Bournemouth attendance has never hit 12,000 this season, even against Manc City. Is big club defined by tv money or potential?
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Thread: Are we the wee Foley Team?
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24-02-2024 10:07 PM #1
Are we the wee Foley Team?
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24-02-2024 10:09 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-02-2024 10:10 PM #3
Is this meant to be a serious question?
And who called Bournemouth a big club anyway🤔
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24-02-2024 10:14 PM #4
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Foley doesn't own us and probably won't ever.
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24-02-2024 10:17 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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24-02-2024 10:33 PM #6
Its a sad statement of the times that Bournemouth are a bigger club than us but unfortunately, that's where we are at.
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24-02-2024 10:37 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They just have a lot more resources thanks to finances
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24-02-2024 10:53 PM #9
Small club but can hug bigger wages to the likes to Christie the Scotlands biggest club shows you where we are at. Always had smaller stadium and attendance than us tho
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24-02-2024 11:47 PM #10
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Nah, we’re the big Gordon team.
I can remember when we were owned by Happy Harry, Wry Willie, Teetotal Tom, canny Kenny, Dirty David, and Triumphant Tom.
We’ll always be owned by someone.
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25-02-2024 12:05 AM #11
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What has happened so far to suggest we're the wee Foley team? Nothing that I can see. So far so good as far as I'm concerned.
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25-02-2024 02:07 AM #13
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We could be then no1 club potentially we have a cracking stadium own training centre with initial investment maybe Foley sees us getting into Europe don’t think that will happen at Bournemouth and lorient
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25-02-2024 06:54 AM #16
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25-02-2024 08:25 AM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This is a club that until 10 or so years ago would have counted 7000 at home as a good attendance at any period in their 125 year history. Historically they have not been particularly well supported for the only club in a catchment area of roughly half a million people.
Even when in the championship they haven't always managed to regularly fill their 11K capacity stadium and I get the feeling that if they were to spend a sustained period outside of the EPL their crowds wouldn't hold up even in their current small stadium, never mind if they were to increase it's capacity to 18 or 20 thousand.
Never won a major trophy. Never played in Europe. Chuck in one of the pishest badges in British, possibly world, football.
Richer than Hibs, Yes ..... Bigger than Hibs, No
Lets face it. If the only criteria for defining how big a club is is what league it plays in and how much money it has then AFC Bournemouth are a bigger club than River Plate, Boca Juniors, Ajax or Benfica
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25-02-2024 07:42 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Money... and what league they're in.
On both counts, Bournemouth dwarf all the Scottish clubs.
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25-02-2024 08:22 PM #19
On no account can Bournemouth be described as a big club. Doubt even their own fans would claim that. Rich, yes because of the league they play in and you could argue successful too as they've done well and punched above their weight continuously to stay there. Burnley, for example, are richer than Ajax but they're not bigger than them.
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25-02-2024 09:24 PM #21
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But your happy to watch a bbc jambo show, with a now and then hibs voice?
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25-02-2024 09:27 PM #22
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25-02-2024 09:53 PM #23
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26-02-2024 05:40 AM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
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27-02-2024 11:35 AM #27
As far as the metrics that Foley and the money men are most interested in, we're smaller than Bournemouth.
Absolutely no ****ing way are we a smaller football club than them.
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27-02-2024 11:42 AM #28
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I'm a sceptic of the Foley deal.
However, I am comfortable with our likely place in the Foley pyramid. Over the last 15 years the only player we have produced of EPL standard was John McGinn. As far as I can remember we have not produced or had another player who would slot into an EPL team over this period of time.
So, I can't see many, if any at all of our players being cherry picked by Bournemouth. From what I can deduce, we will only benefit if players from the Foley pyramid come to us. Or players not deemed good enough for Hibs or needing 'developed' could be offloaded to another club in the Foley pyramid.Last edited by Hibees1973; 27-02-2024 at 11:46 AM.
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27-02-2024 12:09 PM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If Bournemouth want our first team players at EPL level then we've been lucky to have some real quality first team players while they're here. If we had that quality of player, and no connection with Bournemouth, they'd be signed up by another team anyway.
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