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BBC News
6 days ago
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Bristol City appoint Rawcliffe as new CEO
Bristol City have appointed Tom Rawcliffe as the club's new chief executive officer ahead of the 2025-26 role has been vacant since the departure of Phil Alexander, who lasted less than eight months at Ashton Gate before leaving in September has spent the previous four seasons with the Robins, initially joining as head of finance before more recently becoming the club's chief operating officer."I am excited to lead the club in the next stage of its journey. I am clear there is a lot of work to do, which starts now," Rawcliffe told the club website., externalBristol City owner Steve Lansdown added: "Over the past four years Tom has shown his value to the club and thoroughly deserves his appointment as chief executive officer with overall control of running this great club."Having specialised in the finance and then operations of the club he is in a good position to lead our next stage of development."
BBC News
19-06-2025
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'Got to give him a chance' - fans react to Struber
Gerhard Struber has been announced as the new head coach of Bristol are some of your views on the appointment of the Austrian to replace Liam - I love the way the Austrian national team plays, and apparently it's hard coded into Austrian football. So to have an Austrian head coach with a reputation for that style of play, and an academy that's set up for it, makes me quite - One thing I have to say is that any manager at City must have some help with bringing in fresh talent which we lacked in key areas especially in the play-offs as we were not in the same class as Sheffield United. Unless this happens it will be a difficult - Got to give the guy a chance but hope he plays two up - On first impressions very positive. Talks a good game and seems passionate, only time will - No, it's a poor one again from the - My only concern is that owner Steve Lansdown has shown little sign of seriously investing in this team. I only hope that Struber obtained some assurances about strengthening City (particularly up front) before - We as fans don't know how good or bad the new manager will be but after 10 games will have a good idea. The first thing for us as fans will be to see if and who the board allow him to move on from the poor strike force we have and replace them with decent forwards or he will - Struber wasn't first on my list let alone in the top five - Steve Lansdown said we should aim to repeat last season's performance but I'd love to see us finish in the top five and should we end up in the play-offs again we have to go and win it, that's the next logical step. Anything less then a top-six finish will be a disappointing season.
BBC News
03-06-2025
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Search for Manning's replacement starts now
It was inevitable Liam Manning's good work at Bristol City wouldn't go unnoticed, after guiding the team to a top-six finish in his first full season at Ashton a campaign when football was put into perspective, it's completely understandable if a return to East Anglia would be appealing to Liam Manning and his the fact that Norwich finished the campaign 11 points behind Bristol City in the Championship will lead to fans questioning what a move to Carrow Road can offer that staying at Ashton Gate can't?Steve Lansdown told me last month that Bristol City will not change their approach to transfers or their budget this are already being linked with the job, as the City hierarchy start the big challenge of finding the right replacement.
BBC News
02-06-2025
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'Bears don't lose to Bath', perfect 10s & shootout drama
Standing in the early-evening sunshine at Ashton Gate, as the Bristol fans revelled in a first play-off finish in four years, director of rugby Pat Lam was in defiant allowing himself a handful of seconds to dwell on the 52-26 win over Harlequins that secured the Bears' play-off place, Lam's attentions swiftly turned to Friday night and the semi-final showdown with local rivals Bath at The Rec."Bath have only lost four games this year - who have they lost to?" he rhetorically asked BBC Radio 5 Live, knowing full well his side have done the double over the runaway league leaders."So we know how to do it, and that's what we'll do. We know how to beat them. We have done it in so many different ways - rain, dry weather, home, away."When we came back up [into the Premiership in 2018], the supporters made it really clear we don't lose to Bath, and we have won 11 out of 14 since."We know how to do it and it's about getting it all right on Friday."Owner Steve Lansdown's money has helped to tempt a host of superstars to Ashton Gate since their promotion in 2018, but Lam insists Bristol are no longer among the league's big spenders, as the club cut its cloth during and after Covid."As far as spend goes, we spend eighth [out of the 10 Premiership teams]," Lam explained."Ourselves and Bath are the only two teams to be in the top four all season, yet Bath have spent nearly £3m more on their squad than we have."It reminds me of Connacht when we won the Pro12. So to get to this stage I am so pleased and proud of the players."Bath in six days' time - I just have to do the gameplan, I don't have to do any motivation or talking. The local boys - Ellis Genge, Yann Thomas - they will take control."Bring it on. Sharks sail close to the wind In the end, the top four ended the final day of the regular season as it started, with Leicester, Sale and Bristol all doing enough to book their play-off places and join Bath in the while Leicester, who beat Newcastle 42-20, and Bristol enjoyed routine home wins, Sale had to dig deep against an Exeter side desperate to rally after a forgettable remain the bookies pick for the title, understandably so given their excellence all campaign and the depth of their squad. But Leicester are narrow favourites to join them in the Twickenham showpiece, thanks to the home advantage they will enjoy against the Sharks at an emotionally-charged Welford Road on Sale's George Ford, who continued his supreme personal form, was unperturbed following the tricky 30-26 win at Sandy Park."We knew they were much improved the last few weeks, and we were anticipating a game like