He’s gone.

[Ivorguy]

2 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

If we were fan owned, we'd all be penniless and living on the streets trying to fund the annual losses.

Do you know nothing about how other countries function?  Guess you are a BS employee

[WayOutWest]

If promotion was really the ambition of the club, then why setup a budget for basic survival?

Its not as if there is any confidence that this board is capable of finding a replacement. I for one am not getting my hopes up. Track record of "exhaustive searches" is pretty shite with the exception of Nige. 

I for one will really miss him. 

 

Stevo 

[Calculus]

The latest of many brain-dead decisions. Shameful.

I wonder what how much our Director of Football supported Nige. About as much as he supported Danny Wilson all those years ago, I would think.

[City_USA]

2 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

If we were fan owned, we'd all be penniless and living on the streets trying to fund the annual losses.

You mean like all the fans / owners of the Green Bay Packers?

It's not easy. But it can be done successfully

[IdliketoRogerMoore]

The board said ”it’s to do with recent bad results” 

hea having to play kids who probably aren’t quite ready because he has received much in the way of investment! 
 

we probably weren’t going up this season but we weren’t going down with him at the helm! 

properly in shock! 

[One Team]

1 minute ago, WayOutWest said:

If promotion was really the ambition of the club, then why setup a budget for basic survival?

Its not as if there is any confidence that this board is capable of finding a replacement. I for one am not getting my hopes up. Track record of "exhaustive searches" is pretty shite with the exception of Nige. 

I for one will really miss him. 

 

Stevo 

This is why JL's statement is a joke. Who is better than NP to get promotion to the Premier League?

I doubt whoever they replace with won't have a CV like Pearson's. 

[Alessandro]

Even in our days of ‘big spending’ the reality was our accounts showed how our wage budget was only ever, top half, top 10 approximately.

Given the club have reduced that wage bill budget drastically, how can they justifiably expect a top 6 finish?

[CheddarReds]

I wonder if it has crossed the minds of the Lansdown's that the results might have been better if Nige was able to spend a small proportion more of the money brought in by Scott and Semenyo sales.... I doubt it. 

[Dastardly and Muttley]

Do you know what? I think I might be done with this club for a while.

I live an hour and a half away, in Maidenhead, and the distance usually makes things easier to rationalise.

But there’s nothing rational about this. What “recent results”? A 0-1 home defeat to an Ipswich side who’ve had the second best ever start to a Championship season, where we were probably worth a point?

A 2-0 away defeat when we only had 12 fit players and had to name 2 GKs on the bench?

Before that, we beat Coventry, Rotherham and Plymouth whilst losing to Leeds, Leicester and Stoke. Only the Stoke result can be considered as a surprise or disappointment.

I’ve felt we’ve put up a fight in every game this season, despite being able to name a full eleven of injured players.

The youngsters have been promoted in a way I’ve never seen before. The football clearly had a style and a plan, to be a high-pressing counter-attacking side. The wage bill had been cut. We’d performed well despite selling key players.

The board could really not ask for anything more from a manager and they’ve been itching to do this for weeks. It stinks.

I hope, for the club’s sake, there’s someone lined up and a decision is made in the next week or so. If there’s not one standout candidate, then at least a shortlist ready to go.

Eustace, Rowett, Beale and even Ainsworth should be brought in for an interview, then take your pick from there.

I fear they’ll make a run at Lansdown’s wet dream of Mark Robins. One last splash with him before SL sails into the distance.

[beaverface]

I see Dave Rennie has left also. Is that because he's standing by his mate, NP, and decided to walk also?

Or has he been let go by the club because they blame him for all the injuries??

[ChippenhamRed]

Disgraceful. I hate being a fan of this club.

[Sleepy1968]

1 minute ago, David Brent said:

He can go too

It looks like it's been planned for a while, so BT is clearly implicated. I knew one former club employee (sadly no longer with us) who this wouldn't come as a shock to.

[Martin2512]

Is Nige olde enough to join the fewers

[Ivorguy]

The writing was on the wall when CEO left.

please NOT Tinnion in charge - not in a sense that I am bothered as I am in a mood of don’t care now what the Lansdowns do because it will all be bad for City.

 

[erndogz]

Gutted with this outcome. Have many players been vocal on socials or have they been silenced. 

