ANOTHER STICKY PAPER?... as teams in the top half begin to settle down staying in the top 6 will be quite an achievement. WOLVES it seems are likely this seasons runaways so 5 spots up for grabs ! Taking the top 12 as contenders this weekend main games are :- Villa v Ipswich Middsbro v Derby Besides our visit to Hull Leeds go to Barnsley P N E go to Norwich Sheff wed go to Reading and Sheff Utd at home to Birmingham. Dean Holden has been impressed with the response from his players as they look to get back to winning ways against a struggling Hull City. The Robins succumbed to a 2-1 loss at home to Preston North End on Tuesday night and travel to the KCOM Stadium for their next Sky Bet Championship clash with Hull on Saturday. The Tigers, 20th in the division, are without a win in their last five matches and have not picked up three points on home soil since the end of September. City's defeat to Preston was only their third loss of the campaign but they slipped to fifth in the Championship. "We have to find ways of beating teams when they come here and do that as we have a reputation for our performances and results this season." Dean Holden One clue Dean is we score a few goals before they do! "Saturday is a tough match against Hull and they haven't been in great form themselves this season. They are full of ex-Premier League and international players so we are under no illusions whatsoever. "The focus is firmly on us and getting back to our attacking style of play." C O Y REDS
5 th Brstl City 18 ............. 31pts ... 27 ... 18 ... GD 9 ...... W L D D D W D W D W W D L W W W D L 20th Hull Cty 18 .............. 18pts ... 30 ... 32 ... GD -2 ....... D W L L W L L D D L W D W L L L D D Last9 games Bristol City ........... 17 points from 27. . . . Hull City .................. 9 points from 27 season at AWAY Bristol City ....... L D W D D W W W D = 16pts season at HOME Hull City .......... W L W D L W L L D = 11pts
After recent results this could be the banana skin extraordinaire. The season so far has been good but we have fallen at some very inopportune times, and against supposed willing victims, and in reality we failed to get off the mark in those matches. The smoothness has rubbed off and it looks like we are experiencing a poor patch and the players need to lift their collective heads to wake themselves up before this match or their regular positions may be in jeopardy.
Midfielder Seb Larsson could start for Hull City against Bristol City after returning from a one-match suspension. Jon Toral (hamstring) is due to return to training but James Weir (knee) has joined Will Keane, Abel Hernandez and Moses Odubajo on the sidelines. Bristol City forward Milan Djuric is a doubt having needed painkillers to play Tuesday's 2-1 defeat against Preston. Joe Bryan will be assessed after being forced off with a hip injury, while Cauley Woodrow is pushing for a start. SAM's prediction Home win 36% Draw 28% Away win 36% Match facts Hull are unbeaten in seven games against the Robins in all competitions (W4 D3). Bristol City have not scored a single goal in any of their last five league visits to the KCOM Stadium (D2 L3) since a Leroy Lita strike in a 1-1 draw in February 2005. Hull have won all four of their Championship matches against sides beginning with B this season (Burton, Birmingham, Bolton and Barnsley), scoring 15 goals in the process, but have not won any of their 14 matches against sides not beginning with B. Bristol City have accumulated 31 points from their first 18 Championship matches this season; only once in the previous 10 seasons have the Robins won more points from their opening 18 matches of a league campaign (2014-15, 36 points). The Tigers have only kept one clean sheet in their last 11 home league games (W3 D2 L6). Bristol City forward Bobby Reid has been involved in 10 league goals this season (nine goals, one assist), the same total he had managed in his previous 63 appearances in the Championship.
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It would be a shame should slutsky lose to us and get the sack! it happened to HARRY! SC has a chance to put daylight from bottom 3... How fortunate were we to pick up £12m for KODIJA who it now seems has weak bones and will most probably have missed almost a year out of playing by the time he gets fit again! Cauley Woodrow Leko and Eliasson .. should they get starts? maybe not all at same time .. but if Slutsky is "correct in saying2 we will push very hard to start.. it could leave them open to LEKO or Eliasson jinking their way to the box!
Hull 1McGregor 29Tomori 3Mazuch 5Hector 34Aina 16Larsson 35Stewart 20Bowen 22Henriksen 4Irvine 25 Campbell Substitutes 7Grosicki 8Meyler 9Dicko 12Marshall 15Evandro 24Clark 32Hamilton Bristol City 1 .... Fielding 5 ....Wright 4 ....Flint 6 ....Baker 23 ..Magnusson 11 ...O'Dowda 8 ....Brownhill 7 ....Smith 21 ..Pack 18 ..Woodrow 14 ...Reid Substitutes 10 ...Taylor 15 ...Steele 19 ...Eliasson 20 ...Paterson 22 ...Djuric 25 ...Kelly 45 ...Leko
OK guys, you'll be glad to know that with no game for us today and the wife and sister gone out bashing the plastic, I'll be with you this afternoon. Being this is an away fixture for you, I'd expect to have some company on here. No personal malice intended but from a purely selfish point of view and that of my team, I know the result I'd want today. Just to be interesting, I've just stuck 20 quid @ 9/5 on getting it. Let's see how it goes eh?
Canada is watching sparkey and I wonder why I bother to get up so early. We are looking off the mark today and will need to get a lot better if we want any points. It will take way more effort than I have seen in the 1st half but the sun always shines etc etc. Perhaps we have been found out!
No probs mike - long way to go even in this game and especially this season. Can't see any reason why you should have been "found out". If that is the case though, it's a time for good management to change things?
now is a good to bet! 8/1 city and 2/1 Hull draw is 3/1 a no lose bet tenner on city = +70 ( +50 ) tenner on hull + quits tenner on the draw +10 city get a goal so check bets ...
We're tipping and tapping the ball around and Hull have us well covered and take the ball away, plus it looks to me like our heads are down and Lee needs to take off the stragglers and boot them all up the arse. Another great idea is when you lose the ball then kick the guy to give them a free kick - DUH.
