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Would A Period In Non League Football Be The Answer ? (Now with Poll)

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by BSABantam74, Mar 9, 2020.

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Would A Period In Non League Football Be The Answer ?

  1. Yes

    3 vote(s)
    4.8%
  2. No

    60 vote(s)
    95.2%
  1. Idlebantam

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    I have probably done about 60 grounds, but have no desire to add the likes of Bromley, Boreham Wood and Gateshead to the list
     
  2. bantamdave41

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    Boreham Wood.... It sounds a ground where a Mr Bowyer may frequent?
     
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  3. Old city man

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    This isn't the master plan we've been hoping for is it?

    Absolutely not! We can and hopefully will progress out
    of this basement league not make things worse before
    They get better.The loss of revenue alone dropping out
    of the EFL could finish us with our overheads.

    It feels like our predicament has some deep seated cause
    which implies a top to bottom clearance is required.
     
  4. Finley

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    There’s only one way we should be looking to go and it isn’t down
     
  5. jpaul81

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    More likely we'd just fade into obscurity and end up like Avenue. I doubt we'd be able to compete with the 'better run, more progressive' clubs in a league propped up by sugar daddies.
     
  6. jpaul81

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    Cue the video montage of cobbled back streets and 'real yorkshire folk'. Exactly the kind of shite you'd expect if channel 4 did a feature on Bradford. #cityforall
     
  7. A64 Bantam

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    That’s the craziest suggestion I have ever heard. Whatever division you are in , there is no benefit in relegation.
     
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  8. Daisy Mcniven

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    If we lost our league status I can only see a new housing estate where our hallowed turf used to be. Valley Parade Gardens or something in that vein.
     
  9. How

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    Didn’t even read that after the thread title.

    mind boggling.
     
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  10. Boz

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    Sounds a bit defeatist to me. If we went down it could take us years to get back in the FL. I've got confidence that Stuart will repair the damage, I believe we've got enough points this year to avoid relegation and if we don't make the playoffs which is looking doubtful now we will be able to kick on next year. Hopefully the pitch will get sorted as well.
     
  11. Interested Bystander

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    Would A Period In Non League Football Be The Answer ?
    Yes, for Millwall, Leeds & Tottenham
     
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  12. Flying Duck

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    WTF are you smoking mate :joy:

    Take a break from the club/message boards to clear your thinking, no shame in it, have done it many times myself over the last 2 decades..
     
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  13. Jayteebee

    P.L. 23/24 4th Place Supporter World Cup 26 ⚽ P.L.25/26 Entrant

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    A quick look at the national league table and there are 9 grounds there where I've watched City.
    I suppose most of those clubs thought it couldn't happen to them too, but thinking it would be for the best is just madness.
     
  14. TallinnBantam

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    At least then we’d be a really massive club. Even more massiver than we are now.

    it’s a yes from me.
     
  15. JonButterfield

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    Finally, someone who has united the fanbase! Well played @BSABantam74@BSABantam74, others have tried and all have failed!
     
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  16. Rocket

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    Corn Dolly away trip to Matlock Town sounds good
     
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  17. Dennis

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    The one redeeming feature of the suggestion is that it is an original idea ...

    A completely bonkers idea but an original one! :)
     
  18. JonButterfield

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    If you're considering what it might be like to visit those grounds, don't worry - if we can stay in League Two long enough, many of those teams with hitherto unvisited grounds will pass us by on their way to League One before long.

    I remember wondering what the purpose of clubs like Burton Albion, Accrington Stanley, Fleetwood Town, and (briefly) AFC Wimbledon was, but, as with sides like perennial non-league no hopers Newport County, Crawley Town, Forest Green and Salford City, each has been infinitely better run than Bradford City this past few years and will most likely go on to greater success.

    We just can't compete against teams with stands like bus stations if they happen to have owners in possession of one of them bloody 'plans'...
     
  19. Rogered Tart

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    Matlock is a lovely area of the world, i fondly remember the days when we played a team not far from there called the blades. Christ i'm not sure i have the enthusiasm for another season of league 2 shite.
     
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  20. Rogered Tart

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    Just a hint of a plan and a strategy and you'll be dancing your way out of league 2 in no time. That he likes of Salford and Forest Green look better run than us after just a season or two in league football is quite demoralising.
     

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