Red-Robbo Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I wouldn't say the performance today was "utter shit" but we looked toothless until we switched to the more productive 2-5-3 formation. I can't say I have any more confidence in Lee Johnson now than I did before the match but I don't think he's going to go so let's just be happy we took 4 points from the last two games and pray that - as sometimes happens with City - playing 4 decent sides in the tough array of matches to come somehow lifts our performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 3 hours ago, GrahamC said: Yep, on the basis of that abysmal display I can't believe for a minute LJ will still be in charge for our next home game. 3 hours ago, Charliesboots said: He will be, unfortunately Graham - I agree with your post, but unfortunately I also agree with what Charlie says (the exact opposite). Only time will tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Dazzler Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I am absolutely thrilled that we were able to win an ugly game, as alluded to earlier there are plenty of complaints - me included - when we can't grind out a result. I am actually quite shocked at the number of people who think it matters how we won this game, the 3 points today were the only thing that mattered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfieldred Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 17 minutes ago, WestonRobin said: Yes, the game changed after the substitutions but is that down to the change in formation or the players who came on? Tomlin didnt turn up today - I think we can all agree with that - but to be effective he needs to have options and movement ahead of him. Playing Tammy up top on its own doesn't provide him with enough freedom to do what he does best. After the subs we had Paterson runnning at Rotherham and their defence was being pulled all over the place by Taylor (some really good movement at times) and Djuric (he was closing and putting them under a lot of pressure). Personally, I'd have liked to have seen this from the start (2 up top not necessarily Taylor and Djuric)...it may not have been such a poor spectacle then. You could argue for keeping tammy on, but he really wasn't at it today. Taylor was much more physical and ran at them with the ball. Flicks and back heals are great when there are not 7 men behind the ball and the recipient is through on goal, but as both tammy and Tomlin proved, today was not a day for that type of play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric04 Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 1 hour ago, redfieldred said: He now needs to get 2 fullbacks on loan. No loan window anymore. Unless we sign free agents (and Paul Caddis is available) that's it until the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 3 hours ago, Charliesboots said: You thread title has perfectly summed up my thoughts on the game. I agree entirely, it was absolute garbage for 60 minutes, bloody dreadful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INCRED Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Will happily take dog shite as an appraisal of the game as long as we get 3 points. Hope we have more dog shite over the next month!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs3 Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 3 hours ago, Up The City! said: Since when has winning been utter shite? I'll tell you what is utter shite, losing so many games in a row. Winning is delightful. Maybe you need to learn how to enjoy a win? Good to get 3 points but that was the worst I've seen a City team play to win a game. I fear for us, I can't see us winning another game this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Hankey Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Delighted we won, but cant see us winning another game all season playing like that. LJ is so far out of his depth its embarassing, will be majorly suprised if he gets another gig after us, damaging his own reputation game by game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkz 76 Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Positives of today- 3 points clean sheet moral boosting negatives - none Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 As poor as Tomlin was today, I felt a bit for him...maybe I'm too nice. I think he put a lot into Tuesday, and even though he was on for 80 minutes I reckon he had at least 15 minutes where he didn't go looking for the ball because he was struggling, following having the squits. It can take a bit to get over that physically, let alone for Tomlin, who's not a naturally fit player. Suspect that they've only trained lightly this week, and maybe his fitness has gone under the radar. He'll know he wasn't at his best today, but now got a week to build himself up for Derby. Not saying he should start, just needs to get as fit as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 3 hours ago, Charliesboots said: I want to believe he will be gone if that was the case but there is a lot of love still for him in the Directors Box this afternoon Maybe they should put the club ahead of LJ. Who he is and his history with the club counts for nothing when they tot-up the points after the final game of the season. Sentimental nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I'm a man of means by no means King of the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WECANDO Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Agree the first chunk of this game was devoid of shape, passion and spark. Didn't join in the booing when LJ took Abraham, Tomlin and Little except that Little should have been off half an hour earlier. To me it always was Abraham and Tomlin or Djuric and Taylor. When the latter came on it certainly livened up. Djuric is our Andy Carroll, a bloody handful for opponents defences. He takes any type of ball to him down and controls it. He gets up to direct balls with his head accurately and can also flick them on. He doesn't lose possession either. The goal today will do him a power of good. As to Taylor. He looks the perfect foil for Djuric. A speedy skilfull player who can run with the ball at speed. Not forgetting the lively Paterson and a great start by Cotterill. I