Wanderingred

That was rubbish.

2 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Very much second best, their technique & movement is far superior.

We knew that would be the case. Very happy to still be in the game. We’ll get one or maybe two more big chances, make them count and who knows?

Norwich fans after witnessing the incredible gas support.

1 hour ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Think a few of you misunderstood the question. I was saying it was the worse performance in a while, that clearly wasn’t the case. I was saying it was the worse all round experience for a long time.

Even some of the games mentioned, 6-0 home loss to Cardiff for example, at least there was an atmosphere, albeit hostile. People showed they cared.

Yesterday there was nothing, absolutely nothing. Performance was shocking, the atmosphere was nonexistent. I don’t remember one chant being sung. It was a chore for everyone that was there, players included.

If you had gone down for the first time ever yesterday, I don’t you’d be in any rush to return at any point!

I raise you a cold wet New Year’s Day against Reading, a few years ago under Lee Johnson. Zero atmosphere, everybody hung over and downbeat after a poor run. Our only game plan was to stifle Reading, and it totally killed the game as a spectacle but a fortunate penalty and scrappy Tammy goal somehow saw us 2-0 up.

Despite the score line, it was clear that nobody believed in us and expected us to throw it away. As soon as they scored their first, everyone was resigned to defeat which happened in the most spineless gutless fashion to lose 3-2. Awful. I took a friend, he hated it. I’d never felt so close to packing in football as I did that day. Perhaps not the dullest game or most inept performance ever but certainly the worst experience overall, especially given that I really can’t stand Reading.

7 hours ago, Robbored said:

Could be - it was around 30 years ago. 1993/4 iirc.

I struggle to remember individual seasons so I’m guessing a bit. 

1994/95 we lost 5-1 at home to Wolves under Russell Osman.

I think we can count ourselves lucky that the 2020-21 season was played behind closed doors. Surely one of our 13 home defeats would have featured in this list, but I doubt many of us can remember much about those games from Robins TV. What a truly miserable season that was.

I wonder if boring sag knows the last time his team helped the opposition end a run of 12 games without a win? How “noteworthy” are your results against Bolton and Portsmouth if you lose games like this?

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?

4 hours ago, Boring Sag said:

In the last 4 games Rovers have won 3 times, two of which were against the top 2. I'm not going to be the one to overhype us, I think we'll finish somewhere in the 8th-12th range, but here's a question. If winning a league game each against the top 2 (let's presume Portsmouth and Bolton finish top 2 for now, but right now it's comparative) isn't particularly noteworthy, when was the last time City did it in the Championship (hint: or equivalent before...)

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.

12 minutes ago, tin said:

Not sure they “did a job on us” when we didn’t have a single shot on target. Possession doesn’t win games; what you do with it does. 

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.

28 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

It’s an interesting point. One of my best mates is an Ipswich fan but based Bicester way so has watched Dons a fair bit and says there was huge difference with and post Twine. But he also says Manning needs time. The basic fact of that if he loses Twine and even with time it turns to ratshit the likelihood is his coaching isn’t that good so time makes no difference.

I’ve got an awful feeling he’s a bluffer. 

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.

5 hours ago, richwwtk said:

How is it 25 years of under achieving? You would be hard pushed to find a 25 year period in our history where our average league placing was higher.

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.