City v Villa - post match

[Marvin]

Meh! You could leave the back 4 as it is and move Vinny back into midfield. We are getting overrun with Garcia there who is a disaster waiting to happen almost every game! We are back to where we were at the beginning of mancinis reign ( hard to beat but funereally slow ). The breathtaking football that we played at the beginning of last season is a distant memory now. Pace pace fucking pace.

The language and tone and attitude on this board is frequently appalling, and you are one of the regular offenders.
Bad language and bad taste and insulting behaviour in a public bar may be limited to a group of lads round a table, but here on the internet it is on computers in people’s homes, on computers shared by wives and children.

Obviously never been to a football match then! This is the language of the working class, the people who made football teams what the are and whom without the matchday experience would be a very mundane affair. Are you some kind of in internet policeman or something? Wives and children indeed! Get real.

garcia has been one of our best players this year. Deserves an automatic starting place this season. A souped up De Jong

 

[B\connellblue]

Meh! You could leave the back 4 as it is and move Vinny back into midfield. We are getting overrun with Garcia there who is a disaster waiting to happen almost every game! We are back to where we were at the beginning of mancinis reign ( hard to beat but funereally slow ). The breathtaking football that we played at the beginning of last season is a distant memory now. Pace pace fucking pace.

Whilst I agree with your point about us being back to where we were when Mancini first took over, I totally disgaree with you regarding Javi Garcia. The six consecutive clean sheets we kept at the start of 2013 were with him in the team over a run of games (arguably our six best performances of the season - minus the QPR game, but that was down to Nasri's re-installment to the wide role which meant Javi Garcia had to play makeshift centre-half), and it looks like he's slowly embedding himself in the team comfortably.

Yaya Toure, our most effective midfielder around this time of the season, took a few months to settle down and Javi Garcia looks like he's doing the same. He had a few poor games earlier on in the season, but even the man himself noticed it and put it down to his stop-start beginning to his life in Manchester because of injuries and adapting to the style of the league. Silva, Yaya, Javi Garcia, Dzeko and even Pablo Zabaleta all came from leagues where time on the ball is everything - in the Premier League this won't be the most prominent style until it is absolutely dominated by more technical players (this is something the FA are waking up to, at last) so until that day comes, players that enjoy patient football and time on the ball will have to learn to adapt.

He's certainly got more in his locker than De Jong did, we just haven't seen it yet. Javi Garcia has a reputation for being a tough tackler, and it's a little disappointing that he isn't yet the presence we all know he can be (if you've watched him for Benfica, where he's a cult hero in the way Sun Jihai, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ali Benarbia are for us) but the passing side of his game has more depth and is far more expansive that De Jong's ever was. I loved Nige and I was gutted when he left, but Garcia will eventually become an improvement - these things just take time.

I sincerely hope you're right, In time he may well adjust and prove me wrong but no amount of adjusting can compensate for his lack of pace and that for me would always be a worry. Rodwell looked for a brief moment like he could give us some extra thrust going forward unfortunately he is nigh on impossible to keep fit. A shame that.

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Meh! You could leave the back 4 as it is and move Vinny back into midfield. We are getting overrun with Garcia there who is a disaster waiting to happen almost every game! We are back to where we were at the beginning of mancinis reign ( hard to beat but funereally slow ). The breathtaking football that we played at the beginning of last season is a distant memory now. Pace pace fucking pace.

The language and tone and attitude on this board is frequently appalling, and you are one of the regular offenders.
Bad language and bad taste and insulting behaviour in a public bar may be limited to a group of lads round a table, but here on the internet it is on computers in people’s homes, on computers shared by wives and children.

whilst i agree with your sentiments in principal, it must be considered when entering this site that all persons signing up to use the board are over 13 years old.

I also draw your attention to point 18 of the CoC >>>

18. You visit Bluemoon at your own risk, and you will occasionally see things you find offensive, or insulting

may i also add that its the place of the moderation team to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable and ask you to report any threads you deem unacceptable and these will be dealt with by the moderation team

please dont start dictating to the board what is right and wrong

Indeed. I enjoy a good fucking and cünting every now and again.

