when he's on song, he's the best player in this league.. But when he struggles the whole team struggles and he becomes one of the most frustrating players ever
My first game since the permanent return to residency in Bristol and what a shocker. I have not seen such a dysfunctional City team since the very early days of the 1982-3 season with Terry Cooper's kids. This is truly awful and any confidence I had a few weeks ago has totally evaporated. Fourth Division, here we come!
Understandably if this was your first game, you would feel like this Cider not Abroad now. We was showing signs of improvement and today's has to possibly go down as the most boring game I've seen for ages no fight at all. But as Lan says, and I was warned about this by a Cardiff fan, if Jet is not interested it, he becomes a passenger I wish he was taken off at half time. I have felt he's not a team player twice before then he has a stormer and scores. On song he is fantastic to watch but today awful. SoD should of taken him off, but like me at the moment you have this little voice in your head saying watch him score in a minute. It must of been frustrating as a player, 10 days ago 19,000 in the ground 17k city fans singing their hearts out to today 10-11k city fans quiet. I was hoping for a good turn out after the gas game, not the sell out but expected at least half of the extra fans we had coming back for more. Hopefully Tuesday you will see what we've seen and that's a team starting to play the way we want to see and hopefully get rid of this elusive league win.
Saying that, we had the 3rd best attendance in league 1, don't know about you but it looked empty everywhere even on TV.. Imo that's very good for the last few years we've had.. Look at Leyton Orient, we take the piss out of the sags poor attendances at home, Orient get 700 less than them, attendances isn't the problem.. and they've won 6 games in a row with not much effort.. I'm afraid the players and manager have to look at themselves, if you name every single player bar a few you'd say they're good enough for this league and this team.. I guess it's the BCFC way, struggling when we shouldn't be.. we are a basket case. A poison chalice, a club going nowhere.. but i'd be there Tuesday..
JET was always going to be a gamble and if SOD really has told him he has a free role and he can do what he likes then that is a dangerous thing to do, and it could back fire spectacularly. You need grafters at this level not luxury players. Against the blue few he tried loads of tricks that didn't come off, but that's not what we want right now. The stats don't get any better. 15 points from the top of the league after 6 games, and we can forget ever getting close enough to Wolves and Peterborough to trouble them, it's already game over in that department. I wasn't one of the people who said we'd romp this league or win the first 10 games, but this is piss poor even for the low standards we've set over the last few years, and I'll say it again, it can't be left to continue otherwise we'll be going down again, with crowds of 7,000. SOD is still not impressing me and we also now understand why no-one else wanted Frank Fielding. Utterly dejected by this new low and if things don't get better on Tuesday there are going to be more than a few whispers of discontent around AG
Peterborough were unlucky to be relegated from the Championship (especially as they had no points after 7 games). They sold the lad to Palace for £4.5m up front plus add-ons and bought Assumbongla for £1.2m - many of the rest are still there. Compare that to us who lost quite a few senior players - have a new young and inexperienced squad. Our club (not just the team) is in transition - this had to happen otherwise we would have had no club to support (annual losses of £14m cannot be sustained) The side we have shows plenty of promise, but I think we all have to realise where we are compared to the other 2 who came down with us. Our job here is to stay with our young team - the impact of booing a young side could be catastrophic.
Agreed, but it also shows that Peterborough, a much smaller club than us with all due respect to them, knew what they had to do. We cashed in on Albert which was the right thing to do, but letting the likes of Heaton and Davies go were mistakes that could haunt us for a long long time imo.
Their Championship side was light years ahead of us last season - if you ignore the first 8 games of the season, their form would have put them more or less in play-off contention - their starting point was much much stronger than ours. I take your point about Heaton (who we tried to keep) and Davies, but it came down to simple economics - we could not afford their wages (also not sure we could play JET and Davies in the same side?)
