Hatchet Job

[kippaxblue76]

• This team is short of some steel, we were no pushovers when we had Lescott, Barry, Dejong, Tevez etc in the team, to soft and to nice for my liking.

 

[MCFC1993]

Hate to send another problem the managers way but its partly down to Pellegrini being too nice, doesn't pull the refs on it in the media enough. Personally thought Morgan should have been sent off in the first half yesterday, both challenges on Aguero were yellow cards, Simpson would have been lucky as well if we would have had a decent ref.

 

[1961_vintage]

Aguero was getting hammered early on, and Aguero is a very fair player. he goes in very hard for 50-50s sometimes a bit recklessly imo, but he's not a diver

The approach was clear. Stop the danger-man Aguero by kicking shit out of him, push the ref as far as possible without getting a red, pass the thug baton on to the next guy if the ref picks you up for it.

 

[Lomas has a lob on]

Oh to have good ole Nigel bite yer legs de Jong back!!

Yep and Barry, even now those 2 would get in our midfield. 2 guys who were excellent at the dirty stuff when we needed it.

 

[the talisman]

Yep and Barry, even now those 2 would get in our midfield. 2 guys who were excellent at the dirty stuff when we needed it.

There's no reason why Delph, Fernando and Fernandinho can't get a bit more nasty. I'd have them all together in the middle against dangerous teams and tell them to put it about more. We seem to have become a soft touch and teams are bullying us, something that's not really happened for a few years. If we could get Vinny and Mangala fit I'd love to see Ota in front of the defence in Nigel's old role.
A bit simplistic and childish I know, and will never happen under Manuel, but I think we need to harden up.