To answer your comment Ashton the commentators said that Cornick is in on a lot of plays and that is true. My complaint on him is that he wastes a lot of chances by not being able to beat a defender and cross a good ball that may have led to a goal. I have this sneaking suspicion that he will just wander a path that never really produces the goods we so need to boost our position in the Championship table. Our passing is shocking at times and it's one of the main reason that we don't get many shots on goal and statistics generally say that you need more shots on goal to actually score some.
Sam Bell just summed up our game by beating a defender out wide and followed his success by crossing the ball to nowhere and nobody. A decent cross past the last defender may have resulted in a chance at least.
Dickie is off on a second yellow but I question the decision by the ref but sadly if you put yourself in that blocking stance you risk the wrath of the official. A little hard on Dickie but it sums up our commitment and ability, and we probably deserve bad luck based on our overall performance.
Finally a good cross by Bell found Wells who missed the best opportunity of the day for City. How on earth are we not level, but that's our lot I suppose when you are mediocre at best.
I’m slowly coming around to the idea of VAR in the championship, the officials are so poor week in week out, something needs to be done.
It's all over now with Birmingham scoring an easy second goal for the 3 points and it will be interesting to hear the afterglow from the home crowd, a full house to make it worse.
The most disappointing thing is we’ve not looked like a team. That’s our strength, when we play as a unit, far too many simple errors. Nige will be fuming
Despite the sending-off I haven't seen any chance we could have won this match against a fast Birmingham side. Everything that has been bad about Bristol City was on display today and the promised improvement to make us a challenger seems to have got lost in the wash. I don't think there was a single player for us out there who earned their pay during this ninety minutes and it was a shocking mix of starters and subs who failed to meet the standard expected from them. After a fine win at Millwall and a home sell-out facing them this lot fell at the first hurdle and continued to look out-played throughout the entire 90 minutes, and gave me no confidence that Nigel can turn this bunch around and face the right direction. Two home games have given away 5 points and if our history is anything to go by then we are facing yet another season of apathy and underperformances followed by senseless excuses.
Birmingham did to us what we did to Millwall. They did a job on us, didn’t allow us to play to our strengths. Did we even manage one shot on target? Without Scott we don’t seem to have any creativity in midfield. We have a lot of work to do.
Even though we got a win last week. I don’t see our players gelling, all totally powderpuff going forward, loads of mistakes passing out from the back.. it’s really been pretty poor all round.. Not sure where we go from here.. Good news the gas lost..!!!!
Maybe we are in the Championship just to make up the numbers until such time as our incompetence finally catches up with us and another team replaces us and we go back to square nowhere. There has been nothing in Nigel's reign as manager that has either set my heart on fire or done anything to improve us in the way that was expected of him. It seems some of the wage issues that supposedly blighted our way upward have been addressed in a competent way but at the same time we know some of our best players have been given a better chance elsewhere than BS3. At some point the sell-off of top class home grown players must generate monies that should be spent on improving our squad but over the years I have noticed a reticence to splash any cash to excite the supporters. The squad out there today showed clearly that nothing has improved on the pitch and I wonder how Nigel feels about the lack of back-up players hurting any attempt to improve. The discussion tomorrow has to be how some of the money from Alex's sale can be used to bring in one or two players with genuine experience at higher levels than some of our more recent imports. Expecting League One players to meet that remit is like waiting to use your return ticket on the Titanic and we are looking extremely like a sinking ship without a rudder and we need a lifeline if we are not to come a cropper on the rocks. I apologize for the same old rhetoric but yet again we have the same old Bristol City.
