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Post by darkbluegas on Sept 18, 2018 10:45:34 GMT
It's going to be really interesting to watch how this develops over the next couple of decades. Clearly the premier League is now a million miles away for the the vast majority of FL sides. Not even a dream but a fantasy. As with all businesses in the modern age a tiny number will dominate completely hoovering up nearly all the wealth. Football in the UK is on that trajectory and the top league will soon be closed to newcomers. Whether that's through a closed system like the NFL or by financial constraints it's not yet clear.
The interesting part is the scramble to get there before the ladder is pulled up. At the moment there's about 36 clubs trying to squeeze into an 18 club pot. Like it or not C££Y are one of the 36. The ones that don't make it will be swimming like sharks in a very small pond.
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Sept 18, 2018 10:56:14 GMT
I'll believe it when I'm sat in it.
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Post by RetroGamer on Sept 18, 2018 11:02:24 GMT
Well it will affect our future fan base unfortunately, like it or not. So what's your plan of action to keep up with them? Quid a kid for the rest of the season would be a good start. It wont cost the club anything as you hardly see kids go compared to 10-15 years ago.
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Sept 18, 2018 11:12:07 GMT
So what's your plan of action to keep up with them? Quid a kid for the rest of the season would be a good start. It wont cost the club anything as you hardly see kids go compared to 10-15 years ago. See more kids go now then I did when I started going to Rovers regurly around 10 years ago.
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Post by singupgas on Sept 18, 2018 11:58:50 GMT
Kids tickets should be cheap anyway. £5 ticket, £4 sausage roll..£1.50 coke. Easy money.
It amazes me that business prices themselves out of sale some times.
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Post by mehewmagic on Sept 18, 2018 12:01:25 GMT
So what's your plan of action to keep up with them? Quid a kid for the rest of the season would be a good start. It wont cost the club anything as you hardly see kids go compared to 10-15 years ago. Agree with the quid a kid idea. I know people will say ST's are cheap (yes they are, well done) but for adults who bring children just occasionally paying for kids is really a problem. Children, in general, are very expensive and it really does all add up on a match day as well (food & drink, plus replica kit etc during the year). Surely the club make enough out of kids & their parents to give younger kids virtually free entry to terraces at least.
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Post by mehewmagic on Sept 18, 2018 12:13:31 GMT
So what's your plan of action to keep up with them? Why do we have to keep up with them we are ragbag rovers always have been always will be we have a unique fan base and don't have aspirations of grand urge like they do This isn't 1989 anymore. Very few small, under resourced clubs now reach the championship, or if they do they don't stay... We don't need to keep up with them per se but to have any chance of being a high Lge 1 or championship club we do need to sort ourselves out. Things don't stay still. Basketball is a really good sport & pretty accessible. Having a good team in Bristol, in good facilities, does attract people, including adults with kids. And when they have to decide how many sports to go to watch they may have to make decisions... I write about our quirkiness all the time - it is part of the deal for me, but we still need fresh blood & we still need some good times & some chance of promotion to attract / keep fans.
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Post by darkbluegas on Sept 18, 2018 12:27:17 GMT
C££Y are huge in comparison to us now due to the Santa Claus affect and they are miles away from the promised land. Even they can't hang onto their best players. A certain Joe Bryan now earns £35,000 each and every week.....that's £35,000 each and every week folks. Any thoughts how that might end if Fulham get relegated.
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Post by tomylil on Sept 18, 2018 12:44:07 GMT
C££Y are huge in comparison to us now due to the Santa Claus affect and they are miles away from the promised land. Even they can't hang onto their best players. A certain Joe Bryan now earns £35,000 each and every week.....that's £35,000 each and every week folks. Any thoughts how that might end if Fulham get relegated. Huge in comparison right now but unlike long established, genuinely big championship clubs like Derby, Forest, let along the recently ex Prem sides, they can be caught because of a fickle fanbase, sh** manager who will never get them up and is more likely to take them down, and when Lansdown senior pegs it, a vacuous silver spoon social media hungry spoilt brat as an owner, who is quite likely to throw his toys out of his cot the minute he gets criticised. Of course, we need a genuine injection of finance to enable a couple of seasons challenging at the right end of league One and then promotion. If Burton can do it on smaller gates than we get now then so can we.
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Post by axegas on Sept 18, 2018 12:53:08 GMT
Whilst it does look nice, I wouldn’t ever want Rovers to lose their identity in the same way that City have with Bristol Sport. If we manage to build a decent stadium somewhere suddenly the gap between us starts to look smaller, they’ve never been able to shake us off and never will.
