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5 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

In which case, I likely know very little. What were the problems with Ashley?

Shouldn't be hard to find with very little investigating.

Start with his treatment of guiteirez (may have to check spelling) when he had cancer

30 minutes ago, 2015 said:

The funny thing is Mike Ashley actually did a good job as their owner and they can't even see it

Behave you are either fishing or know very little

if they are the best available then fair enough, if not it’s just a tick in a box exercise which i rather feel it is.

Amazing that every woke, tree hugging amnesty member want football to make a stand while government and large business continue along their own merry way doing business with them!

Why does football always need to step up?

14 minutes ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Add Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Newcastle to that too, proper grim up there .

You are joking aren't you, Newcastle is a lovely city that beats bristol in just about everything! The coastline all the way along is absolutely stunning with lots of regenerated coastal towns.

Its way for us southerners to say it's grim up there, but really it's not!

1 hour ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Do you mean the management team or ownership?

Ownership

55 minutes ago, BcfcRed3 said:

haha very true. our time will come

Im not sure it will under the current structure and leadership

1 hour ago, BcfcRed3 said:

yo-yo team, can't stay up there and have 3 managers a season... not for me

Hahahahaha what I would give to be a yo yo team!

Its fans like you accepting mediocrity that forever holds us back!

11 minutes ago, BcfcRed3 said:

Poorly ran club. Incredibly grateful to have someone like SL.

Really? While we settle for the mediocre 

Watford have been in the prem on a regular occurance how can they be badly run?

8 minutes ago, DT The Optimist said:

 If I am right he wanted to go elsewhere, and no suitors hence still here & signed that new contract a while back.  Let's hope he ends up with that 'end product'. 

No your not right

7 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Yet you've cited Norwich, Brighton and Brentford as well-run clubs - each run by fans.

Mae your mind up!!

Really, interesting thought!

Norwich - Delia smith and Michael Wynne Jones 

Brighton - Anthony grant bloom, major share holder 

Brentford - Matthew benham 

Get your facts right before trying to be little someone, don't believe any club in Orem or champ is fan ran

3 hours ago, The Bard said:

 

The quicker Pearson is back the quicker our injury count will reduce. 

He's a manager not a bloody miracle worker!

Some are deluded on here

1 hour ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Burnley are owned by an American investment company that owns dozens of different sports teams and absolutely want to make money on the transaction.  None of the directors are fans of Burnley. The club was bought with a high-interest loan secured against the equity of the value of the team and club assets. I don't think it'll end well for The Clarets.

https://www.sportico.com/business/sales/2021/alk-capital-burnley-debt-1234621513/

Haven't got time to write more. Just off to se the bank to secure a loan to buy Man U using the value of the club's assets as security.... 

i would argue you are better off not having fans on the board as it stops head ruling heart!

but if that’s your criteria we will have to agree to differ

9 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

My question would be " Do you consider that the Board , including you, made a horribly wrong decision to employ Pulis instead of Moyes?"

With a follow up of "If you had recruited David Moyes at that time, do you now believe that City would have been a fixture in the Premier League if you had financially supported him as you did for another more recent City Head Coach?" 

Contraversial! You will have the lansdown lovers after you with that one!

38 minutes ago, CodeRed said:

A balanced and fair comment.

Any criticism of SL is always met with at least he's not Mel Morris, Tan, the Venkys or whoever the latest villain in the news happens to be.

But it's criticism that's developed out of sheer frustration that we could and should have done so much more with his financial backing. 

If I'm marking SL's homework it's

9/10 for effort 

6/10 for results

And 2/10 for performance with the recruitment of MA and LJ basically an expensive waste of 5 years.

 

 

That sums up my feelings nicely, thank you!

So many mistakes over his tenure it's difficult to like the bloke now for me.

2 minutes ago, Leveller said:

You’re treating SL as if he is a scheming villain though, when in fact he is a well meaning owner who has underachieved but pulled no underhand or illegal stunts to get the club in trouble.

Very true, I just believe his time has been, but I do realise I am in the minority

38 minutes ago, arrytheb said:

Hamburg mate. Was against Frankfurt (I think). We got chatting to a frankfurt fan in our hotel on the day of the game and he was trying to get us to meet up with him and his mates after the match. He's a police officer but said his wife and bosses 'let' him have a month a year of 'fun' where he meets up with other fans. We were sat right by the away fans and he was the bloke who was there with the loudspeaker thing getting everyone going. We decided against meeting him. 

 

Edit - he was a good bloke tho and gave our Stag a signed vintage shirt from their record signing player. 

St Pauli is an unreal atmosphere, their ground is just along from the rheeperbahn so full of their fanatics! I believe they may have been relegated now but was absolutely superb when I went, well worth a visit! I agree Hamburg is very good as well

2 minutes ago, RonWalker said:

Saying 'but he could've been better' while totally ignoring that he could have been a lot worse isn't much of an argument. We've all got our frustrations at not getting PL football in 20 years but you come across like someone with a real axe to grind.

and forever quoting the derby owner who is in the headlines at the moment is no argument, vice versa

10 minutes ago, Hello Dave said:

I know it’s all relative, but how much have you put in this season?

£35 for the hospitality offer, i don’t believe WE seen much of the game though!

you’ve had less appearances than callum o dowda this season ain’t you?

Just now, Leveller said:

Mel Morris. Compare and contrast.

For every Mel Morris there is a Brighton owner, Norwich owner, burnley owner, Brentford owner.

Weak argument that everyone frightened of change refer to

It was like a library, one of the worse ever

14 minutes ago, EmersonsKev said:

 

You're right, what have the Lansdown's ever done for us?

Made the club unsaleable, took away ground ownership from the football club while building a huge portfolio for themselves.

Carry on the love in

Over £100 each to ask the mighty one a question then listen to a drawn out reply when we know the answer 

Its my club I've put more money in than you and I will do what I want

On podBean I've not been able to listen, when you click on it it immediately takes you to the tanner terrific tackle issue

Reminded me of the last lansdown love in, all balony and not sure how much we can take at face value