You could see Mourinho's eyes light up

[Shaelumstash]

Ha ha. You don't give up, do you?

I'm off away for a wedding now and going straight on to the game. I won't be on the forum until Monday but then I'll have my pc.

Here's a deal. I'll draw up on my pc where every player played in the game, including all subs.

In the meantime id like to see your background in the game to back up your repeated jibes about me knowing nothing about the game.

That's a fair deal and should be final word from each of us. Deal?

I've never "coached professionally" as you repeatidly claim. Dave Bassett has coached professionally in the top flight but it doesn't mean I respect his opinion on analysing modern football matches.

You could have a doctorate in football tactics and be Johan Cruyff's mentor but it wouldn't make you right about Tuesday. You weren't there. You're basing your opinion on Andy Townhend's commentary and Zaba's hand signals.

I'm basing my argument on the shape we played because I was there and I saw it. If you want some "experts" to back up my argument, your guru at Zonal Marking backs up exactly what I've said, David Platt actually said we changed shape when Kolarov came on.

Incidentally, Platt also said last week that last season we used 3 centre halves as a defensive tactic, and we can also use it as an offensive tactic, we have the ability to use the shape two different ways to suit us.

This was another point I explained to you on another thread which you refused to accept because it wasn't in your manual. Alex Fergurson has got no coaching qualifications and AVB has got a cabinet full of them. Some people just get it, and some people don't.

 

[mancity1]

It was one of those of games.

Based on possession , shots on goal , shots on target and the general tempo etc we didn't deserve anything from the game even though we by and large restricted Real to shots from reasonable distance.

Its the fact we let in two goals in the last 4 minutes before injury time that make it hard to swallow although no matter how we lose I am always disappointed when we do.

We didn't play smart football after taking the lead and we got punished for it.

Good sides always know they are never beaten no matter the situation.

Defensively we are very rusty at present and I put this partly due to changing the back four from game to game combined with the fact that Kompany is missing his sureness of last season.

I always believed this year would be harder for us to win the title even though its highly likely the points will be spread amongst more teams this year.

Arsenal are getting us at a good time this year and I do actually fear our fantastic run at home may well come to an end.

Things can change quickly even at the top end and its getting tougher to keep that consistency of performance week in week out.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Dear Dismal,
Please view the first 2 minutes of Mancini's Dortmund presser on the official website. He say's, and I quote:
"We played very well second half, when we went to 2-1, we dropped too deep and gave too much space for all their players, and if you give this space to Ronaldo and Benzema you take some risk, this."

Now I know you "coached professionally" but so does Mancini, and he was the man in charge of this team, so is he a qualified enough source for you to back up my argument that we dropped too deep after we scored the second?

Maybe Andy Townshend said something different on the ITV commentary, or Zabba gave you some secret hand signal that will disprove me?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Dear Dismal,
Please view the first 2 minutes of Mancini's Dortmund presser on the official website. He say's, and I quote:
"We played very well second half, when we went to 2-1, we dropped too deep and gave too much space for all their players, and if you give this space to Ronaldo and Benzema you take some risk, this."

Now I know you "coached professionally" but so does Mancini, and he was the man in charge of this team, so is he a qualified enough source for you to back up my argument that we dropped too deep after we scored the second?

Maybe Andy Townshend said something different on the ITV commentary, or Zabba gave you some secret hand signal that will disprove me?

Hahahahaha. Oh my giddy aunt. You appear rather obsessed in your search to prove me wrong, pal, particularly 2 weeks after anyone cares.

We went to 352. Just deal with it and stop clutching at straws. The fact that we dropped deep it irrelevant. The good news is that hopefully the manager is getting wise to it after it failed again against Villa. How many formations was it in that game? 4 or 5?

No further posts from me on this one, it's old news and there are far more relevant subjects now. And you have become a stalker.

 

[taconinja]

It's not stalking when you lie, Dave. That's what this really boils down to in the end. You lied. You're the one that ran away from the thread promising to return and list where every player and sub played.

You didn't. Now when someone brings back the thread because while deriding any whom dares to disagree, you didn't actually answer the questions.

It's a real shame watching someone become so bitter about a pit of nastiness they dug themselves that a once decent contributor to the site is nothing more than the equivalent of the lowest ragcafe poster. All you do now is troll hoping to get someone to violate the CoC and barge into thread after thread sneering about how inferior all other City fans are. Seriously, if you're this unhappy associating with the board members, why are you here? I mean from all appearances, you're only here now at this point to mock people because you think you're better than them.

 

[Shaelumstash]

It's not stalking when you lie, Dave. That's what this really boils down to in the end. You lied. You're the one that ran away from the thread promising to return and list where every player and sub played.

You didn't. Now when someone brings back the thread because while deriding any whom dares to disagree, you didn't actually answer the questions.

It's a real shame watching someone become so bitter about a pit of nastiness they dug themselves that a once decent contributor to the site is nothing more than the equivalent of the lowest ragcafe poster. All you do now is troll hoping to get someone to violate the CoC and barge into thread after thread sneering about how inferior all other City fans are. Seriously, if you're this unhappy associating with the board members, why are you here? I mean from all appearances, you're only here now at this point to mock people because you think you're better than them.

Great post mate, I've been destroying the Dismal Dave myth (that he created in his own head) that he knows what he's talking about, for some time. He gets it wrong so often, particularly on Mancini, on team shape and tactics, and always blindly shouts he is right, with his fingers in his ears. He is becoming a parody of himself, and needs to take a step back before he turns in to Bluemoon's Axl Rose.

 

[Ragnarok]

It's not stalking when you lie, Dave. That's what this really boils down to in the end. You lied. You're the one that ran away from the thread promising to return and list where every player and sub played.

You didn't. Now when someone brings back the thread because while deriding any whom dares to disagree, you didn't actually answer the questions.

It's a real shame watching someone become so bitter about a pit of nastiness they dug themselves that a once decent contributor to the site is nothing more than the equivalent of the lowest ragcafe poster. All you do now is troll hoping to get someone to violate the CoC and barge into thread after thread sneering about how inferior all other City fans are. Seriously, if you're this unhappy associating with the board members, why are you here? I mean from all appearances, you're only here now at this point to mock people because you think you're better than them.

Dave is just a deluded old man with a superiority complex. Just ignore him