My mate at Loftus road says they can't believe how good a player Luke Freeman looks. Me thinks he got out just in time
After we got promoted, I thought Freeman looked out of his depth at this level. But just maybe we just brought his skill and enthusiasm levels down instead, like we seem to do with a lot of players that that come to BS3.
Look at the evidence Bolassie Adomah Heaton Rose etc etc All looked tepid in Bristol but shone for their new side
Some good names on that list and how much did their new managers and coaches play a part in their rise up the improvement table? Perhaps, just perhaps, if Bristol City were regarded as a well run and well managed football club supported by an understanding and supportive owner some may have stayed and thrived. Unfortunately things are not that rosy at Ashton Gate so decent players and managers run for the hills at the mere mention of our name. I wonder what the reason behind those sad facts is?
Its a game of two halves In one half you have the millions spent on an impressive stadium, training facility, playing squad and continued existence of a club which lives well beyond its means. In the other half you have a misdirected oligarch who manages the club like its his personal bathtime rubber duck. Rather puts me in mind of the spoilt kid from Toystory who ravages his toys because he can, and knows mummy will buy him new ones when none of his present ones have heads any more. Maybe a slight exaggeration perhaps, but i deeply disagree with treating a footy club as if its a corporate concern, it is not, and we DONT sell insurance because we are a football club. So behave like one. Having glorified office boys in the team photo for instance is not going to generate respect throughout the football world, and talking up the Sports Company because he took a tour of Barcelona once and they had a netball team doesn't mean sh_it to me. I would like to see football people (proper ones) running a FOOTBALL CLUB, a men's football club. And I would like to see them running it like professionals. But this game of two halves means we lose the amateur playboy we also lose the financial safety net that wasn't there in 1982 when the bottom fell out of our world. We leave ourselves open to the potential of disaster. So our game of two halves is a rock and a hard place. Lansdown is a frustrating git, and when he promises Premiership football I think he does actually believe it. Sadly he knows not of what he speaks, and now we know all too well the limits of his sphere of reality. Bristol City has never needed more patience than it does right now, but at least we are not on the banks of the river, waiting to be swept off downstream. Yet !
Many very true points in there brightred and one of my main complaints about most everything today is that we have this insistence of making it more difficult than it actually needs to be. Corporate waffle and mission statements are all very well and good but for goodness say what you do and do what you say. Bristol City appear to have lost the will to actually go out and complete the job in hand and until Steve Lansdown wakes up and realises that it is lot easier if you hire a manager who knows what they are doing we stand no chance of achieving anything. Patience is a virtue that many are starting to lose whereas I lost it many years ago.
why did he not want to sign? anyway I always rated him and Ayling, to a degree also rate Little and Vyner well for one so young I thought he was a good option although he had 1 game a howler and got dropped! That's how you learn things
he was just a loan player that needed more time Mathews he is a loan player ....a bit of a waste of time !
