Redandy

Wilbraham back. Says it all

You could write the bl00dy script.It is so predictable.

Keep attacking!!!

13 minutes ago, tinman85 said:

Why can't we ever stick to a team! Poor management 

We can't have stability because Johnson still does not know what the best team is. I guess he will just keep on signing players until it works. What a way to manage a team. The bloke is utterly deluded.

Absolute shambles for the Ipswich goal.We look awful. Johnson selecting Tomlin on the left wing just about sums up how clueless the bloke is. Was here a year ago and we gave them a game. This is hopeless.

18 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

Ipswich away, Reading at home. Doesn't fill me with confidence.So Fleetwood at home could be a big, big match for Lee. It's all about results and three bad ones could even get SL worried.

If he is not worried by the team performances at the moment then I would be very concerned.

4 minutes ago, BCFC Grim said:

Another loss......what do we do though? We can keep sacking managers. It hasn't proved to work. There's something deeper than that. I dare question SL as he has done so much for the club I love, but who else is to blame? He owns this club, and when it comes down to it he is responsible.

 

I really don't know anymore......... 

Well you don't keep a Manager who doesn't have a clue.

10 minutes ago, fishy said:

After tuesday's performance I was hoping for so much more. Oh how disappointing. Why LJ took off Bobby Reid, I'll never know.

The worry is I don't think Johnson knows.

24 minutes ago, Flagon said:

Yes I agree. There is only so much he can do. It's a mindset thing, we lack so much focus at the moment in critical areas. The only thing he can do is keep faith with certain players for so long and make it clear in January where his thoughts lie. It's a shame, it feels very much like our own undoing but goes to show it will need a couple more transfer windows to try and get that consistent quality in.

I find it hard to understand how Johnson cannot take any blame for the current consistent fall towards the bottom of the table. Your post suggests that all we have to do is give him  2 more transfer windows and all will be fine. He is showing an inability to sort the problems we have had all season. The thought of him signing more like Paterson and Brownhill or players like Engvall to sit on the bench for half a season frankly is a major concern. 

7 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Exactly this. 

How can anyone critisise LJ for us dominating, playing well and being undone (again) by bad defending. 

The manager can only do so much! 

How can you criticise Johnson? Are you serious. Look at the results.

4 minutes ago, Loco Rojo said:

The knives never have time to go blunt around here.

Not like the team then.

3 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

We are a work in progress. Even our own manager says that. Works in progress don't have a complete team of top-quality players ready for the Premier League. They have a combination of excellent, good and average players.

We are improving - look at our league position compared to last year - and very few people expect us to be genuine promotion contenders this season.

Stop overreacting to every defeat and find some perspective on what we currently are. We will win games and we will lose games, because we are a mid table side.

How much longer will the work in progress excuse last. It seems to me that City at the moment are making no progress. Indeed since the end of last season we have gone backwards. About time LJ started to improve the performance of the squad  we have instead of talking of another 2 transfer windows.

How bad are we. Tammy stranded on his own up front. No outlet when we win the ball. Paterson utterly pathetic. I do not understand  LJ. He talks well but on the pitch it is like a training session for Reading. Second half can't be worse I hope. But the game is lost already.

I struggle with the constant changes of selection. Either LJ is a tactical genius or he still does not what his best team is. If this is the case then for me it is a bit of a worry 

15 minutes ago, Bobby Bollax said:

Time to panic we're down to 7th

Not the time to panic. But certainly to find why we start so poorly game after game.

1 minute ago, BCFC in my DNA 1957 said:

As it was being suggested. Can LJ do a Warnock and find a out of contract striker? Warnock managed to get 4 when the window was closed.

Must be somebody decent out there to link up with Tammy??

Odemwinghe surely could do a job for us. He apparently is willing to play in league 1.

6 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

We are what we are, a mediocre mid table championship side.

Ah well, up at 5 for work so off to bed.

I have to say  I will be very happy to be mid table particularly  if Tammy has some injury problems.

How disappointing is that. A sh1t Cardiff team with that knob Warnock in charge turn us over in only his first game. The real disappointment is you knew it was going to happen.

2 minutes ago, Curr Avon said:

City are still a work in progress. Great going forward, but prone to bad individual errors.

its still very early in the season and I back us to tighten up in defence.

A painful lesson learned is the positive way to spin it. 

2 minutes ago, DavidNoble said:

Yeah so so frustrating. But there are positives. Changes will be made. Let's not get on their back too much. We have a young squad and a player like Tomlin relies on confidence and fan belief, if we all start laying into him it'll be a huge waste of talent.

And we rely on our top signing to be able to score a penalty.

1 minute ago, Jetpac said:

To the people who dont believe it.... are you serious.. Bristol city have been world leaders in conceding goals in the last 5 minutes of a game for at least the last 5 years.. it really is quite an impressively poor record.

