cidercity1987 Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 What they mean to say is we are about the 20th biggest club (number of fans, ignoring Afghan twitter followerers of Prem clubs) and 50th most successful equalling 35th on their calculations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Based on the Sags being bottom half of tier 3, a fan base of 6k, a ground resembling a camp site, very little revenue and an empty trophy room, I guess they would come in around 60th or perhaps a bit lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyTonyTony Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Just shows how low Sunderland have fallen. If they dont get out of L1 soon they may never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 11 hours ago, Red-Robbo said: 6th biggest city, 35th biggest club. Therein lies the statistics of all our heartaches. If only it was that simple. How many clubs are in the 5 biggest cities? Does each club 'deserve' to be rated per their parent city size? Bristol, as a city, has not had the benefit of a sustained history in the top tier of football. This leads to a lack of collective awareness by Bristol's own population. This in turn, leads to the rest of the country just not being aware that Bristol has football teams. Which could lead to awareness issues with players/agents/etc. and attracting the right talent. Personally, I think SL is playing a long game of raising awareness of Bristol City. Things aren't happening as quickly as I'd like them too (the fan in me speaking), but my head tells me in the long term, we are going places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHIPLEY RED Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 12 hours ago, And Its Smith said: Pretty sure most neutral fans would say QPR are bigger than us. Since we were last in the top flight they’ve had about 25 seasons there Thanks that stat makes me feel good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Gerry francis is doing pantomine this year. Hes playing the back end of a wasp. With a haircut like that, he will look the bees knees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilRascal Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 If only we'd won that FA Cup final in 1909 things may have turned out different... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 10 minutes ago, LilRascal said: If only we'd won that FA Cup final in 1909 things may have turned out different... Always the Bridesmaid. Whatever happened to him ? Great poster ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 4 hours ago, Major Isewater said: I am not a fan of QPR ( quite the opposite) and you are right , they just missed out in 75/76 ending up as runners up . Must have been our old badger wig wearing , Gerry Francis and top model Holloway( if your model was a bag of wasps) . Still more than we have managed in our history. Badger "Runners up" in the 1st division "still more than we have managed in our history." Is that right? Answer? No, that's wrong. You're having a bit of Weston with this one. They've won the League cup, though. That's more than we have managed in our history. But then so have Swindon, Swansea, Luton and Oxford. QPR have had one great period in which they finished runners up in all of English league football (same as we did in 1907) and runners up in the FA cup final (same as we did in 1909), and they also picked up a League cup win in the infancy of the competition before all the big clubs took it seriously and at a time when those big clubs did not always enter the competition (same as when Swidnon won it two years later). They also reached another league cup final, and were runners up. In all this time, their attendances were tin pot. Comical. So, to sum up: QPR have "managed" a bit more than us in the league cup, and 14 more seasons of top flight football, whilst attracting the sort of crowds we get now (they haven't averaged as many as we did last season since 1977). Their success coincided with the advent of televised football, and being situated just a Gerry Francis hoof from television centre, they were nicely located and - arguably - rode the coattails of all the razz and matazz of being in West London and where things were happening. Once that all wore off, they have once more become irrelevant tinpot shite (same as us!) Their days in the sun are over. Many a L1 club capable of pulling 10k or more will fancy themselves almost on a par with Tin Pot Rangers now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devoncider Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 seems odd they included title wins for L1 & L2 but not the JPT? ....yes I'm just looking at angles to get us higher up the table! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturny Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 14 hours ago, Red-Robbo said: 6th biggest city, 35th biggest club. Therein lies the statistics of all our heartaches. I hope size isn't everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 7 hours ago, Super said: The highest placed club not to have played in the Prem. 'ave it!! I knew we'd be top of a league some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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