JoeAman08

2 minutes ago, Shtanley said:

Happy days boys we've stayed up if it's over 

Well whereas we could've pulled away by beating Rotherham, we now find ourselves a point of relegation and in a dog fight with 6-7 other teams. Would've been nice being a few points clear of everyone else. The mid table sides are also starting to pull away from the bottom. It's pretty clear where we'll end up. It's not over by all means but it's pretty obvious why most are nervous. We are inconsistent, can't finish and have the smallest squad in the league. It's not a good recipe for staying up. And if we do stay up, is 20th good enough to attract better players? In January, when we are 19th and 4 points clear of relegation, can we recruit quality? Doesn't seem likely. When we finish 18th and Kodjia gets an offer from Villa or Norwich, will he stay with us? 

1 minute ago, Loderingo said:

Time to bring back Wilbs?  He got some flack but we were scoring more when he was in the team.

Agard has been good and working hard. I like him in there. I wouldn't mind rotating(wtf is that?!?) them a bit. Cotterhill isn't a fan of using his whole squad though. I prefer Wilbraham in away matches though. Just seem like the type of player needed to get the young team going away from home. Agard on the other hand fires up the home crowd by pressing and using his pace. Don't think Wilbs should be just sitting on the bench. 

3 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Are some of our team ,shagged out or simply carrying knocks from Hull ?

Possibly but you have to assume some of Rotherham are carrying knocks from the Leeds game. Everyone is carrying knocks in this league. Other teams have enough cover to give someone a game off if need be. 

3 minutes ago, glos old boy said:

Wow the seasons ended already.............are you from Swindon

If you can't see we have a league 1 team that is a you problem. Of course we can stay up but only because there are bad teams around us. 

7 minutes ago, EmersonsRed said:

I don't know what people expected in all honesty. Easy wins every week?

I expected a good chance at winning after almost beating a team that was in the prem 6 months ago considering we are playing a team that is second bottom. I didn't expect the game to be basically over by HT with them up two. I didn't expect it to be easy but I expected better and I think it's fair to assume everyone expected better. 

The problem isn't the results. It's the message the club is trying to send us. Big bids on players, players saying they're finding form and can push up, the new stadium. It doesn't fit with what is happening. We are a small club and that's ok. Come out say it and act it. Don't shed salary hoping to use 2 players worth of salary on one tar then fail. We could use Greg Cunningham and JET who funnily enough meet our criteria of young experienced players. The club keeps saying it's bigger than it is and expecting to get bigger because of it. 

Sure the summer is over and nothing can be done now but it'll be looked back at in 10-15 years as a missed opportunity. January won't be the answer with the position well be at in an hour. Blackburn got it together. Preston defend way better than us. Rotherham have a new manager and are about to put 6 points up in 2 matches something we haven't come close to doing. We are one of the worst teams in the division and the club only has itself to blame. Loans were there. Free agents were there. Signings were there. We wanted to be a big fish on a little budget and we are getting smacked around. 

So you can understand the frustration. We were lied to. We were told the club is on the up. They had good intentions but failed. All we will have to show for it is a tidy profit on Kodjia and league 1 football. 

1 minute ago, cityexile said:

Not sure if this is ironic or not. Hope so.

Still an hour left. The stats make it seem like we are capable of a comeback. I'll hold on to some hope 

Cotts out. Woeful team. I'll enjoy mid table in league 1 next season though. Well done City. Embarrassment to Bristol

It's a good point but I feel we could've gotten another goal before they scored. First half was a good game plan. They had possession and we kept our shape and countered well. Won a few fouls and got a goal. When we had the ball we tried to go forward. 

Then second half came and it looked like everyone's first thought was to pass backwards. Why? Seen Pack and Williams do it. Received ball and immediately turned to pass back and put our back 3 under pressure. There was no need to sit so far back so early. Thought their goal was Pack's fault. Think it was a long ball and he decided not to jump for it. That Elohamady won quite a few headers and think Pack let off that once and it was flicked on to Diame. 

We just need to keep that belief. We've shown we can play with most teams on our day. I'd rather concede our first trying to get a second then be pinned back and concede and feel like the 2nd for the opposition is inevitable as it did yesterday. We could've had 2 or 3 in the first half if it weren't for some cynical fouls and we took the pressure off in 2nd half and maybe kept some of their players on the pitch when we could've been running at a couple defenders on yellows.

An away point is ok. This is the type of team we need to be getting 3 points against though. There aren't many of them and we won't always beat them but that's now 3 points from 3 games against teams we will be battling it out with to stay up. If what we've been told about how good our team is, that isn't acceptable.

Sky said justice done as it didn't look a penalty to them. Justice aside, why does it seem we have no luck with penalties this season? 

3 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Well that didn't take long.

So what happens if we do lose? Prepare for League 1?

30 games to go after today...

Plenty to go after today, yes. Bolton is the kind of team we need to be beating if we want to have a good season. Sure, some think just staying up will be ok. I don't. I think we need to do a bit better than that. Above 15th to keep any momentum and some of our best players. Beating a team like Bolton is one way to get the momentum flowing and back to back wins. Especially as well be very much the underdog in our next match against Hull. 

Exactky. I still hope Cotts was right and after 15 or so games we get it together. Though, he also said what gets you ahead keeps you ahead. Then he took off an attacker in Bennett for a CB. That's not playing the same football is it? So it's been a season of contradictions for me. Need to actually play the full 90 like we did at Boro and we will be more than fine. I still think 10-14th is realistic for us but the results need to start happening now. 

I don't see how you can't be disappointed. Regardless of the opposition, we've had leads in our last 4 matches and won only 1 of them. It's the same problems every week. We don't take our chances and opposing teams do. The subs are always too little too late. We can't defend and play with the ball too much. Everyone sees the problems and they don't get fixed. 

Of course tonight was tough but we done ourselves no favors by losing leads in about half our matches this season. Beat MK Dons and Ipswich and this is an easier loss but we don't take care of our points and we lose them. 

Thought Little could've done more to get in front of Fraser for the equalizer.  Before the game I would've said its a good draw but feels like we can't catch the break we need at the moment. Sure Freeman had some luck in the goal but for the most part we can't catch a break. 

no I wrote it like that on purpose. You were able to decipher it so what's the problem? I didn't know this was an English lesson teacher, please forgive me. ******* knob

Before the game I would've taken a point but considering we were up with less than 5 minutes remaining, I think it hurts. Maybe tomorrow the lads can look back and say we played well but today it hurts. 

Again badically no subs used or used much too late. Sure we could've used fresh legs. I know Pack and Wilbs are tall and can help in the box defensively but we were already quite big back there. An away point is good but considering all things should've had 3.

must win at home to MK dons

Yellow cards for 3 of our players. I'm sure they were tired from a tough 85 minutes and still no substitutions. Fresh legs couldn't have hurt, right? 

yes very excited 

Kodjia second!!! Get in!!!! 

Ill take 0-0 at HT.

back at Leicester where they are trying to figure out why he's had bad headaches all week. 

On the bbc site it looks as though Ayling is in midfield with Flint Baker Williams back 3. 

How I read it on there. Only way I could see it really. I'll have to wait until someone there tells us. 

Great write up. Orlando Sa is suspended for 3 matches so that is good news for us as he's been in fine form. As stated though, they have so many options and especially going forward that it'll be difficult no matter what. It's so hard to make predictions in this league but I think we will get it together today and they will miss Sa as we win 3-1.

Where is Fredericks? Only 6 subs and he wasn't on it