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Your story seems to have nothing at all to do with having been a banker yourself, more a story that was told to you by someone who was a banker. As I read it, the story is SL asked a bank for money to launch Bristol Sport - he was refused. SL then told said bank all about his nefarious plans which were to diversify by bringing more sports under the BS umbrella and therefore spread any risk as well as including a bit about making ownership shady (something that probably won't fool anyone who knows what they are looking at) - why would he do that? I really am struggling to see how this paints SL in a bad light, god knows there's enough other stuff going round at the moment to do that.

Just as I was starting to think Luke Williams doesn't look like a bad shout....

Official account asking for votes for PotM, every single reply is Nigel Pearson

By doing his best to build a sustainable club whilst still being competitive would suggest that he very much sees himself as a custodian of the club rather than going gung-ho ho and risking everything on short term success. I agree he doesn't think like the majority of fans, but personally I am glad about that.

Being happy with NP I would indeed imagine is pretty much unanimous. What would be a long way from unanimous are the egative views about Steve Lansdown that seem to be expressed by a sizeable chunk on here.

Certainly not within something such as the confines of a particular forum, I would hope their sampling is taken from a broader base than that.

Who or what on earth is Dog? Am I right in thinking that the OP is suggesting that Bristol Sport are creating accounts purely to try and post positive things about the Lansdowns? OTIB has it's very own conspiracy theory! I fully realise that on this forum SL is now the devil incarnate and Nige is almost reaching godlike status, but this forum consists of less than 10% of the fanbase, and the vocal people here probably less than 2-3%. I don't think I have ever heard any City fan I speak to that isn't a user of this forum complain about the Lansdowns in a really serious manner and it certainly has not got worse recently. I will admit it's not a huge sample and very anecdotal, but it really doesn't feel to me like there is a groudswell of opinion against the current owners. I havew to admit that SL is certainly not perfect, his managerial appointments are hit and miss and have certainly been headscratching at times, but I do not believe that he doesn't have the best interests of the club at heart. Having said that, he has the best interests of sport in Bristol as a whole at heart (fewers aside), and I see how the two can be perceived as not always being compatible, People talk about the nest egg comment, it seems to me that it is a fairly sensible policy to have, and fully in keeping with the stated policy of making the club as sustainable as possible. I will agree that the whole Bristol Sport model is very 'corporate' and has taken away the feeling of it being 100% 'our' club, this is an opinion I voiced fairly regularly on here when Bristol Sport was first mooted as a concept but I was pretty much ignored then. I have now come to accept that it is a necessary evil in order for us to compete at the level we are now at. And just think how much less personal it will become should we suddenly be owned by a large multinational corporation or another country's wealth fund! For most fans, we are regularly competing at a higher level than at any time in our supporting lives, so it seems to me that even ignoring the ground and HPC SL would leave with a positive legacy should he disappear any time soon. The fact that people are unhappy with not being top 6 in the Championship should say everything, when most of our history has been spent bobbing around at the bottom of this division or top half of the one below. Should it be that Nigel Pearson is the one to go, then so far as I can see he has done a decent job without being amazing - managers such as that come and go over the years and he wouldn't be the first person to depart a job because he doesn't get on with the boss.

I'm on Android and had nothing, get godawful advertising emails from the club all the time but I can put up with that I guess.

When you put it like that can we let people have a minutes silence for their dead hamster, to remember the grass they have just cut, anything really!

I thought this was going to be a birthday message for the gap, isn't it 22 years old somewhere about now?

I rarely listen to RB post match but did today. I was really looking forward to seeing how he would embarrass himself and the club in his assessment of the match. What a shame when he seemed fairly reasonable about it. Just expressing my disappointment when the interviewer asked him about Bobby Charlton, at which point he said something like "who can forget watching that amazing European Cup win" - the one that happened 14 years before you were born? Then seemed to get Jock Stein into the mix somehow as well. Just a little thing but bizarre all the same.

I have a ST and would have no problem with free tickets being given out for 2-3 matches a year. What I wouldn't be so keen on is a giveaway to just anybody, you would get plenty of people that don't give a **** and just want it because it's free. Maybe what it should be is limited to people, such as yourself, that are on the club's database but can't get to games so much any more for whatever reason. P.S. I agree, football is indeed too expensive

Taken a closer look, you're right

It's not Newport IoW, though very similar - this is Newport The dugouts are different...

Yep, I wasn't very clear - Social Housing can be provided by a HA as well as the council. The rent is linked to average incomes in the area, rather than somebody's personal income. Whilst Social Housing is a subset of Affordable. Affordable Housing is by no means all Social.

No it isn't, Social Housing is what used to be called Council Houses

A like isn't enough, glad you're on the mend

Best hope @42nite doesn't delete his account or OTIB's biggest thread is gone!

I believe he broke the 1000 consecutive away games barrier last season. Not a single match missed since something like 1985.

Don't just look at thread titles, if you do a search for Alex Scott he is getting plenty of mentions from people that seem to be genuinely excited for him to start and are seeing his introduction to the team as a potential turning point for their season! Personally I would love to see him thrive in the top echelons of the game, I still take an interest whenever I see Tammy Abraham's name pop up and he wasn't even ours!

If it is true that they offered ETM the money for the roof at the start of the process and it was turned down then it would seem they don't have a leg to stand on. And I can't imagine that they would be lying in the statement.

Cue Cornick with a last minute equaliser...

We can still get something from this

Is the rugby World Cup never going to end? Feels like months now....

If it’s not a daft question, you seemingly aren't moving for work and have little previous knowledge of the area, so why choose Bristol?