“We’re hoping to use this as a kind of springboard” slyly chuckled Chris Martin knowing the irony and repetition in which this phrase could have been used throughout the season for Bristol City’s players.
This is an all too familiar feeling. They’ve already been on the springboard several times with a first home win against Barnsley or an impressive draw with Fulham. Even the early season victory in the corresponding result over Cardiff City in the Severnside derby was a metaphorical opportunity to kick on as the cliché would have it. They just haven’t taken it yet.
The chances that City have lost when offered the circumstances for a burst of results weren’t lost on Saturday’s matchwinner though, Martin added “I don’t want to keep saying that because obviously there have been moments throughout the season that we felt like is the moment to kick on but that’s what we’ve got to try and use this and string some results together.”
