Man City - the new bitters?

[Barrington Womble]

6 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

The big concern is our away performances. Burnley got us at our bare bones yesterday but we still had 70% of the ball and over 20 attempts. We've managed to pick up points away without being convincing. I'm 100% convinced everytime we kick off at home we'll win. Not so much away.

Away is deffo tough for us and we've a run of hard games coming up for a team like us who's less than convincing. I posted something similar to this the other day. 

 

Brentford - we haven't beaten there since they came up. 

Forest - where we were beaten without a fight last year. 

Everton - where we always seem to draw, even when we've been at our best. 

Man united - which clearly becomes game of the season for them if they can block us winning the league. 

Fulham - winnable for sure, but we have only just drawn there and struggled in both anfield games against them. 

West ham - never easy. 

Villa - fantastic home form. 

[johnsusername]

29 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

More likely 3 debilitating league defeats, and runners up medals.

 

Runners up medals? Why the sudden shift to optimism??

[No2]

They have had Burnley and Everton at home plus Brentford away while we had Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley. The old City would have wiped our goal difference against Burnley and then rubbed salt in the wounds in the other 2. From the small bits I've seen of them they are entirely reliant on De Bruyne. If a player with his fitness record played for us we would be absolutely shitting it he would break down. The liklihood is injury will befriend him again in the coming weeks.

[Barrington Womble]

21 minutes ago, No2 said:

They have had Burnley and Everton at home plus Brentford away while we had Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley. The old City would have wiped our goal difference against Burnley and then rubbed salt in the wounds in the other 2. From the small bits I've seen of them they are entirely reliant on De Bruyne. If a player with his fitness record played for us we would be absolutely shitting it he would break down. The liklihood is injury will befriend him again in the coming weeks.

 

He's clearly key to them. But he's been missing all season. They can win without him. They just maybe can't win the next 15 or whatever it is. We were shitting it before Salah went away and when he got injured, but aside from the arsenal game, we've found ways to win, sometimes struggles like yesterday and sometimes great performances like Chelsea. 

 

Our chances of winning the league go up if he's injured. But their chances go up if he stays fit. 

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, johnsusername said:

 

Runners up medals? Why the sudden shift to optimism??

It's a final, not even liverpool can come 3rd in that.

[Ronnie Whelan]

2 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Away is deffo tough for us and we've a run of hard games coming up for a team like us who's less than convincing. I posted something similar to this the other day. 

 

Brentford - we haven't beaten there since they came up. 

Forest - where we were beaten without a fight last year. 

Everton - where we always seem to draw, even when we've been at our best. 

Man united - which clearly becomes game of the season for them if they can block us winning the league. 

Fulham - winnable for sure, but we have only just drawn there and struggled in both anfield games against them. 

West ham - never easy. 

Villa - fantastic home form. 

I don't disagree with that Barrington, but we just need to do our business away against for the most part vastly inferior teams.

 

I could accept dropped points against Villa and possibly United on one of those days, but Arsenal's result today shows even more that if we do our stuff, we should pretty much drop nothing. 

[Barrington Womble]

2 minutes ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

I don't disagree with that Barrington, but we just need to do our business away against for the most part vastly inferior teams.

 

I could accept dropped points against Villa and possibly United on one of those days, but Arsenal's result today shows even more that if we do our stuff, we should pretty much drop nothing. 

We haven't looked comfortable away all season really though. Bournemouth, Burnley and wolves we've looked ok. The rest has been a struggle and even in the uefa against massively inferior teams (albeit with rotated sides) we managed to lose 2 of 3. So sure, if we do what we should, we'll be great. I'm not sure that run of games we have really suits a side who make such hard work of it on the road. Our away form needs to significantly improve for this last 3rd of the season. 

[elvis]

2 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

We haven't beaten those bastards at their ground since they came up, and now Toney's back and in form, shit bags.

A ray of hope is maybe young Connor Bradley can be back , his rapid pass and move then bombing down the right gives us a great option. 

Really feel for the lad though. 

[kemskem]

Winning the league would just be a bonus. We all know the Ivan Dragos of football will be there right til the end, we just need to try to win some trophies

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, elvis said:

A ray of hope is maybe young Connor Bradley can be back , his rapid pass and move then bombing down the right gives us a great option. 

Really feel for the lad though. 

 

Yea awful for him off the field as well as the timing on the field. Be a test for him to come back but with Trent out he gets back in without that issue. 

[Ronnie Whelan]

4 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

We haven't looked comfortable away all season really though. Bournemouth, Burnley and wolves we've looked ok. The rest has been a struggle and even in the uefa against massively inferior teams (albeit with rotated sides) we managed to lose 2 of 3. So sure, if we do what we should, we'll be great. I'm not sure that run of games we have really suits a side who make such hard work of it on the road. Our away form needs to significantly improve for this last 3rd of the season. 

