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25 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

He doesn’t. Jon continues, assisted by Brian

Jon stated this week they were looking for investment so I guess we will see if that ever comes. 

Looking for investment while being stupidly rich themselves , translates as “we don’t want to put our own money into this anymore”

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22 minutes ago, Glen hump said:

He needs to lower the asking price and move on.

Yes I’m sure that would help. I have been advised by a good source it was high, but have no first hand knowledge. Besides the club keeps Jon gainfully employed, so I wouldn’t hold my breathe. 

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1 minute ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

Looking for investment while being stupidly rich themselves , translates as “we don’t want to put our own money into this anymore”

I agree. The club need to be sustainable is their way of putting in it! 
 

BUT the bringing in of Manning and firing the guy that was actually keeping us sustainable is a rod to beat with them with! However we need to remain within FFP. Hiring Johnson has had a massive knock on effect and only one person is responsible for that as we/he knows!

 

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13 minutes ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

Looking for investment while being stupidly rich themselves , translates as “we don’t want to put our own money into this anymore”

Who in their right mind would pour millions into the club to be a junior partner to Lansdown ?

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7 minutes ago, Natchfever said:

Who in their right mind would pour millions into the club to be a junior partner to Lansdown ?

They wouldn’t would they, let’s be honest it’s not like lansdowns don’t have the money to waste, it’s quite literally play money to them 

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1 minute ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

They wouldn’t would they, let’s be honest it’s not like lansdowns don’t have the money to waste, it’s quite literally play money to them 

Agreed.

Lost interest but massive egos wont let them sell up and lose the odd tens of millions 😁

Irony being, if Lansdown senior ran it like a business not a plaything hed get everything back and more imo.

Makes me think hes the Andrew Ridgely of the relationship with Mr Hargreaves.

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Just now, Peter1450 said:

Does anyone wonder if Steve sits in Guernsey watching this nonsense he’s presiding over thinking what a great job he’s done.

I don’t for one minute think he has any shame. Or his lickspittle Gavin Marshall. 

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4 minutes ago, Cidre Monita said:

I don’t for one minute think he has any shame. Or his lickspittle Gavin Marshall. 

Gavin Marshall - a total leach stealing a living at Ashton Gate. Odious man.

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It's embarrassing now. I feel for the players, but there should have been more investment in the squad. We also need a more experienced coach. I can imagine the same would happen if the men's team was promoted. SL wouldn't invest and we'd be straight back down again. 

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2 minutes ago, Pippintogg said:

It's embarrassing now. I feel for the players, but there should have been more investment in the squad. We also need a more experienced coach. I can imagine the same would happen if the men's team was promoted. SL wouldn't invest and we'd be straight back down again. 

Interesting thing though, feel for the team getting battered but if there was investment none of them I guess would be anywhere near playing?

Chance to play at the highest level and put themselves in the shop window so not all bad for the players maybe.

 

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2 minutes ago, Natchfever said:

Interesting thing though, feel for the team getting battered but if there was investment none of them I guess would be anywhere near playing?

Chance to play at the highest level and put themselves in the shop window so not all bad for the players maybe.

 

Can’t imagine much window shopping on that performance 

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46 minutes ago, Pippintogg said:

It's embarrassing now. I feel for the players, but there should have been more investment in the squad. We also need a more experienced coach. I can imagine the same would happen if the men's team was promoted. SL wouldn't invest and we'd be straight back down again. 

What would happen to the men's team would be that the Sale & Purchase agreement would be inked well before our promotion celebrations were complete.

Unless of course SL got greedy and wanted more than his investment back.

Ah ... okay, we'd be straight back down.

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I hope who ever is in charge of funding organising and basically the background of the women’s team are proud of themselves - that team has been hung out to dry this season absolutely shameful , 

really makes you wonder what would happen if ( massive if ) we ever got to the prem 

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48 minutes ago, Peter1450 said:

Can’t imagine much window shopping on that performance 

I've not seen much evidence of any of the team giving performances that would attract interest from the WPL clubs. They have the resources to pick from anywhere in the world. Sadly we're just a Championship club at best...just like the men's team. 😔 

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52 minutes ago, BCFC1512 said:

Embarrassing, did they even try this season….

