West Brom Post Match Thread

Pardew's attempt to equate Dinho's at best clumsy, at worst nasty but never dangerous "stamp" with some of the horrendous hooligan tackles they were flying in with left a sour taste.

Didn't like the way Lineker tried to compare Silva's admittedly bad tackle with their tackles either. They weren't like for like - Silva's was 12 inches lower than the one on Diaz ffs.
 
Really good solid performance last night.

Pluses:
Zinchenko
Laporte
B Silva
Aguero
Gundogan

I love Sterling to bits and he's brilliant, if he wasn't so infuriatingly wasteful in front of goal, he would have 25 or more goals under his belt this season so far.

Diaz was brilliant in his cameo and showed no fear attacking their defence, he is definitely ready to stay on the bench and play the odd cup game for the rest of the season.

Can't wait for Saturday.
 
Diaz could turn out to be our secret weapon in Sane’s absence.
Bags of pace, full of tricks and not afraid to take players on. He is a pretty much unknown entity for teams playing us. Once the end product is sorted out he will be a real player.
I am certain Pep knows exactly how to manage the lad and but would be great to see him getting the nod at Burnley.
His, Zinchenko and Foden’s rise are excellent signs for the future.
 
Blue Hefner said:
I don't think that is right because if the ball had stayed in play, McLean could have ran up the other end, scored and then been sent off. This would put the ref in a very controversial positron

I am not claiming to be an authority on this, I just heard this a couple of years ago
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Neville Kneville said:
Yes, but we also need players like Zincheko, who is doing a great job, but for all we know, may never be good enough as a fullback, or a midfield player.

Doesn't matter, he is there now.

That's the secret the rags have had compared to City. Not creating 'stars' just creating squad players to help the first team.

They haven't found a 'star' for years. Well they found one, sold him & bought him back for 100 mil.
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He's no star mate, that showboating rag sells shirts and that's it. Wouldn't get anywhere near our first team
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Well we disagree about the past but agree about the present and both want the same for the future. It's going to be interesting to see whether the wider football world picks up on these kids as they develop, and starts to see our Academy as what it is: the best.

As an aside, they are still recruiting the real young ones very pro-actively indeed. And the progression of Diaz etc can only help the sales pitch. I manage a junior football team ad one of our lads has been given full Academy status recently, and I live in West Yorkshire. I've told this story before, but about a year ago my mate was walking his dog at the local high school, which has loads of pitches used by junior teams at the weekend. This was a Saturday morning. He came across a group of young lads with parents with football gear and asked them what they were doing. They were waiting for a bus to come from City to show them round the Academy. Now that's impressive. We have football clubs all over the region, many much closer, but City are getting the pick.
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This is happening, friends grandsons are in the city set up, aged 7 and 4 years. Go from Sheffield, get all the kit, showed around regularly and match tickets. Parents are very excited however there is about 400 in each age group.
 
There is no way they dare act on Fernandinho whilst letting those tackles go. They know there would be hell to pay as it would reveal the idiocy of the no retro action because of yellows but can do for less otherwise.

Think that has helped us by helping them smuggle that under the rug as usual by not having to highlight something else that would have exposed the stupidity of that yellow means you can kill someone and get away with it idea.

That surely will be a rule that gets changed in the Summer.

You cannot argue it means you re referee a game when a referee misjudged the incident live given that you have VAR already doing exactly that.
 
Burtonblue said:
Diaz could turn out to be our secret weapon in Sane’s absence.
Bags of pace, full of tricks and not afraid to take players on. He is a pretty much unknown entity for teams playing us. Once the end product is sorted out he will be a real player.
I am certain Pep knows exactly how to manage the lad and but would be great to see him getting the nod at Burnley.
His, Zinchenko and Foden’s rise are excellent signs for the future.
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I agree, and I'd play either Diaz or Zinchenko in Sane's place until he's back from injury. Not keen on Sterling on the left TBH.
 
