BrizzleRed

Totally with you on all of that. NP provided the massive kick up the arse this club has needed for so long and built a great backroom team and culture. All this whilst managing to preserve our Championship status. He’s also kicked out the deadwood and wasters and assembled a team who battle for each other and wear the shirt with pride Instead of being grateful and taken the guidance on bosrd, the incompetents running the club have fought back and kicked his feet out from under him. I wouldn’t put it past the numbskulls to undo everything and take us back to where we were before he arrived. You just couldn’t make it up!!!

…. and being in the same position, rather than League 1 is a pretty impressive feat, considering the restrictions NP’s had to work under, wouldn’t you think? No two ways about it, this sacking is stinking the place out. Imho, no supporter who cares about the integrity of this club will find it acceptible, or justified.

It was your mention of being the other side of the coin and being an opposite blinkered view. You can only tolerate so many crap decisions from SL and I’d suggest this latest one has pushed a number of remaining SL supporters over the edge. Wanting him gone now doesn’t suggest blinkered to me and rather, an assessment of over 20 years of his ownership record and what he offers us going forward and his inability to learn from his mistakes.

While we’re being fair, lets look at it this way. If you’ve got a shit, underperforming manager or head coach, it’s perfectly reasonable to reach a point when you want them out. What’s the difference when it’s a shit, underperforming owner?

Yep, sounds about right there TR and as we all know, SL is never wrong ….. in his own head anyway!

For the first time in my 60 years of following City, at the the moment, I really couldn’t give a shit who they appoint. Whoever it is, they’ll still have the Lansdown’s pulling the strings and while those idiots are here, we aren’t going to improve. I had hope that they’d finally realised they needed someone who knows the game, will speak his mind and is clearly not a yes man. They clearly couldn’t deal with it and I can’t see them risking that again. Clueless tossers

Hopefully our fans will have fair more sense than to take any notice of anything crayon boy says, as he’s clearly totally deluded.

Absolutely!!! I appreciate the concerns of the dwindling ‘careful what you wish for brigade’. That said, after this latest debacle, it amazes me how anyone can still think that what we have now is preferable to a change of ownership. It feels to me like the Landowns are slowly strangling the life out of this club.

It was very slow under Alan Dicks and look where that ended up! Nobody would be allowed that amount of time these days, but we were definitely making slow progress under NP. The very least he deserved was to have time to get his sqaud back to fitness and then see what he could do with it. Shocking decision, whichever way you look at it and imho, the ‘change we need’ is right at fhe top!

The cynic in me says this is why they got shot now. Even with our massively depleted squad, we’ve got a couple of winnable games coming up, which could significantly improve our league position. I reckon they saw their best chance as now and when you compare some of the horror runs they tolerated under LJ, their reaction to NP is totally shocking and disgusting, particularly as he has not had anything like his full squad so far this season. As you say, hopefully he can now concentrate on getting back to full health again.

I believe they made the right choice of manager in NP, but for the wrong reasons. Rather than appointing him for the long-tern benefit of the club, they viewed it as short-term to drag us out of the FFP hole they’d dug for us. I liken it to someone hating medicine, but knowing they needed to take it to get better, so just hold their nose and swallow. We have now cleared the FFP issue and the Lansdowns couldn’t wait to dump someone they clearly didn’t want at the club, but tolerated to get the job done. For me, the Lansdown’s latest actions have removed any hope I had that they had the Club’s best interests at heart and I’m done with them. Totally agree with you re Richard Gould and he was massive in the FFP issue and a huge loss when he went. NP was still the person who managed to protect our Championship status through all the player cuts and upheaval though.

And there in the bold lies the problem in your statement! Nobody is claiming NP didn’t have any faults. The point is, when you have a choice between a vastly experienced manager who transforms the amateurish culture of the club, or an egotistical, dictatorial, meddeling, massively flawed and constantly underperforming owner, I think most would choose to keep the former over the latter. Imho, the sooner the Lansdowns are gone the better for this club, as their incompetance is taking us nowhere. As for making the right appointment could help this group kick on, can you really see these clowns managing to make the right choice??

