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RedorDead said:
Here’s a question for you.
SL wants to stop funding the club, would you rather him stop funding this year with £30-35 million buffer.
Or next year when it’s a possibility we’ve no sales, leaving BCFC with debts?
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I think they are different points. If SL wants to not have to dig so deep, as I previously stated that’s his prerogative. He should just come out and say it.

What upsets me though is that’s not what they were saying to the fan base, not until the RB CEO interview. Our CEO then tried to say that had been the plan all along, if it was why had they not made that clear to the fans earlier, if they had there wouldn’t be the uproar there is at present.

They sure as hell didn’t announce it before they sold this season’s season tickets .
 
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Redprintt said:
On balance ? Half full ?

Reduced the bloated squad.
Cut the wage bill by £10million.
Operating on exhaust fumes.

Bloody hell, there's some hard taskmasters on here.

For me he's in massive credit.
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Bit over the top RP!!
Reduced the squad and cutting wage bill is pretty much the same thing, certainly goes hand in hand.
Not sure about exhaust fumes, he has brought in players since he’s been here, not all good..some still on trial imo.. But Danny Simpson was a good one to get off the wage bill!! :emoticon-0103-cool:
The bigger picture for me is the performances on the pitch, with what he’s got and how he gets them playing as a team.
Sounds like a few on here are lining up the excuses if it all goes tits!! :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
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oneforthebristolcity said:
Bit over the top RP!!
Reduced the squad and cutting wage bill is pretty much the same thing, certainly goes hand in hand.
Not sure about exhaust fumes, he has brought in players since he’s been here, not all good..some still on trial imo.. But Danny Simpson was a good one to get off the wage bill!! :emoticon-0103-cool:
The bigger picture for me is the performances on the pitch, with what he’s got and how he gets them playing as a team.
Sounds like a few on here are lining up the excuses if it all goes tits!! :emoticon-0105-wink:
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Not really, just making sure blame is apportioned in the correct place. Some like to take credit, but hide when things go wrong
 
I thought this article might tickle some of you


If I thought things couldn't possibly get much stranger after leaving the madness of Leeds United, I was wrong. One of the final acts of my 20-year professional football career was to grab hold of my manager in the dressing-room at halftime and attempt to fight him. To be fair, my agent at the time warned me that I wouldn't get on with Lee Johnson and tried to warn me against joining Oldham on loan from Bolton Wanderers. But I hadn't played a minute since joining Bolton and the chance was there to go and play some games.

"I'll give it a week before Johnson tells you he was on 10 grand a week at Bristol City," my agent said.

It actually took him two hours.

"Yeah, but wasn't your dad the manager?" I asked Johnson in reply. He didn't like that at all. From the first time we met, I just took a bit of a dislike to him because he really loved himself.

<laugh><laugh><laugh>
 
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AshtonRed said:
now you say you aren’t qualified to make a list, which is it ?
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tweedle dum tweedle dee here you go again!

I dont have a list for managers to be at BCFC or anywhere else to that degree, and certainly dont have a wish list therefore as to who I might like as a manager at BCFC ...

AshtonRed said:
the version of events around the meeting in March differs between members of the management team, Tinnion and NP believed there was a plan A and a plan B, depending on whether Alex was sold or not. No one, neither SL or the CEO ever contradicted that suggesiin? when it was in the public domain before Scott was sold, until our CEO went on RB after the window had closed.

This is Twaddle.......................

The question is whose version of events is correct, and also why are there two differing accounts of the meeting?..... ? 2 differing ac counts? OR.....
You say, the truth is he got the amount of money he was promised . [ are you calling ALEXANDER A FIBBER? Quote ..

How do you know that? , I didn’t realise you were at the meeting. (See above in relation to two different versions of the March meeting)
We are a football club, whilst it’s nice to have a shiny new stadium and training facilities it’s the team that matters to most of us. if there isn’t enough investment in the team we’re likely to have amazing facilities but a League 1 team.
SL is a business man, but knows diddly squat about football. Much of the money he ploughs in to the club is due to bad football decisions made by himself.
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AshtonRed said:
SL is a business man, but knows diddly squat about football.
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.... sorry, forgot you know everything about football but nothing about business, so maybe you should take over the job of CEO/ OWNER & AND SOLE DIRECTOR then we get made bankrupt demoted to 10th tier and sell AG to the Gas ............ and start all over again!

Amazing what makes business tick and how many CEO's have often a dozen or so different trades to their bow / CV ... one day they are head of a major engineering company the next head hunted for head of a bank .. then maybe a year or so later CEO of a clothing company etc etc ... Running a business is not easy, but those at the top do it whatever the product .. SL IS NO DIFFERENT it equates to balancing the books ... your way is spend it spend it spend it .......
 
AshtonRed said:
I thought this article might tickle some of you
If I thought things couldn't possibly get much stranger after leaving the madness of Leeds United, I was wrong. One of the final acts of my 20-year professional football career was to grab hold of my manager in the dressing-room at halftime and attempt to fight him. To be fair, my agent at the time warned me that I wouldn't get on with Lee Johnson and tried to warn me against joining Oldham on loan from Bolton Wanderers. But I hadn't played a minute since joining Bolton and the chance was there to go and play some games.

"I'll give it a week before Johnson tells you he was on 10 grand a week at Bristol City," my agent said.

It actually took him two hours.

