Saint_clark

Man City have a very good team now. Dunne, Richards, Kompany are three awesome defenders, and when you look at it defense is what sets the big clubs and the small clubs apart.

Meh. Players should be able to do that. Especially with what they're paid these days. It's like all this fuss about Alonso or Beckham scoring from their own half - there was NO keeper and they were never under any pressure. Players should be able to hit the target from the middle of the pitch.

Skacel started as a LB and is far better than Surman defensively. For one thing, he actually has pace.

Wrong. John is massively underrated.

Great, so after all this we're going back to 4-4-2 :cool:

I'll give him a chance, just not at RB. He is a defensive midfielder without the pace to play at fullback - if Burley had started playing him there people would be in an uproar. James is my only complaint really. I'd rather we used Surman in midfield but I know there is no-one else.

Yes, as he was stood an inch from the touchline before limping about two feet further onto the pitch and sitting down. I don't consider Hammill an ex-player anyway. Massively overrated, especially by himself.

Blackpool out-did us tactically - this will happen a few times this season as JP does not have any experience at this kind of level. (This is NOT a dig a JP, I actually think he's doing a pretty good job so far).

LSC, you're forgetting the 8/9 raking 50 yard passes that went straight out of play. Not to mention that god awful ball right at the end - WTF was that about?

IMO we won't come up against a better target man this year. We don't need to worry. And if we do find ourselves struggling, why not do what we did V Derby in the play-offs? Have one of the midfielders drop back and mark him going for the second ball whilst the CB challenges in the air.

Oops. Lallana attacking midfield....

Perry actually won more headers V Burgess than Svensson did. I'd have had him marking Burgess instead.

-----------Davis Cork Svensson Perry Surman ----Schneiderlin Gillett Thomson-----------Holmes ---------McGoldrick

I think John had more shots on target than the rest of the team put together.

The9, it is the players and management themselves who are coming out with statements saying "age isn't a factor" and "if you're good enough you're old enough". FWIW I applauded them off at half-time because they HAD played well.

We were booing because of the performance, not the position we are in.

I booed because they were f*cking awful in the second half. I am not ashamed at all.

Burgess was outplaying him in the air every single time. It was stupid trying to win the headers against him, they should have got Perry marking him and going for the second ball.

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This is exactly why i'm not excited - however, I will still give this Pulis a chance.

Him and Yakubu will be a strong partnership this year.

Euell got worse stick than Wright IMO - don't you remember the whole "Jason Euell, what a w*nker, what a w*nker" episode?

Great player IMO.

I'll applaud them both tbh.

Hopefully they have to/will choose to keep him, as we don't really want to be paying his wages AND his treatment costs.