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Couldn't be more wrong. There are two or three areas in Bristol where you can't buy a house for less than a million, and 1 bed flats go for £250-300k. There's a massive spread in wealth from top to bottom, but there are a lot of very wealthy people in Bristol and the surrounding areas.
Perhaps, but I'm relatively sure that the areas where Gas draw their hardcore support from aren't living in £1m gaffs.

Either way, poor example, but replace them with multiple other clubs. Point still stands
 
Clubs that go into Administration should be automatically relegated and have a salary cap placed on any signings they make for 5 years, so you don't get the likes of Wigan who were in administration last year splashing money around this Summer.
You can’t salary cap some clubs and not others if you want to solve the problem mate. Doing that would just make it worse.
but I do understand where you’re coming from.
 
Not every club has a fanbase of Portsmouth's size, though.

Say a club like Bristol Rovers went into admin - not a particularly wealthy part of the world, and a relatively small fanbase which makes it very difficult for them to get a group of fans to buy the club. You'd just end up with clubs going bust, rather than being saved as no prospective owner would touch them.

Points deduction - which in most cases leads to relegation anyway - is more than enough.

If the Wigan owner has the funds to spend on players, then more power to them
I though Bristol was quite an affluent area ?
 
I though Bristol was quite an affluent area ?

It is, but there are pockets of extreme poverty (Southmead and Hartcliffe in particular) which are as bad, or possibly worse than anywhere in the NE, if only because the cost of living is higher here (try getting a pint for under £4, bar Wetherspoons). I think the poster was alluding to a lot of Gas support coming from Southmead, though they draw on the whole of north Bristol.
 
Derby are not alone in chasing the Prem riches like. Off the top of my head I’ve seen Forest, Boro, Birmingham, Fulham and Stoke all spend big for a shot at the big time in recent years.

We’re in a situation now whereby the clubs who come down are much more likely to get back up and unless you’re willing to take years slowly building like Brentford have then you’ll tend to see clubs hoy money at average players just to try and compete.

I hope to God if we get back up we don’t lack patience because this is where it inevitably ends up.
 
Derby are not alone in chasing the Prem riches like. Off the top of my head I’ve seen Forest, Boro, Birmingham, Fulham and Stoke all spend big for a shot at the big time in recent years.

We’re in a situation now whereby the clubs who come down are much more likely to get back up and unless you’re willing to take years slowly building like Brentford have then you’ll tend to see clubs hoy money at average players just to try and compete.

I hope to God if we get back up we don’t lack patience because this is where it inevitably ends up.

Villa would have been in the shit if they hadn't gone up when they did.
 
Clubs that go into Administration should be automatically relegated and have a salary cap placed on any signings they make for 5 years, so you don't get the likes of Wigan who were in administration last year splashing money around this Summer.

I’d rather see the owners, directors, etc… punished, rather than the fans.
Bans, massive fines, even jail time.

(That doesn’t go for if any of the Rich 6 went into administration. Their fans would deserve to take the rough with the smooth.)
 
Couldn't be more wrong. There are two or three areas in Bristol where you can't buy a house for less than a million, and 1 bed flats go for £250-300k. There's a massive spread in wealth from top to bottom, but there are a lot of very wealthy people in Bristol and the surrounding areas.
Bristol has to be the second wealthiest city in the country behind London(?)

Edit: Sheffield apparently(?) but right up there
 
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