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Indeed.

I think that his control and awareness/positioning for the goal suggests that he is fit enough to start next week.

Thank you Ray for the stats. Please remember that we know better than those silly managers.

Scapegoat alert. Olsson lost his mother over the summer so I would prefer to think that he is struggling with form because of that. Not that he doesn''t care.

None of that posted in the shape I wanted. Lafferty up front playing left side and available as a target man or wide. Redmond wide right. O''Neil alongside Tetty but able to advance right side midfield. Howson creating and advancing. Tetty staying put. Bacicall a 4 -5-1 or 4 3-3 1

Ruddy Martin Cuellar Turner Garrido Tetty Redmond O''Neil Howson Lafferty Hooper

Superb goal. Must start next game.

Nice one Hog. That goal was very special. A great way to celebrate 200 appearances. Funny how it gets less comment than demands to sack the board!

Really Cottee?

Yessss!

No rhythm as yet

Wizi and feed2all are trying.

Ruddy; Martin ©, Turner, Hooiveld, Olsson; Redmond, Howson, Tettey, Johnson; Jerome, Grabban. SUBS: Rudd (GK), Whittaker, Cuellar, Lafferty, Hooper, Murphy, O''Neil.

Cuellar

Cuallar and O''Neil dropped.

I have Canary Player but it is sh1te! I will hang about on here then...

Wizi does not look like there will be a stream at the mo. Any suggestions and no I cannot get to CR today?!

Excellent news.

Hi Daly. I was the bristolnest on Mad. welcome. Olano posts on here sometimes as well.

The experience subject will always get brought up with every single loss, simply because it is an easy stick to beat Adams with, such as Hughton being "too nice". He earnt his chance and started the job well, just have to give him his time and stop being so fickle. Swansea are a good example, like to employ relatively inexperienced managers and they are doing great as a club. Garry Monk just beat the vastly experience Wenger and he has less coaching experience etc than Adams! Don''t you just hate perspective! Good post.

What happens if we win at Brighton, play well and then do it again ?

I meant that I agree with all of that!

[quote user="Tumbleweed"]The "one of us" thing is interesting. In the past this would have been a key factor in a managerial appointment- everyone wanted to emulate the Anfield model which bred years of success. Each new appointment there is hope of a "dynasty" being created, a steady stream of eager assistants ready to leap into place if necessary and carry on the good work. Of course this has its own flaws, especially when such potential successors can be part of a problem, as seemingly were Calderwood and Trollope in recent times. That. But these days the need is for instant success, message boards such as this fuel the hysteria, the constant analysis of line ups, tactics, formations, substitutions etc. It feeds the short term approach and it happens in real time. When I started following City in the 70s the fastest thing was to write a letter to the EDP and hope it got published 3 days later. Now we lose a match (yes, even that happened in the 70s) and vitriol pours down like a medieval sewage system. Football is about judgement and judgement calls-some are wrong and some will be right and many we will disagree with. Modern media allows us to dissect these ad nauseam. But one man has to make those calls, it is an unenviable position when one thinks about it. However I would be very surprised if there was any discernible decrease in prospects simply because NA was "one of us". It has many advantages, he knows the club, the players, has passion etc etc etc. A new man can rip the heart from a club, start from scratch, make just as many strange decisions which we disagree with, in real time of course. Managers who succeed in one place do not in another- just look at Vilas-Boas and now Pochettino. I still believe that NA is (ignoring the merits of his appointment) worthy of time to get things right and turn it around, and the "one of us" criticism just a bit of a red herring.[/quote]

I was thinking the same. Two names for the teamsheet next game. Cuelllar and O''Neil. The latter is captain material.

thanks waveney.