Saturday 5th February: League & FA Cup

[Cas]

The man is a deluded, arrogant lunatic who should never set foot in Valley Parade ever again after that interview.

To say it would be stupid and immature to sack him is words beyond belief from him. He was clearly taunting Sparks and daring him to sack him.

I have never hated a City manager in all the decades of watching us.

Agreed. Huge ego on the man. Never felt really as much disconnect between the fans and the manager. Seems like he actually wants to be sacked. Wish I could sack him.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Massive win and though Newport started bright with the press very few scares. Dreamland.

 

[hellogregory]

Shut the fuck up

Never had anything against Carlisle but I am desperate to drag you down with us now solely because of you

I have no beef with you. I’m just saying it how i see it.

 

[kieran_vale]

Good effort Hartlepool as well, more than credible scoreline down at Palace that. Hopefully all have had an enjoyable day down there.

 

[Huntsman94]

Horrid conditions up at Barrow and 2 points thrown away really. Careless penalty given away which gave Barrow their goal. Just need to move on from that and focus on following that up with 3 points midweek.

Paul Farman had the referee on strings that whole second half as well. Sensational time wasting.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Wow. What a statement. Good strike for their goal but then they stopped playing. Great goal from Brown and no idea how the winner went in but what a feeling

 

[kieran_vale]

No real ground lost for us today and that's all could have asked for at 3pm to be honest. We have to win at Carlisle though and make it count.

 

[valefan16]

No real ground lost for us today and that's all could have asked for at 3pm to be honest. We have to win at Carlisle though and make it count.

Decent results for us, Exeter winning is the same gap than a draw there, Sutton and Tranmere dropped points and Newport beaten, only real frustrating one is Northampton.

Huge game midweek for us really.

 

[Moomin]

Get the fuck in there, City! What a way to win. Not followed the game but at 1-0 down I thought we’d get beat by 2 or 3.

Building a nice uneaten run and great to have Nombe back. Brown and Dieng I love you.

 

[leedsvaliant]

We just have to beat Carlisle. It doesn't matter how.

 

[valefan16]

Bleak for Scunthorpe that one, with the games played they look about done, big result for Oldham and an Oldham win midweek would set the cat amongst the pigeons.

 

[leedsvaliant]

Walsall could be right in the mire after I thought they had turned a corner after the perfect away performance at our place.

 

[kieran_vale]

Walsall could be right in the mire after I thought they had turned a corner after the perfect away performance at our place.

I think that game was more our failings than anything.

They basically remind me of Vale during the Smurthwaite and Aspin era. I fear for them in all honesty and given they are as close to a derby as we get at the moment I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Indian Dan]

Pathetic capitulation after taking a just about deserved lead. Then, as usual, it all went to shit. No game management, no midfield worthy of the name. Our subs were the problem.

Garner has had it.

 

[hellogregory]

We have to win at Carlisle though and make it count.

We just have to beat Carlisle. It doesn't matter how.

Oh you will. Your easiest game of the season.
Just ask any of our fans how shite we are at the moment.

 

[Attila the hun]

The shezzurection 3 is up and running 1500 going mental today we gotta believe we can stay up

 

[chipmunx]

Horrid conditions up at Barrow and 2 points thrown away really. Careless penalty given away which gave Barrow their goal. Just need to move on from that and focus on following that up with 3 points midweek.

Paul Farman had the referee on strings that whole second half as well. Sensational time wasting.

we always play better against the wind and had 2 gilt edged chances to win late on;- Rooney's effort being deflected past the post and Amari-Holloway somehow heading over from 6 yards out.
Would have taken a point from you and Northampton though - so 4 points was a great return.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Thought we edged the game against Tranmere and had three big chances to score. Although he missed two headers today, our new big man up front gives us a presence that we've been missing all season. Happy with the point though, given the wind totally ruined the footballing side of things.

Baffling that the Tranmere keeper kept trying to kick it long, despite it going out for a throw about 100 times.

 

[Gassy]

Weird game at Sutton. We were missing key players but looked the better team albeit toothless upfront again.

