Harry Dowd scored wrote:Doing close to nothing again so thought it might be a good idea to open the discussion of the derby. My thoughts are not positive at the moment, mainly born out of the monumental fuck ups by Pep last season. Fact we have lost three out of the last four against Ole and his rag army, for me that is untenable and must be corrected against what looks like a poor side with a inept manager, but we will see.
Has anybody got the ability to put a forecast of win/lose/ draw on the thread?
Nice one HD, good to see a thread on this important occasion starting early.
The problem with us losing against The Hobbit is that they have no intent whatsoever and hit us like a Sunderland team would. I’d normally have the same instinct as you, we will get picked off because it’s what happens when a lesser team comes to us in such an important game however, what I’ve seen lately from Pep, and the team, is a very different set-up to what we seen last season. Pep seems to have learnt from his recent woes and the team seems more focussed on the whole piece, not just the attacking intent ( a Mancini moment?).
Strangely, I’m not nervous about tomorrow and, even though a game can go against us under certain circumstances, I do think we are far the better team now.
