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Wish him nothing but luck, 4 year contract isn't to be sniffed at in the current climate so plenty of security for him and his family

2 hours ago, Numero Uno said:

The Championship next season will be the same as it’s always been. Tough league where everyone can beat everyone. Not sure how you can judge the strength until we know who is playing for who.

You are probably right in terms of the overall standard of players and teams on the pitch but it definitely feels like the strength of the clubs is as good as I can remember in terms of history, stadium size, average attendance etc. Luton, Burnley, Wigan and Blackpool are "smaller" than Leeds, Leicester, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday that's a fact. Sheff Utd and Southampton is much of a muchness and Reading are arguably "bigger" than Plymouth and plenty of others have parachute payments so overall it should be harder to compete as a middle of the road club like us.

On paper it's probably the strongest league in quite a few years especially if Wednesday get up today

11 minutes ago, Top Robin said:

Most said that about Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton 

Bournemouth I agree, the other two not so much as they both went up with a distinctive style and had been strong for a couple of years prior to promotion. Can't say i see the same traits in Sheff U or Cov/Luton, on the other hand I think Burnley will be fine

Well deserved for Cameron, rematch at Croke Park in September

Taylor 6-4, if it wasn't KT in Ireland it may be different but think she'll get the decision

Just now, joe jordans teeth said:

6-2,even Eddie can’t fix this one surely 

I've tried scoring it factoring in home advantage and have it 5-4 Taylor

Cameron by KO

41 minutes ago, ScottishRed said:

I don’t know why but I cannot warm to Cooper however, I think he has done a fantastic job in very difficult circumstances. 

Clearly next season will be just as tricky and recruitment this summer, same as most clubs, will be crucial.

That said I am not sure the owner will be quite as benevolent if they have a poor start. And that is the challenge for any club that beats the odds and stays up, the second ‘album’ to use a musical analogy can be equally difficult.

Not sure it will be, Sheff U and Luton /Cov are near certainties to go down leaving only one relegation spot for the others to avoid

1 minute ago, HoldenBall said:

Agreed. Very underwhelming and frustrating that teams like those two can make it to a play off final and we finish 16th 

Fair play to them though, shows it can be done! Sunderland would have been the same kind of story.

As frustrating as it is fir us to see the likes of them doing it imagine how the likes of WBA, Norwich and Watford feel

6 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

Play off final Coventry City v Luton Town. 

Yep playoff for the right to finish 20th in the Prem next season

7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Would love one more season, for us to buck the trend of not selling when we don’t have to.

This summer is gonna have some twists and turns isn’t it?

But unless he signs a contract extension we do have to sell him don't we? Unless we want to run the risk of having him 12 months away from being OOC this time next summer and reducing the fee we get?

10 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Who’s going to start the Barry Bannan to Bristol City thread in the transfer section

Surely he needs to give up the ghost with Wednesday now and go back to his natural level?

1 hour ago, Selred said:

I was about to say it hasn't been that long since they left, Hill left 17 years ago! Blimey!

Isn't his son doing well at Fleetwood?

2 hours ago, Robbored said:

What success did he achieve?………..

Within 90 minutes of Premier League football, some of the greatest moments in living memory and a time where we truly believed.

Name a manager who has been better either before or after?

1 hour ago, Lrrr said:

That’s one of the north semi finals, the south ones were Dartford v St Albans and Oxford City v Worthing 

David Noble is managing them now so really hope they go up, of all the players we've had over the years he would be the last one I would pick out as a future manager but fair play to him.....it'll be 15 years since the "Selhurst Screamer" this week, how time flies

3 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I seem to remember us taking around 4k to Barnsley for the last game of the season about 20 years ago when we had a chance to get in the league one play offs? 

Think we were still in with a shout of automatic, by winning up there we took it to the last day and QPR pipped us to 2nd

So Ben Whittaker....anyone else want to see him get flattened?

Forest Gump, The Departed.................Home Alone

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Robinstv (if we keep it) will be for international broadcast only….there will be no Robinstv for domestic is how I read it.

