Major Isewater Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 15 minutes ago, Super said: Always thought of us as a club that will let you down when it gets to the crunch. Always the bridesmaid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 16 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said: Strangest club in the country maybe even europe Massive underperformance compared to the power of the city. Ashton Gate is also a weird place, much weirder since the renovation like it doesn't know what it is Interesting comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, Bouncearoundtheground said: It’s related to poor football decisions but also economical, geographical and political in my opinion. The passiveness has only increased with the new stadium and the modernisation. Football in Bristol is a nice day out. In the north rarely do they care for award winning concourses and posh pasties but that their football team performs well. That attitude has just never been as prevalent in the affluent south and it reflects in its football teams. Bristol is the finest example. What about Southampton ? They are about as South as you can get, yet they are far more successful than us. They bounced back from bankruptcy within about 7 years. We have been at it for 42 years and still haven’t finished the job. Edit : Wiltshire Robin beat me to it. Edited April 12, 2022 by The Gasbuster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, Lew-T said: Interesting comment. What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUTOR Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 43 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said: What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo Half a football club and half a rugby club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie andrews Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 5 minutes ago, Bouncearoundtheground said: Half a football club and half a rugby club? or half rice and half chips.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardy Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 hour ago, cidercity1987 said: What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo I’ve never seen another stadium with so much lighting in the stands. The circular lights above each of the exits in the Lansdown are just eye watering - yet nothing has ever been done to sort them out. Meh we’re Bristol City & we’re happy to tread water. Strange club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin101 Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 4 hours ago, 22A said: Looking around other two team cities. Nottingham has 100,000 less inhabitants than Bristol. 1 strong Championship team, one non league. Sheffield has 100,000 more than Bristol; 1 strong Championship team, one strong League 1 team. Bristol has one weak Championship team and one reasonably strong team in Div 2. City and Rovers always get a good spell but soon slip back. 2008 City beat Palace and Hull beat Watford on their way to the play off final. Five years later Hull, back in the Championship won auto promotion. Palace played Watford in the play off final whilst City were relegated. Yes but you’ve taken a snapshot there. Nottingham Forest have won European Cups and the top division. Notts County have won the FA cup (albeit in 1894). Sheff Weds have won several cups. Sheff Utd were in the prem last season. Both get higher attendances than us. Bristol clubs? Well… we won the JPT three times I guess. We’re easily the most underperforming club in the country IMO. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire robin Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 hour ago, cidercity1987 said: What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo You haven’t even mentioned the club shop , without a doubt the weirdest and smallest in the country . I took a friend to a game and we went in and he thought I was joking it was a club shop and thought it was just a room that sold all different kinds of sport merchandise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 12 hours ago, Ivorguy said: OR has it only been post old Harry Dolman, as I suspect. Too many recent managers seem to have agreed, if more quietly than NP, that this is so, eg Cotts, LJ, and Coppell. When did Cotts, LJ and Coppell agree that Bristol City is ‘a strange club’ ?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 11 hours ago, Silvio Dante said: Previously you could have said fan base - now you can’t Great post but I don’t agree with all of it - eg when you say we didn’t have a fan base before now - I was amongst a 38,000 crowd at Ashton Gate in the 1970s ... sort of disproves your assertion ... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wild Bunch Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Cardy said: I’ve never seen another stadium with so much lighting in the stands. The circular lights above each of the exits in the Lansdown are just eye watering - yet nothing has ever been done to sort them out. Meh we’re Bristol City & we’re happy to tread water. Strange club. We make it so easy for the opposition at home. Been discussed so many times before. Away fans having the whole of the Atyeo doesn’t help mentioned by both Cotterill and Johnson when in charge. The fans who like to create an atmosphere shoved in the corner of the South Stand. The East End was always about creating a noise and getting behind the team. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUTOR Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 21 hours ago, Cardy said: I’ve never seen another stadium with so much lighting in the stands. The circular lights above each of the exits in the Lansdown are just eye watering - yet nothing has ever been done to sort them out. Meh we’re Bristol City & we’re happy to tread water. Strange club. I was thinking whilst watching the game on Saturday is there anywhere we can put flags now? Used to be at the front of section 82 but now prevented by sponsors. It was the dolman during the redevelopment and the east end/atyeo before that. Are we really so swallowed by commercialisation that there’s nowhere we can hang a couple of flags? Little improvements to aesthetic like that can make a big difference to a stadium. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 23 hours ago, cidercity1987 said: What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo Outside the ground, it might be Derby or Swansea, or someone playing in white with black shorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick's Marvels Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 On 12/04/2022 at 14:32, Bristol Oil Services said: Bristolians are descended from simple, steady, West country folk who worked the land, laying hedges and milking the cows twice a day, who then upped-sticks and moved to Bedminster to find more regler work. And watch the City. That's who we are! When Steve's trying to make some critical football decision, his DNA gets in the way, telling him he needs to bring the cows in this af'r'nun. If he hadn't hooked up with that no-nonsense northerner he'd be nothing. It's why we never took to going to away games - because we had to get the cows in, sun up and sun down. Alright for yer northerners in their mills and factories and their union negotiated Saturdays off. Can't do it with cows and udders full to bursting. Our genetics tells us: don't go and watch the City away, there's (other) things need doing first. Just as Brian Wilson wasn't made for them times in the 60s, so are we not made for this game of industrial Britain, and fancy-Dan London with all its crooked money. Typical from someone born in Somerset - bloody Wurzel nonsense! Some of us are urbane, urban, metropolitan sophisticates, dontchaknow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wild Bunch Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Bristol Oil Services said: Outside the ground, it might be Derby or Swansea, or someone playing in white with black shorts. Yep, what happened to the Bristol City Football Club logos etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Taylor is GOD Posted April 14, 2022 Report Share Posted April 14, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, The Wild Bunch said: Yep, what happened to the Bristol City Football Club logos etc. Might offend the egg chasers - Now they are a strange lot! Edited April 14, 2022 by Bob Taylor is GOD Correction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted April 14, 2022 Report Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 13/04/2022 at 19:28, Bouncearoundtheground said: I was thinking whilst watching the game on Saturday is there anywhere we can put flags now? Used to be at the front of section 82 but now prevented by sponsors. It was the dolman during the redevelopment and the east end/atyeo before that. Are we really so swallowed by commercialisation that there’s nowhere we can hang a couple of flags? Little improvements to aesthetic like that can make a big difference to a stadium. Capitalism has colonised the quotidian, the everyday experience of simply hanging a flag up at the football. Impermissible because there's a Heineken advert that must be displayed! You are absolutely spot on. Minor adjustments impact enormously the reality of 'supporting' a football club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted April 14, 2022 Report Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 12/04/2022 at 22:39, BS4 on Tour... said: When did Cotts, LJ and Coppell agree that Bristol City is ‘a strange club’ ?! I’ll take it from your silence and zero reply, or evidence, that you made this up @Ivorguy - how ‘strange’ - with no pun intended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivorguy Posted April 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2022 2 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said: I’ll take it from your silence and zero reply, or evidence, that you made this up @Ivorguy - how ‘strange’ - with no pun intended! No. There are clear implications with all three that they thought the club was not what it should be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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