This season still could be realistically as great as last season

[Guest Foxin_mad]

We hardly set the world alight in the CL group stages, its an absolute myth that we were good. We weren't just the opposition were league 1 standard!! When a team showed up we got spanked. The exact same will happen.

[worthosoriginals]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

it's a very slim chance. Very slim.

As slim as 5000/1?

[Sol thewall Bamba]

36 minutes ago, StanSP said:

new signing? you know something we don't?

Haha he's the mystery man! 

[Ted Maul]

I feel like crap all week when we lose so pathetically, as we have for the past couple of weeks. It all seems to fade away when the excitement of matchday builds, and I'm feeling better about things today- 5,400 City fans making their way 30 miles north for a local derby tomorrow evening, afternoon off work- has all the ingredients of a cracking away day.

 

Say we beat Derby tomorrow then draw a Championship team at home in the 5th round- if the players click further down the line and we find a bit of form, why can't we at least get to Wembley for a semi final?

 

We need to win a couple of league games in the coming weeks despite our tough run, but if we do manage to get through to the 5th round and ease our relegation worries, we've got so much to look forward to this season. I do fear that our league form has put a dampner on our CL run- it almost seems like a bit of an unwanted distraction to me at the minute, maybe because I can't see us going through, but those games should be 2 of the greatest occasions in the club's history.

 

Hopefully we can get it together and actually enjoy these momentous times again- I'm going to try and stay positive too (at least until the next time we roll over in an important game)

[blurryface]

After Southampton I just feel Derby will be really up for an upset. They won't be scared of us at all.

 

All talk of us getting to the last 8 of the CL needs to stop. Sevilla are unreal, I think people think we can beat them because they don't have Messi or Ronaldo. It will be a great occasion for the 2 games, but in reality it just isn't going to happen.

 

Hope I'm wrong and there is a thread in may called 'remember when we were worried?' as we lift the FA Cup.

[jayfox26]

10 hours ago, Collymore said:

... and I'm not on about winning the champions league.

 

Imagine us finishing at least 17th ( we should do this to be fair) beating Seville over the two legs and making it to the quarters of the CL (it won't be easy but I have a feeling we will) but to polish it all off we win the FA Cup as well! 

 

The FA Cup bit is obviously the hard bit but I'll explain below why I think it's going to happen.

 

I think all the distraction of being in a relegation battle and the last 16 of the champions league  means many people have forgotton that this is probably the best chance in decades of winning the FA cup. 

 

1. Squad depth -  Even though we seem to have aquired a lot of players who arn't clicking at the moment, there's that wonderful prospect of when they finally do we'll have options coming out of ears. A few injuries? Doesn't matter, we've never been so flush with quality players. ••disclaimer I might edit this bit out at the end of the transfer window if don't sign any defenders (and lots of them)**

 

2. We're not focusing on it - the reason we won the league was because none of us: as in the players, manager, fans or media believed we ever would. The pressure was completely off for the vast majority of the season and this helped so much. 

 

3. We'll see it as an escape - how many times have we seen dog ugly teams making it to the later stages and even winning it? I think we'll make it to the quarter finals without even realising the achievement just with the ***ed up mentality of the fans at the moment. 

 

4. When the opportunity presents itself we'll take it - When we're knocked out of the champions league and we realise this is the only positive left we'll gobble up the opportunity.  I think having won the league will give us the belief and know how when it comes to getting the job done. All of a sudden the pressure of winning the FA Cup isn't as great as it should be having already won the ultimate prize. 

 

Forget the doom and gloom. Let's make history again. 

 

 

I like your optimism but I think Derby will beat us on Saturday unless something changes drastically from our past few performances (except the Everton game). They are having a good season and playing well and we are total opposite. Yes on paper we should absolutely shit on them but football and especially the fa cup doesn't work like that 

[foxy boxing]

if we do manage to beat Sevilla over two legs which is very much doubtful the fans have every right to ask where was that team all season in the Premier League. so staying up and an f.a cup run is as good as last season! obviously it isn't but every fan now would take that i guess. since when has Claudio taken cup games in England seriously and with the Burnley game soon after, 

[katieakita]

8 minutes ago, jayfox26 said:

I like your optimism but I think Derby will beat us on Saturday unless something changes drastically from our past few performances (except the Everton game). They are having a good season and playing well and we are total opposite. Yes on paper we should absolutely shit on them but football and especially the fa cup doesn't work like that 

Well a positive the game is Friday night and our performance and result against the Rams will tell us a lot about moving forward. We should have more than enough about us to do them.

[Guest Col city fan]

1 hour ago, sk3since03 said:

Just being realistic! Have you seen the form theyre in at the moment? 

No, you said we 'stand no chance'.

Im saying, of course we do. It's football.

 

[sk3since03]

2 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

No, you said we 'stand no chance'.

Im saying, of course we do. It's football.

