I know our fortunes have gone downhill badly over the last few years and as for this season my thoughts are well known but I can't believe the disappearing Not606 posters. Someone recently said they believed that our vanishing 606 followers are just fed up to the back teeth with our plight and the lack of action to fix the problems that have been staring our top brass in the face for a very long time, so what if any are the answers? As most of you know I only get to hear the games on Radio Bristol and although I also watch the "highlights?" on City player, despite my love of the game it does not give me the same insight as you who attend "live" matches. I must confess that the tone of the commentator's voices give me a good indication of the general train of thought coming from our matches and the crowd add that extra bit of zest with primarily their groans. At Brisbane Road on Tuesday night the cheers of the brave away supporters ruled the roost for once and well done to those real supporters. Looking back over the years since the heady trip to play Hull at Wembley I must confess, that despite our pleadings to fill certain player positions, the team rebuild so regally offered by Steve Lansdown and his motley crew has not only failed but fallen flat on it's embarrassing face. Have we really added strength for the long term or have we just played around with below average players hoping that they may offer something different to plug up the leaks? I can go on about the money spent on taking us nowhere but that road is now becoming so well travelled by us all that it has become monotonous and could be the reason behind the large numbers vacating this site. From what I can tell the only thing left for us to talk about now is whether we will or we won't do you know what, and the time to discuss new and better players has long since disappeared from the radar despite the fact that other teams still seem to be negotiating deals to improve their squads. If the truth be known I am just about at the end of my tether with Bristol City after over 50 years of support, but my anger is directed primarily at the people who are supposed to have the best interests of the club at the root core of their souls and regrettably I find out that cannot be true no matter which way you cut it. They have let us down badly and despite the smug "we know better than you" attitudes I really have a hard time believing what they are doing to the most important people and that is YOU!
Good morning Mike. I thought the same when I logged on an hour ago. Where is everyone? The last four years or so have been like a ride on the big dipper; one small downhill rush followed by a long and wearisome climb to the next dose of speed. Normally when a club is on the climb out of the bottom of the slope, it's fans have plenty to say but in our case, it has occurred so many times now, that we are all only repeating what we've said umpteen times since the Hull City play-off defeat. So off down the local café for you this morning without a City Fix! I've got DIY in our new home and then off to a crowded swimming baths for some exercise.
Spot on cidered. So many people have just given up the ghost on ever seeing anything positive happen again and the saddest part is that the management have this attitude that we should all be very happy with their commitment to the 5-4-3-2-1 pillars. Just having my morning coffee fix down here in the Canaries.
Those younger fans and the eternal optimists among us must wonder why some of us are so cautious (their word is negative). We have just won at top three Orient so we must be on the way up at last? My example on why I am such a realist comes from 1958. Late November, City lower half of Second Division were away to league leaders Sheffield Wed. We win 3-2 and suddenly everything in the garden is rosy! Next home game against lowly Scu-thorpe and we lose 1-2 with a miserable performance. What odds on a repeat this Saturday v Tranmere? PS Mike. Hail and snow here in Frome!
I was born and raised down on the Somerset Levels and I feel for them right now and one of my brothers in Bridgwater told me that the water is just east of the M5 about a mile from his house. The weather back in England is atrocious and I can't believe the lack of inaction on behalf of the government agencies is shocking but not totally unexpected. Let's look positive and call for a home win on Saturday.
I'm here, just driven home from Watford. Either side of the M4 by Maidenhead has serious flooding and there are signs on the motorway saying avoid Windsor On my way there on Tuesday I drove across Oxfordshire and they still have it bad there too
Checking in from chilly Chicago, still piles of snow around but happily avoided the big storm that is hitting the East Coast. As mentioned a few days ago, I've been off the radar for a couple of months due to a number of personal things, not least an illness and death in my wife's family here. I agree that peoples interest wanes when the team is doing badly, and of course the club has been in decline for several years now. Part of it is, well, what is there new to say? Other than the most recent performance, it's the same stuff pretty much, and whether we have the guts to escape relegation or not. It's depressing, no doubt. But its in our blood, like it or not. Everything goes in cycles. Come the summer, whether we get relegated or not, many/most of us will speculate about the coming season, who we might bring in, and whether we have a hope of competing for promotion. And sooner or later (probably...), SC or someone else WILL put together a team that'll challenge for promotion, whether from L2 or L1, and things will start buzzing again. The older ones among us will have seen the ups and downs over the years, and things have got to improve sometime (probably...) And I'll stick my neck out and risk being shot down - I think we'll escape the drop. I don't think it'll be comfortable, but I think we'll avoid it, and give SC the chance to rebuild in the summer for a new campaign in L1. No, I haven't been on the happy juice over here, and I'm normally more cautious than optimist. I just think that we can stagger over the safety line this time. Sorry, usual rambling train of thought from over here. Carry on chaps, and keep dry. I complain about the damn snow (65" this winter so far) and -30F temps here, but I know you've had so much heavy rain and flooding back home, so we're all suffering.
