Should Lansdown Sell Up

Should Lansdown sell up before he's tarred and feathered ?

 

Bristol City fc have gone backwards under his ownership,are in the biggest debt in its entire history with him owning the club.
Considering the money put into the club, if it was his company it would have gone bust long ago.
Football club wise it has been a total failure.

 

Yeah because there are queues of people wanting to buy our club.

 

People need to be very careful what they wish for

 

No

but we need someone on the board with knowledge on how to run the club

things went down hill faster when Sexstone left

 

The idea was to build a new stadium and attract more people. The extra money to be spent on players.
Lansdown is willing to spend his millions out of passion and I can't see why people are critising him or the board.

Whatever you say he is still a better owner than Tan.

 

Don't worry come the summer, the ones that want him out will be calling for him to buy this and that player.

 

The problem is with the obscene amount of money that has been spent, the club success has been non existent.

Coppell walked straight away,saw something he did not like.

SODs stock was high when he arrived yet by the end, the man was in a right mess.

Cotterill was given the job without others being considered,yet would any other club do that,a cheap option was taken he was free to take the job.

It seems like jobs for the boys, it seems a little holiday camp down at Ashton Gate.

 

I'm sure its all about desperation.
SL wants salvation as much as we do - thats why he has put 70 million quid into the club.
Problem is he has spent the money in damage limitation instead of investing 10 million on one very good player he has always spent 1 million and wondered why it wasnt that great. The most he spent in one go was for Maynard, and if the sale had been carried out properly then we would have made a big profit. But then we wanted to keep Maynard and push on for the Prem, which is why he never went to leicester.
If the board had actually LISTENED to Coppell instead of getting cold feet and denying him what they had promised then our story might have been very different.
Therein lies the folly of Lansdown, but nobody can claim that his heart isnt in the right place.
As said, we needed a football man (a real one, Hansen, Lawrenson, Shearer etc) on the board to help and advise SL.

 

We need a new Chairman / CEO with both football knowledge, experience, and better contacts with some standing in the game. As has been said SL's bean counting business acumen has worked against us, most notably the lack of a quality striker at Xmas 2008.

However, the removal of that elusive ' billionaire owner' would seem a complete folly to me, we are very lucky to have him, what makes me laugh is the fans who describe his spending as 'obscene' are the same fans that are the most needy and demanding during the transfer windows.

To me, part of the boards downfall has been listening to 'the fans' too much, it was the fans that spouted what became the 5 pillars policy then criticised it when it wasn't working. We need a board with the balls to see something through, not panic at the slightest setback.

 

I have no idea what you are talking about? I thought all our fans know everything I'm sure one could tell us the meaning of life.

 

A lot of truth in that
I still think we would have been far better off with GJ, and that is a case in point

 

I actually think we would of been better off keeping Del. He lost the plot trying to do to much with the academy and first team but I still think we wouldn't of gone down without a fight last season with him in charge.
He just needed a DoF ( better than the one we have at the moment) someone he could go to for advise.

 

I for one don't want to see him sell up, anyway who would buy us? any sale at present would mean a big loss for SL, s can't see it happening. Although not happy with things at present I am a long time a supporter and this club has had many ups and downs, I don't believe this to be the worst and am hopeful that at some stage things will change. We have a major share holder who has a passion for Bristol sport lets keep him.

 

Trouble is we are all guilty of seeing it all differently in hindsight. I have to say I thought GJ had to go when he did. the club was in turmoil at the time, it was also very difficult to argue against the fans who wanted Delboy removed. (I still think this was a mistake!). I made it very clear I didn't want SOD here but tried to support his ideas at least, he was shocking though. I made it very clear I wasn't keen on SC either but now he's here we cant keep sacking every manager after a few months.

Its an enigma to me why we just cant seem to create any success at our club with all the resources we have had available but I'm beginning to wonder if our own expectation of mediocrity is weighing the whole club down. Something needs to break the cycle.

Whats the saying,

If you think you can or you think you can't.

You're right..

 

I was gutted when GJ left
Was pleased with Coppell's appointment and dismayed when he walked out (will we ever know the truth??)
Millen had to go when he did, and I also thought that it was the right time for McInnes to go.
With SoD the problem was his inability to communicate effectively with the fans - probably the right time to make that change

 

I think we would have been better off keeping Alan Dicks. It has all been downhill since he left. Poor decision letting him go.

 

And in a similar vein we sank to the 4th division when he left and here we go again

 

The poll does not really work due to the financial mess the Fc Is and non ownership of Ashton Gate.

If the poll was would you rather have John Laycock minus losses/debts and the Fc owning Ashton Gate I would answer yes. City were a stable club operating in the black whose income was enough to finance a promtion winning team eventually, indeed many gained prmotion spending much less.

I fail to see why fans should be grateful for anybody doing a poor to awful job.

Aademy - Community trust? Other clubs do that as well.