Official Match Thread: City v Stoke

[JB]

Two great goals and we are looking solid at the back. Very happy with Carlitos, Rigsby and Robi!

Let's keep the ball in the second and make Stoke work their arses off.

[markuse]

Speaking of the defence, it already looks more composed than it did under Hughes

It does, for now, despite Kolo not playing well at all imo. Zabba did a couple of good headers & tackles, Sylvinho looks like a full back again and Vinnie is not looking rusty at all

[The Original Special One]

anyone watching soccer saturday...

jeff and thommo are royally slagging us off any chance they get. bang out of order imo.

those d!ckheads
Apparently there was a sizeable number of boos greeting Mancini, pre-game
Whats that about?

Everybody should get behind our new manager

[ruralblue]

Anyone got a better stream?? Was watching Veetle and it's all gone tits up.

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[markuse]

Anyone got a better stream?? Was watching Veetle and it's all gone tits up.

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Usually sopcast streams are fairly good

Or go to adthe or iraqgoals

[Mike J]

robinho and tevez arent working up front.

they aren't doing too badly. Give them a little time! It'll come

tbf tevez has had a good game. but robinho looks a liitle lost. also looks like he is being man marked.

[shawzy]

Anyone got a better stream?? Was watching Veetle and it's all gone tits up.

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Mines workin but aint half buggy at times..ill try and find another before 2nd half and paste it here bud

[Patrick]

im watching liveonlinefooty - it keeps hanging every 5 mins - anyone else having that prob or is it just france telecom?

[bluej]

Stoke are shite.

I've noticed Barry is acting more like a box-to-box midfielder today, opens our play up a lot more.

[edge275]

im watching liveonlinefooty - it keeps hanging every 5 mins - anyone else having that prob or is it just france telecom?

Yeah mine's a bit iffy too :(

[frannylee]

the adthe stream working fine for me

[CityFanFromRome]

Good first half, very nice to be 2-0 up at the half time.

[JB]

robinho and tevez arent working up front.

they aren't doing too badly. Give them a little time! It'll come

tbf tevez has had a good game. but robinho looks a liitle lost. also looks like he is being man marked.

They're doing their best to mark Robi out of the game - good! More space for Petrov and Carlitos.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Few things that I've noticed.

Fullbacks attack less wrecklesly and that's why our defence look more solid.
Ireland has been really poor and almost looks like he is protesting.
Petrov is on fire.
We seem to be defending more as a team. Very impressive so far.
Robinho seems more eager than in ages.
Mancini seems well nervous but you can also see him calculating every move of every player.
We are stuffing SHIT team for a change.

[The Original Special One]

Two great goals and we are looking solid at the back. Very happy with Carlitos, Rigsby and Robi!

Let's keep the ball in the second and make Stoke work their arses off.

Sellotanta are having a right go at Robinho: he can do nothing right according to Lou Macari and their commentator
(the Mark Hughes Appreciation Society are everywhere)
Somebody should have told them he's hardly had a game this season
Unlike Adebayor, who is the real villain

[edge275]

Few things that I've noticed.

Fullbacks attack less wrecklesly and that's why our defence look more solid.
Ireland has been really poor and almost looks like he is protesting.
Petrov is on fire.
We seem to be defending more as a team. Very impressive so far.
Robinho seems more eager than in ages.
Mancini seems well nervous but you can also see him calculating every move of every player.
We are stuffing SHIT team for a change.

I've noticed all our corners are low on purpose since our team is quite small - little things like this I don't think Hughes would've paid any attention to.

[Dubciteh]

im watching liveonlinefooty - it keeps hanging every 5 mins - anyone else having that prob or is it just france telecom?

Yeah mine's a bit iffy too :(

mines fine lads, havent had a problem yet...

[shawzy]

right heres a nice smooth stream and pretty stable..looks good full screen 2 http://www.vipcanal.com/

[ruralblue]

the adthe stream working fine for me

Paste in Franny lad, please?

[The Original Special One]

Few things that I've noticed.

Fullbacks attack less wrecklesly and that's why our defence look more solid.
Ireland has been really poor and almost looks like he is protesting.
Petrov is on fire.
We seem to be defending more as a team. Very impressive so far.
Robinho seems more eager than in ages.
Mancini seems well nervous but you can also see him calculating every move of every player.
We are stuffing SHIT team for a change.

Agreed about the fullbacks: this is what I've been screaming for a year now and yet Hughes didn't seem to recognise that!

I don't think Ireland has been protesting: he's been very eager but too many of his passes hasn't come off.

And agree also about "stuffing SHIT team for a change", although lets hope you haven't spoken too soon.
But if we do end up stuffing them, it will have been a major statement for the new regime