We may as well strap in, it's going to be a boring frustrating end to the season now Wells has gone. We showed all game that we will struggle to score goals without that kind of quality in the box.
I don't think we will go down, but we just need to be careful. We were all saying 12 months ago that we'd be absolutely fine, and ended up sleepwalking our way in to looking very anxiously over our shoulders. We need to make sure we don't do the same this season. We're only 9 points clear now, and if things go wrong against Huddersfield and Stoke then the gap could be 6 points, or even less.
Having said that, we showed some good spirit in the second half to try and get the equalier, and should've got it. The one thing that infuriates me most of all is that we don't seem to start playing our proper stuff until we go behind.
Oh, and the Bristol City fans are a strange bunch. They weren't interested in supporting their team, they were just interested in singing Wells songs at us for the 90 minutes.
If we realistically can’t afford to buy players and when we sell them not replace them then maybe think would be far more suited to league one,warburton can’t run a championship team on league one budget Neil Warnock could and so can other managers Whatever the playing style and plans we started with,you have to change it if your not winning games or looking like your not going to win many more
.......Oh, and the Bristol City fans are a strange bunch. They weren't interested in supporting their team, they were just interested in singing Wells songs at us for the 90 minutes.
.......Oh, and the Bristol City fans are a strange bunch. They weren't interested in supporting their team, they were just interested in singing Wells songs at us for the 90 minutes.
As is often the case this season, Rangers set off in this match as equals with particularly strong displays from Ball, Amos, Chair, Kelly, Hall & Masterson. Nothing in it as we approach the first quarter of an hour in windy conditions.
Then the diagonal ball finds Hall out of position and the striker's long-range header goes over the head of Kelly - goal.
Only 3 mins later we see Chair in the box, on their goal-line, being shoved off the ball. A clear penalty and (again) not given... We are certainly not angels in the fouling department but the referee is not doing his job and, as a result, encoraging fouling to continue
Bristol get the ball in the final third and look decisive & dangerous; whereas we often look laboured and uninspiring under similar conditions. Whether this is a result of the mantra to maintain possession or whether it is better quality - who knows?
Again an opposing team has adopted a high press to stifle our possession game. This is another example of being too predictable I suppose.
On the last 20 mins it is as if there is a force field protecting the Bristol goal. I was fully expecting a kitchen sink to be thrown towards it... On another day this side could have had 3 or 4 goals, but today it was not to be their day.
Negatives: Poor finishing earlier in the game and inability to break down what was a good, solid Bristol defence.
Positives: The Rs never gave up and, in all honesty, there was not a bad performance by anyone; and Clark did far better when he came on late for his second appearance.