| Ashton.. a thought 21:39 - Apr 8 with 2587 views | waveneyblue |
Just reading the tread on Ashton.
Where have the Bristol City fans gone??? You know, the ones trying to tell us he was Satan with a nice beard ?
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| Ashton.. a thought on 22:03 - Apr 8 with 2457 views | patrickswell |
Maybe in time, they’ll turn out to be correct….but I hope not though.
Ultimately, he’d be knocking down his own work though if he gave us cause to say Bristol City were right, and that would be very counter-productive given the part he’s played in building things up from scratch over the last 18 months. |  | | |
| Ashton.. a thought on 22:11 - Apr 8 with 2384 views | bournemouthblue |
I'm sure we will get more of them next season |  |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 22:12 - Apr 8 with 2393 views | Guthrum |
They were mainly sore because hopes of pushing for promotion had faded away, blaming that upon a managerial selection and some signings which didn't work out. It wasn't like they'd suffered relegation or financial collapse. |  |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 03:22 - Apr 9 with 2079 views | Illinoisblue |
I’m sure that trappy bumpkin will be back to have a pop if we don’t go up. |  |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 05:05 - Apr 9 with 2028 views | bournemouthblue |
| Ashton.. a thought on 22:12 - Apr 8 by Guthrum |
They were mainly sore because hopes of pushing for promotion had faded away, blaming that upon a managerial selection and some signings which didn't work out. It wasn't like they'd suffered relegation or financial collapse. |
They're a funny bunch, I always considered them a League One yo-yo club
Where as under Ashton, he seemed to sort them out off the field so they could actually aim higher than that | |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 07:15 - Apr 9 with 1863 views | Churchman |
| Ashton.. a thought on 05:05 - Apr 9 by bournemouthblue |
They're a funny bunch, I always considered them a League One yo-yo club
Where as under Ashton, he seemed to sort them out off the field so they could actually aim higher than that |
They were a L1 yo-yo club. Not now. Yet when Ashton left them some of their weirds were convinced they were Premier League in waiting held back by the evil Ashton. |  | | |
| Ashton.. a thought on 07:47 - Apr 9 with 1737 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Perhaps you need to re-read the airbrushed accounts for last year - and add in the £10mîllion pushed out of the door with Flynn Downes. And recall City fans (and the chairman) remember Ashton buying his way out of division 3 ….. but probably don’t care any more. |  |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 07:57 - Apr 9 with 1696 views | Churchman |
| Ashton.. a thought on 07:47 - Apr 9 by ElephantintheRoom |
Perhaps you need to re-read the airbrushed accounts for last year - and add in the £10mîllion pushed out of the door with Flynn Downes. And recall City fans (and the chairman) remember Ashton buying his way out of division 3 ….. but probably don’t care any more. |
Please could you be specific and explain what in the accounts has been ‘airbrushed’ and how this contradicts what was said last Monday.
Secondly, how was £10m pushed out of the door with Downes? A player who wanted out long before he actually left.
Strange how you only tend to bring your ‘views’ to the forum after a Norwich win. Then maybe it’s not. | | | |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 09:39 - Apr 9 with 1264 views | Churchman |
It’s really odd how after nearly two years how some of them are interested Ashton and ITFC are doing. 62 pages on another club the other side of the country? It’s plain strange.
There they sit in their state of the art stadium, state of the art facilities, good manager (appointed by Ashton), snugly mid table - about the high water mark for Bristol City and attendances averaging a massive 20,000. Once staple League One fodder, they are now established Championship. They should be polishing the open top bus and Morris Dancing with joy.
You’d think at the very least they’d all be enjoying the moment, but nope. The fixated ones pray for Ashton and Ipswich’s fall. This peculiar idea that they did warn us about the devil incarnate - what were we supposed to do? March to the club with pitchforks and burning torches? Vandalise his car? It was the owners and his decision. Nobody made him leave Bristol City, including Lansdown - who they curiously absolve from any blame for their perceived financial mismanagement.
I’m looking forward to us one day playing them again. I might make the effort to go to Ashton Gate (Bristol is a lovely city anyway) to compare it with the broken brick ugly sh£thole I remember it as all those years ago. Ahh the memories of the stones and concrete lumps hitting the board room windows in 1980 after we played them there. And that lovely rotting concrete terrace when we lost in 1992 at Easter…. [Post edited 9 Apr 2023 9:50]
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| Ashton.. a thought on 09:42 - Apr 9 with 1237 views | J2BLUE |
Who cares? Some Town fans were all too happy to swallow every word.
Ashton is yet to put a foot wrong. By the time he and the rest of GC have finished, Bristol City will be looking up at us. |  |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 09:55 - Apr 9 with 1149 views | SheffordBlue |
| Ashton.. a thought on 09:39 - Apr 9 by Churchman |
It’s really odd how after nearly two years how some of them are interested Ashton and ITFC are doing. 62 pages on another club the other side of the country? It’s plain strange.
There they sit in their state of the art stadium, state of the art facilities, good manager (appointed by Ashton), snugly mid table - about the high water mark for Bristol City and attendances averaging a massive 20,000. Once staple League One fodder, they are now established Championship. They should be polishing the open top bus and Morris Dancing with joy.
You’d think at the very least they’d all be enjoying the moment, but nope. The fixated ones pray for Ashton and Ipswich’s fall. This peculiar idea that they did warn us about the devil incarnate - what were we supposed to do? March to the club with pitchforks and burning torches? Vandalise his car? It was the owners and his decision. Nobody made him leave Bristol City, including Lansdown - who they curiously absolve from any blame for their perceived financial mismanagement.
I’m looking forward to us one day playing them again. I might make the effort to go to Ashton Gate (Bristol is a lovely city anyway) to compare it with the broken brick ugly sh£thole I remember it as all those years ago. Ahh the memories of the stones and concrete lumps hitting the board room windows in 1980 after we played them there. And that lovely rotting concrete terrace when we lost in 1992 at Easter…. [Post edited 9 Apr 2023 9:50]
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The player trading model that many clubs use took a massive hit due to Covid and still hasn't fully recovered - that's not something that Ashton could have foreseen but did hit their financial performance a lot and I think drives a lot of the negative criticism of him.
As you say their owner seems to get a free hit here. Under the watchful eye of Mark Detmer Ashton certainly won't be getting to play fast and loose with their money without a strong business case for it. | |
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| Ashton.. a thought on 10:35 - Apr 9 with 1070 views | Churchman |
| Ashton.. a thought on 09:55 - Apr 9 by SheffordBlue |
The player trading model that many clubs use took a massive hit due to Covid and still hasn't fully recovered - that's not something that Ashton could have foreseen but did hit their financial performance a lot and I think drives a lot of the negative criticism of him.
As you say their owner seems to get a free hit here. Under the watchful eye of Mark Detmer Ashton certainly won't be getting to play fast and loose with their money without a strong business case for it. |
I suspect if Ashton so much as passes a little gas while crunching his morning coco pops the owners will want to know about it. I bet his recent week in America was no easy ride either, when he wasn’t doing a photo shoot at Rhode Island of course.
I hope that’s the case and that would certainly fit with the structures they appear to be putting in place. | | | |
| Ashton.. a thought on 10:59 - Apr 9 with 978 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Doesn't help that some town fans have opened up a OTIB account just so they can join in on the thread and keep it alive.
Don't understand that at all, except for maybe on WOTB to wind them up, but Bristol City are hardly rivals. |  |
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