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I can see it now, the lads up the Lions mob up and off they march brim full of protest and hope in their hearts, and coke in their veins, they walk on/down through the wind and the rain, and they arrive at the back of the Lansdown (after "greeting" the players). Steve leans out of a window high up in his ivory t ... er, stand: SL: "What do you want?" Mob: "Er, Pearson out." SL: "You can't demand someone out without putting forward a name to come in." Mob: "WarnockWilderDycheGerrardThatBlokeAtPlymuffCotts!"

It was a pithy comment, or an attempt at "pith," at least.

No-one can manage us. Not at this level. We are unmanageable, in this division.

Thought it was a wet, slimy thing in the sea

Steve told us not to, remember?* so we didn't. *After losing to Fulham at home, Steve was interviewed and told us off for saying "boo" and told us not to do it again, and to make our "noise" on social medias, so we said "yes, Steve. Sorry, Steve."

Yes, damp one of them as well

This squid is saturated already

I reckon this "Protest/March" will go the way of the Cornwall satellite launch overnight, and be a bit of a damp squid.

The one prior to 1982, I believe

Fer me, Gareth Bale was just Dave Smith from 89/90, only with overhead kicks and a top knot. Plus Luca Modric and Toni Koros and Sergio Ramos alongside him.

To misquote Homer Simpson then, SL is: "The cause of, and the solution to, all of Bristol City's problems" unless you think Steve is blameless in the ongoing, mounting debts?

He was on the "Today" programme, last autumn, talking about the crisis in rugby with two clubs folding, and said Bristol were "£50m in debt," can't go on like this etc. And that, as @Merrick's Marvels quipped, but the interviewer failed to put to Steve, is with a salary cap.

We had a few in the shed, then; fair play, probably the most since we had a pop in '75. I was at Ashton Gate.

Just trying to remember that Chelsea team now, what was it: Peter Bonetti, Micky Droy John Terry Micky Haphazard Ruud Gullitt Zola Peter Osgood John Bumstead .... what a team

I miss them days too

Finishing below The Few?

Remember someone or other - @Huntstile Red, possibly - telling me he was in Cornwall once, Roseland Penninsula way and got chatting to a local who used to attend Ashton Gate in 76-79 (then stopped, for some reason). If we get a wriggle on and get to the top before the 'Muff we might tap in to some of that far South West untapped glory-hunting,fair-weather, "ooh ,look, it's a famous team/player," drop us like a stone once we're down potential support that we won’t have any spare seats for should the very unlikely actually ever come about.

Fair play to Steve, to all those that say he was caught napping with Mark Ashton, well, listen up: he's not asleep at the wheel as far as, er, his son is concerned. We're lucky to have him, where would we be, be careful what yer son's not wishing form etc etc.

Tickets for all parts of the ground - Adults: £20 U18s: £10 2 Adults + 2 U18s: £40

Might it be why Pearson didn't come here in Feb 16, he was asked about the job here on 5Live on a Friday evening I think it was, and he gave a bit of a cryptic answer, saying amongst other things: "it's a big place (Bristol)," it was all but clear from this exchange that there was interest and contact, but we went down the "middle of L1, up-and-coming" route instead. We got Ashton and LJ, when we had players to "trade" and money to burn, when it would seem we could've had Pearson. And before he got seriously ill, too.

That was the point of my outburst yesterday, we don't have any say in it! Nor does any of us "wishing" anything make a jot of difference. Steve is old, one day he will breath his last - what do we do then, pretend he hasn't died? Steve Lansdown and Bristol City isn't Tito and bleedin Yugoslavia! Fer frigs sake. Mind, he might be Alan Curbishley and Charlton Athletic. But there's nothing we can do. Steve is old, he will die (at some point), Jon won't take it on, someone else will. And if we go to pieces and drop like a stone, chances are we'll have enough about us to bob between the top half of L1 and the bottom half of the Championship for another decade or two. Just like we've always / mostly done. But in a better ground, with 27,000 seats.

In the 1st Division! Notts Co's average attendances in their 3 year stint at the top: 80/81: 11,600 (the same season, we were relegated from D2 and drew 9,700). 81/82: 10,000 82/83: 9,000. Then they got back to the top in 91 with Warnock, and drew an average of: 10,900. Let's call that 11,000! The same season, we had an average of 13,495 (let's call that 13,500) for finishing 9th a division lower. I always remember when we went there in '84 in the cup, they were First Division, the crowd was 11,000, 4000 of which were in the away end, and it was their biggest crowd of that season at that point. It is bizarre to me how so many people compare us to minnows and not clubs with generally speaking equivalent means (number of seats, average attendances, season ticket holders). Notts County are small. We are middling.

He does have a car, the next owner

And no more excuses for Nige if it's those four because three of them are largely not doing a thing for us now.

..... Steve Lansdown is getting older and the future is coming. A future without Steve Lansdown. How will we cope?