First and foremost we have been here before in my 60 years supporting City, we lose to lower-ranked teams with regularity. Why? Well players just don't look arsed, they seem to mentally think this is a lower-level team we can turn up and walk over them, but time and time again it doesn't happen like that. Credit to Bradford who clearly could be arsed and did a job on us.
Having said all that, clearly we are very thin on the ground as far as quality is concerned. Wilk's tried hard, but his touch is awful and always has been. Cannon was probably the pick of the players on the night over 90 minutes, but he also is not good enough at Championship level. Covil is out of his depth at present and needs to spend time in the U21's. McLoughlin is an okay back up, but Jones/Figgy/Greaves are our best 3 centre backs.
Tufan looks quality though, and he is certainly proving doubters wrong, long may he continue to improve. I didn't think I would be saying this, but we need Docherty to be fit, as at least he brings some urgency to proceedings.
We desperately need to get injured players back and 3 or 4 new additions to bolster the ranks. We are a team in transition, these sorts of games are going to happen, so let's not get too hung up about it.