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  1. 7 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

    Really is amazing reading that article that he then did the exact same thing only about 5 years later.

    Then they started to come out with almost identical quotes a couple of years ago... So maybe the next wage splurge will be in a year or two after Manning gets an 8th place finish next season, and the cycle begins again?

     

    Yes.

    It has been a masterclass in getting the timing wrong.

    When a few extra quid would make all the difference the purse strings stay closed.

    At other times it's "Yes Mark, buy up all these high waged players".

    I accept FFP is there but that just serves to limit the duration of each feast or famine period.

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  2. 12 hours ago, JAWS said:

    Really? On who? 

     

    The power of a two second internet search.

     

    Stephen Lansdown: Bristol City owner 'embarrassed' by spending

    31 July 2013

    Bristol City owner Stephen Lansdown says he is no longer willing to pay excessive player wages after spending an 'embarrassing' £50m on the club.

    City were relegated from the Championship last season and posted a record loss of £14.4m in 2012.

    The backing of billionaire Lansdown, 60, means they are not in financial difficulty, but he is determined to make the club more sustainable.

    "I'm embarrassed by how much I've spent," Lansdown told BBC Points West.

    "I daren't add it up, and although I have no regrets in doing it, it's probably over £50m.

    "We started paying out bigger wages because we felt we needed that extra class, and it hasn't worked for us.

    "I look back and it was a mistake."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23501929

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, JAWS said:

    Don't recall GJ being backed to the hilt? He certainly wasn't when it really mattered ie. the January window. A shame cos we could've been top 2 instead of 4th

     

    SL said he spent £50m in that ultimately unsuccessful promotion run under GJ and confessed that he felt "a bit silly" for doing that.

  4. 14 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said:

    I'd suggest they should also be busting a gut at all times to get the club as high up the tree as possible. Have they really done that? Have they been physically and mentally present enough to achieve anything more?

    Too many occasions where we've all been left thinking, if only we'd done a bit more. It's a C+ for me, capable of achieving so much more.

     

    Maybe.

    It's a question of timing it right.

    Gary Johnson was backed to the hilt and if we had won that promotion play off against Hull then things would have been very different.

    Since then the money tap has been turned on and off with rather baffling timing.

    I wouldn't disagree with your C+ but that's still a pass grade.

  5. 1 minute ago, Grey Fox said:

    Each August we start a new season, it would be nice to try to win the league, or promotion, otherwise there really is little point,

     

    Yes, whilst my views on getting to the premiership hover between not being bothered to active dislike I think that partly a result of my having seen City play (once) at the top level.

    The sheer pleasure of promotion to the top league for all those fans who have never seen us up there far outweighs the negative feelings those of us who can remember football before the premiership started have about the current state of the top division.

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  6. 30 minutes ago, Selred said:

    That's unfair. Dele has made it to the VERY top, against all the odds. He's had many many struggles but you don't get to where he is / was without the right attitude. Unfortunately demons have caught up with him, but so different to Bakinson.

     

    I don't see how it's unfair.

    I know from how difficult a background Dele came and how well he did despite that but he has entirely lost it now.

    That's the parallel, he has no future in higher league football because of his own actions.

  7. 2 hours ago, The Humble Realist said:

    People were hailing him as a super star when he first came into our team.

    Shows how temperamental early player exposure can be in a first team.

    Clearly has some talent but letting himself down. Hopefully he turns it round eventually. 

     

    Nah.

    I remember years back watching my local team and there was a player, Spencer somebody, who played like Lee Trundle had somehow turned out for a school team.  He had superb close control and the only way for the opposition to negate him was to always have two players marking him.

    I asked the obvious question of a regular supporter - why was he not playing at a higher level? - and the answer was bad attitude.

    He had had trials at several league teams including Bristol City, I asked about that and he said that when he went there he was told to play out of position in the trial game.  He said he didn't play out of position and just went home.

    There is no way back for these players and they bumble around the non league being the big fish in the small pond, a future which I expect awaits Delli Ali.

  8. 6 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

    Eddie Hitler

    You did not reply to the posting about me knowing about the new EFL deal twelve months ago

    regarding the items that secret Sam wants to give away I would be very interested in the paper cuttings

     

    I missed that but know that you have the inside track on the media deals through attending AGMs and following any related news.

  9. 2 hours ago, Numero Uno said:

    When the Gas took 75 to Fleetwood and it was expressed as a percentage of their home support and then multiplied by the "nothing riding on the game" co-efficient it was actually the third highest away attendance in the history of the game....................

     

    Spot on.

    People get hung up on the headline numbers but fail to bring into account the multiple adjustment factors that have to brought in in order to transform that headline number into a correct, albeit theoretical, attendance figure.

    When correctly adjusted, as you have just done, they have a genuinely awesome away support. We are very much not worthy.

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  10. The fatal, 34 people died, 1952 Lynmouth flood was thought to be caused by hamfisted attempts at cloud seeding by the RAF.

    The rebuttal at the end doesn't entirely convince me.