Ain't that the truth.

Back from work listening to the second half on the radio. We seem to losing tackles by the score and incapable of keeping hold of the ball. 

Not at the game but best of luck lads. COYR

41 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

Really pleased to see Freeman on the bench. 

No matter how much stick he gets on here, he's a quality footballer. 

In league 1 he is but jury out in the Championship.

1 hour ago, havanatopia said:

A very good afternoon to one and all. Match day 46. Where has the time gone. From the August sunshine of Hillsborough where most of us were still wearing a broad smile from the euphoric season before to the mid spring blooms of North West London with a relieved and relaxed mood about the camp and a renewed optimism for next season. From the supreme confidence of a manager who had just landed us a record breaking double to rants and spats with supporters in the space of 5 months and on to a prodigal son destined to have a crack at securing hero status if he achieves the ultimate dream anytime soon. Football is always thus; like life itself pace is rapid, change is eternal and after another blink of an eye time has passed us by.

And in approximately 9 hours from now the 121st season in the history of this football club will come to an end; that includes the DNA of Bristol South End. 9 seasons in the top flight and about the same number, slightly more in Level 2, in the middle two divisions and a couple in the wilderness. Our average is bottom of the Championship. This season, we have over achieved. Hopefully the level of over achievement we have just witnessed will not torture us for many years to come; time to improve on that average.

QPR, I wrote back in December, would be lifted by the arrival of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. That is not exactly how it has worked out for the Surinamer who has presided over just 6 wins in 27 matches since he oversaw his fist game in charge, a 0-0 draw at home to Burnley on December the 12th. He was a resounding success at Burton Albion but life with QPR has not yet been particularly pleasing, arriving on the day that Charlie Austin walked out the exit door. How he has spent that money, if he was indeed given any of it, is subject to debate but finishing mid table possibly only a win and a bubble and squeak ahead of us is a poor return. They have won one in the last eight and tend to have a propensity to draw at home and lose away. In fact they have won more games in less matches before he arrived; with thirteen victories all season they equal us. They really have missed Charlie Austin, JFH has stabilised the team under very tough financial constraints; could be the valid arguments why that is the case and it will be interesting to see today how City fans and the City team can get on the backs of our opposites to take the game to them.

I also wrote in December how QPR really are a small club in the west of London crowded out by so many other rivalries; they have not managed to assert themselves and never really have down the years save for a few glimpses of success. Its tough being squeezed in amongst a crowded field literally and metaphorically. However, some things are to be lauded such as the food; I do recall indulging in a rare football ground burger outside Loftus Road once and not that many years ago and it was top drawer. They proudly marketed the product as containing 100% ground beef from the organic farms of the West Country slotted between a low carb wholewheat bun. I felt I just had to buy one. To this day I can almost taste it. 

So that is it from me this season. Whether I shall venture these paths again next season remains to be seen. Perhaps a more deserving candidate will step into my shoes, perhaps I will be overwhelmed with all the humbling compliments and criticisms that I feel compelled to continue. I suppose only time will tell. As for Lee Johnson, I think he should be congratulated in equal measure with John Pemberton. Together, with Wade Elliott, the back room staff and those that have since left us we thank you all for keeping us in the second tier of the best Football League, in the worllllldddddddd.

Well done everyone for going to London today and don't forget the 'beam back' at Ashton Gate.. sure to be a delightful affair of passing, end to end football with a lot of young new faces given a run about and I am not talking about the young-uns in the Heineken Lounge. I would be more than happy though if Aaron Wilbraham pops up with an 81st minute goal again like he did at Ashton Gate to save our blushes only this time let it be the winner please. 1-3 with Tomlin sinking a blinder and Kodjia hitting his 20th league goal.

Good day all.

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I have been a sinner and not usually got around to reading your matchday post. It looked so long and I always seem to be in a rush. Today I sat down and read it and realised what I have been missing. Great read. Now I am hooked I hope you don't stop. 

38 minutes ago, spudski said:

I hope fans are also realistic...regardless of our Stadium, dreams, hopes, future plans, new manager, new scouts, new recruitment people etc, etc...however good they are...however much we plan to be better...we are still little ol' Bristol City...Un proven in this division. We are a small fish in a huge pond and trying to compete with other clubs is still going to be hard.

Players like Tomlin and Baker may come here on loan, to get first team football...but trying to sign them full time onto a 3 year contract is a completely different ball game...and that is regardless of who the manager is and his recruitment team.

We are who we are...an unfashionable club with no real history of achievement.

It's going to be hard.

I still do not think it is too much to ask to see a massive improvement in recruitment this summer in view of the shambles that took place last summer. Also I think we should not go on about us being a small fish. We need to start talking up the club and it's potential to attract the higher calibre players we need to progress.