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I think we will hammer City. Honestly.

why the hell are we still playing a center half at fullback?

cant we ever play players in their natural position.

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What happened to Luke btw? Is he still not match fit?

We need him back

Sorry no one can defend the Heskey for Delph sub, utter madness.

That was stupid, I'll say that straight. But MON isnt perfect, not even Ferguson or Wenger is (Kleberson, Silvestre etc). At the end of the day though I feel he will get us into a very strong league position...FFS he got Leicester of all teams into the top half every season. So no matter how many shit matches he screws up his tactics in, we should trust him to get it right OVER THE LONG TERM

The problem is, he keeps repeating the same mistakes. Its like he doesn't watch the game?

This is incredibly frustrating because we can all see it. It is sooooo obvious. You do not have to be a great manager to know what MON is doing is wrong - formation, teams and subs.

How many times are people going to defend him and say he is a great manager who has had an off day??

Its hard to say really but at the end of the day its a results business. We didnt get the result today but over the long term MON will get us the results to push for 4th, if not break into the top four. One commentator (forgot who) mentioned at the start of the season that he was tipping Villa to push for the top 4 as "when have you seen an O'Neill team struggle?" Sums it up really.

No coincidence Leicester went down after MON left.

Ive always thought Davies is our best defender, I think we missed him today. NRC and Sidders as well (MON -.- )

But yeah 442, then 415 for **** sake cost us the match.

His pride got the better of him today.

Spot on

Yay let's go about talking about how shite our team is after 1 defeat after 5 wins.

**** rocket polishers.

i actually think for the first time I want MON out

inept performance again from the team

baffling substitutions

baffling just baffling and i think people are right he is clueless and wont take us where we want to go

After 5 wins on the trot.

The run was always going to end. Yes today MON had gotten it wrong tactically but how many times have we seen him get it right? E.g. vs Brum

Give the man who has never failed at any of the clubs he's managed a chance

FFS NRC!!!

Messi, at least he isn't a word removed.

This

But Barcelona had an allleged weak defence including a Pl reject in Pique and they were not really troubled at all in teh final.

Last year 6th place in La Liga was Villareal and they would beat us easily IMO. Upfront they have international strikers for Italy and Brazil in Rossi and Nilmar.(who got a hatrick in last Brazil match)

Better goalkeeper and centre backs in Lopez Godin and Gonzalo plus in midfield player of Ero 2008 in may peoples eyes and a top winger who rejected Real Madrid in the summer.

Much better than what we have IMO Sad

Villareal is a good side but sides like Santander, Mallorca etc are really, really poor

If the entire English league is so strong compared to others, how come a team outside the top 4 havent won the UEFA cup for 25 years? And only Liverpool have won it since then.

We are talking about the teams outside the NEXT 4 (Spurs, City, Villa, Everton). IMO Stoke, Sunderland etc are better than the likes of Racing Santander. Anyway Spanish football is boring, and this is coming from someone who isn't British

And GABBY! We always knew he was fast, and normally a good finisher, but now he seems to be developing excellent crossing, vision, generally good passing, and his workrate is good as well. I admit I had a few doubts (which I kept to myself btw Smile ), but now I think it's possible that he will turn into an actual WORLD CLASS player.

Woah woah...hold it not so fast!

I think he may throw a suprise and go with gardner, but would like to see delph or a 442 with carew

Agree I think Gardner's gonna start

Come back Lennart Johansson, all is forgiven.

Spot on

Good old Mail

apparently we lost

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont think we expected Small Heath to play this deep though

Carsley is on...dickkface

Think he's gonna manmark Young

"Has to be said Birmingham have played the better football but just havent gotten that breakthrough"

What bullshit.

How t he hell wasnt that a corner?!

Think it's fair for Young to get more votes... he did well, even if he's not a leftback by trade

Can we do the laughing after the derby instead? I'm really worried we might screw up at SHA this time

Simple for me really... both Milner and Ash can cross (Young's crossing is underrated imo) but Milner doesn't dribble and/or beat men often so Young for me. Defensively though Milner is better which gives us options. At any rate both are cracking players

Surely Curtis is better than Ridgewell?!