Kompany Returns from Injury

Nightmare Walking said:
The manager announces that our main man, our rock at the back is fit and ready to go. Instead of seeing it as a major boost to morale, the members of Bluemoon moan between themselves and try to find every negative possible about our captains return.
Lets look forward with optimism blues. Whens the last time we had the entire spine of our team fit and together?
We owe Spurs one. They got extremely lucky against us at WHL. We were by far the better team till every dodgy decision and deflection went their way.
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'Bluemoan'
 
SWP's back said:
Tell me why it's a good practice?

Also explain to me why Ferguson thought otherwise. You say he drank wine before a game which was just as likely to have a positive effect on his team. Do you believe that?
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It's a good practice, coz its informative. Fans, and the press want information. This gives it to them. Not to mention it a long standing tradition.

Ferguson at some point or the
Other mighf have tot he gained an advantage from being a tosser, but for the most part, even Ferguson just gave honest injury reports. Contrary to the fable.

As for the comparison to drinking. I was making an hyperbolic point. That just because he did both, doesn't mean they have a special effect. We know drinking didn't. More so than not, neither did fudging on injuries.
 
Dax777 said:
It's a good practice, coz its informative. Fans, and the press want information. This gives it to them. Not to mention it a long standing tradition.

Ferguson at some point or the
Other mighf have tot he gained an advantage from being a tosser, but for the most part, even Ferguson just gave honest injury reports. Contrary to the fable.

As for the comparison to drinking. I was making an hyperbolic point. That just because he did both, doesn't mean they have a special effect. We know drinking didn't. More so than not, neither did fudging on injuries.
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Keeping your opponent guessing is a tried and tested method
Pellegrini has not done this today given the personnel at his disposal and his previous modus operandi
Spurs will know what to expect
 
Strange, thought I'd login and see a lot happy people excitedly looking forward to our best centre back being fit again. Nope, stupid me. Haha. Only on Bluemoon.
 
bugsyblue said:
Strange, thought I'd login and see a lot happy people excitedly looking forward to our best centre back being fit again. Nope, stupid me. Haha. Only on Bluemoon.
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It's undoubtedly good news but i think firstly there's scepticism in terms of how long he will last before he's injured again and secondly Kompany isn't the messiah, our problems go a lot deeper than just missing Kompany.
 
Thank fuck for that. The lack of his leadership has been significant. There's absolutely no doubt that his absence has cost us 6 points at least. Fingers crossed on his full availability for the rest of the season.
 
He along with Aguero gives us the real fear factor which so many of our players have failed to do this season. If Kompany is in the starting 11 come sunday at 3:15 then spurs wont be quite as confident as they would have been if he was on the bench.
 
Fantastic news. Would be wonderful if he could play 70 mins or so on Sunday.

As for announcing the global injury situation 48 hours ahead of the game, I can see no advantage to us whatsoever. Useful for the opposition though.
 
Fantastic news. If he's fit then play him, he can't get match fit not playing! And this game on Sunday is a must win IMO, so having your skipper back with all the calming effects he has on the team, can only be a positive. "VK - the new soothing balm for all your teams' aches and pains".
 
Dax777 said:
Lol. You truly don't believe that do you? As for how Kane will play. Exactly as he always does.
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Kane may play as he usually does, i.e to his strengths of stretching play and occupying deeper roles and running onto the ball etc.

But to disagree with Tolms bolded partbis madness. Coaches get ready for a game with one of their team accurate tactical reports of their opponents systems. Strengths, weakness, possible subs and go to men etc. Do fullbacks overlap, does a CB run from deep cunningly as he has no marker etc. For set pieces you look for fundamentals, man mark or zonal etc, then you look at who goes where typically, do they have a small man on a post, if so get a big man to attack that area etc.

This is why Pep is so acclaimed, his reports (same as Jose tbh) are what sets him apart from the 99%. Predicting an opponents move before they make it is what football is now about. We are decadedls behind the chess tacticians of Serie A but this league is getting tougher with the influx of foreign managers.
 
NipHolmes said:
Kane may play as he usually does, i.e to his strengths of stretching play and occupying deeper roles and running onto the ball etc.

But to disagree with Tolms bolded partbis madness. Coaches get ready for a game with one of their team accurate tactical reports of their opponents systems. Strengths, weakness, possible subs and go to men etc. Do fullbacks overlap, does a CB run from deep cunningly as he has no marker etc. For set pieces you look for fundamentals, man mark or zonal etc, then you look at who goes where typically, do they have a small man on a post, if so get a big man to attack that area etc.

This is why Pep is so acclaimed, his reports (same as Jose tbh) are what sets him apart from the 99%. Predicting an opponents move before they make it is what football is now about. We are decadedls behind the chess tacticians of Serie A but this league is getting tougher with the influx of foreign managers.
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Why that needs explaining to anyone amazes me......however,as Dax obviously does,thank you for making the effort of doing so.
 
karen7 said:
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City_Sean said:
"Senilegrini"

Give your head a wobble you fucking clown
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tonea2003 said:
Keeping your opponent guessing is a tried and tested method
Pellegrini has not done this today given the personnel at his disposal and his previous modus operandi
Spurs will know what to expect
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So how will that change anything they're planning to do?

In this case I think the need to raise some of the unremitting gloom and despondency hanging over City this week makes it a reasonable call. The core message from Pellegrini's conference ie that when we have our core of Hart, Kompany, Yaya, Silva and Aguero available we're actually a decent team and will not be quaking in our boots when the mighty, all conquering Tottenham take to the field perhaps needed making.
 
cibaman said:
So how will that change anything they're planning to do?

In this case I think the need to raise some of the unremitting gloom and despondency hanging over City this week makes it a reasonable call. The core message from Pellegrini's conference ie that when we have our core of Hart, Kompany, Yaya, Silva and Aguero available we're actually a decent team and will not be quaking in our boots when the mighty, all conquering Tottenham take to the field perhaps needed making.
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just feel with the injuries we have the team picks itself, and could have kept spurs guessing on silva, that's all really
 
Dax777 said:
Yes, I get what Kompany is. And having bhim might improve us on defense, but it wouldn't change how teams run set plays. Huth would have done the same thing he did. You could argue Kompany might have had a better chance of stopping him, but that's a different claim entirely.
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Might? Seriously?
 
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