Saturday's defeat at Swansea means that City have managed to accumulate just 11 points from the past 10 league games.
If this form is continued it will simply not be good enough to mount a play-off challenge with 13 games remaining. The maths dictate that City have to win eight of those fixtures and add in a couple of draws to reach the 73 points that I think will be necessary to achieve a top-six finish.
I cannot see it happening, indeed, reaching last season's total of 68 is looking a big ask right now.
Come next Tuesday night we will know if City have anything to play for other than pride between then and the first weekend in May.
By then they will have completed two league fixtures at Blackburn and at home to Watford, along with the rescheduled FA Cup fourth round tie against Port Vale.
Four points is a minimum requirement from the two league games while cup victory would see them play faltering Premier League side Sunderland just four days later at Ashton Gate. Another victory would secure a place in the quarter-finals for the first time since 1974.
So what's gone wrong at City such that yet again, at the end of their 11th successive season in the Championship, they look destined to finish in that all too familiar mid-table position?
For me they have quantity not quality in a squad that overall is strong in numbers but lacking players that can make a difference.
Up front City tend to play with a sole striker. They now can select from Riis, Armstrong, the recalled but out of contract in the summer Sam Bell and recent loanee Delano Burgzorg.
Compare that with Coventry City, a non-parachute payment club who have enjoyed similar success in player sales over recent seasons as well as acquiring their own ground and generally getting their financial house in order.
They can select from Ellis Simms, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Haji Wright and Ephron Mason-Clark. All those named are superior to any of our strikers and while none are 20-goal a season superstars, our four would be lucky to accumulate that number of goals between them.
In midfield, be that defensive or creative, is there much difference between a four of Knight, Bird, Horvat and Earthy or Randell, Morsy, Williams and Twine?
In defence, assuming it's a four, is there much difference between McCrorie, Eile, Atkinson and Borges or Tanner, Dickie, McNally [when fit] and Pring?
Yes, the matchday 20 is as strong as it has ever been, but the pathway for promising youngsters is blocked. We seem to have a wage policy that sees us prefer to pay three players as much as two who, in theory, would be just that bit better and enough to make a difference.
The transfer window may have shut but there was one departure from Ashton Gate last week which caught everyone by surprise. Chief Executive Tom Rawcliffe tendered his resignation, stating he wanted to return to his Nottingham home to be closer to his wife with the couple expecting their first child in the summer.
Only in his present role since the summer having been with the club for five years as FD then later COO, Tom was proving a popular choice amongst the fans for a position that has been occupied by no fewer than nine individuals over the past 15 years.
Looks like being a CEO at City is as precarious as being head coach/manager!
You can hear more from David Pottier on the Forever Bristol City podcast.