Let's look forward then because backwards is a bloody painful experience over the past 7 months or so. Its probable that we're going to be in the 4th v 5th game - is that classed as the 'Match A' (play Friday & Monday) or 'Match B' (play Saturday and Tuesday). Equally probable that it'll be Derby we're playing. On the basis we've lost both league games, we will win through to Wembley and play one of BHA / Owls / Cardiff. Typical City.
It's not 'typical City' at all. In our 112 year history it is only the third time we have been in a position at the end of the season to win promotion to the top division. If some peoples expectations were not so sky high then qualification for the Championship Play-Off's would be seen for what it is............. a remarkable achievement.
It is exactly 'Typical City' - we always do things the hard way. The play offs v Orient was remarkable given the problems the club was having then. The play offs v Watford fairly remarkable given where we were half way through that season. Given the quality of the players at our disposal now, it is quite a remarkable underachievement this season. Take your blinkers off for once.
It is a remarkable achievement, remarkable that with double the budget of everyone else we still might not even finish in the play-offs.
Is it on par with Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea trailing in the slipstream of Leicester who cost nothing in comparison ? Big budgets do not guarantee anything as this seasons Premier League proves. (By the way I saw my first Leicester City replica shirt worn in Hull today) In the context of the past history of Hull City and the circus going on back stage to finish ( if we do) in the Play Offs is a remarkable achievement. I don't wear blinkers either. I see it and call it as it is.
Saw nothing today to suggest we will win the play offs but some of us will be there to see how it all unfolds.. Just reading some of the pathetic comments on here when we went a goal down then losing 1-2...perfect 10 on the c*ntometer scale,thank fook you don't attend. Allam OUT.
Do we really have double the budget of Boro? It means nothing anyway to look at wages when we're talking players. Exactly.
I can't believe we're still having this same debate after every game. How does us being **** in the past affect the now? There can't be many teams who've ever played at this level with more resources at their disposal than we've got right now. It's incredible how badly we've ****ed it up, that even the playoffs now is in serious doubt.
I think what you find is that for some people having bought season tickets or gone to some away game would feel they are stupid if they admit they completely wasted their time/money. So they won't in quite a few cases. The idea of Bruce I suppose is that he isn't entertaining but he gets results. Well he's not even getting results. There's so few games this season where the players actually bothered turning out for a full game. Bruce has been bad at the end of every season, he must be too soft on them. Even at what was supposed to be his peak (FA Cup final) the players just turned up for their appearance money in the games leading up to it. With that rotten attitude in the club I think it's delusional to put much hope or expectation in this. If we go up it will by other teams making a mess, just like how we went up last time under Bruce.
You mean to say that you thought buying a season pass or going to away games guaranteed satisfaction? It never has and never will. In the meantime, some people just go and support their team, and on the good days they win.
2 months ago we were top of the table so its not the last 7 that have been painful - merely the inexplicable lack of form over the last 2. No idea which order the play offs are played in - we just have to get as many points as possible and make sure we are in there and take whoever comes.
No, you're right, but the team with the biggest war chest is the one you'd put your money on to win the league. Arsenal, Man City, Utd and Chelsea have all massively underperformed this season. Leicester have been brilliant but most fans of those teams you mentioned will be hugely disappointed in their teams' performances and results this season. It's not ridiculous or even unreasonable for City fans to expect a squad containing the likes of Hernandez, Diame, Huddlestone, Livermore, Snodgrass, Robertson, Dawson, Davies and Elmo etc. to get promoted. We've underperformed; our manager has underperformed and so have the players. Our dismal past two months is inexcusable. We've bottled it.
Over the last 8 games we are 19th in the form table with 7 points, Brighton were second, Burnley 3rd, Middlesborough 4th,Sheff.Wed 6th and Derby 8th, the latter with 13 points. Distinct lack of form shown by City.
This again? Is it still 1999? We're not plucky little underdogs anymore, we've spent a small fortune, we apparently have a good manager and we've just been relegated from the Premier League. Which bit of that gives somebody sky high expectations and not regular expectations? It'd be a remarkable achievement if we had the same squad we did in 2005/06 that we do now. The two are entirely different so why keep using our distant past as a marker for success?
