Red Exile

Comedy Central indeed - it's a den of vipers - and very entertaining! Thanks for the recommendation!

DC '...the club is going backwards' - delivering a devastating critique of the whole club, top to bottom...

Just pouring myself a beer and settling down to enjoy...

I'm hardly LJs greatest fan but I could be if we played like we did in the second half with greater regularity. Lovely to watch. Nicely blended mix of youth and experience. What a great prospect Walsh looks. Shame to lose but you have to credit Butland. Play more regularly like that second half performance and we'll be going home happy more often than not - and we'll be entertained.

Quality 45 minutes. Defence looking very solid. Kalas very secure. Kelly playing a blinder at LB. The contrast with the first half at QPR couldn't be greater. Very encouraging.

Second half was better!

On a positive note the PA system at Loftus Road works perfectly!

Great goal. Otherwise utter dross. On this show Johnson is mugging a living. No bright young coaching evident here. It's shapeless hoofball. Get him out Lansdown. Clueless. Being rescued by his willing players.

Three words...shapeless, hoofball, mess.

gaschat is priceles - to pick one of many entertaining threads: http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12657/new-stand?page=2

A really interesting observation...which made me think of my professional life and the reality that very few people are hired to deliver a project of any significance who are expected to prioritise planning beyond the end of their contract. That bit is done by the people running the show...and doing the hiring. If I was running BCFC I'd be setting goals and objectives and hiring people to deliver them. In which case it's the responsibility of the manager/head coach to deliver stability, promotion, a fight against relegation...but not the long term strategic goals of the club. I think that's where the regime at City are all over the place. Set the goals and get a manager in to deliver them...the bit that's missing is, for me, an understanding of what it is that the club is trying to deliver on the pitch. Apparently today SL was saying that the goal for next season was 'making the top 6 and promotion at the end of the season (quoted on the Evening Post site)...great, but I don't see much evidence that Johnson is a manager capable of delivering the consistency across a season to achieve that...

I think you're right...I'd go further and suggest that the whole 'project' thing is made up as it goes along...and its apologists try to find some logic in it as it takes every twist and turn. I don't think Lansdown has any more idea what he's doing than Johnson.

I heard that - made me laugh out loud - has he only just noticed that we've been missing all three? Feeble interview from a much diminished figure...all bluff and bluster. He knows he won't lose his job...but he also surely knows that he hasn't had a clue how to replicate our early season form, and that most of the people in the stands can see that. I feel sorry for the bloke...but not as sorry as I feel for our club right now, best opportunity in years thrown away. You have to wonder what goes through SL's head in trusting the whole 'project' to such a wet-behind-the-ears rookie, unfathomable...

Great result. Sorry to miss it!

We didn't make it...20,284...

Indeed...fully agree Chips...still hanging in there...but it is, of course, the hope that kills you as a City fan...

This thread is becoming a classic...a psychologist could have great fun with the mood swings exhibited on here. Haha! Need a winner now though...

Haha...no! It's freezing here...fair play to those at the Gate.

me too...haha...was just putting another log on the fire and feeling slightly better about not having been able to watch a borefest...now I'm feeling cheated!

Well. That was awful. As others have said, you have to laugh. One or two players not quite as good as they think they are. Maybe that applies to the whole set up. Become a bit smug. Achieved very little thus far I'm afraid. Today was a shockingly poor result given our advantage. I can think of few worse.

Didn't watch it but very happy with a point.

Let's not despair...I watched us lose 6-0 at Ipswich in the season we got to the play-off final...a long way to go.

Chester away was one of the finer City occasions. Home fans massively outnumbered as I recall.

What a great result! And sitting here in the warm I have all the more admiration for those who made the journey! Impressively gritty team performance.

Quality performance. Congratulations to all! What a pleasure it is to watch a match like that.