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Yes I do. The only saving grace is that I won't have to spend another cold night at the start of March watching a largely second choice side get run rings around by largely second string Sheffield Utd.
Last night really annoyed me as we were two up against a very average Reading side who we could beat in 4 attempts. Agreed we are absolutely average ourselves and I'd bet now we will finish somewhere between 10th and 14th, but second half we fell apart and the football at the moment is very uninspiring to put it politely.
I don't find the prospect of securing mid-table exciting enough to forfeit the enjoyment a cup run.
They're hardly Barcelona though so it isn't beyond the realms of possibility we'd beat them. We might as well try. We're currently going to finish about 12th and by the time the 5th round comes around we'll have absolutely nothing to play for. We can't defend, we don't score and we don't win games.
I only care about it while we're still in it. After we've been knocked out I couldn't give a feck
Nor me. I can't understand the mentality of the club, either.
As far as I'm concerned, City look to be the very definition of a mid-table side this season - comfortably too strong to go down and already with almost enough points on the board to stay up anyway; nowhere near enough quality to go up. They are the Championship's draw specialists for a reason.
At the start of the campaign, City were 3/1 to get promoted. You can currently get 33/1 and I believe that's about right.
What possible difference will it make if City finish anywhere between 7th and, let's say, 17th? Is there any extra prize money the higher you finish in the Championship? If there is, is that prize money significant?
If ever there looked to be a season where a decent FA Cup run was worth aiming for it was this one, especially as City had already been drawn at home to a mid-ranking Premier League side in the next round.
Going out like that after being 2 goals up sucks and especially to bloody Reading.
We need some excitement.