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4 hours ago, lukebcfc1989 said:

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When I first spoke to Wael about the job, it was because you knew Bristol was an untapped resource. It’s a gold mine that no-one has tapped fully.

Bristol City have had a go with Lansdown and they’ve invested in their infrastructure, but you’ve never had a European Cup tie played in a city that’s as big as Liverpool. You’ve never had a Premier League game played here and I’m looking at that and going ‘How?’

With the passionate sports fans that are in the city, with the resources that are in the city, how has that not happened?”

I wonder how many more potential owners or managers we have outside of the city as I have always assumed we are seen as a second class football City with a small Football team which we really are not. 
 

Is calling for Lansdowns head that far fetch of an idea? Has he really “saved us” as we are led to believe or has he underhandedly been hindering us for years for reasons we can’t or are unwilling to comprehend. One things for sure Barton is 100 % correct with the above statement.

Its criminal how we have not had top flight football in this City and ambition has to change. Mike Ashley did not ruin Newcastle but the fan base certainly were not happy Are we comparible to their situation???

I think it is a close case to ours and more similar than we care to consider.

 

Many have tried and failed to convincingly answer that question. I’d love to read some proper research into what the South West was (or wasn’t) doing from a sporting sense in those years in the late 1800s to the turn of the century when the FA cup went from London to the North to the midlands and back to London again. 

I suspect answer to these questions of underachievement lie there, in the deep deep roots. Those same regions still dwarf Bristol and the SW for footballing achievement today - and always have. There is probably socio-economic explanation to go with the sporting reasons we have such a culture of mediocrity too. 

I’d add to my previous post and ask if the league and the circumstances that led to it were irrelevant, how many would turn down both clubs fighting it out in the same division again? We basically monopolised football in this City over the last 5 years to the point where the Gas weren’t even an after-thought and still didn’t have the arse to get promoted, is there anyone not bored by the lack of a derby or properly meaningful games? That’s what football is for after all isn’t it? 

Hate Cardiff and that game produces a good atmosphere but has lost its edge on the whole and like many fixtures these days is much funner away. The gas on our tails is one the few things guaranteed to bring a bit of fire back to AG. 

Gas picking up would be good for us I reckon. Gives even regular league games more of an edge. As much as it’s funny seeing them languish in mediocrity it’s at least a contribution to the staleness of Ashton Gate at the moment. Just based on previous eras. 

Nige, 

In the words of my long time accomplice, and your more recent one, Guatama Buddha -

“To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we will not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear”

Best wishes and I hope you can continue to lead our club after, and only when, you have fully recovered. 

9 minutes ago, Leveller said:

I didn’t need the package explaining to me thanks. But you missed out the bit about an owner who still has the well-being of the club/city/region at heart. Do you want a Chinese or American owner who is just after the bucks? Because I’m sure a lot of us don’t. Maybe that’s all the Lansdowns  ever wanted too; I don’t know that bit.

I was perplexed as to why we didn’t join 40 other league clubs in backing the recent fan-led initiative which would require the parachute payment system - something which our CEO has repeatedly complained about - to end. 
 

Reading this thread and the comments from @The Constant Rabbit our snub makes perfect sense.

It also proposed tougher reviews into any potential new owner and fairer distribution of TV money. 

Flat out load of shite. 

25 minutes ago, 054123 said:

Exactly.

Its just a bit of nonsense.

I used to like it when for the bigger games, most of the b block in the dolman would stand and sing. If I didn’t have the kids I think I would probably go down there for the more tasty games.

Although my middle aged back kills me if I sit down for an hour

B block is where the school trips go these days. Most of the familiar faces who sat there haven’t returned post covid 

For some reason I couldn’t see him coming here. Even without the question of whether he’d want to, I believe Nige let Simpson and Downing go as he felt the setup was too crowded. I even think this may be why he was watching games from the stand previously and has now stopped. Would another coach coming in just overcrowd the first team setup again? 

Perhaps there’s a part of him that wants to prove himself without Shakespeare as well. Working relationships often drift apart and go their separate ways as time goes by. 

Babic is the spitting image of a steward in section 82 

The end of the game was ******* outstanding support. Felt like a real moment. 
 

One step beyond post FT a random shout but sent the place into delirium 

Watching QPR vs Forest. Adomah starting at the age of 33. Got to be one the most universally popular championship footballers. Every team he’s played at has loved him. 

9 minutes ago, DT The Optimist said:

I hate this comment often hear bandied around ‘not playing for manager anymore’.  It’s nonsense. It’s a perceived fans image that is trotted out across the country at many football clubs when the results have slipped.

There was 110% commitment against Forest ? And Fulham and so on. 
Just accept Bournemouth and WBA are simply streets ahead of us, better players, better wealth, better salaries, parachute payments and all that. That’s why they looked better, because they were.  NP called it right in his interviews after both games. 

 

That’s a fair comment. But there are still players in the squad I will not forgive for last season and I would certainly use the phrase ‘downed tools’ during that awful run. My comment may have been premature but I don’t maintain a lot of trust that they won’t do it again, particularly when they are up against it in periods such as this. I’m not sure NP does either, hence some of the comments he’s made of late. 

6 hours ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Way to many with much less investment.

im not quite sure where to put this as I didn’t want to start a new thread but multiple people told me on Saturday that the south stand is gonna be renamed to John pullin stand (after rugby player) . Anyone know if this is true?

**** me. Can’t be allowed to happen. Don’t know where they would’ve heard that though 

22 hours ago, JoeAman08 said:

Yes I get that. What I am saying is today wasn’t a talent issue. It was an effort issue. Talent wise we aren’t close to West Brom. No shame in losing away to West Brom.
 

The shame was the lack of effort and energy. There didn’t seem to be a game plan. Players looked lost. Not sure we won one second ball. We were second in every department. That isn’t good enough. It is a feeling of players not buying what NP and co are instructing. 

Players who have downed tools for previous managers and appear to be doing the same to Pearson

31 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

That's exactly the reason. Once that reopens, these incidents of away fans bravado will soon stop... 

It’s very unlikely/nearly certain to not re-open is it not? 

He is a well off bloke and probably part bank-rolling the football club so I struggle to think anything will happen as a result. 

 A trilogy worth its salt in any era 

33 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

It has to be that surely. No-one could seriously spout this bollocks and really believe it could they? What`s next - starting Bartontown somewhere on Salisbury Plain and inviting g*sheads to join him there in waiting for the apocalypse?

100%. Knows he’s spent and on the wind up. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some seriously dodgy shit going on there led by the messiah 

He’s taking the piss out of them 

Wilder KO Sunday morning because this is the heavyweight division and people never learn. 

Can 100% see him at rovers by the end of the season 

Not great news given how long it took him to recover last time. Hope he bounces back

3 minutes ago, phantom said:

Not for a long time

Has there been any official news? 

Apart from the odd fancy touch and one burst of brilliance in the second half, he was invisible for nearly all of the game and I’d like to see him work harder for the team. Nige should bring in Weimann next game and show ‘Messi’ that work ethic is required to be successful over here.