Sky Sports Article

[Olé]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12996039/nigel-pearson-sacked-by-bristol-city-results-far-from-only-issue-behind-veteran-bosses-departure

Absolutely sensational stuff for the owner and boy wonder who have spent so much of their time to trying to manage our media positioning, now getting their arses handed to them by the national media.

[Harry R]

No byline, which is interesting. Reads like James Piercy.

[Kid in the Riot]

Take a bow @Ron W

[ChippenhamRed]

You beat me to it. Was about to share. That’s an exceptional article that shows a rare in-depth and nuanced understanding of our club from a national media outlet.

[lenred]

4 minutes ago, Olé said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12996039/nigel-pearson-sacked-by-bristol-city-results-far-from-only-issue-behind-veteran-bosses-departure

Absolutely sensational stuff for the owner and boy wonder who have spent so much of their time to trying to manage our media positioning, now getting their arses handed to them by the national media.

Superb article.  Did you write it Rob?

[Northern Red]

Great stuff, as good as anything I've read on the club in a long time.

[cidercity1987]

Bristol City have always been well represented with supporters in the media

We need these people to come to the fore and continue sticking it on Lansdown

[CodeRed]

Certainly well written and on point

 

"Pearson's tenure becomes the latest chapter in a confusing saga of a club perpetually searching for its identity. They have sought out rough diamonds. They have been the big spenders. They have utilised the academy. What now?"

 

A club perpetually searching for its identity 

spot on

[fisherrich]

Now that is a well written, honest article declaring the bare facts about how the Lansdownes have completely screwed up this football club. Thanks for posting.

[GrahamC]

@Ron W Brilliant article, completely on the money.

Chapeau.

[Curr Avon]

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

@Ron W Brilliant article, completely on the money.

Chapeau.

Spot on Graham. Ron is also a fully fledged member of this Parish too!

[Enclosure Old Timer]

Great article, should be compulsory reading for the Lansdowns.

[Kid in the Riot]

5 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Bristol City have always been well represented with supporters in the media

We need these people to come to the fore and continue sticking it on Lansdown

Wonder if Guardian Weekly with Max Rushden will touch upon it this week, they have a couple of City fans to call upon in Ben Fisher and Paul Watson (Mark's brother).

[The Nest Egg]

I was wondering how this was so knowledgeable and then realised ot was written by one of our own!

The cosy club are going to absolutely hate it...

[Gert Mare]

Superb article. A club struggling to find its identity. 

Seems to be more about power struggles than a shared vision of success.

The eyes of the world are now watching. The view of the Lansdown’s in the wider football community have changed and not in a positive way.

[Super]

One of the best pieces i have read for a long time.

[oldstandrobin]

Thanks for posting. Says it all that us older supporters  have thought for a long time now., and hopefully our younger supporters can see through The Kings New Clothes !!

[SydneyCity]

Fantastic article.

[Davefevs]

29 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Take a bow @Ron W

Ron - you don’t be getting any Robins TV commentary gigs going forward

[Ron W]

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

Edited October 30, 2023 by Ron W

[KegCity]

Long may this terrible PR for the club continue. About time people outside of Bristol saw the terrible decision making at the club.

[Redsi2]

A well deserved kick in the nuts to the Lansdowns and in the spotlight for all to see not just us on this forum.

[lenred]

2 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

Superb article - must’ve been some very good coffee writing so well that late at night! 

[Randy Marsh II]

4 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

Well done and thank you

[Alessandro]

Superb article @Ron W 

[RedLionLad]

25 minutes ago, Enclosure Old Timer said:

Great article, should be compulsory reading for the Lansdowns.

Emails and Twitter (now X) 

If everyone sent them several copies

[Chrizzler]

Great article, everything spot on. Well done. 

[RedJim]

Fantastic summary, great to read a take down of our clueless owner and chairman like that in the national media. 

[formerly known as ivan]

Great article and one that highlights the absolute mess this club is in with the current owners.

[Nuno Gomes]

12 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

Obviously others know of you but I did not but can I just congratulate you on an article that completely encapsulates our club and its schizophrenic management.  I am not sure anyone could have explained it better. Bravo.

[MelksRed]

48 minutes ago, Olé said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12996039/nigel-pearson-sacked-by-bristol-city-results-far-from-only-issue-behind-veteran-bosses-departure

Absolutely sensational stuff for the owner and boy wonder who have spent so much of their time to trying to manage our media positioning, now getting their arses handed to them by the national media.

