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Events like those at the Etihad in Sunday don't help the cause at all. The authorities are easily scared.

This was a funny thread for so many reasons. Bed sheets well and truly soaked at this point.

Good point Bearsy. Adkins is a great manager but just wish he looked a bit slimmer in his post match interviews, like Pardew.

Why do people put so much weight on post match interviews?

His best position is in a more attacking role. When he was asked to do Corks role, he's been largely poor

Given our aims for the season, we don't need to be doing much different to what we are doing now. We'll probably lose most games away this season, if we were winning home and away we'd be near the top. The barometer for a successful season will be our ability to win our home games against the mid to lower teams s well as picking up some away points here and there

But his post match interviews are so good!

Even more remarkable is the the fact that our experts called everything right with a fraction of the info which Adkins has. You know, nice to know info but not essential like how well a player has been training, fitness, injury, player instructions, oppo scouts reports, player attitude and confidence etc.

Cortese should just let him pick the team and not interfer imo

No they haven't. I am an adkins fan but still think we're in a relegation battle for the season.

Fox isn't good going forwards at all. He just has a good left foot but doesn't have pace or skill to beat a man. He would be terrible.

My thoughts on Adkins have always been the same. Very supportive of his appointment and everyone knows what he did for us after that. This season I was very surprised by the number of people writting him off after a handful of games. Yes he made a couple of decisions early on which arguably costs us points but what's always been clear that the players play for him and are fully behind him. I will never call for Adkins head whilst the players give him 100%. Puncheon said in an interview the other day that the players were just nervous at the start but have now found their feet. It would have been a crying shame had Adkins got the boot for this when ultimately, a little more time is all it's taken.

Shaws profile says he is 6'1......I was surprised by this!

We'll share the credit when Reeves scores a hatrick in his full prem debut

Adkins is a big fan of Reeves....wouldn't surprise me to see him feature whilst Lallana is out either

Yep, it is probably the best we have unless we can do better in Jan. Ultimately, the benefit of Guly is that he could interchange with Ramirez during a game fairly seamlessly.

Don't think there is much of a brightside as Lallana will have never moved on in January. However, we have some quality cover waiting to come in should he be out for the long term:

Jrod played in a 442 on Saturday so can't see how playing a striker is "shoe-horning". He only stopped playing when Ramirez came back.....quite significant....he only played on Saturday as Ramirez didn't start. Re Lambert and subs, obviously an element of learning required for all. Glad that the club at least showed some sense and stuck by the convictions which has gained us so much success to date and didn't react in a knee jerk short termist manner which so often plagues football in general.

The only things which changed were what some people were saying at the time would make a difference....best 11 available to choose from, playing the teams around us, having a settled back 4, not playing Fox.

Oh, another thing which you've said which has been taken out of context. Seems like it happens to you quite frequently. Maybe use the emoticons a bit more wisely. After writing something like, "we will get 1 point from all those games, Norwich at home will be the one" it's difficult to realise that you didn't actually believe that especially given all your anti-Adkins guff this season (which was also all taken out of context it seems)

Good prediction that we would get 1 point in our last 5 games by the way. Great knowledge and foresight on your behalf there.

My nose is sweet and button like thank you. If you want a private chat with SC, do it over PM, not on a public forum, especially if you don't want others commenting. I've not taken anything you've said out of context. Just would like to know why you mentioned Dos Santos who hardly has any premier league experience which is something you often refer to as essential?

Not good enough SC, he want's an admission that you were wrong and the club were wrong. Had we have signed Dos Santos as DPS says we'd be much better off. Not ifs or buts there.

I'd want a CB of the same quality as Dos Santos