Our highest ever transfer payment was for Maynard. Compare our transfer-in record with any of those clubs on that list and ask yourself why you feel we "should compete" with them. While you're there, make a note of the average attendances for those clubs, and the financial commitment of their owners. Just because Bristol has a lot of people living in it doesn't make us a part of that list. That comes with success on the pitch AND in the board room
Nobody told you you do not support your club ! If you can't see the reality of Bristol in the football community then having a dialogue with you is pointless You will never find the answers by typing harder or bigger, or by burying your head in the sand. Thats what we did back in 1980, and look where it got us
It had better come soon otherwise I will need to get permission to leave the cemetary for home games! BRR sorry about the bold type, not meant as intimidation but simply to emphasise how I feel. We are a giant waiting to happen but as we all know it's taking a bloody long time to wake the sleeping giant Goram.
Don't think you are the only one. I've supported BristolCity since 1970, and I can assure you I have scratched my head many times trying to find answers. For me a light went out when I watched GJ being hounded out of his job, having been guilty of causing us to dare to dream for a while. THAT is why I say the things I say. Everybody wants our club to sit at the pinnacle of Europe - of course they do But expecting it is nonsense, and counter productive, It may even happen one day. Nobody would have predicted the success afforded to Spain in world football, based upon their previous. And when Swansea were lamenting for 20 years at the football Div 4, or when Wimbledon were a Southern League club, who would have suggested they would grace the captain's table ? All we can do is hope (and pray if that is your way), and just maybe we may one day get to see that list of clubs back at Ashton Gate. Just hope i'm still in the flesh to enjoy it
I've just had a great idea. Change our name to Bristol Giants, with a mascot named Goram, only sign players who are over 2 metres tall and get SC to change to the aerial style that some expected from him. We'd be unbeatable! PS. There is another reason BRR for the larger bold type; my eyesight is failing along with my brain.
He left by mutual agreement after strangling a player at half time and would have been sacked otherwise for gross misconduct.
I don't know what it is really- I can get my way up from Devon regularly and I know there are others who travel a lot further, and I expect that there are folk in Clifton that never go- I was in Newcastle for the first time in September. Yes, they only have one team, but the population is half that of Bristol. They have a massive ground in the centre of the City and are 20 or so miles from Sunderland. Ground is always full and I understand there is a waiting list for season tickets. Its got a metro,(yes, we have spoken about that before)- I was also recently in Reading. Their ground puts ours to shame, yet I can never remember them being a particularly big club. My recollection growing up was of a Division 3 or 4 club playing at Elm Park. We do get big crowds comparative to others in League 1. I noted the attendance this Saturday at Stevenage was 2,900. Yeovils was around an average of 4,500 last season, and yes, how they survive is beyond me. We do have the ability to become bigger, but in all my 40 odd years of supporting, only in 1976 did I ever feel that that ability could be taken further
And David Beckham would testify to the accuracy of SAF's throwing technique with a football shoe, but that is the way he ran his club and who can argue with that (or even dare). Some managers work that way, and some players need that type of management. Some prisoners commit crimes on release purely to get put back in and re-institutionalised. Thats the way some folks are. For a long time, Johnson ran our club the right way and it all worked. The players were happy because they knew who was the boss. Then The BBC invented 606. And now we have another in that mould. Well, praise be and thank God, not to mention Sir Steve, because I personally have little time for the PC nimbies who think we should all be secular commies who don't celebrate of Christmas, and don't pick their nose unless its politically correct.. If the wimps who can't be bothered to tow the line don't like that style of management then they should take a short trip down to The Mammorial Ground, because non-league is waiting. Rant over, and long may he reign
