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Wolves are a premiership team in waiting. 50mil spent and really it showed at their set pieces. Lucky to avoid going one down with their free kick in the first. Unlucky to come off smiths head for their first, but the delivery for the winner was brilliant. Can't blame pack for the delivery. It didn't look like a great goal scoring opportunity. 

11 hours ago, havanatopia said:

Very significant win and a superb performance. Somewhat bizarre City can be that good and the complete opposite v Preston. No complaints though!

We set up too attacking v preston. Massive gap between our midfield and defence. Brownhill and smith were pushed ever  deeper and then there was a massive gap between midfield and attack. josh is no defensive mid. Bringing pack in takes the shackles off them both. 

3 hours ago, palmerred said:

Ffs

magnussom fails to mark his man and a whipped in cross produces a goal,

Magnússon is shit, give Lloyd a chance ffs

Bit premature that. Thought he was very good today

31 minutes ago, RedM said:

Best game i've seen Ellisson play. Paterson and him changed the game. Completely stunned. 

Thought djuric was good too, and mags was transformed into the player he was start of last season. My motm

24 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said:

Be in no doubt we are a very good side and well deserving of our hard earned point, I love the fact that unlike the last 2 seasons we are not a team that will be bullied, in fact I thought our midfield was terrific today.

This was another strong performance.

Fielding 6 usual poor kicking and 1 mix up with Magnússon, but did little else  wrong.

Smith 8 terrific, strong always available and a great leader.

Flint 8 usual commanding performance.

Baker 8 he is quality.

Magnússon 5 so frustrating far too casual for me.

ODowda 7 all round game is improving by the game, especially his heading.

Brownhill 9 probably his best game for BCFC, MOM.

Pack 8 had one of his better games.

Bryan 7 so mature these days, even had time to rip Magnússon a new one after a casual mistake. I hope his injury is not a bad one.

Reid 7 his workmate is incredible, never gives up.

Taylor 6 to be fair he worked really hard rightly subbed he was tiring.

LJ 8 pretty much spot on all round, I might have brought Leko on, I think there was more space for him in this game than recent games.

Djuric 6 gave them something different to think about, should have done better when put clear.

Patterson 5 had a reasonable chance but took the wrong option.

Not convinced by Magnússon. Too slow off the ball and weak in the tackle. Poor decision making too. Can't understand why so many on here seem to love him. He is eminently droppable. I really really hope he improves, I don't like slagging any player.  but there's no evidence of any coolness in or out of possession in his last few starts. He needs to sort his confidence out. 

Any news on Bryan's injury? 

30 minutes ago, ashton_fan said:

I think some people on here being unfair to Magners:

a) He wasn't being played in his best position (CB)

b) He's hardly had any game time recently

c) His long throws gave them problems all afternoon and created the winning goal for Flinty

For me he did OK

Ok he is not a left back but he is too weak at cb as well. I remember Preston at home last season. He was absolutely overrun by their striker who scored 1 and laid one on. Away at Preston he came on at left back and had a complete mare, He got bullied like no other player did today. baker didn't have his best game either, but still looked far more solid than Magnússon. Having a long throw was his best asset today. Otherwise he was poor. 

53 minutes ago, JonDolman said:

Thought Johnson got it spot on with team and tactics. We were playing direct and hitting Cardiff on the break. We basically beat Cardiff at their own game. If we had passed it around like we usually do at home, then they would have hit us with pace on the break. But it was us breaking on them. O'Dowda getting their full back booked after a couple of minutes meant he had to be careful for the next 90 minutes. The Cardiff number 2 had a torrid time trying to cope with Calllum. I wasn't so keen on the system change. I thought we looked a bit all over the place. You want Flint in the middle, not on the right of a 3 man defence. But I do understand the change, having an extra body in midield and still having 2 up top. But just not keen on Flint as the right centre back, and O'Dowda wing back when Korey had been a rock on the right side of defence. But I guess they didn't really have any good chances from what I can remember late in the game. Only real negative is Magnússon. Really poor. I wonder how far away Lloyd Kelly is from becoming our new second choice left back.

Agree re Magnússon. Looked like a boy in a mans match. He made a decent tackle on their winger before their goal, but then didn't finish the job off by putting it out of play. Made the wrong decision more often than not

2 hours ago, mozo said:

Why did Djuric get high praise on radio but criticised by fans? Paterson wouldn't shut up about how good he was playing.

He was good in patches, better in the first half. Overall he kept the 2 big cbs busy, which opened things up around him. 

Who was it  who took Bryan out just after the red card and got a yellow. That was a knee high tackle too

5 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

Nice comment on the Rams forum by a poster called NottsRam77

is it lee johnson there in charge? Done a very good job.... but it hasnt happend overnight has it.'

And it wouldn't have happened at all if the panickers had had their way. 

That was unbelievably good. Every player is having a good game!!!

3-0 city. One goal just before half time and then 1 early second half and then one in stoppages

People were moaning no chances. Well now we've had chances. We have also conceded. 

Team is improved going forward, but less secure at the back. This is called football. Brownhill and odowda are more attacking than o'neil and little. Please don't be surprised if we now lose 1-2. 

Sounds like more threat now. 

13 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Quite possibly the most pathetic display I've seen  for years 

Johnson out 

Ridiculous comment. You obviously weren't at the Ipswich game then

I think people should only have the right to Moan this much if they have made the trip. Imagine if we were 1-0 down? It's only half time people and we ain't losing. 

Just now, cynic said:

He needs to do something to get some energy on the field.

Zero attempts at goal after 44 minutes is disgraceful, utter pants.

Recovery starts st the back. We have to stop conceding to end this horrendous run. I really don't care if we only have 1 chance if we score it and then keep a clean sheet. 

Tomlin is on poor form, but surely we need someone who is capable of putting a good ball in. I think he will come on for the last 30 if we don't score before then

1 minute ago, Fiale said:

Good job Geifer - saves decent forest effort

Poor shot that deflected so not really a decent effort. 

8 minutes ago, bristolcitysweden said:

Nothing to do with cleaverness. Subs in general have an impact. More to do with guts to make them. And why did they not start? 

He flooded the team with pace and one touch players who have skill but can get knocked off the ball. It could have worked, but Reid does not create as much space for Abraham as Tomlin, or hold the ball as well.  Pack seemed less positive in his passing than against Fulham or Leeds and had his poorest game for some time and goldbourne had a poor half re getting decent crosses in. 

1 hour ago, ChippenhamRed said:

He was the difference tonight in my opinion and short of his replacement scoring a hattrick, curing all diseases and ending all wars, he will return to the team immediately.

Has come into form now and it's unfortunate he misses Saturday. Should have got himself booked against Derby so he only missed the cup match. But I think we have enough without him. Paterson is also form and Reid. 

To those having a go at freeman. He's much improved this season. If he can manage to score, he may become the player he was 14/15

Given our dreadful record of not showing up at New York, this is a decent result. Rotherham have a good home record. Their away form is terrible. 

At 2-0 I thought it was 0 points, so we'll done to the team for salvaging a point. O'donnell and flint need to work on their communication. I'm sure they will learn from this

thete will be times this season I'm sure when city will get a lucky point against a team that outplayed us. Just as Rotherham did yesterday