Feeling sorry for you boys back home and for Windy up north. We're getting some of the cold air from the storm that's hitting Georgia and the Carolinas but we're still sunny and 58 today. Not too shabby. It has to be said that there's a drop off on postings and this is undoubtedly due to the state of affairs both on and off the pitch. The footy has been depressing the past few years and coupled with the stadium fiasco and financial losses, makes us look like a sinking ship. It gets you down! We're both lucky and unlucky to have SL. He has brought stability to the financial underpinning of the club but the recent years performances and players signed have been generally dreadful. You have to wonder whether his immense wealth and tax avoidance have made everything a little less real to him....club loses 20 million...so what, he saved 10 times that on income taxes, so does he care? Unfortunately for most of us, this is our club and we are emotionally bound for life. As bad as it gets, we're in for the long haul. Time to pop the anti-depressants and wash them down with a cold vodka red bull.......
It's all so sad and depressing when the team you have followed all your life messes up in a titanic kind of way. You may be right Tampa when you say that perhaps our owner has lost his way on all fronts and despite the huge sums of money spent we have fallen from any kind of grace and the answers never come. I would hate to suggest that there is a hidden agenda but it makes me wonder sometimes.
South Coast battered by wind and wave - still cheered up by Tuesday's win and looking forward to Saturday - COYR!!
City playing badly gives a starting point for a conversation, how we're going to solve it. Although everyone's had there say by now and we're facing a 4th successive relegation battle. It's a long haul game and hopefully soon everyone will come flooding back to City and it's faithful.
To correct your correction, 4 years in a row that we have been involved in a relegation battle, we lost one and we may lose another.
This is why, IMO, it is worse than 1982. At least by early 1983, we could see the light at the end of the tunnel. But this time it seems to be never ending!
Does anybody think that our owner ever reads our thoughts from this site, because in the past we have been blamed for some, if not all, of the problems beleaguering Bristol City? Perhaps if indeed he is a loyal follower of we 606ers he might take some of our heartache on board and do something to fix it. But then again waking up to reality over my morning coffee I come to the sad, and inevitable, conclusion that he probably doesn't give a rat's arse about us because if he did then we wouldn't be in this mess. Just in case he does read this site then I ask him as a gentleman of the realm to please save our team, and us, from this monstrosity, easy come easy go as someone once said.
Why would he care about this forum? There's roughly a dozen regulars on here, and a few of us that occasionally post. There are thousands of City fans out there with opinions as valid as ours. Hell, there's more Bristol City fans on Reddit than there are on here! The old 606 community might have had some clout, but this forum is nothing more than a collection of people that wanted to carry on talking to the same people from the BBC forums.
I tend not to post on here when we are doing badly because I don't want to contribute to the negativity. Having said that, sometimes I feel so passionate I HAVE to post - then regret it!
I wonder why some fans say he doesn't give a rats arse about the club, when he has paid more than all of us on here will ever see in our lifetimes combined? John Lansdown might not be everyone's cup of tea, but let's not forget he's followed City since 6 and could of done what a shed load of 6 year olds do and been a glory hunter. **** me with his dad's money he could of been a regular season ticket holder at Old Trafford. We criticise the Lansdown's but they've at least tried to get us to the giddy heights by putting their money where their mouths are. Maybe we think they could of done things differently but at least we ain't a Portsmouth fan or any other team, that is crippled with debt. If you look just in this league there are teams that have sampled Premiership and are now bolloxed up. Coventry no home Oldham no money Sheff Utd no money So just because it's been **** for a few years at least we are getting a redeveloped ground, and still got a wealthy backer. Some will agree, some won't it's my opinion. If I was him and read some of the stuff on here I would think **** them ungreatfull lot. So really it's lucky I'm not the owner.
I hope he isn't listening to some of the nonsense and negativity on this site... He's a hugely successful businessman in many areas - I wonder how many of us could claim to be? I'm sure the team's lack of success is irking him as much as us. He won't want to be, or be seen to be, a failure, especially as it's his team, too. As we have said in earlier posts, the lack of success is baffling. However, I'd rather have a Bristol man, a City man, a rich City man with a LONG history of keeping this club afloat, and trying like billy-o to find success, at the helm.
