George Costanza

I think he's lost the plot. He's always been a cautious manager but he seems to want to take on everybody at the moment and prove too many people wrong or right. He's f***ed up and I can see us falling well back in the next month. The Champions League or FA Cup could be his saviour this season.

Mascherano is a defensive midfielder. To put any blame on him for the team to fail to score is idiotic. How about looking at our attcking players and the fact we showed little of no attacking ambition whatsover. The lack of bodies in the opposition box tells the story. f*** it I blame Riena for his goalkicks not being attacking/precise enough

*pre judgement alert more foreign s*** that will clogg up the reserves. The way Rafa and Macia are going we'll have a hundred 'youngsters' in the ressies. Its the good old motto of buying enough s*** one's bound to come good.

Of course it can. Its very inconsistent and when he's having an off day/period his touch is absolutely f***ing awful. Its infuriating but he has many other very good aspects to his game. All players have weaknesses.

Big opportunity for him today

Well except for last Tuesday to be fair they rarely if ever get a look in at first team level.

He's slowly drifting back into old habits that have cost us in previous seasons.

Rafa's stubborness costing the team points. That and the constant lack of creavity, guile and cutting edge in the final 3rd

He's arguably the best in the world IMO. Only Buffon is as good. Cassilas for all his decent shot stopping is f***ing terrible at commanding his defence and penalty box.

Why should Shearer take the offer up. It'd be both bad for him and the current manager. He's wise not to associate himself at all with the Ashley/Kinnear regime. Saying that any new prospective Newcastle owners would be stupid to appoint a totally unproven manager, however popular it would be.

only possible way it could remotely work it to make the turnstile a pickett fence. it would need a lot of prior organistaion makmingsure those that travel a long way know whats happening plus putting on the game art several locations so people actually don't miss watching the match. An empty ground would be a hell of a show of resolve and strength though.

His passing in the first half was poor. Shocking at times but his touch and overall play was very good. He had a good second half too. These games he thrives in, its games like last week when his qualities are a bit wasted/not needed.

He has still been injured ever since he joined. 3 different injuries could be seen as bad luck. He does have history though.

4 points from the 2 games is a reasonable return. Its just very frustrating that after all the hard work last week we slip up against what is a very poor team. Its not disatrous but it is a case of losing impetous/momentum.

Don't agree. The levels of spending Chelsea have done and City might do is simply not sustainable in the long term. Both clubs have been bought by someone who has no interest other than it being a billionaires toy. There really aren't that many people about who will be generous with their money. Most top clubs are run and will continue to be run as businesses, profits and losses carefully balanced. Chelsea f***ed the transfer market a few years ago when it seems be be settling down after huge sums spent by Spanish and Italian sides. By the looks of City are about to do the same. What really worries me is there is no accountability. Chelsea and now City can go out and spend £30m+ on a player, if he's a failure he's shipped back out for tuppence without a single moments hesitation and another £30m+ player is brought in. There have been financialyl indifferent playing fields in the past but nothing to this extent. The sport will die a death, these owners will want instant success, spend the earth on the best possible players, money will not be an object so the idea of developing players and bringing them through the youth systems will be moribund. As with anything in life there has to be balance, an equalibrium.

I've seen him lead the line for us. Whether it be Rafa's instructions or his own willingness to work but he's not done it well at all IMO. He's often been to pre-occupied in working the channels etc than getting int he box and being on the end of things. Its not a criticism but he likes to get invloved possibly too much to be and out and out striker.

he played well (very well against arsenal) but thats probably 2% of our whole season. This season he certainly had a nack of scoring in europe BUt his overall contribution was poor. If your championing him to still be a regular next season then you are settling for mediocrity. Thats what he is, albeit with a huge heart and a loveable attitude. He's no right winger though. Nor a out & out striker either. He'll be a good squad player

Vital cog? He's one of our weaknesses. He's a loveable guy, primarily because hes honest and workd his b******s off. He's a limited footballer though and in his position we require far more of an attacking threat than he poses on a consistent basis. We trid playing to his strenghts whe he payed upfront off Torres but it didn't work. Should we pay him centre mid so he can run around a lot, that'll be playing to his strengths. He'll make a great squad player next season but if he's a regular starter with the likes of Torres, Gerrard, Mascherano etc then w won't improve as a team and question will have to asked about Rafa. Our spine is top, top class. Its outwide where we are weak. If those areas are not addressed then its another battle for 4th i'm afraid.

Well downings been linked recently. when can we expect keane to be the same

It is becoming very predictable and boring

were you listening into our conversation in the pub last night Thats is pretty much the exact proposal we came up with. We said Basle though not France

yep.

why don't you f*** off you manc indbed c***

legend

it went on for a good 20 mins in the 2nd half. was quality. drowned out the bile from united