TOPIC: What's the Wyke hold up?

Kangshung wrote:

Basically the person he wanted as Chief executive, I think, said it was talked amongst PL clubs that Carlisle were one of seven clubs, identified, outside the PL with correct running and right investment Could sustain a PL place..

Lakelandterrier wrote:
There are far more than seven clubs outside the PL with more potential than us!

Looks like Bradford are a very well run club. Attendances have grown from nothing spectacular at all.
www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/brac.htm[url=http://http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/brac.htm][/url]

Lakelandterrier wrote:
I think you have that a bit wrong.

Prawncrackhead wrote:
They offered cheap season tickets for a few years, and are reaping the reward. Merchandise, catering, membership etc...

Prawncrackhead wrote:
And 95% of them have no interest in football and have other things to do on a Saturday Afternoon like painting the Mosque

NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
Aye, Muslims hate football...

Flatcap wrote:
*Pedant mode ON*

Bradford's population is more like 350,000 - www.citypopulation.de/UK-Cities.html

500,000 is for the council area - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bradford - , which includes Keighley, Shipley etc

Prawncrackhead wrote:
I really don't know what you're talking about here! It's about the fourth or fifth biggest city in the country.

Do you mean it isn't a very big city with regards the shopping area or city centre? Unfortunately that's totally irrelevant.

Bradford are playing later so maybe an embargo on announcing til after the game?

orfc wrote:
Always been a bit of a grey area this, what constitutes the population of a city. For instance Carlisle urban has a population just short of 80,000 but with surrounding villages like Dalston, Scotby, Wetheral, etc it's just under 110,000. Most cities have two figures according to which way you look at it. Personally I'd say someone who lives in Scotby or Dalston is from Carlisle.

CCU wrote:
With McCall away i can't wait to see the smile on GA's face in the pictures

franksidebottom wrote:
Apart from that bumpkin profpieman.

melbourneblues wrote:
Posh Morton resident now

Is Abbott going to spend the rest of his career snaffling our best players? First year since Hawley we have a 20+ goals a season man and he gets sold!!!

franksidebottom wrote: From driving round the city delivering. Not the BD postcode as some of those have Leeds addresses. Don't have the facts but fourth or fifth biggest city? Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, London, Birmingham, Bristol Newcastle.... Can't be bothered to go on but seems a stretch

Prawncrackhead wrote:
Its a very strange city geographically with the valley running right thru the middle of it,

Wishful thinking perhaps, but here's hoping the Bantams are going down a different route:

claretandbanter.uk/threads/incoming.51748/

I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

TheLazyLewisGuy wrote:
The deal is obviously done. Why not get it announced?

Kangshung wrote:
So they can claim there was no time to spend the money?

Prawncrackhead wrote:
So Bradford have agreed to keep it 'unofficial' to enable our directors to bullshit us?

Surely not...

But again, my inner cynic can't help but think the same thing.

Prawncrackhead wrote:
Exactly what I was thinking.

crunchblue wrote:
Hard work being a Carlisle fan from hope to despair in half a season.

Prawncrackhead wrote:
Or Maybe theyre just waiting for the cheque to express clear in Jenkins Cruise fund account.

Bradford City AFC ‏@officialbantams 58s

CONFIRMED | City complete the signing of Charlie Wyke from Carlisle United on a two and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Now lets see how long it takes andy hall to confirm it

CUFC Facebook not allowing me to add a post.

They need to get this in the open, the deal has clearly been done and has been on the cards for a long time.

No excuses, 3 hours to improve the squad or we have sabotaged our own season.

CUFC Facebook not allowing me to add a post.

They need to get this in the open, the deal has clearly been done and has been on the cards for a long time.

No excuses, 3 hours to improve the squad or we have sabotaged our own season.

Anyone else think the obsession with Abbott is a bit weird?

sirjimmyglass wrote: No he caused us a lot of pain (and joy) in unequal amount

Kangshung wrote:
The deal will have been done well before, but embargos are put in place to give everyone (press, club media etc) a fair chance to get the news out at the same time. U fortunately some tit leaked that photo which spoiled it.

sirjimmyglass wrote:
Must be really messing with some of our fans heads- they hate Abbott and think he was useless and couldn't spot a player, yet he's coming in to sign one of our current star performers

I noticed he was removed from our Squad on Wikipedia within seconds of that photo emerging!

sirjimmyglass wrote:
No because our demise and almost relegation down to the Conference was largely down to him and then his successor Kavanagh. Always running us down as a tin pot club who couldn't compete with Bury, Rochdale etc. So to be blunt it rubs salt in already raw wounds he comes back and might possibly screw up a chance of promotion back to where we would be if he hadn't turned us from Championship chasers to relegation fodder. He release the likes of Wells Madden Loy etc after playing them out of position and now when we do have a 20 goal a season striker that they could have been for us (because they went on to be elsewhere) he's the c#nt that comes in a takes him off our hands!!!

He must have scouted him at away games ,never heard anybody had spotted him at BP .

triskelionblue wrote:
His time at Carlisle United had clearly run it's course and he hadn't a clue what he was doing at the end other than hoping that some of it would stick. But he got sacked over 3 years ago and people are talking about a club that he's now working at signing one of our players and it being because he wants to stick it to the club. Rubbish.

This is lower league football, players who play well for Carlisle United are going to leave to go to bigger and better clubs because they can afford to pay more and give the players a shot at playing at a higher level. Whether it was Bradford or someone else that took him off our hands, the way we respond to him leaving is what will determine whether we get promotion or not. Us not having a fit bloody left back is more of a concern to me than anything else.

If Bradford are getting 18k gates then their playing budget must be massive in League One.

Horrible place to visit Bradford I find but there is no denying he has made a step up.

munchymagic wrote:
If Bradford were actually getting 18k paying customers i.d say the must be very badly run to be in the third tier.

NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
Don't know what the situation is with Bradford having any money coming in from player sales but shelling out 250k on a player isn't too shabby.

munchymagic wrote:
Why when they sold one last week for twice that ?

NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
As I said I had no idea what their output of players was, still a chunk to shell out.