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Ayrton, City sit lower down if you look at the stats for games against teams in the bottom half.
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Just trying to get my fantasy side back in the hunt with little or no success, so I thought I''d check out the current standings for the Premier Leagues Fantasy Football fans. And what do I find, City with a mere 3,368 entrants sit happily mid table, whilst the old Red Devils with 63,689 entrants languish at the bottom. Just as it should be ;-)
Check it out at:
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Wiz, given that we''re blooding Bentley for Arsenal at the moment why would blooding either Jarvis or Henderson or Shackell in the Premiership be too outrageous. There''s a young lad down at Old Trafford who nobody bats an eye about when it comes to playing him. Why aren''t the City young lads given a chance? -
Another Canary makes it to the Soccernet team of the week following the weekend meeting with Spurs. This time Simon Charlton appears in the line-up.
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Found this on the Soccernet site, but it was also picked up as something that would appear in the press on Monday morning.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=310099&cc=5739
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<quote>now come on morph, you are verging on the fantastical!!</quote>
Me, fantastical!!!
Actually KG I''d prefer to see Doc out of the front man configuration completely. Not because he''s done anything wrong, but simply it puts a certain type of play into other players minds.
Playing CM03/04 with the current City side I have a formation like this:
Green
Edworthy Docherty Shackell Drury
Safri Holt
Francis
Huckerby McVeigh/Bentley
Jonson
You could pick the front man as anyone of Jonson, McKenzie, Svensson. Similarly at the back perm two from four for the centre halves of Docherty, Shackell, Fleming, Charlton.
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The real question is can City afford to play him from the off for almost 90 minutes every game for a few moments of brilliance? His distribution seems poor. From what I saw of the Spurs highlights there were a number of times where he went on runs as the defense began to open up only to squander possession. Now that is a waste.
Would you get the same out of the alternatives - McVeigh, Jonson, Mulryne, Henderson (even)? If the answer is yes, then leave him in there but I''d agree with some posters who thinks he should earn his place in the side even if that means you have to put him on the bench after a poor game.
McVeigh must be thinking what must he have to do to get a start, same with McKenzie.
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Don''t want to appear negative in saying this but I don''t think Worthington knows how to play without a target man.
I''d agree with several of the others who have posted in this note on both points:
a) need to find an attacking option that is NOT Huckerby
b) need to give Leon a start and try playing the type of game where the ball is on the deck when it goes forward.
Can you imagine defending against both McKenzie and Huckerby making diagonal runs behind you looking for passes from the midfield?
Actually that last question does raise something else - to play that kind of game you need somebody on the ball in the middle of the park that can knock those through balls through. Dare I say Mulryne?
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I''d agree with the sentiments here, we need to get a win soon to keep the confidence up before the excitement of being in the big time disappears.
BTW, "nolegs" I have just the Avatar for you. See this:
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You have to ask if that deal were really on the cards why they couldn''t have conjured something up before the transfer deadline. Now City have to wait for a good half season before getting the deal they might have wanted. And if they really did want Malky to go to West Ham anyway, why all the transfer discussions with Coventry?
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"the fool....", I do indeed remember the Scots trashing Wembley in the 70s. However, in recent times it has been the English that have caused the trouble abroad, and home for that matter.
I''d agree with Smudge about going to an England game to get a feel for the pride and passion. I''ve been to three, one in Japan, and two here in England. However, one of those was the Euro 2004 qualifier against Turkey and I vowed after that game that I probably would never go to an England game again. That was a night of "misdirected" passion. Whilst the game itself was great I wasn''t too comfortable with the palpable air of aggression that hovered over the Stadium of Light that night.
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Navman, I would air caution in your use of the word British in the context of this thread. It may be a British culture thing but in respect of fans travelling abroad to watch England and causing trouble due to drunken behaviour, be very clear that it is England fans you''re talking about. Not Scotland, not Ireland, not Wales, England. It is a distinction some of the media miss themselves more often than not.
And yes I''m English, but I''ve lived north of the border for long enough to realise that mistake often causes much consternation.
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Actually if anyone knows of a current magazine that has the IE6 on the attached cover disc it may be of help to a lot of folks that are using telephone dial-up for internet access. Not all of us have broadband (although I can vouch for the performance difference).
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Cityangel, when you''re logged in select the "Control Panel" hyperlink at the top of the page and a pop-up menu should appear. From that select the "Forum Settings" option.
At the bottom of the page you are then presented with the type of editor you want to use when posting. Selecting "All Options" will present you with a text formatting bar at the top of the edit window as well as all the "emoticons" down the right hand side.
One of the options on the formatting bar is text colouring. That''s how you can get coloured text.
You need to enable the "All Options" first though. Then go back into Control Panel and select "Message Signature". You should then be able to colour your signature text.
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BedsC, when you are logged in you will notice above the forum thread that you are reading two single pixel bordered "toolbars".