that," he told BBC 5 Live."It was like a quarter-final for us, and finals rugby is never easy anyway. There are parts of our game we will need to fix up for next week, and we will do that."While Bath against Bristol is as tantalising a Premiership semi-final as you could get, Leicester against Sale isn't far behind. Perfect 10s Premiership Rugby revealed in the week that fly-halves are again the league's highest-paid position, with the playmakers earning an average of more than £230,000 a not hard to see why. On show over semi-final weekend will be three of the world's best: Finn Russell for Bath, Handre Pollard for Leicester and Ford for Sale - who are all in great form - while Bristol's AJ MacGinty is also a class act and won the man-of-the-match award against a recent Rugby Union Weekly podcast we discussed the question: if you could pick any of those fly-halves in your side to win a Premiership final, who would you choose? All three co-hosts picked someone club ends up winning the Premiership title on 14 June is likely to owe a few more quid to the big earners. Drama in Durban Arguably the biggest story of the weekend didn't take place in Britain or Ireland but in Durban, South Africa, as the Sharks reached the last four of the United Rugby Championship by beating Munster 6-4 in a penalty shootout following a 24-all emptied the tank on a daunting away fixture, as they always seem to do when the stakes are high, but were edged out after the Sharks superbly converted all six of their the shootout was riddled with controversy as first Jack Crowley exchanged words with Jaden Hendrikse after the latter opened the scoring, before Hendrikse went down with cramp just after nailing his second kick to put the Sharks 4-2 conveniently-timed injury meant Crowley initially could not take his second shot at goal, despite the Irishman telling referee Mike Adamson he was prepared to kick with the prone Hendrikse a matter of metres Hendrikse was genuinely injured or not was fiercely debated post-match, but his wink towards Crowley - rugby's most notable since Bloodgate - means he will not get the benefit of the doubt in many Sharks will travel to fellow South African side Bulls in the last four, while Leinster host Glasgow in a repeat of their Champions Cup quarter-final in April, which Leinster won with Leo Cullen's side still looking winded by their shock defeat by Northampton in the same competition, and Glasgow bolstered by some returning Lions, a similar scoreline is highly unlikely. End of an era The stellar careers of Ben Youngs, Mike Brown and Dan Cole all rumble on for another week at least, but it was goodbye to another great of the English game this weekend as Alex Goode left the stage after his 402nd and final appearance for discussed last week, rarely in the past has such a high-calibre group of players all retired together, with Danny Care, Anthony Watson and Joe Marler also calling it a day this it's not just in England. Munster's defeat means two totems of Irish rugby, Conor Murray and Peter O'Mahony, have now retired, with both going down swinging in Durban. Few men have ever given more to the cause in red or green.
BBC News
28-05-2025
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Guernsey staff accommodation disgraceful
Concerns about the cost and quality of housing in the island were the overwhelming issue for voters at BBC Guernsey's second election Lansdown, owner of La Grande Mare Hotel, labelled some of the rental accommodation for staff moving to the island as "disgraceful".The billionaire businessman said: "Staff accommodation here is appalling, some of the planning restrictions stop you from acquiring the properties to do them up."Liberate CEO Ellie Jones agreed that doing something to improve the affordability and quality of local housing should be the number one priority for candidates. Mr Lansdown said: "I have been appalled by some of the sites I have seen, trying to find accomodation for my staff. "I've been embarrassed and I think, there are certain places you could quite happily go in there and refgurb and revamp them, but because of planning restrictions you're stopped from doing this."Guernsey's Development and Planning Authority has been approached for comment. Ms Jones said the next States needed to "rip up the rule book and start again" when it came to housing: "We need to bring costs down tio allow people to afford to live."We are the first generation who has grown up in an era where earning a decent living, working hard, doesn't mean you can afford to live well, it's a sad place to be."In 2023 a report commissioned by the States of Guernsey by housing experts ARC showed an average-priced property cost more than 16.3 times as much as average earnings, compared to 16 in Jersey and 8.3 in England. Ms Jones said: "It means I'm a bit depressed, you never feel safe, you are always worried if a landlord is going to chuck you out."I pay more than half my wages on rent, and no generation before has done that and it has crept up." Over a coffee at the election roadshow, Bob Renstead said the current pressure on housing had been made worse by the island's population 2022 Guernsey's States agreed to grow the island's population by 300 people every year. "We are bringing so many outside workers in, while there are so many locals who are on benefits and can work."The latest figures from the States of Guernsey showed there were 259 jobseekers without work at the end of March in 2025 - a decrease of eight compared to the previous month and a decrease of 52 compared to March Nicolle agreed that getting more houses built should be the priority for the incoming States: "I'm very concerned that we have young people leaving, I'm very concerned for young people with mortgages and the cost of childcare, it's getting impossible really for them to live day to day."She has asked candidates to look at raising the allowances for income tax for the island's young people. Bob Angus agreed that housing and its impact on the cost of living locally, was the top priority for this States: "The chances for youngsters getting on the ladder are pretty much non-existent, or very slim. The States had originally said it needed 1,565 new units of accommodation between 2023 and 2027, but last year it dropped that target to 1,488 units needed by Guernsey's next election roadshow is at Forest Stores on 13 June and the final roadshow is on 17 June in Market Square.
