S-Clarke

Too much of a gamble to throw in a kid in such a big game, when it's 0-0. You have a player in Toby who has played there before, so you go with experience. Of course it wasn't ideal, but injuries aren't ideal. It's the situation we face as a club of our size, Koeman did the sensible and safe option to retain the experience.

Cork was Ill, Morgan was injured. Bringing on a CB and moving Toby to CM was really the only choice, even though not an ideal one. Other option would have been to throw an 18 year old in there, and that wouldn't have been an ideal situation. You need experience in games like these and it was still 0-0 at the time of the changes.

And a very fair point.

Pretty frustrating overall. Still gutted I couldn't make it what with my ****ed foot, but didn't miss much! We started the game as we meant to go on, really. City were up for it, probably more so than us, and we seemed a little overawed by the game at times. Key performers Tadic and Pelle had stinkers, more so Tadic. When that happens, you need a team like City to have a bit of a stinker too to give us a chance - but it didn't happen, they barley gave us an inch to be honest and kept us at a distance most of the game. I still don't think we'll get near top 4, but top 6 is possible for sure. We're better than we showed today, which is the frustrating thing, but credit to City who put a pretty perfect away performance. No answer when they play at that level, just have to applaud them.

We were pretty ****, but no way should there have been booing as we've been brilliant so far this season. Not so much this game though, but I think as fans we'll allow them that!

So you'd throw in a young kid against Toure? Alderweild is more of a CM than Gardos. Good move. Glad you're not the manager.

Yeah, they've been brilliant. Quick to the ball, pressing as a unit, incisive with their passing. We've just dropped a level, and there will only be one result if these are the circumstances.

He has been poor, although he is up against one of the best in Kompany. Tadic is the one I've been most disappointed and frustrated with, he's had a total nightmare and has killed our attack. I hope this is a one off.

Slight muscle injury, probably brought off as a precaution more than anything. Don't really want to lose him for more than a game.

But we're still on 26 points and third in the league. I don't think we're the worst. We just had a pretty ****ty day today, it was always going to happen. Let's not go over the top.

Please can you advise the alternative? Cheers.

People will go way OTT here and call for changes and tactical modifications, but the stark reality is that we have played poorly against a very good side. Can't happen for sides like ourselves, there will only be one result if that happens. Bit frustrated that we didn't ever give this a real go. Tadic has had a complete nightmare!

Want to go so bad, but seriously hurt my foot last night (not broken, but torn mid-foot tendon) and I can't walk on my right side at all (shame, as I'm a right footed Beckham as well) Not sure how I'm going to make up to row NN...but I may dose myself up with painkillers and try...(stupidly..)

Take a deep breath Art. Calm down.

I'm buzzing for it to be honest, no reason to fear, be nervous or worried. Just go into these games excited about what may be ahead. We could be going into the Burnley game on the 13th on 30 odd points...dreamy stuff.

The highlight for me was when Morgan flicked the ball over his head, not once, but twice, and left him on a heap in the ground Genius.

I'm not sure if you quite understand what a number 10 role is in that case!

Or Spurs paid the compensation required to take him straight away, which is what happens most of the time in football anyway. Levy seems pretty desperate...

Why would we want to fill our squad with either of those horrific footballers?

I thought Fonte had an iffy game generally yesterday, seemed to be made quite edgy by the constant threat of Gabby.

Isn't Watson still the England GK coach? I see him on the bench in all the internationals.

Stop digging a hole. You look foolish as he simply hasn't been poor in every game. I do not know another fan who thinks the same.

Probably his only asset if we're honest.

We have no aspirations of winning the league.. That's why, for us, this game is kind of like ''pressure is off''. We accumulated 26 points after 12 games, that's bloody remarkable to be honest. Let's just go into this game and see what happens, if we lose, we lose. We've given ourselves a huge platform to full back on to ensure we can still be in the top 6 hunt.