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No, Swiss fucked off to Ipswich…….

So, our good friend Wanconda was wrong. Who knew!!! Good news on the re-signing. Impressed by him.

Just a couple of changes filed at Companies House yesterday and today. Doug Harman's departure from the boards of Bristol City Holdings Ltd and Bristol City Football Club Ltd was announced a few weeks ago, but formally went through yesterday. It had been assumed that Jon Lansdown would be left as the only director of Bristol City Holdings Ltd, but in the end the Club have appointed Gavin Marshall to be the second director at holding company level (effective as of today). Marshall is already a director of Bristol City Football Club Ltd, Bristol City Women Football Club Ltd, and Ashton Gate Ltd, and so he is now the only person to hold a directorship of all 4 of the 'football' companies in the group. At the time of writing no one has replaced Harman on the board of Bristol City Football Club Ltd, and so that company, which is essentially the Football Club that we all support, now has a board of three - Richard Gould, Jon Lansdown, and Gavin Marshall. Lisa Knights has been appointed to the board of Ashton Gate Limited (effective as of today), where she joins Marshall, Lansdown, Mark Kelly and Martin Griffiths to make that a board of 5. So the football side of Pula Sport Ltd's subsidiaries now looks like this: Bristol City Holdings Ltd Jon Lansdown, Gavin Marshall. Bristol City Football Club Ltd Jon Lansdown, Gavin Marshall, Richard Gould. Bristol City Women Football Club Ltd Gavin Marshall, Richard Gould, Lisa Knights, Michael Jones, Kevin Hamblin, Rosie Hadrill. Ashton Gate Ltd Jon Lansdown, Gavin Marshall, Martin Griffiths, Mark Kelly, Lisa Knights. Is this good corporate governance for a Championship club (with supposed Premier League ambition) and a turnover of £15m? It's probably just about ok, but could easily be much better. Ideally I think we'd have boards of 5 across the 4 entities. 3 Exec directors and 2 Non-execs on each board, and at least 2 of these 5 should be considered "independent" of Steve Lansdown (the Fan-Led Review recently recommended 30% independent representation). Jon Lansdown to formally be non-exec only in every case, and he is most certainly not 'independent' - again I refer to the FLR which said very clearly that "...an independent director should have no close association with the club owner, whether in a personal or business context". Note that this is likely to become the minimum expected standard, and would reflect relevant codes such as Sport England's code for governance, and also codes used by stock markets and other regulated industries. As an aside, it's odd that the Women's club, which has the lowest turnover, and is the least public of the entitles, is the one with the best spread of experience, numbers, and the only one not to feature the UBO's son on its board. Why should the other companies not reflect that very good balance of directors?

The club doing some very satisfying business this year. Good solid professional signings and Nige building the type of squad he wants. If we can get Kane Wilson over the line that would be great but I want a horrible, nasty, time-wasting, streetwise defensive midfielder in, who coaches refs through games and knows how to win. We can then look forward to at least 8-10 places up the league then in my opinion.

Yesssssss Well done Ukraine , massive respect and if it brings even a few Ukrainians some moments of joy - Fantastic

He is Swiss isnt he?

They are superbly supported, Bilbao. I used to live in Madrid and followed Rayo Vallecano. About 11 years ago, on the day they played each other at the Theresa Rivera in Vallecas, me and the lads were having a few beers when literally thousands of Bilbao supporters descended on the area. This is unheard of normally as away support isn’t usually small over there. We started to worry that things were going to get very tasy, but it was all apparently arranged. The Rayo boys and the Bilbao lads all proceeded to going on a beer, spliff and pyro march around the area in solidarity over their left wing views and their joint hatred of the fascists: Real Madrid. An unforgettable day of football, before and after.

Other clubs have better, more egalitarian governance and corporate structure than us though. This just demonstrates (what we already know tbf) that Steve is the only show in town. I mean the Holdings co is as flimsy as it gets, his son and the club accountant! Looking at it another way, the decks are clear for any future investment and directors to come on board...

The terrain is a bit Rocky…

Reason for it. Fair play to him. Repulsive behaviour from those supporters.

Yessssssss !! One bunch of tossers down; one more bunch of tossers to go !! (Sunday)

https://twitter.com/BurnsideNotTosh/status/1532070043714207744 Burnside @BurnsideNotTosh Important game of football this evening between a post-apocalyptic wasteland dependent on hand outs desperate to join the EU and Ukraine. 7:42 pm · 1 Jun 2022·

Let’s hope that there’s no club out there, willing to risk £15m on AS this summer - if we can keep WSM performing as they did last season and then have a much tighter defence (looks promising, based on our transfer business so far), we could/should have a much better season coming up ??

Oh, did I mis-type it? Ooops! ?

Probably one of the most important pieces of business we can do this summer. We looked so much better after his arrival.

24 years since last World Cup for the Scottish. Another tournament sat watching England ???????

Northern Alcoholic Treaty Organisation?

A Bristol City season ticket in 1981 was 0.6% of the average annual earnings. This year its 0.96%. See, @Davefevs isn't the only one who can do stats ?

Could never support the jocks, taffs or Irish if I’m honest. They wouldn’t want us to even win a throw in & the feelings mutual. Although if Scotland win tonight I’d rather them than the sheep fiddlers qualify on Sunday .

