Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
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.
Do you think city may need to do more than we maybe thought 10 days ago?

Derby 3 wins in a week. Luton 7 points from 4.

Plymouth fighting hard also.

Yes I get you could say despite the other teams picking up we still aren't in the bottom 3 but looking at derby fixtures I'd expect them to get 50 points plus from here.