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Long drive home with son and mates spent purring with delight. Kept talking about the second half display. The discipline, the game management and the calmness. Remarkable turnaround after Watford, who clearly caught us a bit cold and judging from yesterday, they, themselves have hit the ground...

Best take ropes, grappling irons and some energy bars for the journey up.

Indeed. At the time, holding City for 70 odd minutes, almost felt like a moral victory. At Watford, there was a different level of expectation. Our transfer window looked good. The squad seemed strengthened. Hopes were high. Our best chance of points in the opening three games...

Ah....different scenario last season. We were fighting like mad to secure safety. They had nothing to play for , bar the Cup Final and had gone off the boil. Start of the season, they will be fresher, hungrier and sharper. The strong likelihood is that we will get beaten. No disgrace but means...

It would have been better having sex with Jack Russell and keeping it under his hat.

....and then we will be rolling ( over ). Hate flags, hate clappers, small club mentality. The way to greet Man Utd is for every man, jack of us, to make the Amex as hostile as possible, not as friendly as possible.

It needs to be judging from the display at Watford!!!

Got a horrible feeling that this could be worse than damage limitation. City are going to put 7/8/9 past somebody this season. Its gonna happen.

Surprise he could find it.

My observations on club cricket are..... 1) Sunday has become a non-cricket day for many senior clubs. They field 5 or 6 teams on a Saturday. League cricket has become everything. Lovely grounds, with good facilities and nothing going on every Sunday. Village cricket is now the bastion of Sunday...

So did we!!!

Say a little prayer.

Even with the new boys settled, I am still worried that CH won't let the shackles off and we will approach most away games from a safety first angle. If he does, it will be a long hard season and a struggle to stay up. Hard to see us being gifted two away wins as at Swansea and West Ham who were...

The appalling away form was bailed out by the 29 home points we got. There is no guarantee we will get that return at home again. Most fans agreed that a different emphasis was needed away from home, as opposed to the sterile...." keep it tight "...." keep it to 0-1 "...." oh shit, we are 2...

More and more fans will start to feel this way. I only missed a handful of games last season but will be more selective this time around. You don't mind coming second, you expect it at this level but yesterday's feeble surrender was totally unacceptable and the predictability of it leaves you...

My God, its taken long enough to sink in!

We will really struggle to get going with an inherently cautious mindset. Sometimes you have to gamble, throw caution to the wind, accept you are going to lose some games and try and nick a few surprise points. Palace got themselves out of a deep hole last season by being positive. It is down to...

I am wondering what part Trollope plays in this? Does he strike you as an ' enforcer ' type...a la Calderwood, who clearly did a lot of CH's dirty work for him.

Exactly. Overplaying in a critical area of the pitch again. He repeatedly does it but keeps getting a free pass from many of our fans, who drool over the odd cameo performance at the Amex and conveniently disregard the frustratingly inept away performances, that ultimately contribute to our...