Despite the resultant drop in revenue it is not for the obvious, immediate financial reasons. It's way more important than that. The bigger problem is that there is a very real risk that we will lose a significant percentage of the current generation of youngsters who have known nothing but (relative) success, i.e. promotion and being in the Championship, since 2006. IMO, relegation will seriously jepordise this support. There are of course a percentage who will have been bought up correctly and will continue to go whatever however, there will also be a number who will not consider League One cool enough and who will consequently lose interest and once they are gone, with all of today's modern distractions anything other than an immediate bounce back will make it very hard to win them back again. This is happening all over the country where an ever increasing number of today's fickle youngsters prefer to watch the top 6-8 premier clubs, declining attendances are ample evidence of this. It also has a knock-on effect in the long run as if we lose them, we also lose their kids as well and the core of our support will slowly dwindle as us "oldies" gradually stop for various reasons. So, whatever happens, the club needs to throw any and all possible resources at keeping us up as we can no longer rely on the kids to come back again and relegation could do untold permanent and irrepairable damage to our support base.. Get 2 loanees in the centre of defence (which saved us last year) again and, DO IT NOW...
I was saying that last season and much of this one, but for other reasons, which is why I was shouting from the roof tops that DM was not the right man in charge...(it's not a dig nor bringing up the past) But I feared the writing was on the wall. We are in this position because the directors at the top gambled and failed with their decisions. To much importance on the academy and not the problem in hand......I have been shouting "there's no point in a top academy when facing league one)....hey but no one listened.. It seems that SL's interest has diverted to Bristol Rugby with the appointment of Andy Robinson......oh look at that, a manager with experience!!
After yet more surprise results in the Championship last night we are in an even more perilous position than we were before, and the gap has widened again to a place of safety. Saturday's game now takes on a whole new meaning and we simply can't afford anything other than a win and a few more quick fire ones on the back of it
Blimey Prem, the guy's only been here less than two months, Del had over a year to get it wrong. Must admit, it's worrying times, not only is relegation staring us in the face, the prospect of having Bristol Rugby playing on the same pitch soon....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
When are people gonna see, Jose Mourinhio and Alex Ferguson in a team couldn't keep this bunch of crap players up. The league table does not lie!! We have the worst central defence in the league and probably the worst central midfield, this has been obvious for at least 3 seasons and has not been addressed and that was not for the lack of trying by various managers. Our team is filled with Championship rejects like Kilkenny, Pearson, Moloney, Nyatanga, because thats all we could get! SOD is currently another mug tasked with making a silk purse from a sows ear under the mantra of "they just need a bit of organising" like bollocks they do! He has learnt from the last 2 games that trying to defend away from home is as good as saying have the 3 points then! Home performances have been ok but opposition early goals would have shaken fragile confidence even then. They just need a bit of moving on, more like...
One4, I was talking about Andy Robinson. SoD has been tasked with turning us back into a football team again and I am all for that and right behind him but he needs to keep us up this year so he should be knocking on JL's door and on the phone to Guernsey demanding 2 decent central defensive loanees this morning as I will absolutely guarentee you that Barnsley will not be defending and keeping it tight for a point on Saturday They will come to win and will attack us from the off and an early goal for them will make things very hard for us indeed...
How many more years do we all have to say that we need to sort out the mid-field and defence. Frankly I'm getting fed up with the same old adages about what our team needs to become a safe squad and clearly no-one is listening from the management side of things. Money has been thrown around with absolutely no improvement in our league standings and in fact we have got worse and lost shed loads of cash in the interim. Is there anyone at Ashton Gate who is ever going to get the message that we are a badly run club and our future is in the balance, being relatively generous, and the future looks very bleak. No wonder our supporters are starting to lose patience with our predicament because they are sick of hearing the platitudes offered by our management with still little, or no, action to rectify the situation.
"Blimey Prem, the guy's only been here less than two months" You had Mckinnes down as not good enough before he got here!!
For very good reasons Banksy. No experience at this level. And it showed. It's the reason we find ourselves in the ****..end of.
'No experience at this level. And it showed. It's the reason we find ourselves in the ****..end of' - Spot on. The Board were wrong to appoint McInnes,to slow in replacing him and chose not to invest in our team where every fan knows - Defence. But hang on let's concentrate on Bristol F***ing Rugby and even better lets let them fu*k up our pitch to go with it. I Watched half a dozen with Forks repairing the pitch DURING the IrelandvEngland match - you can't make it up. Yeh yeh different pitch - just bloody wait. I slaughtered McInnes but the poor bugger didn't stand a chance with his limited experience. If/when we go down the clowns on our Board are totally responsible.
"No experience at this level. And it showed. It's the reason we find ourselves in the ****..end of" End of eh! You weren't on here gloating so openly when he kept us up last year. or indeed when he became the 'messiah' after our first two home wins! in fact you're silence was deafening... We'll see how much experience counts for at the end of this season!
This is talking nonsense Banksy, I suppose you will say he saved us twice last season, as he got us out of the mire and led us back in it. He was never the messiah in my book as you well know, my silence was knowing it was all going to go tits up......unlike most! I gave him 12 games in the new season and for me it was there all to see....(some)! Had we had a decent manager from the start, we wouldn't be in the **** we find ourselves today.....FACT If you still think Del was the right man for the job, you are very deluded
The Liberty stadium and Majestic stadium look ****e having the rugby played on it Get good ground staff and it works, our pitch has been in the past few years one of the best around, didn't we win the award for best kept pitch last year? They have not even moved in yet so let's wait and see what it's like before we complain about it. And yes Onefor you was right Del was not experienced enough, his downfall was not being strong enough to tell the board we can't compete with teams in this division with the central defenders and midfielders here. Just because we could not find a 24 year old cheap defender the board was not interested in pursuing the ones that Del got into talking to the board. **** me we could do with either off Ward, Gerrard, Keogh or the ageing Monk.
