Lansdown Taking Charge

Relegation is nailed on then.

 

Unbelievable, sacks SC then goes on holiday, he waits nearly 2 weeks to come back to sort a new manager out. Is he just arrogant and thinks we won't go down or did he come back because the people left in charge are incompetent?

 

I've always had faith in SL, but 'Such speculation appears to be wide of the mark, however, with the club believed to be seeking a progressive head coach with a track record of nurturing young players.' worries me. Looking at the candidates this suggests less Moyes and Warnock and more Stuart Pearce.

 

He can take a break but when the club is in a bit of a crisis with No manager, deadline day soon and in relegation zone, is that an appropriate time to take a holiday??

 

Cant see any problem with him going on holiday. I'm sure there were phones in Namibia and if they were going down the route of seeking applications rather that approaching someone, which seems to be the case, then that will take time anyway. (I'm not happy about that by the way as I was hoping they had someone lined up but that is a different argument )

 

I am with Wize on this one. OK, so we are in a buggers muddle right now, but without SL we would still be sitting in the old East end and Williams stands, and probably already in L1......he has enough top ranking staff under him to sort this out while he is on holiday. That said, the fact he has now taken over the manager search could well mean they failed in that particular job!...or that they are now down to interviews on the short list and SL wants to be hands on....

 

If Mark Ashtons role is Chief Operating Officer day to day for all football related matters, then why has Lansdown taken this task on himself I wonder ? What does it say about the rest of the Senior Management at the club ?

Frankly, this is turning into a bad soap opera, and given previous failings with Managerial appointments, I really have little faith in a decent Manager ending up in the hot seat.

 

Thirteen years ago (would have to check... to state as a fact) BCFC owned Ashton Gate and was a club that operated sometimes in profit.

It depends on what your view is on what a football club really is. The FC is skint, struggling on the pitch and entirely under the control of one individual. The use of majority shareholder in the above text is disengenious. The club ( Mr Lansdown) is not answerable to anybody bar the club ( Mr Lansdown), shareholding outside of the majority shareholder ( Mr Lansdown) is an irrelevance. The club ceases to hold annual shareholders meetings = Not necessary.

If you view the FC to have a social context, a position where fans are members = important and the FC is a community asset that is an active participant in its Community. Bristol City is barely a club anymore.

 

Probably not. Bristol City's former Chairman post Bristol City went on to help build the City academy ( not City) and other

Mr Laycock is still involved in creating similar facilities right now.

Ashton Gate almost certainly would have had stands redeveloped, and an informed opinion is that given Mr Laycocks support of the academy and grass roots football in Bristol the club would be producing more players of its own, and be a more intrinsic part of the community than it is now.

Without Mr Lansdown City were competitive and it should be noted that the club were competitive without creating enormous loss and debt that put it alongside some of the worst income in England.

It could be worse ... it could be much better.

 

I agree with most things you say Wiz but not so much this. He's a multi billionaire. He can go on holiday, literally any day he bloody wants. The clubs is in danger at the moment and his first priority should be getting a new manager in. Not going to Benidorm to get cheap lambert and butlers just so he can sell them on when he gets back home

 

Can't see Lansdown as a Lambert & Butler sort of bloke. More of a Dunhill or Sobranie Cocktail smoker I'd say

 

If we employed the chuckle brothers to find us a new manager/coach they would have done a better job.

 

I'm just gutted he hasn't sent any of you a post card.

 

Could end up with another Coppell scenario if he's not careful....

 

But in fairness back in 96 a loaf of bread was about 50p or less and like everything else times have moved on including football. So back in 96 we was just about ok but that was then and this was now.

 

To be fair to Steve Lansdown he was on holiday before the Preston game (he was not there) and thus before Cotts was sacked