Big Clubs Near The Trap Door

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Forest
Birmingham
Wednesday

[City123]

Derby aren't a million miles away, there'll be at least one "big club" going down this season, possibly 2 considering Rotherham's games in hand

[LeningradCowboy]

Forest
Birmingham
Wednesday

Cardiff City

[J R Hartley]

Birmingham a big club?

[J R Hartley]

Cardiff City

We won’t go down. When Brown is back this week Mick can play 4 centre half’s. 2 full backs. 3 defensive midfielders. Hoof it to Moore. Safety first football.

[J R Hartley]

We won’t go down. When Brown is back this week Mick can play 4 centre half’s. 2 full backs. 3 defensive midfielders. Hoof it to Moore. Safety first football.

Pick up 3 wins and 10 draws in our remaining 20 games and we stay up.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Birmingham a big club?

They are bigger than us , put it that way

[J R Hartley]

They are bigger than us , put it that way

Not these days they are not

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Not these days they are not

historically they have spent longer in the top two divisions than us and have had bigger crowds

Bigger club than us

Sheffield Wednesday , Derby , bigger clubs than us

[Eric the Half a Bee]

historically they have spent longer in the top two divisions than us and have had bigger crowds

Bigger club than us

Sheffield Wednesday , Derby , bigger clubs than us

Does that make a fig of difference to things as of now? No.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Does that make a fig of difference to things as of now? No.

Yes because if we went down we could go into free fall

Leeds , Wednesday , Forest , Derby are big enough clubs to pull themselves back out

[J R Hartley]

historically they have spent longer in the top two divisions than us and have had bigger crowds

Bigger club than us

Sheffield Wednesday , Derby , bigger clubs than us

History Smishtory

Birmingham haven’t been in the PL for the last decade and their crowds are smaller than ours.

I used to go to St Andrews regularly when my cousin played for them. They are a similar sized club to us and certainly wouldn’t class them as a “big club” not like a Derby or a Forest.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

History Smishtory

Birmingham haven’t been in the PL for the last decade and their crowds are smaller than ours.

I used to go to St Andrews regularly when my cousin played for them. They are a similar sized club to us and certainly wouldn’t class them as a “big club” not like a Derby or a Forest.

If Birmingham City and Cardiff City were in the top two going for promotion you think we would get bigger crowds than them ?

[J R Hartley]

If Birmingham City and Cardiff City were in the top two going for promotion you think we would get bigger crowds than them ?

Cardiff

For a start our ground is bigger.

Won’t be a lot in it though, as I said similar sized clubs.

[City123]

Cardiff

For a start our ground is bigger.

Won’t be a lot in it though, as I said similar sized clubs.

A lot of our fanbase think we're a tiny provincial club based on our period from the late 80s/90s, which historically is a massive outlier. We've spent about 70% of our history in the top two divisions

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Cardiff

For a start our ground is bigger.

Won’t be a lot in it though, as I said similar sized clubs.

Can you tell me why then , that during much of Cardiff citys promotion season under your mate Colin, the crowds at the Cardiff City Stadium were nowhere near the capacity of the ground , even with those red seats not included ?

[Moodybluebird]

Talking of big clubs in trouble, I was surprised to find out that Ipswich Town have only been a league club (barring 1 season) since just after the Second World War. I had always assumed they had been plying their trade in Divisions 2, 3 and 4 prior to them winning the Division 1 title in 1961-62.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

A lot of our fanbase think we're a tiny provincial club based on our period from the late 80s/90s, which historically is a massive outlier. We've spent about 70% of our history in the top two divisions

Look at the crowds we were getting , even when we were a more successful club

Cardiff City have always been able to pull big crowds but we would get 50000 against attractive opposition then a few weeks later scrape 15000

My arch enemy TLG will provide you with the history of our support and even in our golden years it was up and down like a roller coaster.

Its part of the DNA

[NYCBlue]

Birmingham a big club?

They're big for Division 3.

[Packerman]

Talking of big clubs in trouble, I was surprised to find out that Ipswich Town have only been a league club (barring 1 season) since just after the Second World War. I had always assumed they had been plying their trade in Divisions 2, 3 and 4 prior to them winning the Division 1 title in 1961-62.

Amazing club in many ways have a great history and have had truly great players playing for them(Beattie, Mills, Butcher the Dutch pair and John Wark to name a few,they have been managed by the two best England managers and in Robson a great manager, they had the best owners in football for many years in the Cobbolds and pioneered foreign imports in Muhren and Thijsenn all in a town of about 130000
Struggling atm with a weird owner and crowds were down before lockdown but i think they will bounce back
i live in Ipswich and you see loads of people wearing Town gear, lots more than you do see people wearing City stuff in Cardiff or the valleys

[Packerman]

Never classed Birmingham as a big club, crowds have been shit for years bd they have always lived in Villas shadow, considering the size of the city of birmingham their support is crap, and they have only ever won one trophy 60 years ago

[Jordi Culé]

Never classed Birmingham as a big club, crowds have been shit for years bd they have always lived in Villas shadow, considering the size of the city of birmingham their support is crap, and they have only ever won one trophy 60 years ago

They won the League Cup 10 years ago.

[splott parker]

Amazing club in many ways have a great history and have had truly great players playing for them(Beattie, Mills, Butcher the Dutch pair and John Wark to name a few,they have been managed by the two best England managers and in Robson a great manager, they had the best owners in football for many years in the Cobbolds and pioneered foreign imports in Muhren and Thijsenn all in a town of about 130000
Struggling atm with a weird owner and crowds were down before lockdown but i think they will bounce back
i live in Ipswich and you see loads of people wearing Town gear, lots more than you do see people wearing City stuff in Cardiff or the valleys

Was it John Cobbold who said, “A crisis at Ipswich Town is the stock of red wine in the boardroom running low”. A brilliant, Corinthian view of things.

[Jordi Culé]

Amazing club in many ways have a great history and have had truly great players playing for them(Beattie, Mills, Butcher the Dutch pair and John Wark to name a few,they have been managed by the two best England managers and in Robson a great manager, they had the best owners in football for many years in the Cobbolds and pioneered foreign imports in Muhren and Thijsenn all in a town of about 130000
Struggling atm with a weird owner and crowds were down before lockdown but i think they will bounce back
i live in Ipswich and you see loads of people wearing Town gear, lots more than you do see people wearing City stuff in Cardiff or the valleys

Always thought of Ipswich as a proper football town. They’ve got a great history (depending on your age) and I still see the scruffy Eric Gates scoring goals in that Ipswich Adidas jersey.

[Jordi Culé]

Always thought of Ipswich as a proper football town. They’ve got a great history (depending on your age) and I still see the scruffy Eric Gates scoring goals in that Ipswich Adidas jersey.

My reminiscing just reminded me...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Izzpry...ature=youtu.be