Doesn't matter if the Redbluedragonbirds beat Bristol City. Its al about standards and would not want Tan or Warnock around Bristol City. Very poor owner with lunatic qualities. Twat of a Manager. The conversations those two will have !!!
I suppose you could also say that it doesn't matter if Cardiff City beat the smockwearingstrawchewingrobins as well - it's all understandable forum-speak. The game is really about the supporters of a club not necessarily who owns or manages it at any particular time. The points about another club's hierachy is pretty meaningless. The game week Friday will be enjoyed by those watching and encounter between two sets of players sent out by their respective managers and not about who is holding the purse strings. Tan has proved his erratic nature time and again this past 6 years but in that same time I've seen a lot of you over here turn on Lansdown when thing weren't quite as good as they appear now - funny old game innit? Best of luck because our "twat of a manager" might just be the very thing our "lunatic" owner requires to turn our season around. No offence at all, but I really hope it starts week Friday.
Warnock is a great panto villain and a good manager at this level. I can't wait to see him ranting and raving about the referee or the bad grass on the pitch. I really hope Cardiff score another 'ghost goal' like there was a few seasons back with palarse!!!
I think somebody just described Mr Tan as erratic. Even the franchise supporting Yanks describe him thus - http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/vincent-tan-cardiff-city-owner
Bit out if date there pal - poor attempt to discredit him with old news. That article you've trawled up is 3 years old and just after he sacked Mackay. Things have changed since then and although he is far from perfect, he's nowhere near as naive about the game as he was then. Really must do better on this thread to gain any credibility in the discussion.
Mr Tans erratic history will always be relevant. Scrutiny is not needed. We all know he us a ****er - Source that forum ran by the reformed hooligan Mr Abrahams. A statement widely agreed with by supporters on that forum days ago. The Tans of this world are a menace to football. I have reservations about Mr Lansdown's Bristol Sport but I have no doubt he is a fit and proper person to run BCFC. Mr Tan in contrast is not fit to run any football club.
That's your opinion on Tan and that's fair enough. I seem to remember that stance some time back from you. Quoting a 3 year old blogger articles to support your argument is sufficient to show you have no fresh ideas and awareness of the present circumstances. To quote AA's forum (a historic and vehement supporter of Hamman) is narrow minded about the situation and not a broad view at all. Things evolve and that should include prejudiced opinions like yours based upon things you would like to believe rather than fact.
Think for the long term good of fire and pash or whatever Tan wants to cal them Tan has to go. Should have enough to stay up no matter who is in charge but the club will never be united with such a divisive loon at the helm. What are the gates? 10k? 15k down now? Clear thumbs down to the owner that.
Cardiff is in the central spot of population in South Wales, just down the road they have Swansea .. ok not doing so well either .. but there is a percentage of people that will go to a football match on a Saturday and Swansea for a lot living north of the M4 is as easy as Cardiff .. so want to watch a game with a team getting poor results? Cardiff v Burton or Swansea v Liverpoool?
I think that's flawed thinking. Cardiff crowds haven't dwindled because there's an alternative game 40 miles down the road. Very few migrate from club to club just to watch a football match somewhere, particularly where Cardiff and Swansea are concerned. Our crowds have sunk to their present level for no other reason than the dour stuff served up under Slade for a season and a half and Trollope more recently. I seem to remember a few seasons back that you sometimes struggled to get into 5 figures at Ashton Gate when you weren't performing. Only now you're currently top 6 are you getting anywhere near your true potential support. If we were top 6 and playing good stuff like you, we'd be easily over 20K per home game and you might just see that figure next Friday.