Hi Everyone. Firstly I just want to introduce myself. I'm Sean Henneberry the brother of Martin, (Tinners) as he was often known. Although I read the forum I have never joined as a contributor until now. I have been overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tributes that have appeared both here and on other social media platforms. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all of those who have payed Tinners such amazing tributes since hearing of his passing. I am truly humbled by the many kind and often touching stories about how he was such a valued friend and City stalwart. As you can imagine this has hit me and the family very hard and we are still trying to come to terms with it, however reading all of the love and kindness both from people who knew him well and even those who didn't has really helped me personally through this last difficult week. We were extremely close and shared many happy and not so happy occasions following the club we all love. He truly was C.T.I.D to the core and will leave a huge gap in my life and those of many others. I suspect some of you on here know me already so I'm sure we'll meet up and drink a toast to my wonderful brother next season. Things will never be quite the same for me again but Martin's legacy remains and he'll always be there for me at the Gate and in so many other ways. Love to All. C.O.Y.R.

Maradona Tartan Army, have that you pathetic bastards.

If the Jocks spoil this , we should kick them out of NATO

Still think it was Moore, Vyner, Palmer and Bakinson. Think those are the players with “no future, I’ll get rid of them” type comments. Kalas, I’m sure he’d like to stay, but agree that he’d want to bring his salary down too. If he doesn’t want to do that then he’ll try to move him on, but different category to the other four, imho.

Ah yes, the man who picks up the pants from the dressing room floor! Just what every company needs at board level. (Wondering how long it will be until someone decides to get outraged over a comment that clearly isn't serious. Proper ledge is our Scotty, and his community work is astonishing)

I’m very disappointed with this. I prefer the threads that go on for 20+ pages before the signing is announced. You know the sort of thing - rumour, speculation, he’s going to sign, oh no he’s not, oh yes he is etc.

Just like night follows day....

Very Good News 3 signings in already , which is good business , and will take some pressure off for other business / decisions for the rest of the window.

Rubbish It's a vibrant University City now - loads of young 'uns have headed to the coast to study. New shopping centres, heaps of new clubs, and loads to restoration / revamping going on. I used to live in the New Forest - Bournemouth was never a dump. Vibrant and exciting City now

Ghanaian social media praising Semenyo highly

To Sturgeon and all the other little Scotlanders : Hahahahahahahahahahahaha !!!!

Well done Ukraine now beat the Welsh

Doesn't make much difference when majority shareholder and owner is Steve lansdown, He calla the shots

From Winning Teams to Broken Dreams: The story of six friends and their journey to make to the Premier League https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09XZ162HG/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_J9QHV72P0JFCW1ZTR817 Written by QPRs Dominic Ball, profits are being donated to charity, it tells the story of his football journey and that of 5 of his friends who were all at various academies and how their professional careers panned out. Just heard him on the radio and it sounds like a really interesting read, probably more so if you have any kids who could be on the radar of pro clubs.

Likewise. It's like winning a competition you forgot you entered,

Excellent news. He is a classy player with bags of experience and a great attitude. I’m very glad he’ll be with us next season.

I’m really, really enjoying young British coaches being given these sorts of jobs. Same as FGR going for Ian Burchnall after losing Rob Edwards, MK getting Manning etc etc feels like there’s a natural progression for coaches up the leagues now & hopefully the merry go round of ‘samey’ older experienced managers is slowing down across the EFL

Fantastic stuff. When you have a reliable back line, it encourages the midfield to be more creative and attack-minded.

We were based in San Sebastian for the 1982 World Cup. In order to guarantee tickets, you had to buy a package holiday with Sportsworld. What a rip-off that was! To pacify the disgruntled campers, the Sportsworld Ambassador agreed to meet those who could be bothered for a kickabout on the beach in San Sebastian, at 7am! The press hounds were duly invited and at least one photo made the front page of the ambassador being thrown into the sea. It was portrayed as fun. It wasn't. Most of the campers were annoyed with what the brochure said we would get for our money and what we actually got! The bay has an island in the middle (a bit like Steep Holm). Oh, and the ambassador was Bobby Moore.

So true, I think that's why I enjoy my time alone fishing, I get out in the boat where no-one can bother me & just think about the good things. I quite often come home without fish but who cares, the therapeutic gains far out way the lack of fish. Good luck with your relaxation mate

Judging from the numerous warm comments from people who knew him, he was presumably enjoying his life too much and had better things to do.

Well said, shocking how the unions are demonised in this country

I’ve wondered for a while whether Kalas has been told he can bugger off if his agent can find a club to pay the required wedge?

Yeh coz the Jocks would cheer for us!

Saint Jean de Luz, just on the French side of the border, was/is lovely when I visited on my ‘Grand Tour’ back in the 80’s. Mountain country on Spanish side equally so. Never forget a mountain river flowing into San Sebastián being fluorescent green through some sort of effluent discharge. Assume they’ve sorted that now.

Agreed it’s a lovely city and ‘ authentic ‘ . Don’t miss the Guggenheim museum which is an amazing building even for those who aren’t into art. The tapas are excellent in the city and the locals are very welcoming.

Louis Britton maybe!.

Bizarre isn’t it? Go on holiday to any European country and they build tunnels, new roads, super fast rail lines at a staggering rate. Think it was on Madeira a few years back where there was a brand new 1 mile long tunnel serving one friggin house and a small tourist car park! Don’t blame the planners, like the Government always do, it’s dithering politicians - something the Mayoral system was supposed to fix. The Long Ashton Park and Ride doesn’t even involve any planning or development and the inept, useless politicians still can’t sort it! Truly pathetic.

I know I'm old but I'm totally puzzled by the last page or two. Is Kane coming to City or not?

Look what happened at Ashton Gate, last home game, players walking around the pitch, the IDIOTS ran on the pitch from the South stand, AW had to get his little kids off the pitch crying because they were scared, disgusting, what's wrong with these people,