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1 hour ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

I know that's sarcastic but it's true; outside of the premiership with its TV riches then if you don't have a wealthy owner pumping the money in each year then you will fall out of the leagues.

Look at Stockport County who bottomed in the Conference North, Notts County striggling to climb out of the Conference or Torquay falling out of it the wrong way.

I remember when Notts County were in the top division but without the big pockets owner when you start to fall then you keep falling. 

Steve and Jon's decision making regarding the running of the football team is questionable and frequently questioned on here but clubs without the luxury of such wealthy owners fall out of the league regularly.

I would say very much be careful what you wish for with a change of owner.  I wonder what Spencer Trethewy is up to these days.

 

For our younger readers and those who haven't followed his "career":

He started by "rescuing" Aldershot aged just 19 with £200k that he didn't actually have amd has followed this up with some serious prison time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Trethewy

 

Stockport, Torquay, Notts Co. And Aldershot. At least we're doing better than Stockport and Torquay?

2 hours ago, LondonBristolian said:

 

If LJ had left in the summer of 2019, I honestly think his reputation amongst our fans would be significantly better than it was when he left ten months later. 

Yes, quite possibly. On the other hand, if SL hadn't have fired him when he did, and we were 12th, and let him limp on til the end of the season, then his reputation amongst our fans would likely be largely what it is now, maybe a little worse.

SL put him out of his misery sacking him when he did, and saved him, LJ, a bit of "face," and preserved his reputation somewhat. Before he did any more damage to it (sliding further down the table, back whence he first found us, in Feb 16). One might also say.

4 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Basically he’s The Prem version of Kolo Toure, completely out of his depth.

Could he do a job here? What do you think?

This is what Steve Lansdown is keeping us from. Be careful what you wish for. We are so lucky. Etc, etc

3 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Three of them were running it for a while Sam I recall 

And Shelts has stopped running (for it)?

5 hours ago, GrahamC said:

If you want to be depressed next up is Birmingham, forget Preston, they are our real bogey side.

Won at Ashton Gate on their last 4 visits, 5 times in the last 6, they are our equivalent of Stoke, they must expect to win every time they come here.

It's like an upgrade on having Walsall as our, or a, bogey team years ago. When we're in the Prem, we can upgrade on Brum to always losing at home to Aston Villa.

23 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Ashton Gate used to be an intimidating place for visiting teams ( and supporters) who would never get anything without fighting for it. 
 

Really? Including a matchday programme, or hot food and drink at half-time?

16 hours ago, Northern Red said:

Remember that game at Leeds a few years ago under LJ, we were 2-0 up and cruising, then their crowd decided that they'd had enough of giving their players stick and started to get right behind them and created a raucous atmosphere for the last half hour or so.

Sure enough, the players responded and salvaged a draw. Nobody who saw that would say that the crowd didn't have a big impact on things that day.

The thing about us is, we neither get behind and back the team the way Leeds crowd do at their most noisy and vitriolic, and we don't get on their backs with anything like the toxicity that Elland Road can whip up. Ashton Gate is tame. We are pretty much Reading now, Reading without the years in the Prem

1 hour ago, Leaning To One Side said:

Perhaps he could use his extensive list of contacts and get a job in the NHS or the Army 

Yeah, then pop down Bristol City to see how their manager works under pressure (and tell Matron/Sarge Major all about it afterwards)

We were a bit more spontaneous back in the 80s with the old "protest" against things than today's kids, by looks of it. We'd only have to go 1:3 down at home to Walsall/Gillingham/Notts County and we'd crack on with it, giving poor old Les n Des both barrels . Then exit the Enclosure at the final whistle and carry on from the car park.

These kids up the Lions need to get a bloody wriggle on ....

25 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

 

If you’re going to protest about issues with the club, then you need to accurately represent the current sentiments of the fanbase. I don’t think “we want our club back” does that.

