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Post by brizzle on Dec 16, 2015 21:20:08 GMT
I went up there last night and it wasn't great but wasn't end of the world. We held our own for a decent 40 mins and hit the post. The problem was we struggled to handle Ince and then once we went down to a very good goal (which was right in front of me) then we didn't really have the formation at 4-5-1 to come back. Start of second half we started well again but yet again conceded against the run of play and then our heads went down. The last half hour was appalling. The chant of "you came for a draw and got fk all" was pretty accurate I guess. Still think Cotterill is doing ok. He took us up against the odds last year and if he can strengthen in Jan I don't see why we shouldn't finish mid table. We won't go down. There are a lot worse teams than us. Whistling in the dark?
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 16, 2015 21:26:06 GMT
I would caution against laughing at our red friends too much, they are putting together the infrastructure to enable them to challenge for a place in the prem in the next 2-3 years, all they have to do this season is finish 4th from bottom. We need to find a board who can make us capable of challenging them or we die. Maybe the infrastructure will work Chip, maybe it won't? Who knows? Sheets have always had more money but how they spend it and use it sometimes leaves alot to be desired. I disagree we need to be challenging them or die. It isn't one or the other, as I'm sure near 7000 folk last Saturday will help to testify.
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Post by chippenhamgas on Dec 16, 2015 21:44:29 GMT
I would caution against laughing at our red friends too much, they are putting together the infrastructure to enable them to challenge for a place in the prem in the next 2-3 years, all they have to do this season is finish 4th from bottom. We need to find a board who can make us capable of challenging them or we die. Maybe the infrastructure will work Chip, maybe it won't? Who knows? Sheets have always had more money but how they spend it and use it sometimes leaves alot to be desired. I disagree we need to be challenging them or die. It isn't one or the other, as I'm sure near 7000 folk last Saturday will help to testify. Very short termist, it's the next generation of Bristol football fans we'll miss out on, if we're still at the mem in 3 years we'll get left behind. We'll be like port vale are to stoke.
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Post by Bridgeman on Dec 16, 2015 21:53:03 GMT
Maybe the infrastructure will work Chip, maybe it won't? Who knows? Sheets have always had more money but how they spend it and use it sometimes leaves alot to be desired. I disagree we need to be challenging them or die. It isn't one or the other, as I'm sure near 7000 folk last Saturday will help to testify. Very short termist, it's the next generation of Bristol football fans we'll miss out on, if we're still at the mem in 3 years we'll get left behind. We'll be like port vale are to stoke. Or Bournemouth are to Portsmouth
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Post by stapletongas on Dec 16, 2015 22:00:49 GMT
Credit where it's due, the Championship is tough and he's doing a good job
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 22:14:16 GMT
Maybe the infrastructure will work Chip, maybe it won't? Who knows? Sheets have always had more money but how they spend it and use it sometimes leaves alot to be desired. I disagree we need to be challenging them or die. It isn't one or the other, as I'm sure near 7000 folk last Saturday will help to testify. Very short termist, it's the next generation of Bristol football fans we'll miss out on, if we're still at the mem in 3 years we'll get left behind. We'll be like port vale are to stoke. Port Vale aren't dead though?
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 16, 2015 22:21:08 GMT
Maybe the infrastructure will work Chip, maybe it won't? Who knows? Sheets have always had more money but how they spend it and use it sometimes leaves alot to be desired. I disagree we need to be challenging them or die. It isn't one or the other, as I'm sure near 7000 folk last Saturday will help to testify. Very short termist, it's the next generation of Bristol football fans we'll miss out on, if we're still at the mem in 3 years we'll get left behind. We'll be like port vale are to stoke. I genuinely don't think we will get left behind if at Mem. We had plans to redevelop the Mem a few years ago with planning approved, so at one time it was viewed to be very much the way forward with most Gas. I like the Mem, I'm not desperate to move, it has potential and charm. But that's just me. Ironically, port vale are above us, so hardly dead, but I do take your point with new generation. We as a club should be doing much more and taking initiatives to lower the average age of the supporter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 22:38:41 GMT
With arguably the richest chairman outside the Premier, millions upon millions of £ written off, all you have to show for it in first third of season is 4th from bottom. Sheets ain't having it their own way. One thing will turn in your favour will be Bolton's demise. So there is in reality only two positions up for relegation.. Make the most of rich daddy underpinning otherwise fragile club, if he chooses to walk away one day, mind the bump down to earth.. All said and done, I'm glad I'm this side of the river. I'll continue to laugh my t!ts off at results like last night as a bumbling twot in interview after! Hilarious! As opposed to being relegated to non league, dumped out of the FA Cup by part timers and literally zero chance of ever surviving in L1 let alone our league. You have a funny preference... ''Our League', what are you like You are just visitors, enjoy the scenery. When Lansdown walks away, and he will, sooner than you are expecting, his legacy will be a stadium and naff all else, then you'll be stuck where history suggests you belong, 3rd tier. Going back to your simpleton of a manager, nice to see him rounding on his own players last night, telling them that they aren't good enough, that'll give them a boost won't it! A village somewhere is missing this bloke.
