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Up The City! last won the day on December 5 2019

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  1. Why let them have the old stadium? Wouldnt a ground share at the new stadium next to the motorway make more sense? That would make the stadium more profitable. The Memorial Ground cant be sold unless they have somewhere to go, Vince buys the stadium, Wally gets his money back, Vince then has two stadium sites to sell /develop which will help pay for new stadium, Rovers fans then get the new stadium they have always wanted, without having to pay for it (something else they have always wanted) they will then have hopes of stealing the ground off of FGR which they also like doing and Bristol is rid of them so all in all it seems a perfect solution for all. In fact we could even go one further, they could just merge with FGR.
  2. I think in their case, NDA means Nothing to Disclose Again.
  3. Apart from the issues you faced, to us it was a great day ??
  4. Their fans are delighted that they can see that the team is now playing better football despite this long bad run. They think that will set them up well in the future. Personally I think they should have gone for Hollowhead, he was open for a return, he would have continued the good work GC did, it might not have been pretty but I think he would have secured them a play off spot by continuing the brand of football that got them there. Unluckily for them they decided to give up on what represented their best chance for many many years of getting to the Championship in pursuit of pretty football.
  5. It seems the sags are trying to follow our very own model of buying young players to develop them and then sell them on. They have obviously seen that we have made a success of it and as they look upon us with envy they want a slice of that pie too. Even their manager has gone on a winless run like LJ did. However there is a slight problem with copying our approach in that for them to secure a young players services it means that player has been rejected by every premier league club, every Championship club, including us, and let's face it if these players were any good they would be on our radar already! They have also been rejected by most League One clubs and I'll say some League Two clubs too that are of a bigger standing than the sags. So basically they are signing young misfits and rejects. That's not exactly the approach we took. We were a Championship club we we started this approach in vein, a Championship club that had a redeveloped stadium, getting crowds of 20k, owned by a wealthy owner, a club that had shown to be progressive and was improving year on year on and off the pitch, a club with quality coaches that players improve under, training facilities that whilst not the best is worlds apart to what Rovers have. We also have a Cat 2 academy and back then had plans to build a new training ground which has now started. We have shown that through us there is a pathway to the Premier League. That's why we are attractive to younger players, the fact we almost secured Eddie and Ampadu shows how well regarded our set up is, Leicester are also trusting us with developing Benkovic who is considered a future top CB. Rovers are trying to copy our blueprint without actually seeing the blueprint, they are literally changing it and hoping it pays off without doing all the ground work that we did to get our set up in place. They are pretty much trying to do what we are doing, but on the cheap.
  6. I'm quite liking this new manager of theirs. So far he is doing an excellent job. Love it when City win but it's even more enjoyable when that win is accompanied by a sag defeat.
  7. Where the hell is he getting the 25m figure from? And why is that figure somehow higher than Birminghams ground? Let's forget about the capacity of each stadium for a second and look at the footprint of the stadium, Birminghams foot print dwarfs the Memorial Grounds footprint and yet using some gas logic the Memorial Ground is worth more?
  8. Wasnt their issues at the turnstiles or something? Causing our fans to miss like 20 mins of the game?
  9. Think you are trying to find some sort of excuse to make yourself feel better and soften the blow that your manager is going to leave you for a club in the lower half of the bottom league, the same club that relegated you out of that very league! He spent 8 years at Southend. I know sags are not the smartest people in the world but you are aware of how far away Southend is from Sheffield? Bristol is slightly closer to Sheffield than Southend is! And then 12 months in Bristol and he is all of a sudden missing his family and wants to return home? Nah sorry mate I'm not sold on that excuse. Considering this is someone that has spent over half of his life away from where he was born, I'm not sure hes the type to get home sick.
  10. As Wally said "no more transfers between the clubs"
  11. I actually think it's good for our young footballers to be sent away from Bristol to play in another town or city, I think thats an important part of their development as a person. Most of the youngsters likely still live with mum and dad so it's a valuable life lesson for them to be taken out of their comfort zone and it's a real test of their character. If a youngster cant handle being away from the family home, then its questionable if they could handle the pressures that being a footballer bring. The only advantage to joining the sags would be that the player would still be able to train with us during the week, but we could still have that at clubs like FGR etc.
  12. "As the former Southampton midfielder admits, City would surely be appreciative" It's this sort of ******* attitude that does them absolutely no favours what so ever. We are a top half Championship side and we should be be appreciative of being able to send them our youngsters on loan to them?
  13. They didn't seriously think they signed him for anything but this reason did they? ??
  14. My almost 5 year old son comes to every City game with me, is barely interested, just sits there and watches his tablet, doesn't even watch football with me at home on the TV but tonight he sat down and watched the rugby with me and loved it. I guess we too will be going along to see a game.
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