I really didn’t think Lansdown could be this clueless. What a despicable way to treat the man who has pulled this club back from the jaws of FFP, whilst still keeping us in the Championship. Just in case you come onto this thread, a heartfelt thank you Nige for shaking up this total shambles of a club. We’ve suffered years of bullshit and waffle from people running this club and it’s been so refreshing to have someone with your honest, straight talking style, who tells it as it is. Us supporters will always be grateful to you for your efforts and giving us a group of whole-hearted players who played for the shirt, rather than just the pay packet. It’s a very long time since I’ve been so proud of our players for giving everything on the pitch and that’s down to you. That pride definitely doesn’t extend to our pathetic board and clueless owner though, who clearly don’t have the football intelligence to recognise a top manager when they have one. Instead of giving you the backing you’ve earned and deserved, they clearly froze you out and they should be totally embarassed and ashamed. I’ve never been so gutted at the unjustified sacking of a manager and I’m sure there are many more fans feeling the same. Best of luck for the future and hopefully the next club gives you the respect you deserve. The fans appreciate your worth though and you can be assured of the warmest of welcomes from the people who really matter at BCFC, if you ever return to the Gate in any capacity.

They probably wanted to get it done quickly, in case we beat Wednedsay next Saturday. This now confirms they’ve had their slimy finger on the trigger for a while, just waiting for a chance to pull it. A feeling of Cott’s about this sacking, but far worse this time imho We need to brace ourselves for a return to the yes man now I reckon, though in the mood I’m in, I couldn’t give a shit who the clowns appoint.

Piss off Lansdown and take your dopey son with you. Made some really shit calls in the past, but this one tops them all by a mile. You had the right man at the club Lansdown, but you’ve ****** it right up. This just confirms he’s ******* clueless about football

I’m sure they didn’t and given the lack of ambition being shown from the owner of our club, who can blame them? Until this club show some genuine ambition to reach a higher level, we will never convince any future starlet to stick with us a bit longer and enjoy the ride to the promised land. I don’t believe SL has any intention for us to getting to the Prem. To be fair, he’s now probably achieved his ultimate goal of our Academy creating a steady flow of young players to sell on ….. getting closer to his sustainable club if you like. I think it’s now patently clear that the ultimate aims of SL and the fans are totally different things. As he’s the one who calls the shots, I know which one I’d bet on to get what they want!

We’re only making plans for Nigel we only want what’s best for him that contract should be on the table Lansdown, you can’t be that f’kin dim

Sounds another perfect example of build it and they will come LR. A real shame they don’t adopt that in Bristol too. They’ve obviously chosen a modified carrot and the stick principle here in Bristol, where they’ve taken away the carrot (if it was ever actually there) and resorted to whacking us with an ever bigger stick!

Spot on. If authorities are serious about getting people out of their cars, commuters need to have viable alternatives available. You could be forgiven for thinking there are decision makers who are desperately looking for reasons why not to reopen the line. With all these delays, the costs just keep racking up. You only have to look at the Severn Beach line to see the benefits of local trains. It had the axe hanging over it for years, but now it’s a really well used and valuable service and the Portishead line surely has far more potential for growth than Severn Beach. Rather than impossible dreams about undergrounds, why don’t they just get on with something thst’s realatively easily achieved. Christ, most of the track is already there and just needs upgrading ffs

Can’t argue with that mate. I’m sure the Mancs love Burnham, while marvellous Marve is an object of ridicule in Bristol. I still can’t work out what it is with Bristol. A beautiful city with so much potential, but with an unerring ability to **** up every opportunity to improve itself. Bristol voted for a Mayor to overcome the continuously ‘hung’ council, which could never make important decisions. They then get lumbered with two useless twonks in ‘red trousers’ and ‘marvellous Marve’. Talk about jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire!

I wouldn’t necessarily blame brexit tbh. London seems like a sponge that sucks up the vast majority of the money in the south and things generally seem to only get built if they directly benefit London. The cynic in me suggests HS2 was only created to draw more people into London from the north, rather than benefit the north directly. Maybe London is now happy to settle for Brum being in the commuter belt!

Completely agree PSE and it goes beyond all this so-called ‘Northern Powerhouse’ money being thrown at them in recent years. I remember going to Manchester years ago and finding easy, cheap parking behind Manchester Piccadilly train station. I then went through the station and couldn’t believe it when I saw all these free buses lined up in front of the station, with routes that fanned out over the whole city! It really boils my p**s when you hear Burnham and his ilk banging on about they want equality with ‘them down south’, when what they really want is the same us London! In Bristol, we’re back in the dark ages compared with Manchester and many other northern cities, let alone London!!!

I’d love to drag that whinger Andy Burnham down from Manchester and show him what we’ve got to deal with. According to many oop north, we’ve all got it made down south, just because we’re at the same end of the country as London!!!

I really don’t know tbh. As you raise that point, I’ll say this. How many of those other owners you’ve mentioned have treated their club like a personal toy and then lost interest when they found newer ones and as good as stuck their old toy (the club) in a cupboard and forgotten about it??

Valid points, but don't forget back then, the club owned Ashton Gate and didn't have the huge debts that we have now. It also felt like OUR club back then, but it really doesn't feel like that to me now.