It was heartwarming to hear pretty much the whole ground give Gareth Barry the ovation he deserved last night. We never really got a chance to say goodbye to him and I hope he knows how much he's loved by us for his role in our success. Love that picture of him running after Zaba as they celebrate the first goal against QPR
 
qatar blue said:
This is happening, friends grandsons are in the city set up, aged 7 and 4 years. Go from Sheffield, get all the kit, showed around regularly and match tickets. Parents are very excited however there is about 400 in each age group.
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Just to add to the conversation about how seriously City are taking the academy. I was talking to someone from West Yorkshire just before Christmas and he told me about a local lad that City have scouted and identified as worth training. The academy sends a coach from Manchester to West Yorkshire each evening to train this lad locally because he can't travel to Manchester because of his schooling. This has been going on for a good while now and since then they have recruited another 4 or 5 local lads into the group which the coach trains.
That is some commitment.
 
Pretty impressive to put in a performance as good as that, at this stage of the season, with so many injuries and players playing out of position. Not pretty impressive. Very impressive. Its not long ago that if one or more of Yaya, Dave, Vinnie or Kun were not available, we all had a meltdown.

Am more impressed every time I see Zinchenko play, everyone performed and if we were more clinical it could have been 5 or 6. Liked Brahims cameo as well. What can you say though about Kev. He must be the best midfield player in the world at the moment.
 
Dermot Gallagher believes Matt Phillips should have been sent off for his challenge on Diaz

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...or-spurs-against-man-utd-have-been-disallowed

Incident: Matt Phillips only saw yellow for this challenge on Brahim Diaz, but was it a red card?



Dermot's verdict: Wrong decision, red card

Dermot says: If the referee [Robert Madley] has the view we have here, he will send him off every day of the week because it is high, late, at speed and likely to endanger the safety of an opponent. But if you go back to the original shot, what you will see is that the only justification for not giving that is Gareth Barry is immediately between the referee and the incident and he does not have a clear view of it. All he sees is the outcome of it, rather than the actual occurrence itself.
 
I think my favorite part of the matchday thread was the people already settling for a draw only fifteen minutes in. I used to be called out for being negative but it takes a special person to find fault with this team.
 
SebastianBlue said:
Dermot Gallagher believes Matt Phillips should have been sent off for his challenge on Diaz

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...or-spurs-against-man-utd-have-been-disallowed

Incident: Matt Phillips only saw yellow for this challenge on Brahim Diaz, but was it a red card?



Dermot's verdict: Wrong decision, red card

Dermot says: If the referee [Robert Madley] has the view we have here, he will send him off every day of the week because it is high, late, at speed and likely to endanger the safety of an opponent. But if you go back to the original shot, what you will see is that the only justification for not giving that is Gareth Barry is immediately between the referee and the incident and he does not have a clear view of it. All he sees is the outcome of it, rather than the actual occurrence itself.
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If all he saw was the outcome, then it shouldn't have been a yellow, as how did he know Diaz wasn't play acting? Refs must guess at half the decisions they make......oh, sorry, not guess, make a judgement call based on their prejudices.
 
malg said:
If all he saw was the outcome, then it shouldn't have been a yellow, as how did he know Diaz wasn't play acting? Refs must guess at half the decisions they make......oh, sorry, not guess, make a judgement call based on their prejudices.
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Boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
 
buckshot said:
I think my favorite part of the matchday thread was the people already settling for a draw only fifteen minutes in. I used to be called out for being negative but it takes a special person to find fault with this team.
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Who “settled for a draw”?!?!?

I think this was the most comfortable home game of the season. Most games these days all I care really about is “can we score or can they hold out?” Last night I had no doubts from the off. They barely got in our half and looked vulnerable, whilst we looked bang at it.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Who “settled for a draw”?!?!?

I think this was the most comfortable home game of the season. Most games these days all I care really about is “can we score or can they hold out?” Last night I had no doubts from the off. They barely got in our half and looked vulnerable, whilst we looked bang at it.
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Exactly. But there will always be those who go into panic mode if City haven't scored in the first five minutes. Parking the bus is almost always a bad idea, sooner or later City will pick that lock.
 
Because no refs are sending off the scumbags trying to cripple our players, players are launching into us without fear of a red card. It’s worse than a disgrace. I can't quite find the right words to describe the assaults on our players. Because Kevin scored after McLean's attempted assault failed, it was shown several times on the screens. Manure fan Madley daren't have looked. We were talking on here about McLean a week ago - we knew what he'd attempt to do.
 
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