Everything about thier decision making is second rate. Live in a vacuum, filled with nodding yes men. C**ts.

[bcfc01]

I'd like to see Dominic Mohan get something of that nature in the nationals.

[Bazooka Joe]

14 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

I salute you Ron W - an eloquent, well-informed truth-teller.

The truth hurts.

I hope your words have given the Lansdowns the shame, pain and embarrassment they deserve.

[Olé]

6 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

It's an absolutely exceptional analysis that deserves to be the defining write up of the current ownership. It's so perfectly written and so exceptionally damning (without ever being unfair or nasty) that I don't think there is another paragraph to be written to their story. It's time for them to go, they're all out of reboots and flip flopping on strategy to suit their egos. We have heard it all before, and it's such a herculean effort for you to have capture in one piece the various prior shades of the emperors new clothes and the uncertainty it creates for us all going forward.

[Numero Uno]

That article should be pinned on here tbh. Baldrick is no nearer to having and identity and a strategy now than he was 22 years ago or whatever it is, just his latest cunning plan.

[Bristol Oil Services]

50 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

You beat me to it. Was about to share. That’s an exceptional article that shows a rare in-depth and nuanced understanding of our club from a national media outlet.

Yes, absolutely. Almost always, in fact I cannot think of an exception, national media only do puff pieces like the guardian in summer of 2017 did with a beaming pic of SL and LJ after we avoided relegation, which was pretty much SL saying: "I was right, the moaners were wrong," then the nationals were back again after we beat Man Utd and they lapped up all the "we call ourselves a PL club in waiting" including a mention of the poster on the wall outside Ashton's office about running towards adversity, or Ipswich, or whatever it was.

Henry Winter is just as bad, just puff, when there's something nice to say. Nothing when the shambles inevitably returns. SL has got away with it, as far as national scrutiny goes. If we had reached the Prem I don't think he would've enjoyed some of the coverage and comments and analysis of the club, assuming we would have struggled and been exposed at that level, on and off the field. 

[Henry]

Fair play @Ron W to go from being an annoying child on here to writing brilliant stuff for the nationals.

Thanks for highlighting the mess to the masses.

[RollsRoyce]

Excellent article. Yes, Lansdown, we are the laughing stock of football. well actually no, YOU are the laughing stock. 

The club needs new ownership, with a real authentic strategy and a drive for excellence. It is being run by amateurs and nepotism with zero vision or know-how about how to build a football club. 

It does not need a new manager, it needs to get rid of Steve L, his son, Gavin Marshall, Brian Tinnion, Shaun Gilehspy and all of the nonsense at Bristol Sport. They have had time to deliver and have failed,  whilst using the club as their toy.

It is now time for competent, professional and visionary people to build a Premier League Bristol City football club. 

[CliftonCliff]

7 minutes ago, Olé said:

It's an absolutely exceptional analysis that deserves to be the defining write up of the current ownership. It's so perfectly written and so exceptionally damning (without ever being unfair or nasty) that I don't think there is another paragraph to be written to their story. It's time for them to go, they're all out of reboots and flip flopping on strategy to suit their egos. We have heard it all before, and it's such a herculean effort for you to have capture in one piece the various prior shades of the emperors new clothes and the uncertainty it creates for us all going forward.

I’ll second that. The article does an invaluable service to the club and everyone who cares about it, by placing firmly in the public domain much that needs to be more widely understood but which the Lansdowns would prefer people not to know.

We have lost so much more than a very good and influential manager. With the additional loss of medical and coaching staff, this rips the heart out of the whole operation that has so painstakingly been put together. Two years or more of work wilfully thrown away. It’s incredibly wasteful and destructive. I don’t think they have any idea of the extent of the damage done to the organisation they’re supposed to be looking after. It’s incredibly demoralising to witness.

[MarcusX]

"The perennially restless Robins looked like they finally had a patient blueprint for long-term, financially prudent growth at their fingertips. It had the fans on board, but not the people whose approval matters most."

This is the point for me. Finally felt like we had a long-term plan and progress was being made, albeit slowly and we were doing so with an experienced man at the helm.

[Superjack]

37 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

Absolutely superb article. 

Short of calling them a bunch of ****s, you couldn't really have nailed it any better.

[Ska Junkie]

Cracking article Rob and true to the point of embarrassing for the club.

Well written and thought out Sir.  

[DownendRed]

Brilliant article- absolutely spot on. We’ll done!

