Red Exile

Following the match on here from sunny Bologna. Great win, whatever the performance. That beer is going to taste alot better now. COYR!

It is! Phew...

Good luck to them…goodness knows their recent failures have given us plenty of entertainment…mustn't get greedy!

sounds like we are loads better. Fans in great voice.

Oh yes!!

"pure quality"... LJ dancing on the touchline

Great win. Looking forward to some entertainment in the remaining matches of the season…would be great to see a win at Brentford.

and me - that M4 closure has proved very unfortunate...

and Accrington have just scored - Scott Brown (our Scott Brown?)

woohoo!

Great observation in the commentary…Reid with the ball in our box, shouts from the Dolman of "just get rid of it", Reid puts his foot on the ball, looks up and sets up a counter attack…question posed was whether our supporters need more patience and understanding.

Wonderful start. Missed it having got stuck on the M4…just made it back home to listen to this…great stuff.

That he managed to get sent off in either the 71st or 78th minutes is pretty remarkable when he only came on as a sub in the 65th!

Well...I don't spend 7 hours sitting in a car to watch 90 minutes football if I don't think City can get something from a game! Just trying to put some of the more extravagant comments on this thread in some context. Hull were on a poor run and we had a chance…shame they got off to such a flying start. In my opinion, only mine of course, you won't get much fun out of watching City if you can't appreciate the quality of the opposition on occasion!

Sadly I think the answer is quite a while. Yesterday, to Hull's great credit, away supporters had their own bar at the ground. Whilst we watched the Villa match we could also watch past encounters. Boothferry Park…what a dump, when they played there it was always easy to patronise Hull…and we seemed to do quite well against them. The new ground made an enormous difference to their confidence as a club…I know a number of their fans…and that win at Wembley…well…I must have seen that Windass goal half a dozen times on screens there yesterday. That was a massive result. It's catapulted them into a world we simply don't know. The gap is huge. Their whole club reeks confidence and money. Now, that might all fall to pieces and behind the scenes we know that there has been all sorts of strife at Hull, but currently the difference is that they are managed by one of the most experienced managers in the game, their loanees come from Arsenal, the midfield is bossed by immense characters, their tidy right back cost £3.5 million, one of our number one targets for last summer sat on the bench and their £10m Uruguayan international had a rest. Our players put in a shift but were outclassed, as we outclassed countless sides last season. If nothing else yesterday will have woken Mark Ashton up to the job he's taken on.

Just back. Reading this thread reminds me why it's better to attend a game than read analysis on here from people who weren't there! Bottom line was that Hull were better than us all over the park, as was to be expected. They have a Prem team aiming to return, we have a slightly disjoined mix of loanees and Div 1 players seeking to stay up…it showed. And we have no one with the class and experience of Snodgrass and Huddlestone running our midfield. No point pretending we have. They are a top flight outfit on the pitch and on the bench and we have a long way to go…there's no shame in that. Positives, despite it not being their day both Tomlin and Odemwingie have quality touches. O'Donnell made a couple of cracking saves. We didn't give up. Negatives, as others have said our midfield needs to step up to compete at this level. Jonathan Kodjia, despite his goals, looks naive at times…by which I mean he's constantly caught offside, makes runs no one else is looking to him to make, and when he gets in precious positions overelaborates or runs out of ideas. And that was a pity today. Looking forward to Tuesday, which I suspect will be very different. I'd expect Wilbs to start.

Very entertaining write up. Thanks. About to set off.

They finished 6 places above us in 88-89, 1 (painfully) in 89-90, 4 places ahead in 91-92, 3 in 95-96 and Malago is right, the only time they've finished above us since was by 2 places in 99-00. Loving that link TwoSheds!

I was just discussing this with my younger son - aged 23. He can't really remember us playing Rovers in the league, as we've not done so since he was at primary school. It's almost exactly 30 years since Rovers left Eastville…a footballing lifetime. In that time they've finished above us on just 5 occasions…and never by more than 6 places…which for local "rivals" is a pitiful record.

One of the truly epic away wins. Had the lot. Haha! Ecstatic on the tube on the way home.

Very poor I'm sorry to say. Created nothing since they scored. They look dangerous on the break. We look ponderous. Dare I say clueless? Such a shame. Immense support being given nothing to cheer. On the other hand if we got a goal it would be game on. They are nothing special One or two man team.

Not me!

Good grief…lots of gloom on here! Terrible point to throw away but we still have Rotherham and Bolton at home and I'm looking forward to 3 points at Fulham on Saturday.

Darn..that's foolish

Great fact from the BBC - we've won our last three away games…we've not won four consecutive away games whilst in either of the the top two divisions since 1906…sadly...