For me it was Preston at home.
Dreadful performance from then on .
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For me it was Preston at home.
Dreadful performance from then on .
I thought we would get out of it until Luton at home
Luton away, if we couldn’t beat the poorest side in the division, what hope was there for us
And had we won that even with Luton feeling like they've won every game since and we haven't- we'd still be above them in the table now!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Losing to Luton in such a pathetic manner was the realisation that we're up to our neck in it. Failing then to beat either of Oxford or Stoke, just showed other teams had more fight and desire (not necessarily more quality) than us.
Many games indicated relegation was a serious possibility or even a probability, but the Stoke defeat was the one that sealed it for me. Before then, I still believed City would somehow scrape their way out of it by a point or two, but that pathetic effort indicated the team simply wasn't up to it.
I said after the QPR game that we'd finish bottom without winning another match.
After Sheff Utd at home, I suggested we play the kids against Oxford awayQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
On reflection it wasn’t that bad a shout
There aren’t many of these lot that you’d want with you in a tight scrape
Luton at home
Oxford away another one though it felt like we had plenty of time to bring in a new manager then
Was always pretty confident we’d stay up until Oxford on Boxing Day, then my faith was restored until we went to Leeds where we were so passive and feeble that I went into glass half empty again. However, it was after Luton that I became convinced we’d had it.
Oxford away was an eye opener of how bad we were as a “team” we looked like a bunch of scared individuals that hadn’t been coached together. I left there thinking we’d go down if nothing changed, ultimately nothing changed and we went down
Yes that was a shocker. Luton away was dreadful and the home loss was a pivotal day.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ-Q
Derby away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Armitage Shanks
We were absolutely ****ed from that moment.
I can understand why people are highlighting the Luton home defeat, it was a shocker, but the fact is we were still above the relegation zone by a point after that game and we won our next one (Blackburn away). After that victory we were still 21st, but were four points ahead of Luton and six ahead of Plymouth. The fact that we're now two points behind Plymouth and five behind Luton highlights just how feeble the side has been in its last seven matches.
I thought that we would scrape up again, but probably the Stoke game for me. I've been calling out these players for 2 seasons now, we've had six different managers, coaches? Although a bit unfair on Ramsey. None of them could get a sustained tune out of a group who are on the slide, none of them are on the up, accept maybe Salech, Ashford has stalled. As a collective they're losers, so some of them could play lower championship, but they would need players with more character and belief around them. A case in point is Perry Ng, with his antics. Some people might think it's alright, gamesmanship etc, it's not, it's to mask his lack of ability. If a player is going to do that type of shit then they need to be good players in order to get away with it. So many of them are on the slide, as good as they'll ever be.
Oxford away.
Hull away
You literally stole my words. Luton away scared me. And nothing changed. Luton home was the final nail. I said to my son as we were leaving the ground "we will come bottom and be the 1st relegated". Sadly I was right for once! A thoroughly depressing season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
Oxford away thought it could well be the year we went down.
Luton home thought it was definitely the year. Even though we were out of the relegation zone still looking at the form of teams around us and the games left it felt like an inevitability.
Luton at home, not just the result but the way we played. After that, failure to get many points against the teams around us.
I didn’t think we’d go down until Luton at home. Started to become real after that and then confirmed in the stoke game
Surprised Luton away is getting a mention, that was on the back of Riza’s 5 or 6 game unbeaten run and seemed a bit of a one off to me at the time
Luton at home I thought we are seriously in trouble here then Stoke is where I knew it
we even managed to take the lead against Luton then completely bottled it
You had to be there to see it !Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBirchgrovePub
No skill, no fight, no commitment, it was like 11 fellas just met in the Birch Pub and said “fancy a game of football”
Absolutely pathetic
Have you seen the average age of the men in the Birch? I'd say that only three of them would be candidates for our young player of the year award.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Oxford away on Boxing day we left at 3 nil down and I said in the car I think this is our year to go down.
Leeds maybe
The same for me. Oxford away showed we weren't too good to go down and didn't have any fight in the squad. Leeds away revealed us to be a rudderless shambles and, while I was hoping for a miracle, relegation seemed odds on for me at that point.
Replying to TOBWs postQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The home game with Luton for me.
I had accepted that we were a team with no leaders, and that the defence was brittle and full of errors, but I thought we had a chance of scoring enough to survive with Salech and the hope of Robinson and Davies fit for the run in.
We had become so streaky. Runs of losses and draws followed by runs unbeaten with a few wins thrown in. After winning at Blackburn I expected another upturn and enough points to put us relatively safe.
The Luton performance (maybe more than the result) punctured that qualified optimism. I didn’t expect all the other bottom teams to become world beaters the way they did, but I resigned myself to a grim and frustrating battle where relegation was more probable than possible.
Oxford home.
I had this belief that City would scab staying up due to beating Oxford and them free falling due to their tough fixtures.
As soon as Brannigan scored I felt that was it.
I'm fuucking clueless.
Stoke home for me, I was hopelessly optimistic of staying up, I had all of my 'relegation emotions' that day, first game I think I had ever left actively 'very angry'. The games against Oxford and WBA I was like "meh, we're down anyway, nevermind! :D"
After the Luton and QPR results, Stoke was a MUST win. I knew for sure in my heart that it was over after that game.
Pompey away. All downhill, even more, after that. Luton at home just confirmed the "we are getting relegated" feeling. Going back to when the fixtures came out, I thought West Brom at home would be the nail in the coffin.
Reading all these posts, HTF didn’t we stay up ?
We must have been crapper than I thought :hehe:
Stoke was the most pivotal six-pointer, but we lost it with QPR, Preston, and Oxford too; we had so many winnable games get out of jail in the run-in to the season.
Tan's own fault. Why stick with Riza, 10 games to go, even 20? It was obvious to anyone, but Tan and one other he was totally out of his depth.
No single game indicated relegation for me. Most teams have some very poor games in a season and where they are dominated, outfought, outplayed and generally run rings around.
In City's case it was the norm rather than the exception - and creativity was an abstract concept most of the time.
I honestly didn't believe it would happen until the Oxford game. I really thought we would win that, and coupled with the extraordinary set of other results for me that's when I realised we are very likely down.
We should have gained 2-3 points on our rivals that day. Instead we lost 2 to several or them
I think all teams in the bottom 6 won the night we lost to Luton and the draw v Oxford?Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Our most damaging results and absolutely everything else going wrong.
Yeah it happened a couple of times I think, but the Oxford day was ridiculous. Didn't everyone win bar Oxford and us? Something like that. Maybe another team dropped points but for me it was that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Father Dougal
I still can't quite believe it tbf. And I have to say that inside me I am looking forward to next season, but it will feel very strange being that low down and am pretty nervous about the atmosphere if we don't start well