"The wheels are going to fall off Brighton promotion push,and we've not seen the best of city yet, when are both going to happen"
Remember when we were in the PL, being the **** team stopping the better team from winning? Well now the other teams are the **** teams stopping us playing!
You have to put Derby and Brighton ahead of us in the promotion race so logically that means play-offs. As i said before, the Middlesborough match aside, we are failing when it counts from the back of end last season to now, in key games like the Burnley/Derby/Leeds fixtures so anybody thinking we will get through the play-offs and go up needs a reality check in my opinion. I feel sorry for fellas like you with long trips to support us who can see whats going on and come regardless and the away support, the diehards deserve total respect
You might get the same 'application' as we did against Middlesboro every week if we could field the same team who played against Boro every week and every team came to the KC, like they did, and tried to attack us instead of sticking ten men behind the ball.
For all your bleating about being a superior veteran fan you don't really see the game do you Either that or age is catching up with you. Middlesbrough treated the pitch at the KC like a bus park.
'Superior veteran supporter' eh ? You making up your own stories again? For the record, look back at the Middlesboro game, they came out guns a-blazing and could have been two up in the first ten minutes. But you continue being Mister Negative if it makes you happy.
It's not just the players in the team though, because the so called 'reserve players', like Thudd, Aluko and Bruce, we have were members of a squad that kept us in the Premier League at one point. So they should be good enough. There's no excuses for not getting the best out of this squad when it's played in the top flight and has tonnes of experience. I can guarantee you if a new manager came in, you wouldn't see midfielders playing as strikers, right backs at left back and wingers playing in the centre of midfield. Injuries were inevitable, so it's up to the manager to look at his squad and decide whether or not to bring in players in the loan window; you cant get to mid November once the window is shut, see that the players we have are underperforming and then blame them, it's the managers job to make sure the squad is up to the task. Bolton didn't stick ten men behind the ball, they were just terrible, worse than the Fulham side that we beat 6-0. Had that Bolton game been a loss, people would have been asking the same questions I and a few others are now.
I could have a field day with this post but I can't be arsed, however the highlighted part above is one of the most ridiculous statements that I've ever read on this forum, so much so that I'm still undecided as to whether it's simply bait. Brown and Duffen never got lambasted for getting us promoted at all, and you surely know that, they got lambasted for turning into total supercunts after getting us promoted.
Well if you really don't know you must have been in a long deep hibernation. Look it up, it's very well documented Oh and there should be no space between the end of a sentence and a question mark. Thank me later.
I could have a field day with that reply but I cannot be arsed. Just one question, Who was the manager of Hull City the first time we got relegated from the Premier League and who recruited that manager ?
Well the Bookies have Middlesbrough, Derby and Brighton all finishing above us. At least 5 of the squad you refer to left us in the summer and Huddlestone, Diame and Aluko have so far proved themselves unable or unwilling to perform at Championship level. Having said all that, we are very well placed to push on and secure an automatic promotion place - although this is Hull City so it will not be until the last match of the season.
75% of teams who make the playoffs fail to get promotion. That seems obvious but people seem strangely relaxed about finishing in the playoffs as if we'll just easily win them. I wonder if people realise it isn't a nice little fairytale every time like 2008 was. Also unlike 2008, we aren't a small club punching above our weight in this division. We're a PL yo-yo club whose sole aim is promotion. If we finish in the playoffs and don't go up it'll be a total failure. With our squad and budget there's no excuse if that happens. By all means have blind faith in Bruce, but to say we're on track for promotion when we're outside the top 2 is just daft.