[fisherrich]

22 minutes ago, Olé said:

It's an absolutely exceptional analysis that deserves to be the defining write up of the current ownership. It's so perfectly written and so exceptionally damning (without ever being unfair or nasty) that I don't think there is another paragraph to be written to their story. It's time for them to go, they're all out of reboots and flip flopping on strategy to suit their egos. We have heard it all before, and it's such a herculean effort for you to have capture in one piece the various prior shades of the emperors new clothes and the uncertainty it creates for us all going forward.

Agreed, That article is the Lansdown legacy. Get out of our club!

[luke_bristol]

Outstanding work @Ron W

[Dollymarie]

43 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

Am genuinely like a proud parent of how far Ron has come. He’s worked really bloody hard from day one to get his career where it is now. 

[KendrickDNB]

A brilliant and insightful read.

[Glen hump]

51 minutes ago, Ron W said:

Thanks very much for the feedback guys, I was up pretty late on it last night after work asked me to put something together so it's very much appreciated.

I think we can all read between the lines of what's happened over the last few months - I really didn't want it to turn into a boardroom bashing but it's difficult to understand how we get from the start, sacking Nige, to the end game of getting in the play-offs without wider soul searching. Let's hope that happens.

No thank you Ron for a brilliant article, about time someone in the media tells the true story of what a weird club we’ve become.

[BCFC Rich]

Wasn't sure where to post, but I emailed Henry Winter at the Times yesterday and he says he knows NP well and knew he was getting frustrated. He will be calling him and writing about this. 

[BCFCGav]

Between the massive fan backlash, the outpouring of player love for Nige and now national coverage of City’s shortcomings, the Lansdown’s have nowhere to hide. Even they can’t get their heads that deep in the sand.

[cidered abroad]

The rest of the Championship clubs must be weeing themselves with laughter. 

Bristol City, one of the better supported clubs, on a downward slide yet again because the owner hasn't got a single clue on how to run a football club. 

Billionaire without one ounce of sense. I hope he gets a buyer next week! Otherwise it's back to Divisions Three and Four.

Thanks @Olé

Edited October 30, 2023 by cidered abroad

[Atlanta_Red]

8 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

Between the massive fan backlash, the outpouring of player love for Nige and now national coverage of City’s shortcomings, the Lansdown’s have nowhere to hide. Even they can’t get their heads that deep in the sand.

Their heads are probably somewhere else. 

[Swede]

The article is spot on and pretty damming. Not sure where the owners go on from here as any credibility they may have had is now firmly out of the window.

 

[Mr Popodopolous]

Great article @Ron W shining a light on the current mismanagement of the higher ups to a wider audience can only be a good thing.

[Ska Junkie]

22 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

Between the massive fan backlash, the outpouring of player love for Nige and now national coverage of City’s shortcomings, the Lansdown’s have nowhere to hide. Even they can’t get their heads that deep in the sand.

Steve can afford an awful lot of sand! 

[Colombo Robin]

1 hour ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Wonder if Guardian Weekly with Max Rushden will touch upon it this week, they have a couple of City fans to call upon in Ben Fisher and Paul Watson (Mark's brother).

Big city fan Tom Morgan at the telegraph might be sharpening his pen also

[Sleepy1968]

1 hour ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Yes, absolutely. Almost always, in fact I cannot think of an exception, national media only do puff pieces like the guardian in summer of 2017 did with a beaming pic of SL and LJ after we avoided relegation, which was pretty much SL saying: "I was right, the moaners were wrong," then the nationals were back again after we beat Man Utd and they lapped up all the "we call ourselves a PL club in waiting" including a mention of the poster on the wall outside Ashton's office about running towards adversity, or Ipswich, or whatever it was.

Henry Winter is just as bad, just puff, when there's something nice to say. Nothing when the shambles inevitably returns. SL has got away with it, as far as national scrutiny goes. If we had reached the Prem I don't think he would've enjoyed some of the coverage and comments and analysis of the club, assuming we would have struggled and been exposed at that level, on and off the field. 

You might not realise that all those nice puff pieces by old Henry are paid for editorial content. They don't just write it themselves.

[bcfc01]

28 minutes ago, Atlanta_Red said:

Their heads are probably somewhere else. 

Probably one head in the Channel Islands and one in Bermuda very soon.

