The Best Start @ Home in 30 Years

Take away Doyle and Yates they're nothing!

Doyle didn't play against us and they were sh&te

 

There are various shades, I suppose, of consistency, but regardless of the quality of individual match performances, overall we have indeed been very consistent within this season, and in comparison to our most recent good seasons -- the playoff seasons of 15/16 and 16/17, and the start of 17/18 (in terms of points, and goals for and against).

For this season, we have -- with one match still to go -- in our second 10-game segment matched the wins, draws, and points of our first segment, scoring one fewer goal, and conceding the same amount. Our current pace has us headed for the playoffs at the least; in some years it has been enough for automatic promotion. Given that we've maintained it now for (almost) 20 matches, perhaps a bit of optimism isn't misplaced.

Even I'm beginning to feel a little optimistic, and I was certainly one who expected/predicted a mid-table finish for this season.

RCB

 

Didn't we play against 10 men for 80 minutes? How is that a positive result?

 

What you mean is take the two players I've heard about because they've scored goals. To be honest you can say that about a lot of teams. Take away their two best players and they are average

 

Well one is our player and the other is another clubs player. That's the difference.

Their best players don't belong to them.

 

Let's not forget Terry Dolan inherited a very good squad which he saw with a change here and there would make us a very competitive team, the major decision was playing with a sweeper rather than the orthodox back 4, Dave Evans took to it like a duck takes to water.
Now the squad Gary Bowyer inherited is a far different situation and although we have hardly been breath taking to watch I'll personally sacrifice that for promotion.

 

Loving the positivity Dennis

 

Because it was ONLY posted to prove some sort of point to anyone the poster deems negative, or in response to the 'hysteria' he feels is on the forum.

so it's only right to point out the season he is referencing didn't actually end up all that brilliant.

 

Shame you couldn't have actually witnessed that season yourself. Apart from a few dodgy games and dodgy referring-especially at Man City away when Hendrie was wrongly sent off that was one of the best all round city teams I have witnessed. And some great memories to boot. So whilst it didn't end up brilliant it was actually brilliant to watch. If Hendrie hadn't been sent off I reckon we would have got automatic promotion. Fine margins.

 

How dare you come on here with your facts, trying to spread your positivity. It is clear Bowyer is a terrible manager, and we will finish nowhere near the playoffs... (sarcasm, incase it needed pointing out).

 

Sheer nerve! Also, I'm an ocean away -- distance will, I hope, protect me from the tar & feathers & pitchforks mob! But I reserve the right to turn more Eeyoreish (or Marvinish) if necessary.

- Who are you?
- I am Majikthise.
- And I demand that I am Vroomfondel.
- It's alright, you don't need to demand that.
- All right, I am Vroomfondel, and that is not a demand, that is a solid fact! What we demand is solid facts!
- No we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand.
- We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of solid facts!

RCB

 

You're failing to mention though that they played most of the match with 10 men.