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Who's the best Championship/Division 1 team you've seen City play
Apart from City !!
Mine would have to be West Ham 1980/81. Martin, Devonshire, Bonds, Lampard etc
Not sure why that team has always stuck in the mind...might be that they won the league at a canter and I think won the FA Cup soon after ?
Any others?
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For me it has to be Forest in November '76. 3-0 home defeat. Could have been a lot worse. They were awesome that day!
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Reading gets my vote too. They gave us two hidings that season.
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Des Parrot
Reading 2005/6
This 👍
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Mr Soul '68
For me it has to be Forest in November '76. 3-0 home defeat. Could have been a lot worse. They were awesome that day!
100% first away side a applauded off,best side by a mile:thumbup:
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We were in the same league as big Sam's notes county side who won the third division by an absolute mile in 1998, but I can't remember either game
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Reading 05/06.
Newcastle maybe 09/10, made it look easy against us at home without them getting out of first gear and battered us away.
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I concur with the majority on here:hehe:
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Yep Forest and Reading for me too. Amazingly after we got walloped 3-0 by Forest, we won the away game 1-0, the last time Forest lost at home for over 40 matches I believe.
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Think that 42 game unbeaten run included away games as well. Pretty impressive !
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Mr Soul '68
For me it has to be Forest in November '76. 3-0 home defeat. Could have been a lot worse. They were awesome that day!
Yes that one and also Chelsea the same season, when Ray Wilkins ran the game on his own. Also Middlesbrough 73/4? But we beat them I think. Reading in the 2000s too, and Newcastle twice in the last few years.
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Warnock's qpr were a good team, lost count of the number of last minute winners they kept pulling out the bag
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Bournemouth a few years ago were great
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Pearcey3
I concur with the majority on here:hehe:
Can you remember that far back?
The pace / tempo was incredible. Goal kicks, corners, free kicks, throws all taken instantly. City came 3rd in both games that season.
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Have to concur with Reading. Luton 1981/82 were also light years better than us. Also remember the Wigan team who got promoted playing us off the park
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Spurs, season 1977-78. We actually did okay against them that season.. 0-0 at home and a narrow loss of 2-1 away. West Ham when they were in Division 2 (as it was then) played some slick football.
Pearcey is going to like this.. Reading were the most complete side I'd seen against us in 2005/6. They were strong in every department.
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Got to be that Forest side under Clough, although that was division 2, don’t know if the OP was restricting it to the Premier Division era?
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I can only say after we went up in play offs would go Reading and then Newcastle as 2nd
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Reading in 05/06 were superb, and equally that Newcastle side in 09/10 just held us at arm's length and never let us have a sniff.
Interesting nobody is saying Wolvesalona, and rightly so in my opinion but the media would have you think otherwise.
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cardiff55
Yes that one and also Chelsea the same season, when Ray Wilkins ran the game on his own. Also Middlesbrough 73/4? But we beat them I think. Reading in the 2000s too, and Newcastle twice in the last few years.
We beat that Middlesbrough team 3-2 after they had been promoted. Got be Reading 05/06 for me.
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What no votes for the jacks.
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Des Parrot
Can you remember that far back?
The pace / tempo was incredible. Goal kicks, corners, free kicks, throws all taken instantly. City came 3rd in both games that season.
It was a team that just blended. No really outstanding players but everyone knew their job. Sidwell and Harper in central midfield with Convey and Glenn Little playing wide. Upfront we had a young Kevin Doyle alongside Dave Kitson with Lita and Shane Long in support. Our full-backs were Shorey and Marty but my favourite player was Ibrahima Sonko at centre back. He was immense that season. Ingimarsson was alongside him with Hahnemann in goal.
We lost our opening game at home to Plymouth which was a poor result but from there we didn’t lose again until well into the New Year
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The reading team that ran away with it really clicked and were playing pretty much at their peak. The Newcastle side with Nolan et al i think had more in the tank, they never should have been relegated with that team