I'm a Hull City supporter and my wife and family are City supporters. The two teams have a lot in common. Huge potential supporter base, great supporters, owned/bankrolled by rich businessmen etc. Five years ago they played at Wembley and only one goal separated them. Next season Hull will be in the Premier League and City in League 1. My question is why? The Bristol fans are loved and respected by the Hull fans but they deserve better leadership and sense of direction. Bristol needs a premiership team and all that goes with it. It needs to happen soon as the gap will become unbridgable. Can SL and SoD provide that leadership and give Bristol the team it deserves?
My heart says within a quicker time than many now think. My head says never; Bristol City and our blue brethren will never see a Premiership side in Bristol. We are the eternal "mess it up clubs".
No, don't agree cider - SL has not covered himself in glory up to to now but I think he will get it right this time....
I really do hope you are right Prem because at my age (70 in July), if we have another 8 or 9 years in League One, my chances of seeing another promotion and Championship football are a bit slim. I love my club and have followed them through everything for 63 seasons but Bristol City FC do have a habit of kicking everyone who loves them fairly and squarely in the goolies on a very regular basis. Sometimes I think that I, and countless others, should not have put our hard earned cash into the rescue package in 1982. My wife thinks I'm totally mad following them, and so do I sometimes. But I can't give them up, it would hurt me so much but for once in my life I wish they would treat me a bit better for a while.
How many more chances does our leadership need? Based on the population of Bristol we should have a team that can compete at high Championship, or better still the Premier League, level but based on our total lack of commitment to that dream I cannot ever see it coming to fruition. We are essentially dysfunctional in most, if not all, of our day to day activities and success will never be an option unless the mindset is changed, but we can continue to hope that someone that matters can see the same vision.
I also put money into the club in '82 because they were my club then and still are now, you have a couple of more years supporting them than myself but I have been on the same rollercoaster ride myself for 58 and a half years we have had some great times and some really dismal times but we remain Bristol City fans(I've converted my girlfriend from no interest in football into a City fan) she is hoping to experience the highs that I did following City in the AD days. We are City til we die.
FFS Mike, Steve Lansdown has pumped £42m OF HIS OWN MONEY into the club to date and I think is therefore perfectly aware of how well we have done without you constantly and repeatedly ramming it down his throat. Its a bit like going out on the piss and losing your wallet with £200 quid in it when in a drunken stupor, its bad enough that you know what an idiot you are but you then have the wife chipping away constantly telling you what a twat you were for the next 30 years. He don't need it, enough is enough... Its pretty clear to all that the mindset has been changed, we wipe the slate and start again from the beginning and build using our own with some hungry imports, keen to succeed - younger players on lower wages, the Borussia Dortmund model if you like, we ain't going to do a Wolves... p.s. I never get the size of the town reference, WTF has that got to do with anything...?
