The trouble is we will need to spend more than £200k !!!Talking point....
Clearly were are now getting to the point where we are down to the hard core fans who will go whatever the results / division we are in.
My question is, if you knew the money would go to MR to strengthen in Jan, would you pay an additional amount on top of your ST / entrance fee, if it was guaranteed to MR to enable us to push on ?
We have 6 homes games left in 2017. An additional £5 per game from 7000 people would be over £200k to spend on a player in Jan.
Yep. If guaranteed.Talking point....
Clearly were are now getting to the point where we are down to the hard core fans who will go whatever the results / division we are in.
My question is, if you knew the money was guaranteed to go to MR to strengthen in Jan, would you pay an additional amount on top of your ST / entrance fee to enable us to push on ?
We have 6 homes games left in 2017. An additional £5 per fan per game from 7000 people would be over £200k to spend on a player in Jan.
You'd be hard pressed.Could I pay more to not have to sit near people who don't seem to know what they are talking about?
You'd be hard pressed.
When they went down to 10 men lots of City fans were screaming for us to just get it forwards, but we were doing exactly the right thing, passing it around, probing and trying to find gaps.
Just lumping it forwards would have done absolutely no good whatsoever as they still had their giant centre backs moping everything up.
When a team goes down to 10 you try to break them down and make the extra man count, not just go lumping it forwards.
You try telling that though to most of the people sitting round by me.
Personally, I would have swapped McNulty for Pontichelli, bringing the lad on the moment they went down to 10 men.It's the Ponticelli stuff that baffles me, like he was suddenly going to start out jumping their big defenders or take on every player and put it top corner.
Robins needs to work on the system and the players he has.
You'd be hard pressed.
When they went down to 10 men lots of City fans were screaming for us to just get it forwards, but we were doing exactly the right thing, passing it around, probing and trying to find gaps.
Just lumping it forwards would have done absolutely no good whatsoever as they still had their giant centre backs moping everything up.
When a team goes down to 10 you try to break them down and make the extra man count, not just go lumping it forwards.
You try telling that though to most of the people sitting round by me.
I think we need to differentiate here. "Get forward" or "Forward" can mean players not the ball.You'd be hard pressed.
When they went down to 10 men lots of City fans were screaming for us to just get it forwards, but we were doing exactly the right thing, passing it around, probing and trying to find gaps.
Just lumping it forwards would have done absolutely no good whatsoever as they still had their giant centre backs moping everything up.
When a team goes down to 10 you try to break them down and make the extra man count, not just go lumping it forwards.
You try telling that though to most of the people sitting round by me.
People round me were definitely talking about getting IT forwards. They wanted the ball forwards.I think we need to differentiate here. "Get forward" or "Forward" can mean players not the ball.
Even when they went down to 10 and we had the ball they often had 9 players behind the ball and we had only 4 or 5. At that point I was shouting, "get forward" meaning players not hoofing the ball. The simple fact is when we lost JJ we only had Haynes who was willing to run with the ball. It is very difficult to pass a ball around a wall of 9 defenders unless you do so with pace and precision. We needed players making intelligent runs and teammates with the vision and precision to pick them out.
People round me were definitely talking about getting IT forwards. They wanted the ball forwards.
We played in the correct manner when they went a man down . Our application though was poor. You pass the ball around and probe and we were doing that, but just weren't getting the ball into the right areas when we got near their box.
What I am talking about was when we had the ball in the middle of the park and were switching it left to right and back again trying to take advantage of the gaps.
'Getting it forwards' at that point would have had to meant lumping it long.
We did keep switching the play from wing to wing trying to take advantage of gaps, so that was the right thing to do, but we then just didn't get the ball into the dangerous areas once we got closer to the box.It depends if you meant the players did, the system was certainly wrong when they went down to 10. As soon as Robins didn't do anything the ref should have just blown for full time.
We did keep switching the play from wing to wing trying to take advantage of gaps, so that was the right thing to do, but we then just didn't get the ball into the dangerous areas once we got closer to the box.
Why don't you just tell em, like on here?Could I pay more to not have to sit near people who don't seem to know what they are talking about?
Why don't you just tell em, like on here?
Didn't say it was easy, but that's what happens. Opposition pile everyone back and you have to try and pass it round to create an opening.We were outnumbered at the back with no passes to pick out, they had bigger defenders so it nulled that. We would have needed Kevin De Bruyne to try and slot a pass through to open them up the way they had 9 behind the ball.
You have to go in the Higgs stand for that.Could I pay more to not have to sit near people who don't seem to know what they are talking about?
And then when the ball goes forward and it doesn't come off 'what did you do that for'.People round me were definitely talking about getting IT forwards. They wanted the ball forwards.
You have to go in the Higgs stand for that.
Decent teams play it through the middle to a holding striker..................we haven't got one and resort to that old English chestnut of going down the wings and pumping the ball in to an area where there are a stack more defenders than attackers, hence the ease with which they can defend against us.
You only really stretch a defence though if you can beat a man down the wing, throwing balls in too early is just gambling, plus you need to vary it, an attacking midfielder is what causes real headaches, especially if he's not been tracked.You watch Man City playing against 10 men. Watch Arsenal. They pass it across the middle from touchline to touchline trying to stretch the defence and then utilise the extra body.
Yeah, sure, it does also go up to the likes of Aguero, but you have to try and stretch the defence, which is what we were trying to do.
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