There's the cure to despondency creep a jolly good spanking session , that should get folks hardened, and up for it .
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No happy pills but the acceptance of worrying about what I can control and change and not worrying about what I cant or don't want to control
Football is my release from a stressful job where I can get to shout rubbish at complete strangers for 90 minutes - never really minded if it was in the prem or the old 4th division to be honest.
A little bit of last night reminded me why the journey is better than the destination when those Southampton feckers kept falling over as if there were snipers in the stands.
Bring on Barnsley - can't wait 👍
I've said that for years re tickets in terms of giving them to schools to generate that interest and a % would get the bug and come again but the shirt is a great idea 👍
I hate the football. Possibly more than I should . Not bothered about getting back .
Even if we played Tomlin I would look forward to it . A couple of lads emerging from the youth sides would also be a spark.
As long as they can kick the ball high n the air .
It's a metaphor for life. There will be good times and bad times. The bad times make us appreciate the good times. And after being deprived of such things there's all the more reason to appreciate attending games even if they are not top notch.
We'll all be dead eventually so just get on with it, I say :-)
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Wonder what he's up to now, oh look he's playing for Barry! He was capped 3 times for the Welsh u19s! Come off it, the players we produce are crap. Like Patten, they barely get capped at international level. I remember people raving about Ratfcliffe cause he looked good at youth level despite being on loan at fecking Barry and being kept out of the Wales side by Przybek. Although he's still young, he would be on loan at national league sides like Pryzbek has but he's obviously not good enough.
I don't want to shit on these kids cause they are being poorly coached regardless of what level they're at, but let's not pretend the stuff they play at youth level is worlds away from the first team, that's nonsense. If we had capable coaches or players, either the players would make it elsewhere (despite your LAUGHABLE comment about Patten) or the coaches would be snapped up by other clubs that are invested in youth development. We have a category 2 academy remember, there's little in the way of us stopping players being snatched
The academy is a joke and a waste of money. I am honestly surprised Tan hasn't scrapped it already
I still think this year will be judged as being an interesting one in hindsight.
Smithies
Sang NG Morrison Nelson Bagan
Wintle Ralls
Giles
Moore Collins/Harris
Not a bad starting XI and if the new kids can get 12+ games from the season it sets us up nicely going forward. We finished 8th last year, three teams ahead of us should be worse this year and only five teams behind us will be significantly better. 10th place seems a fair prediction with outside shot at play-offs again.
I must admit, I'm getting pretty bored now. Our level of success is what I dreamed of. We got back to where we were when I started. But the football is dreadful. The owner and the management are uninspiring. We can be so much more. But we're not. Football has moved on and we haven't.
I didn't go last night and I won't be there Saturday for family reasons.
But I went on the train to Bath and thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you went back in the really shite years it was never really about quality of performance.
I'm looking forward to the season being with my son brother and mates and following the City home and away hopefully
we are a mid table championship team, we could push for the Prem, in the late 80's who would have thought we would be saying that
Of course we have been stuck at this point for a while, is it boring now ? ? ??
I feel when we were in the 4th, we had dreams, we knew we could be better, we dreamt to competing with the big boys, we have now had that taste and it didnt wok out ( Twice ) where do we go now ? ?
Is Despondency anywhere near Rotherham ?
We are living in the 21st century now with a modern automated stadium with bar code access for tickets/cards. However the ticket office is always open on the day of the game and they have cash ticket booths open outside the ground before every game. There is absolutely no reason why people cant just turn up and pay on the day. Nothing is ever quite as bad as some people make out. Also, at the moment the club have absolutely no idea how many people they can let in on August 7th, so can not possibly advertise whether general sale tickets will be available.
Excellent post. There are people on this board who have been moaning about City for so long, they are unable to shake themselves out of it, see anything that the club/team does as good, think it is the normal thing to do and that every else agrees with them. Whereas they are really only an insignificant minority of the overall fanbase, comprising about 25-30 people at most.
I've been wrong about the Academy and the youngsters that come through it in the past and I'm sure I will be again - I'm also probably a bit naive in my thinking in championing our young players as much as I do. However, I'll tell you something, I'd much rather have my attitude towards youth development at City than yours.
You say you "don't want to shit on these kids" and then go on to do precisely that - more than that, is there any need to adopt such a sneering and cynical style while doing so?
Whether by accident or design, you've completely missed my point about Robbie Patten. I acknowledged that injuries had affected his time at the club (he missed an awful lot of football in his late teens, so was always likely to be let go by City) and my point was about him being coached in a way that people at good quality non league sides did not think was best suited for the style of play they favoured.
Do you watch much age group football at City? Judging by your opinion that the way our youth sides play is not too far away from how our senior side plays, I suspect not.
Here's another anecdote concerning something I overheard at game between City and Colchester Under 18s (we had players like George Ratcliffe, Sam Bowen, Keenan Patten, Keiron Evans, Isaak Davies and, possibly, Rubin Colwill in our squad that day). City were 5-0 up at half time and I listened in on a conversation between someone who was obviously very clued up about youth football and who worked for Colchester, or had done in the recent past, talking to the parents of one of their players that day. One of the things he said was that we may be getting well beat, but I can still appreciate the football Cardiff have played today. Year in, year out, Cardiff play the most entertaining and skilful football I see from an opposition team and I always look forward to our matches against them.
It was as much as I could do not to blurt out "you haven't seen our first team play then?". Do you honestly think anyone at another Championship club has said something similar about our senior side in the last ten years? There might be an acknowledgment of our physicality, about how we're difficult to play against and how dangerous we are from set pieces, but envy at the quality of our football? Really?
My message was about the absurdity of having an Academy geared to play one way and a first team set up to play in a manner which is almost completely opposite to it - dismissing every young player the club has produced since Aaron Ramsey as not good enough is just lazy thinking.
How many players have come through our academy in the last 10 years and gone on to play league football for us or another club?