Ok, ok! Don't tell us, tell the bloody lads up the 3 Lions

On 10/12/2022 at 14:13, 22A said:

Reading Peter Godsiff's history of City, following the 1965 promotion the players came out to be acclaimed by the fans. Fred didn't come out though. His reason? "The players won promotion, not me".

That was the world's First Ever Humble Brag. Well done, Fred.

On 11/12/2022 at 06:35, Never to the dark side said:

and the game was only one of two occasions that City were featured on the (ONE GAME ONLY)Match of the day,back in the 60's

Was that the 10.30 am on a Saturday night programme, or the 08:00pm Sunday morning repeat one, mate?

9 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

Did you ever see fatty wedlock in action ive?.... 

Yeah, he did. Used to say he was "carrying a bit too much timber" when ever we lost a game ....

1 hour ago, steveybadger said:

Spent last night with a Charlton supporting mate, who took me through the latest of their basket case owners.

There is a phrase about grass and how green it is somewhere else….

Yeah? Spent last night with a Brentford supporting mate, and a Brighton supporting mate. Got loads of mates, me. Tomorrow, I'm spending the night with a Leicester supporting mate. And a Plymuff supporting mate. 

Don't have a Few supporting mate, though. Wouldn't spend the night with him/her if I did, mind.

1 hour ago, BigTone said:

I cannot remember the last time I watched MOTD such is my interest in the PL.

Was it not on Sunday morning, at 08:00pm? 

3 hours ago, David Brent said:

I’m sure you put a lot of effort into this…but what is it with fans trying to tell the manager what he needs to do?

Dunno, mate, but it's been going on for over 100 years now. You ever tell yer missus what she needs to do?

3 hours ago, spudski said:

FFS...you wake up from a decent hard earned point on the road, and your first thought is to post this.

How d'you know what time Big Al and Toby wake up, mate?

36 minutes ago, Never to the dark side said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64111059

You ever done drugs, mate? 

19 minutes ago, Blagdon red said:

That atmosphere is largely down to the fans (ultras) themselves. But Phil Alexander (and Steve Parish) always encouraged it, had an open dialogue with the group and helped it to flourish.

He won't personally be able to create an impoved atmosphere at AG (which we badly need), but he has shown a willingness in the past to work with those who can.

He might, mate,  if he goes full "Tony Harling" from the word go. It's what I'd look for in a CEO, 

2 hours ago, Swede said:

Please tell me he hasn't got a brother named Ian.

I'm sure SL did the "DNA" background check thingy that has served us so well

2 hours ago, NotRoyal said:

Personally I think we have a good squad and some exciting players. They just need organising and not played out of position.  Each game we appear to adopt a different and new formation 

Without change we are going down. I would appoint Dyche now He is an organiser and knows the club and the division well 

Not going to happen, mate. Lansdown not keen on ginger managers

30 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

I know, it is effing insanity to mention Dyche.

If people thought about this for 5 minutes & looked at our previous appointments, 

.... they would possibly wake from their delusion and slumber and their fantasies and be confronted with the cold, grim reality that .... we are shite and a shambles of a club and run by people who will never outwit the competition and that this is about as good as it's ever going to be.

Let them be in their nonsense, they are better off there with their "if only .... " thinking.

3 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Hopefully, they've learned from the Holden appointment fiasco that clubs run by adults take discrete soundings first and then give the manager the push. You can minimise or even cut out the time you need a caretaker to come in. 

Promoting a number two (no jokes please!) to be permanent head honcho has never worked out very well here either, so I trust that wouldn't be the route we go down. 

As our set routines and basic marking seems to be at sixes and sevens, I'd not be unhappy to see the First Team coaches depart with Pearson: Whatever they are trying to impart,  it isn't sinking in  

Fear of who might replace him though is a poor reason to stick with NP.  You have to take that leap sometimes and be brave. If I hadn't,  I'd still be stuck doing a job I'd grown to hate, with a miserable marriage and living somewhere I'd fallen out of love with. 

Graham said yesterday, we need humour ....

Or, just:

48 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Sykes?  No thanks