Will we stay up?

[DJBlackandamberarmy(No4)]

If we don't sell Bowen and Campbell doesn't get injured every 5 minutes I think we will just have enough to stay up on goal difference

 

[Amin Arrears]

Will we eckers like

 

[originallambrettaman]

I think we’ll finish mid table.

 

[GLP]

You're never too good to avoid relegation. That is my concern when the players trot out the same old 'We're too good to go down' blatantly not. We've been horse **** so far and as long as they keep thinking that, they'll keep playing like we're safe - which we aren't. We are firmly in the ****. The players collectively need to take responsibility, unfortunately I have seen very little evidence we have that capability within the current squad.

 

[pudseytiger]

Feel at the moment were a squad/ team with too many mistake in it, no on field general, no street fighters, and the fitness must be questioned.

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

I don’t know and I don’t care. If we stay up it’ll just lead to another season of the same next year as they collect parachute payments. If we go down, so what? My interest in City and football in general has never been lower. I’ve watched one full game in the flesh this season and only one PL on tv, and that was cos I was at a mate’s house and he had it on.

If you had said to me 5 years ago that City would be away at TWS, 5 miles from my house, on my birthday, in a 3pm Saturday kick off and I chose not to attend for any other reason than I simply couldn’t be arsed, then I never would’ve believed it.

**** off Allams.

 

[Stockholm Tiger]

Unless we strengthen I think we'll go down.

I felt the squad was weak at the start and its even more depleted now. Yes there are some talented players but a balanced squad and a winning team takes more than that. Even with the gaps and weakness we have if they played as a team we'd have enough to climb the table a little.

I still don't think that either manager is the problem its the team that has been assembled (or dissembled) for them that is the problem.

I fear that well slip out of the division with a wimper.

I hope I'm wrong I hope the players somehow find it within themselves to become a team to play for each other and show the opposition and fans their worth their salaries.

 

[kingstontiger]

At the moment don't feel very confident as:
Birmingham and Sunderland both have a bigger fan base than us I'm afraid and think that passion could count for something
Barnsley under new ownership likely to spend money?
Burton and Bolton who seemed the teams most likely to showing commendable spirit.

I think the fans are critical to this. We almost ALL want rid of the Allams, whether we still go or have stopped going, but I don't believe another 3,000 on the gate for the rest of the season and endorsing the manager's positivity ,( rather than some people sniping at it), is suddenly going to make the Allams think we love them after all and decide to stay. Whereas I do think more support and positivity could help us stay up, and actually improve the chances of finding the new owner we all want.

 

[Noggin The Nog]

My pre-season tip was Barnsley to go down, but if they buy in the window under new owners (big if) they'll stay up. Heckingbottie is a decent manager.

Burton will go, despite recent good results. There squad is too fragile.
Sunderland, who I fancied to go on a good run, aren't going on that run, might just go.
That just leaves the likes of READING, BOLTON BRUM and CITY (QPR will be safe)

If Barnsley buy they'll stay up, if not they'll go down.
So my guess is
Barnsley (no new investment)
Sunderland
Burton

OR on the other side of the coin
City
Sunderland
Burton

 

[Brucebones]

We’ll stay up, I had £10 on us to go down pre season, with Slutsky I had no faith, with Adkins I think he’s going to get us firing! It’ll be close, but we’ll be up like under PB!
No idea who will go down, QPR could get dragged into it!

 

[Amin Arrears]

I don’t know and I don’t care. If we stay up it’ll just lead to another season of the same next year as they collect parachute payments. If we go down, so what? My interest in City and football in general has never been lower. I’ve watched one full game in the flesh this season and only one PL on tv, and that was cos I was at a mate’s house and he had it on.

If you had said to me 5 years ago that City would be away at TWS, 5 miles from my house, on my birthday, in a 3pm Saturday kick off and I chose not to attend for any other reason than I simply couldn’t be arsed, then I never would’ve believed it.

