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Fair enough! I don't mean anything by it you know (apart from the ASDA part). Enjoy your evening. Seriously though, I don't think NP would be all that bad would he?

That's horribly convenient isn't it? Did I miss the sub-text? I responded word to word to a spiralling column of projectile goblin vomit from someone who, I'd imagine, has spent the past ten years trying to pass ASDA's social competence assessment and this is the reply! Come on, you can do...

I always thought you knew nothing about football! That whole list cost us about a third of Jermaine Beckford! And for that we got Wellens (realistically a good signing - popular at least until NP left), Cleverley (one of the best young midfielders in England), Spearing (ditto) and Dyer...

I agree that we have picked up some good players along the way, but this widespread view from the pro-Sven camp that Sven's responsible for assembling a magnificent squad is difficult to back up. I think Nugent, Schmeichel, possibly Peltier are the only Sven buys to deliver so far, though I...

Is it really only eight months since you chumps told me that (a) Sven was a better manager than O'Neill and (b) We'd get promoted (last season) and I was a moron for doubting it? The best part is, the excuses have kept coming and coming... Wait until Sven gets a summer to sort it out... Give...

Hello again old friends, Saw today's game. My concern from pre-season / first few games was that a brand new defence takes a long time to gel compared to a brand new attack and that's what we've invested in this season. So while we weren't conceding many goals pre-season it was inevitable...

I don't think anyone's seen Howard play recently! In fairness to him the over-elaborate passing doesn't exactly suit his game (ditto Waghorn). Imagine Iniesta in a good old early 90s Wimbledon team, he probably wouldn't look so great either. And wasn't it before Erikson came that Howard...

Ha! Yes!

This is remarkable. I posted an opinion on what little I'd seen of the game, making clear how little I'd seen and how few games I've watched of late. Someone has a go, I have a go back and you've all spent the past eight hours weeping into each other's copious bosoms. I'll repeat what I said...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 It was a suggestion, nothing more. Unless you believe everything should stay exactly as it is - and most of you do - then we need suggestions. Or do we just go back to the towel-slapping? As for negativity - we just ****ing lost for Christ's sake! It wasn't a good result...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 Okay here goes. Yes absolutely everything Sven has done has been spot on. Even the losses and the failure to score goals haven't represented any sort of problem. Bednar and Kirkland were also excellent acquisitions. Hobbs and Fryatt are nowhere near good enough to play at...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 I apologise for not being shit enough to check where all of you live. Obviously Newcastle upon Tyne is infinitely more intriguing a place to fester than Leicester. Sorry. Seriously, are you all so dumb that you can't see that this side needs to improve? Or that any of our...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 I would have gone ages ago but for your sorts. I try to be polite and acknowledge the fact that forums exist for discussion, and that discussion requires differing points of view, but the Sven supremacists can't have it. You'd have loved David Pleat. You'd have been the guy...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 He's fat and he smells. Ho ho ho. Cue: All single cell organisms gyrate in unison.

Re: City 0 QPR 1 I've never called a moan-in in my life. For some of you nothing other than blandly nodding in agreement with whoever happens to be in power at the time is enough, isn't it? It must be easy to be a yes man, a nobody, a pawn. Mussolini and Franco loved your sort.

Re: City 0 QPR 1 No Sven isn't doing a shit job - I honestly don't think that. But any manager who couldn't lift a side who'd finished in the play-offs last year from the bottom of the table (after ten games) to the mid-table (with the best financial backing in the league) would be utterly...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 Yes I've seen them and I agree, they weren't very good! At least not early on in the season, under Sousa. But I think Waghorn's a young player and he'll get better if we give him the chance, plus I've got no doubt that he's a more physical sort than Vassell who, frankly, has...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 And it's no longer 1999-2000, which is the last time Sven had any success as a manager, but that's good enough for most of the people on here. If we could vary our tactics half as much as we varied our selection we'd be fine. I tend to think some stability in terms of the...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 Why is it so hysterical that one of our best players from a team that spent virtually all of last season in the play-offs should be chosen ahead of a series of players that didn't? It's a no-brainer. Unless of course you're of the opinion that Sven is always right and it's...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 Well I did actually! But generally I agree with what you're saying about Bruma et al. I just tend to think that we beat Bristol City by that same 87 minute measure and, you know, that isn't really enough. After all how many Championships did Man U win in the 95th minute?!

Re: City 0 QPR 1 'We'll see how we perform when we have to win against a good side' Didn't that apply today? There are obvious selection errors going on. Forget Weale - Oakley isn't good enough, Berner needs a chance, Waghorn needs a go over Vassell and, in terms of style, we need new...