The players did, squad just not good enough. They were under no illusions right from the start of the season with Lauren saying 'we're just little old Bristol City'. 

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59 minutes ago, BCFC1512 said:

Embarrassing, did they even try this season….

Harsh if you're referring to the players

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Finger of blame should be directed at the Lansdowns. Womens team have brought in teriffic levels of support & revenue on non men's 1st team match days. All could be lost now.

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Some of those goals were a disgrace. But then it’s fair to say the effort matched those of the hierarchy in trying to be competitive, so ultimately the club has got what it deserved.  
 

Ultimately a massive opportunity wasted to at least try and cement a place at the top table in a growing market. 
 

I do wonder if the losses of playing at AG in the Championship will outstrip what it would have cost to bring in a couple of players. 

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That ‘performance’ was a fitting tribute for the last use of those ‘orrible yellow shirts which, hopefully, will now be consigned to history. A more shambolic effort would have been hard to envisage. The City team appeared to have reverted back to the bad old days of women’s football where players seemed to have the skill sets, mental and physical strengths equivalent to an 8 year old boys side. 

I hope that I’m wrong, but I’m fearing the return of the ‘comfy club’ culture in both the women’s and men’s side of football. It was an embarrassing weekend for both with inept, limp-waisted performances. 

Steve Lansdown needs to be true to his word and stop us being a national ‘joke’ as regards to the City’s sporting offer. He needs to get a strong, forceful, mature and football-experienced CEO in urgently to stop the rot in this football club. Change the ‘that’ll do’, jobs for the boys, soft Bristolian culture to a hard-edged, win-at-all-costs one. 

 

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4 hours ago, RedRock said:

That ‘performance’ was a fitting tribute for the last use of those ‘orrible yellow shirts which, hopefully, will now be consigned to history. A more shambolic effort would have been hard to envisage. The City team appeared to have reverted back to the bad old days of women’s football where players seemed to have the skill sets, mental and physical strengths equivalent to an 8 year old boys side. 

I hope that I’m wrong, but I’m fearing the return of the ‘comfy club’ culture in both the women’s and men’s side of football. It was an embarrassing weekend for both with inept, limp-waisted performances. 

Steve Lansdown needs to be true to his word and stop us being a national ‘joke’ as regards to the City’s sporting offer. He needs to get a strong, forceful, mature and football-experienced CEO in urgently to stop the rot in this football club. Change the ‘that’ll do’, jobs for the boys, soft Bristolian culture to a hard-edged, win-at-all-costs one. 

 

I do chuckle at they dozy Gasheads on social media sites taking the piss out of our womens team that got dicked by Chelasea and relegated whereas their girls are many league tables below ours and there has been occasions when City ladies have had bigger attendances than their mens first team!!!!

Like it or not Rovers fans:

 

MTG 🤣

 

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7 minutes ago, Dolman Block B said:

I do chuckle at they dozy Gasheads on social media sites taking the piss out of our womens team that got dicked by Chelasea and relegated whereas their girls are many league tables below ours and there has been occasions when City ladies have had bigger attendances than their mens first team!!!!

Like it or not Rovers fans:

 

MTG 🤣

 

In fairness, they have turned over Frampton Rangers home and away, so knocking on the door of Champion’s League glory…

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Tin hat on, but i think this "team" is an embarrassment to the good name of Bristol City. What's the point of them if they're not going to get the backing that they so obviously would have needed ?  Can't we change the name back to whatever it was before ?

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18 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Tin hat on, but i think this "team" is an embarrassment to the good name of Bristol City. What's the point of them if they're not going to get the backing that they so obviously would have needed ?  Can't we change the name back to whatever it was before ?

Yeah fair play, it’s an absolute disgrace they’ve failed to achieve the unrelenting success that has so often been synonymous with the men’s team.

