Nomad Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Seriously, when was the last time you heard the board speak about the things we want to know, you know, the future, pillars, footballing matters? I'll make an assumption that they have SL's backing (as they should) so why have I heard jack from them. And if there is a 'Message from the Chairman' in the matchday programme I don't care - it's not enough. The silence deafens me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 1 minute ago, Nomad said: Seriously, when was the last time you heard the board speak about the things we want to know, you know, the future, pillars, footballing matters? I'll make an assumption that they have SL's backing (as they should) so why have I heard jack from them. And if there is a 'Message from the Chairman' in the matchday programme I don't care - it's not enough. The silence deafens me. I was thinking the same. How many board members are there? Could we sacrifice one or two for some new players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 1 minute ago, exAtyeoMax said: I was thinking the same. How many board members are there? Could we sacrifice one or two for some new players? Doubtful - you'd have nobody to work the fax machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 There was a carefully arranged Q&A with the owner recently. Shame actions (or inactions) speak much louder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extonsred Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 see also my post on should we expect anything else....... similar themes -- could be merged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 1 minute ago, GrahamC said: There was a carefully arranged Q&A with the owner recently. Shame actions (or inactions) speak much louder... The owner is SL. I'm talking about the board. You know - the ones entrusted to run the club..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, GrahamC said: There was a carefully arranged Q&A with the owner recently. Shame actions (or inactions) speak much louder... Happy for a merge if the mod's think it's needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Don Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 To be fair I'm more interested in what the puppeteer has to say rather that the puppet and he has spoken again recently. I'd rather hear more from Keith Burt on transfers personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 1 minute ago, Nomad said: The owner is SL. I'm talking about the board. You know - the ones entrusted to run the club..... Does it matter what the board have to say? All they have to do is give us a football team, preferably one that's competitive enough to at least make a fist of staying up. They don't even have to worry about off field matters now, it's all done by Bristol Sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumRed Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 8 minutes ago, Nomad said: Doubtful - you'd have nobody to work the fax machine. I'd heard Jon Lansdown was running the pigeon loft but 'Speckled Jim' has lost his match fitness and therefore has been a bit slow in delivering our contracts to players agents... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up The City! Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 SL used to do interviews, q&a's etc quite regularly. Since he has 'retired' tho we don't hear much from either him or anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I think very soon we will have more pillars than players. It would be nice to have some explanation as why we have only signed one permanent first team player in the previous two transfer windows, and what changes have been implemented in the current transfer window to rectify this. As I see it, we are trying to compete in a higher division with a worse squad, that deserves an explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 18 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said: Does it matter what the board have to say? All they have to do is give us a football team, preferably one that's competitive enough to at least make a fist of staying up. They don't even have to worry about off field matters now, it's all done by Bristol Sport. When things are not going well I think it a voice from the board is much needed. Just my opinion and if others are ok without then fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilli74 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I've noticed that neither Jon L or Steve L have tweeted for weeks either ... Probably burying their heads in the sand ... Jon used to tweet regularly ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITW Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Maybe/hopefully they are hard at work trying to make things happen in this window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View from the Dolman Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, GILLI said: I've noticed that neither Jon L or Steve L have tweeted for weeks either ... Probably burying their heads in the sand ... Jon used to tweet regularly ... Who needs facts when you can just make stuff up? Steve Lansdown retweeted stuff yesterday and his last tweet from himself was 5 days ago. Not exactly weeks ago, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, GILLI said: I've noticed that neither Jon L or Steve L have tweeted for weeks either ... Probably burying their heads in the sand ... Jon used to tweet regularly ... Jon tweeted six days ago, I know that's a bit pedantic. To be fair, in most companies and football clubs you don't hear much from the Board until the AGM and financial results announcements. That's pretty standard practice. I think sometimes we expect more access to their views than is reasonable? Happy to debate this but I don't think any Board announcements would tell us anything we don't already know? And anyway, when Steve L talked publicly recently about the summer transfer stuff he was accused on here of being a liar. So why would people believe anything members of the Board said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 They love the popularity thing (when we're winning). That's where their public personas begin and end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevedon Red Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Not sure that JL is even in the uk at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 4 minutes ago, Clevedon Red said: Not sure that JL is even in the uk at the moment. If only they had the Internet abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC81 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I don't know why we should be expecting the board to come out and say anything, you don't hear board members of other clubs coming out and saying things, unless you are people like Perez or Simon Jordan. We have heard recently from the horses mouth that the funds are there, and wages can be matched, for the right players. Yes we all know we are trying to adopt a model for players under 24, but that hasn't stopped SL putting his hand in his pocket to bring in an unproven Ligue 2,26 year old, so he is willing to break this model if the right players are identified!! My main concern is that SC has been banging on about players/funds etc for the first half of the season, and come the QPR game SL stated he has not been given a list of potential targets by the manager! Whether that is down to SC or KB to provide this list I don't know! My worry is that maybe these 2 don't have a long list of contacts that they can call upon, we all know from others in the football world that our manager does not have many friends, and at this time of the year he needs all the friends he can get! P.s I know it is my first post, I am not Gas, I have read the forum for a number of years, I am just a concerned Red like you guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilli74 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Retweets yes most not football related ... Jons last tweet he typed was about the rovers graffiti... And last match related was tweet was 12/12.