How is Bullock going for city?, my last game was Lincoln at home so im yet to see him play as of yet. At the Lincoln game there was a partnership of Evans and Nix in centre midfield, they seemed to get the ball down on the floor and pass it around and when city had the ball they looked good. A lot of League 2 teams don't do this, well the games I have been too they haven't. But that isn't that many. Anyway Nix looked really good in centre midfield driving the team forward at times, but him and Evans did seem a bit light weight and were loosing the battle in the middle of the park sometimes.

How is Nix doing now?, has he had much game time?.

Good god that shirt is terrible

Peteborough 1 v 0 Rotherham

Good win for City tonight. We look a much more confident side. Billy Topp is way way too good to be playing in this division, and it's unlikely that he will be next season.

Indeed. See how he fares in League One with us



But seriously, the guy looks a class above anyone I've seen. A likeness to a lower league Carbone!

Exactly what I said on the OMB. (Although I am a little embarrased to admit that I posted on the OMB

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Never mind next season, if there were any scouts there last night I'm more worried about the transfer window still being open and him being with us on Saturday!


Bullock has been a good signing for me, he doesn't do anything spectacular, but he's an effective physical presence in the midfield, and does a lot of good in breaking up play and winning the ball.

Nix has been a good signing too, I think that's 7 goals this season after last night - he's a good, intelligent, footballer but sometimes struggles in this division because it is very physical at times and he's not really strong enough to play in the centre of midfield, while he doesn't have the pace to be an out and out winger, so I can see why he is left out fairly regularly.

That's us now unbeaten in 7, and only 3 defeats in the league since mid-October, hope we can keep it up.

It occured to me a couple of weeks back that he might be holding him back until the end of the transfer window. With rumours of some interest from West Brom, there might be some truth in that.

I'm still more inclined to think that if they had the chance to rake some money in, they'd do all they could to ensure it happened!

A couple more months like that though and his value will shoot up!

True enough, in typical City tradition we'll probably manage to get at least 20k for him!

Then again if we emulate the 1969 team and go 21 games unbeaten from December to the end of the season to go from mid-table to promotion we might be able to hold onto him!

Emulating the 1996 team might just do it

Nope, it can't be the play-offs, that would wreck my travel plans for the year!

Well Donovan Ricketts' move to QPR has fallen through - the home office have rejected his appeal for a new work permit, and his appeal has failed too.

At least that means we'll now have 2 keepers on the books.

Presumably we'll be retaining Loach? Has anyone been sad enough to go watch the reserves and seen anything of our 3rd choice Thai international?

According to the OS Loach will stay so they will have to fight it out to be number 1.

Not seen the Thai keeper myself, but the reports I have read don't suggest good things.

So you have two goalkeepers and are paying two but only one can play?

Oh dear

No they can both play.

Ricketts' current work permit lasts until his contract with us expires in June, he just doesn't qualify for a new one.

At least its a bit of healthy competition, which we now seem to be having all over the field, which can only be beneficiary.

In reference to the earlier posts about Bullock, he's been a great signing for me, and the rumours are he'll sign a contract tomorrow for 18 months. Added some much needed height and resillience to our midfield.

Well I went to my first away game of the season yesterday (after the Chesterfield debacle last season I'd pledged never to go away again, I'm amazed I lasted this long TBH), not the best of games in fairness, but another win to keep the run going.

David Brown looked lively and it was his persistence that forced the mistake from the goal, Scott Loach had a bit of a mixed bag really, was lucky not to give away a penalty in the first half, some of his kicking was dodgy but then he stopped the penalty, and his save from the rebound was top drawer - he then dropped a cross late on and I'm amazed Macc didn't score - but he got away with it.

If Ricketts had performed similarly he'd have probably been vilified!

We missed Daley big time for his ability to get us going forward with his pace, unfortunately Colbeck seems to be slipping backwards into his pre-loan spell ways, tinned a lot of challenges yesterday and gave away a needless penalty.

Two home games to come now, and a chance to really shoot up the table.

Might have been a bit hasty saying we'd never make the play-offs



The odds are dropping fast apparently, people are starting to take notice. It's still a tall order, but it's not out of the question, especially if we can win the next 2.

10 points off, with 2 games in hand, definitely not impossible...

To be honest I still think we'll struggle against the better sides in the division, especially away from home, but all we can do in the meantime is beat what is in front of us.

Well City's dismal 2nd half performance yesterday probably puts paid to any play-off hopes we might have had. I haven't even looked at the table but we are a long way short of being good enough on that evidence.

Andy Bishop of Bury certainly looks a cracking player though.

Bishop looked far too good for League 2, gave our defence the run-around all day, and the free-kick was top class.

Not sure what happened to us in the second half really, what I can't find a reason for is swapping Thorne for Conlon when we are looking for a goal at the end - our most likely scorer being replaced by our least likely one (and I include all other outfield players and keepers there, I don't just mean in terms of strikers!).

Rumour has it we are signing Marcus Bean on loan from Blackpool with a view to signing him permanently in the summer, don't know much about him but the midfield certainly still needs some fine-tuning.

I think Thorne would have put that header away towards the end that Conlon skied. I like the look of Brown, very busy and enthusiastic. Topp was a real disappointment yesterday, struggled to play a pass to a team mate all game, but he wasn't the only one. Unfortunately for him, his first performance has set the standard that he'll be judged by!