Mark_LCFC

Feel for you and Nige, ludicrous decision.

5 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Interesting, I assume you mean Forest? I always thought your main 'rivals' were Coventry and theirs was Derby?

Please excuse my ignorance.

Our order of dislike is Forest -> Derby -> Coventry
Coventry alternate between us and Brum depending on who you ask
Forest/Derby obviously have a stronger rivalry than we do with either but we generally hate them more than Cov.

1 minute ago, ralphindevon said:

Crikey they love him at Leicester, everyone i talked to couldn't praise him enough. 

From their fans today we had a Nige song, a Matty James song and a few rounds of applause for Andy King as he warmed up. 

The most Bristol City friendly crowd ever. 

If you don't renew his contract though we'll loathe you almost as much as you will

5 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Today’s game got me thinking. Leicester have won the Premier League and FA Cup in recent years. That’s way beyond expectation for their club. There is nothing left for them to realistically achieve, and it’s extremely unlikely they will ever repeat it. In essence, for their fans, they have completed football.

So what must it be like to be a Leicester fan now? Is a regulation 1-0 win against Bristol City exciting any more?

What drives me as a City fan is the potential to achieve things I’ve never seen us achieve; promotion, perhaps a cup final, maybe even European football one day (yes I’m a naive fool). It’s the possibility; it’s the daring to dream.

I wonder if I would lose motivation for football and City, if we were ever to do it all, like Leicester have done, and then find ourselves back in the second tier. Might there be a sense of “what’s the point any more?” Or would I just keep coming back for my fix of the football drug and hope to do it all again?

Aside from the tribute to Vichai (which obviously wasn't the right time) this is the first time Nigel's been back here since he left, we never got to give him a send off. Same with King and James really. For me at least this has probably been the easiest game to get up for since the Roma ECL semi-final. We currently share the record for the most second tier titles with Man City so that's an obvious hope for this season. We've gotten to a European Semi-Final, our rivals have won the European Cup twice so obviously there's some long term aspiration there. It's probably Jamie Vardy's last season so we've got to make the most of him while we've got him. And we can pretty much tour all the sides we used to struggle with trying to get out of the second tier and gloat about having 'completed football' It's not as hard to motivate yourself as you'd think.

50 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

I completely agree with you. In my time supporting City, we've had several superb managers that were able to achieve things like saving us from total disintegration (TC) getting us into the highest league (AD) and a couple more.

But, just my opinion on how he comes across and what he says, NP is managing us on a completely new level, simply by encouraging coaches, players, academy youngsters to manage themselves and also to support all their colleagues. His type of "bullying" is to put the onus on everyone in that dressing room. He is turning Bristol City into a proper football club just like the Busby's, Guardiola's, Ferguson's who achieve by making all their staff responsible for their own contribution.

How far will he be allowed to take us?

It’s exactly what he did here and you all saw the result. I firmly believe that put him in any era that gives managers longer and puts less emphasis on media perception, and his name would fit naturally in the list of managers you mentioned to more than just us. Delighted that he’s found a club that’s giving him the opportunity to do it again.