A Bristol City team getting relegated? There will be shockwaves being felt all around the world of football at that.

Stuff the thousands of people that have watched them at Ashton Gate this season at a time when the women’s game is growing exponentially, change their name and send them back to Stoke Gifford. We can’t have the decades of success that Bristol City have been associated with tarnished.

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2 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

Yeah fair play, it’s an absolute disgrace they’ve failed to achieve the unrelenting success that has so often been synonymous with the men’s team.

A Bristol City team getting relegated? There will be shockwaves being felt all around the world of football at that.

Stuff the thousands of people that have watched them at Ashton Gate this season at a time when the women’s game is growing exponentially, change their name and send them back to Stoke Gifford. We can’t have the decades of success that Bristol City have been associated with tarnished.

No effort was made by the club to give the team a chance of staying up.

I think next season will see a very tough championship and after such a torrid season I think the side will need to start well and build confidence.

They will be seen as a scalp to take by others so they will have to be mentally and physically up for the battle.

I’m not convinced I’ve seen enough from the manager to suggest she is the right fit but I think you have to give her the chance to get the team going again.

Interested to see the attendances next season, bound to be some drop off due to relegation but how big a drop off will be interesting.

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1 minute ago, Back of the Dolman said:

No effort was made by the club to give the team a chance of staying up.

Yeah I completely agree. After all the efforts to get promoted in the first place, the momentum that seemed to generate and the rapid rate the sport is growing you’d have thought there would have been a real effort to stay up and capitalise on the ever growing interest in women’s football, and the WSL in particular. But no.

Just another weird move by what is ever increasingly a very weird football club.

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3 hours ago, bearded_red said:

Yeah fair play, it’s an absolute disgrace they’ve failed to achieve the unrelenting success that has so often been synonymous with the men’s team.

A Bristol City team getting relegated? There will be shockwaves being felt all around the world of football at that.

Stuff the thousands of people that have watched them at Ashton Gate this season at a time when the women’s game is growing exponentially, change their name and send them back to Stoke Gifford. We can’t have the decades of success that Bristol City have been associated with tarnished.

Oh shut T F up . I just don't care about wimmins football.what I DO care about is the only time our name gets splashed across the nationals and the beeb etc is when it's another humiliating thrashing for this bunch of gimps masquerading as Bristol City !

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3 hours ago, bearded_red said:

Yeah I completely agree. After all the efforts to get promoted in the first place, the momentum that seemed to generate and the rapid rate the sport is growing you’d have thought there would have been a real effort to stay up and capitalise on the ever growing interest in women’s football, and the WSL in particular. But no.

Just another weird move by what is ever increasingly a very weird football club.

Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever’ why bother if you’re not going to do things properly’ just smacks of us being run on the cheap.

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38 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Oh shut T F up . I just don't care about wimmins football.what I DO care about is the only time our name gets splashed across the nationals and the beeb etc is when it's another humiliating thrashing for this bunch of gimps masquerading as Bristol City !

Don’t click this thread then. It’s really easy.

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20 hours ago, LocoPal said:

Finger of blame should be directed at the Lansdowns. Womens team have brought in teriffic levels of support & revenue on non men's 1st team match days. All could be lost now.

Yet we've lost over £1m this season? 

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1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

Oh shut T F up . I just don't care about wimmins football.what I DO care about is the only time our name gets splashed across the nationals and the beeb etc is when it's another humiliating thrashing for this bunch of gimps masquerading as Bristol City !

There is no such thing as bad publicity!

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Catching up on this thread now, as I didn't feel checking it (or online in general) right after the game

After Man City losing to Arsenal earlier on Sunday, Chelsea had to do what they did to reduce the goal difference to give them a slim chance of winning the WSL title.

Although I left after the 7th (to go back & sit on the supporters coach)

Chelsea outplayed City on Sunday, simple as. Some good chances from City, and good that it was only 2-0 at half time.

Sunday was my 11th & final WSL away day of the season. Glad I've done Kingsmeadow (and other grounds). No real rush to go again soon...

