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Really struggled at times today and clearly not fit. Was on the periphery all game, therefore hard to judge whether he’d be an effective addition. 

13 minutes ago, 38MC said:

For established premier league sides, or for ones with a nation’s golden player, perhaps, but that simply doesn’t ring true for Bristol City. I doubt we have any ‘tourist’ fans in reality. Fleeting people who will come to a big draw cup game, and those who will come occasionally as and when they can because their circumstances dictate they can’t always come.  But Id wager I could count with the pair of bollox I have the amount of fans coming here each year of the type that the likes of Spurs and Liverpool want to ensure availability for. 

Anyway it doesn’t really matter. The south stand has become a free for all anyway. So many just walk around the stadium and chance finding a seat. If I lose my season ticket there and the ability to buy one, not really that arsed because I’ll walk into the lansdown and walk round like countless young ‘uns do already and anyway, so there’s not really a stick there with this new policy which is forcing me to renew. 

That’s why I included part time too. Not suggesting we have many tourist fans, but plenty who may attend 1-2 matches a season and when combined they’ll spend more than the likes of us on average for that match. Again, not saying I agree with favouring them as the atmosphere suffers massively. 

Does anyone know if this will be shown anywhere please?

8 hours ago, trickydickiecardigan said:

Can anyone explain why our website is crap? Always seems days behind!!

Because we have a crap Head of Marketing who seemingly makes a sh*tshow of everything he touches from ticketing and rewards to the website and app. 

1 hour ago, Monkeh said:

The club will always prefer to sell season tickets, it's guaranteed income as apposed to assumed income that may not actually arrive,

Given a choice a football club will always want the season ticket money over pay on the day, its basic economics

Sorry, this is simply not true due to the reasons many others have said.

Part time or tourist fans spend far more on average per visit which is why many clubs consciously choose not to solely sell season tickets. 

6 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

'Tourists' is not a term used to describe the type of fan that you are. A tourist is someone (Japanese / American) who has no affiliation to a club but is quite happy to pay £100 plus for a ticket to a Premier League game and then spend double that in the club shop. There are 1000's of such people who are classed as this which is why Premier League clubs (Spurs and Liverpool lately) restrict season ticket sales. Long term they make far more money from the 'tourists' than they do Season ticket holders who get a reduced price seat and buy a beer in their local before entering the ground.

Completely agree. I do business with Spurs and was told that they regularly have 4-5,000 South Korean fans attend a home match and they spend on average £600-700 per fan. 

I travelled to Milan with them in the Champions League and they had fans camped out in every restaurant on the off chance of meeting even the non-playing staff at night. 

12 million of their 50 million population consider themselves Spurs fans. 

Not saying I agree with the clubs deliberately leaving tickets open in favour of these international fans, but this is why the notion of “tourist” fans is so attractive to many large clubs and as many others have said, I would hazard a guess that our own more part time fans spend far more in the club shop and bars than us regular fans. 

We have an absolute amateur Head of Marketing who is only there because he’s a mate of JL.

Anything associated to fan engagement is doomed to fail. He’s the same individual responsible for the recent website data breach and would be laughed out the door at any other club. 

It’s the same from top to bottom, the average supporter would be shocked to peel back the curtain and see how lacking we are across all key functions.

3 hours ago, tin said:

 

Would like to burn the ****er!

and that flag…

On 04/03/2024 at 00:09, Dr Balls said:

The real question is why wasn’t Nige going to be offered a new contract, considering he has done everything that has been asked of him to that point?

Why didn’t they trust Nige and Phil Alexander to get on with using some of the Scott money to invest in players?

How did they manage to lose 2 men with over 60 years’ worth of top football experience, including time at the highest level, in the space of just over a month?

Why did they think that they could cope without that experience? Was it arrogance or ignorance?

Why did they appoint an inexperienced League 1 coach with no actual success, but one sacking in just over 2 years, to replace Nige?

Why was Tinnion elevated from Head of the Academy to Head of Recruitment and then to Technical Director, when his only period as a manager ended after just over a season in League 1 with us and in failure? 

How did we end up with a “board” that has only 2 people, one of whom is the son of the owner and the other was the Bristol Sport accountant? Why were all of the other board members removed over time and not replaced?

All of these questions would help explain why we find ourselves in the position we do now, with a team in a terrible run of form, playing some of the dullest football ever witnessed at Ashton Gate, from a Head Coach who is out of his depth, appointed by people who think they know more about professional football than they really do.

Fantastic post and I’d love someone of Twentyman’s calibre to hold the owners to account and ask them these questions. Sadly, those days seem long gone and they’re able to operate in a complete vacuum of accountability. 
 

It will be left to the fans to make the owners feel so uncomfortable that they ultimately sell. I’m not holding out any hope looking at the passiveness shown to date though. 

3 hours ago, robin_unreliant said:

Don't you think Tinnion already sees himself as that experienced older head that is 'helping'? I suspect the club does.

The fact that none of the fans view it like that is evidence itself of what a mess we are in.

We are all effectively calling for a hire or a new role when the club think there's already one in place.

Said the same at the ground, best referee I’ve seen in nearly 40 years of watching City. 

24 minutes ago, Harry said:

Can this collection of buffoons and bozo’s get anything aligned?? 
 

One minute we have a top 10 budget, and then Tinnion is pushed on this on the radio and confirms it’s not. 
Next we make a managerial change because, and I quote “why wait - because we want to be at the top end of this division”. Now we’re happy with 10th! Which is kinda where we were anyway. 
 

We have a bloke in charge of everything that is “growing into it”. 
We have a chairman who doesn’t know when the accounts are due. 