The first has a title Pinkun.com Forum with a collection of hot links underneath that allow you to navigate through the hierarchy of the forum.
Beneath that is a "Login" bar which will show a number of hyperlinks when you are logged in. These are reading from left to right:
"Logged in as: <username> (Logout)"
"Control Panel"
"Recent Topics"
"Active Topics"
"Popular Topics"
Clicking on "Control Panel" takes you to the configuration and set up page for your profile. Here you can set up details of what you do, where you are, your poster signature and your "avatar" graphic.
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Cityangel, I had a problem with the Avatar graphic that I wanted to upload yesterday. I had the same problem that you are seeing, namely, a graphic with a white background came up as a black background.
What I found was that having the resize to 80x80 tick box ticked causes this to occur. To stop it delete the current Avatar graphic you have and upload the graphic again BUT this time make sure the tick box for graphic resize is NOT ticked.
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DDiM, looks like he was in the team for the Reserves loss to Coventry so it doesn''t look like he''s injured.
See the report about "City Reserves slump at Coventry"
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Peter, Tim and the Web Folks
Can you guys put up another forum for reporting techie problems that us users run into when trying to use the message board, please. Or am I being over-zealous ;-)
I can see you guys are likely to run into to some teething problems with the new message board and for your own benefit it might be useful to have a place where people can report problems.
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Found it Peter, thanks.
A note to anyone else trying to upload animated GIFs. Make sure you clear the "resize image to 80 x 80" checkbox otherwise you get some weird effects.
I know as my initial attempt to include old "Morph" didn''t quite work.
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Folks,
I think the new board looks great.
For members who were on the old message board how do you go and change things on your profile?
I can click on my logged in name and it brings up the profile but I can''t change anything.
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Actually KG I think you''re being a little harsh on McKenzie. From what little I have been able to see of Leon he has the right hunger to be a prolific striker. Like every striker he needs a couple of things that his limited run outs are not giving him.
1. Confidence.
He may play with bags of confidence but Worthy isn''t giving him the chance to start.
2. Goals
Like the proverbial bus that you''re waiting for you wait for hours for one then a whole load come along. Give Leon that start in the Premiership and who knows how many he might knock in.
I have to agree with you that I did think Worthy should have got somebody in before deadline day. At the moment the yellas are one dimensional relying on the boy Hux to deliver the goods. If he goes down injured what then.
However, it does appear that he couldn''t cut a deal to buy someone in without paying ridiculous money for a player like they''ve already got. That said, why didn''t he go get a striker on loan from overseas?
To quote DDIM, keep the faith -
Calle, actually the shareholders were paid a dividend when the club got promoted. But that may only have been the ones with ''B'' preference shares. Somebody will correct me if I''m wrong.
You also have to remember that the club was well in debt too so taking some of the money from the promotion and TV revenues to cut back on the debt would have probably been a wise thing to do.
Chances are that you can get hold of a copy of the financial report for last year as the club is now a PLC. -
Sorry to reawaken an old thread but this is what has to be focused on now that the transfer window has closed.
I''d like to see City try what Chelsea did at the weekend and play with a holding midfield player and three forward/attacking midfield players that rotate. AND keep the ball on the deck.
So,
----------Green------------
Edworthy Flem Chartlon Drury
----------Safri--------------
---Francis------McVeigh/Jonson----
---------Bentley-----------
---Huckerby-----Mckenzie/Jonson--
The three who would rotate are Francis, McVeigh/Jonson and Bentley.
If you''d rather Hucks dropped on then play a partnership of Jonson and McKenzie with Hucks, Francis and Bentley in a midfield rotation.
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Irish, I''ve posted this in other threads before, but why do City need a target man?
HollowayCanary has just started another note entitled "Do we need another target man?" and puts forward the suggestion that City don''t play a style of football that requires a target man. Keeping the ball on the deck and working in wide players who possess pace doesn''t require a team to simply hoof the ball to a front man.
Time for Bentley to start delivering
in Main Discussion - Norwich City
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Wiz, I agree and disagree with what you''ve said.
I agree that Bentley is and always will be an Arsenal player. We won''t get him when his loan is up at the end of the season.
I disagree that home talent should have higher priority than him.
However, I will temper my disagreement with the following comment. Worthy has got to pick the best eleven that he has available for a particular match for the given tactics that he wants to go out and play with. If that means Bentley is in ahead of Henderson, Jarvis or Svensson then that''s what he should do. However, I do think he needs to be fair to his homegrown talent when their performances are over and above what Bentley is currently giving you. Both Jarvis and Henderson have been putting in meritable performances in the reserves, whilst the jury is still out on Bentley''s contribution to the first team. If it means Bentley sits one out then Worthy should be brave enough to make that decision.
Time will tell - maybe come the end of the season we''ll see Bentley was in all matches that he was fit for (because his loan contract said he had to be!).