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I wonder if Zac Clough’s dad is still laughing at us

The more football becomes about money , the more this will happen. I wouldn't blame the fans, but I suspect there were a fair amount of them demanding that the chairman 'splashed the cash' in order to keep up with the Joneses, it happens at every club. I guarantee you that during the course of the upcoming season there will be a fair few demanding that Lansdown gets his hand in his pocket, they would do well to remember 1982.

Wasn’t it the Bolton chairman that wanted the premiership ring fenced karma .....

City had more in Weston yesterday.... .... and there wasn't even a match! ?

I'm really struggling to have much sympathy for the club tbh, even if I have a modicum for the fans. They spent ridiculously beyond their means and reality caught up with them, tough shit. Plus I've never forgiven the northern bastards after taking a decent sized rock to the bollocks outside Burnden Park after the game it kicked right off at in April 1990 haha.

Were they on the roof?

I would never wish for any club to go bust (other than one), but I find it hard to muster much enthusiasm for Bolton. I hope it turns out ok for them, but I don’t really care.

Putting your hand in your pocket takes time. I think we've had the meathead phase already during Lansdown's ownership. Probably around the time we were struggling towards the bottom of League 1. At the time, nearly everything at the club was shambolic and the stick Lansdown was getting was pretty grim. Situations like Bolton and Coventry have shown our meatheads how bad it could be.

Fortunately, OTIB is a meathead free zone.

This says it all; In a separate development Bolton’s administrators are taking legal action against Laurence Bassini, the former Watford owner who unsuccessfully tried to buy the club from Ken Anderson this year. It was the collapse of the proposed deal put forward by Bassini, who has twice been declared bankrupt and was banned from owning an EFL club for three years in 2013, that led to Bolton being placed in administration after debts incurred under Anderson remained unpaid. The administrators subsequently made the Football Ventures consortium their preferred bidders, only to hear Bassini claim on TalkSport that he has offered more money up front.

Bristol City are an incredibly well run club. I think it is inevitable that- if Lansdown remains in charge- they will get to the Premier League one day. It might not be as quickly as some would like but I do think they will get there. I'm pinning my hopes on enough meatheads giving him enough stick, that he takes his money and goes home

I agree, hard to feel sorry for the kind of fans you describe. Those who have no interest in the financial health of the club then complain when chickens come home to roost. We have those who claim Steve uses FFP as an excuse not to spend what we don't have. Fortunately they seem to be in a minority.

Your owner has never even put his hand in his pocket!

Yes it was. Gartside at the time. Feel for supporters but nothing for the club itself.

Sympathy for their supporters but as a club....definitely not. They’ve been spending well beyond their means and have been poorly managed ever since their days in the Prem.

Doubt it. Probably thinks that they're top of the league now....

The Gas Gash will probably be relegated from that, in their first season !