BrizzleRed

Funnily enough, you weren’t actually one of the posters I had in mind, though you do have your moments! From what I’ve see, you give your opinions and while I may often disagree, that’s healthy and got no problem there. It’s people who are being deliberately provocative and have a deliberate aim to just start an argument and cause general conflict that boil my piss. Don’t think there’s anything crazy about that tbh.

Absolutely this. I detest cancel culture and totally believe everyone should have a right to express their views, whether popular on not. That’s a very different thing to tossers who keep reappearing on here under a variety of different names, with the sole purpose of winding people up and trying to ruin what is a great forum. Maybe they get a twisted satisfaction that they’ve achieved something, but it detracts from many more peoples enjoyment of this board.

Tbh, it just feels to me like the owner is trying to build a sporting empire, but with little interest in the football club itself. As you say, the football side definitely needs work and I see precious little desire from SL to improve what we’re seeing on the pitch. I think we’re actually pretty much where he wants this club to be. Safe in the Championship, so getting the higher TV money etc, but without the crazy costs and pressures involved in the Prem. As long as we keep a few young players trickling through to be sold on, I think he’ll be happy. I suspect a lot of us fans have ambitions a bit higher than that, though I think we’ll ultimately be disappointed under his ownership. It would be lovely to be proved wrong though

I was around in the 4th Division days too. The big difference then was we had people in charge who wanted the best for the club. I don’t believe this is the case with the current owner and board and I suspect that belief is held by many other fans. There’s your big divide and is probably as much a reflection on what’s happening behind the scenes, as what’s actually happening on the pitch. The fans were united when we were at the bottom and we believed in what the club were trying to do. I’m sure you’ll find there are far fewer with any kind of belief right now.

Luckily, not all our fans are as easily pleased as you, or we could find ourselves languishing below the Sags. If you just blindly accept everything dished out by the club, what’s to stop them just getting complacent? Although it’s not our choice, we are customers now don’t forget, so if we don’t like the product being served up, we’ve got every right to complain. If you regularly went into a restaurant and kept getting served up shit food, only to be told by the owner that it’s his restaurant and he can do what he likes, what would you do? The most sensible options would be to refuse to eat there any more, or keep complaining and try to get him to raise his game and serve up some better food. In your case, it appears you would rather keep going back and eating yet more crap food without complaint, instead criticising anyone else who complains about the poor standard of the product. Very odd behaviour and hardly likely to see any improvement, is it??

Certainly my suspicion too SR, so we’ll see over the next few games if we revert back to default form. Just hoping the squad NP assembled are a bit more professional than some of the wasters we’ve had in the past, but if we turn to shit again on Monday, that’ll tell us a lot on that score.

We won’t have long to wait, as Plymouth could certainly provide a different test. Big credit to Manning and the team for a really bright performance yesterday. What baffles me is how they could play with such intensity and determination yesterday and yet that’s been totally lacking in the previous few games. If we could get some consistancy in that area, we would probably see a big upturn in results. Cue a sluggish, downbeat performance at Plymouth, to leave us all baffled and frustrated again!!!

Yeah, I’m at least going to make them wait for their money, not throw it at them as soon as they snap their fingers! I’ll be doing nothing until the last minute for sure, but when deadline day comes, I might just say shove it and walk away. That’ll be largely down to how the club is being run, not what’s happening on the pitch.

…. and we aren’t entitled to moan?? We’ve accrued a debt of £200m and all we’ve got to show for it is a ground refurbishment costing possibly £40m, but we no longer even own the ground! We’ve had a diabolically bad return for that level of investment and the blame for that lies wholly with Lansdown.

We’ve been a division above the sags for most of our history, so what makes you think we wouldn’t have without Lansdown? We may have had an owner who could actually run a football club without racking up massive debts through his appalling decision making. Who knows what could have been, but I’m totally sick of what we’ve become under daddy and junior Lansdown and can’t wait to see the back of them.

It's a little prompt to Daddy Lansdown to sell up and F off, if I'm not mistaken. I'll second that too!

‘kin ell, is that supposed to be pumping up the fans for Friday???

It’s not really about the money though is it, it’s more to do with making a statement. You and the other quick payers clearly aren’t bothered about how the club is being tun and keep sucking it up. Your choice of course, but I can’t see this club improving until fans start showing some backbone and stop rewarding mediocrity.

Too right! The football’s plenty boring enough on its own, without punishing ourselves even more with the mind numbing pressers.

Geat occasion and I extended it with a few days stay up in London, so had a cracking time. Some great memories of a time when we could take some genuine pride in the club we support.

They could really find this coming back and biting them on the ass. Imagine them missing out on season ticket sales to people wanting to transfer their ST over to the SS from other stands and then having a poor uptake of potd tickets. Instead of empty seats due to no-show ST holders (money already in the club’s pocket) and instead have empty seats due to people not taking up potd (so no money at all). Could turn out to be a massive own goal. As the saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

That looks like how our early bird system used to work, before our club decided to rinse us fans for whatever they can squeeze out of us. Now we’ve got to hand over our money early and swallow a price rise, just to retain our seat.

Very fair comment. Tourist fans go to high profile or successful clubs, not to watch the dross we dish out. If a’tourist’ was daft enough to come along once, they certainly wouldn’t return!

I just hope it’s the crappest teams possible, to give us the best chance of staying up next season, if our bright and sparkling young head. coach is still hanging in there

Guess so, though I’ve mellowed a bit towards Colin in my older years ….. probably due the painful lack of characters in the game now. Love him or hate him, he certainly doesn’t fade into the background. We’re well aware of the lack of character issue with Mr Personality Bypass Manning!

That’s how I read that too. Basically they’re saying, if you don’t renew your SS ST by deadline day, you lose any chance of getting a new ST there in the foreseeable future, even if your previous seat is still available. Talk about bouncing you into renewing by waving a big stick. ******* arseholes

Unfortunately that potential means Jack shit while those out of their depth people and absent owner continue at this club. Just watch the potential all disappear over the next couple of transfer windows too. The so-called pathway for the young talent now seems to have disappeared, as how else can you explain decisions like bringing in someone like Mabude, when Yeboah doesn’t get a sniff any more? We’re just a rudderless boat, with a couple of idiots sat on board and flapping their hands in the water to move it, as they’re too stupid to realise you actually need oars to make it move. Total shambles and all of the club’s/owner’s own doing

I’ve always preferred Older Dinosaurs to Tedious Attention Seekers.

Really hope so

Well, if he’s not really looking for a return on his millions and he’s happy for his son to run the club into the ground, we’re well and truly ******!