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Positive for me is we should've won our last two home games

The negative is we got zero points.

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With 10 minutes to go the whole picture looked completely different. Luton found a goal, we capitulated and it looks done and dusted instead of optimistic. I think the lads try really hard, but that's different to bottle and nous. We have neither of those things

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Just put a month's salary on us conceding late in either half and you'll be a billionaire

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I'm done. Sod this game

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Fu*k off football

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I can't believe that. You can see his back leg cut koleosho off and deliberately move towards him to do so.

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Trafford
Vitinho
Al Dahkil
Beyer
Taylor
Brownhil
Berge
Tresor
Ramsay
Koleosho
Amdouni

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His leadership is one thing but my God his passing is about 10 levels up from o shea.

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He says he was only interested in the football side, but from what I hear he was often pretty absent at training! Just completely the wrong type of character to be a manager. However, seeing Chris Waddle wear a burnley shirt for the first time was amazing, he was my favorite player as a kid.

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Exactly - a byproduct of our scattergun approach to recruitment this summer Koleosho has looked promising so far, Odobert now being on the bench and given game time It's almost like VK is trying to justify some of his summer signings at the expense of good players from last year such as Zaroury Sam...

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He's unfortunate that one of our only performers in the final third so far has been koleosho on the left. He also has tresor to deal with who is best that side (though hasn't shown it thus far. And then there's Larsen. Ridiculous state of affairs as discussed many times but it's a problem for him.

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Utterly pointless getting rid of Kompany at this point, from a footballing and business pov. With this group of players he's assembled, he's both the most likely manager to keep us up, or bring us back up. 6 months ago he was the next big thing, sure to be a man city manager. Now he's out of hid dep...

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BobSykes wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:48 pm
If there were any positives today, and I'm doubtful, they've been cancelled out by the Bournemouth result.

And Then There Were Three.

You're not seriously suggesting Bournemouth are out of trouble?

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box_of_frogs wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:11 pm
Can I have some of what you’re on?

it might be the lemsip.

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It's OK. We're going to win our next 3 on the bounce.
West Ham h
Sheffield United h
Wolves a

I genuinely believe that actually, timing is right.

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Trafford - 5 He made some top saves, but obviously messed up on their second. The other two were collective defensive mistakes however, they aren't all on Trafford. Vitinho - 6 Taylor - 6 O Shea - 5 - Just not seeing a PL level defender in this guy. I think I prefer Delcroix of the available defende...

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Always going to be hard today, but you can't concede goals like this. Encouraging signs against Palace and Arsenal, but we need points and we just can't get them. Unfortunately we're about a season short of experience for many of these players.

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Jamesy wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:30 pm
How can you say that when you don’t know? I have been quite restrained about Trafford thus far, however I have now got to say Vincent’s stubbornness in keep selecting him will result in relegation. Muric not even on bench today.

I don't know, it's just my opinion

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One thing to mention is I don't think muric saves that effort from saka first half onto the bar.

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That is a league one goal. I don't mind conceding to brilliance but that's just ridiculous

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I give up

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Koleoshos shirt was being pulled so no way they could disallow

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THEWELLERNUT70 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:56 pm
4 in the league so far ( including today )

Absolute killer. Felt the same under Dyche too towards the end, just inevitable. Anyway, still hope

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I don't know what the stats are but I feel like we concede so many goals 40-45 mins every time we're in the premier league. And never ever score them in the same time period. We've played well but it's really annoying.

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The inevitable 45th minute goal

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Get it to the corner flag!

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Ffs brownhill

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Casper2 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:32 pm
Gudmundson should score

Slightly harsh he had a lot to do there and forced a brilliant save

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Perhaps a bit ambitious for today, but given the stick Jay is getting I hope he's this year's Ashley Barnes and gets some crucial goals for us

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Nothing against JBG great servant, but I can't help letting out a little sigh when I see him in the side after all those transfers. Nevertheless, good luck boys!

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Just because we're all expecting a tonking i'll go 1-1. Berge to score and them to rescue a point with a last minute dodgy penno

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For one, I've literally never suggested moving a player out of position before on this board. 2. It's naff all like moving Andre Bikey into midfield, or Edgar who are both about half the player on the ball Jordan Beyer is. Same to a lesser extent with Tarky. 3. I personally don't think it particular...

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That would be beyond stupid unless we're planning to dig up the middle third of the pitch lengthways

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I don't think the money has been wasted per se, because I think the assets we have are or will be worth it. But misspent timing-wise? For sure. For one, you can't expect assets to mature in value if they can't play because there's so much competition Koleosho Benson Zaroury Tresor Ramsay Amdouni Lar...

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He's one of the good guys in football for sure. I suspect some of his motivation was designed to give a young manager a bit of encouragement and perhaps take a bit of pressure off the result for Kompany. At least it wouldn't surprise me, it's well known kompany works his nuts off whatever folk on he...

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Tella isn't really a striker either, certainly no more than Amdouni who I'm pretty confident will get more career goals than tella. I think not replacing Weghorst/Barnes was more of a mistake personally. We have goals in this team no doubt, what we have struggled with is a foundation and focal point...

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With the model we've adopted, the obvious risk is a swift relegation before the value of any young players have matured. Should the worst happen (and I'm not resigned to that just yet), are players like Amdouni or Tresor going to want to play in the championship. Do we think any have release clauses...

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Our set pieces really are poor

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Understand the frustration but we're playing much better than Palace here

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No idea where this confidence is coming from, but I think we win this

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We were doing a lot right, another daft individual error

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Fancy amdouni and Jay for a goal today, and massengo to come off the bench and be superb. Might as well be positive before 3pm!

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Muric

Roberts
AD
Beyer/Delcroix
Taylor

Massengo
Cork
Berge

Larsen
Tresor
Foster

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Technically capable? Maybe, although no vote of him taking the ball on the half turn in tight areas. Pace capable? Uncertain Fitness capable? Cramps up in most games when playing centre half…. Must be a concern Positionally capable? Unsure, appears to like seeing the game in front of him and to mov...

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Pickles wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:59 pm
Beyer centre midfield.
Trippier right wing.
Tarkowski centre midfield.
Branch centre half... oh wait.

Trippier could have easily played RM in his younger days at a high level. Beyer is a better footballer on the deck than Tarkowski. Branch is completely irrelevant at this level no?

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You guys are so angry it's hilarious

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We disagree on that I guess. To me he's got far more qualities as a holding midfielder than either Brownhill or Berge. Also was 2002 a particularly productive year for moving defenders into midfield on champ manager, I don't remember that!

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ClaretFelix wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:42 pm
Yes. Awful.

Enough square pegs in round holes as it is

Don't know about that. Just looks like we have holes with no pegs to me!

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Don't mind it, I'd rather give Massengo a go first though - see what he's made of. Could be the next Kante ;) Yeah I'd agree tbh and said as much on a few threads. He's a little pest and great winning second balls. But I kinda dismissed it based on the fact Kompany doesn't think he's ready for what...

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Haha, no. And to be fair I'm not usually one for suggesting things like that. But i) I think Beyer has ball playing qualities that are good enough to play in front of the back 4 and ii) I don't think we have any other central midfielders that can actually play in a 3 and give us more protection with...

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