Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
Months and months ago I imagined that I’d be buzzing to get back in the ground to watch the City again, how wrong I was. Didn’t go last night and, worryingly, didn’t care too much. I do consider myself a dedicated fan who’s never needed motivation to get down the City, even in the dark dungeon days, I loved it, as, I imagine the majority of posters on here do.

If I’m feeling this lethargic about it I dread to think how the less enthusiastic followers are approaching it. The club seem to be acting the same as well, club shop rarely open, we’ve heard that only one full time person + one part timer are staffing the ticket office, all interaction with fans conducted at ‘online arm’s length’. All this within a multi million pound concern. I’m getting my info on here most of the time, there’s very little PR or pre season, indeed post ‘closed doors’, fanfare coming out of the club, it’s so low key when, during the height of the pandemic, I imagined the imminent return would herald a massive publicity campaign.

Either I need to buck up and get back to some sort of normal or the club needs to show that they give a f*ck.
Glad I'm not the only one - I can't get excited about watching City at all at the moment and didn't even bother watching the stream of last night's match. You make some good points about the club's attitude, but in my case, my lack of enthusiasm is down to it looking very much like the same old, same old at City - dull football from a team that give the impression that they prefer to let the opposition have the ball.

I've seen brief highlights of last night's match and Mick McCarthy was right about three of the goals coming from us passing the ball to them or losing possession.

in 18/19 we did the double over Southampton with the home game being their current manager's first match in charge, yet there seems to be a chasm of difference between the two clubs now - Southampton have progressed certainly, but we've also declined by becoming even more Warnock like after the man departed. The most telling thing that happened last season was that we had to revert to "the Cardiff way" after a pretty half hearted attempt to try something different because Warnock's influence still runs deep having left behind a squad which is only really equipped to play the game one way.