swore never to be sacked again"

Bristol City being in Bristol.

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A score ratio of 1 in 25 chances.

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Ray Harford being the one who took over Daglish - - Firing Roy Hodgson - - - Hiring Brian Kidd - -  Hiring Paul Ince over Big Sam (or anybody else)

On 20 October 1976, Maradona made his professional debut with Argentinos Juniors, ten days before his sixteenth birthday.[1] He played there between 1976 and 1981, before his £1m transfer to Boca Juniors. Joining the squad midway through the 1981 season, Maradona played through 1982, and secured his first league winners' medal. Whilst playing for Argentinos Juniors, English club Sheffield United put in a bid of £180,000 for his services but the bid was rejected.

What acrually happened was we bid for two players, Maradona and Alex Sabella and were told that the asking price was X amount which meant we could only afford to sign one of them, we chose Sabella instead of Maradona.

thats amazing, never knew that!

This could be a long list:

Appointing Ray Harford as manager
Appointing Stewart Houston as manager
Appointing John Gregory as manager
Sacking Paolo Sousa
Sacking Ian Holloway
Buying Vinnie Jones
Not getting rid of the Thompsons 5 years earlier
Allowing Chris Wright to run the club
Allowing Gianni Paladini within 20 miles of Loftus Road
Buying a whole stack of Chelsea rejects


Enough? I could go on.

you forgot one buying Bradley Orr

If you sit behind the goal watch out. You will see more of his crosses than the strikers.

Could also do a list like Keith

Hiring Fat Sam/Souness/Gullit
Firing Sir Bobby
Somehow going from the second worst chairman in the country to the worst
Selling Les Ferdinand

Meh, Robson couldn't take us any further he would never be good enough to win us the league, he brought passion/pride back to the club, but tactically he was nowhere near, he did amazing to get us to where he did but was definitely time to depart, he left us a very good young, fast and attacking team and just needed a technical manager to come in, nurture them and lead us to success. Sacking Robson wasn't the problem IMO, it the guy who took his place.

Agree about Les Ferdinand.

Buying Tino Asprilla, cost us the title.

He deserved a lot better treatment then to be sacked 6 games into a new season

Still better than Heskey's!!

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Oh for sure, the principle behind sacking him was spot on imo, but as usually the timing and way it was done was total classless.

We have signed a whole host of criminals, including an armed robber, we have one in prison for assault at the minute, a dogger and wife beater and the 18K a week Ashley Ward collected a week must have been a crime of some sort.

But there can't have been many who signed a murderer :(

http://www.teamtalk.com/bradford-city/6279969/Footballer-jailed-for-murder

Sure is still doing bird!

lol, [ ] I keep up to date in the close season, maybe they'll let Grant off with a bit of gardening on appeal?

Who was the armed robber?

Jamie Lawrence?

Please don't speak ill of the Godlike genius that was Ashley Ward.  Still hurts to think he left us, even though there was no way we could turn down £4.5m at the time.

Long gone from Oakwell, but never forgotten.

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lol Part time fan IMO

The armed robber your talking about is Jamie Lawrence who is one of best players Ever to play for us and is one of the only players i have seen give 110% week in week out. He played a big part in promotion to the Premier League and is one of the longest-serving players we have had so to say Stupid i think not

Who is in prison now?? Oh you mean Jake Speight who we signed last month and when we did they was no word on a court case and what trouble he was in we only found out a day before the case what trouble was im sure he he goes on and scores 20 goals this season it wont be Stupid ( Whatch this space)

Ths Doggie- Stan the man One word legend

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3wBDUuUQUY

Ward yea you have a point
Getting rid of Paul Jewell
Lettiing Geoffrey richmond run the club
Paying Carbone £40k a week when at the time Beckham was only on £30k
Daniel  Petrescu 30k a week


Letting Dean Windass go out on loan with 10 games to go when people thought we were safe 10 games later we were relagated from league 1

shit loads more but it 11pm and i have to be up soon i will let girgy Carry on

ps Gavin Grant never had a contract at Bradford he was playing for free and was told at the end of last season he was not needed

Agree 100% with rhodesy!

We've had some very good players at city that have either moved on and done well or just become too old! Beagre, windass and Robbie Blake to name a few!

Richmonds handling of the club was a joke!! Paying too much in wages for mediocre rejects!!

Losing Paul Jewell was a massive blow!

Letting windass join hull on loan when we were struggling was a huge mistake!

lol....i am friends with his son, who hates footy. I am meeting his pop next month at a party :) would love to talk to him about his time at Bradford.

Completely forgot about this. 

Rovers spending £4.5m on Ashley Ward.

Does he have more than 1 son?

Hiring David Platt as manager.

Allowing him to spend millions on Italian rubbish.

We're still trying to recover from the debt that he has put us in.

Selling Teddy Sheringham

Selling Roy Keane

Selling Stan Collymore.

I could go on.

We signed him  :(

Oh and him  ;djinn;

I believe at least 2.

and how we laughed when you did. I seem to remember you were in a pretty bad position at the time and needed a decent signing so for some reason you panic bought Panicbuyi as he became known

Our record signing dave kitson, also our worst signing.

Letting the fat controller (Robert Chase ex chairman) buy a car park and sell our best team in the mid 90's.

Employing a string of useless managers after Nigel Worthington. Peter Grant, Glenn Roeder and Bryan Gunn please stand up.

Re Employing club legend Gunn again after relegating us to the third tier for the first time in half a century, then becoming the laughing stock of the whole country for a few days last year.