Couldn't make it up really - absent and silent owner, absent and silent Chairman (from a two man board), no ceo, no manager, no head of medical dept in the midst of an injury crisis, and a support base who largely has disdain for the owner and chairman. 

Not good and a bit of a shitshow really and thanks to Ron for putting it out there.

 

 

[CyderInACan]

1 hour ago, CliftonCliff said:

We have lost so much more than a very good and influential manager. With the additional loss of medical and coaching staff, this rips the heart out of the whole operation that has so painstakingly been put together. Two years or more of work wilfully thrown away. It’s incredibly wasteful and destructive. I don’t think they have any idea of the extent of the damage done to the organisation they’re supposed to be looking after. It’s incredibly demoralising to witness.

Quite. An act of such grievous self-harm that could easily define the next "era" of the Lansdown's temporary stewardship of our club. 

[i_am_red]

First of all - bloody well done Ron. A fantastically well written article which as others have mentioned is damning but completely factual and fair.

Hopefully there is a small part of Steve/Jon that sees this in the national media and feels some level of embarrassment as to how this has been handled. However, I won’t hold my breath!

[Mr Popodopolous]

27 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

You might not realise that all those nice puff pieces by old Henry are paid for editorial content. They don't just write it themselves.

Interesting, wasn't aware of this. Common place these days is it or? First have heard of such practices in this kinda context.

[firstdivision]

Perfectly well written, albeit subjective, article but it doesn’t tell us anything new. It’s a rehash of everything that’s on here.  And few people outside Bristol give a flying fig about our club so it’s not exactly taking our dirty laundry to a national audience. I speak as someone who lives in London.

More interesting is James Piercy’s piece about the last weeks of the messiah. 

[Atlanta_Red]

36 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Probably one head in the Channel Islands and one in Bermuda very soon.

Couldn't make it up really - absent and silent owner, absent and silent Chairman (from a two man board), no ceo, no manager, no head of medical dept in the midst of an injury crisis, and a support base who largely has disdain for the owner and chairman. 

Not good and a bit of a shitshow really and thanks to Ron for putting it out there.

 

 

I was actually thinking of a more anatomical rather than geographical place.

36 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Probably one head in the Channel Islands and one in Bermuda very soon.

Couldn't make it up really - absent and silent owner, absent and silent Chairman (from a two man board), no ceo, no manager, no head of medical dept in the midst of an injury crisis, and a support base who largely has disdain for the owner and chairman. 

Not good and a bit of a shitshow really and thanks to Ron for putting it out there.

 

 

I was actually thinking of a more anatomical rather than geographical place.

[CliftonCliff]

8 minutes ago, firstdivision said:

Perfectly well written, albeit subjective, article but it doesn’t tell us anything new. It’s a rehash of everything that’s on here.  And few people outside Bristol give a flying fig about our club so it’s not exactly taking our dirty laundry to a national audience. I speak as someone who lives in London.

More interesting is James Piercy’s piece about the last weeks of the messiah. 

For those of us who don’t know, could you enlighten us as to where the article you refer to may be found?

[firstdivision]

4 minutes ago, CliftonCliff said:

For those of us who don’t know, could you enlighten us as to where the article you refer to may be found?

It’s under the thread Board Interference.

[marmite]

Great article. The world now knows where the blame lies, and it's not with Pearson. 

Go now Steve and take Jon and your yes men with you.

[exAtyeoMax]

1 hour ago, BCFCGav said:

Between the massive fan backlash, the outpouring of player love for Nige and now national coverage of City’s shortcomings, the Lansdown’s have nowhere to hide. Even they can’t get their heads that deep in the sand.

hmm something deep…ostrich…

[Swede]

Despite all that SL has done for Bristol City, this really underlines why we won't be going anywhere with them in charge. There appears to be a lot of meddling going on behind the scenes and whilst he knows an awful lot about finances, he hasn't learned anything from the constant mistakes he's made about hiring the right people to run this football club.

[Mr Popodopolous]

Gould and Pearson.

That pair with a bit more financial backing would habe taken us and continued to take us forward IMO.

Now as well as Scott (inevitable), Gould (moved onto bigger things arguably), we have for reasons best known to ourselves lost a manager doing a perfectly good job, by sacking him and prior to that starving him of funds and have no CEO worthy of the name.

Fans Forum as and when will be very interesting?

[CyderInACan]

5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Fans Forum as and when will be very interesting?

Can't see that being much fun. It'll just be the new gaffer and captain & how they want to "move on" from the past. 

If there even is one.