money bags v the trotters

[Worthy4England]

Ref was shocking, Davies was Davies & Ballotelli is frustratingly annoying - class act but a diva

4-0 would have been a fair reflection imho

Having been there, I said it could have been 2-0. but it could have equally been 1-1.

If you don't take your chances, the top end of the league ain't going to look back and tell you what might have been.

Ref was spot on on most calls, but I probably wouldn't have sent off Kolarov if he hadn't been booked - it was a bit of a neither here nor there thing.

As it happens, in the round, the people sat behind me, just behind the dugouts, were a) a bag of wankers and b) all had Southern accents.

Are you wankers in disguise?

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

As it happens, in the round, the people sat behind me, just behind the dugouts, were a) a bag of wankers and b) all had Southern accents.

Are you wankers in disguise?

Are you Owen Coyle?

[Worthy4England]

As it happens, in the round, the people sat behind me, just behind the dugouts, were a) a bag of wankers and b) all had Southern accents.

Are you wankers in disguise?

Are you Owen Coyle?

Might be...

[RobbieSavagesLeg]

Just got back after going to Ikea on the way home (no sh*t). Didn't see one WtW tho'...

Scoreline could have been a whole lot worse - Jussi and a bit of luck prevented.
We did have our chances but the rub of the green in the box didn't go our way a couple of times.
Ref was a big fat looooooser today.
Still too many long-balls, we play so much better on the ground these days.

That's all.

[CrazyHorse]

Finally just opened a Strongbow. Still fecking freezing.
Ref was shite but consistently shite. Coyle got it more or less right today and we were never going to win. Our attack was anonymous until too late on into the game. Forgot Davo was on the pitch at first 'til he was booked. Meh.

Who was that joker on here who said Jussi had lost it the other day? Hang your head.

[Mar]

We really struggled today in the final third. Man City packed their box well by pretty much parking the bus when defensively and attacked really well. They hold the ball a hell of a lot better than us and pressed us a lot more than we were comfortable with. We didn't match them in terms of pressing and it showed. Mark Davies barely got into the game, Muamba struggled to know his place with Holden out and both of them looked out of sorts. Had we kept up the same level of pressing that we saw in the last 20 minutes against Blackpool I would've thought that we would've seen the best out of him.

I wouldn't like to single out Muamba and Mark Davies for sole criticism though as the majority of players struggled to keep up the tempo. It won't be the first time this season and it won't be the last. The good thing is though I doubt that there is a better team defensively in the premiership this season that we will come up against. Everything about Man City seems geared up to keep clean sheets so for us not to score is perhaps less of a reflection on ourselves but more a reflection on Man City's qualities.

We did quite well down the wing but it seemed time and time again that we were unsure of what to do. Whether it was cross it over the top, drag it back or thrash it directly into the middle. There was no out and out tactic but rather a mixture of tactics troubled by a succession of bodies ready to put themselves in the way.

Next few games will be interesting. Blackburn, Sunderland and WBA are all teams that we should are capable of showing our qualities. As long as the team keeps its head held high we can consider this Man City result a blip.

[Horza]

They've got a very solid midfield three and they're transitioning well. They're happy to soak it up and feast on the space and on the face of things so far our kinetic approach isn't like to change that.

... our kinetic approach ???

I know I'm going to regret this but .... well, how can I put it .... what the fck are you talking about ?

You don't actually talk like that in real life do you, Horza ? If you do, well ... you know when people sort of stop talking & make for the door quite regularly ?

Well, I think I know why.

Call me.

This inquestification into my verbal actualisation preferences is quantifiably redundant. I can offer non-attritable proof that said vocabulistic diversity is statistically correlated with my residence being a hub of social activity and hedonic satisfaction.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

They've got a very solid midfield three and they're transitioning well. They're happy to soak it up and feast on the space and on the face of things so far our kinetic approach isn't like to change that.

... our kinetic approach ???

I know I'm going to regret this but .... well, how can I put it .... what the fck are you talking about ?

You don't actually talk like that in real life do you, Horza ? If you do, well ... you know when people sort of stop talking & make for the door quite regularly ?

Well, I think I know why.

Call me.

This inquestification into my verbal actualisation preferences is quantifiably redundant. I can offer non-attritable proof that said vocabulistic diversity is statistically correlated with my residence being a hub of social activity and hedonic satisfaction.

This.

[bobo the clown]

They've got a very solid midfield three and they're transitioning well. They're happy to soak it up and feast on the space and on the face of things so far our kinetic approach isn't like to change that.

... our kinetic approach ???

I know I'm going to regret this but .... well, how can I put it .... what the fck are you talking about ?

You don't actually talk like that in real life do you, Horza ? If you do, well ... you know when people sort of stop talking & make for the door quite regularly ?

Well, I think I know why.

Call me.

This inquestification into my verbal actualisation preferences is quantifiably redundant. I can offer non-attritable proof that said vocabulistic diversity is statistically correlated with my residence being a hub of social activity and hedonic satisfaction.

This.

.... nurse ...... NURSE ...... NURSE !!!