[CheddarReds]

Gutted. Was a big fan of Nige personally and admired the job he's done in the circumstances. 

I've been saying for a while it might be the man who comes in after Nige who benefits from his work... pressure on the Lansdown's to get his successor right. I'm not holding my breath. 

[One Team]

@Davefevs are you on Sound of the City tomorrow?

[Son of Fred]

1 hour ago, George Rs said:

Sat here speechless. How such a successful business man can continue to make such awful decisions stuns me. 
 

Got no clue where we go from here. Could clearly see the players were all behind the manager in these very tough past few games. Dread to think what could happen now.

I'm sure they are as bewildered & sickened as many of us are,myself included - and the players are a very tight group.

Hard to read how they will respond.

 

[WayOutWest]

1 minute ago, One Team said:

This is why JL's statement is a joke. Who is better than NP to get promotion to the Premier League?

I doubt whoever they replace with won't have a CV like Pearson's. 

I wasn't really looking at promotion as a realistic target. This squad is limited I think we can all agree. Midtable obscurity is what the budget they set would achieve. To think that this team would achieve more is madness. 

It feels like they are just crossing their fingers for a run of unbelievable luck to sneak into the playoffs rather than having a finacial plan to back Nige adequately. 

Madness to suggest anything else. 

[Montpelierblue]

Crazy world with all your injuries too? I was quite jealous of you having him last season…..doing ok this season too .

warnock incoming? :laugh:

[Son of Fred]

1 minute ago, CheddarReds said:

Gutted. Was a big fan of Nige personally and admired the job he's done in the circumstances. 

I've been saying for a while it might be the man who comes in after Nige who benefits from his work... pressure on the Lansdown's to get his successor right. I'm not holding my breath. 

They can shove "their" club...

Not remotely interested in whom they now wheel out.

[B1ackbird]

God, imagine if Rovers hired him ...

[One Team]

1 minute ago, Son of Fred said:

I'm sure they are as bewildered & sickened as many of us are,myself included - and the players are a very tight group.

Hard to read how they will respond.

 

Great point, hadn't even considered the players reaction until now. They all seemed a tight group to me and loyal to NP. 

[Bazooka Joe]

1 hour ago, exAtyeoMax said:

yes it's totally unrealistic, as someone else said, he was set up to fail.

Case for constructive dismissal.

Plenty of witnesses and evidence.

[BasSavage88]

Im not gutted he's gone at all but I am completely and utterly confused about the timing. The ******* nerve of the JL statement the little rat *** 

[eardun]

Conveniently for the owners we have had a load of injuries and so lost 5 in 7 (two of which were Leicester and Leeds so hardly surprising given their budgets) so they can say that’s the reason for the decision and of course ensure that they act before players come back and Pearson turns our form around again. They can’t seriously expect us to be sitting in the top 6 at present. They clearly wanted him out come what may. Within the smoke and mirrors we also have the CEO leaving abruptly and Pearson’s health situation and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were connected to the decision. Sorry to see him go given how he has turned the club around.

[TV Tom]

18 minutes ago, Keepers Ball said:

Think I know who you are talking about.

If it is, he allegedly was the reason why Danny Wilson left.

Obviously Tins or super Scott, Wilson had to go either way after that shit show at the Millenium 

 

Pray tell

[Mr Popodopolous]

10 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Do you know nothing about how other countries function?  Guess you are a BS employee

Don't dislike the idea on paper of Fan ownership but here the model is what it is and it just doesn't seem feasible.

[Capman]

The sad thing is I am not even surprised. The board have wanted Pearson out for a year. Just been running down his contract and looking for an excuse. Incredibly spineless. I have been prepared to give Steve some credit until now. But he has lost it now. The club is toxic while he is the owner. Just go Steve. Just go. 

[Red Army 79]

Really disappointed by this decision. Pearson has done a cracking job. He saved us from a points deduction and relegation. We couldn’t even win a corner when he arrived, we play some great stuff now and we play as a team!! 

He got rid of all the overpaid crap from the previous manager. Brought through so many exciting youngsters. Didn’t waste money on developing other clubs players either or panic buy.

We have Sheffield Wednesday and QPR to come both winnable which would have put us back into contention.

Not sure what else Pearson could have done.

This is the worse decision the Lansdowns have made by a Mile. I’m in shock….