think we will get over the line this season but not by to much. Next season, I believe we will be a force. So keep getting behind the lads and let's get them over the line. Four away games on the trot. We can get points from these no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric04 Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 10 minutes ago, WECANDO said: Agree the first chunk of this game was devoid of shape, passion and spark. Didn't join in the booing when LJ took Abraham, Tomlin and Little except that Little should have been off half an hour earlier. To me it always was Abraham and Tomlin or Djuric and Taylor. When the latter came on it certainly livened up. Djuric is our Andy Carroll, a bloody handful for opponents defences. He takes any type of ball to him down and controls it. He gets up to direct balls with his head accurately and can also flick them on. He doesn't lose possession either. The goal today will do him a power of good. As to Taylor. He looks the perfect foil for Djuric. A speedy skilfull player who can run with the ball at speed. Not forgetting the lively Paterson and a great start by Cotterill. I think we will get over the line this season but not by to much. Next season, I believe we will be a force. So keep getting behind the lads and let's get them over the line. Four away games on the trot. We can get points from these no problem. I'll have a plate full of what you're on...... but agree on Djuric and Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 2 hours ago, redfieldred said: At Well we improved a lot with the substitutions. What does that say about the 2 most loved players at the gate. Tomlin and tammy. When they went off we came alive. That is a fact. But no we can't blame them so blame Johnson who made the substitutions that won the match to boos and a chant from some of you don't know what your doing! Well I beg to differ. He was doing exactly what I would have done He did pick the team right? Tammy is running on empty and has been for weeks. No support no help no chance. Playing a kid up front on his own will do that. Yep he changed it no doubt and we won no doubt again. But there is no doubt he was and is the manager of our worst run in history after spending the most money any man has ever had at our club. We go again next week and we hope that we get something. But the facts are clear. It's down to our players to win some games despite of him, not because of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up The City! Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 1 hour ago, bs3 said: Good to get 3 points but that was the worst I've seen a City team play to win a game. I fear for us, I can't see us winning another game this season. I was delighted that we achieved a couple of milestones. First we got the win. Kept a clean sheet. We saw out the game. All things that we have been unable to achieve recently and has saw this place go into meltdown. These players were terrorfied of losing and that showed in the performance but if we can carry on like this then they will become more confident that they can see games out and we will see more freedom in the play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfieldred Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Sheff Wednesday were shit on Friday and still beat Wigan. Looking at Wednesday I would not see why they are top third. Likewise can't judge city by this performance, the pressure was immense and too many froze first half and played with fear. Luckily that didn't cost us, and the subs changed the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 42 minutes ago, Up The City! said: I was delighted that we achieved a couple of milestones. First we got the win. Kept a clean sheet. We saw out the game. All things that we have been unable to achieve recently and has saw this place go into meltdown. These players were terrorfied of losing and that showed in the performance but if we can carry on like this then they will become more confident that they can see games out and we will see more freedom in the play. You are utterly deluded. Rotherham are, as results over 29 games show, by a country mile the worst side in the division. For well over an hour today it was utterly impossible to tell which of two totally abysmal teams was the one that is well adrift at the bottom of the table. We scraped the ugliest of wins and now you think we will become "more confident" when we face Derby, Leeds, Newcastle and Villa? Sides who are light years better than Rotherham and who will make us look desperately poor. We are now in a fight with four teams for two places, of these Blackburn have spent just £250k on players this season, Burton £600k whereas we have spent north of £15m. What a ******* shambles that is and I have no doubt at all why we are in this mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliesboots Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 1 minute ago, GrahamC said: You are utterly deluded. Rotherham are, as results over 29 games show, by a country mile the worst side in the division. For well over an hour today it was utterly impossible to tell which of two totally abysmal teams was the one that is well adrift at the bottom of the table. We scraped the ugliest of wins and now you think we will become "more confident" when we face Derby, Leeds, Newcastle and Villa? Sides who are light years better than Rotherham and who will make us look desperately poor. We are now in a fight with four teams for two places, of these Blackburn have spent just £250k on players this season, Burton £600k whereas we have spent north of £15m. What a ******* shambles that is and I have no doubt at all why we are in this mess. Man that's gonna be painful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manon Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 7 minutes ago, GrahamC said: You are utterly deluded. Rotherham are, as results over 29 games show, by a country mile the worst side in the division. For well over an hour today it was utterly impossible to tell which of two totally abysmal teams was the one that is well adrift at the bottom of the table. We scraped the ugliest of wins and now you think we will become "more confident" when we face Derby, Leeds, Newcastle and Villa? Sides who