Red Exile

I was there - seemed hopeful we'd do well that season...as ever the hope was misplaced! Bottom before Christmas! Still, Glyn Riley, great player, Coops a great manager and in the end the makings of a great side. Some very happy days.

Same! So what beats me is why on earth professional footballers weren't thinking the same...or shouting the same at each other?

Agreed on the positives...one of the better away performances of recent times. Much to praise. When we play our game we look very good, Conway and Semenyo scored cracking goals. Hope rekindled...currently eyeing up travel to a few away fixtures! Cut out the unforced errors and this could be a very good season.

Yep - almost incomprehensible. You'd surely sit them down, pause the game at different points and ask all of at least Wliiams, Massengo, DaSilva, Naismith, Atkinson and King 'at that moment what on earth was going through your head'...'why did you go backwards, try to play a worldie??? What were you thinking of?' I appreciate they are under pressure but...

Completely given 2 points away by failing to retain possession at key moments. Happens time after time. We can play some lovely stuff. Pearson really needs to sort this nonsense out.

Utterly predictable. Keep the ball. Abysmal. After such a good performance. Very very poor.

Keep the ball! We are so careless in possession.

Come on city. Stop gifting a team of cloggers endless opportunities to hoof the ball into the box.

What a goal!

Too many unforced errors. Been the story of the past few seasons. At times comfortably the better side in this match. If only we played sides who made it so easy for us!

Fine goal. Deserved that. Really good at times this half. Score line not doing us justice.

Excellent result!

In Italy, feet up, great lunch. Sun shining. Almost relaxed as I follow City on OTIB...but not quite relaxed!

Also on holiday - Italy. Will be following updates on here. COYR

Don't hold your breath!

Outstanding performance. Best in years! Delighted.

Come on City!

Really impressive first half. Delighted for Tommy Conway.

Spot on. It's why it's been at worst frustrating and at best tedious to attend matches at the Gate for the past few years, and why we'll more likely be a League One club in the next few seasons than challenge for the Prem.

We must be a similar vintage! We all want the best for the club. In my time I'd rank SL's decision to stubbornly persist with his boy wonder and Mark Ashton as amongst the very worst. The consequence - the fall out - is that I can't see us challenging again for the top flight any time soon. Lansdown needs to sell up and move on. He demonstrably doesn't know how to run a successful football club. He's had 20 years. But as I'd like to enjoy the day I'll stop dwelling on that now...

...as I said before, read the preceding pages. You're not opening a can of worms...it was opened on page 1. The idea that LJ should still be here is laughable. Even his patron and greatest admirer saw through him eventually! Pity it took so long.

In which case I'd say it was hard to conclude that fans leaving disappointed with their expectations diminished is likely to be solved by Pearson leaving. I think we will indeed struggle this season - and why? - poor management of both the playing and financial sides of the club have left us in a pickle, playing kids and bringing in lower league free transfers.

...for a multitude of well reasoned answers to that question see the previous 7/8 pages of this thread!

...possibly...I give the further example of Hull, a club I know well as they are my in-laws team. You'd struggle to find a more poorly managed club in recent years, but already bouncing back top of the table tonight and since 2008- is it two spells in the top flight and an FA Cup final?...all of that whilst we've had the stability of the Lansdown era. And to think I once put pennies in a bucket at Brentford and pitied them...

To be honest Joe I've not watched many City away matches in which we had more than 20-30 minutes looking very good! Unless we were in the divisions below and playing someone pretty dire. It's more usually a case of capitalising on that spell and stealing the points. Shame we didn't do that today. It's not promising to be a great season but watching the side develop week in week out can be very satisfying - hang in there!