The Bristol City Itch.

I want some of what you're having wizered. 1-1 draw at best for us I reckon. We will certainly turn the corner, but it never happens at Leeds for us.

 

I hate whenever that stats of 'such and such hasn't won somewhere since 1986' or whatever - like how two sets of players from decades ago did will have a bearing on how the current batches do. Maybe we have a bad record at Leeds because historically they usually have had good teams?!

I'm going for a loss, just because I've felt a bit winded by our results recently. I'm concerned by the mental state of our players - not in terms of attitude to training hard, but having the focus required when the going gets tough late on in games. The last two games have both been sickeners, where we would've been expected to win - hopefully by being the underdogs again, we can actually play to our potential and get a result.

Looking forward to having both Baker and Pisano available soon. O'Dowda was playing well before getting injured too...

 

My instinct is saying we will bounce back and get a win here. I know history etc is against us and it may well be wishful thinking, but its just a gut feeling.

 

Hoping your gut is right... winning this could be a big confidence boost to get out of this rut.

 

Settle down I was talking from my gut feeling not from any statistical significance between past results.

 

I know - but a lot of people do seem to buy into stats like that.

 

Hoping we will return to winning ways , 2-1 City

 

I agree there is no science at all in this - but there are some powerful mind games going on - because it DOES exist.
It took YEARS to break our Forest hoodoo - and we have one with Preston now - and Birmingham - we never seem to beat those teams irrespective of comparative league position or current form.
Although we HAVE beaten Leeds recently, the trend is certainly against us - and they beat us at our place when we were flying high and they were crap - I didn't go to that game but a mate of mine did and he said we were unbelievably awful that day - must have been the hoodoo...!!!!!

It's probably a similar mental state which suggests that both winning and losing are habits.

 

Despite the rallying call I really cant see anything but a home win or a draw at best.

They have a new Manager who lost his first game in charge and I'm sure he'll want to put that right.

 

We have managed to lay a couple of "ghosts down" re BCRW comments

there is somethings that are always without reason ! one of my posts recently was I had the feeling we always did bad against lower teams... even when we were at different ends of the table1! reality is we don't... as for bogey teams much the same lines, odd one or 2 might be the case because we don't play them everyseason and when we do are in a bad patch or they hit a purple patch on the day because they have previously always seemed to do well! mind games

 

We're a young team with a young manager , there will be games when we get it wrong , being in the spotlight playing well against both Manchester teams has meant that teams now take us more seriously, we can no longer take teams by surprise, it's actually a compliment but now teams know how to play us , which in turn means we have to adapt.
Along with a loss of confidence , injuries to key players and the suspension of Baker have all taken their toll, hopefully it's all good experience and we can learn from it ,
The last few games Lee has made a few tactical errors too, but has been big enough to admit to them, and we must remember he's young as well and still learning his trade.
I for one am still really excited by what we've achieved this season and there is still time , if we all stick together to push on , and if we don't then this season will still have been amazing, so let's not forget where we were this time last season and how much we've progressed since.
So why don't some of us stop being so negative .

 

There's no doubt that against pre-season expectations we're still having a great season, but having got ourselves into such a position, it would be gutting if we missed out on such a golden opportunity to reach the playoffs at least.

I'm confident we'll find some form again; it's just a question of how good it stacks up against our rivals.

 

I agree with you Ashton, but I think Lee has been sorely treated regarding this, he did take the blame away from his players by stating he should have shut up shop, but for me its all hindsight, I bet there wasn't a single person in the ground at half time with us being 3-0 up not saying this could be 6 or 7 today.. they certainly ALL were by me, we did need to get the goal deficit back up and it looked a perfect opportunity to do that, get a new striker off the mark and get a massively confidence boosting win. sometimes it goes wrong and it did that day spectacularly.

 

I certainly did1 thought it might be at least 4-0 or maybe 5 or 6 -1... WITH MINUTES TO GO oh no WE ARE GOING TO SCREW IT .... well we did ... could have been 5th and GD in double figures ......

 

Then I must have been the only one , they were so bad in the first half I thought they'd have had a roasting at half time and come out second half on a charge , worried we'd be overconfident .
In the circumstances with Reid taking a knock don't criticise him for the changes at half time, but second half they bossed things in my opinion and we were slow to change things , thought Lee summed it up perfectly In his after game interview, which encouraged me tbh, so not hindsight for me I was shouting for him to tighten up even before the first goal. To me the main difference between how we played in our winning period & now is our ability to manage games, we had no need to go gung ho for a fourth goal, we could have sat back a bit and hit them on the counter,

 

Your certainly not the only person I have heard say that but many were after the game, and I will take your comment for what it is. but around me the vast majority were looking for a rout?

 

Don't get me wrong though , whilst I think Lee has got it wrong a couple of times lately I'm not criticising him , what he's achieved this past year is miraculous, he's well in credit.