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  1. I have to agree with you here. In those days there were so many games where you feared for your safety just by attending. In 1987 we got promoted to division 2 and I remember going to the boxing day game with you at Ashton Gate and still remember the attendance being an enormous 16,058. (Great game, where you beat us 5-2). Anyway, that season Sunderland were streets ahead of everyone in the division - averaging 17,500. Yours were second (12k) and ours third (9.5k). Now look at attendances - five non league teams average over 5,000! People like going to football again - which is why I really can't be particularly impressed at Swindon doing what literally every other provincial club would do and sell out their allocation with something riding on the game.
  2. Expect the thug to throw on about 8 strikers, win 5-0 and miss out. He'll then blame Barrow's players for rolling over, because that's the sort of class act he is.
  3. Exactly. Imagine winning 6-0 after being five goals behind at start of play, and still missing out. This place would be chortling all week.
  4. It would be quite funny if Rovers won 6-0 and still missed out.
  5. But nor had we since 1986 until the Amex got built: England historical attendance and performance (european-football-statistics.co.uk) . I think you have to be a bit careful talking about attendances - they weren't remotely comparable to modern day gates from the 70s to the 90s. I think that bloke's delusion begins and ends at talking about a 35,000 seat stadium - anyone with any self awareness would surely talk about a 15-18,000 stadium and pray that it was a modular build, just in case things took off.
  6. I'd laugh except I'm a Brighton fan. We went from a ground that was somehow even worse than theirs is, to pretty much what we have now having averaged 27,000 in the Championship for 3 seasons.
  7. Yeah I should have mentioned Brentford. I knew they'd stay up - wish I'd layed their relegation on Betfair, they were 2.04/2.06 to go down. Brentford and Brighton are owned by arch rivals and former colleagues (Benham and Bloom) who made their fortunes in gambling syndicates. They are two guys who know about extracting value (expect them to both to sign value players rather than what everyone else thinks they need) and who recognise the importance of their whole organisations. They are cut from the same cloth in that way. Brentford won't have second season syndrome either IMO. Big clubs who are a total shambles have never been so vulnerable. Everton put the feelers out for Potter and were met by lols everywhere, including Potter himself (reading between the lines). I think that says it all.
  8. We have progressed because the club have thrown millions at the right things. A proper infrastructure (not just a stadium but also the training facility and an extensive behind the scenes hierarchy.) For this reason, I'm genuinely more worried we will lose our head of recruitment Dan Ashworth to Newcastle than of losing Yves Bissouma in the summer. I always looked at Bristol City as a club who are going in the right direction, but then you brought in Nigel Pearson who seemed a baffling appointment. Mind you, success at a football club doesn't begin and end with the manager these days, that's for sure. There's no doubt that clubs like our two clubs can compete at the top level simply by being very well run.
  9. Interesting reading that BC fans consider him one of their.best centre backs. We paid you a lot of money for him and while he took half a season to get up to speed, he has been an excellent signing. He is now on a par with, maybe better than Lewis Dunk now - a complete two footed centre back with pace and dominance in the air. I reckon he probably needs to do one more season here and if he has another season like this, well a top 6 club will throw money at him. I don't have any faith in Southgate looking at him in the meantime though, but he really should.
  10. Indeed Mel Morris bought Derby in May 14 - 7.5 years and the best part of a decade ago!
  11. On our forums Reading tend to draw the same ire as they do everywhere else - plastic nothing club etc (not entirely fair to the 4,500 who used to regularly frequent Elm Park, but there you go). But to be fair to the smug soggy biscuits, they've been quite sombre and level-headed about the whole thing compared to the legions of Derbeh fans who have talked utter crap since this shitstorm first blew at the end of last season. That club has spent a decade cheating the rest of us who've spent any of that time in the Championship and have spent months denying it or blaming whoever else could be blamed. I hope they get relegated two divisions.
  12. Are you lot still blaming Brighton fan Kieran McGuire for the fact that you can't keep your own books in order? You know, for having the temerity to point out that your club were cheating blatantly?
  13. Fair enough, there's very little animosity from our side (although Swindon remain a club I personally don't like very much) but I remember all manner of bitterness in 2004 and later when we bought Greer off you. Strange as Brighton have always been a bigger club than Swindon IMO (not that it matters). I am genuinely pleased you've got that nob out of your club though, and I hope Oldham manage the same soon. Yeah it's a decent forum here (I put it down to liberal but fair moderation), but I will say this sort of thing goes on with loads of football forums. It certainly does on ours. Why wouldn't it?
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