Don't let me down

[bluebananamilksheikh]

Please no repeat of the game at Anfield last season, that was by far our worst performance of the season.

[Slim]

I think Newcastle have done us a huge favour, the pressure of them pulling to within a win is gone and the guys can get out of the traps early and destroy this team of overpriced jobbers.

Not sure it was the Barcodes or the rags that did us a favour ;)

We shouldn't count our chickens though quiet yet. We can outplay the Scoucers but we still have to win it. Without ramping it too much this has got the feel of a season defining opportunity for City.

We aren't playing Blackburn.

I am just saying we can play without fear, not that it appears to be a problem this season but last season in the same fixture we were like a deer in headlights.

This is where getting 'experience as a team' becomes relevant, win or lose. We have just been to Napoli, where the crowd is louder & the opposition slightly better. Now the scousers are going to try & do the same thing but different; the crowd will be up for it but Liverpool will play in a different style to Napoli. It's another high intensity game though & the type of pressure cooker situation previous City teams would only experience in small grounds v poor teams, in the cups. More often than not though, when & team & crowd was up for it, our 'rocks' (players like Dunney & those before him) would turn to shit & we'd be dumped out of the competition. Now we have big teams & crowds raising their game v us & it's the challenge we need to overcome. We did it at OT & the Lane but failed in Europe.

Imo two of our current 'rocks' Yaya & Nige, pretty much did a Richard Dunne in Napoli & completely lost their games.

Will the experience of Napoli help cope with today so 11 players stand up or will it be another lesson we have to learn ?

I am sure all those points are relevant, well thought out and balanced, but not to the point I was making.

[Ted Hughes]

I think Newcastle have done us a huge favour, the pressure of them pulling to within a win is gone and the guys can get out of the traps early and destroy this team of overpriced jobbers.

Not sure it was the Barcodes or the rags that did us a favour ;)

We shouldn't count our chickens though quiet yet. We can outplay the Scoucers but we still have to win it. Without ramping it too much this has got the feel of a season defining opportunity for City.

We aren't playing Blackburn.

I am just saying we can play without fear, not that it appears to be a problem this season but last season in the same fixture we were like a deer in headlights.

This is where getting 'experience as a team' becomes relevant, win or lose. We have just been to Napoli, where the crowd is louder & the opposition slightly better. Now the scousers are going to try & do the same thing but different; the crowd will be up for it but Liverpool will play in a different style to Napoli. It's another high intensity game though & the type of pressure cooker situation previous City teams would only experience in small grounds v poor teams, in the cups. More often than not though, when & team & crowd was up for it, our 'rocks' (players like Dunney & those before him) would turn to shit & we'd be dumped out of the competition. Now we have big teams & crowds raising their game v us & it's the challenge we need to overcome. We did it at OT & the Lane but failed in Europe.

Imo two of our current 'rocks' Yaya & Nige, pretty much did a Richard Dunne in Napoli & completely lost their games.

Will the experience of Napoli help cope with today so 11 players stand up or will it be another lesson we have to learn ?

I am sure all those points are relevant, well thought out and balanced, but not to the point I was making.

It's relevant to the 'deer in the headlights' comment which is less likely to happen nowardays because of the above.

[Slim]

Yes but deer in the headlights was not the point I was making, just stating is as a fact to compliment my actual point, which at this stage I am guessing you didn't read at all.

[Ted Hughes]

Yes but deer in the headlights was not the point I was making, just stating is as a fact to compliment my actual point, which at this stage I am guessing you didn't read at all.

Yes I did & am agreeing that we playing well in these games in the Prem & are less likely to suffer the same fate as last year now but making the point that did suffer from an element of that away in Europe, so it hasn't gone completely, yet.

[brite blu sky]

I think Newcastle have done us a huge favour, the pressure of them pulling to within a win is gone and the guys can get out of the traps early and destroy this team of overpriced jobbers.

Not sure it was the Barcodes or the rags that did us a favour ;)

We shouldn't count our chickens though quiet yet. We can outplay the Scoucers but we still have to win it. Without ramping it too much this has got the feel of a season defining opportunity for City.

We aren't playing Blackburn.

I am just saying we can play without fear, not that it appears to be a problem this season but last season in the same fixture we were like a deer in headlights.

So what is the point your making then.. ?

jus kiddin'

Not you but there are a lot expecting the 3pts. It will be a tough game. I'm not sure what happened last year is anything to go off though.

[Slim]

So what is the point your making then.. ?

jus kiddin'

Not you but there are a lot expecting the 3pts. It will be a tough game. I'm not sure what happened last year is anything to go off though.

I barely know what I'm talking about at the best of times, Ted has me well confused.

I think, and I am taking a stab here, that he has spent a long long time to tell me he agrees with me.