FA Cup 5th Round Draw (against Chelsea Home)

[Damocles]

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Too much old City thinking going on here for me.

This is what its all about guys. Its what we have invested heavily in for.

If we beat both Barca and Chelsea I will agree with you, fella, but at this stage I'm gutted that it weakens us for the Barca game.

I really fancy us for that one. Im not of the "it's just an honour to play them" mindset. I want to lay down a marker

Absolutely right.

I want to win trophies, I'm not interested in prestige games that will garner loads of media, I want to win every game, every Cup and every league possible.

The odds of doing this are heavily reduced if we play easier teams than hard teams. I can't believe some people are arguing about this.

No winning mentality some people, all about the entertainment

 

[zandvoort blue]

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho on drawing Manchester City away in the last-16 of the FA Cup: "No problem. If you want to be the best then you have to play the best, so it's good for us. One team is the end product. One team needs to improve and has a long way to go."

End product, the cheeky fucker?

Pellers has been here the same time he's been at Chelsea, we've only just started.

End product.......pffft

He's hardly going to come out and say 'Oh fuck not City', is he?

Kinnell......if we need to improve then there will be no stopping us.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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It will be Saturday as we play on the Wednesday great draw IMO

How on earth is it a great draw? It could only be worse if it was away.

Scunthorpe home is a great draw, not bloody Chelsea.

Bollocks! Hopefully the players and manager don't have this pathetic attitude!

The manager is sensible so he will of course wanted a poor team. This isn't rocket science, it's simple logic.

The only people who want hard cup draws are the chairmen of skint lower league teams.

 

[Number 1 is Colin Bell]

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Jesus Christ, what a shit draw. At least it's home. Getting a Friday game would be superb. Can't see it though. It's a tie with a big audience potential so they'll want the best time for it. Sunday would be an unmitigated disaster.

Hard to call which game we prioritise, if any, this or Barca. My gut tells me Barca.

Both mate. We have the squad to cope. We have the mentality to cope. There will be no tiredness in the players when it comes to games of this magnitude.

yeah dont think tiredness will be factor just let them go easy in training in-between, just injuries would be the problem,
4-5-1 v Sunderland

MF
Milner.....Fern.....Garcia......Kolarov..
.....................Jov.....................
...........................Dzeko...........

and release the lot of them on Chelsea and Barca

Yes exactly - the Sunderland game is the one where we have to sacrifice a few of our best players - could sit them on the bench though if it all starts to go pear-shaped like yesterday. Only bring them on if really necessary. Our decent squad is only 15 or 16 players - use them wisely barring injury or suspension of course.Who knows what might happen to Chelsea between now and then?

 

[Danamy]

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho on drawing Manchester City away in the last-16 of the FA Cup: "No problem. If you want to be the best then you have to play the best, so it's good for us. One team is the end product. One team needs to improve and has a long way to go."

End product, the cheeky fucker?

Pellers has been here the same time he's been at Chelsea, we've only just started.

End product.......pffft

He's hardly going to come out and say 'Oh fuck not City', is he?

You're not getting my point are you?

He's stating that we're the end product (finished article) yet Pellers has only been at City the same time as he's been at Chelsea, how does that work?

He thinks Chelsea is still work in progress, if that's the case, so are we?

 

[toffee balls]

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"Poor draw "
"Bad timing

What the fook are some of you on.
ffs man up you soft twats.

Would you have preferred to get beat yesterday and get a well earned rest , like the rags.

We are competing on 4 fronts , what the hell did you expect.

This place is fuckin mental sometimes... Jesus H Navas

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

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Christ there's some serious amount of knicker wetting on here. Chelsea also have a Champions league game that week.

 

[adrianr]

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Raising your game only gets you so far. There is such a thing as getting tired. Like Dave said the only way that could have been worse is if it had been away. Going to have them kicking ten bells out of us no doubt too.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

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How on earth is it a great draw? It could only be worse if it was away.

Scunthorpe home is a great draw, not bloody Chelsea.

Because, as alluded to by others earlier, we're a big game team, we find a way in these games, the momentum from beating those 2 and the psychology it will breed is unmeasurable, I for one would rather go out that way, should we fall short, than pissing and moaning about it, it also follows MP's ethos to the letter, shit or bust

Let's have it

Hell yeah.. sendin cheesy high 5 at ya bro' ;)

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[Alex - City Matters]

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If you want to be the best, you've got beat the best. Beat Chelsea and we should have some good momentum for the Barça game.