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Ouija Board coming out....

There are many factors that can drive people to crime. Poverty and Mental Health are certainly a couple, and there definitely isn't one single driver that you seem to be asking for. Next you'll be telling us that you're the kind of guy who calls a spade a spade and anything else is just woke nonsense.

Didn't listen to all of the sacking episode, but I feel like I may have missed out on something very entertaining here.....

The meetups started in 1997 I think, from memory it all began as a result of myself and Jer Boon meeting up at a game to discuss a website he was starting and it snowballed from there

I know all that, but I was more invested in that side than I have been for any other. The City List had started meeting up before games, making for a really decent online and pre-match community in the early(ish) days of people being connected to the internet. As a result, we were invited to meetings in the AG boardroom with Scott Davidson and I really felt closer to the club than I ever had before (my support began in 1985 so post 82) I went to 44 of the 46 league games, and even bagged a grand in the half time draw at one home match. Also did all the cup matches and a fair few reserves. It was a shame the football didn't match the enjoyment I was getting, but I loved that team, supported them wholeheartedly and still have a soft spot for Benny!

I know we went down but I loved that season!

Rob Dickie on the other hand....

Nice win, proving a lot of the naysayers earlier in this thread very wrong I'm glad to say.

He became famous on the back of getting a job due to his skill at playing Football Manager on his computer, turns out he was pretty good at it! I have been told that any club employing him will have to pay a fine every match he is in charge as he has no coaching qualifications, but no idea how true it is.

I don't think it will be as hostile towards the Lansdowns as so.e seem to be hoping. I really think there is a lot less anger than OTIB is expressing amongst the fan base. Maybe the odd raised eyebrow but not the furious raging that seems to be amplified a lot on here.

Not if we win the next two games.... I still can't shake the feeling that they are waiting for those two results, if they are positive the Fleming will be given the job. If not, and they have to look elsewhere my preference would be for Luke Williams.

I think that would all come down to whether he got involved in the first place with a view to using BCFC as a vehicle to make money out of things such as Longmoor by creating Bristol Sport. I'm not convinced there was ever that kind of plan around it. I met and spoke to him and Maggie a few times around 2002 just after he had become a director and he told me 100% that the only reason he got involved then was because Jon was a fan and he was using the corporate facilities etc. which led to somebody at the club asking him to invest which he did. The Bristol Sport idea was something that evolved afterwards, and I still believe he has done it for the right reasons, and not to cynically exploit the club as Big Al seems to imply. I would say that he is not going about things the way that most people agree with, that is obvious, but I really do think that he is doing things because he believes it's for the good of the club. I.e. You can question his methods but not his intentions.

Shags also implied Rowett was the choice as he was the only one we spoke to before sacking Pearson. KITR obviously has some knowledge, but is often far from correct. I think they would both admit they are not always 100%, no matter how much faith some people place in them

Why is Wiliams ruled out? Did I miss that bit?

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.