"Yeah, but wasn't your dad the manager?" I asked Johnson in reply. He didn't like that at all. From the first time we met, I just took a bit of a dislike to him because he really loved himself.

<laugh><laugh><laugh>
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Now your gonna fire up the luvvies just when they had settled down, the crusade will start again....:emoticon-0107-sweat:emoticon-0130-devil
 
AshtonRed said:
What upsets me though is that’s not what they were saying to the fan base, not until the RB CEO interview. Our CEO then tried to say that had been the plan all along, if it was why had they not made that clear to the fans earlier, if they had there wouldn’t be the uproar there is at present.
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keep stoking the fire!
 
realred1952 said:
tweedle dum tweedle dee here you go again!

I dont have a list for managers to be at BCFC or anywhere else to that degree, and certainly dont have a wish list therefore as to who I might like as a manager at BCFC ...



.... sorry, forgot you know everything about football but nothing about business, so maybe you should take over the job of CEO/ OWNER & AND SOLE DIRECTOR then we get made bankrupt demoted to 10th tier and sell AG to the Gas ............ and start all over again!

Amazing what makes business tick and how many CEO's have often a dozen or so different trades to their bow / CV ... one day they are head of a major engineering company the next head hunted for head of a bank .. then maybe a year or so later CEO of a clothing company etc etc ... Running a business is not easy, but those at the top do it whatever the product .. SL IS NO DIFFERENT it equates to balancing the books ... your way is spend it spend it spend it .......
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Whatever !! As ever attack and belittle when you’ve no answer to points raised, but hey ho

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I’ve no desire to get into a long debate with you, we’ve differing views, that’s fine. Not a bad idea to leave it at that
 
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oneforthebristolcity said:
Bit early in the season for me to start talking about renewing contracts..
Personally I would prefer to wait a few months and see where we’re at.. I think those sort of distractions are not a good idea when he’s still trying to work out his best team selections, tactics and getting the new players to gel.
Certainly by Christmas, if we have no relegation fears and the players are all on board with Nige’s playing methods and are all putting in a shift for him.. Then 100% he should be offered a new contract..
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If the club should get rid of Nige, given the limitations he is clearly working under, then what next ?

We must have a pretty awful reputation in UK football overall as this being a really unhelpful place to work a lot of the time.

Would the Lansdowns pick yet another cheap 'up and coming Manager' who has potential but no experience ?
 
Angelicnumber16 said:
If the club should get rid of Nige, given the limitations he is clearly working under, then what next ?

We must have a pretty awful reputation in UK football overall as this being a really unhelpful place to work a lot of the time.

Would the Lansdowns pick yet another cheap 'up and coming Manager' who has potential but no experience ?
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That's what they have gone for in the past-I was amazed when Nigel Pearson was named manager-SL approached him Nige did not approach SL.
As said after all the hard work and changes we are finally seeing shoots -i just hope the Lansdowne don't through it all away.
 
Angelicnumber16 said:
If the club should get rid of Nige, given the limitations he is clearly working under, then what next ?

We must have a pretty awful reputation in UK football overall as this being a really unhelpful place to work a lot of the time.

Would the Lansdowns pick yet another cheap 'up and coming Manager' who has potential but no experience ?
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Unless SL & co haven't had some sort of fallout with Nige or we have a string of poor results and performances I can't see him going anywhere and I believe he will be offered a new contract.......I think Nige likes the club and the area....I don't really see an issue..
If on the other hand there is an issue with Nige and the suits upstairs, I fear he will go down the cheap option and we end up playing our football back in league 1...... until SL finds a buyer
 
oneforthebristolcity said:
Unless SL & co haven't had some sort of fallout with Nige or we have a string of poor results and performances I can't see him going anywhere and I believe he will be offered a new contract.......I think Nige likes the club and the area....I don't really see an issue..
If on the other hand there is an issue with Nige and the suits upstairs, I fear he will go down the cheap option and we end up playing our football back in league 1...... until SL finds a buyer
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Agreed and providing steady, if not spectacular, progress is made then I seriously think it's as good as it gets with all the lack of communication nonsense that seems to go on between the suits and the Manager.

It's clear Nige likes the area and appears to be well and truly settled in this neck of the woods.

So if he gets relieved of his duties at some point, and unless he's got designs on carrying on in management elsewhere, I can't see him leaving of his own free will just yet.
 
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This was a poll put up yesterday on Bristol City BS3 -shows 577 votes and 87% want him to be Offered a new contract.

Should Stephen Lansdown offer Nigel Pearson a new contract

New Contract should be offered
77%


No new contract should be offered
1%


Added by Dean Davies
see where we are in the league when his contract runs out
7%


Added by Mark Whitehouse
Some money and New Contract
10%


Added by Stephen Sweeten
Let him
1%

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Redprintt said:
On balance ? Half full ?

Reduced the bloated squad.
Cut the wage bill by £10million.
Operating on exhaust fumes.

Bloody hell, there's some hard taskmasters on here.

For me he's in massive credit.
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2 of the 3 did themselves to be honest. He didn't sell anyone that was on high wages he let all their contracts expire. Not sure that's worth the credit many are giving him, especially as he alienated many of them, and we didn't even see them play at the back end of their contracts. We literally paid them for nothing....
The last one I will give him , although it's hardly exhaust fumes, and still a lot more than quite a few clubs in this division.
For me, where he's been let down and is right to be aggrieved is, not being able to reinvest the Alex Scott money.
 
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