I listened to the latest Elis James Feast of Football and A bit of Swazz podcasts discussing Saturday's game yesterday and was struck by how much the opinions of ex City players Danny Gabbidon and Nathan Blake were at odds when it came to our second half performance. Both of them were agreed that we played well in the first half and deserved to be ahead, while they were also united when it came to how well the centrebacks and wing backs played through the whole ninety minutes, but that's where the agreement ended.

I listened to Blakey's opinion first - he was of the view that it was a complete performance from City with good passing and movement in the first half and then a changed attitude after the break whereby we just decided to sit back and let Swansea have the ball and territory, more or less inviting them to break us down while thinking that there was no way they could do so. According to Blakey we were never in trouble and put down a marker from which we are likely to make it into the top six at the end of the season.

By contrast, Gabbs (who predicted a 1-0 win for us beforehand) was of the view that it was very much a game of two halves for City as he described our ball retention in the second half as "woeful" and thought Swansea did enough to score after the break (interestingly, while I spent the second half thinking the jacks were going to score at any minute, Ekis James the jack was convinced that his team would never score!). Gabbs wasn't sure that City could make the Play Offs because they had to work so hard to get a win given they have so little of the ball in games and I must say I belong firmly in his camp on the matters of Saturday's match and how our season will finish.

However, did Blakey have a point when he said we were in control for nearly all of the match ? I agree with him that the win could have a very positive effect on our mind set in the remaining matches and we might see Lee Tomlin making a comeback in the coming weeks which will clearly help if he can reach anything like last season's standards - I've always thought that, man for man, we have a more talented squad than last season, but, with no three month break to recharge our batteries going into the final few matches, I fear we'll run out of steam if we are unable to pass the ball better.