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All the Germans

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  1. I'd argue that Sainz is an entirely unknown quantity, Rowe is still raw and whilst the signs look good, at this stage, it is a risk to rely on him as our main winger (remember when Idah scored a hattrick in a cup game and he was suddenly the second coming and now he's awful - reality is neither is true), Onel is very hit and miss, Fassnacht has a reasonable CV but we haven't seen enough to judge, Placheta is not good enough and Springett is also raw and untested. I think it's a stretch to say that we have six "able" wingers.
  2. Gunn gets injured the game after Krul is sold. The reserve keeper has a one-off blinder convincing us not to buy a replacement, the window shuts and we ultimately get relegated. Nah, too far fetched.
  3. He can. It's Rowe that to me is blowing our of his @rse by 60 minutes. Hernandez was just not good yesterday, regardless of what minute it was, his substitution, in my opinion was nothing to do with fitness, but application, Rowe on the other hand was due to him visibly tiring, just like against Hull.
  4. Having looked at it again, these are my takeaways; Soton 1st Goal - I don't see anything wrong on Stacey. I don't have a problem with it standing. I know it's a little harsh but I blame Hernandez. From relative safety, he puts Dimi under pressure, resulting in a corner and them scoring. Soton 2nd Goal - I do not agree with the handball, but I can see why it was given. However, the free kick leading directly to the handball was never, ever a free kick. The Ref gave them the goal. Rowe goal - What on earth are their defenders doing? Who was marking him? (don't tell me zonal, as he was definitely in a dangerous zone...) Barnes goal - The worst of the lot. Never, ever, ever, ever off-side under any form of the rules and should have stood. What makes it worse, rather than going to discuss with the lino, he lets them take it quickly and attack. I think my head would have exploded if they had scored from that. Soton 4th Goal - It is quite clearly never a penalty. On balance of play, a draw was probably fair, on goal scoring incidents, we should have won 5-2. I really hope we complain about the officiating.
  5. I think it was a reasonable sub. Hernandez needed to go off as he wasn't performing, Rowe tires after 60 minutes and we only had two wide players on the bench. Next week Fassnacht and Rowe to start and likely Hernandez comes on for Rowe after 60 minutes, is my guess.
  6. Well done City. Good game, and definitely should have won it. Two soft penalties against and a goal ruled out incorrectly, the ref stole 2 points from us. We'll get dodgy decisions in our favour too in future matches that will no doubt win us points, but it is still frustating.
  7. I'm sick of the standard of officiating. In decisions both for and against us, it's just rubbish.
  8. Yeah, right on, what does he know! His record isn't even very good, he's just their darling and he can do no wrong; he's only won the Premier League a pathetic 5 times. (Sarcasm to one side, I think he may have earned a little respect, don't you? Also, for what it's worth, no, no they wouldn't be laying into another manager anyway).
  9. A shame he has left but really wish him nothing but the best. Shows how to behave and do your job. If I'm completely honest, I'm a little underwhelmed as I want him to go to a 'big' club and succeed.
  10. I agree, if Sara was playing with Emi and Pukki, we'd walk the league but we had Hugill, Sorensen etc last time and we walked the league, the difference is, Emi, Pukki and Skipp were the reason we walked the league, I don't think Sara, whilst decent, is at that level to be the reason. If Skipp arrived tomorrow, he'd be our best midfielder, but whilst he is plugging the defensive midfielder hole, I feel our bigger problem is creativity, and he doesn't fill that and he didn't need to last time.
  11. Me too. Skipp was a very, very big reason that we got promoted. Him, Emi and Pukki were the reasons we absolutely walked the league. Sara has not shown anywhere near those levels, whilst looking decent. Skipp should be in the Premier League, personally, I think he'll make it at Spurs, but if not with them, someone lower-mid Premier League would definitely be improved by him.
  12. I've never been a fan of Hanley. He is excellent in the air, but other than that, I don't rate him at all. I know most disagree, but I like all footballers to be footballers first, rather than defenders first (why I've always liked John Stones). I think the days of defenders throwing their broken bodies in front of the ball with Terry Butcher bandages should stay in the past, and Hanley for me is that type of defender; he controls / passes a ball at Sunday league level and I don't want to watch any footballers with equivalent technique to people I've played against. I also think in this division, Gibson is much more use to us starting attacks, because we will have more of the ball but much less use in the Premier League.
  13. Entirely this. I am a fully signed up Farke lover - and always have been - but he definitely had faults. This entire thread seems to just be a statement that Farke was amazing (I strongly agree) and would have won us the Premier League by Christmas if he had full control (I disagree).
  14. He was relatively strong and had a decent shot on him, but he couldn't trap a bag of cement!
  15. I went - I've just got back to my hotel. Reading the comments I have a completely different opinion to most from what I saw live*. I thought it was two pretty poor teams doing nothing. * The view was difficult as it was all standing around the pitch and the Dutch are all pretty tall! I was stood about 3 persons deep near the goal we scored in. Fair play to them, quite a lot of their fans turned up for a meaningless friendly in the middle of nowhere! I think I only saw two or three City shirts in the crowd (I didn't wear a city shirt either).
  16. Even that is a unbalanced position to take. Friendlies at this stage are more about minutes in the legs, we always see strange combinations in the first few, once we get to the last couple it will maybe give indications if who is going to play where. By all means come back after 5 games of the season and complain if he has consistently played him in what you consider a poor position, but it is entirely meaningless to do so now.
  17. What a stupid comment. You hate Wagner for playing Mumba - once - in a meaningless first friendly of the season at full back. You hate him? Hate? Give me strength.
  18. Whilst this is definitely true, it doesn't mean Cantwell isn't also a pr*ck who appears to want the attention. I don't care what you look or dress like, and to be honest, I don't even care if you're a pr*ck, if you can do it on the pitch. However, I've never been sold by his ability; you have to be technically amazing to be as physically poor as he is, and his technique isn't that good.
  19. Are these fans living in Norfolk or outside? I live up North and my work colleagues couldn't understand it with Smith or Hughton either. If in Norfolk, they obviously are more exposed to the feelings of the locals, than in a different part of the country.
  20. A lot of our fans seemed pretty happy when Farke was sacked too, for what that was worth...
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