" City actually good or championship poor this year? "

No disrespect to Brighton or ourselves but having watched a lot of the championship highlights so far since the start of the season, hardly any team seems to be lighting up in football terms like your watfords, norwich, palace and Bournemouth of the past.

I think most of us have said that the championship gets better every year, I'm not seeing that this season, maybe it'll click soon.

Yesterday Huddersfield showed loads of possession in our half but nothing to worry us about, in fact they were more impressive than Wolves - tells its own story!

You look at the table now, and the teams I expected to be up there are now slipping into place, just Brighton, ourselves and Brum have stolen a lead.

Looks like my bet on relegation has gone down the Taff already and on here the question being asked is where are all the fans with us unbeaten. I don't think we'll see them return until after the egg world cup, maybe towards December and not until the club realise that £26 quid walk up is not an enticement, it says spend me elsewhere to many - why don't they try a 'buy three get one free' scheme?

On our performance I still think the team could be improved, I'm still not a Pilkington fan, nor Digacoi, nor Morrison but if teams can't be bothered to to turn their possession into points against us, well we may as well take the smash and grab second half performances each game and see where it takes us.

Ps no I am not changing my mind on Slade, I firmly believe others have come in and are doing all the hard work with the team but as someone said on here yesterday, if its not broken, why try and fix it!

Let's hope he doesn't get manager of the month at any point in time, we all know what happens then!

I agree that the championship is not as clear leader as other seasons. But it is early days, and some teams take few games to get going. Boro and Derby should be up there or there about. I also feel that maybe the gap between teams are closing (quality ) hence why we are seeing a lot more draws. Someone on a run of 4 or 5 wins could really open a gap this year like when Newcastle won it a few years back

To early to judge from what I have seen bit of both, said all last year standard is miles behind where it was and a fit well organised team working for each other with a sprinkle of quality can achieve play offs or even automatic. Didn't you have us down for relegation?

God we are a pessimistic lot, half our team are top end championship

Marshall, Fabio, Manga, Whitts, Dikachoi, pilkington,Jones

with up and coming talents like Ralls, Ameobi and Malone (who is massively improving)

Supported by genuine championship pro's like Peltier, Morrison, Gunnar, noone

Slade has sussed that Revell & Doyle don't really fit the three categories above

We are there on merit, Malky played the most boring football I have ever witnessed but got the job done, he was lucky the vibe was still good at the time to hide the fact we were unattractive.

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To early to judge from what I have seen bit of both, said all last year standard is miles behind where it was and a fit well organised team working for each other with a sprinkle of quality can achieve play offs or even automatic. Didn't you have us down for relegation?

He says above his relegation bet is gone I had us down as 7th-9th

Every time we do good its said champ is poor even when we got promoted same was said! Its more to do with fact that a lot of teams are able to loan players from premier clubs so balance that with a good work ethic and you got a chance of playoffs at least, consistency is always the key factor and we are at present extremely consistent over past 24 games!

To early to judge from what I have seen bit of both, said all last year standard is miles behind where it was and a fit well organised team working for each other with a sprinkle of quality can achieve play offs or even automatic. Didn't you have us down for relegation?

see post again - 'down the Taff!'

Every time we do good its said champ is poor even when we got promoted same was said! Its more to do with fact that a lot of teams are able to loan players from premier clubs so balance that with a good work ethic and you got a chance of playoffs at least, consistency is always the key factor and we are at present extremely consistent over past 24 games!

can't argue with that but asked the question, not saying it is poor, just nothing has said to me so far -there's a team (or two) who look to be above others.

I said the championship seems to get stronger every year, I've watched a lot of it so far on live games and highlights, no one stands out yet, not even Brighton.

Every time we do good its said champ is poor even when we got promoted same was said! Its more to do with fact that a lot of teams are able to loan players from premier clubs so balance that with a good work ethic and you got a chance of playoffs at least, consistency is always the key factor and we are at present extremely consistent over past 24 games!

can't argue with that but asked the question, not saying it is poor, just nothing has said to me so far -there's a team (or two) who look to be above others.

I said the championship seems to get stronger every year, I've watched a lot of it so far on live games and highlights, no one stands out yet, not even Brighton.

Its actually getting better for reasons I've said! Was making point people assume its bad because we doing well? But in reality its because we got good squad and its being played correctly! Only got look at cups a premier team weakens 1st team a bit they lose mainly because champ side is stronger than they realise!

No disrespect to Brighton or ourselves but having watched a lot of the championship highlights so far since the start of the season, hardly any team seems to be lighting up in football terms like your watfords, norwich, palace and Bournemouth of the past.

I think most of us have said that the championship gets better every year, I'm not seeing that this season, maybe it'll click soon.

Yesterday Huddersfield showed loads of possession in our half but nothing to worry us about, in fact they were more impressive than Wolves - tells its own story!

You look at the table now, and the teams I expected to be up there are now slipping into place, just Brighton, ourselves and Brum have stolen a lead.

