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  1. Can't really disagree with any of that. I suppose ultimately it all boils down to the trust that SL has with JL to run the club in the best possible way. At this juncture, it's very much looking like someone else could do a better job, but saying that, when SL had other CEO's running the club he had his fingers burnt - so I suspect there are trust issues there.
  2. I can categorically say that I am NOT suggesting the Lansdown's heart hasn't been in it, because I think they have put a lot of time, effort and money into the club, I just feel they're just losing their sense of direction nowadays and aren't reading the room any more. I'm merely commenting on Scott Davidson's previously putting his heart into the roll. Please don't infer it any other way.
  3. Not sure if this is the correct thread to be placing this comment, but I wonder if Scott Davidson would be open to coming back as Chairman, with JL moving into a different position i.e. President etc. Always thought that Scott had the ambition and communication skills for the role. He never got things 100% right, but his heart was in the right place, and he's still heavily involved with various Bristol City related projects still.
  4. Not too sure I should be posting this, as I would be one of the fans severely affected by this suggestion, but here goes nevertheless. Next season, if we have a home cup match in the league cup, how about making the whole of South South unreserved seating - still guarantee season ticket holders can get a ticket in that stand, but make it unreserved. The likelihood is that the game won't be a sell out, so we should be able to absorb the 10% less tickets available. It might just be the ideal test bed to see if there's a demand for unreserved seating in that stand?
  5. I've decided to delete my comment, as it was a cheap shot and not very nice.
  6. Just reading back this thread, a couple people mentioned Steve Lansdown was in attendance yesterday. Can I ask, is that unusual? With not being able to see the centre executive box from the South Stand, it's rare for me to know is SL is in attendance or not?
  7. I'm glad you mentioned that. Bath Rugby I believe, after a torrid number of years, brought in someone to evaluate their club...might have been a consultant or someone from Saracens (I'm not entirely sure as i dont follow rugby in too much detail), but since that process a year or so ago, their performances have been much better, and they're towards the top end of the table. Question is though, from a footballing perspective, who would you choose? Maybe the Brighton owner? Dunno
  8. Why does it have to be someone new? Swallow his pride, and Lansdown needs to go and get back the previous coaching set up. Our squad has been built for their philosophies, so let's attempt to get things back on track. I'm suspecting there's been some "tensions" between NP and others, so look to resolve those, either by letting someone go, change/revert their positions, or recruit accordingly. Can't we make Jon Lansdown an honourary president or something, and bring in a proper chairman? Likewise, bring in a proper experienced CEO and get Tinnion back to what he's good at.
  9. Exactly this. It was right footer crossing, so the wall could've stepped once to the left with two people in it. Reminded me of the goal Liverpool scored vs Forest last weekend in injury time. So it should've been fresh in our players minds.
  10. If they did eat humble pie and genuinely admitted they got it wrong, and brought back NP, I'd be fine with it. In some ways they'd be building a lot of bridges with the fans. I do accept that there will be fans, who would label them and never accept the back tracking. What I will say, is that none of the other managers I can remember in my time (since ~1989 for me) from following City week-in, week-out has EVER played the amount of Academy players that NP did. Tinnion argues that he want's to see a pathway from academy to the 1st team, but all I'm seeing is retrospective backward steps !! Sure, I'd still want to see new signings, whether that's for NP or LM, but I also want to see the level of academy players come through like we saw during NP's reign, and under LM that doesn't appear to be happening.
  11. The club honestly needs to be arguing back to them. Make both games a Saturday only, or Sunday only, and make it a 1:30\2pm kick off. Minimise the amount of disruption to local grass roots.
  12. I coach an U14s youth team. A lot of my players are season ticket holders, and likewise our opponents next Sunday are season ticket ticket holders also, and so a 10:30am kick off for us makes a 12:30 kick-off vs Swansea extremely difficult. All week we've been scrabbling around trying to rearrange next weeks fixture to another day, but with the snow\rain on the weekend just gone cancelling fixtures, the likelihood of the Avon Youth League allowing us to have a free Sunday next week is probably non-existent!! Therefore we've changed our tact and we're now looking at an early kick-off of 9:30am, but that still doesn't help any fans who are upwards of U15's and kick off at 2pm. I don't know who signs off of the kick off days and times at City, but with 12:30 kick off's on a Saturday followed by a 12:30 kick off on a Sunday the following week isn't doing anything to help the grass roots junior footballers who play on weekends. Talk about burning the bridges with all the Saturday and Sunday league footballers !!!
  13. Fundamentally, if we brought someone in to help LM, they'd want to introduce their idea's, riding roughshod over LM's views - basically, it wouldn't supplement LM, but effectively be a new manager! If LM is the student of the game that he alludes to, then he needs to study the approach where we've had our most successful results this season i.e playing 4 at the back, playing 433, fast\pressing\counterattacking football. Caveat: Think we're screwed without Sam Bell myself, so we may have to revert to a top two of Wells\Conway, or maybe play Conway, Wells, and\or Sykes\Knight\Mebude as a front pressing 3. All he needs to do, is get through to the summer, and then all his new signings can be brought in, and all the old guard can be sent on their way. The buck will well and truly rest on his, Tinnion's and Jon Lansdown's shoulders then though.
  14. Nope, If I was Jon Lansdown, I'd stop acting chicken, swallow my pride and get back the previous coaching regime. Quick question, are we still paying them off?
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