Mendip City

A tanning salon going bust?? In ESSEX??? That’s just crazy talk!!

Just spoke with a Norwich fan through work. He thought it will be tough but they are playing well at present. We’ve similar recent form. I think, if Norwich start well, they could well find us in holiday mode tomorrow… but you never know.

He did it every game if I remember correctly* *minus the scoring bit

After going bust, Ashton Gate 8 and all that, the club was “Bristol City 1982 Limited”. That’s where the 82 bit came from. No idea why we didn’t use a badge though. I always quite liked the BC82 thing for some reason….. better than a roadkill robin, that’s for sure.

Yeah but we’ve got “one for the future”

That’s how I remember it. We went from failing to sign 2-3 quality players at a fairly high price to a model of accumulating run of the mill “clubs in the bag” like they were going out of fashion (and at a cost). Surely a far less financially sensible plan?!?! Oh and I’d suggest Maguire might have been a better deal than the £8m we spent on Kalas a couple of years later. Anyway. Back to the point - that was the best away game I’ve ever been to… by a mile.

I agree with this - perfect opportunity to assess JKL. We’ve got a challenge over the summer - Naismith and Atkinson might or might not be fit for next season so do we buy another centre half and risk having way too many (and block the “pathway”)? 2 or 3 games now would tell us whether JKL is likely to be up to it as a stand-in defender, save the transfer budget and not block the pathway. If the lad isn’t up to it yet, he may as well get out and get a decent loan somewhere.

Here’s a thought…. When was the last truly meaningful league game we played? I really can’t think…. Wasn’t there a season under LJ where, in theory, we could have made the play-offs with a win and other results going our way? It’s just been season after season finished with dead-rubbers for the last couple of months. Not even a relegation battle!

I know….. it was an incredibly hypothetical scenario. We’d be more likely to get relegated, with a 20 point “good finance bonus” and still cock up promotion.

It’s no punishment at all. I reckon if you offered any City fan promotion now and a 2 point deduction next time we are relegated, they’d snap your hand off. In fact how big a deduction would you gamble on…. 12 points? 20?? I would for the experience, increased profile, financial bunk up and parachute payments. Sounds to me that financial impropriety pays!!!

Next year’s rewards scheme could be interesting

That’s an interesting table and that 7-15 is us all over and the graph would have very few spikes if you expanded it over our 9 seasons at this level. I don’t see much likelihood of change next year… so the frustration (boredom?) will carry on! But you never know and we live in hope!

Yes completely agree and if JL/BT did say something different at interview to what they’d said in public, LM should have spotted the bus he was thrown under and done a runner. He didn’t.

Good point. Next season is the 116th anniversary - surely worth celebrating! It’ll also be 45 years since we last played in the top flight…. Maybe one not to celebrate….

I think this is the way to go, traditional is out dated. Claret and blue at home to celebrate beating West Ham. Red and white stripes, away, to commemorate demolishing Southampton by two, maybe three goals. Blue and white third kit with the dates of the Leicester win and narrow defeat at Ipswich embroidered into them. purple and lime tracksuits with celebrating BT image across the back. Job done, over to you Jon and I look forward to seeing the finished effort.