 

[grim up north]

Are any of our detractors watching that durge on ITV. 2 best teams in the world serving up some dross, and some people have the nerve to have a go at City

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Are any of our detractors watching that durge on ITV. 2 best teams in the world serving up some dross, and some people have the nerve to have a go at City

I know that dross is 12 points ahead of us and both of them are playing in the CL.

 

[grim up north]

Are any of our detractors watching that durge on ITV. 2 best teams in the world serving up some dross, and some people have the nerve to have a go at City

I know that dross is 12 points ahead of us and both of them are playing in the CL.[/

Plus they have the best managers too

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Are any of our detractors watching that durge on ITV. 2 best teams in the world serving up some dross, and some people have the nerve to have a go at City

I know that dross is 12 points ahead of us and both of them are playing in the CL.[/

Plus they have the best managers too

yep

 

[MCFC BOB]

Meh! You could leave the back 4 as it is and move Vinny back into midfield. We are getting overrun with Garcia there who is a disaster waiting to happen almost every game! We are back to where we were at the beginning of mancinis reign ( hard to beat but funereally slow ). The breathtaking football that we played at the beginning of last season is a distant memory now. Pace pace fucking pace.

Whilst I agree with your point about us being back to where we were when Mancini first took over, I totally disgaree with you regarding Javi Garcia. The six consecutive clean sheets we kept at the start of 2013 were with him in the team over a run of games (arguably our six best performances of the season - minus the QPR game, but that was down to Nasri's re-installment to the wide role which meant Javi Garcia had to play makeshift centre-half), and it looks like he's slowly embedding himself in the team comfortably.

Yaya Toure, our most effective midfielder around this time of the season, took a few months to settle down and Javi Garcia looks like he's doing the same. He had a few poor games earlier on in the season, but even the man himself noticed it and put it down to his stop-start beginning to his life in Manchester because of injuries and adapting to the style of the league. Silva, Yaya, Javi Garcia, Dzeko and even Pablo Zabaleta all came from leagues where time on the ball is everything - in the Premier League this won't be the most prominent style until it is absolutely dominated by more technical players (this is something the FA are waking up to, at last) so until that day comes, players that enjoy patient football and time on the ball will have to learn to adapt.

He's certainly got more in his locker than De Jong did, we just haven't seen it yet. Javi Garcia has a reputation for being a tough tackler, and it's a little disappointing that he isn't yet the presence we all know he can be (if you've watched him for Benfica, where he's a cult hero in the way Sun Jihai, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ali Benarbia are for us) but the passing side of his game has more depth and is far more expansive that De Jong's ever was. I loved Nige and I was gutted when he left, but Garcia will eventually become an improvement - these things just take time.

I sincerely hope you're right, In time he may well adjust and prove me wrong but no amount of adjusting can compensate for his lack of pace and that for me would always be a worry. Rodwell looked for a brief moment like he could give us some extra thrust going forward unfortunately he is nigh on impossible to keep fit. A shame that.

Michael Carrick, Roy Keane, Nigel De Jong and Michael Essien are perfect examples of midfielders that were never very fast but still succeeded in the Premier League.

 

[Blackcrowes]

End of match video

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[robertsuki]

The language and tone and attitude on this board is frequently appalling, and you are one of the regular offenders.
Bad language and bad taste and insulting behaviour in a public bar may be limited to a group of lads round a table, but here on the internet it is on computers in people’s homes, on computers shared by wives and children.

Obviously never been to a football match then! This is the language of the working class, the people who made football teams what the are and whom without the matchday experience would be a very mundane affair. Are you some kind of in internet policeman or something? Wives and children indeed! Get real.

garcia has been one of our best players this year. Deserves an automatic starting place this season. A souped up De Jong

Which planet are you from?