I reckon Friday night, Saturday lunchtime, Saturday evening, Sunday lunchtime, Sunday afternoon.  Maybe a double on Saturday evening (5:30 / 7:45)???

Thursday night anyone!

Pleased that all Carabao Cup games are included, bugged me only a few were televised.

It moves us closer to an NBA type subscription.

I’m happy with it from what we know.

As for income, looks like it’s about £60m pa increase of which Champ split is 80 (80:12:8), so £48m.  That’ll probably be split 24 ways (£2m each extra).  Not to be sniffed at.  We will lose a bit of income in lost fans though.

We'll save the running costs of Robins TV though whatever that is,overall the CEO's across the board must be satisfied it's a win for us financially so we'll have to trust it

46 minutes ago, WarksRobin said:

Friday evening

Saturday midday

Saturday evening

Sunday midday

Monday evening

would be my guess. Similar to now for the most part

If there's Monday games then there will be Thursday mid week games the following week which in turn means Sunday games the following weekend. As a part time supporter these days it actually suits me to have more games on TV but is bound to take a few off the attendances, hopefully the clubs have factored that in before accepting.

3 hours ago, Spudgun said:

Agree 100%, after all those years of near misses, losing to Crapdiff in the play offs, then Brighton was possibly the most deflated i've ever been following City. 

Then the pain of seeing Tinman heartbroken in the dugout at Swansea. Nine long and painful years stuck down in the third tier.

Don't think i'll ever forget the week leading up to this, losing at Millwall knowing we would of won promotion if we were to get a result. The feeling of here we go again, the nerves, the tension.

Getting it in the neck from gasholes in work saying we were going to bottle it, and knowing us we often do/did.

The atmosphere in and around AG on a warm sunny day was electric, it was buzzing. Final day of season, capacity crowd, in our own hands knowing a win and we were up regardless of other results.

Days like this are very few and far in between.

Was in the Ship & Castle with the ex mrs, stood outside among hoards of fans, some of which I knew and a few friendly Millers fans too. Fair play to them seeing as they were allready relegated.

The feeling at full time and running onto the pitch and everybody hugging, the relief was huge, don't think i've ever felt relief like it

Was great getting back to my local pub in Portishead that evening too and lording it to the rat faced gashead regulars in there. Just brilliant.

Has to be my favourite day following City I thiink, or if not right up there.

Great great day and night, one we all will never forget I would suspect.

Must of been the full allocation of Rotherham fans in their that day, they only brought about 50 didn't they?

Was a brilliant day and as soon as Nobes got the opener all the tension just lifted, mad to think Scunthorpe went up as Champions that year and will be in Conference North next season, pretty sure Yeovil beat Forest in the play offs that year and look at the gap between them now!

1 hour ago, t_b said:

They’ll throw all the money in the world to keep PL. 

Five Championship televised games - plus the L1/2 games - won’t get anywhere near the audience that 2 big PL games can get in a weekend. Which means less sponsorship money. 

So will the other big hitters, sky subscriptions are considerably down compared to recent years so there may not be as much money available to secure as many matches as they currently own. 

On another note what sort of increase in revenue are we likely to see on the back of this deal?  I'm assuming the aim of it was to even up the distribution across the EFL but there must have been enough in it fur the Championship clubs to get the unanimous vote

3 minutes ago, t_b said:

Reckon some will just double up tho, match choice style? Else they’ll be showing EFL games up against Premier league slots. 

Unless theyre pre-empting that they are likely to lose their stranglehold on Premier League matches whenever those bidding rights are up next? DAZN, Amazon,Netflix are all going to be going after them aggressively next time around as well as BT Sport so it's unlikely it will be as exclusively Sky based as it currently is.

If they were to have lost EFL now and then some or all of the Prem stuff it would have been a deathknell to Sky.

2 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Is that across the divisions or just Championship?

5 Championship and 5 spread across L1/2, Friday night Saturday lunchtime & teatime, Sunday and Monday Night?