manimanc
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Above the rags as per usual.
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Season Predictions
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Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Above the rags as per usual.
All the FArce, PiGMOL and PL stops are out to confound you, manimanc. If the season continues to May in a similar vein to what we have seen so far, then CFC players, MANUre Swamp Donkeys and the Arse Tarqins will be scoring goals when they should be in the middle of a three match ban, whilst MCFC, and others, will be scrabbling around to field sufficiently strong sides to scab a point or two.
united got a trophy for finishing fourth in 2015.
Well we have morphed into Arsenal lately, so why not celebrate the top 4 trophy.
manimanc
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I know what you mean mate but it's been going on for so long that it's just second nature now. They can get all the dodgy decisions they like but we'll still be above them come May. I'll stick my neck out and say we'll win the league. It'll be tough but we'll do it, pep has experimented these past few weeks and I think he knows we haven't got the players for three at the back. We get vinnie back and keep him fit and we've got a new centre back kind of , Fernandinho and kun return and we stick to a back four then watch us go. I got no worries .All the FArce, PiGMOL and PL stops are out to confound you, manimanc. If the season continues to May in a similar vein to what we have seen so far, then CFC players, MANUre Swamp Donkeys and the Arse Tarqins will be scoring goals when they should be in the middle of a three match ban, whilst MCFC, and others, will be scrabbling around to field sufficiently strong sides to scab a point or two.
Exeter Blue I am here
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This just about nailed it. Needless to say we haven't kept Kompany and Gundogan fit and our cup draws have been stinkers.
All the things we've discussed many times unfortunately..........
Rammy Blue
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Your crystal ball was working well mate....All the things we've discussed many times unfortunately..........
mancityscot
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right now i'd take any trophy and a finish above the red shite
Exeter Blue I am here
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Your crystal ball was working well mate....
The pre-season prediction notwithstanding, my biggest surprise is that Pep has been so surprised (if you see what I mean) by the robust nature of the Premier League. The man himself at least has the excuse of never having managed in England before and he did try to buy another centre half in the shape of Laporte, but as we were stockpiling young slightly built midfielders at considerable expense whilst eschewing the full back positions and the dearth of physicality up front and in the engine room, it's perhaps a surprise that Txixi, who'd had plenty of first hand experience of what English football was all about, didn't tip him the wink as to what to expect. Or maybe he did?!
Klopp had similar problems in his first 6 months at Candlepool in that whilst his manic press worked well against those opponents (and City in particular) prepared to try and play the ball out, they came unstuck repeatedly against teams with big powerful counterattacking players, who just hoofed it downfield and outpaced and outmuscled their defenders, ie Newcastle - Cisse, Sissoko, Wijnaldum; Palace - Zaha, Sakho; West Ham - Sako, Valencia, etc etc.....in short the exact same problem City have now. Lukaku, Costa, Hazard, Wickham, Llorente, Vardy, and even those who didn't score against us like Josh King and Sam Vokes, have all gone one on one with City's last defender and either beaten them with relative ease or held the ball up to then facilitate others to do so.
The sheer quality of some of our attacking players is such (as it was under Pellegrini) that we'll probably see off virtually everybody in the bottom half of the table, but as per last season I expect virtually nothing against those in the top half. The only decent side we've beaten in the Prem in recent memory are the rag mannequins and even they've improved immeasurably since that encounter. I don't see that changing this season, because even though Pep has now publicly acknowledged that we will concentrate on winning the 2nd phase ball (ie after the opposition have hoofed it downfield), we've assembled a group of attacking midfield players ill equipped for that purpose. Next season with a big powerful centre half (or two), a couple of mobile full backs and a Fernandinho clone all hopefully onboard (and Clichy, Sagna, Kolarov, Otamendi and Fernando, all heading for the exit), we might see a resurgence, but until then perhaps not so clever