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' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:46 pm

That is our amazing points tally from home games...we now have almost 20,000 season ticket holders and are averaging over 22,200 home crowds.

Many times during this period we have had to work our nuts off to win...Huddersfield, Watford, Palace and today again but the team kept going and although not always playing great they always work hard to win vital points.

It was hard today especially when the Gunner was injured but I felt when Cowie came on and HH the threat from Millwall ended along with the threat from us to be fair....Bellamy and Conway were excellent for the majority of the game and Marshall made a couple of top saves but the points were more important than the performance today...and who would have imagined we would get 9 out of 9 over Xmas..Leicester away ,Palace and Millwall at home were all potential loses for us.

Well done City and happy new year to everyon

Re: 36 points from 13 home games

Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:49 pm

36 is the magic number.

Probably what we now need from 21 games in order to get promoted automatically. :ayatollah:

Re: 36 points from 13 home games

Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:52 pm

Corky, We've been superb at home, prob the best ever in our history so far. We never played well today, but thats a sign of a good promotion team when you grind out win after win at home no matter how you play. Marshal in my opinion has to be in our top 3 players of the season so far, 3 great saves today.
What I like about Malky's teams are if we lose one game like the Peterborough game, we go on another great run, it happens all the time under Malky. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Not a bad crowd 24,000 incl 400 odd Millwall, but we deserve full houses every home game in my opinion especially as we now have nearly 20,000 Season ticket holders. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: 36 points from 13 home games

Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:59 pm

Forever Blue wrote:Corky, We've been superb at home, prob the best ever in our history so far. We never played well today, but thats a sign of a good promotion team when you grind out win after win at home no matter how you play. Marshal in my opinion has to be in our top 3 players of the season so far, 3 great saves today.
What I like about Malky's teams are if we lose one game like the Peterborough game, we go on another great run, it happens all the time under Malky. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Not a bad crowd 24,000 incl 400 odd Millwall, but we deserve full houses every home game in my opinion especially as we now have nearly 20,000 Season ticket holders. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

I thought we played really well in the first half, some great link up play between Taylor, Conway and Bellamy on the left. And the same on the right with Kev, Noone and again Bellamy. Although the second half was filled with hoofball (Turner and Marshall).

Another good performance from SuperKev who should keep his place again for Brum. Surely we can now start to believe :ayatollah:

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:01 pm

Very good point Annis. Results matter, not performances. I think we played better at home last season but we've been much more clinical this season.

We could technically be promoted in 14 games time if things go our way! Not gonna happen but it's a possibility which shows how well we've done so far.

Re: 36 points from 13 home games

Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:05 pm

CantonJack wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:Corky, We've been superb at home, prob the best ever in our history so far. We never played well today, but thats a sign of a good promotion team when you grind out win after win at home no matter how you play. Marshal in my opinion has to be in our top 3 players of the season so far, 3 great saves today.
What I like about Malky's teams are if we lose one game like the Peterborough game, we go on another great run, it happens all the time under Malky. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Not a bad crowd 24,000 incl 400 odd Millwall, but we deserve full houses every home game in my opinion especially as we now have nearly 20,000 Season ticket holders. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

I thought we played really well in the first half, some great link up play between Taylor, Conway and Bellamy on the left. And the same on the right with Kev, Noone and again Bellamy. Although the second half was filled with hoofball (Turner and Marshall).

Another good performance from SuperKev who should keep his place again for Brum. Surely we can now start to believe :ayatollah:



Jack, We started the game well, took control of it, but as the game went on, it felt like we were just happy to keep it at 1 nil, I'm not moaning, well chuffed with 3pts. :ayatollah:

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:19 pm

At this time of the season over the busy Christmas/January fixture list getting the points is far more important than putting in a good show. As long as we keep distance over Hull and the other rivals then that's fine by me.

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:45 pm

That was a hard physical game.
Don't forget wall did not have a Boxing day game, had the extra rest and had built this one up as a cup final.
Scrappy,horrible but a great 3 points.

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:54 pm

3 wins in a week against teams in top eight, 2 of the teams 3rd and 5th when we played them. 2 clean sheets as well.

Well done Malky, his assistants and the players .

