Bristol City discussing SFC V Ajax

[bigtonesfc]

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=118269

[sotonjoe]

some stupid comments on there! A bit like any meassageboard though eh?

[John B]

some stupid comments on there! A bit like any meassageboard though eh?

 

But overall I think the comments were pretty good towards us.

 

They may also have got more fans to the game if it had been played on a Saturday

[ottery st mary]

I wish some of our posters were as witty as some of their posters joe....

[sotonjoe]

I wish some of our posters were as witty as some of their posters joe....

 

 

Were they witty on that thread? Honestly, I must have missed those comments.

[sotonjoe]

But overall I think the comments were pretty good towards us.

 

They may also have got more fans to the game if it had been played on a Saturday

 

 

Nice to be recognised as a bigger club, certainly.

[John B]

Nice to be recognised as a bigger club, certainly.

 

I have never really understood how a City of Bristol's size does not have a Premiership club .

 

I went there once when they were in Div 1 with the Saints but the game was stopped because of snow

[ottery st mary]

Were they witty on that thread? Honestly, I must have missed those comments.

 

Like this forum...You have to read between the lines....Luv your style..Rocky:smt054 You are a hellraiser and Simon Cowell will be in touch:tfrag:

[kpturner]

I like the "How did they manage to score?!" comment :-) I was wondering that myself after 30 minutes.

[RonManager]

I like the "How did they manage to score?!" comment :-) I was wondering that myself after 30 minutes.

 

I thought my 2-1 to Saints prediction actually had half a chance at half-time.

[ericb]

Southampton are a massive club, we would only get near that against Liverpool and Man U.

 

First and last time i've ever heard that!

[Psycrow]

I have never really understood how a City of Bristol's size does not have a Premiership club .

 

Its because they have 2 clubs as far as I can see. My brother lived there for years, I've been around 15 times and the general impression is that if, somehow, City and Rovers could merge, the team would be big enough for the prem considering the support base they'd have

[Thedelldays]

Its because they have 2 clubs as far as I can see. My brother lived there for years, I've been around 15 times and the general impression is that if, somehow, City and Rovers could merge, the team would be big enough for the prem considering the support base they'd have

 

the city is big enough to have a prem club regardless of how many teams there are..

 

isnt it something like the 3rd or 4th biggest city in england..?

[um pahars]

the city is big enough to have a prem club regardless of how many teams there are..

 

isnt it something like the 3rd or 4th biggest city in england..?

 

Don't know where it stacks up in the City League, but I do know it's twice the size of Southampton.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

the city is big enough to have a prem club regardless of how many teams there are..

 

isnt it something like the 3rd or 4th biggest city in england..?

 

8th biggest in England, 10th in UK

 

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/population/cities.htm

 

Although Wiki says different

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_England_by_population

[DrZuess1979 the 2nd]

Means bugger all when half the world supports ManU

[sotonjoe]

the city is big enough to have a prem club regardless of how many teams there are..

 

isnt it something like the 3rd or 4th biggest city in england..?

 

 

Seems very bizarre that they don't have a big team then.

[Psycrow]

the city is big enough to have a prem club regardless of how many teams there are..

 

isnt it something like the 3rd or 4th biggest city in england..?

 

I don't know DD. I'm not from the UK so wouldn't know that kind of thing off the to of my head.

 

What I'm saying though is that seems to be the general feeling in the city

[Miltonaggro]

Bristol has always been a big rugby city and a large number of the population play and follow rugby union (lots of local rivalry with Bath and cross border raiding into Wales); so that and two football clubs thins out the support...

[St_Tel49]

Don't know where it stacks up in the City League, but I do know it's twice the size of Southampton.

 

IS it? - I lived there for a couple of years a long time ago and my impression was that it was of a similar size to Southampton. I have never looked at the population figures though.

[Polaroid Saint]

8th biggest in England, 10th in UK

 

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/population/cities.htm

 

Although Wiki says different

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_England_by_population

 

Wolfram tells me Bristol has a polution of 430713, with the greater metropoliton area having a population of 704639.

 

Southampton comes in at just 246201. And has no surrounding metro area.

 

so quite a bigger then

 

PS I'd trust Wolfram over and above wiki (for numerical info like this anyway - they often take old figures are guestimate a current 'projection' figure) and the woodlands-junior info (although correct and brilliant - I love the WJ website, it has legendary status in primary schools maths and it departments...) is from the 2001 census.

 

hope this helps

Edited 19 July, 2009 by Polaroid Saint

[Post-it note]

Do they have to pay for their forum?

[Prince Jazzbo]

Wolfram tells me Bristol has a polution of 430713, with the greater metropoliton area having a population of 704639.

 

Southampton comes in at just 246201. And has no surrounding metro area.

 

so quite a bigger then

 

PS I'd trust Wolfram over and above wiki (for numerical info like this anyway - they often take old figures are guestimate a current 'projection' figure) and the woodlands-junior info (although correct and brilliant - I love the WJ website, it has legendary status in primary schools maths and it departments...) is from the 2001 census.

 

hope this helps

 

 

Don't Eastleigh and Totton etc qualify as surrounding metropolitan areas.

[Foxstone]

Don't Eastleigh and Totton etc qualify as surrounding metropolitan areas.

 

I would say so -

[scott_saints]

Both Eastleigh and Totton count as "Greater Southampton"

[macthesaint]

I have never really understood how a City of Bristol's size does not have a Premiership club .

 

I went there once when they were in Div 1 with the Saints but the game was stopped because of snow

If thats the same one I went to then we won 1-0,just before Xmas!

Channon scored and we all went home happy.

[John B]

If thats the same one I went to then we won 1-0,just before Xmas!

Channon scored and we all went home happy.

 

Yes I think so

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Don't Eastleigh and Totton etc qualify as surrounding metropolitan areas.

 

Most definitely not!

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Both Eastleigh and Totton count as "Greater Southampton"

 

If so then, according to the 2001 census, Eastleigh Borough's Population would swell that 'Greater Southampton Area' by 116,169.

[Polaroid Saint]

Both Eastleigh and Totton count as "Greater Southampton"

 

 

Sorry to revive a dying fred for a negative barely saints related comment, but;

 

No. there is no such thing as 'greater southampton'. sure, we are great, but the city is a city and the surrounding towns are their own. Their not even close enough or big enough to be regarded a conorbation (sp ??).