The City boss said: "It's a bit early to be talking about relegation, I find it a bit insulting as well. "We will know whether we are in that position at Easter. It will be like it was last year when we beat [Nottingham] Forest and Brighton.
"We are down there but, if you look at the league table, we are down there with eight or nine other clubs - it's not the sort of thing you start talking about in December."