When will bristol city be relegated?

With all due respect, Bristol are riding high andstill doing well this season, which is an enormous feat. They certainly have an upward trend. Chances are they will gain promotion again, though they need to have spending power to stay in the top flight.

Four points off the top of the league and another point from the draw today... nah, they aint going down anytime soon.

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With any luck they will lose all their form and get relegated this season!

They won't

Bristol City Football Club is one of two football league clubs in Bristol, England, (the other being Bristol Rovers). They play at Ashton Gate, located in the south-western portion of the City. Gary Johnson has been the team's manager since 23 September 2005, succeeding Brian Tinnion. They were promoted to the Championship in the 2006-2007 season after finishing second in League One.

Bristol City reached the 1909 F.A Cup final where they lost to Manchester United, but they did win the Welsh Cup - despite being an English team - in 1934. In 1907 they finished runners-up in the league, which is their highest-ever final position.

In 1982, Bristol City became the first English team to suffer three successive relegations and just before falling into the Fourth Division they almost went out of business. But a takeover deal saved them from going under, and by 1990 they were back in the Second Division. Another relegation followed in 1995, when City finished second from bottom in the new Division Two, and a return to that division three years later lasted just one season. Most of their seasons between 1999 and 2006 were spent challenging for promotion in the upper half of the division.

The club's nickname is "the Robins", and a robin featured on the club's badge from 1976 to 1994. Official club merchandise, including replica kits, still has a label showing a robin. A recent attempt by the club to alter the club's badge was abandoned after the club was criticised fiercely by fans. Many supporters still choose to sport the club's old Robin and suspension bridge badge.

Bristol City currently play at Ashton Gate stadium in the Bedminster area of the city of Bristol, which has an all-seater capacity of more than 20,000. There have been plans, if the need arises, for expansion work to be carried out at their current ground. There have also been proposals to build a new stadium, the first option being a 36,000-seat stadium at Hengrove Park. In 2002, the local council was looking at possible sites for a new 40,000-seat stadium which would house both City and Rovers, but these plans were scrapped and it is widely accepeted that this would not have been welcomed by the majority of supporters from both clubs. Ashton Gate's current capacity is larger than most other League One grounds, and it is still to be seen if the attendance figures in the Championship would require further expansion to the ground.

Honours
The team played in the FA Cup final, losing 1 - 0 to Manchester United at Crystal Palace, London, on April 26 1909, and won the Welsh Cup in 1934, defeating Tranmere Rovers 3 - 0.

Their highest finishing position in the League was in the 1906-07 season when the team were runners-up to Newcastle in Division 1.

Minor honours include: Second Division champions 1905-06; Third Division South champions three times; Associate Members' Cup winners 1985-86 (as Freight Rover Trophy); Football League Trophy ; Winners 2002-3 (as LDV Vans Trophy); Anglo-Scottish Cup winners 1977-78.

History
The club was founded in 1897, when Bristol South End F.C. turned professional and changed its name to Bristol City. In 1900 the club merged with local rivals Bedminster F.C., who had been founded as Southville in 1887. The side joined the Football League in 1901. They first entered Division 1 in 1906 as Division 2 champions, and as newcomers became known as the "Bristol Babe", a nickname that would last into the thirties. They were runners-up in their first season in the top flight, but couldn't match this performance again, and were relegated in 1911. They would not return for sixty-five years.

The 1920s were a rocky time as City bounced between the Second Division and the Southern Section of the Third Division. By the 1930s they had slumped into the lower division, and stayed that way until the Second World War. Harry Dolman became chairman in 1949, a post he would hold for over 30 years. An engineer who had bought out the firm he worked for, he designed the first set of floodlights installed at Ashton Gate in the early 1950s. The late 1950s were a better time for City, with a five year stay in the Second Division, a league they returned to for a further spell in 1965. In 1967 Alan ***** was appointed manager, and he eventually led them back to the top division in 1976 when they were runners-up in the Second Division - ending a 65-year absence from the top flight.

Surviving just four seasons in the top division and only managing a peak of 13th position in the 1978-79 season, they were relegated in 1980 and after three successive demotions went bankrupt and were only able to continue playing under the ownership of a new company, BCFC (1982) plc, because eight highly-paid senior players (the "Ashton Gate Eight") accepted redundancy.

City's stay in the basement was short - just two years - since when they have remained in the middle two divisions of the League structure. The late 1990s were a period of instability for the club, with five managers in four seasons. Danny Wilson was appointed as manager in June 2000, but left by mutual consent in June 2004 after successive seasons of finishing third but narrowly failing to win the play-offs. Long-serving City midfielder Brian Tinnion became player-manager in his place and led the team to a place just outside the play-offs in his first season.

