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Middleton Nick wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:26 pm Just a couple of points. If he was that affected by his father's death then he could have asked the club for time off and I'm sure it would have been considered. Secondly if he was struggling to do the job because of the same then he could have resigned and walked away.

Suffolk Blue wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 10:25 am

spirit of 1990 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 6:59 am

That sent shivers down my spine!

If we had kept any manager who could dish out contracts like he did to the quality of players he has done and to actually expect us to believe a front line like we had was good enough (and that includes his Jan loan signings) I wouldn't be sat here now with a ST....and after 38 years of following the club I'd have struggled to muster up the enthusiasm to actually get off the settee on a saturday and waste an afternoon of my life at HS.

Whilst I don’t think the BoD would’ve pushed him out the door, I truly believe he would have gone anyway. For whatever reasons he wasn’t at the races mentally and could just not cope with the peculiarities of BAFC. He also came across as very inflexible- his way or no way.

Technically I do think he remains one of the best managers we’ve had. But an inability or lack of desire or willingness to adapt to situations is an absolute requirement for a BAFC manager and to a lesser extent any modern manager. I think we saw enough of Phil Brown to see the same sort of symptoms appear and would have had exactly the same outcome. Managers that have a rigid framework that extends well beyond on field performance into the way a club should be set up and run. IMO the BoD should have foreseen the possibility of the traits in Cooper and probably took action only when they inevitably re-surfaced in Brown.

Without wishing to be ageist these traits are out-of-date in a rapidly changing and perplexing football world and many would say old-fashioned. Wild already appears to have one advantage over his predecessors - he doesn’t appear to think he knows it all.

LCBAFC40 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:37 pm Bradford getting a winger from Blackburn, some squad they are putting together.
Are we looking for anymore players ? Gone a bit quiet. Prob need to replace Platt for a start

WillBAFC wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:13 am Wonder what Freddy Adu is up to nowadays…

Van Der Nipper wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 12:44 am

LCBAFC40 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:37 pm Bradford getting a winger from Blackburn, some squad they are putting together.
Are we looking for anymore players ? Gone a bit quiet. Prob need to replace Platt for a start

Bradford have just lost 2 of their best players.

WillBAFC wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 9:13 am Wonder what Freddy Adu is up to nowadays…

LCBAFC40 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:37 pm Are we looking for anymore players ?