Oh and we also taught Ade Panicbiyi to play football, as we used to see at Carrow Road his 4th touch is getting better.

Peter Ridsdale welcomes new £7m signing Seth Johnson in 2001.

This, This and This - destroyed any true potential the club has/had to get above its current level.

What is Seth up to these days?

titus bastad bramble

Leeds probs still paying him!

He aint played since leaving Derby, if hes wise, no probs, probs got £££'s locked away.  I didn't have him down as wise though.  Still only 31/32.

the list is too long to remember all of them


Going back to 78, sacking Jimmy Bloomfield (because he couldn't get us from top 10 to top 6!!) and replacing him with Frank McClintock, who promptly took us down

Most of David Pleat's signings. One of them, Ricky Hill was signed on a three year deal at 35 with a proviso that if he was released early he'd not only be paid off but thay he would be provided with a Sierra Cosworth and a second car as compensation!! He left after a year when Pleat was sacked.

Replacing O'Neill with Taylor. To be fair any manager replacing O'Neill would have struggled. Taylor had £18m to spend from Heskey and Lennon sales and spent £5.25m on Ade Akinbiyi, and the rest on journeymen. Even now when I see him as our record signing in the books I cringe. Furthermore the fee is unlikely to be broken ever!

Taylor bumped up the wages of the whole squad when O'Neill left. By the time he "lost" the squad and we went down we were stuffed financially

Signing Dennis Wise. A cancer on team spirit, La Manga incident and then he and the excrecable Eric Hall sued us and took us into administration

The way my club handled administration, with regard to its long term suppliers, and the way it did so on the sly just before points penalties came in. Ugh.

Not too many in the last three years fortunately, but they're coming. It wouldn't be my club without them.

 

Me Dad always says letting Norman Hunter go to Bristol when he had 3-4 good years left in him. I mean anyone who can drop Lee like this deserves respect.


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I don't think it will happen, but any club employing Marlon King's services.

I guarantee it will happen, unfortunately.

The FA will make a ruling on this, if they have any guts at all.

They sure will

hes on sky sports news being interviewed saying he is innoccent. His fist hit the women, broke her nose but it was a mistake m'lord.

He will be playing up front with leed Hughes at notts county next year

I never understood why George Graham sold Kevin Richardson after he'd just had the season of his life

Lol @ Seth Johnson! Didn't he go in asking for 30k p/w and walked out with 50 or something daft?

Yeah, big Pete really wanted him.

As a charlton fan my two words apply more to my club more than yours but still can link to both

Iain Dowie

sigh :(

Juan Sebastian Veron
Massimo Taibi
Laurent Blanc
Erci Djemba Djemba
Kleberson
Berbatov

To name but a few

I considered this then realised that at the time I thought he was the right man for the job so it's hard to class it as a stupid decision. same with les reed and pardew. all shockingly bad managers but I'm not sure I saw any as terrible at the time. so many itt are results orientated

in fact I'm struggling to think of many bad decisions without the benefit of hindsight since the return to the valley. maybe neil redfearn

Another God-like genius from the Ashley Ward camp.
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This one thing I love about football.  One team's donkey's are another team's heroes.

My Charlton supporting mate is a huge fan of John Pearson, who was awful in a Barnsley shirt.

he was without question the single worst player to pull on a charlton shirt in the premiership years

Souness saying "no" to the unknown Eric Cantona.

"On 6 November 1991, after Liverpool's 3–0 victory over Auxerre in a UEFA Cup Second Round second leg tie at Anfield, Liverpool manager Graeme Souness was met by Frenchman Michel Platini at the end of the game, who told him that Cantona would like to play for Liverpool. Souness thanked Platini, but declined the offer, citing dressing room harmony as his reason."

That's standard for Souness the man's a joke

Still my favourite player ever though.

All the good players you've had and he's your pick ?

Anyone remember Winston Bogarde and Bernard Lambourde?

wow biggest gents.

Winston Bogarde is one of my favourite players - gotta love someone who took £40k a week from Chelsea for all that time for just running round some cones every week.

to be fair lambourde wasnt to bad just wasnt given a chance and had trouble settling.

bogarde on the other hand absolute mercenary happy to stay unfit and collect his wage packet!

Yup. I'll proably rate Gerrard higher when he's done I'd imagine.

Gerrard better than Souness ?

Listen, I cant stand the guy, but Souness in his prime would piss all over Gerrard.

It might be a whole topic of it's own but is it just me or does anybody else think past players were crap? I've seen footage of alot of players that were regarded as great. Best looked really talented but most played against a lot lower standard of opposition compared to now, against badly organised and tactically basic teams and i think it just made the players look better.
Players are getting fitter all the time, the game is quicker now, players get less time on the ball and teams are more organised. I think alot of players that are held in a high regard from the past wouldn't stand out in modern day football. They were just good for their time.
In nearly every sport the performances advance as time passes but as there isn't any way to measure it like the 100m we rely on other people telling us how good players were and older people tend to think the football that they watched was better.
It's nice to look back and think that a player was great but in reality Souness was probably Glenn Whelan standard and just a level above the players he played against.

Gerrard vs Souness is a tough one. Souness is better in the very middle of the park yes. Gerrard is more influential through his peak years and better all around, especially as an AM. Champs League final as a make shift RB, 30 yard screamers non stop for about 5 years plus the ability to stick one up the opposition and pass like a hero, the list goes on and on. He's not nearly the player now he was between 25-28 but Souness was arguably never that good.

Gerrard>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Souness

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_6302230,00.html


I suppose it would save Warnock from getting a lot of stick during the game - would all be directed at his player