We got a well deserved equaliser from the spot where I have no idea how their keeper, already on a yellow, didn’t get sent off.

I really thought we’d kick on and win it tbh but we nearly lost it as we completely fell apart and gifted Sutton chance after chance.

I have to say, if they are the standard of 3rd place then this division is completely up for grabs

 

[Trapdoor]

No game management,

You lads were at the dark arts from the second you scored.
Time wasting as much as possible at 1-0 up and it coming back to bite you is fucking beautiful to see.

Play football, don't go to games to watch amateur dramatics.

 

[Essex2Wessex]

Newport pretty decent and threatening in the first half, while we were sometimes a bit clumsy and scrappy, and it seemed it could go either way. But in the second half we managed things much better and barely gave them a chance (read: neutralised Telford).

 

[hellogregory]

The shezzurection 3 is up and running 1500 going mental today we gotta believe we can stay up

The little bits I saw I thought you looked decent. The number 30 was good and should have been awarded a pen.

 

[AR27]

The graveyard for City managers aka Oldham away is only two weeks from now. Small positives I suppose.

 

[The Terminator]

Our lot have just delivered the sort of performance which gets managers the sack, fell behind from the 4th minute, missed a good chance from a corner and Colchester go up the other end and score and we rarely looked like scoring or creating chances - Having said that Drinan missed a header and a very good 1v1 chance which Hornby saved. The game overall was low key, Colchester scored and offered little afterwards, but they didn't need to do much to win the game.

Overall we were terrible again, 1 goal in 7 games and just 3 wins in 18 games now.

Our board have badly fucked all this up, we only had 5 players over the age of 24 in our starting team, the rest are all very inexperienced and now our lack of squad depth has caught up with us - as well as our managerial appointment, because we now have a manager in charge who has had success with ready made players - not inexperienced youngsters which need time to learn and improve and adapt, which our transfer committee have made him sign.

Sleep walking our way in a relegation battle, our squad is now very unmotivated.

Jackett has now got to be sacked, he is not the right man in place to lead this team of mainly inexperienced players and our board have made a shit load of mistakes and its now badly costing us.

 

[chipmunx]

The graveyard for City managers aka Oldham away is only two weeks from now. Small positives I suppose.

yeah, but if you lose to Oldham poor HG will be on Valium.... or something stronger.

 

[Agombar stool]

LMFAO


Well played Swindon... Faking injuries at 70 minutes... XD

You mean Jordan Lyden that was subbed off injured? We were very poor after our goal and Exeter I thought overall probably deserved the win. Horribly bad goal to concede from our perspective but no complaints really. Apart from our loan defenders who look great, Louie Barry has been poor so far and him and McKirdy is never going to work.

Poor to lose in front of a big crowd but I sense the team in toothpaste blue are likely to have a better shot at promotion than we are.

 

[Ninety Per Cent]

The difficulty Scunthorpe have is that the little lad they played up front last week was like a pub player. Nowhere near enough presence. I could have marked him out of the game. Some of their approach play was pretty good.

He was awful against a Northern Premier League side on Tuesday too.

Hope the 1000 sheep who paid in enjoyed their afternoon.

Dead Club.

 

[LordJord]

1-0 win for us, apparently our 20th goal from set pieces today (pens included) which is pretty staggering. We barely ever score from open play, something we have to remedy, but staying solid and nicking a goal has up towards the auto spots so I guess i cant complain too much.

Nothing much in the game really, a poor affair all around, the weather not helping either side.

Roberts made a few good saves against his former team, certainly rather have him than the Walsall keeper who looked a bit ropey. Assume Taylor may get the boot soon, surprised how far down the league Walsall are.

A big 3 points for us and back at home with a big game against Newport Tuesday.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Never had a sniff really, the gap in quality was big but second half at least we were a little bit competitive. Hope the Poolie who was taken ill will be fine.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Palace fans the best in the PL imo, Love the atmosphere in the Park.
Best chants bar none, Good Club.

Bollocks.