Gamble92

They're not putting VAR on for matches in a division where the TV company can't even be arsed to send a second commentator

There's absolutely not excuse for not creating anything against this bag of shit

Can I have £10 on him not making it

I think having no stand names after a year or so was really telling of how little they gave a shit about any identity. Marks Electrical Family Stand replacing the Lineker Stand and then just generic west and east stands. Really shit. Was there any attempt to get everyone to sit in one particular stand when the stadium was first opening? Or was it just let's go L block?

I know we all joke about the family stand and kop swap but I'd love to have been there when the morons who decided on having the layout we did. It's like everything was done to make everything as generic and soulless as possible. I felt like we clawed all that back with the Premier League and Champions League seasons but it's gone back to how it was.

Who do we think the 4 foot something Top could take in a fight? That woman who shouts proooooogrammmesssss maybe?

Not yet but Birmingham got about that by looks of it.

4500 and kick off change, I reckon it'll go quite far down

That's on on Sundays Apparently

He's right to make the comparison when there's countless posts writing off the lads career

I always assumed poor attitude and trying to force a move in pre season as the reason Enzo hasn't played him. If it's just football reasons then I find it a strange one. It's quite obvious how much he can give us in this division. I still think there's a top player there.

On a side note, has anyone had a Big Mac that is anything other than stone cold at that new McDonald's?

Oh god yeah. Sven's last game. Stop doing this to me. I'll need therapy

League one even. Remember it well.

Where do you want your statue Marc Albrighton?

Make this the period now where we pull away and we are on our way back

This is far more "risk and reward" than just keeping the ball at the back and not knowing what to do with it. This is also much more how I imagined the Championship to be for us

Than the opposition this season he is. Dances round them. Admittedly looking like a mix between Ronaldo and Peter Crouch

Ndidi benefits massively from playing so far above this level for years that he's just so ahead of anyone technically, instinctively and even going forward. But his decision making and finishing will never be what we need in that position. He's been class this season and we miss him when he's not in there but I don't think we'll miss him for the Premier League.

Daka will get a lot of shit but his off the ball movement is exactly what's been lacking in these kind of games for us

Can't remember the last time I seen a decent one. The one we used to do under Pearson was more like something you'd expect to see at Twickenham

Don't let positive stats get in the way of the doom and gloom of Foxestalk posters

Yeah Man City aren't a great watch sometimes at all. I don't think that gets said enough because of the Pep love in. I just wish there was more obvious examples of it being the system getting us the results. Some will reply the table is the proof but we are just that far ahead man for man and the amount of games where we have just taken our chances and the other team haven't taken (often better ones) has proved that. You can't hand on heart say games like Coventry, Rotherham, Cardiff etc are because of a tactical masterclass. I also don't see any examples so far that when we play so called better teams who come at us more that we suddenly start utilising that way of drawing players out and playing through them. We were clueless against Leeds. That's exactly where I'd expect the months of playing like this to come to fruition. No one can tell me the Southampton game, that was just full of errors and us counter attacking, was an example of it either.

Just the amount of time we spend with the ball at the back is obviously also based on the theory that the opposing team don't have the ball for even more phases. If we played a more traditional style we'd obviously lose the ball a lot more. It's built on statistics but it evidently isn't pleasing on the eye unless you have world class players going forward like Pep does. Yet again, it's not a criticism. I don't see why we have such a black and white way of debating on here. It's like because I've said I think it's something that isn't spoken about enough that I'm slating Maresca. I do think we could do a lot more to create chances more frequently with this team and I do think another way of playing would be even more suited to us in games like the really poor teams at the bottom and the top teams. Against the middle of the road teams I think this tactic is perfect. If not entertaining to watch at times.

It's supposed to be that but any time we score is rarely because we've made anyone come out to him and we have played round them. It's come mainly from other teams having the ball and deciding to come at us and us breaking with pace. Against Sheffield Wednesday there was even one move where they did exactly that to us. Held the ball at centre back and played all the way through us. We didn't manage that once all night.