'What a load of rubbish!'

[Izzet is God]

I must admit we were very poor in the first half.....the amount of missed place passes was shocking and its frustrating when we've sgined midfielders to undoubtably keep hold of the ball and play possession football.

I wouldn't go as far as to say it was one of our worst performances ever though. If Nugent's shot would of gone in off the post it might have been a totally different game. The thing that I noticed mainly was unfortunetly there is no link/support going forward. As much as I'd like to say we were playing 4-3-3 we looked more like a 4-1-4-1 formation and at times 4-5-1.

This is putting far to much pressure on the front man and I don't really think Nugent looks like the player who can play up-top on his own, he looks like hes more effective playing down the channels.

Unless we grab a 2nd striker, Sven (for me) would be better off playing with 2 quick wide men who want to get forward a bit more or King just behind Nugent, as I noticed when he came on 2nd half he was the one creating that go-between.

Was fed up with the booers...it's only 2nd game of the season, I even saw one bloke who came out of the East stand, lobbed his programme at the stadium and when confronted by another to "take it easy" he challenged him to a ruck!!! He obviously hasn't been to dreadful showings previous....I remember opener against Bolton (0-5) and going Ipswich away (1-6) they were painful days.

[OzFox]

I was brought up on the ‘glory years’ of the fifties andsixties. We expected goals and the team regularly obliged:

50/51 v QPR 6-2

51/52 v Sheffield United 5-5; Luton 3-3;

52/53 start of season v Notts County 3-0 then v Fulham 6-1then away at Soton, lost 2-5 then Fulham away won 6-4 then v Bury, won 3-2.Later 5-0 v Hull

53/54 5-0 v Leeds, 5-2 v Bury, 9-2 v Lincoln, 6-0 vBrentford;

54/55 won 5-2 at Aston Villa, 4-3 v Sheff Wed., 6-3 v WestBrom

55/56 5-2 v Forest, 6-1 v Swansea, 5-2 v Leeds, 5-0 v Bury

56/57 5-4 away at Bury!!!!, 6-3 v Notts County, 5-2 vBarnsley, 6-0 v Blackburn, 5-2 v Rotherham, 5-0 v Sheff Utd. then 7-2 v BristolRovers, then 4-3 v Grimsby, 4-3 v Lincoln, later 5-3 v West Ham.

57/58 6-1 v Villa, 8 (yes Eight)-4 v Man City, 5-3 v Burnley

58/59 6-3 v Villa,

59/60 5-0 v Man City, 3-3 v Everton

60/61 5-2 v PNE, 6-0 v MAN UTD, 5-3 v Newcastle, 5-1 vBristol City (FACup)

61/62 Drew 4-4 at Arsenal, 5-1 v Brum, 4-3 v Man Utd, LOST8-3 at Villa

62/63 3-3 v Sheff Wed., 5-1 v Orient, 4-3 again v Man Utd.

63/64 7-2 v Arsenal, 4-3 v Blackburn, 4-3 v West Ham

1968/69 was the first season since 49/50 that we failed toscore 5 goals in at least one match.

Of course, there were heavy defeats to match some of the bigwins, but very rarely did the City fail to score and 3 or 4 goals was quitecommon.

For the City to score 5 goals these days is almost unheardof. We managed it against Scunthorpe last season but then you have to go rightback to March 5^th 2000 when we beat Sunderland 5-2.

And the time before that? 1993, Sept 21^st, 6-1 atRochdale in a League Cup match!

And in the League, 1993, Jan 16^th 5-2 v Watford.

Ah the good old days. Sadly I doubt if we'll ever see scores like those again. Not often anyway.

For me football got more boring in the late 80s. As the money started pouring in, so came the fear of losing and fitter, faster defenders.

How many matches do you watch now where there's hardly any clear chances, let alone goals? Most World Cup group games for example.