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What Now? - After Seasons Worst Performance.

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  1. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    Bristol City verdict: Big questions for Lee Johnson and Robins to answer in Huddersfield Town loss
    Our take on the loss to Huddersfield
    By Gregor MacGregor

    City malfunction

    That was the Robins worst performance on the road this season. Forget West Brom and Leeds away, Huddersfield are not the team that the two promotion contenders are.

    Despite the score the Expected Goals told the real story: 4.3 to 1.2. Yes City deserved a goal but the home side should have had four.

    The locals were crowing back to the 2016/17 promotion season while Danny Cowley heralded the performance as the best home Huddersfield display of the season after the game.

    "That’s the best we’ve played with the ball this season. If we’re critical we should have got the third and even a fourth goal," explained Cowley in his press conference.

    The Terriers had 20 shots to City's eight, with their six on target double City's three. But more than that they dominated the game, showing heart and lungs absent in the Robins display.

    It equated to a wretched display devoid of little quality for the club from the West Country.

    The night may have been summed up by Famara Diedhiou's performance.

    The Senegalese powerhouse made just 12 passes all night and only completed three passes in the whole game. Yes, just three!

    Yet he still hit the post with a long shot in the first half, and headed in his 10th league goal of the season with a minute left to go. There was little work rate from Diedhiou early on and it appeared that City's no.9 did not fancy the game at first on Tuesday.

    Fortunately there was a reaction and a better second half showing for the Robins battering ram.

    Word on the Terriers
    Emile Smith Rowe was a man considered by Bristol City previously and the Arsenal youngster looked a class act in this game, with no player creating more chances in the match.

    While no player had more shots than Karlan Grant (8), who could easily have had more than just the one goal. Dan Bentley was close to saving the penalty but Grant's score effectively won the game in the second half.


    It was all the more maddening as City should have singled out Grant as a man warranting close attention. Instead the ex-Charlton striker was given the freedom of Yorkshire to run in from City's right and shoot five times inside the box and three times outside.

    Any homework being done over there, Lee? And if so, why aren't the instructions being heeded?

    What does Palmer have to do to start?
    Surely this game was all set up for the mercurial talents of Kasey Palmer. The former Huddersfield man was at his former club and City finally played a system that would suit him, with three in the middle.

    Alas, without much control or creativity, City could have done with his talents, but the Robins looked elsewhere for inspiration.

    The odd situation continues that Palmer looks the perfect man to find the movement of Wells and the returning Benik Afobe.

    But still Lee Johnson persists in not picking him. One wonders what the thinking is there and whether Johnson must now consider other options, so bad has the midfield been of late.

    Big questions to answer
    The Robins have now lost four of their last five league games and face a daunting trip to Millwall next.

    It could conceivably be six defeats in seven with a huge birthday game to come at Ashton Gate next as Fulham come to town, something all quarters of the club will be desperate to avoid.

    Still huge questions must be asked about the recruitment in January and the timing of it.

    Since the three signings were made - and able to play - there has been only the win at home against Derby County and now four other losses.
    Have the new men unsettled the dressing room? More importantly, were they signed to fit in to an existing, working formation? At the time City were playing 4-1-4-1 but how does Nahki Wells fit into that?

    Why buy players who woud not fit into the way you wish to play?

    Big questions for City to answer in the next weeks to as they look to avoid the season blowing out.

    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport...ws/bristol-city-verdict-big-questions-3887523

     
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  2. wizered

    wizered Ol' Mucker
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    Millwall, Fulham, Blackburn, it's a tough task, we will be lucky to get 3 points.
     
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    Millwall -loss Fulham -loss Blackburn -loss

    Don't see any points as i did not against Huddersfield.
     
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  4. smhbcfc

    smhbcfc Well-Known Member

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    What has he done to warrant a start??
     
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    With the same old performances we’ve seen all season, slow, no movement and looking clueless on the pitch
     
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  6. johngalleyfan2

    johngalleyfan2 Well-Known Member

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    NEEDS A BIG SHAKE UP
     
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  7. invermeremike

    invermeremike Well-Known Member

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    It might take a huge shake up John and although I have never really been a fan of L.J. I feel that any search for a quality manager (whoever that may be) might flounder because we just never seem to attract the right people, and maybe our history may be our worst enemy. Ah well let the chips fall where they may and to hell with the consequences.
     
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  8. Redprintt

    Redprintt Well-Known Member

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    SL has allowed millions on players for the football club in the Championship.
    His priority with the Bears was different by employing a top coach.
    They play in the Premiership.

    Is a clue in there somewhere?
     
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  9. Red Robin

    Red Robin Well-Known Member

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    You hit the nail on the head.
     
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  10. Angelicnumber16

    Angelicnumber16 Well-Known Member

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    The owner by definition can do as he wants

    But the buck always stops with the Manager/Head Coach or whatever the flavour is this month is for titles when things go badly.

    If the club have brought in players that are incompatible with how the Manager/Head Coach wants to play the game, then either the players have to be moved on or the Manager/Head Coach needs to be replaced. The two are incompatible.

    As I've said before, this division has a lot of teams of the same ability and that's why results by and large are unpredictable, and yet again I believe it would have only taken the signing of a couple of really exceptional players to have us in the top 2 come May, but we didn't. Again !

    The team that's head and shoulders above all the rest is WBA, but you mark my words, they will get seriously slaughtered week in week out, home and away with the team they have now when they play in the Premiership next season. So yes they're good at this level, but that's it.

    But we are a just an average team in an average league who need to recruit real ability to rise much above mid table. Or if not, then we need to bring in a Manager/Head Coach who can get exceptional results from the average players we have.
     
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  11. oneforthebristolcity

    oneforthebristolcity Well-Known Member

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    Yeah it's a different sport!!...Not even close in revenue or support..........I'm gonna start a tiddly winks club, wonder if I can get a top coach for that? :emoticon-0127-lipss
     
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  12. johngalleyfan2

    johngalleyfan2 Well-Known Member

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    RR?
     
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