Is this the same SL who has just shelled out a small fortune on players to improve our club ? The same SL who is spending another not inconsiderable fortune to give us a stadium which won't be a national joke ? The same SL who has kept us from extinction for the last 10 years ? Maybe he should have waited for Red Alert to stump up the cash Or maybe he should have just left us to follow The Gas Hey, its a competitive world, and in the cut throat of top football its survival of the fittest. Thats just the way things are in 2014, and griping about it means zilch. If you think its different in Spain or Italy then you are very wrong
The Premiership is there to serve itself, so it can sign Balotelli's. As the league is based upon greed and Foreign ownership they obviously will sign who and what we want. Principles barely exist in football.
Balotelli is a strange one but he wont score the volumes of goals that Suarez did and therefore Liverpool wont be serious title contenders IMHO I've often said on here that City ever getting back to the top would be bitter/sweet
I was there in 82 when Mr Sl watched the Gas .... !!!!! Mr Lansdown has not kept the club from extinction as he created hs own debt and chose to cover it which he points out at Q&A's to a an accountant who turns up to question the madness of the way the club has been ran. By the way at clubs in Spain iy is very very different for instance having no local lads wouild go beyond unacceptbale at some clubs.
I still confused as to why, on post here people are saying Gazza is a person that would grace the prem and he's just an innocent man caught up in drinking. Yet Balotelli is not fit to grace the same stage because he's a volatile who apparently done so wrong. I read the telegraph saying that Liverpool are jumping from the frying pan into the fire. I'm struggling to see what's he done so bad that he's worse than a serial biter and an wife beater.
I suppose we rate our views of footballers based on our own personal values ROD and sometimes those criteria are invalid when it comes to the greedies of this world because they play to a different tune.
Working for a charity, and being a kids coach if I rated players via my personal views I would have to abstain from watching Professional football. A flipside is that I was involved in taking a kids team to visit City. The players were approachable, friendly etc, and the most affable and simply a pleasure for the kids to be around was the bloke who is maligned as lazy in another thread.
What is a proper football club? The use of the word club indicates that the clubs members [its fans] are an intrinsic part. In this thread you are suggesting the club exists solely due to one hugely wealthy individual.
No, but just look at our accounts over the last 10 years and you will see what I mean. Back in the 70s we were dreaming that one day a wealthy man and fan of the club would come along and help to turn us into a major force. The fact that Landsdown hasn't done that yet is down to mis-management and some rather naive decisions from the boardroom. This time I think they have got it right. His 50 MILLION QUID has kept us afloat - you can't possibly argue that point His God knows how much has given us a decent stadium - how can you possibly argue that His money spent over the last 4 weeks alone on players has given us a realistic chance of promotion - its undeniable I am deeply saddened by this ridiculous series of arguments, and frankly Im not sure I can be bothered with this board any more. There seems to be an underlying negativity which I hadn't seen before. I have supported Bristol City all my life, but the things Im hearing now have led me to question my desire for involvement. Someone even as good as suggested I beat my wife ! So f** THEM I repeat, Lansdown has done far more for this club than anyone on this board who regards success as bad, top flight football as evil and would rather we stayed in the championship. That is not what my dear old dad would have wanted to hear - he was the same as me and wanted Bristol City in lights. So I think its time to move on. I will always keep an eye out for The Reds, but sadly the magic has been stamped out by your own supporters. The RED ALERT bulb has been well and truly turned off
I repeat, Lansdown has done far more for this club than anyone on this board .. Bristol City are a serial failure. If I study the accounts for the last ten years I expect I would see that the operating losses increased six-fold in period of less than ten seasons. The club was relegated. It is not a record of a great Chairman, or owner. Mr Lansdown committing something around 200% of turnover to paying players' wages meant he had to bail out HIS OWN mistakes, not the board, or fans. Meanwhile clubs at that level operated within their means - many achieved much more for substantially less. FIFTY MILLION ... The sheer scale of that is nothing to be proud off or sing praises of for myself. If you check the structure of the club from the FC to Pula, the club do not own the asset of the stadium. Us? No. There may be a bit of synergy here with the opening post and the malaise that is football. I at times am a little embarrassed by the above, and spending my money on following the FC around the Country. I expect City to walk promotion this season, that is a trade off for attending if it is all only about success and winning.
