LJ was not my god, nor was he the demon many on here painted him to be. If he had performed as poorly as NP he too would have been fired. People forget, NP was hired as an experienced manager who was deemed to be able to operate on a shoestring budget, that’s the reason he was hired Yes, he has shifted a lot of the old high earners (who also brought higher league positions), and stabilised the club financially, but our league positions, and more worryingly our performances have been erratic and showed no real upward trajectory. I think the latter has gotten him the sack tbh. I’ve said before, a lot of clubs chairmen would have sacked him last season, many went for less, but SL stuck by him, so we have to assume he has not met the targets he was set.
Often I crossed the bridge to see first division football in the 70’s as there was no chance of seeing it at Ninian. I can recall the names Shaw Sweeney Rogers Collier Whitehead Tainton Merrick Gow Garland Ritchie Cormack Hunter Cooper etc… Then it went pear shaped and from the East End came the chants of “Dicks Out” - not literally
Your besotted with LJ. Sorry but what was Pearsons target? Lot of waffle there but you didnt say what it was. Promotion?mid table? what? you dont know.
I'm amazed, you really think your views are in the majority, you must be looking through your rose tinted in the mirror again, LJ and his crew nearly bankrupted us and Nige masteredminded our recovery both on and off the pitch, it's madness to have sacked him before his contract had ended but thats life, this chapter is now completed
But he hasn’t, on the pitch we have been bang average at best, and we’re almost 3 years into his regime. The selling point to SL for NP was his experience in getting the best out of players, and doing it on the relative cheap. Open your eyes, that has not happened at City. As for the finances, I have given him credit for that many times, although he didn’t do anything other than let their contracts run out, that’s fact. He fell out with players, HNM and Kalas in particular, and has openly criticised his boss, even if he was right in what he said, it puts a target on your back, and when results, and in particular performances are average at best , you can only expect one outcome.
Could you explain this? If the covid pandemic had not occurred would BCFC still have had to proceed with steep cost cutting to comply with FFP?
Hard to say, we weren’t cutting costs to comply with FFP before COVID hit from my memory. Again, from memory, our net spend was positive pre-COVID. The loss of revenue, combined with still paying wages is was hit all clubs outside the PL really hard, including City.
wow as posted on the Nigel barbed thread thought this week was the likely time frame for any action against NP ... SAD REALLY JUST GETTING to appreciate the bloke .. If GR gets the job ...what a stitch was plannned
The answer is yes. The steep cost cutting was inevitable. The club made a profit for one season, the following season the loss was going to be inevitably tens of millions, a loss that could not be repeated over seasons as it would breach FFP boundaries.
I think sacking Nige is madness, the massive debt the club had, the £38.4 and other problems were not of Nige making but what he inherited from previous times, he dealt, overcame and put us on a sound footing, financial restrictions were imposed by the Lansdowns and controlled spend was the policy, family silver to the total of £35m was recieved and withheld, 2 senior suits left Gould and Alexander no explanation, Nige was the frontman taking all the hits, objected, told the facts and the Landsdowns reacted,
In the end, yes, but ONLY because COVID caused the transfer market outside the PL to collapse, coupled with no income and a high wage bill. This strategy was working g pre-COVID, and was sanctioned by SL who has to shoulder the blame, not just you’re 2 whipping boys.
