Our situation looks to be getting more critical with each game where we don't get points. With Ipswich, Leicester and Cardiff coming up in the next week I get even more concerned about our survival. I would be tempted to say we need a minimum of 4 points from these games to stay in the mix for survival. I have grave doubts that we can achieve any points based solely on our recent propensity to leak goals for fun. Our lack of scoring is yet another reason for concern in our difficult climb to safety especially when you see that over the following games we play against our relegation rivals. Surely 3 points versus those teams in the same predicament as us is crucial. Doubts are becoming more obvious each week that this bunch are up to the task and their commitment to BCFC is virtually non-existent. The task lies solely with DM to motivate them and I am now starting to think he has an impossible task. Bit of a downer all around really.
Of all the relegation seasons I've endured, this one along with 1959-60 is the one which should never have happened (assuming we do go down). With SL's funding, we should never be in this position although I am beginning to wonder that for all his business acumen in his financial business, he is too naive in the football world and has made too many poor decisions. Tinnion, Coppell and Millen on the managerial front and also with finance for the playing staff, he has allowed the aforementioned idiots to keep getting in players - I use the term players loosely - that were not good enough for Championship security and have cost us an arm and a leg in wages. Trundle, Hunt and James being the best examples. Whoever agreed James rolling contract, where if he plays more than a number of games, he decides if he gets another contract, needs their head examined. And finally the loss of nearly £1 million on Maynard really shows us what a shambles we are. It seems clear to me now that the idiots are running the asylum, but in our case the idiots are in the boardroom and in the playing staff! I really feel sorry for DM and Doc as they could hardly have known what they were coming to and would it not surprise me if they pack it all in and find another club who will make better use of them.
The most worrying aspect of our latest results, have been the performances.. Blackpool went through us like a knife through butter in the second half- V peterborough we were abject, and V Hull conceded 2 poor defensive goal and were out-thought technically by a side who had done their homework far better. We didn't show the team spirit and cohesiveness we did v Middlesborough and West Ham earlier in DM's reign...nor could point to bad luck as v Derby and Coventry... Up until mid-January opposition fans were saying that they couldn't believe that Bristol City were fighting against relegation- since mid Jan they have said nothing.......speaks volumes. Yes, Mike, the situation is getting more critical espec as the teams around us are picking up points. But I think we have enough in the locker to escape, even with Portsmouth's 10 point deduction. Don't agree that this bunch are not up to the task, but tbh not sure how we will escape, and I come back to my original point that recent performances are very worrying. happy birthday -still in British columbia
Cant bring myself to comment on this thread - its getting me very depressed. It will take a miracle to keep us up. Where is Harry when you need some magik ?
This is getting very repetitive now! No one expected to get a point at West Ham or a point out of Southampton but we got 6 so it depends on what City turns up. Keep Believing if it don't come off nothing WE can do about it just re group and start supporting the team we love
I have full faith in our management team. Even if the worse came to the worse and we dropped a league I am confident Del and Doc would get us straight back up. I just want this season to be over and done with now to be honest. I can't stand spending another Saturday afternoon, evening and night in a ****ty mood because of City. It pains me to say this but I hope Del and Doc use Malky Mackay as a template. He cleaned that Cardiff side of the deadwood who failed on several occasions to get them up and replaced them with younger blood and look at them - still top 6! I was jesting with all my Cardiff mates at the start of the season that we woulf finish ahead of them and they would do well to finish top half but the egg is well and truly on my face! This summer will hopefully bring about the clear out of all clear outs and next August with a few tasty signings and Del and Doc at the helm I may regain all my optimism. COME ON YOU REDS!
I just want to walk too and from the gate with my head high,not walk away suffering and be proud of my team again..
'next August with a few tasty signings and Del and Doc at the helm I may regain all my optimism' Not impressed with McInnes's signings other than Foster. He's the only one I think's decent. Pearson - Ordinary. Wood - Useless and I repeat again, from the first time I saw Woods play - he can't trap cement and he's not as good as Stead. McMannus - He's ok but that's all - he's to fond of a late tackle but where I question McInnes is he's another flaming 'Leftie'. Screws the balance. Looking at McInnes in various interviews pre Ipswich he looked a very very worried man. A man who is finding life in the Championship a lot harder than the rubbish Scottish League. Pretty sure we'll be relegated, just hope he'll do better next year - but I'm very doubtful.
What about Davis?? And I think Pearson gives us balance, compare him to the players he replaced JCR and Woolford. Fed up of defending Woods to you. And Cement is a powder so can I watch you trap it
Redprint,agree 100% on the above,the only player that this management team aquired that has been a good signing is Foster. The rest are no better than what we had. I have lost faith in this management team already. People say I'm being harsh,but the results are there for all to see.
Hit the nail on the head for me there mate. SL isn't totally to blame, but overall he MUST shoulder the vast majority of blame for the situation we are now in, which started (for me) when we didn't buy ourselves promotion in 2008 with a few knockout loan signings in January. The alleged chasing of Coppell and then the appointment of Millen were decisions that would have cost a CEO in business his job !!!!!!
I agree that SL must take his share of the blame (as well as the credit for spending lots of his own dosh). I feel he made another terrible appointment with Sextone who konws nothing about football. The management hierarchy has no football nous and they have made successive bad decisions. Allegedly Dave Jones was ruled out because of his wage demands - but Sheff Wed can afford him. Surely his wages would have been a drop in the very large ocean of money that SL has wasted. We should have gone for someone with a proven record as a manager in this league. I don't see Del's contacts north of the border doing us any favours in our current position. We needed someone who has been watching the CCC for years and knows who can do the business here - don't care if he has no personality, he knows how to put a team together. I for one can't see that the signings that Del has made so far would suggest he can transform us into a quality winning side if given the chance. We seem to be disorganised - conceding at set pieces on a regular basis, this is down to the management/coaching team as much as the players. I despair at the moment and am seriously worried about the ability of those running the club to do anything to turn things around.
Agree, but (unfortunately) this is not unusual within football clubs historically, but he's a loathsome individual. I didn't want Jones anyway and still don't.
Be interesting to see how he gets on at Sheff Wed though Angelic - one of us may be feeling differently depending on how it goes there I guess...
True - but you can't really compare the Championship to L1...Despite their financial issues, Wednesday are still a big fish in a small pond in that division
As far as gates and history go they will still be a big fish in a small sea next year in the Championship
If one or both of the Sheffield clubs don't get promoted and Huddersfield stay down, and ourselves and Coventry drop into L1, we're suddenly just a bigger than average fish in a slightly larger pond than we thought with some other predators around to compete with.... Wow that was profound !
Yep because we get crowds of 13k and all of our past history we are ****ing massive. Get over yourself and face facts we ARE one of the biggest city's in the UK but we have never been a main player in the top league. We are what we are as Wiz said on a different thread.