Re: City 0 QPR 1 It's not the end of the world, it can still be done. Yet I'm very worried that we have this policy of accumulating expensive players up to the point that they don't really seem to function as a unit (since the additions of Bruma and Ricardo we haven't been the same) - and...

And I'm beginning to believe that all these 'you think you're so great but you're not' messages say far more about the senders than they do the recipient. Who, precisely, are you trying to convince? I'm hardly likely to reply saying 'actually yes, you're right, I am thick... now we can all be...

Well yes, you are a gutless sheep and no, you really don't know anything worth imparting on the rest of humanity, but I doubt I've 'changed the dynamic of this message board'. I'm curious, however, as to how you'd like me to humble myself. Are we talking King Henry being flogged at Canterbury or...

Good day Mattmeister. I know you've read this forum a lot and thought to yourself 'I know, if I follow everyone's general sentiment and make blandly derogatory gestures at Syd in block capitals then lots of people on here will accept me' (which is probably true) but this still doesn't change the...

I thought the selection today was harsh on Mee to be honest, but Bruma seemed fine. Out of curiosity what would my fellow amateur managers do to tweak the side? I'm not that convinced by Van Aanholt myself, his marking is very suspect, wouldn't mind giving Berner a chance, if only for a bit of...

That's obviously ridiculous, but I still can't accept any positives from that performance. Okay, I grant you Naughton, but they looked otherwise clueless to me. Still, it could be a good thing if they learn from it - think Sheff U home 96, Leeds away 97, Ipswich away 02 - a thoroughly useless...

Re: City 1 Cov 1 I hope you're right, truly. I'm moaning right now but, you know, it's a local derby and all that, things go wrong. I don't want anyone to think I'm willing the worst case scenario - I always thought Craig Levein was alright and I know how much it hurts to be wrong. But, on...

Presumably 'Mongie Attack' means some people don't think we played very well and others among you refuse to accept it. We were rubbish today, we've been rubbish for three games and something fundamental will have to be altered if we're to outwit those sides who, right now, seem to know...

Re: City 1 Cov 1 A home defeat against an even shitter team, for example.

Two points lost... but one gained... Come on! This wasn't a good result, face it. And most worrying is that Cov seemed to have the measure of us for most of it. This was our 'easiest' game out of the four (Cardiff-Cov-QPR-Norwich) and they could well have sneaked a winner on us. Not good enough.

Re: City 1 Cov 1 Saw it and it confirmed what I already thought; that we won't win promotion unless we can change our game to match inferior sides who get tight to us and go long. I suspect a lot of teams have been watching our videos lately, they've figured out how to play against us and...

1 - When exactly does an era begin and end? We're supposed to bear in mind Sven's achievements with Benfica and Gothenburg in the 80s, but not Alex Ferguson's UEFA win with Aberdeen in the 80s... how does that work? 2 - Matt Gillies - won the fledgeling League Cup and nothing else. Left while...

Again, my quoting isn't great, so I'll address things paragraph by paragraph. 1 - McGhee, Pleat, Hamilton - all standard-bearers of the 'beautiful game'. I'd sooner get promoted playing no-nonsense football any day, especially if you acquire players of the standard that O'Neill managed to...

Your inexplicable vendetta against Martin O'Neill aside, I can say that Portuguese football these days has very little on Scottish football, having had the misfortune to see plenty of it. A couple of very decent teams and that's all. Benfica - Sven's old team - and Celtic have made a fairly...

Of course I don't want them to crash and burn. And no, I won't say 'I told you so', obviously not, because all I've said is that it's too early to go saying he's a far better LCFC manager than O'Neill, that as of yet all he's done is spend tonnes of money and have a good half-season. Sven's...

I agree with you, but you can't say our pool of players were inferior to those which won the World Cup for Italy, or those which Portugal used to defeat Sven's England twice.

You're a very angry man aren't you? Does it hurt that people more intelligent than you use this site? If you seriously think it's not 'picky' to say to someone, in a discussion about football, that you should be saying 'centre back' instead of 'centre half' then you really are as futile a human...

Even technical terms concern linguistics - and when I say 'conservative' it's a reference to Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism, not politics, though the two often coincide. There are those in linguistics who say language is how it is, don't go changing it - and others who prefer to observe the...

Yes it's a technical term if you like - so football managers refer to the 'centre half', the dictionary acknowledges it, journalists use it, football fans use it... I'm not sure how that gives anyone else the grounds to say it's defunct either linguistically or technically. What's happened here...