5 academy kids in the team last night

Citizen of Legoland said:
What, the fact that they have had an academy player in their ranks since Queen Victoria was a lass?

Could also be that their recruitment is wank and they keep having to plunder their youth team for players that aren’t quite ready because the senior players keep failing.

Just a thought;)
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Leave them to it. It's obviously working wonders for them.
 
TonyM said:
I like Savage. He's fair minded about City IMO.

The stuff about united was a bit over mentioned but the jest was they are miles behind us even though its an incredible fact that they have.
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He did actually fight our corner against that dick Dempsey later on when discussing our status as one of the favourites for the competition, if not the favourite. The utd academy stuff was a bit "wtf", though, considering it was a Citeh match.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Horrible commentary, and it's not just last night. We really are hated by the media.
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tbf the rags and dippers are their bread and butter, theyve been on free joly ups and getting paid for years to feed the idiots everything they want to hear and this is basically showing their whole profession is nothing more than a paid sham its no surprise they hate us.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Horrible commentary, and it's not just last night. We really are hated by the media.
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Truly horrendous last night.
I wasn't listening last night properly before kick off but did he say we had lost our last 3 Premier games?
Then we had john stones captaining city
Then we had massive long periods of silence (probably the best bits to be fair)
Then we had the debacle of why city were not his favourites. The fact he gave was that anything can happen in a semi final!

So go on who are your favourites then? Surely if anything can happen in a semi final it can happen to anyone....or did he actually mean liverpool were his favourites as they arenhis favourite team and was actually scared to say it?
Then we got no after game interviews.

Amazing
 
Blue Mist said:
Yes Mr Savage was quick to mention that it's been 4,364 games with a kid in the squad, even though it was City he was watching and 5 academy players at that.
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That 4,364 games stat is so distorted though. It's suggests they have a prodcution line of Academy players coming through season after season. All they had was a fluke in 1992 where 5 or 6 quality players came through in the same season, and some stayed their whole careers. Now, they just stick any old academy player on the bench, so they can keep it going. If it was 4.364 games since they had 5 academy players in the starting 11, then I'd be impressed.
 
goatinho said:
Truly horrendous last night.
I wasn't listening last night properly before kick off but did he say we had lost our last 3 Premier games?
Then we had john stones captaining city
Then we had massive long periods of silence (probably the best bits to be fair)
Then we had the debacle of why city were not his favourites. The fact he gave was that anything can happen in a semi final!

So go on who are your favourites then? Surely if anything can happen in a semi final it can happen to anyone....or did he actually mean liverpool were his favourites as they arenhis favourite team and was actually scared to say it?
Then we got no after game interviews.

Amazing
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Yes, they were talking in absolute fuckin riddles. Milan had chances and we rode our luck in the final was the jist..no mention of the shocking luck we'd had in the 5 years before that and the fact that teams always need an element of luck along the way. People only have to look at both them red bastards to understand that. Cunts!
 
Sky Blue Thinking said:
The number of times he mentioned them last night was ridiculous
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Especially the precise number of days since they last didn't field an academy player. Twat!
PS - I don't believe that stat for a second. I'm sure some on here have proved it to be an urban myth.
Sick and tired of commentary teams throwing in Rag references during our games.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Yes, they were talking in absolute fuckin riddles. Milan had chances and we rode our luck in the final was the jist..no mention of the shocking luck we'd had in the 5 years before that and the fact that teams always need an element of luck along the way. People only have to look at both them red bastards to understand that. Cunts!
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It was quite amusing to see dempsey try and worm his way out of calling us favourites, if we werent his favourites to win it all he had to to say was, well i think bayern or madrid are favourites to win it and back it up and he just couldnt do it so he just kept tripping over himself while trying not to acknowledge us, his best comment being that there was 2 english sides who could beat us over 2 legs, one of those sides isnt in it anymore and the other one hasnt been in the cl in nearly a decade.
 
mancboy said:
It was quite amusing to see dempsey try and worm his way out of calling us favourites, if we werent his favourites to win it all he had to to say was, well i think bayern or madrid are favourites to win it and back it up and he just couldnt do it so he just kept tripping over himself while trying not to acknowledge us, his best comment being that there was 2 english sides who could beat us over 2 legs, one of those sides isnt in it anymore and the other one hasnt been in the cl in nearly a decade.
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Yep! Spot on. It's almost as if he thinks he'll turn into dust if he says anything to big us up. Mind you, a pile of dust could do a better job than him.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Yes, they were talking in absolute fuckin riddles. Milan had chances and we rode our luck in the final was the jist..no mention of the shocking luck we'd had in the 5 years before that and the fact that teams always need an element of luck along the way. People only have to look at both them red bastards to understand that. Cunts!
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Lets look at the Rags champions league trophies.
  • Benfica - Eusebio clean through shoots straight at Stepney, game went to extra time.
  • Bayern - The Germans coasting to victory make substitutes because of an upcoming vtal league match -idiots.
  • Chelsea - John Terry slips whilst taking his penalty.
One win on penalties, one win in extra time, one win in injury time. All outstanding performances with the Rags in total control - DO ME A FAVOUR.
 
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goatinho said:
Truly horrendous last night.
I wasn't listening last night properly before kick off but did he say we had lost our last 3 Premier games?
Then we had john stones captaining city
Then we had massive long periods of silence (probably the best bits to be fair)
Then we had the debacle of why city were not his favourites. The fact he gave was that anything can happen in a semi final!

So go on who are your favourites then? Surely if anything can happen in a semi final it can happen to anyone....or did he actually mean liverpool were his favourites as they arenhis favourite team and was actually scared to say it?
Then we got no after game interviews.

Amazing
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He couldn't bring himself to talk about one of the best performances ever in a semi, last season's total destruction of the then reigning European Champions
 
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