You're right, some of the results haven't been comfortable for us. The Brighton away was an example of one we left behind, whereas other games we got over the line.

Brentford is an awfully tough type of place. Toney is a top class player and they are well managed. They actually gave City a good game and didn't make it easy for them. I would take any type of win there.

We need to win the next few league games and the League Cup before the cheats come to town and that will really give us a huge lift. If (big if) we turn them over then that is one hell of a shot in the arm for us that hopefully takes us over the line.

 

Villa and West Ham away look slightly less daunting now than they would have a few hours ago. Everton is daunting because of the occasion, but if we have the right mindset, it's three points. To be fair, the Mancs are awful, but that's still a battlezone. Forest and Fulham just have to be three points, but again it will be the right mindset from us. 

 

[redinblack]

I think Arsenal has given us all a jolt, but we can do this. Players coming back. The run in. We are Liverpool Fucking FC. To borrow a phrase, just get it done.

[an tha]

6 hours ago, No2 said:

They have had Burnley and Everton at home plus Brentford away while we had Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley. The old City would have wiped our goal difference against Burnley and then rubbed salt in the wounds in the other 2. From the small bits I've seen of them they are entirely reliant on De Bruyne. If a player with his fitness record played for us we would be absolutely shitting it he would break down. The liklihood is injury will befriend him again in the coming weeks.

DeBruyne isn't that much of a crock

 

Before this season he has played over 40 games a season in every season he has been there bar one. 7 out of 8 seasons.

 

He played 49 times last season - obviously had a major injury this season of course - but seems to have eased back nicely after it 

 

 

 

 

[an tha]

5 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

We haven't looked comfortable away all season really though. Bournemouth, Burnley and wolves we've looked ok. The rest has been a struggle and even in the uefa against massively inferior teams (albeit with rotated sides) we managed to lose 2 of 3. So sure, if we do what we should, we'll be great. I'm not sure that run of games we have really suits a side who make such hard work of it on the road. Our away form needs to significantly improve for this last 3rd of the season. 

It adds a bit more difficulty to away games that pretty much everywhere we go is a bear pit and it is their cup final.

 

The cheats don't face that anywhere near as much.

 

 

[No2]

2 hours ago, an tha said:

DeBruyne isn't that much of a crock

 

Before this season he has played over 40 games a season in every season he has been there bar one. 7 out of 8 seasons.

 

He played 49 times last season - obviously had a major injury this season of course - but seems to have eased back nicely after it 

 

 

 

 

I never said he was a crock, he's had 2 really serious hamstring injuries in 9 months and said he was playing with bogey hamstring for the final weeks of last season.

[an tha]

20 minutes ago, No2 said:

I never said he was a crock, he's had 2 really serious hamstring injuries in 9 months and said he was playing with bogey hamstring for the final weeks of last season.

Fair do's - just read 'with fitness record' and 'The likelihood is injury will befriend him again in the coming weeks' as suggesting he was a crock....but can see the point you were making now.

[Tj hooker]

 

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, Tj hooker said:

 

Loads of clubs announce their attendance as tickets sold and not how many people turn up. 

[Anubis]

5 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Loads of clubs announce their attendance as tickets sold and not how many people turn up. 

 

We all know who are buying those tickets.

 

Anyway, it’s more a comment on the fact their fans use attendances to argue they’re massive, when clearly they’re not.

[Bobby Hundreds]

No big sides ground has as many empty seats as they do not even close.

[Pete]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

No big sides ground has as many empty seats as they do not even close.

This is very true.  The emptihad is too big for them.   

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

 

We all know who are buying those tickets.

 

Anyway, it’s more a comment on the fact their fans use attendances to argue they’re massive, when clearly they’re not.

 

It doesn't matter if there's people in the seats or not. They give away thousands of tickets every game to schools and just as many in 2 for one for students etc. nobody wants to watch them outside of about the 30k biffs who were watching before they won the lottery. It's why there's always been so many flashpoints when we've played them, as loads of reds have ended up in their end, because the tickets are about as rare as a packet of cheese and onion walkers. 

[No2]

Saturday will be 3 months from when Everton were charged. It will also be 3 months to the last day of the season. Any punishment they get will be appealed and will roll over into the summer. That has to be factored in the punishment, another season ruined by the cheating cunts.

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, No2 said:

Saturday will be 3 months from when Everton were charged. It will also be 3 months to the last day of the season. Any punishment they get will be appealed and will roll over into the summer. That has to be factored in the punishment, another season ruined by the cheating cunts.

 

The PL have already provided a timetable. It's been set in stone and agreed by all clubs - the time table has never existed before, this is the 1st year. It's why all clubs had to submit their PSR calculation before the end of 2023. This wasn't a case last year either. 

 

Original charges have to be heard by 5th April. 

Decision 12th April. 

Clubs have 7 days to appeal

Appeals to be concluded by 24th May. 

 

[El Rojo]

Is De Bruyne’a hair AI-generated?