Wanderingred

The original post was ridiculous, as are people throwing their toys out of the pram today. This forum is a good read on non match days. Post match, it’s full of absolute drivel.

I’m actually amused that people are angry and surprised by this. Anyone who didn’t see this coming is incredibly naive. This is Bristol City!!!

Surely we can’t win again? I mean, that wouldn’t be Bristol City would it?

I have absolutely no idea about the last time we beat the two teams who were 1st and 2nd at Christmas because it’s not a statistic that any normal football fan would take note of. Consider this for context though. In the 2012-13 season, we comfortably beat Cardiff (champions), Watford (3rd and playoff finalists) and Crystal Palace (playoff winners) at Ashton Gate. Our finishing position that season? Dead last and relegated. We weren’t crowing like a bunch of weirdos for beating two promoted teams were we? I also remember beating both our promotion challengers QPR and Plymouth at home in the space of a week, yet we ended up missing out on promotion, so the boast was meaningless and would have been met with ridicule. Your fanbase are strange and deluded. You clutch at really odd straws in order to try and get one over us. A bigger percentage of your home crowds travel away than us? Just means your home support is rubbish. Your ground is fuller than our in terms of capacity? Just means your ground is a little shoebox. This is just another meaningless dig that is quite frankly hilarious.

That’s my point though. No shots on target would suggest that they did a good job of nullifying us, coming after seven goals scored in our previous two.

They did a job on us. The sort of performance you’d expect from an away side.

I have no idea where their laughably blind optimism is coming from. It’s not as if they are even on a particularly good run. They’re so weird.

Went to Yeovil vs Taunton. A total mismatch of a game. Yeovil have a professional set up and some football league quality in their ranks. Taunton players were obviously part time, nowhere near as fit and some of them looked overweight. Crowd of 6000+ could well be an all time record for that level.

This forum.

Two massive home wins, both gutsy as **** against technically better opponents. I’m impressed.

Sunderland fans are class. Up there with Wednesday as the very best in the division in terms of consistent numbers and noise.

Ironic how when we actually did have a top six squad (albeit one that needed reinforcements) JL said “promotion is not the aim”, and we tailed off due to injuries and fatigue. Utterly clueless.

I think that will fall on deaf ears. Saturday will be my first City game for over a year. I should be buzzing, but honestly I’m dreading it. There will be very little positive support for the team, just everyone waiting for us to slip up so they can vent their frustration.

They also lost his strike partner Parrott, and Darling, their best defender. They relied a lot on loanees as well that season who returned to their parent clubs. A third placed finish in league 1 with 89 points and a fantastic start with Oxford… I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt and If he turns out to be out of his depth after a solid half a season then fair enough.

I agree with everything regarding the owners and the awful decisions they’ve made. But just for some perspective, let’s not kid ourselves that this dip in form is due to Manning. We lost five out of NP’s final seven games in charge so the rut had already set in. There were bad periods of last season as well, where you can argue we had a much stronger squad… A year ago for example, we won one game in twelve; including that awful cup performance against Lincoln. It’s way too early to be saying things like Manning is undoing all of Pearson’s work. There’s no evidence that we’d have any more points if he was still here.

A cold, dark December Tuesday night up in Lancashire… Fair play to anyone making a journey like that. I’d imagine Blackburn will be slight favourites here an I’d expect a narrow defeat.

All that does is highlight the fact that we are serial underachievers and have done pretty much nothing of note for 120 years. I can’t believe there are still people trotting out the “be careful what you wish for” line when talking about our ownership. I just don't have the words to express how much I like this post!

I’m finding it hard to support this team, right now, honestly. The mismanagement, the dishonesty, the incompetence and the constant failure to ever learn from mistakes that has created the current set up and led to what we see right now… Honestly we deserve failure. The only exception to that, being us fans of course.

We are weak as piss. No backbone.

That’s exactly what we deserve for being such a soft touch.

We are so utterly dominant here that I expect us to concede soon.

Huddersfield are fourth from bottom, yet will go just two points behind us if they beat us. In form QPR could also cut the gap to six points if they win their home game/ Potentially looking nervously over our shoulders come 5pm?

Stoke x2

Not bad at all that. Great little move for the goal. Surely Norwich can’t play that badly again for the second half though…

Does it have to be 10% of the capacity? At least 6k then. Good to get a decent draw for once, a ground we’ve never played at.