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It'll be flapping about big style tomorrow after we give Aston Villa-lite a good hiding.

Mackems have a 4 page thread about this game on their forum. Huddersfield have 'gifted' us promotion apparently, I suppose that's true by virtue of the fact they're not as good as us, fucking obsessed idiots.

2-0 Bristol good finish by Abraham. 3-0 now, that should be it. Huddersfield were fucking dogshit today. 4-0 now , can we stop worrying about these utter useless bastards now.

Good goal by Bristol who have been the better side since I started watching this, Huddersfield's defence was like watching Bramble and Boumsong.

Jonathan Hogg being stretchered off with what looks like a pretty bad head/neck injury, his momentum carried him into his teammate and he had his head turned looking at the ball. Hope it's nowt serious for the lad like but doesn't look good.

That title is reserved for Gabriel Obertan tbh.

I'd genuinely read those. Your IQ would drop reading them mind.

Thick as whale spunk that lad. I hope he gets to play against them next season.

May as well have been a fucking penalty .

Sane is quality. I think the hard thing with transfer prices is they jumped quite a bit in a short period of time (or at least seemed that way to me) recently. The way the market is I agree that Sane probably isn't overpriced but it's always galling to think 37m isn't overpriced when our lot would have a meltdown if someone wanted 20m.

Like dropping a nightmare of a fart and just calmly walking away tbh. We could analyze this horror show of a joke for at least another two pages but we'll spare everyone.

I'm glad you didn't, the abruptness of that brutal joke is half the laugh from it.

Alex's bordering the realms of needing to apologize to everyone for that one.

I'm similar to others in that I only really saw Beardsley at the end of his career, so I went with Shearer. Agree with Tooj that it's really difficult to compare them. Shearer was just so perfect for his position though, he had pace (until the injuries), power, two feet, great in the air, brilliant holding up the ball, etc. He also moved to us when I was young which always creates an attachment to quality players. We also seemed to get an immense number of indirect free kicks inside the area when Shearer played for us, I can't remember seeing one since. Have they changed the rule or do they just not really get called anymore? Imagine having to be one of the players attempting to block a Shearer shot from one of them man .

Aye I saw a similar thing about Rooney iirc. I think they clearly have the best facilities and best coaches as they've been hoying fortunes at their youth set up for yonks now, I don't know how much effect Mourinho has had in the short while he has been at Manchester United but he's always seemed disinterested in youth set ups for at least his recent career (all the way back to his first spell at Chelsea in fact, I've no idea about his Porto days mind). As Parky was saying they've not really brought anyone through in basically the decade they've been pouring money into it, seems odd when you consider the quality of the facilities, staff, catchment area, bringing in foreign youth. They did have that Denis Suarez lad I suppose and he's quality at Barca now, but he was similar to Iheanacho that he was 16 or 17 when he went there.

Aye I agree fully he's not worth anywhere near 49m, as you say that's finished product money and he's miles from that. I was more just meaning it's not really denting Man City's resources overpaying like that. Yeah the Man City academy isn't producing much so far, Iheanacho looks good but I think he joined at like 17 so it's a little bit of a stretch to count him, they have a few Spanish lads that are meant to be decent but they have the Chelsea issue of not really giving their kids a chance as they can just go out and buy who they want. I'd imagine Guardiola is keen to bring youth through but he might struggle to do it if he's feeling pressure from the owners and the media ridiculousness.

I guess, he's still young mind and he's still very new to those level of games. I think he's one of the more improved players under Guardiola so far at Man City, he seems to be a bit more focused under him.

Aye the lack of really top level defenders is an issue for him tbh. He obviously had a fantastic attack at Barca and Bayern but they also had defenders like Pique, Abidal, Mascherano, Boateng, Lahm, Alaba, etc, with Xabi Alonso and Busquets covering. Man City don't have anything close to that and as Tooj said there's a bit of a dearth of defenders (especially CB's) at the minute so they're going to have to gamble, which is what Man City have been doing but obviously nowt is paying off for them as Mangala, Stones, Otamendi, etc have all come in for big fees and have been shaky. He'll figure it out if he hangs about long enough (and is given the time obviously) as either he'll manage to get one of those rare top defenders in or one of their gambles will pay off.

I think Sterling has been having a good season for them, 9 goals and 13 assists from 35 starts in all competitions is canny from the wing. Of course he's massively overpriced but it's not like it would have hurt Man City's transfer budget, if they wanted others they would have bought others as well. The other two have been fucking shite mind, that Stones is all over the place at the minute and would have progressed better if he'd stayed at Everton. Obviously don't blame the lad for taking the money that was on the table as it wasn't long ago he was playing for Barnsley. He looked really solid when he was next to an experienced and composed CB like Jagielka but he's struggling now he's next to a group of shaky CB's with no one locking the position down really. Pep needs to sort the GK situation out quickly as well, I know he wants a keeper that will play short passes under pressure but he should find one that can make saves as well.

Aye Jack Colback should definitely be named as a weakness. Him and Anita would look crap on a Sunday league team let alone a Championship side, fucking cloggers.

"Crackin marra wheeze got to get home as I'm up early to sign on for me giro the morra "

So if anything they're improving.

I like that they're trying to act like this is new for them, for my entire life that place is mostly empty around the 60th minute.

I think tracing paper is thicker than that cunts skin ffs.