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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
Add in the Aston Villa game, early season, under Warnock when we destroyed them, and the Leeds game a couple of months after the villa game.
That's the one I meant when I said: "Better than the 3-0 victory over Villa at the start of the 2017/18 campaign?"
As for Leeds, beating them at the CCS is standard.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
The Lone Gunman
That's the one I meant when I said: "Better than the 3-0 victory over Villa at the start of the 2017/18 campaign?"
As for Leeds, beating them at the CCS is standard.
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Oh yeah, i was speed reading :hehe: I think that the OP is getting a little carried away, but i get his way of thinking. Yesterday was like being served up a morrisons ready meal curry after years of eating dry stale bread, and it was the 1st game of the season. It goes to show how poor the standard of play had become, more than anything else.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
Oh yeah, i was speed reading :hehe: I think that the OP is getting a little carried away, but i get his way of thinking. Yesterday was like being served up a morrisons ready meal curry after years of eating dry stale bread, and it was the 1st game of the season. It goes to show how poor the standard of play had become, more than anything else.
That Villa game is my all time favourite. Loved that game. John Terry ripping his shirt off in anger as he left the park. Sun shining. Unicorns. Free pots of gold under every rainbow flag. The orchestra. Choir. Even Bartley Bluebird celebrating with the players. I kid you not.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
That Villa game is my all time favourite. Loved that game. John Terry ripping his shirt off in anger as he left the park. Sun shining. Unicorns. Free pots of gold under every rainbow flag. The orchestra. Choir. Even Bartley Bluebird celebrating with the players. I kid you not.
It was a perfect day.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
It goes to show how poor the standard of play had become, more than anything else.
Although City look really weak in the final third, the defending was pretty decent and the ball retention was much better throughout the side. Also, the pace of the play was much improved, nowhere near as ponderous as recent seasons. And there was a good deal of commitment on display. All of the new signings looked eager to impress.
I'm not sure about Norwich this season, though. Earlier in this thread, Monkfish described them as having a Premier League squad of players. I don't think they have anything of the sort. They finished rock bottom of the top flight last season, sixteen points behind the team who finished fourth bottom. Pukki is another year older and they don't have Buendia, who was superb for them when they were last at this level. They'll probably be in and around the play-offs, but I'll be surprised if they are automatic promotion candidates this time around.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
The Lone Gunman
Although City look really weak in the final third, the defending was pretty decent and the ball retention was much better throughout the side. Also, the pace of the play was much improved, nowhere near as ponderous as recent seasons. And there was a good deal of commitment on display. All of the new signings looked eager to impress.
I'm not sure about Norwich this season, though. Earlier in this thread, Monkfish described them as having a Premier League squad of players. I don't think they have anything of the sort. They finished rock bottom of the top flight last season, sixteen points behind the team who finished fourth bottom. Pukki is another year older and they don't have Buendia, who was superb for them when they were last at this level. They'll probably be in and around the play-offs, but I'll be surprised if they are automatic promotion candidates this time around.
I didn't think that Norwich were that good the year they won the championship, and the way that we lost to them at carrow rd pissed me off.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
Oh yeah, i was speed reading :hehe: I think that the OP is getting a little carried away, but i get his way of thinking. Yesterday was like being served up a morrisons ready meal curry after years of eating dry stale bread, and it was the 1st game of the season. It goes to show how poor the standard of play had become, more than anything else.
Yes that was my point. In isolation it wasn't that great and of course there have been better games (although even those trying to pick holes cant think of many considering they have a decade including 2 premier league seasons and 2 promotions to pick from!!)
But considering the new signings and new style of play etc etc etc it was right up there for me.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Father Dougal
Yes that was my point. In isolation it wasn't that great and of course there have been better games (although even those trying to pick holes cant think of many considering they have a decade including 2 premier league seasons and 2 promotions to pick from!!)
But considering the new signings and new style of play etc etc etc it was right up there for me.
Fair enough :thumbup:
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
For me it was the going into the unknown and being completely surprised, surprised in a very good way. So glad that it was Norwich, a newly relegated side, that we played. Of course it’s early days and we have to be cautious but if it had been against the likes of Rotherham, Reading, Birmingham etc it may have led to some fans coming out with ‘Ok, good display but wait until we play the likes of Norwich’. All in all a great afternoon’s work:thumbup:
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
It was a perfect day.
It was indeed.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
That Villa game is my all time favourite. Loved that game. John Terry ripping his shirt off in anger as he left the park. Sun shining. Unicorns. Free pots of gold under every rainbow flag. The orchestra. Choir. Even Bartley Bluebird celebrating with the players. I kid you not.
