Despite getting the best possible start from a fantastically worked goal, for the following 80-odd minutes we were outworked and outplayed by a team that were simply better than us.
Why a club a with a budget probably a quarter of ours is a question for another day, but they were better than us in all departments. If they had a natural striker, they would of walked it.
Pay offs is the best we deserve now. We can still string a run of games into them and get there being the confident and fluid team that Bristol were tonight, but in all honesty, for us to go up and stay up would be mission impossible.
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Some people just can't see the woods for the trees.
EXACTLY.
Hit the nail on the head.
Thank-you Rothko.
I have sat through total and utter shambolic displays this season and with the time and money he has had over the summer to come up with that shambles of a defence is not good enough.
The players simply don't appear to have the ability to hack it in this league.
Why he has brought in both Cook & Sinclair at the same time seems nuts to me, as they aren't going to drag us out of this league.
Clueless.
Ending up with all 4 loan players on the park doesn't say a lot about how he went about spending his transfer money (or the quality of those signings)
You maybe right there Rothko but the money he has spent on very poor quality players and the standard of performances he should be.
Wait and see the fans thoughts on that next season when we start again this division.
You may have to shout as they wont be there!
The lack of belief in some of our players is staggering.
I disagree about McCarthy, he's been excellent since he came back into the side, poor at the start, but has improved massively and made two massive tackles tonight, Boogie was looking good before the injury.
Bristol City are better than us and will be promoted deservedly so. They are better than us in every department.
Anyone who understands football would have known that automatic promotion was never going to happen. At least we won't hear that rubbish anymore. We will probably finish 5th which is where we've been all season.
Shall we make it a weekend?
Boogie looking good
YOUD BLOODY HOPE SO FOR £2.5 MILLION QUID
HE WAS BOUGHT FOR THE PREMIERSHIP FOR CHRIST SAKE
I agree entirely.
But with the backing our manager has been given, I honestly don't believe we should be getting outplayed by anyone in this division at this stage of the season. We are effectively running two Championship squads, but haven't gelled out a top side.
I don't want him sacked or any of those shenanigans before anyone jumps on it. But we are underperforming in my eyes.
McCarthy has been excellent since he's come back into the side, rather him then El Kak
Slight difference if you expect us to be as good as them this time in 12 months time, they are on the verge of 2 successive promotions our side wouldn't achieve that.
You aren't kidding. I cannot believe how unconfident some of them look.
Iwellumo has no idea of how to draw a foul of the defender, really basic stuff.
And thats the crux of it we have a defence and a forward line that cannot *do* the basic stuff.
I thought their No 11 was outstanding (McIndoe?)
I thought pretty much there whole team was outstanding, blimey even Byfield looked sharp up front, we looked totally pedestrian up front aprt from our goal.
Our lot?
I don't see the Championship as a league with 24 teams in it half of them would have a job holding their own in division 1, so as far as our league go we are halfway house.
If you want an example of this just look at some of the teams who are competing with us for the play-offs, apart from Ipswich they shouldn't be anywhere near us.
be honest :-)
On the bright side, we'll win on Saturday - I promise.
Of the plus points Ambrose had another good game and I was pleased to see Gray back in the frame. Holland worked his socks off again and McCarthy and Sodje were reasonably solid. ZZ made some good runs but didnt really lead to anything. Thomas had a game of 2 halves.
Varney looked out of sorts with Iwelumo on the pitch and seemed to close to Gray when he came on. Halford and Youga were really disappointing in the second half. But for me the 2 low points were Sinclairs fancy dan boots and Lee Cook walking off down the tunnel ahead of the rest of the squad as if he couldnt care less. That annoyed me big time.