We left league 1 and we celebrated in our thousands.. please log in to view this image Will we return to this... please log in to view this image We are down but we do have a good manager, a good nucleus of senior players under contract, a good group of younger players about to blossom, economical reality has been realized and we seem to have a plan to move forward, all of these things surely are positive. To those of you younger Reds who can't remember the feeling of continued success and the sight of Bristol City at the top of our division, this will surely be the time, so get ready, this time we will be prepared, our stadium, our team, our Bristol City is about to take off.. Feel the pain, get pissed of with the failure, accept we are down, the clock is moving on, prepare yourselves for the opposite, be patient, we are about to become a winning team, my confidence is sky high not pie in the sky..... Up the City... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
I was a youngster in the days of league one (premiership to the youngster's) and firmly believe that we will come back stronger.
We always believe was copied off other clubs and pushed by the marketing department. I hope to see an improvement that in the short term may be measured by things other than results. Seasons rather than season to regain championship status. That will take patience which has been in short supply amongst believers before.
Every saying is from somewhere else. We've made that saying our own. We now need to believe in believing.
I thought Basso started that saying off amongst our fans when he started looking up to heaven after each win in the championship! He also signed everything "always believe" as a tag line and was very strongly religious.. The tune it was sang to was robbed but not the phrase!
shiny, I do agree we need to re-ignite our faith, I also understand the point about ' Always believe ' being a commercially exploited statement by various marketing departments, what we all believed in has ended in failure, it's day is done. League one and new horizons beckon and the more I think about it, it's about time, I honestly can't wait....
Every song is not ripped off another club. The word believe was used by Nike and MUFC, it is also the motto of one club believe was a cynical marketing job.believe was used to sell merch to the brands customers. No need for gimmicks if over time the club develops a cleat story or as Mr O,Driscoll put is Bristol City way. Truth was fans stopped believing very quickly because the wins dropped off even though the bills shop up.
There was an article somewhere about it and City may have fell on it but the phrase and song was used by others years before. Coca cola or Pepsi handed out items at Wembley to numerous clubs featuring the phrase. Like Johnson said which did come from fans it probably should stay in the past, New start and all that.
"Always consume" started elsewhere. In times of austerity this is bad karma. The cardboard crap handed out at Wembley was a lethal weapon in the wrong hands, one fold in the right place and it was sharp enough to hunt with.
I found always believe cringeworthy. As a phrase Pride of the West associated with City was my favourite. I have always looked upon City as THE West country team.
The "always believe" tag was crap anyway, of course when we're 1-0 or 2-0 down all you hear is groaning and mumbling, but when we're winning, low and behond you got thousands bellowing out "we always believe"
Leicester away that season would be an example. Worse case for myself was paying a lot of money at Wembley and being surrounded by people who just did not care, Believe = barely interested, no doubt they would have if City scored.
I would welcome some sensitive commercialism. City's new era of reduced spending to adhere to FFP also can present some opportunities. Small changes such as the team in red shirts, white shorts and red socks with a Robin on a shirt ( away kit perhaps?) allied to a sensible phrase e.g Pride of the West could herald a return to more traditional values.
City could do an retro theme getting back to basics v all this modern goal music and players mincing around in flashy gimmicky kits with pink boots. If it was God enough for proper blokes like Cheeseley Gow and Hunter it's good enough for this lot.
I for one never took on board 'always believe'. Once a Robin always a Robin, but once a Sag is enough for any one with a modicum of sense.
