No easy games anymore full stop. Signs of more commitment at Boro but losing the kind of talent we did has left the club fragile and Berift of quality needed. The new manager will almost certainly be asked to keep the club in the Championship as his main priority . Won’t be easy UTT.
We played some good positive stuff at Boro , but when they had the ball a few too many were ball watching and we didn’t collectively get back in shape to defend quickly enough . I don’t understand why Drameh was 20 yds infield when Doak was wide of him on the line . City seem to play very narrow regardless of being up against v good wingers ?
Been the same in pretty much every other game we've played and it will continue to be our downfall until the players cut unforced errors out of their game, regardless of who's in charge. We looked a little less toothless by mixing it up using the middle a bit more, but otherwise the writing was still on the wall and 'back to basics' is still very much needed in order to stop the rot.
2nd album syndrome!...Lets be fair there's been some bummers. On City.....By my calculation, still 28 to play....1.5 pts per game + 15 in the bank = 57 pts...should be/might be enough to survive. But could be a hard ask!
Anyone remember the league game v Blackburn at home during the 1970/71 season? Sure it was around November and on a Tuesday night. City raced into a two nil league at half time and the fog which was gathering at kick off got worse during the half time interval and the referee abandoned the match. Remember hearing the fog horns on the Humber and seeing a handful of Blackburn fans ran out of the South Stand just before kick off. City were coasting it at the time, we'd beat them at Ewood Park too, 1-0, when Chris Chilton scored from a header into the goal we were stood behind, which was a tin roofed shed over the terracing at the end which today is a huge all seater stand and one we filled with 6,000 travelling fans for our first ever away game in the PL. Don't think we numbered 60 fans behind that goal in 1970. Ken Knighton played for Blackburn in the fogged off game and signed for City in the March of the same season for £60k, two days after we'd lost to Stoke in the FA Cup 6th rd, and on the eve of the Battle Of Bramall Lane, where he made his debut with Billy Baxter in a 2-1 City victory. We drew the re arranged game with Blackburn 0-0 later in the season. All seems like yesterday, but I couldn't name you our team last time out.
We were in the South Stand and instead of our usual possie, we went down behind the goal to try and see what was going. If I recall maybe that replay cost us ..
hcafcflippables.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/19710223/mobile/index.html Click to the right of the programme and it will open, telling the story of the abandoned match Pictures of the goals in the programme too
My bookie rates us 1/201 for promotion. Still better than 1/251 for Preston, Oxford, 1/501 for Portsmouth, QPR and Plymouth. I guess that means there are still 5 teams can finish behind us. We can survive this.
Team news City have been given a clean bill of health for the visit of Blackburn Rovers this weekend. Cody Drameh is fine after leaving the defeat to Boro early, and Charlie Hughes is back after suspension.
I think rooneys doing a decent job Some awful away results But their squad is not close to championship level
