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Looked beter in the last 20 minutes and with a good lead ( hopefully 3-0 is not too dangerous a score) we can play our game, regain confidence and get back to the sort of form we saw before Christmas.

They look more like the home side than we do. Pressing us and we look rushed and certainly not in any sort of control.

Our quick passing and pressing game needs everyone to be on the same wavelength. Whether it's fatigue ( mental and/or physical) taking it's toll, but I think a few were just off the ace tonight. When we were passing tight around their area too often our touch was clumsy enabling them to break away and too often we seemed to want an extra touch or a bit more time allowing them to get tackles in too easily. When Fammy came on we seemed to raise our game and started to look much more dangerous, but as soon as Fammy started to tire he and we lost a bit of sharpness and intensity and in the end we did well to hold on for a draw - perhaps lucky but overall deserved to stop the rot. After these tough championship games it will be good for the players to relax against easier opposition next week. P.S. Meant to add that had we had a full and fully fit squad, we would have been happy to come away from Derby with a point, given the run they've been on. To do so with our injury problems, and the changes enforced this evening, with Derby's good run and our poor run of recent results makes the result even better.

Result much more important than the performance.

You just know that Jerome will nick it at the death

Looking half a yard sharper and more of a threat as a result.

How often do our attacks break down and within seconds the opposition are on the edge of our area. We don't seem ablate do the same to them.

sorry!

FFS! Bobby Reid wearing gloves - just no.

I keep hoping that FFS is an acronym for Frankie Fielding Saves!

What, driving 150 miles to a home game?

Could be interesting if we use the same tactics.

Hopefully just a puncture, but need to stop the rot PDQ.

Teams will know our game by this stage of the season, so we can expect games to be much tougher from here on in. LJ will need to earn his money if we are to reverse our current form and get back on track.

Perhaps because it comes immediately after we conceded a last minute goal. Same thing happened when we went to Villa the next game after conceding at the death to lose against Wolves. Martin Keown commented today that if a team is winning then players don't worry about being tired and just want to keep playing. Until the Wolves game that is how we were. Have those 2 last minute goals knocked the stuffing out of some of our players?

Our crossing is not good enough.

1/4 of an hour gone at home and we haven't managed a meaningful shot ourselves. Think home games could be a tough slog for the rest of the season.

Has Walsh had his hair dyed bleach blond and heavily quiffed since Tuesday?

FREEWAY?! Is this an NFL match day thread ? Happy New year Havanaand thanks for starting each matchday thread in your unique way.

FREEWAY?! Is this an NFL match day thread? Happy New year Havana and thanks for starting each match day in your unique way.

...if we keep all 11 on the pitch.

I think the finacial rules in the championship relate to the clubs loss on its P&L account, but this taken over a 3 year period. Theres a bit of jiggery pokery about transfer fees being spread over the length of the players contract, but essentially I suspect they re banking on promotion ( almost certainly this season now) in which case championship rules don't apply to a premier league club ( as demonstrated by QPR) Given SL's background in a regulated financial services sector, I cannot believe that he would risk the club breaching the financial rules, whereas I get the impression that many foreign owners worry about that when it becomes a problem.

Touch of "auto" spelling there JJT.

It would need to be complacency of epidemic proportions!

Think you're wrong AG, at least according to this post from the Wolves forum. When they went down to 10 the gulf in class was obvious; their only chance was through a ludicrous refereeing decision. Man to man, Bristol City didn't deserve to win against a big club like the Wolves.