Barnsley (H) - Sat 20th Feb 15:00 - Matchday thread

[City_USA]

Absolute shambles. Where do we go from here, except down?

[Sheltons Army]

1 minute ago, lenred said:

Ahhh ok thanks. The recruitment ‘guru’.....

No he’s Head of operations (Club Secretary basically)

[Slack Bladder]

BRISTOL CITY NIL

[Portland Bill]

1 minute ago, Capman said:

It’s funny to watch those who spent years clamouring for Johnson to be sacked moaning that this situation is all down to the owner and Ashton. Lee’s doing ok at the moment. 

He took over the biggest club in league one, with a good squad, who were 7th in the league at the time! 

Don't forget that our style of play and dour boring rubbish was created by him. 

[LoyalRed]

8 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

LJ started this rot, Holden continued it and now Simpson & Downing are adding to the Sh1te

You couldn’t be more wrong mate, with LJ we had stability , yes we would have a losing streak but we would also have a winning streak, now all we have is a losing streak, we have fallen so far since sacking LJ 

[Bazooka Joe]

2 minutes ago, RedorDead BCFC said:

“Wonder what’s going through Mark Ashtons mind now” a P45 I hope. 

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[WarksRobin]

At least there won’t be any temptation to appoint Simpson and Downing now. An experienced coach is required urgently, before our next match. Whatever it takes.

[Red Exile]

Up there with the poorest City teams I can recall. Inexplicable. We have players of real talent. Those on the pitch lack direction, those on the bench - and I'm thinking Adam Nagy today - must be wondering what they are doing at the club. 

 

[Bannerman]

Awful football for last couple of seasons, we deserve what we get. The board new exactly what they were doing and it’s back fired big time. I’ll be very surprise if we don’t go down.

[SoliCyder]

Can someone who watched tell me if there was a single city player who looked like they cared today?

[INCRED]

The players need a dressing down and don’t deserve the vast salaries, they are robbing the club blind with the performances they have put in the last few months 

Disgrace!

[bexhill reds]

Genuinely have we achieved anything of note this game? I can’t recall anything. I don’t like knee jerk expressions but freefall is one I’d use right now. God I wish I was there I think I’d boo.

[bearded_red]

Garbage team selection. Garbage performance.

That would probably have been six again if Barnsley had Watford’s attacking talent.

Think relegation is now a real possibility, which is utterly ridiculous.

[oldstandrobin]

2 minutes ago, the1stknowle said:

I'd hold fire on this kind of comment.

It makes you wonder if the common denominator  = Mark Ashton  pissed off Lee so much that he was glad to go and spread his wings again. Was no fan of LJ but it makes you wonder.

[Mr Popodopolous]

21 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

75 gone and we are at home with 1 shot to their 13. What an effort that is.

It was a very low bar!

[Alessandro]

Just now, IAmNick said:

I want to agree, but then how have we finished mid table the last few seasons. Either Lee (and Holden until now) have been working absolute magic, or our players aren't actually that bad.

I guess it's probably more that the players are individually good but not a team.

You could certainly argue now LJ over-achieved, but others will say he was part of the problem. In the past now.

I agree with you, I don't think the players are bad, but the trend of quality coming in over the last 2 seasons has IMO become at least increasingly poor.

This is relation to the aim of building a squad to challenge the top 6, as the owner has stated he aims for.

Clearly this squad has lost all confidence. 

[Monkeh]

3 minutes ago, Capman said:

It’s funny to watch those who spent years clamouring for Johnson to be sacked moaning that this situation is all down to the owner and Ashton. Lee’s doing ok at the moment. 

Lee did a good job, but took us as far as he could and sacking him was correct, what is suppose to happen is employ someone to Improve us we didn't we employed his assistant and expected something different 

[JustinCider]

4 minutes ago, BrizzleRed said:

No, he’s just found his level!

So will we if we don't sort this god almighty fustercluck out soon. 

[cityexile]

Bloody depressing. Did not lay a glove on the opposition again.

The players without a contract clearly do not give a stuff. If something does not change soon we are heading down without so much as a whimper. We needed 11 points from 22 not so long ago. Now it’s 11 from 15, soon I suspect to be 11 from 13. I have no idea at all where they are coming from.

[lenred]

1 minute ago, Sheltons Army said:

No he’s Head of operations (Club Secretary basically)

Doing a great job.....is he one of the ones related to or worked previously with MA? 

[Capman]

1 minute ago, Fordy62 said:

Winning away at Burton with a squad budget of at least 10x theirs? Yeh amazing. 

Let’s not forget he started this. 

Started what exactly? He seemed to me to be delivering top half championship finishes on a regular basis. Still, if you like. To be honest I find the endless whining a bit pathetic really. 

[GlastonburyRed]

Just now, SoliCyder said:

Can someone who watched tell me if there was a single city player who looked like they cared today?

I actually thought a decent amount of them looked commited today, actually, slightly more worryingly though there were just absolute litter.

[stawey]

time to bring in moses to lead us out of the wilderness

[Harry]

I counted 14 touches in the final third during that 2nd half. 5 of them came in a 30 second spell where we had 2 throw ins. 

Our only 2 completed passes in the final third came in that 20 second spell. 
 

I think we only had 1 touch in the opposition box all game. And that was Palmers cross after their keeper gifted it. 
 

@Davefevscan you see if the prozone stats back that up please. 
 

That performance was worse than Watford and worse than Reading. It was the worst I’ve ever seen I think. We completed 2, yes 2 passes in the final third!! That is utterly shocking. 

[City Rocker]

The cat most certainly didn't bounce did it? Just 'SPLAT!' on the pavement. 

[LoyalRed]

4 minutes ago, Portland Bill said:

He is the creator of what we now see. 

We would never have got relegated or be in this situation if we had kept him though, greed got the better and we all believed we were getting an improvement such as Hughton 

[old_eastender]

We need a flurry of P45s;  Simpson, Downing, Ashton, Roles & Proctor.

[bexhill reds]

Just now, SoliCyder said:

Can someone who watched tell me if there was a single city player who looked like they cared today?

Bents, Palmer, Nagy, Moore. Perhaps not quality but at least had a go. The rest can **** off.

[Mendip City]

Michael Appleton’s phone ringing as we speak....  

[MelksRed]

How many minutes has it been since we have scored a goal in the Championship?