The spending must stop now warns Bristol City boss Sean O'Driscoll.. Sean lays down the law... please log in to view this image * At a crossroads and has no choice but to tackle spiralling debts of £41m head on or risk financial oblivion. * Although relegation now appears a certainty. * He is adamant City cannot continue to make the annual eight-figure losses they have sustained over the past three years. * I want to get the message out there. People have to understand this club cannot go on losing £12 million a year. The penny has to drop that we need to build something which is going to be sustainable. * You have an owner (Steve Lansdown) who has bankrolled the football club, yet our wages to turnover ratio is the highest in the league and there are some big clubs in this league. * Our out-goings are 157 per cent more than our in-comings, so you don’t need to be a business genius to work it out. * We have to build for the future and make sure that, in five or six years’ time, people are talking about the good things that have happened over the last few years. * With the wage bill this club has, it should not be at the bottom of the Championship. * That is where it should be, but it is not. Nobody at the football club would prefer to be in League One than the Championship. * If the season had started in January, we would have been about 12th based on our results since then. * At the moment, we are trying to look at the solutions rather than hark back and blame people. A lot of these messages coming out at the moment and you can't disagree with this one, I just want us to get stuck in and get on with the job, once you get used to the idea we are down, flush all of the false dreams out of our systems, the future looks better than our recent history but I still feel as sick as a pig or even a parrrot... Bullet Points....Complete Article's Below.. http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/205455-Top-Payers-Bottom-Players http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/spen...tory-18677661-detail/story.html#axzz2QG9W0ic6
* Our out-goings are 157 per cent more than our in-comings, so you don’t need to be a business genius to work it out. ****ing love this comment, could someone tell me what Lansdown's previous job was
It has boggled my mind when I think about our leader, an apparently astute and successful business leader, sitting in his ivory tower and watching the slow death of his football club. Saying that it doesn't take a business genius to see our predicament makes me wonder if we have anyone on board who counts as a footballing business person - clearly not! Nobody had the savvy to see our future when we got promoted and just sat on their backsides hoping that osmosis might win the day. Bad business decisions, bad managers combined with even worse players has led us to where we are, and although League One is not the ass**** of the Football League you can clearly see it if you dare to look down the hole we've created.