And now we’ve got a player analyst, (whose responsibility is to watch videos of players and file scout reports on them) sitting in on the interviews for a new manager!!! 
The new manager should be coming in and telling the player analyst what HE wants, not the player analyst having a say in who the manager should be!! 
Imagine if you’re attending an interview for a senior manager role at Hargreaves Lansdown and they say “interviewing today will be the Chairman, the CEO and Dave from Accounts”.
 

The interviewee has been interviewed by a bloke who will be reporting to him!! Utter utter madness! 
There is no way in the world you should attend a job interview and be interviewed by the bloke who will be working UNDER you! That’s one of the most crackpot things I’ve heard - and they’ve done some bloody crackpot things!!  

Can anyone please confirm what Sean Gilhespy career path has looked like to date?

What are his credentials and qualifications for this role? What experience does he previously have in football?
 

Hard to find anything at all on the internet.  

I agree with many others.

This isn’t a personal attack, but the guy will naturally only come across at best a novice, or worst, a pretender at this level and in front of our players.

How can he be expected to gain respect from the players when he’s had no playing career of note or any managerial success at this level to date? He’s simply not qualified for the job and completely out of his depth which is clear in his communication to date.

He’s never managed in this division and yet, he’s been asked to stand up in front of the players and pretend he’s the same calibre as Nigel Pearson, a manager whose team not only gained promotion, but went on to win a historic Premier League title based on the quality and foundations he built. 

Understandably, he can’t  look the players or any interviewer in the eye by the looks of the content we’ve seen so far. He knows he can’t possibly expect to garner anyone’s respect yet and sadly, he’s been set up to fail and it’s only ever going to end one way. 

Again, I don’t blame him for taking the job and hopefully goes on to have a very successful career, but he’s been given an impossible task by the idiots that run this club.

It’s not fair on him, the players, or the fans for him to be expected to take this club on anything other than a downward trajectory. 

He’s nowhere near Pearson’s class and everyone knows it. This could prove to be a very difficult end of season. 

VAR sadly turning football into a better armchair/ at home viewing experience compared to watching in person. How shit must that have been for the fans in the ground? Not knowing whether to celebrate the goals or not and a min of 10mins not knowing what’s going on, texting mates at home asking for the heads up as they all wait in ignorance, whilst the viewers at home get all the commentary and replays. 

6 minutes ago, Henry said:

@James I’ll donate a £100 for a Lansdown out banner.

Me too 

15 minutes ago, Red Cloud said:

For what it's worth, sounds like we've been sold or very close too

Can you share more?

2 minutes ago, luke_bristol said:

The only consequence that impacts them will be less money. SL is a money man, a deservedly successful one. Let him see the consequences in an Excel tab.

Completely disagree. The cowards will only run away if they see the anger that faces them. By all means drink elsewhere but they’ve already the season ticket holder’s money. 

Time to make them sell up. 

Would be as spineless as their behaviour.

They need to feel the anger and hear the fans calling for them to sell up. A few thousand empty seats or less money taken won’t convey that, it won’t catch the attention of the press and it will let these scumbags off the hook. 

We’ve been far too apathetic for years, time to show them how we really feel. There has to be consequences for their actions. 

4 minutes ago, kevinmabbuttshair said:

Of course it is. No food, no booze. 

 

What do you think the mark up is on that?

 

Less than 10k sends a proper message.

 

200 swearing and foaming at the mouth is just the fringe. 

A half empty dolman stand on the other hand...

Would be as spineless as their behaviour.

They need to feel the anger and hear the fans calling for them to sell up. A few thousand empty seats or less money taken won’t convey that, it won’t catch the attention of the press and it will let these scumbags off the hook. 

We’ve been far too apathetic for years, time to show them how we really feel. There has to be consequences for their actions. 

1 hour ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

If you are Steve, just how well do you want your successor to do, though? You wouldn't want them doing too well, would you?

Imagine you're Steve, and you sell up to whoever, and they move in and swiftly make some strategic changes, new CEO, new Head Coach and so on, and then, in their first full season, Bristol City fly, finish in the top six, fail heroically, make a small fortune/nest egg, and second full season, the new owner takes us to promotion.

If you're Steve, you're thinking: Ffs!

Imagine you're Steve, and you sell up, and we go up (and stay up), and nobody misses you. Not even those that defended you to the end. That's got to hurt?

If you’re Steve, and you sell the City, you don't want the owners doing that well, do you? Not really, deep down. That's got to be a quiet thought he has to himself, once in a while?

You want to be missed, a bit. Or more than a bit. You want the gobby ****ers that told you you knew nothing about football to eat their words. And they won't be doing that if the new bloke/owner is too successful, too quickly.

Genuine concern of mine too.

Lansdown’s stubbornness and ego has always led his decision making.

When a man wipes out a predecessor’s memory and legacy by renaming a stand after themselves whilst still in situ, it should tell you all you need to know about the man. 
 

How confident are we that he’ll pick a buyer who will quickly overshadow his regime? 

6 minutes ago, Loosey Boy said:

Working again now - looks like less than 500 tickets left for City

Thanks.

Buying for Millwall away, about 40 left now.

Couldn’t make it up.. Not sure I can remember my company’s e-commerce function ever going down in 20+ years.

In isolation, this wouldn’t be so much of an issue, but with all of the other off-the-field blunders we are making, this all feels so amateur!
 

There are always back-ups for this surely? 

Just now, richwwtk said:

I bought a ticket for my daughter earlier, got that error once, refreshed and all was good

Sadly not 

Ah well. At least it’s not in prime selling time before a new season kicks off. 

Appreciate it’s a tech issue, but the new website will role up into him and matey boy in Marketing must be living on borrowed time

https://tickets.bristol-sport.co.uk/GenericErrors.html?aspxerrorpath=/en-gb/categories/bristol-city
 

Our ticketing webpage seems to be down. Just me or anyone else struggling?