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Post by chippenhamgas on Dec 16, 2015 23:04:45 GMT
With arguably the richest chairman outside the Premier, millions upon millions of £ written off, all you have to show for it in first third of season is 4th from bottom. Sheets ain't having it their own way. One thing will turn in your favour will be Bolton's demise. So there is in reality only two positions up for relegation.. Make the most of rich daddy underpinning otherwise fragile club, if he chooses to walk away one day, mind the bump down to earth.. All said and done, I'm glad I'm this side of the river. I'll continue to laugh my t!ts off at results like last night as a bumbling twot in interview after! Hilarious! As opposed to being relegated to non league, dumped out of the FA Cup by part timers and literally zero chance of ever surviving in L1 let alone our league. You have a funny preference... Without wanting to interrupt on this slanging match, the Chesham defeat in my opinion is irrelevant, albeit embarrassing, we have a fine young manager and a number of players who work their socks off, and a fair chance of a play off place. However you are right, without investment we'd go straight back down. Makes me wonder what makes people tick sometimes when seeing city 4th from bottom of the championship is enough to distract them from our very serious problems off the field.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 23:14:44 GMT
As opposed to being relegated to non league, dumped out of the FA Cup by part timers and literally zero chance of ever surviving in L1 let alone our league. You have a funny preference... Without wanting to interrupt on this slanging match, the Chesham defeat in my opinion is irrelevant, albeit embarrassing, we have a fine young manager and a number of players who work their socks off, and a fair chance of a play off place. However you are right, without investment we'd go straight back down. Makes me wonder what makes people tick sometimes when seeing city 4th from bottom of the championship is enough to distract them from our very serious problems off the field. Who is distracted from the mess we are in financially and the implications of losing the appeal? Does that mean that we shouldn't have a chuckle at the misfortune of the red polydactyls and the angry ramblings of Wurzel?
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Post by percypiecrust on Dec 17, 2015 8:38:08 GMT
Kaiser bcfc, you are missing the whole point of this thread. I'm not knocking City's struggle in the Championship, because I recognise there is a huge gulf between the 2 teams these days. The thread was started to highlight Steve Cotterell's hilarious response to every defeat. We gasheads think his over reaction is hilarious, and surely you City fans must be embarrassed by his stupid answers/reactions in radio interviews
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Post by gooliegas on Dec 17, 2015 8:39:22 GMT
With arguably the richest chairman outside the Premier, millions upon millions of £ written off, all you have to show for it in first third of season is 4th from bottom. Sheets ain't having it their own way. One thing will turn in your favour will be Bolton's demise. So there is in reality only two positions up for relegation.. Make the most of rich daddy underpinning otherwise fragile club, if he chooses to walk away one day, mind the bump down to earth.. All said and done, I'm glad I'm this side of the river. I'll continue to laugh my t!ts off at results like last night as a bumbling twot in interview after! Hilarious! As opposed to being relegated to non league, dumped out of the FA Cup by part timers and literally zero chance of ever surviving in L1 let alone our league. You have a funny preference...
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Post by gooliegas on Dec 17, 2015 8:45:47 GMT
As opposed to being relegated to non league, dumped out of the FA Cup by part timers and literally zero chance of ever surviving in L1 let alone our league. You have a funny preference... BUT we haven't gone bankrupt or been in administration
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Post by nailseaglassgas on Dec 17, 2015 9:18:48 GMT
BUT we haven't gone bankrupt or been in administration Also we are not tenants
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Post by mjhgas on Dec 17, 2015 11:02:02 GMT
Darrell Clarke might be a genius, but we wouldn't survive in the Championship. It's fast becoming a closed shop and in five years will be the Premier League 2nd division and shut to L1/ 2 clubs!
I look forward to being proved wrong in 2018!!!
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Post by DudeLebowski on Dec 17, 2015 11:02:32 GMT
Against the odds....
Being top from August to May?!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 11:21:09 GMT
BUT we haven't gone bankrupt or been in administration Also we are not tenants Yeah by totally shafting the rugby club who took you in when you were in dire straits. Not sure it's something to be proud of?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 11:23:18 GMT
Against the odds.... Being top from August to May?! He created it. He took over we were at the foot of a league that I and many others were embarrassed to be in. He saved us and then against the odds ran away with the league the following season. For me the guy is very honest in post match interviews and I'll take that. He's doing ok by me.
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Post by chippenhamgas on Dec 17, 2015 11:36:38 GMT
Yeah by totally shafting the rugby club who took you in when you were in dire straits. Not sure it's something to be proud of? Factually incorrect a) we weren't in dire straits, still at Twerton with minimal debt, and bath didn't want us to leave. b) we didn't shaft them, if you check your facts they were about to sell the mem to amtrak for exactly the same as we paid them for 50% of it, if either party was in danger of going bust afterwards a clause could be triggered to buy the other party out for 10k. It worked both ways. In our 133 years of existence we have ALWAYS paid our debts, and i believe i am correct in saying we are the only football club in the city to have done so.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 11:37:13 GMT
Kaiser bcfc, you are missing the whole point of this thread. I'm not knocking City's struggle in the Championship, because I recognise there is a huge gulf between the 2 teams these days. The thread was started to highlight Steve Cotterell's hilarious response to every defeat. We gasheads think his over reaction is hilarious, and surely you City fans must be embarrassed by his stupid answers/reactions in radio interviews I think it's much more apt last season than this one though. Some of his reactions when we lost last season were not good. Losing to Crewe and saying we battered them and then the loss to Colchester where they were called cheats. So yeah last season he went over the top at times but there were so few occasions where we lost you never saw it. However this season I can't disagree with what he says. He's livid after Derby and so was I walking out. He said exactly what I thought after watching the same game. We didn't show belief after going 2-0 down. And yes some players weren't good enough. Marlon Pack giving the ball away and then not tracking Ince back is pathetic which I also yelled at him when he came to get the ball. So yes he's dead right. Other times? We've had blatant penalties not given, we've had awful penalties given against us. I'd rather he said it than come out with the load of boring bollocks the previous bloke did. I don't think criticism of his interviews this season is warranted. He's alright by me.
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