The majority of us want you to turn the club around,we want you to make us a success. We know you are a quality manager,we know what you are capable off from your past with previous clubs. The tide has turned slightly and there are people calling for your head,however the majority of us are still behind you at present. The last thing this club needs is more change,we need to become stable,we need to become more consistent. You need to put some points on the board and the fans will unite,but it needs to happen now,not later. Comm on you can do it,we are behind you,lets get the three points on Saturday and start to climb this league.
A heartfelt message to the Board I'm condemned, as are my 2 children to a lifetime of misery supporting BCFC. Yours, and previous totally inept management has convinced me to ensure my grandson doesn't support BCFC. 40 odd years ago I started supporting City, a couple of good cup runs and early on some good kids came through together. Trips to Arsenal, Coventry etc made us think we'd arrived and were hooked. Then it went tits up with successive relegations and ever since we've floundered from one guts ache to the next. The joke is that as a City supporter you always live in hope but that's it - we'll never succeed. Especially so now where the rich (ManCity/Utd/Chelsea/Arsenal/Spurs etc) get richer and the poor get......... My message to all youngsters - be happy and forget BCFC. They are cursed with an inept board that has and will last forever. SOD's mantra - 'Support Your Local Side' - what a f*****g joke. Victor.
Amen to all that, and we are in exactly the same position in my family, but with 2 grandchildren who are also City fans. This time it seems worse than it did in the early 80's and the bankruptcy avoidance at the last minute. At least then there was an excuse for falling through the leagues unlike now.
Surely you must have a couple of fond memories as well Redprint!?! I remember the first time I went to Wembley as a boy with my dad to watch the LDV Trophy against Stoke, carp result, great day. I remember going to the new Wembley when we bottled it against Hull, still a great experience. I remember witnessing Akinbiyi in his prime for us, McIndoes missile against Crystal Palace, being in the Ateyo when Christian Roberts and Marc Goodfellow got us to the Millenium Stadium. My first away game as a boy and falling in love with Junior Bent after his outrageous speed against Swindon. Wonder goals from Scott Murray vs Middlesborough, David Noble vs Palace, and even JET vs the SAGS! ... Just to name but a few! There is a lot of happy memories I have to be thankful for as a City supporter... It's ever since Coppell turned up I have been becoming increasingly dejected, wrong appointment after wrong appointment. But I am sure if you dug deep enough you would find plenty of happy times as well Redprint!
That's what Redprintt is saying, there were happy times, hence the reason he became a supporter in the first place. I blame the board and supporters for our failures I'm afraid. The board, because although SL had the money and hunger for the club....he knew nothing about football. I also blame him for not being strong when the going got a bit tuff. The supporters I blame because, when we had a good season in the championship, they thought it was a given right that a club like ours should be an instant success and play like Barcelona.....when that didn't happen, toys started to be thrown out of the pram and the demand for better instantly, was taken in by SL...who then went on to make the worst decisions for this club possible. Could we have learned the lesson set by Charlton just a few years previous........"Be careful what you wish for" No, we're Bristol City and we know best...........WRONG!
Charlton? I thought Curbishley wanted out and refused to extend his contract, the fans never wanted him gone did they? I remember watching his last game against Man Utd, and he got a standing ovation. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick and you aren't comparing AC to the GJ situation?
They gave him a standing ovation for what he had done for the club....but they wanted to go to the next level. Thought he had taken them as far as he could. (that is what the majority of supporters wanted according to friends I have that are Charlton fans). Yes I am comparing the situation. Not the managers..
Stoke sacked Pulis for the same reason. "wanting to move to the next level". Generally I am afraid that lifts go down as well as up.
Tony Pulis is the worst, his tactic was no longer keeping them in a stable position. It's all well and good playing hoofball if its getting you results where you aren't really in danger of the drop, but it wasn't working anymore, same with GJ if you ask me. It was failing to be secure under hoofball, so all we were left with was boring, route one, non inventive, unsuccessful LOSING football. Mick McCarthy? Well that has to go down as one of the stupidest things a board has done in the UK in years.
I feel the same except that my "life of constant misery" started in 1950. Although I don't agree with all your opinions, the support of our club is a parallel life for both of us.
Little bit harsh, although I understand what you are saying. The trouble is that when you have a bit of success it's like a drug and you want more and more. At present we are all in very cold turkey We should have had our one season (or more) in the Premiership in 2008/9, and thanks to Lansdown and the board, or Lansdown and GJ between them, they ****ed it up royally when that was a really difficult thing to do. I really am totally fed up with the constant excuses from successive managers, players, and others at the club
