Quote Originally Posted by blue lewj View Post
I can't say I have enjoyed it to any great extent if I'm honest.

While it is great being in the top tier of British football, having your backsides handed to you on most weekends isn't great.

While it is great to go to the bigger, iconic grounds coming away with our tail between our legs left a sour taste more often than not.

I know many like seeing the best players against us but I am there to watch City first and foremost and the buzz of seeing a top player soon goes when they are running rings around your team. Spurs and Man United home spring to mind as ganes that were not enjoyable in the slightest.

It was an experience but not one I would describe as enjoyable in the main and I am looking forward to the Championship.

I think I like the idea more of competing and doing well most weeks and there are many places, Brentford for one in their last season at Griffin Park, that appeal more than turning up as the whipping boys to places like Stamofrd Bridge or Anfield.
Yes, the overall experience was enjoyable for me because I approached it from the outset with the realisation that it was always going to be a struggle to survive. We achieved promotion against the odds, probably a year sooner than even anyone at the club expected and were never going to be able to compete financially with most of the other teams. I treated it as a bonus season, in which we would be able to build the club onto a solid financial base with which to move forward in future and hopefully establish ourselves in the Premier League eventually like teams such as Watford, Leicester and Burnley are doing. The fact that we stayed in contention to avoid relegation for so long was a miracle really. There were some notable and enjoyable performances/results, especially the home games against Wolves, Fulham, Brighton, Southampton, West Ham and Bournemouth plus the away games at Leicester, Southampton. We also played well in defeat at Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

I dont get your claim that you are looking forward to playing in the Championship again. You seem to be saying that you enjoy supporting City but only if they play well and win. Most people know that being a fan of a club is about supporting the team through thick and thin. Your attitude appears more akin to being a fair weather fan or so called plastic, which is an idea totally foreign to me. If everyone felt like you do, we would all have given up supporting City a long time ago, especially in the seventies, eighties and ninties when were very often struggling in the lower leagues with no sign of where the next win was coming from.