ChippenhamRed

I think maybe we all just need to have the humility to acknowledge that managerial appointments are ALWAYS something of a gamble - particularly for an average club like ours - and none of us really know how it’s going to work out. Look at our track record on this forum: - McInnes and SOD broadly popular choices at the time, but both failed. - Cotterill broadly not wanted, but did really well. - LJ broadly not wanted, but did OK. - Holden unanimously not wanted - we got one right! - Pearson overwhelming a positive appointment, very disappointing so far. In fact, given the ultimate failure of so many different types of managers at City at this level - journeymen (Cotterill), young and modern (LJ), deep thinker (SOD), novice (Holden), proven (Pearson - so far)…it’s difficult not to conclude that there is a much more fundamental issue at our club. What makes us think yet another new manager is going to be the answer? I think the issue runs deeper even than Lansdown. Is it a long-standing culture of failure? A city so starved of sporting success it simply has no idea how to achieve it? I just don’t know any more. Sorry, this post has become a stream of consciousness. But I really am left wondering what on earth is wrong with our club. I don’t have the answer. But I suspect it isn’t the manager. Either way, it’s depressing. And I wish I’d been born in Manchester.

My son’s been supporting City since his first game in 2018 (age 7). It’s been thoroughly uninspiring throughout that period. He wants to watch Premier League games and I find it very difficult to blame him - why wouldn’t he?

Have to say as a member rather than a STH I’m not inclined to part with my cash at the moment.

Inexcusable.

There would be a six week gap and a “vigorous” search first.

Our support relative to our success is phenomenal at times. How many clubs would take 3k to Coventry (or even better, 5k to MK) having floated around the second and third tiers for the last 40 years? Seriously, there can’t be a club in the country with more unfulfilled potential than us. Gutted to have been born into this frankly!

Bring him here but sub him on 89 minutes, put him in a soundproof room for stoppage time and then tell him we saw it out.

Didn’t realise BBC and ITV were sharing the rights. How very international summer tournament! Can’t recall that ever happening before for a domestic football competition.

As a member the “mate’s rates” thing annoys me. I have no issue with the principle of encouraging new support, but if you don’t happen to know a season ticket holder, members are being asked to pay more for this fixture than others despite having already shown a degree of commitment to the club. Given the state of our home form, surely it would have made sense for members to be charged the same lower price - and maybe even allow them to invite friends for the same price too?

I agree the football legacy thus far is nothing but perpetual hope and disappointment. But clearly the stadium and the training ground is the legacy I mean here. And that will live on long after Lansdown has gone.

Be careful what you wish for. There are a lot of people involved in football now that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near our club - even if they brought greater success. I like the fact that we have someone with a genuine affinity to the club and a passion for the city. I wish he’d made some different decisions on the pitch, but the legacy off it is undeniable.

I share your doubts, a little, but for now I’m pragmatic about it. The home form is a monkey on our back we need to deal with as soon as we can, but at the end of the day we’re a mid-table side in mid-table, and I’m willing to give Pearson the time he needs to build a team.

Neil Warnock who was promoted from the Championship in 2018? And Mick McCarthy who kept Ipswich in the Championship on a shoestring for years? Those dinosaurs yeah?

If we go on like this until the end of the season, we’ll have amassed 46 points away from home and definitely won’t be relegated. And the bottom 3 are the bottom 3 because they’ve done far less well away. Yes, the home form is crap, but why are judging our entire season’s performance just on matches at Ashton Gate? The fact is we have a mid-table squad and we are in mid-table. Let‘s at least strive for some balance by assessing all our games, rather than just half of them, when making predictions about the rest of the season.

We deserved to lose for that umbrella alone.

Of course, I understand the frustration. But the Lansdown comments are just silly.

Removing our source of funding is definitely the solution.

Quite like it. But having seen the Paul Merson documentary the other night, I’ve made the decision not to buy any kits featuring betting sponsorship from now on.

Fair point - I meant the top tier events. That was a WTA 125 (second tier) event.

Love how you felt the need to clarify that Boris Johnson hasn’t won Wimbledon!

Raducanu’s achievement definitely has the edge. She hasn’t even played a WTA tour match yet!

Exactly this. She was 338 before Wimbledon began and also sat her A-levels this year - and got two As! Not only that, she absolutely smashed the tournament without losing a set. It’s just astonishing.

Leicester winning the PL springs to mind of course, but I think this is greater still. Certainly in an individual sport, I can’t think of anything that comes close.

Morgan blocked me for this tweet:-

It’s also incredibly un-British!