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And that’s the frightening thing…there’s no quick fix. Relegation is a real possibility on form alone. A return to L1 will do us no favours, and I fear it will result in an extended stay.

Stealing a living, has done all season. At least Scott and Benyarous don’t mind sticking their boot in and getting in faces. Happy never to see him in the side again to be honest

I think that most people are fed up with the performances, yep this isn’t a great team, but getting out done by in the effort stakes time and time again is getting tedious. One of our continually lacklustre midfielders have recently been given a contract extension…What does that say? Swan about for 80 mins, bottle every tackle then get a new contract. Probably sums up this lot, life is far too comfortable for them.

Corrected it for you…

The bean counters have got to find a way of getting him some cash to spend, we’re not too far from looking like a relegation side, they might have the ability but there’s no application or performance. The club will lose more money by an extended stay in L1, as this lot aren’t tough enough for rough and tumble football, so will struggle to come back up.

Christ have our team put a large wedge on it being 3-0…they’re really trying to help Utd get another… pathetic again.

Nice consistency, if you are going to be a pedantic ref, and book players for that then you have to do it every time. Martin has a pop at the ref and he merely sends him away.

Great post and nice to move away from the negatives for a bit.... For me I guess it is the intrinsic bond that comes from the first wide-eyed experience of being taken to a game with your Dad when still in single figures age-wise, never having been to a place with that many adults and experiencing the noise that comes with it, sitting in a dark stand with the green of the pitch accentuated by the bright sunlight with red-shirted Gods on the pitch, doing the Panini album and the pride of opening up a packet of stickers finding you had the shirt badge of the Football, Robin and Bridge. Growing up a bit more brought the freedom moving on to going with school mates into the Shed, with underage drinking in the Robins and the Wedlock and the development of the Band of Brothers that comes from sharing the mutual love of the environment, going from the back to the front of the Shed when we scored, the singing, the dream of success, and our Saturday afternoon football being the prelude to a big night out, nipping home after the game to put something smart on in the hope that tonight was the night you'd pull, before meeting up in Clifton to start the night off. I just don't think this bond sealed in early years ever goes away, having moved away from Bristol to London when I was 17 and now just turned 50 on the South Coast, and living in Bexhill for longer than I ever did in Bristol, I should have no affiliation to the area or team, but I will always be a Bristolian and City will always be my team regardless of form or success. I've tried watching my local Conference team and Brighton before the Prem, but it almost feels disloyal to attempt to support someone else. I still come down to Bristol half a dozen times a year, and if City are at home will still go with my mates, although our football watching experience is much more refined now, apart from a pre-match skinful at The Orchard That said, with any long term relationship you don't always love them and now is a prime example of that, and it important to reflect that the today's owners, management and players are merely the current custodians of the role and in 10 years time are unlikely to be there, whereas, because of the bond signed, sealed, and delivered in Aug 1978 and built upon in the mid-80s, I still will be (health and marbles depending). This is why I care so much, for me it is quite literally, City 'Till I Die.

Exactly this, the performances of late have been incredibly poor, I’d argue worse than at the beginning of NP’s tenure. We only just beat Barnsley and they were by miles the better team on the day. Our league position is more to do with the shite that is around us rather than just our own abilities. I honestly can’t see what the NP regime is bringing, you occasionally see a bit of fight, but even that appears to have disappeared in the last few games. We are just over third of the way through the season, and we are relying on 2 other teams being worse than us, assuming that Derby don’t have some form of mini-resurrection. We just don’t even look like a team that can draw games, we are always going to concede, and at best we might score the odd goal ourselves. Would anyone else be able to get an immediate tune out of this lot, I’m not personally sure, if you brought in Warnock on a short term deal, he’d expect to have some players with a bit of fight but apart from one or two we’ve got nothing that fits the bill. Maybe the analysts can come up with a “nasty bastard” algorithm in their recruitment systems in time for Jan, as we need a couple of those, forget about the ability to carry the ball from defence or if they are good human beings, this lot needs players capable of fighting for 95 minutes and making City an utterly unpleasant team to play against.

