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A good first half performance with no real cutting edge. Wilbraham didn't have the best of times in the first 45 and Agard would have been more helpful to Kodjia. QPR woke up at half time and Phillips was a real danger, and we were weaker. Their goal was undeserved but exemplifies the clinical nature of games in this division, something we have to emulate. We took a while to get going but when we finally made a substitution started to get on top again and the team goal was great. Good to see Freeman starting to return to form (long way off his best still but improved). Kodjia and Smith stood out for me for good reasons and Pack had a horrible game. The ref was at least consistent in never giving even the most blatant of fouls and it probably made the game more watchable. The time wasting was annoying as was persisting for too long in the second half without making changes (nothing new there though). I was very surprised to hear that SL said in an interview there's nothing planned yet for January, that's a travesty. We need a quality central midfielder, a striker and a keeper walking in the door on Jan 1st as far as I'm concerned. Good point in the end but we need to get more than that on average to stay up.

If that's a 532 I'm not optimistic.

Great result - pleased we managed to hold out as we always have trouble with that. It sounded like Boro had a whole lot of possession without creating many clear cut chances, which I guess is an indicator of a resilient away performance. More points on the board Well done City.

I disagree, they were shit. The only time they had the ball was when we gave it to them and they lost it pretty quickly every time. If we'd played like that I'd have been fuming. It was only defensive due to ineptitude.

Leeds were shit. Absolutely shit. We had to make two mistakes in a row to give them a four on one and they still needed a dive and a penalty to turn it into a goal. They scored their only other chance whilst we were down to ten men. Both were our own naivete more than anything Leeds actually did. Getting two goals at the end of the game was psychologically nice especially given the obnoxious opposition but in truth we created enough to get three points handily and on another night would have. Kodjia is threatening and when he finds his feet will score at a good rate, Robinson looked effective and Bryan again delivered a lot of quality from the left. Defensively we need to wise up and realise that last year we could go adventuring up the pitch safe in the knowledge that most mistakes weren't capitalised on - at this level we can't. Once we do that, and with a few key signings (two midfielders, two centre halves) we'll be fairly competitive I think.

It was all looking a bit anti climactic at 2-2, but after that everything we did came up gold. I thought Walsall were decent enough going forward but terrible at defending set plays and when the result was no longer in doubt they gave up and we didn't. A nice way to sign off from league one and a very enjoyable day - cider time now.

Well, that's true - but I think qualifying it with "who have started" is reasonable. In any case it's remarkable how every part of the team has chipped in with goals.

What a great run of form we're on - fantastic. Well done Cotterill and all the players. Interestingly Saville's goal means we are back to the only players not having scored this season being the goalkeepers.

Great result, well done all round.

An excellent performance all round, well done everyone at BCFC. Great to see JET back in form and going past defenders like they're not there, I thought Freeman was exceptional as well. Cider o'clock.

Great result, well done City!

My thoughts: In short, good result, average performance. Bringing on Burns and switching to 442 was shooting ourselves in the foot and our dominance only re-emerged when we switched back late on. Burns was awful until the goal - I think we need to play him either on the right of a front three or in a front two. Down the left he never wants to beat his man outside and left of a 442 he looked lost defensively. But what a goal! This lad needs to play because the things he does wrong only experience will fix and he does have talent. Freeman was excellent as was Elliott but in both cases more decisiveness around the 18 yard box was needed, shoot ffs! Bryan had a good game too, nice touch and provides good service.. Wilbraham and Agard worked hard without really threatening to score. Ayling playing in the middle of the midfield for the mid part of the game did ok but needs more awareness to deputise for Smith there as a regular thing. Little looked a bit off the pace, Flint was very solid again and Williams did fine - nice to see him get a goal. Fielding was unremarkable but I'd still like to see him kick at the sidelines less often, it goes out too much. I would like to see us either not bother bringing JET on or bring him on with 20+ minutes to go. It is utterly pointless bringing him on at 89 minutes. I was bemused by us not replacing the injured Smith with Pack as a like for like, the tactical switch was not required. Chesterfield were a decent side ability wise who were a bunch of niggling cheating scumbags aided and abetted by the worst set of officials I've seen for a few years. I hope they go down.

