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Even dumber post, and trying to make out a fellow City fan to be some kind of racist (or at least someone a "specific problem" with people from the Middle East and/or US) is beneath contempt. There is a enormous difference between SL (who has happens to live in Guernsey but has very very strong historical links with Bristol and Bristol City) and a random overseas investor with no previous connection to us. I don't know, but it's a pretty reasonable guess that the poster chose US and Middle East because many current/recent owners of other clubs come from those regions. SL has consistently shown his willingness to continue funding the club even when the likelihood of any imminent financial return is pretty close to zero. Can we be confident that a random overseas owner who might well have no previous connection to City or the city will do the same if we don't get promoted to the Prem after a small number of years? I certainly am not. There is a blindingly obvious difference between SL/JL and a new owner from US/Middle East/somewhere else in the world. But I'm sure you are already aware of that and just wanted to post something nasty.

It's called football (or, more specifically, EFL Championship football). No one makes any money.

But there's no magic recipe for a successful manager. Sometimes rookie appointments work, other times they don't. Equally, sometimes experienced appointments work and other times they don't. Holden seems to have found other jobs quite easily, so there must be others out there who see something in him. Many people on this board were crying out for Hughton, but he bombed at Forest and perhaps we dodged a bullet there? Eddie Howe's appointment at Burnley didn't work out, but his replacement by a journeyman lower league defender with a single year's managerial experience certainly did. Hindsight is wonderful.

Here we go again. Sorry to pick on you, but my heart sinks so much when I read this kind of thing. Have you noticed all the other chairs in the Championship making successful appointment after successful appointment? Perhaps not. Or have you noticed that only three current Championship managers have been in post for two years or more (and, yes, Nigel is one of them). Lee Johnson is Marmite on steroids on this board, but I still maintain he was a pretty good appointment (especially considering the state we were in when he took over). Dean Holden wasn't successful, but was replaced quite quickly and other clubs have gone on to hire him. We are now an established Championship club, which is huge progress over not that long ago. And while not all of SL's appointments have succeeded, he hasn't wrecked the club in the way that, say, Southampton's owners have after deciding that Nathan Jones was the man to take them forward ?. There is no easy recipe for appointing a successful manager. I contend that, actually, our record isn't that bad at all. For every Mark Robins there are many other disasters.

Bit embarrassing this, to be honest. Let's choose our battles wisely. There are so many easy targets, no need to reinvent history

This thread has got embarrassing. So what if he's gone to Bournemouth? They are an established PL club, he's more likely to get game time than if he went to a "bigger" club, and he gets to show everyone what he can do against the best clubs in the country. Very best of luck to Alex on the next stage of a hopefully glittering career

Many of us are greatly amused by the comic goings on elsewhere. If it was a TV drama we'd probably conclude that the writers had gone too far and no-one could be that tinpot. If you're not interested, then perhaps stay off this thread? Simples

Even if we don't "need" to sell, do we really want to be a club that denies promising young players the opportunity to move to a higher league? Players have very short careers, and opportunities come and go. For me the crucial question is what Alex wants, and if he wants to move to somewhere like Wolves or Bournemouth (which could be the stepping stone to a further move if things go well), and they offer a reasonable fee, then we absolutely shouldn't stand in his way

Do you realise how boring this is?

And enough green for all the cycle lanes in Bristol, with lots to spare. Honestly, there are quite a few gems on that list

And MK Dons as well - two for the price of one ?

Apart from setting up the goal

Get those sprinklers ready in case we're losing at half time

Seems to be based mainly on the auditors' "material uncertainty" statement, which is pretty standard

Sorry if someone's said this already - Man City to be relegated as punishment for lying, overspending, being really annoying etc

Oh when the Saints, oh when the Saints, oh when the Saints go Marsching down

On OS before Twitter. Old school ?

"Penalty decision overruled because you are Bristol City. End of."

Got to love OTIB ?

So easy for Max to clear rather than putting Atkinson under pressure

Ralph Milne Oops, I might have blown my cover

I assume you are young and were not around for the Pulis era?

Do you really expect us to believe that you didn't already know the reason? A little bit of schadenfreude doesn't mean that everyone thinks that MA is responsible for everything that's gone wrong. And has anyone really blamed Ipswich?? Rather than blaming Ipswich, many of us are very grateful that they took MA off our hands.

Good post Captain Hindsight. Most managerial appointments are huge gambles, and many that look great on paper don't work out. NP could prove one of those, yet many (most?) of us were ecstatic when he joined. Wilder and Hughton were names banded around here with lots of enthusiasm but they both failed in their most recent posts. Many clubs oscillate between experienced managers and up and coming younger ones, and the vast majority of both types of appointment fail. Please, please, please let's not kid ourselves that there are lots of owners out there making successful managerial appointments and SL is some kind of exception. Two thirds of current championship managers have been in post for less than seven months. Almost everyone is getting it wrong. That's football.