the glorious 2-0 victory away at reading. good goals, clean sheet, against a team we will be competing for places against, good support (4,500 apparently). what a great game. reading did test us at times, but that’s to be expected they have quite a threatening offensive line-up including former City boy Lita, but Basso and the defence were more than up to the challenge, to make it 8 wins in 10 and 4th place. It’s close behind us with Ipswich in 10th only 3 points behind + theres some teams with games in hand over us, notably the welsh scum Cardiff, but with our momentum its looking more and more hopeful we will still be sitting in the top 6 come the end of the season.

special mention must also go to big del. adebola appears to be under going some kind of indian summer with city this season. that’s not to imply he ever really fell away, but last season and the start of this he was a solid, but peripheral figure. now with another goal on saturday taking him to 9 in league (alongside maynard) he really appears to be the talisman of our recent form.

In other news it appears word of the mighty City is spreading far and wide . perhaps a future link-up with city and steua is in the pipe-line.

until next time
Always Believe. or for Mihay 007
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as for the game- well last week i said things such as

“wining is winning regardless of how hard fought, refereeing decision or penalties. and right now city just keep on winning
it may be more of the same for city but while we’re winning i’ll be very happy with that”

And that’s pretty much what I got. It was indeed another hard fought and close match with a team we would hope, and probably expect to beat. And again we struggled to stay consistent from start to finish. And yet again, we have the 3 points. Delicious.

Match reports from City + BBC(nice chat with Johnson on the audio of this one thats worth a listen)

I was going to mention that how troublesome our upcoming fixtures appear, and to not get to carried away, but now is clearly not the time for. Things are going too damm well right now.

Until next time
Always Believe

Nicky Maynard and Sproule are both back and in the squad, and according to Gary Johnson will probably play some role in todays game, but doubt either will be starting. also boom boom McCombe and Elliot are both out, while McAllister serves a ban

We’re playing Norwich at a horrible time, when they’re still low enough down the league to expect a victory, but also at a time when they’re just starting to hit some form of their own with their recent 3-3 draw with Wolves + they’re still battling to pull free of the relegation zone. could be a tougher match than the league table indicates.

what would we like to see from todays game, well a win oviously but also a constitent performance for 90 mins, some solid defence, and a comedy miss and all round terrible performance from Jamie Cureton (no worries on this one). The form table doesnt really show how many of City’s recent results have been close run things and a bit of constitency in today’s game would be a good sign that city’s form is not just a run of luck.

Prediction- in all honesty could see this being a 1-1 draw, but my official positive prediction will be 2-1 City, Maynard coming on a getting a late-ish winner.

Welcome to the glorious rebirth of the Bristol City FC offside. A team of Bristol City’s quality and heritage really needed a voice on the offside and i will try to be that voice for you. I wont bore you with too much talk of myself, but your key info is Im David, aged 21, a student/barman/alcoholic and have been in bristol 3ish years now and following City since then, and a lover of football since time immemorial.

and luckily we are able to start this new blogging life together in happy moods, as City beat Charlton 2-1 at Ashton gate on tueaday evening.

match report from the bbc can be found here, here and the official city write-up here

it was a match that the fans can take many positives and negatives from. Negatives- It was a poor (at times just plain lazy) performance in the first half, charlton were (and still are) bottom and we were at home so it was an expected victory, and we conceeded against a team hardly prolific thus far this season. However Positives- a win is a win, form- that’s now 4 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss in the last 6 games, coming from behind for the win for the first time this season, a brace for big dele which can only help his confidence, and now up to tenth and looking up.
its true this was a weak performance against a bottom of the table team but with the team on the rise i feel we have some room for some positive feeling, think 5 games ago we were looking nervously at the bottom places in the table, now we are looking at the top. a place were city belong.
until next time remember

always believe

City triumphed against a poor Palace side in the first leg of the play-off semi final. Bristol travelled to Selhurst Park and took the lead after a lovely worked free-kick leading to a gorgeous strike form Carey. Despite at times playing against what seemed like 12 men with the referee seemingly oblivious to the dirty tricks that are a hallmark of the Eagle’s game (seriously are referees kept in a dark room between matches, how could he not know and be alert to this?), Bristol showed immense strength to come back after losing the lead through a wrongly awarded penalty given probably because the ball went into the City area. Noble hitting a sweet strike in the Palace net to give Bristol a strong advantage into the second leg at Ashton Gate.

Prediction: 2 v 0 to move out of their negative goal difference.

Watford

Position in league: 3rd
Last match: Watford 1 v 1 Norwich
Last five matches: WDDDD
Goal difference in last five matches: +2
Last five away matches: LDWDD
Key man: Dan Shittu – Watford can score goals from all positions and the defender is a continual threat at set pieces, whilst also being a difficult man to get past.

Bristol City

Position in league: 1st
Last match: Bristol City 0 v 0 Leicester City
Last five matches: DWWDD
Goal difference in last five matches: +2
Last five home matches: DWWDW
Key man: Adebola – I think both sides will score tonight so we need to score at leat two if we are to get all three points – Adebola, who’s been in pretty good form lately, is the man to get us those goals.

Result in last match between the two sides: Watford 2 v 1 Bristol City

Promotion rivals

Tuesday:

Norwich v Stoke

Wednesday:

West Brom v Crystal Palace

Odds

Bristol City win: 13/10
Draw: 11/5
Hull City win: 13/8

Prediction

Bristol City 2 v 1 Watford

So, just like presidential primary results coming in, here is my prediction for what the top six will look like come the end of the season:

1. West Brom
2. Bristol City
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3. Watford
4. Stoke
5. Hull
6. Charlton

So Bristol to get promoted in second behind West Brom. Let’s believe!