Good 1st half, less so in the 2nd, might do well with a couple of stronger players around him to give him the platform, but he’s far too lightweight at times, and is not great when someone is running directly at him, nor at tracking back, seems slow. Jury’s out on him as far as I’m concerned, I don’t like writing young players off, but I’m swaying on the not good enough side.

Would that be as a starter, a main course or just the amuse-bouche?

Exactly this, a decent team would have just kept hold of the ball and dragged the Coventry back line all over the place. We are incapable of keeping the ball unless it’s going across the back 4 several times and then either back to the keeper to punt upfield or one of the CB’s doing it, which was essentially passing the ball back to the opposition so they can have another go, that combined with our tactics of defending deeper and deeper and not being prepared to press high caused the inevitable outcome. So predictable and depressing

I said in the match day thread that I was thinking of coming down to Bristol for the weekend to watch the Blackburn game at a cost of just over £200 with petrol, accom, tickets and cider. Just texted the guys I was going with to say let’s still do it but spend the match day ticket on a decent meal and I’ll stream the city game on my phone in a pub somewhere. First time in almost years of supporting City that I’ve ever considered skipping a game that I was planning to see, but why should my group of mates fork out the best part of £160 in the Lansdown to watch this level of shit. This lot can take their ******* man bags, headphones and flash cars and **** off.

I think we’re entering a zone where playing our talented kids might not do them any favours, certainly not in the long term. You need to nurture and not stick them in a bear pit, especially at home with an exceptionally pissed off home crowd.

Arguably 3 managers have been and gone with the players on the pitch today bar one, you have to question the attitude of those paid to kick the football if they can’t raise their game sufficiently for anyone of those 3. Not saying the management is without fault, but clearly there is something not right on the playing side, perhaps they all need to get pissed, have it out and then have a ******* good punch up, then have another go, sometimes that sorts the problems out on the shop floor.

I think he looked quietly seething, you can set them up as much as you want but if they don’t do their jobs and the basics against an effective organised team. Although Bakinson had a good game compared to recent performances he let players breeze past him more than once in the second half. Not scapegoating him as there are others but more to illustrate just doing the basics, you can tippy tappy all you like at Failand but sometimes you’ve got to be prepared to stick your foot in where it hurts, and it’s pretty clear that we don’t have 11 players with that attribute. As players Pearson and Fleming were uncompromising, do we have anyone like that?

No help required so slowly slump on to the floor and just lie there until tomorrow’s headache kicks in. Works for me every time.

I agree, on paper an excellent prospect, the CV slightly sullied by a couple of car crash clubs, but whatever he’s doing is not working or not working sufficiently well as to keep away relegation fears. It’s like any workplace, sometimes a new management manager does not fit the company or the workforce, and this is beginning to feel like that, yes the workforce could be better, but their manager is not able to make them gel into something that looks like a cohesive team. Maybe it’s time to let him go and get someone in in time for Blackburn.

I’m done with the current management set up now, I don’t know what system we are trying to play and neither do the players it seems, we can’t defend, we can’t hold onto the ball and we’re not creative enough, so that’s no area of the pitch where you can say improvement is evident. Sometimes you have to accept that somethings are not going to work and this feels like one of those situations. Time to see how much money Wilder wants

This team are absolutely ******* spineless at times. I’ve never known a team concede so many at last knockings. just debating the best part of a £200 weekend to come down to the Blackburn game… really making me think twice now, £50 petrol, £50 hotel, £40 quid for a ticket then cider… can’t say I want to watch this shit now, I’m done

The mistakes are amplified by the amount of work he has to do at times, saved us more points than lost though

Yep didn’t need to be cute there

Unsighted perhaps?

Very underrated post, we’ll done sir

All boils down to the fact that we can’t keep the ball for any length of time, it’s attack of defend and not much else