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  7. The Lansdowns are a pox on our club

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    20 minutes ago, The Swan and Cemetery said:

    Which still offers nothing to explain the view that seems to believe we’re pretty much on the Downs, rather than the lower half of the Championship, due to scandalous mismanagement by SL. 

    It's very difficult to just tread water, in this division. To just pootle along. Who manages this? So success is getting promoted and arriving back in this division as one of the minted, PP clubs. 

    Lansdown realised this, hence the rather steep challenge put before LJ: play-offs, minimum.

    If we don’t get promoted from this division, going backwards at some point is almost guaranteed. So, I say again, success is promotion even if we're immediately relegated.

    This is why LJ failed.

    Look where we are now.

    Rotherham, Yeovil, Burton, they cannot hope to get promoted from the Championship when they get to it. Any club with 25,000 seats and 20,000 plus fans in the Championship has to get promoted nowadays. If you don't, you're going to go back and down sooner or later.

    There's no in between. Not when, if you finish 17th, you're best player is off. Every time.

    So, again: success means going up, and to have any chance of that, 6th is a minimum  (even though it's a ridiculous "ask." Lansdown still has to ask it, there's no other option).

     

     

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  8. The Lansdowns are a pox on our club

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    27 minutes ago, The Swan and Cemetery said:

    Don’t really get the extent to which lots seem to think we’ve massively under performed:

    Since Divisions 1 to 4 introduced: 60% of seasons in top 2 divisions (4 in the top division, 37 in the second)

    Since 1996 (SL’s first involvement?): 56% in the Championship

    Since 2002 (SL chairman?): 67% in the Championship

    Understand we’d want to have experienced the Premier League and are frustrated that some smaller clubs have (but equally lots of big clubs have spent quality time in lower divisions), but struggle to see it as ‘abject failure’ etc, more not getting what we want in a context when everyone is trying to go up, but not everyone can - we also haven’t gone down much. 

    Using the record of our previous owners here to judge the current one by? We're not in competition with ourselves, we're in competition with Luton, Millwall, Swansea, Cov ....

  10. Who?

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    19 hours ago, GrahamC said:

    This.

    If Pearson walks or is sacked it will be Jason Euell, because that’s what Lansdown does.

    Forget fantasy stuff like Wilder or Dyche.

    No, wrong. Wrong, wrong, WRONG!

    Give me fantasy over your blinkin' reality, please.

     

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  11. The Lansdowns are a pox on our club

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    3 minutes ago, Bat Fastard said:

    The fact that he was unlucky with the timing of the pandemic and the fact that it ruined the plan to be self sufficient by judicious player trading, I would suggest that there is a magnificent foundation for the eventual advancement of the playing squad and hopefully promotion.  Nige has been dealt a rotten hand and is still building a squad on a shoestring and making great use of the academy.  We have seen duff periods in our history over the years and we now have the ingredients to make progress. Of course, the missing ingredient is patience amongst the fan base - but that has always been a feature of our club.

    Thanks. When might the/a pandemic have been better "timed" for Bristol City, would you say?

  12. The Lansdowns are a pox on our club

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    1 hour ago, Major Isewater said:

    Uncle Steve is a lovely bloke who wants a lovely football club , playing lovely football in a lovely stadium by lovely footballers and cheered on by lovely supporters. 
    Sadly this is a cutthroat sport and there are nasty clubs who spoil our party time and time again with their nasty streetwise attitudes and rough supporters who out sing our lovely lads. 
     

    Thing is, Steve's got all that with his "lovely" rugby team, and their ******* shite too (and would be relegated as well but for the fact rugby's all over the shop)

  13. The Lansdowns are a pox on our club

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    1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

    Excellent insight, and something I agree with. Steve has appointed his son and his trusted friend to be the directors, plus a CEO who is paid handsomely. There's no other external viewpoint, no independence, and no diversity of thought. SL - for some reason - doesn't seem to seek that out. Gould has brought a little bit of it, but he's been financially limited in what he can implement, and is now sadly leaving us.

    It's interesting to hear that at HL that challenge, independence, and diversity of thought is exactly what he had, and that you see that as being critical to HL's success. 

    Exactly this. Matthew Syed has written about this. 

