Noisy Neighbours - the Man City thread

[hhyftrftdr]

The problem isn't that the cream of the academy were chucked in.  It's that they have hardly had any exposure before.  This isn't aimed at City but I don't understand why all clubs don't have a couple of youngsters on the bench every league match. How many times this year has a club been absolutely cruising and not had the opportunity of giving a youngster 20 minutes from the bench?  Watford don't do it either despite having some decent forward prospects Deeney and Ighalo are run into the ground even when we are 2 goals up.

Agree with this and a big source of frustration. On one hand I can understand a manager wanting to give his senior players minutes off the bench if they've not featured much but as far as City are concerned they've had plenty of opportunities to chuck in youngsters more than they have.

Similar to needing to have X amount of homegrown players in your 25 man squad, but can name as many U21s as you want, could the PL implement this for the subs bench? 7 subs as normal, but you can also call upon any member of your academy if you wanted to in any given game.

One week you're 1-0 down, chasing the game and bring on Bony, another week you're 3-0 up and cruising, and can bring on a kid or 2 for the last 20 minutes.

[DungBeetle]

The problem isn't that the cream of the academy were chucked in.  It's that they have hardly had any exposure before.  This isn't aimed at City but I don't understand why all clubs don't have a couple of youngsters on the bench every league match. How many times this year has a club been absolutely cruising and not had the opportunity of giving a youngster 20 minutes from the bench?  Watford don't do it either despite having some decent forward prospects Deeney and Ighalo are run into the ground even when we are 2 goals up.

Agree with this and a big source of frustration. On one hand I can understand a manager wanting to give his senior players minutes off the bench if they've not featured much but as far as City are concerned they've had plenty of opportunities to chuck in youngsters more than they have.

Similar to needing to have X amount of homegrown players in your 25 man squad, but can name as many U21s as you want, could the PL implement this for the subs bench? 7 subs as normal, but you can also call upon any member of your academy if you wanted to in any given game.

One week you're 1-0 down, chasing the game and bring on Bony, another week you're 3-0 up and cruising, and can bring on a kid or 2 for the last 20 minutes.

I like this idea for player development.  Benches of 10 of which at least 3 must be U21.

[hhyftrftdr]

The problem isn't that the cream of the academy were chucked in.  It's that they have hardly had any exposure before.  This isn't aimed at City but I don't understand why all clubs don't have a couple of youngsters on the bench every league match. How many times this year has a club been absolutely cruising and not had the opportunity of giving a youngster 20 minutes from the bench?  Watford don't do it either despite having some decent forward prospects Deeney and Ighalo are run into the ground even when we are 2 goals up.

Agree with this and a big source of frustration. On one hand I can understand a manager wanting to give his senior players minutes off the bench if they've not featured much but as far as City are concerned they've had plenty of opportunities to chuck in youngsters more than they have.

Similar to needing to have X amount of homegrown players in your 25 man squad, but can name as many U21s as you want, could the PL implement this for the subs bench? 7 subs as normal, but you can also call upon any member of your academy if you wanted to in any given game.

One week you're 1-0 down, chasing the game and bring on Bony, another week you're 3-0 up and cruising, and can bring on a kid or 2 for the last 20 minutes.

I like this idea for player development.  Benches of 10 of which at least 3 must be U21.

Such a simple concept but seems a great idea and supremely easy to implement; just get a few extra seats on the bench

[hhyftrftdr]

On the 21.15 service down to Kings Cross, for the 03.10 (!) flight on UIA to Kiev. Not sure if that constitutes a very late flight or a very early one?

Will try and get a few snaps to bore people to tears with on here, or in person at DTD on Friday night.

Come on City!

[Marky147]

On the 21.15 service down to Kings Cross, for the 03.10 (!) flight on UIA to Kiev. Not sure if that constitutes a very late flight or a very early one?

Will try and get a few snaps to bore people to tears with on here, or in person at DTD on Friday night.

Come on City!

Have a safe/good trip.

Looking forward to the TR.

[BorntoBubble]

On the 21.15 service down to Kings Cross, for the 03.10 (!) flight on UIA to Kiev. Not sure if that constitutes a very late flight or a very early one?

Will try and get a few snaps to bore people to tears with on here, or in person at DTD on Friday night.

Come on City!

Enjoy the good times

[flushthemout]

Have a great trip mate, our Argentinian blues will be looking after you. Ctid  will be at DTD Friday cash game hopefully if I can juggle a few meetings around.

[Archer]

On the 21.15 service down to Kings Cross, for the 03.10 (!) flight on UIA to Kiev. Not sure if that constitutes a very late flight or a very early one?

Will try and get a few snaps to bore people to tears with on here, or in person at DTD on Friday night.

Come on City!

Nice one sir - one of only 500 or so who've made the trip. Hope the events that kick off in 45 minutes or so make it all worthwhile.

I suppose it's not every week you have an itinerary like this:

Wednesday - pissed in Kiev
Thursday - Chernobyl?
Friday - DTD Nottingam (the obvious highlight of the week
Saturday - rest
Sunday - Wembley

Enjoy.

[flushthemout]

N1 Archer

[flushthemout]

Ole Ole, you signed Phil Jones we got Kun Aguero

[flushthemout]

Rio.... give it up, so biased

[horseplayer]

Pelle vindicated tonight if he needed to be

Great performance and result

[DungBeetle]

Yep.  At least we'll have one team in the Quarters.

[TightEnd]

Pellegrini got his tactics spot on and #mcfc pressed brilliantly - how match was won

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/12172128/How-and-why-did-Manchester-City-beat-Dynamo-Kiev-and-is-this-Champions-League-tie-as-good-as-over.html

[Archer]

Rio.... give it up, so biased

Ha Ha

Rio “ I didn’t get tired playing games when I was a player” Ferdinand (who averaged less than 25 league starts a season with United)  was on fine form last night and a thread dedicated to his “punditry” on Bluemoon  already has over 120 replies since last night.
 It’s always the same with many of these pundits  -  BS, hypocrisy and making points with  factual inaccuracies . Talking of which my favourite one last night was Michael Owen asking why our subs didn’t play on Sunday at Chelsea. Hmmm, 6 of the 7 subs did play at Chelsea Michael

Then there was Shearer at the weekend and his attack on City resting players. Seems he has changed his tune a bit over the years. Over on bluemoon someone has linked to a “History of Football” video and Shearer’s  exact words when he was a player:
.. "‘you can’t expect a footballer to be in peak condition for every game, saturday, wednesday, Saturday…we need to be ready 3 times a week to perform at the highest level, it’s impossible to do that.’  Presumably Alan the game isn't as demanding now...