**** off Allams.

I'm not sure I'll ever have the same passion for city and football again. It was almost a massive wake up call, wtf am I doing with my life sort of thing. I enjoy having a full weekend to do whatever I want now, and not really give a flying **** whether city win lose or draw. A bad loss used to leave me pissed off all weekend.

 

[Shark Sports]

Unless we strengthen I think we'll go down.

I felt the squad was weak at the start and its even more depleted now. Yes there are some talented players but a balanced squad and a winning team takes more than that. Even with the gaps and weakness we have if they played as a team we'd have enough to climb the table a little.

I still don't think that either manager is the problem its the team that has been assembled (or dissembled) for them that is the problem.

I fear that well slip out of the division with a wimper.

I hope I'm wrong I hope the players somehow find it within themselves to become a team to play for each other and show the opposition and fans their worth their salaries.

Slutsky was definitely the problem. There's nothing wrong with the players. Irvine, Dicko, Toral, Aina and Tomori have all performed better under Nige too. We've picked up a lot of injuries and that's crippling in the Xmas period.

 

[AlRawdah]

Slutsky was definitely the problem. There's nothing wrong with the players. Irvine, Dicko, Toral, Aina and Tomori have all performed better under Nige too. We've picked up a lot of injuries and that's crippling in the Xmas period.

While I don’t disagree, that fact remains is that we’ve won once in six games under the new manager, and tossed away one other lead. There are signs of improvement but we need signs of more points. We aren’t there just yet. Reading and Sunderland will be crucial tests.

 

[Shark Sports]

While I don’t disagree, that fact remains is that we’ve won once in six games under the new manager, and tossed away one other lead. There are signs of improvement but we need signs of more points. We aren’t there just yet. Reading and Sunderland will be crucial tests.

But 3 of those were against sides in the top 6 and we've also had Fulham who won't be far away come May. It's been a difficult run, and there's an argument we should've taken points from all the games which is impressive with our skeleton squad

 

[ImperialTiger]

In a perverse way, because I think we will go down, I reckon we won't.

Doesn't matter anyway. If we don't go down this season, we will go down next. The problem is that, if we go down this season, we could quite conceivably also go down next year.

 

[Amin Arrears]

But 3 of those were against sides in the top 6 and we've also had Fulham who won't be far away come May. It's been a difficult run, and there's an argument we should've taken points from all the games which is impressive with our skeleton squad

We have taken less than 29% of available points since Nigel's arrival. His current points return will leave us somewhere around 40-45 points by the end of the season. The fact that we now look hopeless with the ball and in attack and equally hopeless at the back as before is worrying. We will be bottom of the league by the end of the month and never move back off it.

 

[juleskaren]

Put my vote in the "stay up" but only by the skin of our teeth and got to say I am not 100% convinced of that. Better to ask the question at the end of the transfer window, see where we are then.

 

[ImperialTiger]

We had 1 away win in 2017. Nigel says we need 10 more wins. If that remains the case then pretty much every home game is "must win".

 

[Evington]

At the moment don't feel very confident as:
Birmingham and Sunderland both have a bigger fan base than us I'm afraid and think that passion could count for something
Barnsley under new ownership likely to spend money?
Burton and Bolton who seemed the teams most likely to showing commendable spirit.

I think the fans are critical to this. We almost ALL want rid of the Allams, whether we still go or have stopped going, but I don't believe another 3,000 on the gate for the rest of the season and endorsing the manager's positivity ,( rather than some people sniping at it), is suddenly going to make the Allams think we love them after all and decide to stay. Whereas I do think more support and positivity could help us stay up, and actually improve the chances of finding the new owner we all want.

Before 3,000 more supporters turn up you need eleven players to play for each other and the cause. It wont happen with the current squad.

 

[Evington]

But 3 of those were against sides in the top 6 and we've also had Fulham who won't be far away come May. It's been a difficult run, and there's an argument we should've taken points from all the games which is impressive with our skeleton squad

We cannot beat the teams around us. We couldn't in the PL and that is why we went down. Same this year. The squad does not have enough.