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JoshVilla

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  1. What a **** great event that was. My personal highlights:

    Green v Miller - brutal

    Prochazka v Rakic - buzzing for Jiri, hopefully he'll get another go at Pereira

    Gaethje v Holloway - holy shit. Unbelievable performance from Max. What an absolute beast.

    Pereira v Hill - Alex waving away Herb Dean after the possible nut shot, and then knocking Hill out a couple of seconds after was hilarious.

  2. The whole thing around the new stadium complex absolutely stinks to me. A big chunk of the £2-3 billion will be loans. In terms of events, there's no way that the NFL are going to move games to Birmingham. It's hard enough to get teams to forfeit a home game to play in London in a league that only plays 17 regular season games - so I highly doubt that they're going to convince more teams to do it. The money is there to be made in London. I'm a Brummie and I'll always be proud of that, but unfortunately, Birmingham just isn't going to be an attractive destination for these sort of events. They'll probably have a few gigs there but nothing on the scale that they think.

    Their owners aren't going to make any significant money from Blues either. They just don't have the fanbase or the appeal. The club won't own the stadium, and if the owners get fed up and cut their ties after a few more seasons in the doldrums, whoever else comes in will likely have to pay an absolute whopper in terms of rent and likely be forced out. These plans aren't for the benefit of the club. The owners just want to make a quick buck (hence Wagner is so keen to have it all wrapped up in 5 years).

    It's all very well showing some pretty PowerPoint slides with some shiny stadium mockups, but it all seems like slightly outlandish plans with little to no substance. Like others have said, the idea nowadays is to stop other clubs suddenly turning into Man City, so their dreams of becoming a footballing superpower are purely to take their minds off the very real possibility that they'll be playing Shrewsbury next season. 

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  3. I'm sure they'll shithouse a point against a team they have no business getting anything against (from a ludicrous own goal or something similar to that Hibs free kick....) which will keep them up. They fact that they're as bad as they are and have only just dropped into the bottom 3 shows just how outrageously shit you have to be to go down in that division. Here's hoping....

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  4. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we avoided the loss in the end, but that is a very poor result, especially from 2-0 up.

    One of our players admitted that we tend to relax too much when we're 2 up and it's something we need to work on (I think it was Ollie post-Forest, I might be wrong). It seems that nothing has changed. Completely switched off for their first goal and then we lost all control and our heads totally dropped. It's so bloody infuriating as we had a great chance to solidify our position. We absolutely need to be beating teams like this at home when we have a healthy lead.

  5. 1 minute ago, est1874 said:

    Makes you feel better, does it?

    I didn't say that at all.

    I just struggle to see how anybody can appreciate anything that City do when they have 115 charges sat against them for financial doping and cheating.

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