Red Exile

...if we're lucky!

I think you're right Graham. I don't think Steve Lansdown's Bristol City are going to make any marquee signings any time soon.

Good luck to him. Credit to Tins and NP for giving him the breaks. Will follow his career with interest. Fairly confident that for all their glee this evening his glory days won't be in front of the sparse crowds at Bournemouth!

So making signings like this, intelligent thoughtful footballers, is presumably what Pearson means by building ' a culture'. Which is what I understand Pearson to mean when he talks about his role as a 'manager'.

I'd say that its SL wanting to remind the world that he owns the club - this is a high profile moment and he gets his name associated with it. Nice to know he's still around, not heard much from him for a while.

The story of the Lansdown years in a nutshell! I think the sale of Alex Scott is wholly understandable. Exciting to see so many young players come through. Whilst it's a shame to see him go I can see that giving talent the chance to move on is part of the attraction of the City set up. I'm hoping that with an experienced PL CEO and manager in place City will invest wisely and that the years of feast or famine and SL's personal 'project' appointments are behind us. Time will of course tell, but the next couple of weeks will give an indication.

Excellent stuff! Enjoying listening to this.

Decent point against a side that looked very secure in possession and strong at the back. Would have been nice to hold on for the 3 points. There is, however, a strong sense of seen it all before when we let sides equalise after 86 minutes. We seemed to lack control for long periods. Pluses - Knight looks sharp, Dickie confident, Zak as good as he was at his best last season, we have plenty of pace and fitness to bring off the bench. Would be more reassuring if we could nurse possession a little more, not always looking for the worldie pass. After that performance I'll take a point.

For what it’s worth the TV - sound and vision - is currently working fine in Italy.

I recall those Q&As with some affection - they were appreciated. Crewe for example, SL looking awkward on a pub stage being asked a raft of questions - some very pertinent, some very daft - by the travelling support. The point was less what was said - can't remember anything of note - more that the billionaire who owned our club was in the same slightly grotty beery room as the people who travel all over the country, the people we are told in every post-match interview are of such great value to the players and staff. Face to face with 'the fans' as real human beings as opposed to some nameless block. In the interim - and the Crewe meeting I recall was nearly 9 years ago - the boss class at City have got ever more distant and the comms, however slick it might aspire to be, seems to lack authenticity.

Enjoyed that. Some good performances. Impressed with Knight. Robins TV good for Tins insights.

Well I rather liked LJ as a player, I agree that he was a key player in that play-off side. It is, however, unfortunate for LJ's reputation that the overwhelming number of his appearances were in teams picked by his Dad. That said his Dad knew a thing or two about how to build a team, a serial winner. But I can't believe that posters I respect on here are favourably comparing LJ as a manager to Nigel Pearson...one has won literally nothing but the Papa Johns - zero promotions in 500 matches in charge, the other - in barely a hundred more games - has achieved quite a bit. The circumstances of their tenures at City could scarcely be more different. Pearson has been brought in to clear up a mess, rebuild, and has started by laying foundations. SL bet the house on LJ, showering gifts in increasingly desperate efforts to prove that his protege was the next big thing, all in vain. Still, LJ is, as many have said, the past and gradually disappearing - like his managerial career. Pearson is the present - the future looks brighter, bring on August 5th!

haha - you have a point...but then again maybe there's not much else to write about this evening! Unless speculation over the likely traumas of digital ticketing, the shade of blue, the size of the collar or the shape of the robin take one's fancy...

I wouldn't say it was an obsession, but rather the satisfaction that comes with being able to say 'told you'. ? More seriously - in modern times he was a hugely consequential Bristol City manager, given the keys to the kingdom, always a divisive appointment, wasn't up to the job but was given what seemed like an age to prove himself, squandered the opportunity, left us in a mess.

I watched it. Small ground - one stand - had the air of a preseason match. Hibs had been training in Spain. Maybe we're spoiled but the quality was nothing like what we see in the the preseason highlights, players struggling to pick a pass. The main Hibs threat was coming from their continually used right back's long throw. You'd never have known that one of the managers was one of the up and coming coaching geniuses - and if you were told you'd never have guessed he was managing Hibs! He's been sussed though - from their forum: 'will still be grinning from ear to ear giving his post match interviews where he will blame everything and everybody other than himself.'

Hibs 2 down. Dire football against a side playing at a ground with one stand. Can't pick a pass, main tactic a long throw from the right back, the height of sophistication from the coaching genius - their forum has him sussed: 'its shocking that a charlatan like Lee Johnson is still manager'...'will LJ give an explanation or just a load of slavering s+/*.'

me too - all of someone else's details. Chap in Stockwood in my case too.

Currently in Wellington and in the ground ready for Spain v Costa Rica. Expecting it to be a mismatch but who knows…

I was very critical of LJ, but equally of the man who appointed him. The lack of know-how was surely the missing ingredient. Correct me if I'm wrong but whatever other qualities LJ might have as a coach I don't recall him ever getting a side promoted...in, what, almost 500 matches as manager? Seems a remarkable act of faith to ask/expect someone with that track record to deliver on one of the harder tasks in world football. He's perhaps found his level in Scotland where Hibs will never be expected to win the title, will never be relegated, and as one of the big 5 clubs currently lie 5th. As to the OP - excellent thread - highly entertaining contributions. Personally I'm enjoying City being a competitive Championship side led by someone who knows what they are doing and with a track record of achieving the goals they've presumably been set.

I think the fact that he was being interviewed by Geoff on a day when one of the big themes of the programme was that Geoff's time at Radio Bristol was ending made both of them reflective. The end of an era. I got the impression that SL appreciates his time is almost up as the sole owner of Bristol City. The bulk of it has certainly now passed. Time is against him to get to 'the promised land' - as he puts it. He must surely reflect that for all his investment he's blown his chance more than once.

In fairness to him - and I'm not always the fairest - he'd been led down that particular memory lane by Geoff. But I think it does say something about what he sees as the glory years of his time at City - the GJ era. Objectively getting to the Championship play-offs with GJs side was more of an achievement that that double, but I think more importantly it tells us that part of what SL enjoyed was the personal glory - GJ was SL's man - the credit was all SL's - which it certainly wasn't under Cotts. We live with the consequences of decisions made in the months after that 2015 success - the reckless discarding of something that had real promise.

Just listened to the interview. I'm a bit of a Lansdown sceptic and at times he talks it's as though he hasn't been the one making all the big decisions for the past couple of decades...I guess that's how he lives with some of his howlers! But he came across as having an enduring passion for the club, more so than he's sometimes expressed in the past, spoke well about the future and investment...and he spoke better of Nigel Pearson than I'd imagined from comments on here. Pearson is precisely the type of football character he's needed alongside him all along. Good if he's finally recognising that, and can embrace it. In that lies hope for the future.

Agreed. It was great when Chesterfield lined up for us at their place in 2015.

Agreed - playing some lovely stuff.

Delighted to say I was there. The most un-Bristol City occasion - expected to win and scored 6! Never in doubt...not often you can say that. What a season that was.