Which team from the past would you use as a benchmark for a good footballing side to compare today's with Mussie? How many "great" sides have we had, it's before my time but the late 60s one with Waggy & Chillo seems to be the best, Horton's heros from the 80s I saw - Edwards, Whitehurst, Roberts, Jobbo etc, the 2007/8 promotion side was up there..
both are great examples of good footballing City teams. To be honest, until you replied I had not really realised that this is probably the best footballing City team since the 80s! I do remember the late 60s/early 70s with great reflection. Although as a kid during this period, my immediate memories of Ian Butler, et.al. are vague, although even at the tender age of 10 - 14 I remember a great team.
The Waggy Chillo Ian Butler forward line was awesome - the best city front line I have seen - pity the defence in that time was generally sh*te otherwise we would have walked it into the then First Division. The signs at the moment are very encouraging though. Hope we start to click in front of goal. Had we taken our chances in our last three away games at Bristol C, Donny and now Brighton we would be sat top of the league.
I certainly feel that this team with a Ken Wagstaff and Chris Chilton up front & Ken Houghton passing ability in mid-field would be a match for any team in this division.
Mussie - write that on a piece of paper, roll it up, put it in a bottle, and then stick that bottle right up Percy's jacksy. Maybe then the fool with lose the scales from his eyes (and the bitterness from his heart and mind)!
im happy with a point, and even happier with our 2nd half performance..what a difference it makes having a proper footballer in the middle of the park, robert koren pulling the strings, and we look a class act...i just hope he doesnt change him back to try and get cairney/mckenna back in. should have been 3 points mind if it wasnt for the useless sack of **** up top, dont care how hard he works, hes a supposed striker on thousands of pounds a week, and hes turd at finishing...waghorn back in (or hopefully a nice gift from the allams in january) and we might have a decent shout.
Saw the highlights from the game during half time at Brum V Leicester, cracking shot from Koren who we seem to be getting the best of in the middle of the park. Looked Mclean was unlucky with his shot against the bar (did he miss anything clear cut yesterday?) and a couple of decent saves from both keepers. Roll on Watford.
yes he went clean through one on one with the goalkeeper, the sort of chance strikers dream about and he hit straight at him, then after korens cracking shot it fell to him about 8 yards out with the goal gaping and he blasted it wide...and it was his **** 1st touch which sent cms through in the 1st half, hes a liability for me, id watch athletics if i wanted to see a good runner
I suppose NP will be a bit dissapointed (albeit secretly) with Mclean's goals tally & will move for Waghorn in January.
McLean seems much better when he doesn't have time to think, he managed a good shot that the bar yesterday(similar to his goal at Peterborough), but give him any time on the ball and he seems to panic. It was a good game yesterday, an entertaining attacking game that either team could have won. I thought their support was good, but ours was a bit tame considering the numbers(a few too many rugs and flasks). Not sure what happened with those numbers either, our ticket office seems to have over-egged our sales a bit and they announced the home end was sold out a week ago, yet there were empty seats. Very odd.
Just for the benefit of those who said Brighton would sell more tickets for this than the Leeds game, it appears there were actually a few hundred less Brighton fans at the Hull fixture as well as it being on a Saturday afternoon. The moral of the story is: don't trust your ticket office.
Saturday night actually, moved late in the day(very much to the annoyance of many people who'd already purchased non-transferable train tickets) due to some University open day, that's the reason we were a bit surprised that we sold as many as we did.
Leeds fans talking about attendances again. Couldn't make it up. It's like a stuck record. Your the third biggest City in England and there's only one team there. Also every town around Leeds, that has a team, are in lower divisions with the exception of Hull, Donny & Barnsley. Of course you'd get better attendances. I hope this isn't a way of consoling yourselves, that you're no longer as good as you were.