Hope not - I've got you down for 17 Also I have us down to win it 1-2. It was 0-2, then you brought in the Panto Dame
I've no idea how this one will go Rickster. I only know that the change of manager was a necessity rather than an option. Whether Colin will get a result for us is another matter, but there's a totally different feel about the club's immediate fortunes amongst supporters. I've got a funny feeling the players will sense that as well and respond. If you win it and you really should going by what I've seen so far this season, then so be it. We'll probably be saying something like "it was too ealry to expect a result" or "at least it's work in progress" to justify your victory. On the other hand the "pantomime dame" may get it right first time and send you back across the bridge in a pumpkin (because he couldn't find a big enough turnip )
Gates are collapsing due to project Tan and the fickleness of the fans over there. 89/90 season at the old ninnie s park Bristol City fans outnumbered the home support. Bristol City fans are more loyal and the gates of the club don't go up and down so much. Also made of sterner stuff this side and prepared to stand up for ourselves v bubbles or getting the old EE open. Over totally different play in red Tans money and results up the gates go. Back in blue poor results and now thousands have binned it there.
Thank you Red Alert. We're so pleased you've got such a clear insight into the situation at Cardiff. Researched views from those on the perifery are always refreshing when we at the centre of the issues who live it every day seem to be too close to the wood to see the trees. Nothing beats biased opinions from those with a vested interest in slagging off a rival club - we are indebted to you. I don't profess to know so much about Bristol City's situation save for the fact that a few years back Mr. Lansdown was being pilloried for taking you to League 1 with McInnes and the dreadful O'Driscoll stearing you there. Your owner certainly wasn't flavour of the month at the time and many of your (allegedly non-fickle) supporters were calling for him to piss off out of the club, especially after he holed up in Guernsey and left his son in charge. Hey ho, it's such a shame that there are those who want to talk about the politics surrounding a club than the football itself - but there you go. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy a game of football next Friday at our Stadium. It will no doubt be occupied by some of the most fickle home fans in the game and quite a few dedicated away fans that never display such failings.
So…..You don't judge a man by his bank balance but by his actions, and that is where Lansdown has deservedly won his place at the head of the Ashton Gate hierarchy - by putting his money where his mouth is, by taking actions that were not universally popular but induced tangible advances in the evolution of our club by creating a plan and (with the occasional fluctuation) sticking to it. Whats more, Lansdown has done it the right way, not by cutting people up, making dodgy deals behind closed doors, or relying on money from the far east that has no true affinity with British or European football and is forever likely to vanish as suddenly as it arrived. Fact is, I feel Bristol City have far more in common with Swansea as a club than we have ever had with Cardiff, certainly in the way our club is run these days.
Sorry pal, but you're missing the whole point in my post there Rickster. I'm certainly not judging Lansdown and knocking him at all - I'm leaving the judgement stakes to you lot. I was responding to the judgement of others across there regarding my club, it's owner and moreover the "fickle fan" base that the previous poster seems so obsessed with. Lansdown is probably as good as you'll get in the British game. It was the "fickle fan" base over there that was calling for him to sell up and get out of the club a few years back that I was talking about - not Lansdown himself.
Well don't worry lol Lansdown is well appreciated at this club: he is the accepted figurehead of Bristol City. There are no negative vibes here !
Not now anyway when you're in the top 6 of the Championship. Short memories methinks? Anyway, anyone want to talk about the game of football for a change? Maybe we should attempt that on another thread rather than this one which has become tainted by posters wanting to have a go at owners and fans to score Brownie points eh?
Yes there were some fans that wanted Lansdown out, but unfortunately the majority was only a few who posted on here, so possibly made the overall majority look higher if this is the only city (Bristol) forum you read. We didn't lose the fans like some thought we would whilst in division one think we averaged 11-12k first year and then 15k the second, second with restricted ground capacity, can't remember it falling below 10k apart from JPT games and league cup. Me personally watching O'Drismal was losing the will to go but stuck with it in the hope it turned out ok which it did. Working mainly in Cardiff I suppose it's the same with Slade the football on show was ****e. Not confident about next Friday, the only thing is whilst walking away from AG last season with a section of Cardiff fans they were all saying we was far better than the score line suggested and that they felt lucky to get something out the game let alone win it. So prompts me to think that we had our run of results against you and now it's your turn still to upset us. Now to make matters worse our favourite nemesis Colin ****er has taken control of you lot. I'm in Cardiff for the concrete society meal so can't make the game but will try and catch some of it on TV but with a free bar I don't suppose I will remember it.