 

Point taken 

[kingcarr21]

24 minutes ago, jayfox26 said:

I like your optimism but I think Derby will beat us on Saturday unless something changes drastically from our past few performances (except the Everton game). They are having a good season and playing well and we are total opposite. Yes on paper we should absolutely shit on them but football and especially the fa cup doesn't work like that 

I bet you all my money that Derby don't beat us on Saturday

[Thracian]

After last season's sporting miracle, I'd never say "never" again. 

 

But anyone who watched us at Southampton, and for most of the rest of the season to be brutal, wouldn't sensibly suggest there's any chance. 

 

it's not just about individual ability. All the spiritual factors that can make a team so much better than the sum of its parts are missing. 

 

There is not a team in the top two tiers that I'd feel sure we'd beat at the moment...never mind imagining we'll win the FA Cup. 

 

Far from being fearsome any more we've become flimsy and vulnerable - as if we're struggling to recover from major surgery.

 

It's horrible to see. Like a close friend suddenly become disabled. 

 

I'll be glad if we somehow avoid relegation.

 

But, my life, there's got to be a change of atmosphere on the pitch.

 

The only pride I felt at Southampton was the way the fans responded.

 

They took it on the chin with impish good humour and still kept singing for all the pain in their hearts.     

           

[Ric Flair]

Crap and struggling PL teams always do well in the domestic cups. I think we'll go far in it.

[Ric Flair]

4 minutes ago, Thracian said:

After last season's sporting miracle, I'd never say "never" again. 

 

But anyone who watched us at Southampton, and for most of the rest of the season to be brutal, wouldn't sensibly suggest there's any chance. 

 

it's not just about individual ability. All the spiritual factors that can make a team so much better than the sum of its parts are missing. 

 

There is not a team in the top two tiers that I'd feel sure we'd beat at the moment...never mind imagining we'll win the FA Cup. 

 

Far from being fearsome any more we've become flimsy and vulnerable - as if we're struggling to recover from major surgery.

 

It's horrible to see. Like a close friend suddenly become disabled. 

 

I'll be glad if we somehow avoid relegation.

 

But, my life, there's got to be a change of atmosphere.  

           

Yet against Everton in the previous round after a fairly turgid first half, we quickly swept them aside. This is a team whose away form is absolutely vulgar.

[norwichfox]

Admire your optimism Collymore, and it would be so easy to post something pessimistic here....but I won't

 

I would love the FA Cup to happen for us. To me, it would feel better than winning the Champions League and make up for my teenage years when I was 13 and 15 years old for the 1961 and 1963 finals which still haunts me. The 1969 loss didn't hurt me quite so much lets start cheering loud and proud again.....starting Friday

[Thracian]

2 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Yet against Everton in the previous round after a fairly turgid first half, we quickly swept them aside. This is a team whose away form is absolutely vulgar.

Yes, we've had our moments, our days when we've looked like there's not so much wrong with us, but then, like the ailing friend I mentioned, we suffer another fall and the prognosis slips another notch until every setback becomes more serious.  

 

We need to find a lasting remedy - a collective group that compliments each other and functions naturally. And to keep using it instead of moving from treatment to treatment like our GP's a novice devoid of all conviction.

 

   

   

 

     

[Thracian]

23 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Crap and struggling PL teams always do well in the domestic cups. I think we'll go far in it.

A good point that, no question! 

[FraserSorensen]

53 minutes ago, jayfox26 said:

I like your optimism but I think Derby will beat us on Saturday unless something changes drastically from our past few performances (except the Everton game). They are having a good season and playing well and we are total opposite. Yes on paper we should absolutely shit on them but football and especially the fa cup doesn't work like that 

I think people are also forgetting that for the first 60 minutes against Everton we were appalling. We had a 20 minute spell where we were on absolute fire but we were generally turd for much of that game! 

[Countryfox]

2 hours ago, StanSP said:

it's a very slim chance. Very slim.

 

Thats him ....   thats the man thats going to do it ! ...    Two goals for the Dragon Slayer ....

[Stevosevic]

Wigan, Hull, Villa and Palace have been in the last 4 finals ffs - if you dont think we can win the FA cup then you dont understand cup competition

[Bablemikey]

I'm very interested to see how we approach the Derby game. I rather suspect that the threat of losing one of our better players to injury & further hampering our league performance will see us fielding a second string team. 

[norwichfox]

10 minutes ago, Bablemikey said:

I'm very interested to see how we approach the Derby game. I rather suspect that the threat of losing one of our better players to injury & further hampering our league performance will see us fielding a second string team. 

Which should be good enough to win it....based on hope rather than any facts

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, kingcarr21 said:

I bet you all my money that Derby don't beat us on Saturday

How much is that? 

[Guest Papasmurf]

8 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

How much is that? 

I'm saying well below a tenner.

 

[kingcarr21]

12 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

How much is that? 

 

3 minutes ago, Papasmurf said:

I'm saying well below a tenner.

 

about 63p, a mars bar and a carton of um Bongo