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Re: Are we a Big Club like we all think we are?

Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:26 pm

At the moment we are a very small club. Hopefully one day we reach the heights of Swansea who are a great club winning trophies.

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Re: Are we a Big Club like we all think we are?

Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:56 pm

paulh_85 wrote:
RFMH wrote:I don't see how anyone could think we are. Definition of 'Big' is important.

Rich history of success? No. If we wernt Welsh winning the FA Cup 83 years ago would be of no consequence no top flight football for 50+ years. Derby, Forest, Leeds all have far greater history than us.

What we are is probably the biggest. Non-big club. Especially in recent years. 4 Wembley visits. New Stadium, massive potential fan base, consists top 7 finished in the Championship for 5 years.

There are good ingredients there. Getting promoted, first or second. Will be the only real measurable success for quite some time. Take away that were a Welsh Club, so we look any better than Wigan? Or Blackburn a few years ago? Not really.




wigan and blackburn are small clubs that have been run well though, or in blackburns case, they bought success.

we are a bigger club than both, and ill throw QPR, Reading, Swansea and Stoke into the equation as well.


We dont have an empty stadium, we are averaging around the 23k mark, which is excellent.

the potential for this club is huge, we could potentially be massive, but it will take a while. Look at where we were 10 seasons ago and compare it with now.


I would hesitate a lot that we are bigger than Blackburn, prem trophey, years of top flight football. Potential here is amazing, but that's all it is at the mo.