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I think we're top of the last 6 form table now

1 minute ago, George Rs said:

Twine, Williams and Conway all making signature gestures. 

Interesting to say the least

Don't get me excited!!

1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said:

Absolutely. Absolutely. Also, I thought...I do t know if you play golf, but "Par" is actually a pretty great result. Play an entire round in Par and anyone would be delighted.

So if that was what you originally took umbrage with then it's actually a compliment.

As they're a client of mine I'd selfishly really quite like them to stay up for budget-preservation reasons. I can understand that no one else cares about this though!

5 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Not a criticism nor a slight at Manning,  merely an observation on Rotherham. Countered with the fact we were playing some good stuff. Not sure of the need to be quite so fractious and take umbrage at every line in the thought that everything is an insinuation.

Perhaps the forum needs the season to come to an end…

5 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I can't speak for others but I don't think I have personally ever said we cannot break down "lesser" teams.

I think we've had issues breaking down conservative, defensive teams that sit in with a low block. A team can be low down the league table playing any style of it's not got the players to do it. None of the teams you mention are that kind of "low block team" either, so I see no real surprise in losing to Sheffield Wednesday and QPR, but beating Plymouth and Blackburn. This was an issue under the previous regime as well as the current one so it's, in my opinion, an issue with the squad rather than the coaching staff.

Regardless, we're currently playing a team that was relegated weeks ago, has conceded almost 2 a game whilst scoring less than 1 a game, and is roundly heralded as one of the worst teams in the Championship for many a season. They've also rested their one good player - their goalkeeper.

An easy 2-0 is a decent, but expected, result. We've done it without really breaking a sweat, and that's to be applauded. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a big achievement. I'm just delighted to watch City dominate and win against anyone 

Just now, cityexile said:

Huddersfield (as good) as down. Looks to be between Birmingham and Plymouth. Would need both to win to drag Sheff Wed back in to it.

Can we finally flush them Bham down the bowl?

It would be very funny if Birmingham went down

10 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Sometimes you have to admit the opposition are not all that. Some good stuff being played though.

9 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

If a lion dominates a mouse is that something to celebrate?

The relative quality of the opposition, and their particular circumstances at the time we play them, always has to be to be taken into account. 

Well according to many on this forum, Manning's City can't break down the lesser teams. Then we beat Plymouth, Blackburn, Swansea and now Rotherham (maybe Stoke next week), and the new criticism is that the opponents aren't good enough.

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

That's the first time I've ever heard someone extrapolate a statement of "should" from someone simply stating a mathematical fact.

It's just a fact that illustrates how utter cack Rotherham are defensively.

Mehmeti's too? *

*just a joke, just a joke  

It was a curious fact to reach for when we should be celebrating a dominant performance 

Cardiff getting smashed 

Is that Tommy and Matty's last minutes at Ashton Gate?!

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Just for context. 2 is (rounded from 1.93) the average number of goals conceded by Rotherham this season.

Par.

That's the first time I've ever heard someone calculate the average goals concedes of an opposition to then extrapolate how many we should score!!!??

What a player Roberts is!

What I love about this is City are attacking like we need to score. They're not getting complacent.

This is total domination. 

Just now, George Rs said:

Standard of crossing is incredibly poor especially when a decent majority are unchallenged. 

It's never an early cross, we release at the last moment

Really nice kick from Max

As it stands, we are 2 points off 8th

I thought from TV there was contact before a dramatic tumble from Conway. 

Another game where we are excellent in Midfield, then clumsy round the box

1 minute ago, petehinton said:

Mehmeti

Mebude would have smashed that in

Just now, And Its Smith said:

Incredible save from Max to keep it nil nil…..

Straight at him?

Just now, Lanterne Rouge said:

Owls winning

The only team with a goal in the division!

5 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Incredibly wasteful so far 

Bristol City wasteful in the final third? Surely it can't be so??

5 minutes ago, petehinton said:

I think King will get some minute today, as a “final time at AG as a fan/player” type treat. 

3 minutes ago, eardun said:

Surprised Knight on the bench - although perhaps a last look at James 

Maybe 3 players getting a send off! 

16 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

yeah, don't agree they were meaningless in fairness WSMS.

I think had they not improved there would be some serious conversations happening above.  Possibly more along the lines of how do we make this work, ie spend in the summer.

Had it gone disastrously, ie lose 5 out of 6, I think he might not have made the summer.

But it hasn't, form (can I use that word?) has turned around and recovered a position to 'respectable'....just needs to continue this now.

 

Yeah almost every manager is under scrutiny after 5 defeats in 6 games. Football is brutal like that. Just because there wasn't top end or bottom end pressure, the Club would have been feeling it, and that's a big reason for the Swansea game. A management team under pressure, players lower on confidence, and a palpable sense of relief afterwards which led into a different mindset, and therefore different results.

I'm not justifying the cautiousness, which did my head in that day, but that's the context that feulled it imo (and Manning has pretty much confirmed that). 

1 hour ago, Ashton Fete said:

Thumping 5-0 win with Williams to score a screamer from outside the box that rebounds off the corner flag and goes in

I'm totally on board with this 

53 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

Just for context on the ‘meaningless’ nature of those 6 games.

If we’d lost all 6, we’d currently be a point off the drop zone, with one win in 12 and a very real possibility of relegation. Would they have been meaningless then @W-S-M Seagull?

Yep, and they certainly weren't meaningless for Manning, who was under pressure at that stage.

6 hours ago, AirlieBeachRed said:

Most countries haven't won one either, and never will. Count the nations to win a tournament in your lifetime and there aren't many, there aren't many in the games history who have.

Since 1966, surely every other major footballing nation has won a tournament, plus a few lesser nations?

Certainly the big two South American teams have multiple trophies.

In Europe, France, Italy, Germany and Spain have all won multiple trophies in that time. 

Then even Holland, Portugal, Greece and Denmark have beaten us to it. 

That is depressing! Mind you, Le Tournoi...