     

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  14. The Lansdowns are a pox on our club

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    4 hours ago, Bat Fastard said:

    Apart from the beautiful stadium, the state of the art training ground, the excellent academy and the fact that we have lasted in the Championship- what have the Lansdowns ever done for us??

    Yes, and what is the point of all that "infrastructure" ? What has it been put in place for? What's it designed to lead to? To what end has SL gone to such great expense?

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  15. Dean Holden

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    38 minutes ago, frenchred said:

    it’s because of appointments like johnson we are in this shit state

    .... johnson, and every appointment this club has ever made in its entire history that we are in this precise state we find ourselves in today. 

  17. Five Years Ago Today

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    1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

    Exactly this.

    We could only afford them if we had gone up, as others have rightly said when we beat Reading 2-0 on Boxing Day 2017 we were in 2nd, NINE points clear of the team in 7th place, which was Boro, who eventually finished 5th.

    We finished that season 8 points outside the top six, a drop of 17 points in the remaining 22 games over the 6th placed side.

    We only won 4 league games in that period.

    Not quite Devon Loch, but we were very Devon White from Feb onwards ....

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  18. Five Years Ago Today

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    2 hours ago, DaveInSA said:

    That was the day I landed back in the UK.

    Needless to say, it’s all been downhill since then!

    Not quite. We were 1:0 up at half-time in the next round, the semi final, and 4th in the Championship at that point, just two points off second place, so it all went downhill in the second half at Man City, tbh, when Sergio Aguero scored with a bleedin header ffs....

  19. Five Years Ago Today

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    3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

     

    People will already have forgotten that Luke Steele was in goal that night & he made 2 superb saves, without which we wouldn’t have been in position to win the game so late on.

    I'd forgotten that, how do you remember these things?

  21. Do We Not Like Christmas....!

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    7 hours ago, TETBURY MASSIVE said:

    15 Years! Since we won the last game before Christmas..... 

    17 Dec 2022 Bristol City v Stoke City L 1-2 League Championship
    18 Dec 2021 Bristol City v Huddersfield Town L 2-3 League Championship
    18 Dec 2020 Preston North End v Bristol City L 1-0 League Championship
    22 Dec 2019 Sheffield Wednesday v Bristol City L 1-0 League Championship
    22 Dec 2018 Derby County v Bristol City D 1-1 League Championship
    23 Dec 2017 Queens Park Rangers v Bristol City D 1-1 League Championship
    17 Dec 2016 Bristol City v Preston North End L 1-2 League Championship
    19 Dec 2015 Bristol City v Queens Park Rangers D 1-1 League Championship
    20 Dec 2014 Crewe Alexandra v Bristol City L 1-0 League One
    21 Dec 2013 Notts County v Bristol City D 1-1 League One
    22 Dec 2012 Ipswich Town v Bristol City D 1-1 League Championship
    17 Dec 2011 Bristol City v Nottingham Forest D 0-0 League Championship
    18 Dec 2010 Hull City v Bristol City L 2-0 League Championship
    19 Dec 2009 Bristol City v Reading D 1-1 League Championship
    20 Dec 2008 Bristol City v Burnley L 1-2 League Championship
    22 Dec 2007 Bristol City v Barnsley W 3-2 League Championship

     

    Merry Christmas.. City style... :(

    It’s not Christmas yet, mate. 

  22. ADAM BAKER

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    3 hours ago, AppyDAZE said:

    Is this the same Ali Durden I heard recently on R. Bristol claiming the Gas are hugely supported and have a famous following?

     

    1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

    I think Durden is a good journalist myself but there appears some unwritten rule in the local media to big Rovers up (blue “half” of Bristol myth) & repeat their lies, though I doubt that he actually said “hugely supported”.

     

     

    1 hour ago, AppyDAZE said:

    And again, as usual huge support for Rovers on their travels.

    I think they must think we're all thick or something.

    Yes, he's been around a long time and he does his job,  but bigging up Rovers is something he really likes to do, believe me.

    It would be interesting to know if he does actually favour any of the Bristol sides.

     

    He does what he has to do to have as "quiet" a working life as he can. If he actually "tells it like it is" in Bristol, he'll just have them squealing at him and one or two threatening to burn his house down, or something. 

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