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View from the Dolman Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 5 minutes ago, GILLI said: Retweets yes most not football related ... Jons last tweet he typed was about the rovers graffiti... And last match related was tweet was 12/12.... And Steve's 5 days ago? Or you going to ignore that your mistruth was shown up within minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, BCFC81 said: I don't know why we should be expecting the board to come out and say anything, you don't hear board members of other clubs coming out and saying things, unless you are people like Perez or Simon Jordan. We have heard recently from the horses mouth that the funds are there, and wages can be matched, for the right players. Yes we all know we are trying to adopt a model for players under 24, but that hasn't stopped SL putting his hand in his pocket to bring in an unproven Ligue 2,26 year old, so he is willing to break this model if the right players are identified!! My main concern is that SC has been banging on about players/funds etc for the first half of the season, and come the QPR game SL stated he has not been given a list of potential targets by the manager! Whether that is down to SC or KB to provide this list I don't know! My worry is that maybe these 2 don't have a long list of contacts that they can call upon, we all know from others in the football world that our manager does not have many friends, and at this time of the year he needs all the friends he can get! P.s I know it is my first post, I am not Gas, I have read the forum for a number of years, I am just a concerned Red like you guys! Good post mate. I agree with you, as you'll see from my earlier post on this thread. But people on here called Steve L a liar when he publicly aired his views so he probably can't win from talking about the issues and neither would the board.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilli74 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said: And Steve's 5 days ago? Or you going to ignore that your mistruth was shown up within minutes? Mistruth ? Steves last football related tweet was on the 12/12 too ... The last 2 he did weren't anything to do with Bristol city ... Your on the wrong forum bud ... I was insinuating that they spoke up last time we did well ... And nothing 'football related' since when it's not been good ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 13 minutes ago, BCFC81 said: I don't know why we should be expecting the board to come out and say anything, you don't hear board members of other clubs coming out and saying things, unless you are people like Perez or Simon Jordan. We have heard recently from the horses mouth that the funds are there, and wages can be matched, for the right players. Yes we all know we are trying to adopt a model for players under 24, but that hasn't stopped SL putting his hand in his pocket to bring in an unproven Ligue 2,26 year old, so he is willing to break this model if the right players are identified!! My main concern is that SC has been banging on about players/funds etc for the first half of the season, and come the QPR game SL stated he has not been given a list of potential targets by the manager! Whether that is down to SC or KB to provide this list I don't know! My worry is that maybe these 2 don't have a long list of contacts that they can call upon, we all know from others in the football world that our manager does not have many friends, and at this time of the year he needs all the friends he can get! P.s I know it is my first post, I am not Gas, I have read the forum for a number of years, I am just a concerned Red like you guys! Welcome mate. Good post. I would ask though, if we don't need to hear from them, why couldn't they shut up last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View from the Dolman Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 6 minutes ago, GILLI said: Mistruth ? Steves last football related tweet was on the 12/12 too ... The last 2 he did weren't anything to do with Bristol city ... Your on the wrong forum bud ... I was insinuating that they spoke up last time we did well ... And nothing 'football related' since when it's not been good ... Give over. If you're trying to say that the tweet was not 'football related' then you're kidding yourself. And you can hardly say Steve has gone quiet. He's barely tweeted at all really. 117 Tweets including 41 retweets. That leaves 76 actual tweets from himself. He's barely prolific so I'm not sure why you'd be expecting hourly updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC81 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 55 minutes ago, CotswoldRed said: Welcome mate. Good post. I would ask though, if we don't need to hear from them, why couldn't they shut up last year? I agree, we did hear from them more last year, but isn't that always the way? On the other side we didn't have too many posts complaining about them either, and I don't recall seeing many posts praising them for their part in the early transfer activity! As mentioned before SL has come out to say funds are avaliable, I am not sure what else can be said! I am sure he won't of come out and said that funds are avaliable if they are not, what benefit would that be to him! Maybe he is listening to the fans and leaving football decisions to 'people' who are deemed to have more knowledge, I do not know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray White Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 The 5 pillars seem to have crumbled somewhat. It was a nice idea in theory but it started to fade ever since they got rid of Sod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted January 6, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 11 hours ago, Ray White said: The 5 pillars seem to have crumbled somewhat. It was a nice idea in theory but it started to fade ever since they got rid of Sod Let's be honest the 5 pillars thing was a load of nonsense that a first year student would be slated for bringing up as a serious business model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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