City v NY Red Bulls - ESPN 1 or 2?

[Bojinov's left foot]

Not good P.R.

Hope Mancini saw some positives.

Will we sign Luiz now?

[lets all have a disco]

Pre season or not,that was poor.

[Beanieboy]

Utter utter shite,...Ade is a lazy no shit giving Cunt,.....why did i watch it?

[Manx Blue]

Ah well...The earth is still turning....Well done to NYRB

[ryanmjo]

Weren't we shit in South Africa last preseason as well?

I'm not too worried overall.

[Redna]

Gonna a be a tough start to the season. I know weré in the middle of a tough training period( I hope) but losing to a Beverageteam is not a good sign. AllOUT!!

[carl_feedthegoat]

Ive come to the conclusion of the following :

ADE is wank- sell him
Onuoha is wank- sell him
As is Bridge,Lescott,

Have I missed anyone out ?

On the plus - AJ is pure Class and I have a good feeling that Nimley has what it takes to be at least on the bench for us.

On the whole though embarrasing displays.

[Beeks]

Come on though folks..pre season means nothing..it's a fitness workout and the chance to look at fringe players

You take it waaaaay too seriously..

Remember Chelsea got beat the other day by some nomarks

[Beanieboy]

Ah well...The earth is still turning....Well done to NYRB

But more importantly...is the Blue Moon still rising?...shit like this makes me sick,...i'd prefer we were poor and unexpecting at the moment,......nothing a good sleep can't cure though!...bring on Spuds!!

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Expect the media to be all over this, what a load of shit

[ryanmjo]

Hey, we could be in Portsmouth's position:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010 ... n-football

[david yearsley]

3 games to bed in 5/6 signings - they have to be called back now coz Mancini has his work cut out imo - defensively we were worse when Kolo and Lescott came on - finishing today was abysmal - we´d better be saving them up - as for being a friendly yes it was but Mancini threw every sub on towards the end - he did NOT want to lose that - worrying but it was a better all round display than Sporting

[carl_feedthegoat]

Come on though folks..pre season means nothing..it's a fitness workout and the chance to look at fringe players

You take it waaaaay too seriously..

Remember Chelsea got beat the other day by some nomarks

Pre season should actually be about getting your first team players to gel mate...or get as many as you have available to fucking gel before the season starts.......throwing on any old player just doesnt make sense to me and never has done.

I hate this "it's only a friendly" attitude ,especially when we are on ESPN or any other channel thats aired all over the world !! we look like cunts when we get done by some fucking MLS team.

[Manx Blue]

Ah well...The earth is still turning....Well done to NYRB

But more importantly...is the Blue Moon still rising?...shit like this makes me sick,...i'd prefer we were poor and unexpecting at the moment,......nothing a good sleep can't cure though!...bring on Spuds!!

We don't win a Championship, nor get relegated today. If we aren't right by Dortmund, then we have reason to be concerned.

[gillie]

2 real games into our pre-season we play our academy team near as damn it and everyone is up in arms beggars belief it really does.Posters on here are doing the media's job for them come on guys get real that is nowhere near the side that will start at WHL and you all know it.

[dick dastardley]

if this is a PR exercise its backfired bigtime, yanks love winners and teams that excite them, we know its pre season and fitness is a first but losing two games in a week we'll get hammered in the papers which to me is not good for our club.... we have a game against inter and if we perform like that we;ll be hammered, im hoping that mancini will now start the next game with a strong team and see what happens!!!!!

[Blue in North London]

An improvement on the Sporting performance.

All the defenders looked below par. Lescott needs to work on his fitness. He looks slow but only to be expected as he was injured for a while. Toure did look overweight but to be fair to him he has probably had a blow out because he has only had about a three-week break.

Still think we need a top centre-half.

[Manx Blue]

2 real games into our pre-season we play our academy team near as damn it and everyone is up in arms beggars belief it really does.Posters on here are doing the media's job for them come on guys get real that is nowhere near the side that will start at WHL and you all know it.

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[lets all have a disco]

What game are the first 11 going to gel in though?

Remember last year we set off like a house on fire,then went through a sticky spot that cost us fourth if not more,then gelled more and managed to get back in the mix.

FFS get All of them together and lets start work,the WC finished fucking ages ago.

[Beeks]

Come on though folks..pre season means nothing..it's a fitness workout and the chance to look at fringe players

You take it waaaaay too seriously..

Remember Chelsea got beat the other day by some nomarks

Pre season should actually be about getting your first team players to gel mate...or get as many as you have available to fucking gel before the season starts.......throwing on any old player just doesnt make sense to me and never has done.

I hate this "it's only a friendly" attitude ,especially when we are on ESPN or any other channel thats aired all over the world !! we look like cunts when we get done by some fucking MLS team.

most of our first team are still on holiday mate!

Next week the real hard work starts

Even Henry in the post match interview dismissed it as 'pre season' City

everyone is rusty in these games..you just can't allow yourself to get worked up about it

jumpers for goalposts