What Ever Happens, Its Been An Amazing Season

[Guest red army]

i hate it when i hear people moaning about what as happened as late. its our first season in the championship and avoiding regligation was what we needed to do and we did that and much more. what ever happens now its been an amazing seaon. the only people moaning really are the part timers and I'm sure some will now be trying to sale there tickets for the preston game, but i will be celebrating the season because we have stayed up and we can look forward to next season and the playoffs. it could be so much worse just look at the teams that came up with us last season.

well done to all the player is what i say.

[Guest MaloneFM]

Young people.

Whilst Uncle applauds and fully commends the sentiments expressed (there are some right miserable buggers on here) so, can you please express your views in future without torturing the English language? A full stop (one of these.) is followed by a new sentence.

One of these.

You is spelt Y-O-U. 'U' on the other hand is just a letter or could be mistaken for Ewe, which is a female of the sheep species. There is no promise we are going to get to Wembley as yet. And we are a long way from regligation. Providing the regligator isn't called in. If there is such a job.

Which player would you like to congratulate?

I am only pointing this out before the bigger kids get on here and you know what bullies they can be,

[Bristol Boy]

i hate it when i hear people moaning about what as happened as late. its our first season in the championship and avoiding regligation was what we needed to do and we did that and much more.

Avoiding relegation was a minimum fallback, not an acheivement

what ever happens now its been an amazing seaon.

Actually, it will be very disappointing if we miss the play offs.

the only people moaning really are the part timers and I'm sure some will now be trying to sale there tickets for the preston game,

I think you need to understand the difference between "moaning" and constructive criticism and, by the way you write, you're a bit young to talk about part timers.

but i will be celebrating the season because we have stayed up and we can look forward to next season and the playoffs. it could be so much worse just look at the teams that came up with us last season.

Yes some big clubs like S****horpe & Blackpool with dilapidated stadia. You're right we should think ourselves lucky

well done to all the player is what i say.

Play for ninety minutes and get your heads up is what I say.

finally a real fan.

Yes, real alright

u speek the truth mate,

You mean he agrees with you?

this season is the best iv ever experienced as a football fan, think back to our last(& brief) stay in this division, a shambles we were

Text speak & Yoda! How about when City spent a few seasons in what is now the Premier League?

10 years on we are a favourite of a multi trillion pound broadcasting business, we as mr salako says" play it in the right way" and we are challenging with teams with big histories and even bigger budgets.

Not playing it in the right way has been the problem over the last nine games or more.

and to top it all off i get to experience wem-ber-ley with somesort of atmosphere(rather than the yeovil shambles)

And when do we go to Wembley? We're not even in the play offs yet

[Bristol Boy]

Young people.

Whilst Uncle applauds and fully commends the sentiments expressed (there are some right miserable buggers on here) so, can you please express your views in future without torturing the English language? A full stop (one of these.) is followed by a new sentence.

Mobile Phones, the modern day antidote to literacy & communication..

[Guest MaloneFM]

Right on cue.

Here's one of the aforementioned bigger lads now, come on BB play nice with the youngsters, I have already dealt with the shortcomings.

[Guest MaloneFM]

And putting one reply under one of your own replies is just showing off.....

[Bristol Boy]

Right on cue.

Here's one of the aforementioned bigger lads now, come on BB play nice with the youngsters, I have already dealt with the shortcomings.

It's not the spelling, it's the thinking and settling for second best that's going to keep this club in the backwaters for ages.

[Guest MaloneFM]

Don't preach to me old love I'm not going to bite.

[Guest MaloneFM]

If I want to be told about the in's and out's of the English language I will go see my Lecturer as I am pretty confident he is much better qualified to tell me these things than you.

Oooh frisky! I like that!

7/10

Improved

[Guest]

I try, i couldn't let the old folk win without a small fightback could I?

Our age shouldn't effect the validity of our posts, we watch the same games as you, and on an awful lot of occasions make much more interesting and insightful comments than some of the old guard.

May I apologise for my confidence BB that we will be playing at wembley soon, but positive thinking usually breeds positive actions so thats what i'm trying to do.