When you look back at 2012, you have to say it has been a great year for us on the pitch , Carling Cup Final where the players did us proud , play offs again despite a small squad and now 12 wins from 13 at home just a shame the rebrand has tarnished things !
Happy New Year all at CCFC and fellow Bluebirds! Here 's hoping for an even better 2013! :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:56 pm

Remarkable home run, it really is.

these 3 wins over x-mas have been sensational even if the performances have not been. 5 points wouldnt have been a disaster, 7 points a dream, 9 points tho :ayatollah:

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:15 pm

I have had the best Christmas ever. First Christmas with my baby girl, and City get 9 points from 9. Thank you Malky and the team. I am going into the new year a happy man :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:44 pm

corky wrote:That is our amazing points tally from home games...we now have almost 20,000 season ticket holders and are averaging over 22,200 home crowds.

Many times during this period we have had to work our nuts off to win...Huddersfield, Watford, Palace and today again but the team kept going and although not always playing great they always work hard to win vital points.

It was hard today especially when the Gunner was injured but I felt when Cowie came on and HH the threat from Millwall ended along with the threat from us to be fair....Bellamy and Conway were excellent for the majority of the game and Marshall made a couple of top saves but the points were more important than the performance today...and who would have imagined we would get 9 out of 9 over Xmas..Leicester away ,Palace and Millwall at home were all potential loses for us.

Well done City and happy new year to everyon
Corky im starting to believe :ayatollah:

Re: 36 points from 13 home games

Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:57 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
CantonJack wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:Corky, We've been superb at home, prob the best ever in our history so far. We never played well today, but thats a sign of a good promotion team when you grind out win after win at home no matter how you play. Marshal in my opinion has to be in our top 3 players of the season so far, 3 great saves today.
What I like about Malky's teams are if we lose one game like the Peterborough game, we go on another great run, it happens all the time under Malky. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Not a bad crowd 24,000 incl 400 odd Millwall, but we deserve full houses every home game in my opinion especially as we now have nearly 20,000 Season ticket holders. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

I thought we played really well in the first half, some great link up play between Taylor, Conway and Bellamy on the left. And the same on the right with Kev, Noone and again Bellamy. Although the second half was filled with hoofball (Turner and Marshall).

Another good performance from SuperKev who should keep his place again for Brum. Surely we can now start to believe :ayatollah:



Jack, We started the game well, took control of it, but as the game went on, it felt like we were just happy to keep it at 1 nil, I'm not moaning, well chuffed with 3pts. :ayatollah:


In fairness Annis I don't think there were an awful lot of spare seats left by kick-off time, apart from 1600 in the Millwall end,segregation and a few hundred in the Premier lounge.

24200 is 2600 short of capacity, 1600 spare in the away end, 500 ish for segregation (maybe more) doesn't leave an awful lot left.

Given the season tickets sold now tickets are going to be hard to come by, for example only 3000 left for sale for Ipswich now.

Re: 36 points from 13 home games

Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:38 am

Lawnmower wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
CantonJack wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:Corky, We've been superb at home, prob the best ever in our history so far. We never played well today, but thats a sign of a good promotion team when you grind out win after win at home no matter how you play. Marshal in my opinion has to be in our top 3 players of the season so far, 3 great saves today.
What I like about Malky's teams are if we lose one game like the Peterborough game, we go on another great run, it happens all the time under Malky. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Not a bad crowd 24,000 incl 400 odd Millwall, but we deserve full houses every home game in my opinion especially as we now have nearly 20,000 Season ticket holders. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

I thought we played really well in the first half, some great link up play between Taylor, Conway and Bellamy on the left. And the same on the right with Kev, Noone and again Bellamy. Although the second half was filled with hoofball (Turner and Marshall).

Another good performance from SuperKev who should keep his place again for Brum. Surely we can now start to believe :ayatollah:



Jack, We started the game well, took control of it, but as the game went on, it felt like we were just happy to keep it at 1 nil, I'm not moaning, well chuffed with 3pts. :ayatollah:


In fairness Annis I don't think there were an awful lot of spare seats left by kick-off time, apart from 1600 in the Millwall end,segregation and a few hundred in the Premier lounge.

24200 is 2600 short of capacity, 1600 spare in the away end, 500 ish for segregation (maybe more) doesn't leave an awful lot left.

Given the season tickets sold now tickets are going to be hard to come by, for example only 3000 left for sale for Ipswich now.


Probably 24k upwards for the rest of the season now :ayatollah: and no doubt a few sell out crowds, just as it should be.

Re: ' 36 points from 13 home games '

Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:54 pm

I felt when Cowie came on and HH the threat from Millwall ended along with the threat from us to be fair....

Good point Corky.
We never got near their goal, but they also seemed to give up. Strange feeling, almost as if both sides just wanted to hear the final whistle.