     

    A theory has spread that the flood was caused by secret cloud seeding experiments carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1949 and 1952.[6][7][8]

    The theory was fuelled by a 2001 BBC Radio 4 documentary, which suggested that the events of 1952 were connected to Project Cumulus. The programme alleged that "the infamous Lynmouth flood disaster came only days after RAF rain-making experiments over southern England", and that secret experiments were causing heavy rainfall.[6] According to the programme, "classified documents on the trials that Project Cumulus contributed to the conditions that caused this flood have gone missing".[6] A few days before the disaster a seeding experiment was carried out over southern England. Alan Yates, an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot who was working with the operation, sprayed salt in the air and was "elated" to learn of a heavy rainfall in Staines shortly after.[9]

    "Survivors tell how the air smelled of sulphur on the afternoon of the floods, and the rain fell so hard it hurt people's faces."[6]

    Meteorologist Philip Eden has said the experiments could not have caused the accident: "it is preposterous to blame the Lynmouth flood on such experiments".[10] Eden also said "The storm which caused the 1952 disaster was not confined to the Lynmouth district."[10] while in reality "The East and West Lyn rivers, which drop rapidly down from Exmoor, were swollen even before the fatal storm

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynmouth_Flood

  11. I used to know a few Germans from work and they loved English football grounds for their atmosphere because their grounds had a running track between the stands and the pitch so that they weren't close to the action.

    A decent amount of terracing for those who wish to stand always adds to the atmosphere.

    Good stewarding.  If you leave your seat you keep w\lking, you don't stop and block either the view of those sitting or the exit.

  12. 10 minutes ago, astrondrew said:

    I certainly don't mean to.

    Amen. Nice to have the option to listen to people talk about it occasionally on the radio too.

    Good to finish on a reasonable position from each.

  13. 23 minutes ago, astrondrew said:

    *Checks original post of the thread.

     

    Look at the tone of your post and your fellow travellers.

    You are painting people who disagree with you as the extremists when all the unreasonable posts are from those who think we should all be taking interest in the women's team.

    The reasonable position is actually that it should be optional.

  14. 27 minutes ago, astrondrew said:

    Do would I. It's about Bristol City football.

     

    Which for most people comprises the the men's first team with some interest in the U23s and youth as reserves or players of the future.

    I know those of us who aren't interested in women's football, which is a clear majority, are often painted as being the extremists but I would say on this thread that it's the women's football fans who are throwing their toys out of the pram that people have the sheer temerity not to share their interest.

     

     

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  15. 41 minutes ago, astrondrew said:

    It's a shame that some are so vehemently against women's football but I don't mind them forcing their opinions on us all.

     

     

    There don't seem to be any examples of anyone "vehemently against" women's football, just a lot of people who are not interested in it.

    As I am also not interested in Formula 1 racing.

    I would also object if Formula 1 was covered in SOTC.

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  16. 3 minutes ago, shahanshahan said:

    And Sound of the City is a dedicated show to Bristol City. One episode just happens to focus more on City Women (a team that is in the top flight in a league with more exposure than ever) and people are losing their minds...

     

    Hardly that.  Rather objecting to tuning in to hear about one team and then being told about another one in the middle of it.

    Though I have cherry picked from what is a very balanced post with which I mostly agree.

     

    As an analogy I think a lot of us were fed up with hearing about Yeovil on Saturday afternoons or TTB on the RB frequency when they were in the league because they are a Somerset club and should instead be covered on BBC Radio Somerset, leaving RB for Bristol clubs.

    I'm not against Yeovil, but I don't support them so am not much interested in their day to day activities.

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  17. 5 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

    That's exactly the point being made. The women should have their own show, then we wouldn't have a shortened programme for the men's team.

     

    Out of reactions but yes.

    It's easy to do:

    6.00 - 6.45 Sound of the City - men's first team

    6.45 - 7.00 Sound of the City - women's first team

     

    Radio Bristol isn't a commercial broadcaster so it doesn't matter what the listening figures are and they won't be disclosed.

    I usually listen on Sounds so have to skip the women's football segment which is an inexact science given that there are no chapters.

  18. 9 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

    Yes, but they’re not the men’s team are they. 
     

    Lets not forget how the owner ditched the original women’s team like a hot potatoe when it wasn’t commercially viable. 

     

    Yes, but to be fair the men's team is far more commercially unviable unless and until it breaks into the Premiership and stays there.

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  19. 3 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

    I believe that the ladies were trying to establish their game a century ago but ran into some ... difficulties with the, er, blokes at the FA (otherwise they might be a bit more, stand alone, by now)

     

    And also during the last war when there many very successful women's teams.

    It's a proper sport with its own support, it's the passing off by the media that irriates me.

  20. 6 minutes ago, shahanshahan said:

    As Nigel Pearson once said, the women's team are also a first team, just like the men's...

     

    But if you have no interest in that team then you don't want it mixed in with the coverage, either in Sound of the City or online news, of the team in which you are interested.

    You are welcome to support both of course but most people do not and this should be recognised, on here by having a separate subforum now that the "Ignore threads" functionality doesn't work.

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  21. 15 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

    Are Bristol City Cerebral Palsy FC, Bristol City Deaf FC, Bristol City Down Syndrome FC and Bristol City Frame FC (who all featured in some form on Saturday) also "leeching"?

     

    They are, but nobody minds that, and as I have said on a previous post I don't mind the women's team being funded as it probably costs less than half a first team player's wages.

    What they are not however doing is passing themselves off as Bristol City.

     

     

  22. 9 hours ago, Graham76 said:

    Why can’t the women’s team have their own separate show? We got 5 minutes of Dave speaking on a bad line and that was it. 

     

    Because the listening figures, like the gate receipts, would be miniscule.

    I am all for women's football becoming successful in its own right but at present it is parasitically leeching money and press coverage from the well supported football team that has been going for over a century.

    It should stand, or fall, on its own two feet instead of the current situation of mixing in (women's players in the men's calendar) and passing off: "Bristol City" beat "Arsenal".

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