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Post by barleycorn48 on Sept 18, 2018 13:10:38 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised that this indoor arena is up and running before we get our new tent stand.
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Post by neilv93 on Sept 18, 2018 13:17:23 GMT
Whilst it does look nice, I wouldn’t ever want Rovers to lose their identity in the same way that City have with Bristol Sport. If we manage to build a decent stadium somewhere suddenly the gap between us starts to look smaller, they’ve never been able to shake us off and never will. The concept of Bristol Sport is clever - amalgamating all the sports club under one roof etc - but I'm pleased it's them not us. Very Yank-like and I'd rather we stick to us and let them worry about housing all the other clubs. Thank god the rugby don't play at the Mem anymore!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 13:24:56 GMT
Reading their forum is a good laugh. Some how they think having a basketball team next to their stadium that has an all time crowd attendance of 750 will see us off.... Whilst I'll admit it looks pretty, it only just goes to show that whilst day by day they may be improving when we're not right now, they're losing the sense of identity at their club. The Bristol City we once knew & hated is slowly becoming Bristol Sport - AKA MK Dons of Bristol, a franchise. With 50 more locked out...
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Post by rememberhalifax on Sept 18, 2018 14:13:30 GMT
when i saw this item on news ,just knew it would create talking point on here!think we have to separate the 82ers from Bristol sport plc and then we realize nowt really changed. Bristol City play in a league just 1 tier higher than us despite all the perceived advantages they have, one bad season for them and a good one for us and on the playing side we would have a roll reversal! i am a glass half full type and realize the glass half empty types would look at the opposite scenario, but thats how it is at the moment.This development does nowt to change that and you could deduce that Landsdown is providing Bristol with facilities which the Council should be providing but show neither the desire or intent to do so and has been the case since time immoral!The costs are quite staggering and the event hall would seem to fall twixt two stools,4000 ? certainly 4 times bigger than required for the world famous Bristol Flyers (world famous in Ashton anyway!)but no where near big enough to attract major Boxing or top band Gigs after all Bristol Arena ,that was, was deemed not big enough for the like even with a 10000 + capacity , it may compete with the farcically re-branded Hall in Colston street but thats about it.In conclusion as i said this news changes nowt as far as football goes and i am not plagued with the green eyed monster!Ever since i was old enough i chose Rovers for there eternal under dog tag and backs to the wall fighting spirit, our remarkable ability to turn disaster into triumph and to make a silk cloth from a pigs ear!it has been so for all my 70 years and all you true Gas eds out there will know what i mean,i mean just a simple thing like Gas ed was meant to be a derisory term but what did we do? adopted it and now its 'our handle'throughout the football world!Old Gas eds like me will no doubt be smiling wryly at the delusions of grandeur emulating from the dark side again bless their fickle souls, !That said if the good Lord could give us some good news from the club soon it would be much appreciated!just so long its not so good we will lose our unique identity!Up the Rovers!
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Post by z1zou on Sept 18, 2018 14:25:21 GMT
They're doing what most modern stadium builds are doing, utilising as many other streams of income as possible that all feed into their club or business.
Until we somehow push forward on a new ground the best we can hope for is to maintain league 1 status as we can't compete to get promotion without having a 'one off' season like Shrewsbury nearly did last year.
What the Ashton Gate expansion shows is that money and proper planning Does get the job done, so we are clearly doing something very very wrong on that front for nothing to have happened on the off field front.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 14:56:00 GMT
You can't polish a turd.
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Post by gas2 on Sept 18, 2018 15:58:16 GMT
Last week new training ground this week this f f s how the other half live
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 16:25:56 GMT
I realise our ground is a shithole before anyone gets on the defence, but have they spent any money bringing up that stand behind the goal which (last time I had any interest) looks sh**?
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Post by Henbury Gas on Sept 18, 2018 16:54:25 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised that this indoor arena is up and running before we get our new tent stand. Wow by Friday then !
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Sept 18, 2018 17:11:43 GMT
So what's your plan of action to keep up with them? Quid a kid for the rest of the season would be a good start. It wont cost the club anything as you hardly see kids go compared to 10-15 years ago. Think about it. £1 a kid sounds like a good idea, yea? What if you're a kid with a season ticket already? Nice innit that mum/dad stumped up your ticket up front and every other bugger gets in for a squid every match?!
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