[Horza]

They've got a very solid midfield three and they're transitioning well. They're happy to soak it up and feast on the space and on the face of things so far our kinetic approach isn't like to change that.

... our kinetic approach ???

I know I'm going to regret this but .... well, how can I put it .... what the fck are you talking about ?

You don't actually talk like that in real life do you, Horza ? If you do, well ... you know when people sort of stop talking & make for the door quite regularly ?

Well, I think I know why.

Call me.

This inquestification into my verbal actualisation preferences is quantifiably redundant. I can offer non-attritable proof that said vocabulistic diversity is statistically correlated with my residence being a hub of social activity and hedonic satisfaction.

This.

.... nurse ...... NURSE ...... NURSE !!!

The allied health professional will not save you now!

[Ianmooreslovechild]

Finally just opened a Strongbow. Still fecking freezing.
Ref was shite but consistently shite. Coyle got it more or less right today and we were never going to win. Our attack was anonymous until too late on into the game. Forgot Davo was on the pitch at first 'til he was booked. Meh.

Who was that joker on here who said Jussi had lost it the other day? Hang your head.

I've said that Jussi is a great shot stopper and good at coming off his line but very dodgy on crosses.He did the things he does well brilliantly today and didn't have many crosses to deal with

[Prufrock]

£300 million for that? Balls. They're shite, or rather Mancini is. Good players, but all tossers. Three men in midfield , all the ball and sat back playing for a 1-0. Tevez paddying and the rest falling over. Stupid ground to get to, they'd fecked up the tickets so there were folk in our seats. Not that bothered about that if the stewards weren't tossers. City? 2 years of big money and their fans have gone all Arsenal levels of quiet. Bring back Pea head.

[RobbieSavagesLeg]

Couple of things.


1 - Jussi our man-of-the-match.

2 - Anyone got a linky for the goal and sending off?


Ta.

[RobbieSavagesLeg]

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[boltonboris]

We played one of the most expensively assembled squads of all time and made them (for large periods of the game) look pretty ordinary.. We've come a long way

[TKIZ!]

We played one of the most expensively assembled squads of all time and made them (for large periods of the game) look pretty ordinary.. We've come a long way

True that. Still would have liked us not to have conceded as early as we did. Difficult to chase the game against Citeh massif

[Ianmooreslovechild]

Poor stream made the 2nd half hard to follow.MotD highlights made it look more one sided than I thought it was.Can't fault the effort but city really could have murdered us.Can't see Coyle changing the approach and why should he but got to wonder whether we should have a less open alternative plan for an away game like that,especially without Holden's workrate protecting the defence.Maybe even put Cahill and Muamba infront of the defence.Cahill is quite possibly our best player in terms of passing an accurate long ball and running with it but also seems susceptible to letting players in behind. Wonder how he'd do in a campo/Hierro role as opposed to trying to partner Knight? We have pace in Moreno and this may have been a good game to try and play on the break.
Can see why petrov started too but his main contribution was to give the ball away and when we needed impact players he was already an hour into the game and having no impact

[newboy]

first of all what a fkin cold horrible lifeless place. citeh fans (the ones that came in with the money ) tossers, i was actually in amongst them with my brother in law who is a die hard citeh fan who has tasted the highs and the lows more of the latter in his opinion.
he say's. only Tevez looks as if he wants to be there the rest will whore themselves to the next billionaire he much preferred Mark Hughes's team to Mancinni's prostitutes.
Now us we are definitely a poorer team without Holden, Mark Davies is full of energy and but he doesn't do the breaking up of play and the linking up of Holden. Muamba certainly missing him at the moment, he 's doing his best but isn't getting the support from Mavis, don't get me wrong i like Mavis's energy but not in that position he's more of an attacking midfielder.
the other thing is if we don't score we lose the game, i'll probably be blasted for this but i think Cahill going in january will be no bad thing. we kept more clean sheets on the occasions he's not played i think Knight relaxes to much with Cahill in the team but with Ricketts he took a more commanding role. with the money from his sale we could get a solid more workmanlike defencive partner for Knight and shore up that leaky defence.
as for Elmo that's a hard one, do we sell and cash in or let him run his contract down. i think he'd be more prone to keep his form up if we did the latter, he'd still be in the shop window so to speak.which would more likely keep us up where we are whereas we could drop half a dozen places negating his transfer fee.

[seanworth]

Doubt many will blast you for those comments. City's a shit hole. Check. Muamba is better and we play better with Holden than M Davies. Check, Cahill's loss may be minimal. Check though some will disagree. Elmo a tough decision. Check.

[Athers]

Bloke on the tram said to his mate on the phone it was the best he's seen City play all season!

They were very dangerous when winning possession off us and driving forward, sometimes using Silva to overload one side but generally playing the balls in behind our full backs.

Having seen him in person Yaya Toure a bigger feck* than I thought he would be. Really tough to get round him and put a tackle in when he was past our midfield.

Should've killed us off earlier but then they didn't put their chances in the corners and we have a good goalkeeper, deserve doesn't come into it.

One day Mark Davies is going to score a Maradona goal and will feel harshly done to when he's dropped again, but he's got his career ahead of him.