The tactical timeout from Donnarumma

Father Paul said:
Shower your head Peter. I dont really care about Arsenal they have been cunts since before I was a child. I care about our club, who we are, and what we stand for.

We have been correctly called out, for employing in a blatent and obvious manner, a scam aimed at gaining an advantage. That is my concern not any perceived double standards on behalf of so called journalists.

Bye the way rule changes are probably needed and I believe would be generally welcomed.
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Fly away Paul,..fair play for rising above it then.For me personally,the double standards make me f’kin sick,along with the constant bad mouthing of our club.I’m not gonna lose any sleep over the keeper giving them some back over the weekend.
 
Now we’ve done it, I’m quite partial to a mid-game time-out, allowing me to go and sink a pint while we wait for the manager to give a team talk.

All for it, might even get a chaser in if the Pep makes more of it ;-)
 
Father Paul said:
Lets not take away from the event. Personally I am deeply unhappy that because of the shambolic nature of the defence in front of him our goalkeeper had to resort to this kind of activity. The fact that Arsenal and others have been using this tactic and that the response appears to be an over reaction should not deflect from this reality. I don't know if there is an agenda against our club but I do know that we let ourselves down badly last Saturday.
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But what did we do, exactly? Farke gathered his players around him as did Pep, so he obviously wasn’t as bothered about ‘stretching the rules’ as he claimed. Also, they were 2-1 down when the players nipped off and were soon back to 2-2, so what advantage do you think we got with that manoeuvre?
Finally, of course, if Leeds didn’t take a minute over throw-ins, a minute over goal kicks, 2 minutes over free kicks, and had not used the ‘time-out’ themselves, he might have more of a case. Truth is, he fucked up a great chance to get a point (perhaps even 3). He’s under huge pressure at that basket case of a club and his deflection on to Donna and Pep appears to have left him unaccountable for his shambolic first half, when they could have been 5 down and then his failure to grasp the nettle when we were floundering somewhat in the second half. Hope he gets sacked and they get relegated again.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
But what did we do, exactly? Farke gathered his players around him as did Pep, so he obviously wasn’t as bothered about ‘stretching the rules’ as he claimed. Also, they were 2-1 down when the players nipped off and were soon back to 2-2, so what advantage do you think we got with that manoeuvre?
Finally, of course, if Leeds didn’t take a minute over throw-ins, a minute over goal kicks, 2 minutes over free kicks, and had not used the ‘time-out’ themselves, he might have more of a case. Truth is, he fucked up a great chance to get a point (perhaps even 3). He’s under huge pressure at that basket case of a club and his deflection on to Donna and Pep appears to have left him unaccountable for his shambolic first half, when they could have been 5 down and then his failure to grasp the nettle when we were floundering somewhat in the second half. Hope he gets sacked and they get relegated again.
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We’re just not very subtle about these things. It’s why Ederson and Gigi get more cards than they should.

That being said, the fallout has been silly.

All clubs stretch the rules to gain marginal advantages.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
We’re just not very subtle about these things. It’s why Ederson and Gigi get more cards than they should.

That being said, the fallout has been silly.

All clubs stretch the rules to gain marginal advantages.
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I get that, but I’m yet to see/read anything that suggests we got any advantage, whatsoever.
 
Leeds complaining about this is just hilarious.

Leeds come out a bit differently out of the half and so I guess that's why we did it. It's not a big deal. Ask any of the players and see if they remember anything that was said. Pep's said it before...the instructions he gives are more for him than anyone else.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Now we’ve done it, I’m quite partial to a mid-game time-out, allowing me to go and sink a pint while we wait for the manager to give a team talk.

All for it, might even get a chaser in if the Pep makes more of it ;-)
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Based on the media frenzy and resulting moves for a rule change, the best thing city can do to help our chances of silverware this season isn't to sign a new player or come up with some tactical wonder, it's to score from a corner whilst blocking the opposition keeper and pulling shirts. Would take 25-30 goals off arsenal per season.

If I were Donnarumma I'd be calling out Farke for his lack of professionalism and respect towards an opposition player. Maybe he did go down tactically, but maybe he didn't. Leeds scored after it anyway. Farke will be out of a job by the time we play then again regardless of whether a keeper goes down against them again this season.

If it's such a problem, call it out wherever you see it, not just because you lost. Keepers always go down after making a save in the final few minutes of a game. They'll belly flop to the floor before slowly getting up, to delay the count to release the ball. You'd have more luck stopping that play as it's obviously time wasting, rather than going after one team because their keeper asked for the physio.

I'll be honest. I thought it was smart to slow the game down and we did improve after it, the gvardiol penalty being as much a slip as anything. And the reason I feel like that is because you can't let it go on for a few seasons and become commonplace, only to scream blue murder when your opponent uses it to their advantage. The general level of playacting and fakery in premier league football is very high in every game. Players pushed in the chest go down holding their faces. Players initiating contact with an opponent and then throwing themselves to the ground, also know as the Mo Salah Shuffle. Others claiming a foul and writhing in agony, before impersonating zombie jesus at Easter and rushing back to finish off the move once their team regains possession. Stamp that out. Maybe then I'll give a toss about Donnarumma going down and both teams taking the opportunity to take on electrolytes and talk tactics.

Lewis Skally literally got carded for jogging right up to behind the goal as a sub and telling Raya to go down for arsenal. If it wasn't stamped out then, then unfortunately it's fair game for anyone. To accuse us if it, no matter what it looks like, given the fact city very rarely have a keeper go down injured, is misguided misdirection in full effect. Did we send a sub halfway round the ground with a coded message like double-o dickhead? Nope.

Why chance a headline of Farke Fails Again when you can just accuse the opposition of cheating, without any apparent consequences?

So please, go ahead and change rules. Allow the referee to instruct the keeper is subbed if he calls for medical attention more than twice in a game. Won't affect city as much as others, and wouldn't have changed the result at weekend or stoped Gigi going down. Because there's an overruling need to take care of player welfare. Unless Farke can prove Donnarumma wasn't injured, he should keep his chubby gob shut and get on with relegating Leeds.
 
Phil1 said:
Should have been stamped out when it became obvious Arsenal were using it as a tactic over the last couple of seasons.
It’s fucking small time, and that goes for whichever team is doing it.
I’d rather we get the half time talk right as opposed to slipping Prozac into tge players brews which we seem to be doing judging on the second half performances we’ve seen in recent times.
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Couldn't agree more, don't want to see it including from us.
 
More importantly, what was so important that Pep needed to tell the players? "Pass sideways more! Don't shoot on sight! Should I put Savio on?"

Edit - obviously a joke, but anyone cries
 
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It‘s a shithouse trick, and criticism is deserved.
Of course there‘s an unevenness in how it is being spoken about now we‘ve done it. But that‘s hardly a surprise.
 
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