Very good result today. A committed performance that lacked composure but important points against strong opposition. I thought Fielding should have hung onto the ball for the first goal we conceded and the main question for the second was why the hell we were playing it backwards at that point anyway? In any case, the results so far this season have been excellent - well done to the manager and the team and long may it continue.

S****horpe are terrible. We have no penetration. We don't need to have only three attacking players at home against sides like this.

Movement is definitely a problem but you don't tend to get much when you slow down play to whack a 50 yard ball every time you get possession - we seemed to be set up for a hopeful long ball. I disagree with your count, it was many more than that.

Seeing great passes isn't useful, making them is. He was great when he came on on Saturday, and I'd love it if he played like that more often getting stuck in and distributing effectively but he was terrible tonight. Flint completed more forward passes and contributed more to attacking play.

Pack was awful, overhit every pass more than 10 yards in length. He could have come off for Freeman at half time or on 60 minutes and one of Elliott or Smith took the "sit in front of the three man defence and watch the ball sail over your head" role. Bryan was ripe for subbing too, he wasn't producing anything at all - didn't beat his man once. Wilbraham for JET would have made sense, since all we were doing from 10 minutes in until about 80 minutes in was punting at him. Not his fault, but that really was awful to watch and completely ineffective. I think the key message was clear from Cotterill's interview - "we knew we had to keep a clean sheet". Why? We were at home against Orient, we won our last two games without a clean sheet. Why set us up to avoid defeat rather than win? Yes it was a committed and fairly organised performance but there was nothing going forward, no creativity, no movement, just whack it and hope for a flick on. We can bemoan the corner which looked like it should have stood but a fluke like that was our only hope of a goal the way we set up and played. I want to see a City side playing good attacking football at home at least.

We're going to have to be a lot more inventive this half than just lumping it at Wilbraham.

It's called irony chaps, it's often used to emphasise a point. I guess if your best argument against good law is that in some dystopian fantasy future there might be bad law that'll do for me. The important thing is that we make progress.

So now you're misquoting me and ducking the point completely? I said worrying about which side of imaginary lines on a map laws were made was stupid and it was more important that they were good. You said mumble mumble russian war across europe conscription bullshit mumble. Do you have an opinion on the specific article I linked yet?

You're countering a point made by using an actual real thing happening with something that ranges from improbable theory to impossible fantasy, so it doesn't stand up well, that's not surprising is it? Democracy isn't really a concern to me since it's broken at the national level, it's no more broken at the super national level. There's a lot wrong with the EU, almost as much as there is with the UK government, so why not stick to real things in your counter point? I guess resorting to pettiness is a good way of disguising that you have no real argument to make when presented with a concrete good law made by the EU that would never have been made by the UK.

You said absolutely nothing in that post - learning from Farage I see. I'm neither pro nor anti the EU. I'm anti stupidity. Worrying about which side of an imaginary line the law over which you have no control in either case got made, instead of how good a law it is, is idiocy of the highest order. I pointed out a good, positive law being made by the EU. I'd suggest there's **** all chance of the UK government having done that since they'd have sided with business and wanted leverage to increase surveillance. You can stick to the rhetoric and fictitious hyperbole, I'll look at the actual results and act accordingly.

It's not a hypothetical example though, it's an impossible one. You have no more control over law made in the UK than you do over law made in the EU so the quality of that law is far more important than the illusion of control. All this guff about allegiance to lines on a map and hyperbole is just typical little Englander nonsense. Be practical, concern yourself with reality not airy fairy abstracts that don't exist and imaginary situations that can't come to pass.

If there are any, and I doubt it, they will be far better than giving telcos who pretty much have a monopoly a means of making you pay them for everything twice without being able to blame them for it. Let's face it, it doesn't matter who makes the law when it's good law. Nor does it matter who makes the law when it's bad law. I've seen lots of sandy vaginas from people who seem to think it's important that it's our bunch of useless cretins who make laws - it isn't. It's just important that we get good laws.