Hard for Bristol City fans not to be worried
Gary Johnson felt that we didn’t take our chances, didn’t have a great deal of luck and that we were also too powder puff in our finishing. This is a fair assumption.
We didn’t show enough desire, passion, fight, effort or quality. We are creating one or two good chances in a game but not doing anywhere near enough.
Where has the team from last season gone? Confidence is a big factor and it’s true that a couple of wins could turn things around. At the moment, players who were at the top of their game last season are not performing to anywhere near that level.
Gary is saying the same things, that we are not starting quickly enough and that we are not showing enough quality in the final third. Well, why is that? We have to improve or we will find ourselves in a relegation battle. I am not being alarmist and I do believe in the manager and players, but they have to step up and show the spirit that is needed to push on and keep looking forward, as opposed to looking over our shoulders.
Some will say that I am being too critical and that I should support the team. Believe me, I do, but we also can’t bury our heads in the sand. Performances have not been good enough and the players and management have to take responsibility. We have to get width in the side because at the moment the chances that the forwards are getting have in the main been self-made. I have said it many times before and make no excuses for it, but why sign players like Lee Trundle and even more so Nicky Maynard only to expect them to play with their backs to goal?
We have to get our wingers staying wide on the touchline and getting to the byline and putting quality crosses into the box. How many times this season have we done that? Against Preston it was long-range shooting from Michael McIndoe that looked our most likely goal threat.
Come on lads, get back to what you did so well last year.
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