The summer of 2005 saw a major rebuilding of the squad, bringing in the Premiership strikers Marcus Stewart (who supported City as a boy) and Michael Bridges. Three games into the 2005-2006 season City were one of only two clubs in the entire league without a goal; the drought ended abruptly in their fourth game, with three goals in the first quarter hour of a 4-2 victory over Port Vale. Results remained poor, however, and Tinnion resigned as manager after a 7-1 thrashing by Swansea. He was replaced by Gary Johnson, who was lured from west country neighbours Yeovil Town. A club record of nine successive defeats was brought to an end with a 2-0 victory at home to Huddersfield on 10 December. Since then, a continuous run of only three defeats in sixteen games was capped with City beating Gillingham 6-0, with defender Louis Carey scoring a brace. This was City's largest league win since late 1969, and was an encouraging sign of things to come.

The 2006/2007 season started poorly for City. After a win over Scunthorpe on the first day of the season, a run of four successive defeats had the crowd calling for Johnson's head. The club also sold young prodigy David Cotterill to Wigan just one hour before the transfer window shut. However, City didn't seen to miss him as they went on to win 6 out of their next 7 games, firing them into the top 6 of League 1. An undefeated run of 11 league games, from late November until the last game in January, put City on top of the league and promotion seemed a real possibility. City also put together an impressive FA Cup run, being knocked out in the 4th round on penalties after a replay in which they held Premiership side Middlesbrough to a 2-2 draw in both ties. They knocked out Championship side Coventry City in the 3rd round. They also reached the Southern Area Final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, but were knocked out over two legs by bitter rivals Bristol Rovers.

Bristol City FC secured a place in the Championship for the first time in nine years for the 2007/08 season, after winning 3-1 against Rotherham with two goals by David Noble and one by Alex Russell, meaning that they finished in 2nd, resulting in automatic promotion.

Kits
2006/2007 Season
At the beginning of the 2006/2007 season Bristol City signed a 4 year deal with Puma to produce their kits. Before the season started fans were allowed to vote on a combination of shirts, shorts and socks. The fans voted to return to red shirts with white shorts after several seasons playing in all red. As well as the white and gunmetal grey away kits, they also have a third black kit of which only 250 replicas were made. The team also sometimes played with black shorts and/or socks with their home kit to further avoid clashes.
The front of the shirt had the badge of the kits main sponsor Bristol Trade Centre. The back of the shirt was sponsored by Blackthorn Cider

2007/2008 Season
This seasons kit, also made by Puma has matching home and away strips. The away shirt this season is quite similar to last years very popular third kit. The shirts retains the same sponsors as last years (Bristol Trade Centre and Blackthorn). The socks on the home kits have changed from white to red, with white trim. There is no third kit this year.


Current squad
As of 9 May 2007.




No. Position Player
1 GK Adriano Basso
2 MF Bradley Orr
4 DF Liam Fontaine
5 DF Jamie McCombe
6 DF Louis Carey (Captain)
7 MF Scott Murray
8 MF David Noble
9 FW Steve Brooker
10 FW Phil Jevons
11 FW Kevin Betsy
14 MF Cole Skuse
No. Position Player
15 FW Enoch Showunmi
16 DF Richard Keogh
17 MF Alex Russell
18 MF Jamie McAllister
22 GK Chris Weale
23 MF Brian Wilson
26 FW Jennison Myrie-Williams
27 MF Frankie Artus
28 DF James Wilson
33 MF Lee Johnson
FW Tristan Plummer


Out on loan
No. Position Player
20 DF David Partridge (on loan to Swindon Town)


Famous players
Bermuda
Shaun Goater
England
John Atyeo
Gus Caesar
Andy Cole
Norman Hunter
Steve McClaren
Brian Tinnion
Billy Wedlock
Nigeria
Ade Akinbiyi
Poland
Dariusz 'Jacki' Dziekanowski
Scotland
Gerry Gow
David Moyes
Former Youth Products Currently in the Premiership
Leroy Lita (Reading F.C.)
Liam Rosenior (Fulham F.C.)
David Cotterill (Wigan Athletic F.C.)
Scott Golbourne (Reading F.C.)
Managers
Sam Hollis (1897-99)
Bob Campbell (1899-1901)
Sam Hollis (1901-05)
Harry Thickett (1905-10)
Sam Hollis (1911-13)
George Hedley (1913-17)
Jack Hamilton (1917-19)
Joe Palmer (1919-21)
Alex Raisbeck (1921-29)
Joe Bradshaw (1929-32)
Bob Hewison (1932-49)
Bob Wright (1949-50)
Pat Beasley (1950-58)
Peter Doherty (1958-60)
Fred Ford (1960-67)
Alan ***** (1967-80)
Bobby Houghton (1980-82)
Roy Hodgson (1982)
Terry Cooper (1982-88)
Joe Jordan (1988-90)
Jimmy Lumsden (1990-92)
Denis Smith (1992-93)
Russell Osman (1993-94)
Joe Jordan(1994-97)
John Ward (1997-98)
Benny Lennartsson (1998-99)
Tony Pulis (1999)
Tony Fawthrop (2000)
Danny Wilson (2000-04)
Brian Tinnion (2004-05)
Gary Johnson (September 2005-Present)

they will never get relagated der getin promtoed to da premiership this season and will stay der

if they carry on playing as they currently they won't. They are going very well and when they do have a bad game they are unfairly criticised - lets not forget this is their first season in the Championship. Up you Reds!