Rock and roll young un....Wemberrrrrrrrrley it is

[Guest MaloneFM]

I try, i couldn't let the old folk win without a small fightback could I?

Indeed not young person and cudos to you for that. Your uncle was pointing out that however good your post is and how valid you will primarily get the c rap ripped put of you in the first place if its just one long sentunse badlee spelld n u use txtspek.

And god forbid you should couple this with any sort of optimism. It's like finding BB asleep in a cave like a grumpy old bear and taking a running kick at his knackers.

[reddogkev]

Bristol Boy, I am intrigued, following your earlier responses to this thread, do you consider this season a failure?

Despite our current misfortune of not gaining automatic promotion to the Premier League, I feel fairly confident that this season has been an unparalleled success, and certainly the best that I have witnessed in my previous 13 years watching the team.

Yes it is disappointing that we have fallen from the lofty position we held after 36 games, but still, this season has been a classic one for BCFC. And what's this you say of the club being kept in a footballing backwater? Doesn't sound like the club I support!

[Guest matt0755]

of course we have lost ground on the top TWO SPOTS! but who knows what will happen no matter what we have had an excellent season lets build on the foundations and go up the football league hopeful this season or next come on you reds

[Bristol Boy]

It is not settling for second best, it is being reasonable. It is obvious that this season we have achieved more than we could possibly have expected, and avoiding relagation is an achievment(and one that the players deserve an awful lot of credit for).

I don't know how you work that out? We got promoted and have spent around £2.5m on new players, so why shouldn't we have a tilt at winning the competition?

We spent a few seasons in the old first division, a rather long time ago, we have hit rock bottom since and have slowly fought our way to a position from which we can now push on and develop into a 'big' club.

Depends on what you call a big club because BCFC, as much as I love them, will never be a big club and such talk makes us look silly.Man Utd are a big club as are Arsenal, Barcelona etc etc.We could be a Premier League Club given the right investment & management and we have a Chairman with the money to do it.However, our status would be more akin to Reading, Fulham, Bolton or Wigan.

Sorry for my youthful optimism, clearly confidence and cheerfulness is lost in old age???(well if its ok for you to have a go, why cant we?).

Good shout young 'un -No it's never lost however, it is tempered by expereince, knowledge & realism bred of 42 years of following City.

And on the subject of my grammer, when I sit my exam A-level English exam in May I promise that it will be at the top of my agenda to ensure my spelling is correct, but writing on a forum about football does not give me enough motivation to ensure that people from the dark ages can understand what I am writing, as my only aim is to talk to people who want to have a conversations about our shared love, this football club.

The whole point of writing anything, anywhere is that those with whom one wishes to communicate can understand the subject matter-Otherwise you may as well keep it to yourself.

If I want to be told about the in's and out's of the English language I will go see my Lecturer as I am pretty confident he is much better qualified to tell me these things than you.

On the basis of the last three lecturers I've met, I doubt it.

[Bristol Boy]

OK, I'm bitterly disappointed that we lost to Stoke yesterday. However, we're almost certain to be in the pray-offs and every City supporter I know would have settled for that at the beginning of the season. We're not exactly on the road to nowhere as the Gas are. The road to nowhere.....

You know when City are struggling to find positives when we stat to comparing ourselves to the Whorefield Intinerants.Swindon & Cheltenham are better than them

[bh_red]

it is not settling for second best, it is being reasonable. It is obvious that this season we have achieved more than we could possibly have expected, and avoiding relagation is an achievment(and one that the players deserve an awful lot of credit for).

I don't know how you work that out? We got promoted and have spent around £2.5m on new players, so why shouldn't we have a tilt at winning the competition?

thing is you say £2.5m on new players like it is a large amount of money, but in this division IT ISN'T! you just need to look at the other teams in this division and the money they have spent on players to see that despite that outlay we have still done it on the cheap

Watford spent £3.25m on Ellington alone, West Brom have spent over £10m, Charlton serious money too, Wolves few million here and there and others, looking at others teams the money we spent looked like just getting us a mid-table position, despite wanting to aim higher.

for anyone to expect us to honestly compete at the top all season after spending only £2.5m is not being realistic, it's worth aiming at, but takes an awful lot of luck as well, which has recently run out.

