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You want £25m to drive him there? Thanks for the offer but a Uber might be cheaper. ?

No, Steve was the architect who chose notorious dodgy builders Ashton & Johnson Ltd. Having overspent the budget he discovered the house was falling down so he had to bring in Gould & Pearson Ltd to rebuild it. It's my analogy and I reserve the right to make it up as I go along!

And to think we paid the Gas £10m for him.?

Is any of that true of Manchester United for instance? As I understand it the debt was loaded onto the club and the Glazers have been taking money out for themselves ever since.

It's not unusual.?

He can sack them, they can't sack him though. However unpalatable it is we have to deal with things as they are not as we might wish them to be.

I get your point but it's a private limited company is it not? So the reality is that the owners (Steve and Maggie) are accountable only to the shareholders ie themselves. I have often criticised Steve but I don't kid myself he is somehow accountable to me. I'd settle for him admitting his mistakes but I'm not holding my breath! I'm afraid that the sentimental view that football clubs belong to the fans (we want our club back and all that) doesn't reflect reality, if it ever did.

Sure it's Steve's responsibility but he is not accountable to anybody. Apart from his annual performance review with Maggie perhaps.? As I said he gave Ashton a free hand, which makes the same point as you are making. Sacking Nigel, which seems to be the thrust of this demo, does nothing to change Steve's past errors. Nor does it help to fix the damage.

@ExiledAjaxhas explained above that this view of the role of Bristol Sport is a common misconception. Edit: as they've just explained again!

The problem is such a protest would be too late. The damage has been done thanks to Steve giving Ashton a free hand. Any protest now would be against the people trying to repair the damage. Which seems not very well thought through. It's like having a builder make a mess of your house then suing the builder who fixed it.

So how do we recruit and retain players when the previous regime was allowed to run up massive debts? By all means replace the manager but the job spec is the same: keep us in the Championship while working with the CEO and others to continue to deliver millions more in cost savings on top of the £10m already achieved. Obviously a doddle for the next man.

I blame Gould and Pearson for not repeatedly explaining the position to fans at press conferences or a fans forum. And the fact that we don't have any posters on here who have explained it in detail until they are blue in the face. Oh, hang on..

Try reading the link @RedLionLadposted above if you're interested.

Perhaps because it gets people asking why which leads to an explanation and publicity for the charity that it might not otherwise get? If the numbers had been black for instance you would likely not have heard of the charity.

They should have consulted me, I know for a fact a Clarks pie would have clinched it.

This nonsense showed up on the Coventry match day thread. Apparently they think the club belongs to them. I assume Steve has accepted their offer then.

He wasn't remotely belligerent about loans. He made the perfectly reasonable point that you need to have the right culture before bringing them in. Once he was satisfied with the culture he said he was ok with loans. Of course loans aren't cheap so it's open to question whether we can afford them anyway unless players leave.

Lineker was wooden when he started. It takes a lot of practice and experience to learn a new skill. A bit like having to think hard about everything you do when you are learning to drive until you can eventually do it without thinking about it.

If it was that simple I might be able to outwit Pep Guardiola. It looks simple in principle perhaps but in practice it's more complex. The problem for me is that most pundits state the obvious and don't give us any insight. Just because somebody has played the game it doesn't follow that they are good at explaining it.

Most pundits tend to tell us what we can see for ourselves or give us platitudes like "he should have done better there Gary" and "he'll be a bit disappointed with that" when somebody misses a sitter. Very few give us any tactical insight, things we wouldn't otherwise see ourselves necessarily.

He's a fine broadcaster though I have an irrational thing about him. Listen to him on 5 Live and he invariably calls Man Utd MANchester United with loud emphasis on the first syllable. Yet he can't seem to get Man City right, usually mangling it as Manchessity. What's that you say, get a life? ?

Across the game very few corners lead to goals anyway.

Exactly, hence my reference to gambling.

I always thought you could tell which players were out and out Ashton punts as LJ didn't pick them. Which suggests Adelakun was one of them. He would sign players gambling that transfer market inflation would lead to a profit regardless I felt.

But not in massive debt!