City dropped out of the top six yesterday after a 2-0 home defeat to Queens Park Rangers which was their third successive defeat but the Ray Ranson appointed City boss who is coming in for criticism from sections of the support for his style of football, his tactics, his use of substitutions, his constant references to his time at Watford and his Work In Progress mantra, told the CT: "I can remember doing a press conference in December 2005 when I was asked the same question and in the end we managed to get promotion by beating a team that were supposed to be far better than us. I
"It's not where you are at the start of the season or even in the middle, it's where you are at the end.
"That's when it goes in the almanacs, that's when we'll be judged."