Looks like my bet on relegation has gone down the Taff already and on here the question being asked is where are all the fans with us unbeaten. I don't think we'll see them return until after the egg world cup, maybe towards December and not until the club realise that £26 quid walk up is not an enticement, it says spend me elsewhere to many - why don't they try a 'buy three get one free' scheme?

On our performance I still think the team could be improved, I'm still not a Pilkington fan, nor Digacoi, nor Morrison but if teams can't be bothered to to turn their possession into points against us, well we may as well take the smash and grab second half performances each game and see where it takes us.

Ps no I am not changing my mind on Slade, I firmly believe others have come in and are doing all the hard work with the team but as someone said on here yesterday, if its not broken, why try and fix it!

Let's hope he doesn't get manager of the month at any point in time, we all know what happens then!

Victor off again lol

No disrespect to Brighton or ourselves but having watched a lot of the championship highlights so far since the start of the season, hardly any team seems to be lighting up in football terms like your watfords, norwich, palace and Bournemouth of the past.

I think most of us have said that the championship gets better every year, I'm not seeing that this season, maybe it'll click soon.

Yesterday Huddersfield showed loads of possession in our half but nothing to worry us about, in fact they were more impressive than Wolves - tells its own story!

You look at the table now, and the teams I expected to be up there are now slipping into place, just Brighton, ourselves and Brum have stolen a lead.

Looks like my bet on relegation has gone down the Taff already and on here the question being asked is where are all the fans with us unbeaten. I don't think we'll see them return until after the egg world cup, maybe towards December and not until the club realise that £26 quid walk up is not an enticement, it says spend me elsewhere to many - why don't they try a 'buy three get one free' scheme?

On our performance I still think the team could be improved, I'm still not a Pilkington fan, nor Digacoi, nor Morrison but if teams can't be bothered to to turn their possession into points against us, well we may as well take the smash and grab second half performances each game and see where it takes us.

Ps no I am not changing my mind on Slade, I firmly believe others have come in and are doing all the hard work with the team but as someone said on here yesterday, if its not broken, why try and fix it!

Let's hope he doesn't get manager of the month at any point in time, we all know what happens then!

Victor off again lol

Hey, I thought I was being quite fair you old buggar!

We are doing better than I thought we would be tbh, this team reminds me alot of the team we had under malky the year we won the league, togetherness of the team, hardworking and hard to beat, we don't seem to play attractive football but we are getting the results.

We are doing better than I thought we would be tbh, this team reminds me alot of the team we had under malky the year we won the league, togetherness of the team, hardworking and hard to beat, we don't seem to play attractive football but we are getting the results.

Definitely Although I do believe We are playing attractive football at times

Sorry I haven't seen any evidence to suggest the Championship is going backwards in terms of quality. It is competitive and always will be whilst the prize for being promoted is so great.

Doesn't really matter if it's better or worse than any previous season.

There will still be three teams promoted at the end of the season even if all teams are brilliant or all teams are shit.

Just have tp be one of those three!

Lets see where we are in January.

Maybe Tan will add some top players to ensure promotion.

Early days yet though

Looking at highlights

always a poor league when we are going ok


just because there are no stand out teams as yet, why cant it be that its a good league but an equal one?


Obviously with the amount of money being spent by championship clubs over the last few seasons, the league has without a doubt gotten stronger

Sorry I haven't seen any evidence to suggest the Championship is going backwards in terms of quality. It is competitive and always will be whilst the prize for being promoted is so great.

Spot on especially this year with the TV money.

To early to judge from what I have seen bit of both, said all last year standard is miles behind where it was and a fit well organised team working for each other with a sprinkle of quality can achieve play offs or even automatic. Didn't you have us down for relegation?

see post again - 'down the Taff!'

Sorry my bad

I don't think we're doing well because it's a poor division, in fact it's decent one but compared to by gone years don't you agree it's a different standard? Some of our teams over the years were great but couldn't even make the play offs.

So the Slade out brigade are now saying the reason we are doing well is because the Championship is poor, despite players like Charlie Austin and Tom Huddlestone playing at this level. Keep the excuses coming, it's terrific entertainment!

Ha.ha.makes me laugh.The last time City did well in this division(2011-202)it was because it was a poor division according to all the knowalls on this board.As for the Slade out brigade,their are all still posting,just using their Slade in ID's

Sorry I haven't seen any evidence to suggest the Championship is going backwards in terms of quality. It is competitive and always will be whilst the prize for being promoted is so great.

Spot on Tony and you only have to look at the results to tell you that on any given day teams at the bottom can get a result against teams at the top. So far the only team to stop Brighton winning this season are Huddersfield and let's face it we beat them comfortably yesterday.

We have had a decent start and 3 wins from our next 6 games will see us on 21 points after 12 games and in an average Championship season most teams would be in or around the playoffs come May after that start.

The Championship is never a poor league but is always a competitive league,most pundits believe its the hardest league in the world to get out of.
Got to be honest as much as we all want Premiere League Football I do enjoy The Championship!