are light years better than Rotherham and who will make us look desperately poor. We are now in a fight with four teams for two places, of these Blackburn have spent just £250k on players this season, Burton £600k whereas we have spent north of £15m. What a ******* shambles that is and I have no doubt at all why we are in this mess. Is difficult to argue with that. However, despite the performance, there are still signs that the SS Bristol City is turning. Whether she'll avoid the iceberg remains to be seen. The problem is confidence (imo), and that will only come with points, wins and clean sheets so this week has been a good start on that. Once the confidence returns, I'm sure the football will follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 15 minutes ago, GrahamC said: For well over an hour today it was utterly impossible to tell which of two totally abysmal teams was the one that is well adrift at the bottom of the table. We scraped the ugliest of wins and now you think we will become "more confident" when we face Derby, Leeds, Newcastle and Villa? Said the same thing after the game. Fantastic to finally win again but a very hollow result given that all the things we needed - to "get our game back" as LJ calls it (and on the basis of his own language, we seemed to have lost it again today) or to give the players some confidence in their ability - were absent, it was three points but none of the things we actually needed to take into the hardest month of our season. Today I did actually wonder if they were, you know, still playing for him... Big midweek game against Wednesday, proper shift. But THE game against Rotherham that many said was his job, players mail it in. Hmmmm..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up The City! Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 32 minutes ago, GrahamC said: You are utterly deluded. Rotherham are, as results over 29 games show, by a country mile the worst side in the division. For well over an hour today it was utterly impossible to tell which of two totally abysmal teams was the one that is well adrift at the bottom of the table. We scraped the ugliest of wins and now you think we will become "more confident" when we face Derby, Leeds, Newcastle and Villa? Sides who are light years better than Rotherham and who will make us look desperately poor. We are now in a fight with four teams for two places, of these Blackburn have spent just £250k on players this season, Burton £600k whereas we have spent north of £15m. What a ******* shambles that is and I have no doubt at all why we are in this mess. We competed against these sides earlier in the season so on the back of the last two games I'm confident as the underdogs with that underdog spirit we can get some results. Bloody he'll what is going on here? Why are you scared to play these teams? Being in the Championship is all about playing these teams and I'm excited for them. Maybe it may be best we are relegated so we don't have to worry about playing these scary teams? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Just now, Up The City! said: We competed against these sides earlier in the season so on the back of the last two games I'm confident as the underdogs with that underdog spirit we can get some results. Bloody he'll what is going on here? Why are you scared to play these teams? Being in the Championship is all about playing these teams and I'm excited for them. Maybe it may be best we are relegated so we don't have to worry about playing these scary teams? What a stupid, selective reply. I notice you didn't comment on how poor we were against by far the worst team in the division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up The City! Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 1 minute ago, GrahamC said: What a stupid, selective reply. I notice you didn't comment on how poor we were against by far the worst team in the division. Same could be said for your reply. No need to get all grumpy on me. Do I really need to once again give my views on today's game? But just for you I thought it was an effective performance and a welcome win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobintheRed Red Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 3 hours ago, Mr Hankey said: Delighted we won, but cant see us winning another game all season playing like that. LJ is so far out of his depth its embarassing, will be majorly suprised if he gets another gig after us, damaging his own reputation game by game. spot on mate league one written all over us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears in rain Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Crazy to think we had 30+ shots and 70% possession was it? Whilst away at Rotherham in the early season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Doozerchris said: If Rotherham are the worse team in this division then run them a close 2nd Come on, it's a close 5th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portland Bill Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 25 minutes ago, Up The City! said: We competed against these sides earlier in the season so on the back of the last two games I'm confident as the underdogs with that underdog spirit we can get some results. Bloody he'll what is going on here? Why are you scared to play these teams? Being in the Championship is all about playing these teams and I'm excited for them. Maybe it may be best we are relegated so we don't have to worry about playing these scary teams? I think we would all be excited re these next 4 away games, if, we felt our coach was able to tactically use the £15 million pounds worth of players he has signed. You can disagree with me all you want, but deep down you know that he hasn't, otherwise we wouldn't be in a relegation battle. We have some real quality players, but haven't got a team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Everyone has to be happy because we won one game of 46 and it doesn't matter if we go down because we won today so until the next game you can't be negative, you all got it?!?!?!!!!!one!!1!!! edit: ps ignore the worst run in history, we won a game!! clean slate mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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