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[Grob]

I know its pre season but that was reasonably inept. At one point in the first half i think we had Johnson at center forward and Jo on the right wing. Madness. Seems Mancini is trying to devise formations that play as many players out of position as possible. The gap between our defence and front players is much too big also.

Vieria and Richards, simply awful. Cunningham out of his depth.

Lets hope we were just messing around there and will play properly in the second half.

[Florida Blue]

i fucking hate friendlies i am tired pissed watching us playing like shit
i like friendlies the game means fuck all none of our new signings are playing
i hate friendlies the press will take the piss city 85 billion pound team beaten by a bunch of who are we playing
i hate yanks what a stupid fucking kick off time

Umm what the fuck are you talking about? Last I checked weeknight games in England start at 745..

[Lee_R]

Relegation form to be honest.

[Florida Blue]

Relegation form to be honest.

If this is our staring XI, you are spot on, but it is not.

[fangsanalsatan]

[center]39 Bellamy 27 Jô
11 Johnson
5 Zabaleta 24 Vieira 7 Ireland
45 Cunningham 19 Lescott 33 Kompany 2 Richards
12 Hart

zzZZzz[/center]

[Lee_R]

Relegation form to be honest.

If this is our staring XI, you are spot on, but it is not.

I really hate Jo btw.

[Green & Blue]

Friendly or not thats a pathetic 1st half performance.
Especially when you consider the majority of players on the pitch should be despearte to impress Mancini when given the chance.Vieira needs to be woken up at half time,to sum him up in two words slow and late come to mind.The whole defence has been poor.Feeling sorry for Cunningham he looks a bag of nerves, almost had a howler of an assist for Sporting.Panic stations.What was he thinking?

Not much good can be said really.Ireland looks good enough his movement has been decent giving himself time on the ball but sadly getting no support.Likewise for Jo he has been looking decent on the ball but has seen so little of it he has not had the chance to really impress.
Lets hope for a big improvement second half.Hopefully a few changes.That midfield is moving far to quick for Vieira.

[Lee_R]

Friendly or not thats a pathetic 1st half performance.
Especially when you consider the majority of players on the pitch should be despearte to impress Mancini when given the chance.Vieira needs to be woken up at half time,to sum him up in two words slow and late come to mind.The whole defence has been poor.Feeling sorry for Cunningham he looks a bag of nerves, almost had a howler of an assist for Sporting.Panic stations.What was he thinking?

Not much good can be said really.Ireland looks good enough his movement has been decent giving himself time on the ball but sadly getting no support.Likewise for Jo he has been looking decent on the ball but has seen so little of it he has not had the chance to really impress.
Lets hope for a big improvement second half.Hopefully a few changes.That midfield is moving far to quick for Vieira.

Jo was shit.

[DoomMerchant]

to be fair there are so many fucking hot portugeez cookies here I am secretly hoping we let in 4 more just to watch them celebrate and get to the pub with them aye ess aye pea.

Just sayin. It's a friendly. I want to make some Friends.

Cheers

[xavi6]

Here's Ned to sort things out

[Green & Blue]

Friendly or not thats a pathetic 1st half performance.
Especially when you consider the majority of players on the pitch should be despearte to impress Mancini when given the chance.Vieira needs to be woken up at half time,to sum him up in two words slow and late come to mind.The whole defence has been poor.Feeling sorry for Cunningham he looks a bag of nerves, almost had a howler of an assist for Sporting.Panic stations.What was he thinking?

Not much good can be said really.Ireland looks good enough his movement has been decent giving himself time on the ball but sadly getting no support.Likewise for Jo he has been looking decent on the ball but has seen so little of it he has not had the chance to really impress.
Lets hope for a big improvement second half.Hopefully a few changes.That midfield is moving far to quick for Vieira.

Jo was shit.

Not in my book.I think he did really well when on the ball for what its worth.

[scrandled]

These commentators are going to enjoy trying to pronounce Onuoha..

[brite blu sky]

zabba and Vieira not one of the hottest midfield partnerships. no protection and nothing pushing out

[Lee_R]

Friendly or not thats a pathetic 1st half performance.
Especially when you consider the majority of players on the pitch should be despearte to impress Mancini when given the chance.Vieira needs to be woken up at half time,to sum him up in two words slow and late come to mind.The whole defence has been poor.Feeling sorry for Cunningham he looks a bag of nerves, almost had a howler of an assist for Sporting.Panic stations.What was he thinking?

Not much good can be said really.Ireland looks good enough his movement has been decent giving himself time on the ball but sadly getting no support.Likewise for Jo he has been looking decent on the ball but has seen so little of it he has not had the chance to really impress.
Lets hope for a big improvement second half.Hopefully a few changes.That midfield is moving far to quick for Vieira.

Jo was shit.

Not in my book.I think he did really well when on the ball for what its worth.

Still shit.. its Jo.

[johnny99]

i fucking hate friendlies i am tired pissed watching us playing like shit
i like friendlies the game means fuck all none of our new signings are playing
i hate friendlies the press will take the piss city 85 billion pound team beaten by a bunch of who are we playing
i hate yanks what a stupid fucking kick off time

Umm what the fuck are you talking about? Last I checked weeknight games in England start at 745..

Fucking he'll chill man it 2.45 in the morning here

[xavi6]

i fucking hate friendlies i am tired pissed watching us playing like shit
i like friendlies the game means fuck all none of our new signings are playing
i hate friendlies the press will take the piss city 85 billion pound team beaten by a bunch of who are we playing
i hate yanks what a stupid fucking kick off time

Umm what the fuck are you talking about? Last I checked weeknight games in England start at 745..

Fucking he'll chill man it 2.45 in the morning here

That's how I feel for about 40 weeks of the year ;)

[BlueMoonAwoken]

These commentators are going to enjoy trying to pronounce Onuoha..

LMAO he just said honahua.

[scrandled]

ffs - Jo you lazy bastard! Shouldnt have wandered offside for that one..

[dazby]

i fucking hate friendlies i am tired pissed watching us playing like shit
i like friendlies the game means fuck all none of our new signings are playing
i hate friendlies the press will take the piss city 85 billion pound team beaten by a bunch of who are we playing
i hate yanks what a stupid fucking kick off time

Umm what the fuck are you talking about? Last I checked weeknight games in England start at 745..

Fucking he'll chill man it 2.45 in the morning here

Johnny, this really isn't the forum for you to whinge about that sort of thing. Too many of us go through it regularly.

NO SYMPATHY FOR YOU!!!

[pears12]

man they mentioning how much money we spent and how we shouldn't be losing.. none of our new signings this year are playing