I think it's unfair to tag all our football over the past decade as lacking flair and excitement - this game is a case in point. Our promotion season under Warnock wasn't bad - the problem really set in after relegation. For two and a half seasons we really did get dull football and mostly players who could best be described as 'workmanlike'. I suppose it's bit like folk after the war tasting their 1st banana for 6 years !!
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Tuerto
I didn't think that Norwich were that good the year they won the championship, and the way that we lost to them at carrow rd pissed me off.
Norwich’s record in the last two seasons they’ve been in the Premier League has been pathetic - far worse than ours in the two seasons we were there - I don’t think Farke got the credit he deserved in 20/21 for getting a squad which had a very good goal scorer, probably the best player in the division that season and an excellent right back, but not too much else that was of title winning standard to win the title by quite a large margin.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
A Quiet Monkfish
I think it's unfair to tag all our football over the past decade as lacking flair and excitement - this game is a case in point. Our promotion season under Warnock wasn't bad - the problem really set in after relegation. For two and a half seasons we really did get dull football and mostly players who could best be described as 'workmanlike'. I suppose it's bit like folk after the war tasting their 1st banana for 6 years !!
The second half of the promotion season was a lot about grinding results out and I think it was character more than anything else which kept us above Fulham, but we played a lot of good stuff before that - Sheffield United, Villa, Wolves, Leeds, Brentford and Norwich were all very good performances in the first half of 17/18.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
Oh and more robust challenges and fights, will keep the crowd begging for more, loved the fact once someone lost the ball the Norwich player had 3 City players quickly on him , that what fitness and strength brings , and our new fitness man will bring that to the fore
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
Result-wise the best game at CCS for me has to be the 3-2 against Citeh.
Performance-wise stroke excitement-wise the 3 nil against Villa.
Quite excited by what I saw yesterday mind though we really could do with a striker, goalscorer cum poacher type.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
A Quiet Monkfish
I think it's unfair to tag all our football over the past decade as lacking flair and excitement - this game is a case in point. Our promotion season under Warnock wasn't bad - the problem really set in after relegation. For two and a half seasons we really did get dull football and mostly players who could best be described as 'workmanlike'. I suppose it's bit like folk after the war tasting their 1st banana for 6 years !!
As Tuerto said, the Leeds game shortly after was a corker too. Big crowd, big Leeds support. It was rocking. I like the 1st banana in 6 years analogy. Better than the powdered egg and chicory coffee of last season. :hehe:
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
Before the match started I didn't speak to a single person who thought we had a chance. New players hardly anyone had heard of, a completely new team against a side that played in the Premier League last season. How could our bunch of supposed misfits put in any kind of performance? The game was so good because everyone's expectations were so low. Instead we had a few unexpectedly good performances. A ball playing centre half - when did we last have one of these? A goalkeeper who dominated his area - a rarity indeed and a player in Collins who had the audacity to beat his man. Who'd of thunk it. All in all an enjoyable and surprisingly good day out that will live in the memory - more for the surprise element than anything else. But the crowd went home happy and that's a first given the garbage experienced in recent seasons.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Vindec
Before the match started I didn't speak to a single person who thought we had a chance. New players hardly anyone had heard of, a completely new team against a side that played in the Premier League last season. How could our bunch of supposed misfits put in any kind of performance? The game was so good because everyone's expectations were so low. Instead we had a few unexpectedly good performances. A ball playing centre half - when did we last have one of these? A goalkeeper who dominated his area - a rarity indeed and a player in Collins who had the audacity to beat his man. Who'd of thunk it. All in all an enjoyable and surprisingly good day out that will live in the memory - more for the surprise element than anything else. But the crowd went home happy and that's a first given the garbage experienced in recent seasons.
Top post! :thumbup:
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
Quite entertaining read now!
If only I had known our season peaked on day 1!
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Father Dougal
Quite entertaining read now!
21st v 12th as things stand.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
The Lone Gunman
21st v 12th as things stand.
You called Norwich out, fair play to you :thumbup:
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
You called Norwich out, fair play to you :thumbup:
He did. However even in 12th they are the 2nd best team we beat at home all season (mighty Blackburn in 9th being our big scalp)
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
Oh look…it’s the last time I was happy.
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Re: Best city game at CCS for a decade or so
Looking back the challenges in the final third and lack of cutting edge were obvious even then, but after this game I thought we’d be easily mid table with a chance of sniffing the playoffs. We played some really nice stuff against a team who were supposed to be one of the favorites. The false optimism of being a football fan.