[Guest MaloneFM]

And half of that 2.5 mil went on Trundle.

I think they are just knackered. And the pressure is getting to them. Two promotions in two seasons with mainly the same squad of players.

[Bristol Boy]

Bristol Boy, I am intrigued, following your earlier responses to this thread, do you consider this season a failure?

No.We have progressed that is undeniable, however the extent is debateable.

My opinion is that we have had a great opportunity to gain automatic promotion and I am very disppointed we have been unable to snatch that opportunity.I am also concerned that our current form may see us even miss out on the play offs.That at least is in our own hands and will, I predict, be decided by the result of the PNE game

Despite our current misfortune of not gaining automatic promotion to the Premier League, I feel fairly confident that this season has been an unparalleled success, and certainly the best that I have witnessed in my previous 13 years watching the team.

If we don't make the play offs, I don't think you can use the word unparrelled.I've been following City for 42 years and there have been greater successes and enormous, life threatening failures.Clearly, we are in a better position than we have been for a long time.

Yes it is disappointing that we have fallen from the lofty position we held after 36 games, but still, this season has been a classic one for BCFC. And what's this you say of the club being kept in a footballing backwater? Doesn't sound like the club I support!

That's the problem.Our expectations have been lowered by years in the doldrums, we are steeped in mediocrity and some fans will still accept being better than the Rovers or being in the CCC as success in itself.I see the CCC as the stepping stone for future success and there is only one place to be playing professional football in 2008-The Prem.Let's hope next season goes as well as this one and we have enough maturity and ability to see it through.Because at 5.20pm yesterday we were three wins, even two and a draw away from the Prem-Now, even winning the next two, probably won't be enough.

I hope we can get in the play offs and I think that's likely, but a long way from a given.

That's a great disppointment

[Bristol Boy]

And half of that 2.5 mil went on Trundle.

I think they are just knackered. And the pressure is getting to them. Two promotions in two seasons with mainly the same squad of players.

That's what loans & the transfer window's far-And when about 80% of that £2.5m is on the bench or doesn't travel, has it been money well spent?

[bh_red]

Spot on.

We have massively over achieved with a squad largely made up of "journeyman" type players with a team and work ethic second to none. It has proven to be a successful strategy.

In hindsight, a couple more loan players may have made a difference - it did for some teams, but it scuppered others. We will never actually know that it would have pushed us on.

It's been a very successful first championship season whatever happens.

yep, that's the diference between long term loans and short term late loans,

if we had made a signing in oct/nov time, then great, or even another perm signing in jan.

but the last minute loans like Charlton have made, and even ameobi at stoke have done nothing or made the situation alot worse

[Bristol Boy]

thing is you say £2.5m on new players like it is a large amount of money, but in this division IT ISN'T! you just need to look at the other teams in this division and the money they have spent on players to see that despite that outlay we have still done it on the cheap.

The point was about expectations, based on acheiving promotion last season along with Scunny (Rel) Blackpool (Prob Safe).Having been promoted, we spent the money and improved the squad.Colchester spent nothing the season before and still finsihed just shy of the play offs.Their financial status meant that over acheivment backfired and they lost six of their best players, couldn;t replace them all and have now been relegated.Fortuneatley we are not in that position however we may find it difficult to hold onto Elliott & Basso.S****horpe got promted and had to sell their two best players having already lost Keogh.

Watford spent £3.25m on Ellington alone, West Brom have spent over £10m, Charlton serious money too, Wolves few million here and there and others, looking at others teams the money we spent looked like just getting us a mid-table position, despite wanting to aim higher.

for anyone to expect us to honestly compete at the top all season after spending only £2.5m is not being realistic, it's worth aiming at, but takes an awful lot of luck as well, which has recently run out.

Good point about the luck.My expectation was that we would do as well as Colchester + a bit better based on the money and yes, I would have settled for the play offs in August and I wrote that at the time.I wouldn't have settled for the play offs before Soton and I wouldn't at 5.20pm yesterday.

The fact that we took the field yesterday with about 80% of that spend not on the pitch is an indictment of how well those players have performed.