We’ll Go Strong at City – Stoke Boss Hughes

Tammy who?

 

Sounds like Wiz may be heading back to The Gate in the not too distant future????

 

Would love a Man c or Man U at home or Spurs away at Wembley. Chances are we won't and will get someone like Norwich or Wolves away and go out

 

A great result no doubt, but for me more pleasing than the result is what appears to be a great squad harmony. We have almost completely changed sides again as we did against Watford and the players coming in have done exactly what was asked.

Perhaps dispensing of Pemberton and selling Tomlin has had a positive impact I don't know, but LJ and JM are doing something right at the moment!!

 

I agree, we always ask for a big team away but for once I'd like a big side at the Gate and give us our first 27k sell out at the ground. I think that would do far more for the club, fans and our perception to the football media than a trip to Manchester or London would.

 

Am I dreaming ?

 

A very fair assessment Wiz. I think you have copped some unfair flack this last week.
People have their own views on LJ, but as you say the proof of how far we as a team and LJ as a manager is yet to be seen. I do believe he has learnt and the results from the end of last season and the start of this are testament to that. Comparing to our start last season isn't really all that helpful, we have to view the results and performances from when our bad run finished. The young players seem to be maturing and improving and I'm really impressed by how the squad has been rotated with no obvious detriment to performances and results so far. Great work by the whole management team and playing staff.

 

Wiz, I, and I'm sure you were the same, felt exactly the same in the early 70's!! I know that was a long time ago, but that feeling never goes away.

Enjoy it as it is - you never know, we might be on the cusp!! Always been a pint half full me!!

 

Agree a fair assessment by Wiz.
I admit I have been looking over my shoulder at last season - but that is more for a sanity check for myself, so that I don't get carried away - I know how horrible a bad run feels and last season's was awful - although for me personally, relegation is always far worse than a bad run with survival at the end.......

 

Genuinely, I don't know where to hang the blame - depends on what happens surely?

Otherwise, spirits are as high as I can remember - obviously the 14/15 season was great, but doing well in the Championship is a greater aspiration. Undoubtedly, we'll have set-backs, which is to be expected; just as long they aren't as dramatic as last season! I think we have greater depth and stronger first 11 (if we can even decide what that is), so should avoid a similar capitulation.

I don't buy into the idea of 'consolidation seasons' per se, as it implies a club has the luxury of deciding when they'll be good enough to mount a promotion challenge, but given the team is young and that quite a few transfers were brought in and one would think would need time to gel, I was (and probably still am) prepared to accept merely a mid-table finish. However, if an unexpected opportunity comes along, then you need to give it all you've got, as you don't know for sure if you'll get a better chance anytime soon. When we reached the playoff final it was completely unexpected, and last season, no-one would've dreamt that Huddersfield would be promoted (they were amongst the favourites to be relegated in fact) - if we continue to ride this wave of optimism and it translates into results, then maybe we can dream a little too.

Another tough game this Saturday though, where we'd do well to get any points - we don't want to look foolish by getting ahead of ourselves now, only to fall back into negativity if things don't go our way.

 

Nice to see an opposition manager giving us credit - fair play to Mark Hughes - from the Stoke O/S:

“You have to commend Bristol City because they played well and affected us more than we affected them and they fully deserved to go through to the next round.

“We didn’t deserve anything on the night and need to be better than that. We know we have good qualities and are a decent side but every time you put the shirt on you have to be ready to go.

“We found it difficult to gain a foothold in the game and changed personnel and shape to try and affect them but if we are honest we need to affect the opposition not the other way round.

“At the end of the day we have come up short, acknowledged that it wasn’t the level we were capable of, and given credit to Bristol City because they played well tonight.”

 

TIC! running down his sides inability to put our performance in a "lesser light" ... rather than admit outright his side played quite well BUT WE WERE BETTER...

 

Wiz, you and I are on the same wavelength.
I also miss the Stadium and the red shirt.
But hey, I am who I am, and can't abide the Johnsons, or that Lansdown gave finances to Johnson that were nowhere to be seen when Cotterill gave us his best.
I finished watching City last March - the results have only got better and better and happy the feel-good factor is alive at AG.

Long may it continue.

 

ah the bad talisman ...hopefully you will keep away ..

 

Redprintt,
"But hey, I am who I am, and can't abide the Johnsons"
Bet you loved Gary Johnson when he got us promoted, and so very nearly took us to the promised land.
Like Wiz you don't go to the gate because of Junior, well at this moment in time that's great news for Bristol City and LJ, they seem to be playing very well in your absence, but hey, I bet your both dying to go, so go on, I promise i wont take the P**S.

 

Crippled Alice at home

 

Bloody Crystal Palarse