Bristol City

[Benzel]

Now, because the amuse you thread is closed.... check out this mug.

Has anyone looked at the teams that we are likely to be facing?

Bournemouth
Brentford
Bury
Carlisle
Colchester
Hartlepool
Leyton Orient
Franchise
Notts County
Oldham
Preston
Scunthorpe
Stevenage
Tranmere
Wycombe (maybe)
Yeovil
And probably Swindon, Shrewsbury, Crawley, maybe Torquay.

Apart from Preston and whoever bottles it out of Sheff Utd/Sheff Wed/Huddersfield, the division is filled with absolute dross, mostly from up north. There will be virtually nothing worth getting exicited about, and there arent even any new grounds to visit apart from Stevenage (woopee doo). It will be nothing but identikit stadiums, hoofball, 200 away fans in the east end every game, and Swindon taking pot shots at us, delighted that we've been dragged down to their level.

I'm genuinly dreading it.

[Costanza]

The poor fellow.

That's what five years in Tier 2 does.

[hobnob]

They should know all about dross 

[chalkies_shorts]

Nice to see they've got themselves relegated already.

[Notts red]

If they are not careful They may only have to wait till the season after to be playing the blue half of the city, Even more dross 

[suttonred]

To be fair he's right though, it does look pretty uninspiring, lets hope we dont make a dogs bollock of it like last season.

[DV]

we still owe them for that relegation at Ashton Gate....

[THE FLASH]

They were poor in the League cup and it doesn't look as if they have improved much.

didn't show much when leeds rolled them over months back.

[4D]

Pot shots?? 

[kerry red]

It does show the danger of the clubs who push for the Premier League and fail.

Both Bristol City and Preston are 2 clubs that got to the Championship Play-Off final and failed and the descent has now started.

Preston are looking poor in League 1 and City look destined to end up there as well.

Be careful what you wish for, guys!

[Reg Smeeton]

It does show the danger of the clubs who push for the Premier League and fail.

Both Bristol City and Preston are 2 clubs that got to the Championship Play-Off final and failed and the descent has now started.

Preston are looking poor in League 1 and City look destined to end up there as well.

Be careful what you wish for, guys!

Small clubs eventually find their way back to Div 3 or 4.....it's difficult to make the transition from small to medium...Reading have managed it, so not impossible.

[Ardiles]

It's a gamble though, isn't it.  Sometimes it pays off, and sometimes it doesn't.  The other side of that coin is probably Reading, who have exceeded expectations this season and now look like going back to the Prem.  We can deride them for being 'plastic', but there's so much that club has got right in the last 15 years or so.

The list at the top does not have a full division of sides, by the way - and omits Pompey.  If we do go up, possible games vs Pompey and Bristol City would be well worth waiting for.  Both would attract bigger crowds, home and away, than Bristol Rovers or Oxford.

[Reg Smeeton]

It's a gamble though, isn't it.  Sometimes it pays off, and sometimes it doesn't.  The other side of that coin is probably Reading, who have exceeded expectations this season and now look like going back to the Prem.  We can deride them for being 'plastic', but there's so much that club has got right in the last 15 years or so.

The list at the top does not have a full division of sides, by the way - and omits Pompey.  If we do go up, possible games vs Pompey and Bristol City would be well worth waiting for.  Both would attract bigger crowds, home and away, than Bristol Rovers or Oxford.

The key is getting your infrastructure right...new ground, or at least an upgrade of facilitities, to give 365 income streams, youth academy status and a training complex to go with it, and some sort of financial stability.

City have as yet failed on the new ground.  

We'll go nowhere, until we see a significant redevelopment at the CG...

[Ardiles]

The key is getting your infrastructure right...new ground, or at least an upgrade of facilitities, to give 365 income streams, youth academy status and a training complex to go with it, and some sort of financial stability.

City have as yet failed on the new ground. 

We'll go nowhere until, until we see a significant redevelopment at the CG...

Agree with all of that.  But we have been saying all that (about widening revenue streams and getting the County Ground to work for us on non-match days) as far back as the mid 1990s when Reading were planning their big move.  And what have we done in the interim?  Nothing.  The redevelopment is now long overdue.  We need to get it done, and we need to get it done right.  (A botched job, like at Oxford, will achieve nothing.)

[Reg Smeeton]

Agree with all of that.  But we have been saying all that (about widening revenue streams and getting the County Ground to work for us on non-match days) as far back as the mid 1990s when Reading were planning their big move.  And what have we done in the interim?  Nothing.  The redevelopment is now long overdue.  We need to get it done, and we need to get it done right.  (A botched job, like at Oxford, will achieve nothing.)

Absolutely right on all points...we've had numerous windows of opportunity in the 50 years I've been going. I suppose the closest we came was in the early 70's when the North Stand was built, and for a while it was an impressive facility, hence we'd get U'21 internationals etc.

Part of the reason for doing nothing, of course, is the CG isn't that bad..clubs such as Reading, really had little option but to move.

As much as I appreciate the efforts of the present set up, they've shown no more desire to sort this out, than any of the previous incumbents of the boardroom.