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and the sky is blue. it’s got to be someone’s unless we are fan owned so not sure what the point is. my point is I’m not going to support selling the clubs soul for one season in the premier league. you may argue the club is currently souless as it is, but I am fairly certain it could be a lot lot worse

But in that time hull have had owners who have tried desperately to change the name of the club and now owned by some faceless investment fund. Is it a molecule of success at any cost? real investment is coming from hedge funds, despot regimes and the Americans - I don’t want this at my club

But to who? Any success I can point to in the last 10 years of takeovers comes with a huge ethical headache, one I don’t fancy squaring with myself. There’s no wealthy Bristolians wondering forward ready to invest. and where were we 20 years before lansdown? im not an apologist, just very careful what I might wish for. What we all know is that this melts away with a team playing well, we are no where near the levels of Man U where it is rotten to the core and beyond repair. Get the appointment right and everyone forgets, that is on the lansdowns to get right and I really hope they do

Appreciate this thread as long as it stays within the boundaries of your title! as with everything the truth always lies somewhere in the middle and people have to understand that you will never fully know the truth at each end of the spectrum to truly know that middle part things we know 1. lansdown silence has been poor, to be MIA and only break cover to sack him feels wrong although find me a football club where the upper management is front and centre and you show me a badly run football club 2. Nige is combative - this is well known and at the end of the day this is a business. No matter how disgruntled you are you mouth off publicly against your boss, it’s not ending well. Chances are Pearson knew the situation, but was impatient and concerned for his own employment so went to the press. 3. David Rennie going too. Did the board have concerns on player management from treatment room to management which could have contributed to the injury crisis? 4. Pearson has done a good job with what he’s been given. But aren’t there still other clubs doing more on less? There is no real footballing culture at city, we are determined and dig in but my god, ask yourself - why does every goal we score feel like a forcep delivery of a 15ib baby? Couldn’t someone else maybe do better? 5. Scott money - clubs need to run sustainably, last time we spaffed transfer money we ended up in this position where we have to retain the Scott/semenyo money. Granted that was through letting Ashton loose with the finances and that is on the lansdowns but wouldn’t you rather they learnt from that? 6. this forum presents a microcosm of our fan base, maybe many who identify with nige and feel him hard done by. But don’t think for a moment he is thinking of us, it’s a job. Where was the support for him before? I go home and away and can’t remember hearing a chant for him. This is because he is functional, there is no impetus behind the team because we don’t play in a way that offers that. We are established championship, not underdogs and we need a little more football to believe in and get excited by. Im curious to see what happens next, what I fear is the lansdowns have got themselves in a position where they can no longer do right for doing wrong and could be hounded out and it will be out of the frying pan into the fire..

Atmosphere was dire

Can’t say I’m concerned. Sounds like one angry man shouting at clouds will be pretty easy to pass, Especially if he is going 20mph

robin van nersie?

Might have been done already but “speechless with the atmosphere” ? why even bother saying that The England Under-20s international said: “Bristol City is a great club with a great manager and great fans. Every time I’ve been here I’ve been speechless with the atmosphere, the ground and the city which is why I want to represent Bristol City and give everything I can.

crooks is allocated because he is their chief football correspondent. whether that carries any weight with you is personal opinion but furnishing yourself with the facts goes both ways

very much enjoyed the parklife chant I heard going around ...MARK SYKES Just need a little more do do do do do - MARK SYKES etc all the people, all pearsons people, they all go hand in hand hand in hand with their.. MARK SYKES

Ya know.. when they call it, they do they “a minimum of xx added time” no Keith Stroud fan (awful) but in reality way more stoppage time should always be played than there is

Would love for you to clarify this in detail but I think I may be a little sick

Two clubs, both alike in dignity, in fair Spain we set our scene..

Mind that 10 man gap you dirty gasheads

Know we don’t proclaim our amazing away support but will we take that to Norwich? you are right.. hard to knock that.

Yeh you got it. Good fun chant and works well with those forwards I reckon. Decent song to keep up for a while and drive the team on as it were

I saw Man City bringing back the yaya chant for haaland. our interchangeable front 4 fit quite nicely for this tommy, Tommy Tommy, tommy tommy, tommy tommy conway nahki, nahki… andi, andi andi antonie repeat till one scores ️

With the other sports moving after football to give the go ahead, it is fair to say I am sure the PL and EFL are slapping their heads right now far far far from a royalist myself but I don’t need to bring that into this as it’s irrelevant until asked otherwise, I understand people fall between disgust ambivalence through to it being their whole personality. but this is surely madness, people getting together paying respect and singing the anthem for the last time with its current suffix, I could think of no better way for respect to be paid and as stoically carry on as I understand her to have been, surely this would have been supported by the queen herself (if that matters) I’ve had a shit year, following Bristol city and getting to go to the game means so much to me right now I am genuinely upset that it has been called off for such a nonsensical reason that is so old fashioned it’s practically sepia toned This is without even bringing in the money aspect to so many individuals and companies during a cost of living crisis. Young kids can’t meet up with their teams this weekend, what the actual ****. wrong wrong wrong decision. Takeaways are open, crazy golf is open, Tesco is open (albeit playing classical music - wtf?) but football? No no, not the football.

I’m not sure it was entirely that taxing if I am being honest

Criket, rugby and god knows what else playing tomorrow now but not even under 7s football can take place? what a shower of shite this is

******* ridiculous im not being funny, but how on earth are these two things in anyway connected. Everyone has to go to their jobs and but the things we love to do are postponed? Country is in the bin.

Spot on if only the world would see sense and actually do it, I highly expect them not too utter, ******* madness.

I literally have no clue as to why there is even a thought given to postponing football games because of this???

Turn of the year I moved back to briz from great missenden- sad to find out now there was at least a tiny city contingent in the locality Forza all you bucks reds

Fair play to those who kept it going under the dolman at half time, all in good spirit and gee’d me up for sure. Kid on the bin looked like he was having the time of his life ?