Some valid points.
However, the one major issue remains.
We have been waiting 42 years for a return to the top flight. Bristol is England's seventh biggest City, and "should" have a top flight side.
Towns with populations of less than 100,000 people manage it quite frequently, why the hell can't we manage it for one season at least ?
Just watch Bolton Wanderers, a "Town" club, get back to the P.L. before we even make it for the first time. And they are a club that was facing extinction just a few years ago.