As written on a different forum.....
I just hope that, Steve did not use (this club) us as his expensive toy and has got fed up..
If he still has the passion for BCFC, he will come back and sort this mess out before it's too late.
He was the best thing to happen to this club 9 years ago, giving us hope with top flight football and a brand new stadium...
It seems that what he's left behind at the board are saying nothing and doing nothing..
How I see it is that we are 2nd from bottom, a manager who is plainly not good enough, gates dwindling, fans unhappy and a sure threat of a club looking relegation in the eye.
It wouldn't be so bad if we played entertaining football with a glint of hope that the manager could turn it around..
Maybe Millen will get a couple of results to ease things.....BUT there will be NO progress for this club if he remains in charge.
For the future and for us to progress I believe we need Steve to invest again to make sure we stay in this division, he needs to come back on the board, at least until we get the new stadium up and running.
He did say that by having a new stadium, it would bring in new investment to the club..
BUT this won't happen if we go down..
For the fans of Bristol City Do the right thing Steve....sort it out.
Time to sort it Steve
posted on 19/9/11
Leeds fan in peace .. I was at the game ( a rare occurrence seeing as I live in Truro now), and boy were your lot unlucky to come away with nothing! I thought your forward line looked quick, sharp and well organised. I reckon you've got a good manager there and that you'll have no relegation fears come April. All the best for the rest of the season ( reverse fixture excepted, of course ) .
posted on 19/9/11
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14966287.stm
Steve,sort it out.....
posted on 19/9/11
Still can't understand why you clung on to Maynard, despite being offered £6m well before the deadline.
You could have invested in 3 or 4 players to freshen things up but all we heard was that your Chairman is so mega-rich you didn't need our cash. Funnily enough, we hear the same tales about Forest's owner who has a similar approach to transfers.
Apologies if this seems to be rubbing salt into deepening wounds but I think either the Chairman or the player let you down there.
posted on 19/9/11
Good,nice club Leicester City........
posted on 20/9/11
I have to say, I wouldn't be surprised if SL has got fed up. This tiresome situation with the TVG wont go away and the fact that City fans are too quick to criticise when the slightest thing goes wrong must have really irked him. I fear, as I said at the time, people need to be supportive or be careful what they wished for. Sadly, this culture of blame that exists at AG may be its undoing and, I suspect, always has done.
You know you have inherent problems at a club when people start to wax lyrical about the good old days of yore, in division 3. As such, you get the feeling that some would prefer to be a big fish in a small pond than to fight and battle their way out of deeper waters.
posted on 20/9/11
The worst thing to happen to this club was making it to the championship playoff final, had we won who knows..... but we lost and the success that season meant the fans who jumped on the bandwagon now expect too much. 15th last season was pretty much bang on, if anything we over-achieved, people lose sight of how competitive this league is and how many good teams with alot of great history behind them. With a bit of luck we can do something similar this season, because if we are not in this league next season we can kiss goodbye to the stadium.
posted on 20/9/11
Agree on most of this. SL was disillusioned by the fans' response to GJ's decline, and the part they played in it.
Also he has been amazed by the idiots who have made it so difficult to sanction the stadium project, and the backwards thinking which has made Bristol a joke in the football world and stopped the club from evolving since the war. It was probably less of a surprise to some of us.
But a football club is for life, not just for Xmas. I reckon Mr Lansdown is made of sterner stuff, which is good because he may need to contribute an opinion on the management position soon if Millen doesn't pull his socks up
PS
My own retro thinking is reserved for a time when Bristol City competed with the best in the land. Now THAT was something to be proud of...