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Yeah with safe standing at the back of the stand where it's proven to be the best place for songs to start and spread from. If only people saw that as a good opportunity for a vocal home end.

It's going to take time and it's going to need the right balance. Some players come back without a problem, others never fully recover. What concerns me, but I is probably entirely legitimate, is how often he says he's not feeling quite right. A big part of the recovery is trusting your body to...

Not something you want to see us do, but something you tend to need to do to win the CL because the opposition will happily stoop to those levels. It was something it took us a while to learn as a team and then we had that famous night in Madrid against Atletico where we just looked to...

So exciting to watch, you just expect something to happen. Minor criticism last night - should have played the pass to Haaland sooner than he did and ended up undercooking it. But scores a goal and just looks like he loves playing football for us. Has shown in a short space of time exactly what...

Critical tackles those, as we were completely losing momentum. Also liked the bollocking he dished out with the goal we did concede, where we just switched off.

I would expect us to get that confirmation at some point soon. My expectation is they'll try and incentivise existing ST holders to move in the NS and anyone else who wants to relocate can, the new ST/Flexis will then be wherever is available. Had 1894 been given the comfort they wanted from the...

It's a negative opinion though mate. It's looking at under 1,000 seats within an area holding about 12,000 and letting those negatives convince you it's not going to work. I said on the other thread a couple of weeks ago, if we were moving into the Etihad for the first time you'd get some...

I still think the NS is a chance to seize the opportunity. Don't worry about some of the negatives, the club have said they'd add more safe standing. Go there in numbers and it doesn't matter if there's GA+ in there you'll have 6,000 like minded fans making a racket. Maybe the club then re-think...

A big win, a largely excellent performance but still that period where we were under pressure and couldn't do anything to wrestle control back. I look at this team with the hope to see us back at the very top, winning the league or CL so whilst I'm being overly critical, it is alarming we have...

Superb tonight. One goal behind Gerrard in CL football with 20 overall. 10 behind Rooney. Shows how impressive Phil and City have been on the big stage.

We have made the final in seasons we have beaten Dortmund. Granted a small sample size but beat them tonight and we will win the competition is the illogical jump I'm willing to take.

I wonder if we will see Stones pushing into midfield again. It's helped us dominate the ball but think overall it's left us looking a bit vulnerable in transitions and we have had long spells in the second halves where we can't take control of the game. Hoping it's a traditional back 4...

Agreed. We can dominate a game but just can't defend the transitions. The way we play in attack seems reliant on a moment of brilliance from one of the wide players who then look for a ball across/back or a shot. We often lose the ball and leave ourselves short as a result. We've definitely...

Starting 11 today - Brits, Nfonkeu, Noble, Drake, Mfuni, Samba, Fapetu, Mukasa, Oboavwoduo, Sangare, Warhurst Subs - Hudson (GK), Vickery (GK), Courtman, Wain, Holt, Samba, Dunbar-McDonald, Lamb Young side with players released to play at the WC. UEFA seem to have it as Floyd Samba starting and...

It's a secondary route but not related to Europa League, it's related to the winners of the domestic U18 Championships or equivalent from what I can see. Villa are the English team involved and they won the U18 title last year.

Think it's been blown out of proportion though. It's a squad for the first test. If they need to freshen it up and bring new faces in they can. Makes sense to use the experience and try and get 3-0 up before bringing in younger guys to get some Ashes experience under their belts before their...

I think they play 6 games which mirror the CL main draw fixture, rather than 8 and then the top 22 are joined by 10 teams that follow the "Domestic Champions Route" to give the last 32. Europa teams don't come into it.

It would! What I've always said is that this is only good v evil if we're guilty. The PL can escape criticism quite easily if we're cleared because they just spin it as a great result in confirming the integrity of the competition and that they're happy with the result but based on evidence...

I've always taken the view that the announcement would be best suited to a much busier time of year rather than in an International break where there's fuck all else to talk about. Christmas is a busy period, the games come thick and fast and whilst it will inevitably make headlines there are...

I don't think it was an outstanding performance. I thought Real looked toothless at top and did a lot of what Villa did which is pass rather than go more direct. If you go direct against this dipper side they can't cope, and on the counter they're not the side they used to be. We will let them...