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19 minutes ago, shahanshahan said:

Catching up on this thread now, as I didn't feel checking it (or online in general) right after the game

After Man City losing to Arsenal earlier on Sunday, Chelsea had to do what they did to reduce the goal difference to give them a slim chance of winning the WSL title.

Although I left after the 7th (to go back & sit on the supporters coach)

Chelsea outplayed City on Sunday, simple as. Some good chances from City, and good that it was only 2-0 at half time.

Sunday was my 11th & final WSL away day of the season. Glad I've done Kingsmeadow (and other grounds). No real rush to go again soon...

Top marks. I did all men's games around 93. End conclusion, you'll really appreciate summer.

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On 06/05/2024 at 14:36, Back of the Dolman said:

No effort was made by the club to give the team a chance of staying up.

I think next season will see a very tough championship and after such a torrid season I think the side will need to start well and build confidence.

They will be seen as a scalp to take by others so they will have to be mentally and physically up for the battle.

I’m not convinced I’ve seen enough from the manager to suggest she is the right fit but I think you have to give her the chance to get the team going again.

Interested to see the attendances next season, bound to be some drop off due to relegation but how big a drop off will be interesting.

I read somewhere that the London Lionesses have just been bought by a massively wealthy owner who was going to throw money at them. A wealthy owner - just like us then! Oh wait…….

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5 hours ago, Cidre Monita said:

I read somewhere that the London Lionesses have just been bought by a massively wealthy owner who was going to throw money at them. A wealthy owner - just like us then! Oh wait…….

The difference being there's is someone who already has a huge interest in women's football and has only bought a small football club that used to be part of Millwall rather than Bristol Sport.

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6 hours ago, Cidre Monita said:

I read somewhere that the London Lionesses have just been bought by a massively wealthy owner who was going to throw money at them. A wealthy owner - just like us then! Oh wait…….

Yep, Michele Kang acquired them back in December

https://www.londoncitylionesses.com/post/michele-kang-acquires-london-city-lionesses-football-club

Although this season LCL have fallen down the table in the Championship & barely made survival, but that was mostly due to their pre-season 

She's also the majority owner of Washington Spirit in the NWSL in the US, and majority owner of multi-time Champions League winners Lyon

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Hello,

We at BCFM radio are delighted to announce a new show dedicated to Bristol City Women's team which will run throughout the season next year.

The show will feature interviews along with fan conversations and we would love to hear from you if you would like to be involved. 
We're looking for passionate and knowledgable supporters who are confident in speaking on the radio to contribute opinions, insight and match reports.

BCFM is a community radio station here in Bristol. If you are interested in contributing, please send us a DM here on OTIB.

Anyone fancy a home win against Everton?

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20 hours ago, shahanshahan said:

Yep, Michele Kang acquired them back in December

https://www.londoncitylionesses.com/post/michele-kang-acquires-london-city-lionesses-football-club

Although this season LCL have fallen down the table in the Championship & barely made survival, but that was mostly due to their pre-season 

She's also the majority owner of Washington Spirit in the NWSL in the US, and majority owner of multi-time Champions League winners Lyon

Lucky her !

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https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-women-news/city-women-end-of-season-awards/

The women's end of season awards will be presented after the conclusion of the Everton match this Saturday.

This includes the Champagne Moment, which has been shortened down to two:
Rachel Furness' equalising header at home against Arsenal
Brooke Aspin's winner at West Ham away
Voting closes Friday 10am
https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/vote-for-your-champagne-moment/

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39 minutes ago, phantom said:

The departures have started.... 

Rachel Furness confirmed as leaving after tomorrow 

Was first tweeted by Emma Sanders at BBC Sport this morning, but the club have confirmed it now 

She's out of contract at the end of the season. Don't know if she was offered a new one or not. Lauren Smith did say previously that she'd like to keep as much of her squad as possible.

Had she not had her lengthy injury this season, this season may have ended up a little bit different.

Furney will be missed!

