Don't want to open the can of worms at this time but I think the PL is great. Yes there's load of money and over-analysis (which is also filtering down to the lower leagues gradually) but the football is a better standard, more teams play good football rather than defensive, 11-behind-the-ball crap and the title/top 4 race is far less predictable than people make out. Over the last three seasons teams like Bolton, Newcastle and even West Brom have flirted with the top 4. Even if you don't like the PL, what's to say Leagues 1 or 2 aren't better than the Championship? We haven't experienced them for a long time and their results are just as unpredictable (see Sheff Utd - Hartlepool today!)
The play at the moment is definitely the best I have witnessed in 40 odd years of supporting the club. We just need to top it off with automatic promotion to underline this.
worms all over the place i reckon........looking forward to the next reply from those who don't know what real British football is all about. Even his reverence, Jamie Redknapp has recently voiced rumblings of his dislike for too many average foreigners in our game as his mate, Ashley Cole and cousin Frank Lampard look destined to be replaced by cucumber pickers at Chelsea next season. Indeed. just as Karl Marx himself rightly prophesied that capitalism will always eventually destroy itself (also known in contemporary speak as economic cycles), so in the same way, the clock is ticking on Murdoch's circus before it naturally moves onto China, Russia, the Middle East or even India. At least we then get sustained European success once more, a decent England team again, and more than anything else, the fans get their game back whilst the lovees and theatre lovers take their face-paint and tiger suits on to other forms of entertainment.
I think it is the best team we've had in my memory, the only way it would fall short is if we don't go up. It's better than any of Brownies teams. If we had a Geo/Deano we would rip this league a new one
I have watch the tigers for over 50 years, and was fortunate enough to enjoy the sixties team with Chilton, Waggy etc, but I have to say from what I have seen of this current team, this is better overall team than the team in the sixties and early seventies as well as the EPL team we had.
I'll wait until we achieve something to say whether it's our greatest ever side. At the minute it's a good team, playing well. To be great you need to get promotion imo.
Wait til the end of the season to judge this squad. Full of potential but that dont win you anything, 2nd at the minute but lose a few and we could drop out of the play offs if teams keep on winning below us, long way to go yet but we look very good.
Different era and the game has moved on now so I would say yes this is probably the best "team" we have ever had but that Waggy, Chilton, Houghton, Butler combo was just fantastic to watch. 66 when we got promoted and came back to draw at Chelsea after being 2 down in the cup was a magical time to be a football fan. Oh yeah and England won the world cup that summer too which helped a bit towards cementing our love of the game. Now I have noticed over the time I have been reading these forums that the amount of city fans on them is heavily weighted to folks in the 50 to 65 age group and the 30's to 40's not so much. It's no coincidence when Waggy Chilton etc were banging 600 odd goals between them for fun it left a legacy that we still see today in support for Hull City, lets hope that 40 years from now there will be old farts around long after we are dead talking about the good old days when the KC first opened and the great season of 2012-13
Just the 11-and-a-half years for me, and for the most part a thoroughly enjoyable time to be a City fan
From the 13 years I've supported city I think this side is the most gifted and talented city side I've seen. I think we had some marginally better individual players in the premier league (Geo, Turner, Mouyokolo and Hunt), but as a team especially yesterday we looked excellent and were only a centre forward short of sticking 5 or 6 past Leeds. Until we get promotion back to the Premier League this side haven't earnt the title of greatest ever side though. We need to achieve something to complement the array of talent we have at the moment.
I'm loving every minute of this season. Barring the lack of an instinctive goal scorer everything else is almost as good as it could be. Hopefully the climax will be promotion and I really want us to go up, but then the dream goes a bit flat. Look at the bottom 3 in the EPL now; Southampton, Reading and QPR - all recently promoted and you have an indication of what we would have to look forward to. I'm a realist, so I accept this struggle is inevitable and necessary for long term progression (unless we can do a Swansea), but I just wish the Prem offered even half as much excitement as the Championship.
I think tis is the best collection of players that has ever formed a squad for us, but the best team tag needs more goals for me; that's how you win games and we are now into the second half of the season that will define our future and where these guys stand in our Hall of Fame - both individually and as a team.
At the KC era Yes imo. This team is already PL ready but needs extra fire power for the PL. Just need the loans signing up for starters.
Ever the pessimist eh? Have you just thought the standard that we're playing at is making teams look poor? Palace are a pretty decent team and we made them look like crap for 3/4 of the home game
