Quote Originally Posted by PentyrchBlue View Post
Yes Dave you did say to us in the pub that Ismael was useless & don't be surprised if we got something out of the game. It was that little bit of hope I've been clinging onto all week but be fair, what were the odds on it being Meite to score the winner? This game is bonkers sometimes.
I felt beforehand that Blackburn was pretty much the ideal away game for City at this time. That doesn't mean to say I was confident of a result - far from it after Tuesday's pathetic performance - but Blackburn are in disarray right now.

Apparently, they had a poor January transfer window and Eustace subsequently left them on 13/02. They managed to beat Plymouth 2-0 a couple of days later, but their results since then have been awful. A 3-0 defeat at Swansea, a 1-1 draw with an erratic and out-of-form Norwich, and defeats to Derby, Stoke and now Cardiff.

It felt to me like they were probably over-achieving under Eustace. Replacing him with route one merchant Ismael (on a three-and-a-half year contract, no less) was a mad move and would have been disheartening for the players. Their fans weren't happy when he was appointed and they're even less happy now. It was a good time to play them.

I was surprised that so many people appeared to believe relegation was a certainty after the Luton defeat. It was a bad one for sure, and City definitely have a poor squad and an even poorer management set-up. However, as I've been saying since the season kicked off, the Championship is truly awful this time around and we're not even in the relegation zone. It'll probably be close and go right to the wire, but I expect City to just about scrape survival again - not necessarily because I'm expecting our lot to do anything great, but because the division is so weak.