Brentford 1-1 Millers....another draw....

That is clearly the key issue, and one what must be presumed a matter of worry to the club.

We lack a real manager, who can teach these players how to play nitty, grotty football. Yes, had we been playing in the Championship, McCall could have put some of his strategies and tactics he learnt from Warnock into practice, but it must be assumed he has come into this job unprepared for the challenges basement football brings.

I just hope he learns from, and can rectify, his mistakes.

The silliest thing he has done was to say that is we didn't get promoted he would consider himself to have failed, too many people got way too carried away over the summer - you can't turn around a decline like the one we've suffered in a couple of weeks, legendary ex player or not.

Some of the recruitment over the summer was baffling. I appreciate at the time the finances were sorted a lot of good players at this level would already have been attached, but we seemed determined to recruit a team of midgets with two target men up front. So there's no presence in midfield, which is essential at this level. Frankly, it's alright looking good on the ball but that alone won't get you out of this division other than downwards.

All y'all should have listened.

Enjoy your win tomorrow night. I won't be there as I can't cope with any more of that punishment this week. We have to come good eventually though, it's usually when I'm not there

Typical City really, play crap against crap then turn it on against the team who had the best away record in the country.

I thought we were fairly impressive for long periods tonight but, as ever, the question is whether we can back it up.

I miss 2 home games this season, and we win them both



I'll be missing on Saturday too, so another win is on the cards!

Another win for the millers

It's also typical City, having gone two goals up in the 89th minute, to find a way to create a bit more drama at the end. Six points off the relegation places, things are looking up.

We were very lucky to get a point away at Mansfield last night,Rickets is a liability and almost cost us a goal on many occasions,the penalty that Mansfield were given was not a penalty but thankfully Rickets made a good save,in the second half Rickets brought a player down which was a stone cold penalty but the ref did'nt give it so we were very lucky there.
I thought we lacked any kind of creativity in midfield and we looked clueless at times,we were solid in defence but we had to do a little too much defending for my liking,the 2 strikers upfront were playing a mile away from each other so any flick on from midfield was quickly intercepted.
If we play like we did last night all season then we will be relegated without a doubt.
The only positive i can think of is Omar Daley looked a threat all game but to be honest him and Nsungu looked our only threat.
Must say our away support was fantastic yet again,there were around 600 away fans and only 2500 or so in the stadium.

That's been our problem all season, no class in midfield. Nicky Law is a class apart but struggling with the lack of quality and support around him. Cracking goal from Nix at the weekend though.

As for Paul Evans, I never want to see that guy in a City shirt again. I'm sorry, but he's just rubbish.

Big game today, Millers v Bradford

Got a feeling it'll be called off mate.

Why?

other than it been abit cold and a little icy i should think the pitch will have been kept in superb condition as always.

I would have thought the answer to that question would be fairly obvious given that the game got called off about an hour before your post.

Frozen Pitch

How on earth did we manage to win today? Omar Daley was absolute crap and other than his pace he offered nothing today and i lost count of how many times he lost the ball,Thorne and Ndungu looked a threat upfront but as ever they were playing too far away from each other.
The thing that annoyed me about todays performance is that very few of our players actually jumped to try win a header,i think i only saw Wetherall try to win a header but noone else,sort it out quickly McCall.
Stuart made a bold sub with about 10 minutes left when he brought Conlan on for Thorne but thankfully it worked out as Conlon got the winning goal,round of applause must go to McCall for that one.
Overall it was a poor performance and if we had been playing a side with even a little bit of class today we would have lost and perhaps should have lost today to be honest.

City can't afford to try 'win pretty' every week. They can play like that every week as long as there's 3 points at the end of it.

I agree,however some of our play today was very poor indeed especially where half our players refuse to challenge for headers.

Judging by todays [url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/sportbcfcmatch/display.var.1933086.0.citys_playoff_hopes_vanish.phpT&A article[/url SM now seems to have realised that we need to have a more physical approach in this division, we'll just have to wait until next season before it can happen.

Notts County 0-1 Rotherham

3rd with our 9th win in 11 games :3

City sign Lee Bullock on loan, the midfielder we desperately need. No idea if he's any good mind. But as long as he's more than 5ft 5 and has a bit of balls then he can't be any worse than what we already have.

Well after today we are halfway through the season, we [ishould[/i be safe from a relegation scrap while there's too much to do for us to make the play-offs, though hopefully we'll go on a decent run between now and the end of the season to give us a little hope ahead of next term.

I was expecting an upper mid table finish and we should still be on course for that, I was hopeful that we might have had a crack at the play-offs but that run of 5 defeats in a row in September/October put paid to that, I do think we are improving though as SM learns about management (and the division) and we're not on that bad a run of recent form - we only seem to be getting beat by the top teams at the moment.

It was always going to take more than just SM's return and big crowds to arrest 7 years of decline and the effect of 2 admin's and I think the biggest mistake the club made over the summer was talking themselves up (ie SM saying he'd consider it a failure if we didn't go up) but I guess they had to do that to get bums on seats, hopefully everyone can learn from what's gone on so far this year and we'll be in a position to challenge next term.

Fantastic following of 1500 at Accrington today.