Looking at how things are going on the pitch and how its going financially and SL looking to sell???? Time for new owners?
Whatever you think of SL, he’s a local lad and generally has the well being of City at heart. I’ve no problem with new owners, as such, but , I can’t think of anyone else that would have the interest of the club at heart in the same way.
There are many teams out there who would want a local businessman to run their clubs and in retrospect Steve Lansdown fits all the right boxes. His support over the years has kept us running smoothly and questioning his decision to buy a football club doesn't come into the frame, but for me his lack of success on the pitch has to come under severe scrutiny. Is there a case whereby he has undermined the people he has hired to do the job on the football front by overruling their decisions or is it just a figment of my imagination? When you look at the club in the cold light of day we have everything we need to be a successful football club in that we have a wonderful reworked stadium, still on the site of our ancestral home for many decades, combined with a local owner willing to splash the cash to support our needs as and when required. The support of Bristol City from the paying public is second to none and it constantly amazes me to see the away support that travels in very large numbers to cheer on the lads. So what is so wrong that we face crises on a constant basis and generally fail to do due diligence to the problem at hand? The new CEO is supposed to be the bees knees at administering a football club and his hiring, on the surface appears to be a feather in SL's cap, but then again so was the case when Nigel Pearson arrived, and that hasn't worked out as well as we all expected. I suspect that Gould was always going to return to his cricketing heritage and hence the search for a new CEO was always a strong possibility and the timing was a bit off key. Tonight's match at the New Den is critical in our season but our manager for some reason decided not to hold a pre-match interview and that gives cause for concern for our managerial future. How nice it would be to see Bristol City wake up and smell the roses because the margins between successes and failures are miniscule enough that attention to detail combined with good footballing practices can change fortunes in an instant. I truly believe that Steve Lansdown, like all of us, wants Bristol City to be a force to be reckoned with, but somewhere along the way the efforts consistently fall short and only he can point out where he/we went wrong. To be told that next season will be better has become our motto and quite frankly it's becoming a bit boring to say the least.
