City clearly don’t play the “right way”. Considering the change of style this season (which was less pronounced under Hudson, and the signs are the same applies to Whitehead), we’ve coped pretty well when it comes to playing out from the back ( I can’t think of a goal we’ve conceded which has been down to that) and Allsop has helped in this regard.We’ve conceded just thirty one goals in twenty eight games which is a record that would see us in the top half if it was supplemented by even an average scoring rate.

The problem comes when we cross the halfway line - in fact it’s before that, the frequent passing back to the keeper is often down to a lack of movement in front of defenders and midfielders which seriously limits the prospect for constructive forward passes..A lack of attacking potency has been a problem since day one, so there’s always been that pressure for more goals and rather than rise to the challenge, our players have crumbled under the pressure and have got progressively worse in terms of attacking play as the weeks have gone by.

In another thread, there’s a claim that the advert for a manager says the successful candidate must get the team to shoot more. That sounds like typical Tan, not least because it completely misses the point. If anything we shoot too much because the knowledge that we can’t create makes players think in terms of shooting once they get to within around twenty five yards of goal and, with our forward players, the results are so predictable. We had twenty two goal attempts yesterday which would be more than enough for a couple of goals in most teams, but only four were on target and I can’t remember their keeper having a difficult goal attempt to save.

We’re where we are for one reason only (I’m not talking about off field matters when I say that) in my opinion and that’s because we are garbage at the attacking side of the game and we’d still be garbage at it no matter what our style of football was.