Yesterdays performance at QPR was pretty lacklustre from a team in the bottom three supposedly fighting for survival.
It was an attacking line up with our highly rated youngsters - Colwill, Ashford, Davies and Alves all starting but they came up against seemingly bigger more physical players for QPR and I thought we were bullied.
It is OK having a lot of skill players but every team needs a midfield general/wily old fox like Willie Carlin and more physical players like Phil Dwyer and Jason Perry to make sure our younger players do not get bullied.
Our team cries out for a centre midfielder who is a 'leader' and we have not had one for a while.
As others have said there was no passion from the team and even in injury time there was no rush to take throws ins or get the ball back into play. Even the City fans were not as vocal as we usually are.
We do have good players like Fish, Salech,O'Dowda, Colwill, Ashford, Robertson and Robinson but as we all know the team is not performing.
In 74/75 after lucky escapes in 72/73 and 73/74 we finally went down - as a 15 year old it was my first City relegation and it really hurt. Jimmy Andrews was a relatively inexperienced manager and after 41 games we had 9 wins, 14 draws and 17 defeats similar this seasons stats of 9 wins 14 draws and 17 defeats after 40 games. He had experienced campaigners like Gil Reece, Willie Anderson, Bill Irwin, Willie Anderson and Johnny Vincent and less younger talent in his team but they also had a bad start picking up one win, two draws and 7 defeats from the first ten games. This season feels like Deja Vu and I wish it didn't.