Other Football 22/23

[manwiththestick]

1 minute ago, Anubis said:

Narrative is set, mate. Just roll with it.

More millions just swept under the carpet and not talked about.

[Anubis]

This is the real stuff? I hope Tyler gets eaten by a pack of rogue rats that have contracted rabies

[Anubis]

Just now, manwiththestick said:

More millions just swept under the carpet and not talked about.

Bit it’s for the good of the PL.

[TheDrowningMan]

As I said when they signed him, it doesn’t matter if they end up being a worse team with Haaland - they’ll win more games because it’s an additional fear factor. They’ll definitely accrue more points than in 17/18 this season.

[Pete]

He’s one ugly fucker.  He looks like he fell out the ugly tree and hit every fucking branch on the way down. 

[an tha]

Defenders across this league are just going to stand in awe of this lad and allow themselves to be bullied - instead of getting fucking stuck in and kicking him.

[El Rojo]

1 minute ago, an tha said:

Defenders across this league are just going to stand in awe of this lad and allow themselves to be bullied - instead of getting fucking stuck in and kicking him.

Maybe we should get our own house in order first and actually beat them like Spurs did twice last season before we start moaning about others. 

[Megadrive Man]

If we aren't going to win the league this year I hope city win it by about 30 points just to show how one sided it is when we don't push them.

[3 Stacks]

Just now, El Rojo said:

Maybe we should get our own house in order first and actually beat them like Spurs did twice last season before we start moaning about others. 

It's the same comments every game; everyone tries against us, no one tries against them. Literal little kid logic.

[an tha]

Got to give West Ham credit here - they have upped their possession to the heady heights of 25%...at home, on the opening day!!

[an tha]

12 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Maybe we should get our own house in order first and actually beat them like Spurs did twice last season before we start moaning about others. 

We absolutely should do.

 

But that does not really do anything to change fact that teams are just so passive and frankly beaten before they start against these so often.

 

I don't believe in the whole 'not trying' thing and 'trying harder v us' really - but i do think teams get it wrong so, so often v them tactically - they get away from teams so often quickly as a result and then teams knowing they are beat go through the motions/drop their intensity levels to really low levels and roll over.

 

We saw it towards end of last season so much when they were running up cricket scores v teams and even Villa totally folded from a rare great position due to a total lack of belief and frankly bollocks once Man City got back into game.....i'll bet you not one Villa player believed they would win that game from moment it went 2-1.

 

The cheating bastards are of course very, very good, but they get a massive helping hand from the tactics, attitude and then ultimately application of teams facing them.

[ZonkoVille77]

20 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

As I said when they signed him, it doesn’t matter if they end up being a worse team with Haaland - they’ll win more games because it’s an additional fear factor. They’ll definitely accrue more points than in 17/18 this season.

 

Some truth in this. 

There's non-stop media coverage of Haaland. Defenders will hear about him even if they don't want to and it will clearly seep into their brain, likely effecting them before they've even faced him. 

[Megadrive Man]

6 minutes ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

Some truth in this. 

There's non-stop media coverage of Haaland. Defenders will hear about him even if they don't want to and it will clearly seep into their brain, likely effecting them before they've even faced him. 

I can't ever remember there being this much hype around a player before he's even kicked a ball in the Premier League.

[Bruce Spanner]

Haarland is a goon who looked irrelevant for most of the game, but still scores two, I guess that might be the same for a large part of the season until they figure out what is the best way to maximise the potential so he scores eighty goals a season.

 

I'm calling it now, we'll finish above City this season.

 

Their squad is paper thin in places, especially in key positions like full back and wide attackers, which are essential the way the bald fraud set his teams up.

 

A couple of injuries in midfield and that starts to look a little lightweight as well, especially if they persevere with Grealish as he's fucking shite and ill suited to them.

 

We, I believe, have the better and deeper squad.

 

 

 

 

[Reckoner]

Why all the negativity lads? It’s much better losing the league on the first day of the season than the last.

[Carra_is_legend]

47 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

In fact they’ll win all their games and we’ll get relegated.

May be I will get a ticket then

[Jack the Sipper]

Fucks sake, City two points ahead and with a superior goal difference, with only 37 games left. Time to focus on the cups lads.

[El Rojo]

18 minutes ago, an tha said:

We absolutely should do.

 

But that does not really do anything to change fact that teams are just so passive and frankly beaten before they start against these so often.

 

I don't believe in the whole 'not trying' thing and 'trying harder v us' really - but i do think teams get it wrong so, so often v them tactically - they get away from teams so often quickly as a result and then teams knowing they are beat go through the motions/drop their intensity levels to really low levels and roll over.

 

We saw it towards end of last season so much when they were running up cricket scores v teams and even Villa totally folded from a rare great position due to a total lack of belief and frankly bollocks once Man City got back into game.....i'll bet you not one Villa player believed they would win that game from moment it went 2-1.

 

The cheating bastards are of course very, very good, but they get a massive helping hand from the tactics, attitude and then ultimately application of teams facing them.

I think your points are mostly valid and fair enough. But if we’d beaten them even once last season we’d have won the title. 
 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

23 minutes ago, an tha said:

Got to give West Ham credit here - they have upped their possession to the heady heights of 25%...at home, on the opening day!!

We need Moyes sacked so that we have a sniff of Bowen and Rice. 

[Code]

23 minutes ago, an tha said:

Got to give West Ham credit here - they have upped their possession to the heady heights of 25%...at home, on the opening day!!

Fulham had 33% against us. 

[manwiththestick]

3 minutes ago, Code said:

Fulham had 33% against us. 

And we probably gave them 50% of that.

[an tha]

5 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

We need Moyes sacked so that we have a sniff of Bowen and Rice. 

Super smashing great!

[KMD7]

Haaland is going to score for fun this season isn't he? 

[Carra_is_legend]

Games in hand or whatever, we closed down a gap of 12 points last season and lost the title by a whisker.

 

And some here already giving up after ONE game. Pussies.

 

One thing is clear - we needed another 2 months break from football.

 

 

[J-V]

1 minute ago, KMD7 said:

Haaland is going to score for fun this season isn't he? 

He won't come near Firmino's goal tally