"I’m Sitting Here Now With a Big Smile On My Face," Explained Lansdown

I think most of us felt it was a huge mistake to stick with LJ during the barren run, myself included. Maybe Steve knows things that we don't and could see the light at the end of the tunnel....or maybe he just got lucky in time.

No-one can ever doubt his support for the club. It doesn't matter how much money you've got...he could have easily bought a nice yacht and a Learjet rather than redeveloping Ashton Gate. He's a shrewd businessman and maybe, just maybe, his business acumen will see us in good shape for the long term.

I truly hope that we come out of the traps flying next season, as we did this one. At the end of the day we've proven with good away results at BHA and Newcastle, that we can play with the best. If we could just do that with the mid table bunch, what a different story it might have been.

 

I think referencing SAF and Arsene Wenger is a little presumptuous.

Time will tell, but we've heard it all before.

 

I say good on him for his backing to the club and standing by his guns when the going was tough.. no knee jerk reaction when we went on a bad run and replacing LJ with any old manager that was available at the time.. Move on and see where it leads us..

 

I will reserve my comments until I see how it pans out for the future and only the results he is promising will fully satisfy me. Perhaps he can one day meet his supposed target, and like all others I hope he does, but these things and more have been said before.

 

But in the past we chopped and changed manager like most clubs.. this time we have a bit of stability, even if LJ doesn't work out, lends well for the next potential manager..
Now, I read from many posts on here that obviously LJ listened to them (not sure he did) and started playing "high up" and 442 and it was "obvious" that would improve results!!
But the good thing about LJ, he did change it and did get results. I also imagine he will continue to change it until he finds the right formula for the players he has and the teams we play against.. I've got no problem with that.. it was SC downfall, not changing things.. At the moment I back him all the way.. think he will come good..

 

A relieved smile more like.

As far as I am concerned the slate is wiped clean again. SL, LJ, the club and us too are very fortunate.

 

Fortunate for what exactly ?

To have an owner whose opinion of his own appointed lapdog wouldn't have been swayed even if we'd been relegated ? Who is now sitting there with his usual smug grin because he gambled and won for once ?

Johnson himself who didn't do the honourable thing and walk away when he gave us the worst losing streak in our entire history ?

In my humble opinion, no one has been exonerated nor should they be slapping each others backs and saying well done.

We've survived after one of the most unpleasant seasons I can ever remember. Firstly because there were clearly at least 2 teams who were worse than us, and because at times we did compete and get results.
But there were long stretches when we were abject.

And so for me the slate is most certainly not wiped clean..

 

I do not think WSC is the right terminology, we have a owner and a manager who are both in station and moving on to the next phase...season 2017/18. So agree for most who throughout the season has HAD A CHANGE FROM support to vitriolic distain regarding the peeps who they felt had let them down.. and I can see that, accepting them is likely going to be a very big uphill process.

one of the most interesting things about our very good and diverse board is that whatever is said, it never leads to out and out "fisticuffs" we all have opinions and sometimes "arguments" are protracted, but we all seem to end up on friendly terms when the season ends. I THINK Lee did the right thing in staying, I never called for him to go as I have seen over the past 70 years or so, and not just in football, seen many scenario's of situations not unlike unfolded at CITY this season, been in a couple myself...and came out on top and wish Lee well !
sometimes successful people, those that command £150k - £1m + salaries and company owners etc have only been a success because they see things the likes of us DONT ! WILL THE PRESENT AIMS AND MEMBERS OF STAFF be testament to a new era? Well the clock started ticking @ 3pm on the 6th August 2016

 

I mean we are all fortunate that results improved and we climbed to safety.
At one stage it looked like we were doomed to relegation.
Yes it's been a horrible season for the most part and I am not in any way trying to talk it 'up', but the climax to a really horrible season would be relegation. That hasn't happened. That's why I think we were fortunate.

 

I think a side ( and manager) that can dig deep and get results when needed is a good reason for optimism!!
Had we finished just below playoffs the doomers would be saying exactly the same thing!! "With the funds blah blah"
It's been a bad season, get over it and move on!!

 

HAS IT REALLY BEEN SUCH A BAD SEASON? A diverse selection of our posters have varying ways to, at the start of the season or early in the season come up with comments" like to early to judge, season is 46 games long, it all evens out etc etc" or similar such jewels. Oh how some jump off or fall off their own convictions when things awry!

Maybe 1 game early to give a true analysis as we could finish with 1 or 3 more points...

no one had us in bottom 8
but 10 of 15 of us had us in mid 8 .... of which 6 had us below 12th ( 13th 14th or 15th ) so around 60-61 points to finish about 12th
or 55 to 66 points to finish in the middle 8
Currently we are close to fulfilling their dreams ! although some have had nightmares along the way
a general concensus is the season averages itself out ? well had we WON 1 drew 1 and lost 1 we would have 60 points what let us down is we only drew 9 ! hence 54 points
SO A BAD SEASON?
Well after our "easy start" and some welcome points yes just a little disappointing, but bad for me? yes , as I expected a top 6 finish.

 

Let's just say it could have been a fantastic season if the apprentice new what he was doing earlier in the season.

 

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I find it odd that people say we have fortunate of late with good results, yet don't consider we were unfortunate in our bad run. Memories are a great thing, the Preston game aside we have not lost by more than 2 goals all season, and you can count on one hand how many games that has happened, so out 46 games we have only lost by 2 or more goals 6 times.

My point is we were a lot closer to nicking a point or 3 in our bad run than we wree of losing points in our good run, yet we are deemed fortunate the tide turned.
So, have we had 2 lucky spells and 1 unlucky spell or not?

 

I think is was the manner of some of those defeats. Sheff Wed,Cardiff and Reading in particular and from being in such a good position at Derby and Newcastle.- We gave away a goal late against Wolves and QPR, but neither time did I feel those sides coming back further.We did get much, much better closing games out. Against Barnsley, once we got in front, there was only one winner.