NickJ

No Cotterill wasn’t backed heavily. HE saved us from relegation to Division 4 with the players he inherited. He then rapidly tweaked the squad by identifying and acquiring a few key players largely financed by the sale of Baldock. Having achieved a minor miracle in that 2014/15 season he was then massively shafted. Of course the normal Idiots will appear saying out of his depth in the Championship etc when in fact he had been shafted and with what he had achieved deserved to be backed, not sacked. And more than that, not just deserved to be backed, but the leader of the football club, ie Lansdown, should have recognised what he was capable of and for the good of Bristol City should have backed him. But no, Lee fricking Johnson was a better bet for the next 4 years, apparently. Cotterill backed? My ass.

Yes.

Me too. For some reason Ashton Gate very hostile that day, didn’t Curbishley say the most intimidating he’d ever experienced?

Me too. Ashton Gate very hostile that day, didn’t Curbishley say the most intimidating he’d ever experienced?

Not necessarily

More what should have been simple passes went to opposition in 30 minutes than I've seen any other player in a whole season. Weak. Clumsy. Didn't seem to know what to do or where to go. Up there with Diony. My criticism though is more of the manager than the player, it was a vital game to win to keep up our faint hopes of a play off push and that was seemingly an experiment.

If Manning thinks that Dire is a Championship footballer I have no faith in him at all.

£50 travel. no it’s not £35 on food and drink. Don’t you eat or drink when you don’t go to a away game? 8 hours out of your day. It’s called leisure time, you charge yourself for that?

Released 2018 went on to become a respected football manager makes my blood boil every reminder that we had the grass measuring ****. And that every reminder is a reminder of the ineptitude of our owners, to think of the decent men that would probably have otherwise stayed

Is that really 40 years ago? I recall that iron fence took a pounding. Mad to think they were Div 1 and we were Div 4 but were superior in every department on and off the pitch.

Feeling sorry for Newmarket fans right now.

Game needs a break from the bloke

You clearly don’t know and/or understand the ownership structure before Steve created Ashton Gate Ltd. The stadium was already potentially protected, for the benefit of Bristol City. Look up the accounts of Bristol City Holdings Limited and Bristol City Football Club Limited. There was already a structure that could have protected the stadium. Bristol City, as in the football club, not a legal entity, is no better protected now than when before Steve put in place the current more complex arrangements, Steve’s investment on the other hand is better protected. When you refer to the 100 year lease, ask yourself the question, what is the legal entity that is protected by that and what happens to the football club if that legal entity is insolvent or ceases to exist. The fact is that Steve deliberately unraveled the 1982 constitution which prohibited any one individual owning more than 25% of Bristol City. Whether or not you question his motives for doing that, I think it’s reasonable to expect that he delivers an outcome which is better than Bristol City would likely have achieved anyway. Bristol City doesn’t have that. It has Jon Lansdown running the show.

A series of facts isn’t a snipe.

It’s very simple. Steve dismantled the constitution of the club which said, post 1982, that nobody should own more than 25% of Bristol City. So now Steve owns pretty much 100%, and in doing so has taken away the sole tangible asset, the football stadium, which Steve now effectively owns personally. Steve has done that, his choice, and he is right when he says it’s his club. People talk about Steve redeveloping the stadium, but in Steve’s 20 years there are plenty of other clubs who have done the same, so that doesn’t make him some sort of saint, just someone doing what is necessary. And let’s not forget, the club had planning permission to build a 12,000 seater stand, with finance in place to do it, long before Steve’s arrival, which he decided not to go ahead with. So in summary, because he’s taken the club away from the fans, he has a responsibility to deliver success for the football club, relative to what we would have experienced without him. Which hasn’t happened.

Or maybe because it’s Xmas. Very sad the attitude towards a playing legend, this shouldn’t be happening. Whatever he’s done or hasn’t done, his involvement in Nigel’s sacking etc, the ultimate responsibility is those that allowed it to happen, and especially allowed it to happen in the way it did. Happy Xmas Tinns.

John Arlott

Yeah, I can really see Brian Clough or Alex Ferguson or Bob Paisley saying that. Good old fashoned plain speaking English isnt good enough these days, you have to appear clever.

It was Jon Lansdown that said the current players were currently capable of being a top 6 side, just needed a better head coach. in Jon Lansdown we trust.

Impressive piece of research that mate.

We certainly do.

I’m not. Encouraged. Sorry Harry mate. The asylum is being run by the lunatic, and it’s tragic.

Not so sure it needed spelling out

Agree with those 3 and would add the famous 1-0 victory at Elland Road in 1974, the 1-0 promotion night home to Portsmouth 1976, and 6-1 at Bradford in 2014 to gain promotion under Cotts.