If Lansdown leaves this club, we will be at the same level as the gas within 3 years. Except that our ground will hold 27000 Except of course that we don't actually own a ground I personally would like to know why the funds were not made available back in May, when Cotts asked for them. Also, who was responsible for not sanctioning what Cotteril was requesting back then. It has all but ruined the club.
I don't blame SL - I blame the people who run the club on a day to day basis - what has Bristol Sport done for Bristol City FC????
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Steve Lansdown and his money did exist before Bristol Sport you know So I repeat my question what has the entity of Bristol Sport done for Bristol City FC?
Um, how about that as owner it's his responsibility alone for starters ? Simple Dilute the football club to the current horrendous mess they've made of it YET AGAIN Imbeciles
That's such a terrible argument. If ANYTHING goes wrong with the club is it always the responsibility of the owner? Of course not. If Freeman has a bad game is that Lansdown's fault, because he's the owner?
The point I was trying to make is that Lansdown is holistically responsible for everything as club owner, although he obviously has equally talented minnions to do some of the dirty work equally badly. I didn't like the bloke before, but with what's happened in the last 24 hours, which you have to assume he's been part of, and party to, then the whole outfit under HIS command is a bad joke from start to finish, be that Bristol Sport, or Bristol City FC. Any player or prospective manager who gets wind of what the club is really like would do well to avoid us like the plague. Perhaps that's why no players came here....our reputation may go before us a bunch of numpties who couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
What are we really like? Equally I'm really disgusted at the way Cotts has been sacked but aside from that, what negatives? What makes this bloke so horrible? Is it the fact he's investing a fortune into us? The fact that he tried getting us an entire brand new stadium and was only stopped by factors outside of his control? I just don't get it.
I can't speak for Angelic - but I don't personally HATE Steve Lansdown - I am grateful for his investment to-date, but we have to question why, despite all his investment, we still can't pull clear of the trapdoor that leads to League 1. Surely we should be knocking on the door of the Prem by now? I have posted before that I don't give a flying fk about the new stadium - that to me is akin to building and kitting out a big new shiny office, when you haven't got your core business established yet. If he applied the same priorities and principles to his investment business then he would be bankrupt rather than a millionaire. SL is certainly NOT stupid, he is a very shrewd businessman, so I have to assume that there is some plan afoot and we (Bristol City FC) are not his priority - otherwise he would not have let things get this bad. If one of his investment enterprises began to struggle in the financial 'league' then you can bet he would be all over it and wouldn't rest until it was sorted.
So essentially it's just down to results? Well the issue here is that it's football; everybody is trying to do the same and money doesn't necessarily buy success. After trying to buy success following the GJ era I honestly can't name many (if any) mistakes he's made on the financial front since.
The man at the very top has to man up and carry the can. Sepp Blatter springs to mind. I repeat; I don't hate SL - far from it - but the reason we are where we are has to be, either directly or indirectly the responsibility of the man at the top. After all, he makes the appointments - or at least approves them. I don't want him to take his money and do a runner - of course not - but I am puzzled as to why we are STILL hovering between Div 2 and Div 3 after all the money that has been so-say available. If he is a genuine 'fan' like we are he should be absolutely fuming.
I find him smug and self satisfied like others on here do and I always have. And for the millions spent, revamped AG aside, what do we actually have to show for it ? A tiny squad, not able to compete at this level and that's heading for the drop back to where we came from. A growing list of players who don't want to come here. What have they heard ? The Manager who gave us a glimmer of hope sacked by telephone after a day spent giving media interviews - I mean really ? Bad appointments at senior levels for years, a succession of managers coming and going, one of which was possibly chased into submission by the owner himself who then may have made questionable signings behind people's backs. The ever changing plans from the 5 Pillars nonsense to giving mixed messages about wage structures, being in the EPL in 5 years, and why players turn us down creates a vision of someone who doesn't know what they are doing, and who is too proud to ask what's going wrong. It's his money and he can do what he likes with it. I just don't think it's been wisely spent, and some of the things that have happened are frankly farcical and make him look like a fool. If it wasn't so blindingly obvious that collectively we don't have a clue how to conduct ourselves in a professional manner and appoint people that can actually do the job, it would actually be funny. But no-one is laughing. All this rests with Lansdown ultimately.
Agreed the buck stops with SL but have none of you heard the expression, he who pays the piper calls the tune. SL has a vested interest in running a successful club and has developed a strategy which he backs with his money. So its his fault so what do you expect to happen? He will do what he wants to do until he realises that he has had enough of the expense and ingratitude. The bottom line is that someone has got to be demoted and money does not always buy success. We pay £30 a match he probably pays £50k. The knockers wanted Cotts gone. That's happened and he will be replaced. You wont find another Lansdown.
