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When appointing a manager to replace David Hopkin Julian Rhodes needs more than someone to win six games before the end of the season. He needs someone who can bring the domain knowledge of how to create a successful football club.
As the reasons for the decisions Referees make, or do not make, are not public the qualities that good Referees share are not common, well know, or obvious. Making Referee's Reports public and more verbose would go some way to solving this problem.
Should Edin Rahic and Stefan Rupp want to appoint a manager that gives them a disproportionate competative advantage then they need to select a manager who has an increased risk of failure.
Simon Grayson had a few demands in order to stay manager of Bradford City and, as a result of them, it is a good idea that he is no longer manager of Bradford City.
Stuart McCall's Bradford City continue a run of single goal draws with a 1-1 against Bristol Rovers.
Premier League teams use the loan system to add value to their young players in a way that shapes the make up of squads in League One to ensure that young players at clubs like Bradford City are not given a chance and to hamper the profits of League One clubs.
There is a cycle of rumours that take Nakhi Wells to Newcastle United and Adam Armstrong from The Magpies to Bradford City who are struggling to find a striker that fits within the Rahic Development Plan outline in the Summer and so have started looking at player who do not fit within that plan.
Following the first win of the season Bradford City continue to look for a striker hoping that the opening month of the season will have focused the mind of players who have realised that they will not be getting much football.
Stuart McCall's problems finding a striker are, in part, down the the changing trajectory of the career of a modern day footballer.
Edin Rahic made a splash with Bradford City fans over a pint and a flat cap on Wednesday night as he starts his first season as chairman of the club making slow but significant changes at Valley Parade.
Bradford City have a solid platform with a lot of options in the back four, and some solid midfield players, but creating chances - more than converting them - will be the problem Stuart McCall faces in 2016/2017 unless either the squad is added to, or players improve performances drastically, or Tony McMahon goes back to the right wing.
The 2016/2017 season at Bradford City will not be defined by new team of Stuart McCall as manager and Edin Rahic as owner but by the old regime of Mark Lawn and Julian Rhodes who allowed former manager Phil Parkinson to have full control over the football side of Bradford City and create structures that - on his exit - were not retained.