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13 minutes ago, shahanshahan said:

Was first tweeted by Emma Sanders at BBC Sport this morning, but the club have confirmed it now 

She's out of contract at the end of the season. Don't know if she was offered a new one or not. Lauren Smith did say previously that she'd like to keep as much of her squad as possible.

Had she not had her lengthy injury this season, this season may have ended up a little bit different.

Furney will be missed!

She'll be back to the North East 

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5 hours ago, phantom said:

The departures have started.... 

Rachel Furness confirmed as leaving after tomorrow 

We will await the rest of the announcements, doubtless.

Furney is now 35 and I suspect home is calling - possibly on the coaching side, as she is certainly capable of entering that side of the game. One of the few signings made this season who had any real impact, and will leave some void to fill.

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7 minutes ago, Erithacus said:

We will await the rest of the announcements, doubtless.

Furney is now 35 and I suspect home is calling - possibly on the coaching side, as she is certainly capable of entering that side of the game. One of the few signings made this season who had any real impact, and will leave some void to fill.

I don't suppose they will miss the other departures,hardly covered themselves in glory , did they ?

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On 14/05/2024 at 18:51, shahanshahan said:

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-women-news/city-women-end-of-season-awards/

The women's end of season awards will be presented after the conclusion of the Everton match this Saturday.

This includes the Champagne Moment, which has been shortened down to two:
Rachel Furness' equalising header at home against Arsenal
Brooke Aspin's winner at West Ham away
Voting closes Friday 10am
https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/vote-for-your-champagne-moment/

Awards ? WTF !

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8 hours ago, Erithacus said:

We will await the rest of the announcements, doubtless.

Furney is now 35 and I suspect home is calling - possibly on the coaching side, as she is certainly capable of entering that side of the game. One of the few signings made this season who had any real impact, and will leave some void to fill.

Furney joined in January of last season along with Grace Clinton. Both played important roles in the push for promotion.

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Even though it took place on Wednesday, the club have finally released the press conference. Not much to report on, but Lauren Smith confirmed that Layzell will be unavailable again for today's squad, and that the team will report back for pre-season training on July 1st

 

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Hayles returns to start. Aspin starts in her final game of her loan spell.
Bull & Powell drop to the bench.

Furness is on the bench for her last game in a City shirt

KO 3pm, live on FA Player & BBC Radio Bristol (FM only, not DAB)

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30 minutes ago, Pippintogg said:

...spoke to soon..make it 2. Terrible defending. 

And that's the half time score.

It would have been no effort for me to attend this game (250 loyalty points for two tickets, live 2 minutes away from ground), but I'm so glad I didn't.

Fair play to the fans that have turned up week in week out throughout the season.

Hope The Championship is better next season.

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On 14/05/2024 at 18:51, shahanshahan said:

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-women-news/city-women-end-of-season-awards/

The women's end of season awards will be presented after the conclusion of the Everton match this Saturday.

This includes the Champagne Moment, which has been shortened down to two:
Rachel Furness' equalising header at home against Arsenal
Brooke Aspin's winner at West Ham away
Voting closes Friday 10am
https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/vote-for-your-champagne-moment/

Awards after getting utterly humbled. Embarrassing  

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Just the 0-4 defeat at hope to Everton today finishing on 6 points and minus 50 GD. Take a bow Messrs Marshall and Lansdown. Truly outstanding. 
Watched the Man C game on TV earlier and had the indignity of our ladies being mentioned in their capitulation to Chelsea last week. We lost 0-8 to a misfiring team therefore handing Chelsea ladies the title on GD. 

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2 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

And that's the half time score.

It would have been no effort for me to attend this game (250 loyalty points for two tickets, live 2 minutes away from ground), but I'm so glad I didn't.

Fair play to the fans that have turned up week in week out throughout the season.

Hope The Championship is better next season.

I can't see it being different next season. I've said it before, there's such a gulf between the 2 leagues, just like the men's game. Without money you can't compete and we know the Lansdowns won't do that. Also Smith has been woeful tactically this season. I'd recruit a new coach and greater experience in the squad. They could struggle and be mid table.

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