Quote Originally Posted by AucklandRover View Post
Just heard from my cousin. His verdict is that Bristol City were abysmal last night. He says that fans - like him - just don't know which City team is going to turn up. To be fair, two of the defeats in their run of three losses were against the top two, but he reckons they were clueless against Huddersfield. We play them in a fortnight. Let's hope they haven't improved. (He doesn't seem to be keen on a side-bet, this time around!)
I share the worry that too many fans are writing Stoke off. With Luton beating Brentford, anything can happen!
I just like the fact that say Brentford have now seen us. They know we are probably as good as them, and they faltering. If you are PNE or them, you are nervously looking over your shoulder. Its not about how good you have been over the season, its about form going into the play-offs. Maybe we are peaking too early? Who knows. Tonight will give us more of an insight. As will Saturday.
Personally, I don't think we are feeling the pressure like Brentford are, and our mindset appears to be good. The system is working, individual players are performing well within.
We have somehow managed to get stronger and better, after losing certain key players.
If Dack was still fit, I don't think we would be looking this good. As we would never have found this way of playing, as Dack would not have been dropped. As Greavsie said, its a funny old game!
I am pretty sure we would not be looking this good with some of the so called better players playing.
And at the moment, we are actually seeing who is important and who appeared so, but in reality was holding us back.
Armstrong's pace and eye for a goal, is far more effective than Dack who was far too slow, and could only play well with Danny Graham. Good player, but we were not ever going to go anywhere with that style of attack. We reliled too heavily on both, and the tactic was simply to bully the opposition. Decent sides soon figured out how to stop that, and it only works now in very very small spells in a game, vrs only a few sides. Ie ...we tried it vrs Hull, realised it wasn't working, hooked DG brought Brereton and Samuel on and looked a new team. Other than that, we scrapped this old style of play, that just wasnt working anymore. Again, more by the fact we got forced into it, than we chose to do so. But either way, here we are now. Going into 2 games that could see us in the play-offs. Once we get in, IF we get in, I don't think we will slip back out.
One side always comes out of nowhere, this time it could be us.