With 6 games left and 18 pts still up for grabs City's grip on Championship football is quietly slipping away. Salvaging a point today whilst good, is it delaying the inevitable? The fat lady is clearing her throat as we speak though. How many points do you now need for survival? 3 games home and 3 away where will the points come from? Burnley V Bristol City Keep drawing cannot buy a win poss 3pts if you were playing at home 1pt away. Bristol City V Bolton, Stuttering end to the season at home 3 pts a must Bristol City V Birmingham Again at home they lost to Wolves in with a chance to pick up 3 pts Hull V Bristol City No chance away to promo chasing Hull 0 pts Bristol City V Huddersfield Probably a draw to relegation chasing Huddersfield 1pt Final game Sat 4th May Charlton V Bristol City Will it be all over before the last match?tough match draw unless they are safe by then and blood some of the youngsters 1pt Nine points possible 7 a drift it looks as if you are to far back unless O Driscoll rallies the team and you go on a superb run and others lose above you. O Driscoll was spotted in Waterstones the other day purchasing an idiots form guide to L1 teams View attachment 22553 and also a book on " How to pick up cheap players from non league sides" View attachment 22555 Can you really see City avoiding the drop? COR View attachment 22552
Maybe a win on Saturday could change the mindset, or we could be ****ed. But at least we will be in the league you wish you was in
True but it will back to normality only 1 league between us. I agree Rodders a win will change the mindset however you really should have picked 4 pts up over Easter.Now every game until the seasons end is a six pointer not only that you will have to pray that tose around you do not win or you are sunk without a trace. What happened to O Driscoll the saviour he started well? COR
Agree we will probably struggle to fill it in L2 we do get more than 5k Shiny and my comment was said in josh hopefully you will refurb your stadium which should give you a new lease of life. My old man is not a happy bunny (no pun intended) seriously Pi***d off as with todays performance. COR
7 points behind, 6 games to go, teams above with a game in hand so could be 10 points behind with 18 points left available. the issue is teams above you keep winning so if you win on saturday, i bet there will be others who will win as well. i cant believe how close it is in the championship. 8th place is only 7 points clear of relegation! so up to 17 teams could get relegated. a bad run now from any of these teams could be very bad timing! the last day of the season in your league should be pretty exciting
agree with that, give yourself a positive to go into the summer and pre season. do you think SOD will stick around or be up for next season with you? serious question, not wumming
I personally think he was got in to get us out of league 1 cjs Obviously he would of been told to keep us up but we needed a manager in place that if we did fail would give us the best possible chance of gaining promotion from league 1. He will be backed greatly in the summer and I reckon it will be all eggs in 1 basket sort of thing. We'll do well to get in the top 6, Shame ill be supporting them from Australia but Iplayer will help
In a strange way I'm happy we're going down the easy way, rather than going down on GD at charlton away. And getting a last minute equaliser against that fat kiddy fiddler Jones made my day.
"Shame ill be supporting them from Australia" - are you moving or just a holiday?? hope its just a holiday as if you are moving then thats 1 less on our attendance at the mem
family or work? sorry about that shiny. time difference means i may not get to catch up with you as often
Serious answer to serious (?) question. I was a McInnes fan until about early December when I realised that he had lost the dressing room - because he gave out guarded signals during interviews that that was the case. O'Driscoll came with a good pedigree for teams from much smaller places than Bristol prior to his five month stay at Forest where he seemed to be lifting them up well after near relegation last season. I was stunned when Forest sacked him on Boxing Day after they beat Leeds. When we appointed him, I thought, this guy is a thinker about the game. I read several articles on web sites about his time at Bournemouth, Doncaster and Forest. These, back in January, lead me to believe that he would help to give us a realistic chance of avoiding the drop. Home form improved dramatically but away form went totally out of the window. Now I am beginning to think that while he probably isn't a "teacup or boot thrower" and may not use the "hairdryer" method, his players are actually becoming "frightened" of him in the sense that if they step out of the "pre-ordained organisation" that he lays down as his mantra (sacred text), they will be dropped. Some others have commented along these lines today. While McInnes puzzled many of us by not regularly picking Baldock, Davies and Anderson, we did realise that it was probably because we had such a crap defence, SO'D is just as puzzling for not picking Adomah, who while he is a bit of a loose cannon, is the one player on our books who actually frightens opposing defenders. And also for apparently not trying to get in a central defender to replace "the useless one" who has cost us more goals than the rest of the team put together. He now appears to me as totally immovable about the style we are playing. I've become fed up with hearing about "players doing the right thing irrespective of the result". Football is a game of passion, albeit organised, but without the passion from a crowd and the players, it ceases to be the spectacle that we all love so much. I am fast realising that SO'D's visible lack of passion will not rebuild City quickly enough to perform well enough next season to make a challenge for promotion from League One. In hindsight, I now understand why he was ousted from Forest who's fans and board demand for a return to the glory days of Clough and European Cups; perhaps the City Board and SL have lower expectations of where City should be in the league system because our place seems to be top end of League One / bottom end of Championship. So CJS in answer to your question; I think he will be here for another season by which time a very large percentage of City fans will be so fed up with his style of play, he will be on his way. Pushed or his own decision?
Cidered this is a great post.. I agree... I'm in the position now Can I motivate myself to be around next season?
