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Yes. I needed correcting there.

I only remember Bern singing it post reform.

In place of ClapfortheNHS tonight I suggest ClapforgAss on our doorsteps. Accompanied by singing that splendid New Order song, ‘Two, Twooo Divisions Apart. Again’. #Clap4gAss

Surely it means gAss fans will geoff boycott UWE and academia, now, does't it? All those gAss fan plans for Masters and PhDs - they'll have to apply to other learning establishments.

If he did say that, he must have forgotten the 'One Stevie Lansdown' chants by hundreds and thousands of fans at the end of 2014/15, the opening of the ground last season, after the Birmingham game in May... Strange, he's always struck me as a man with a good memory.

Can't one have mixed emotions? It's not a game of black & white y'know. There are two sides to every story etc etc... Quite simple: I feel torn between being p*ssed off at throwing away 2 points vs. probably taking a point before the game started/at 0-1 facing a pen. Some of us have more than one thought at once, y'know...

Thank f*** City, a good point that, could've been 0-2, so I'll take a draw.

FFS City, how many times are we gonna throw things away in the last minute?

What about two errors in three games?

And this just makes it worse! I remember the club going on about this database they were heralding ... WTF? Didn't we have a list of players from up & down the country/abroad who would be potential targets? Or did we only go out shopping once we started losing/had injuries? It's laughable that we didn't have lists of players ready to be talked to if/when their contracts were up/we saw a future hole in the squad. Reactive as ever, not proactive.

An excellent post, LondonB. I think some fans, myself included, were quite incredulous that we as a club - run by a billionaire whose money was made from a company which surely has a similar set of aims (not similar aims, but a list) - didn't have this in place in either black&white form or just in people's heads/in the Board meetings minutes. What we/I find terrible is that, despite 1982, we didn't seem to even have a whiff of any of this as something explicit among the people running the club. Which leads some of us to think, well, surely they didn't have a list of objectives including those negative attributes you correctly point out (eg the squalid waste of money on people like D James), so what did the club have as stated aims (beyond the usual get to the Prem)? Did we have nothing written or discussed? It's tempting to think this was the case. Also, whilst having nothing inherently against these pillars, we/I are/am concerned they only get trundled out at times of optimism/when things are going well, plus they were easily put to one side by Cotts (youth academy - he point blank said he wasn't going to play kids; £9m financial prudence? I don't see PNE or Hfld spending that yet they outstrip us easily), largely because, it seems, the club didn't have the balls to tell him to stick to them. Either we've got them or we ain't, they can't come and go on a whim. They are good aims, but it's so City to only come to this conclusion later than other clubs and then waver on them. I'm not disagreeing with yr opinion, just a bit hesitant on their tardy creation and implementation.

An excellent post, recording for posterity (or as long as this intermenetthing lasts) the sentiments of City fans. Congrats seconded (thirded?). And a wee bit of tightening up collectively at the back is, indeed, in order. Funny, individually players aren't particularly at fault, yet we look like conceding every/most games since Fleetwood. Knuckling down sounds like a good way forward - plenty of hard work on the training pitch. C'MON!!

0'35"seconds into this, exactly the same angle as one of Baldock's yesterday...goal! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiU1kNJHLyQ And it's irrelevant that it's a Serie A player scoring (and a brilliant one at that, Callejon for Napoli) - you'd see a goal scored like this on the Downs of a Saturday pm. What worries me about Baldrick's 1-on-1 misses is thathe is a recidivist, straight at the keeper's legs nearly every time. He says he could improve this in training (5'15" in this interview - ) but it's been months since he has shown he can do this regularly. The second interviewer even suggests what he could do (changing the angle)!! Personally I think, as an intelligent footballer, he'll find his confidence and start converting some of these 1v1s - let's just not make him the next target for the boo-boys (must admit I got enraged by him yesterday!! But I'd stop before booing, hopefully). C'mon Sam, one thing's for sure - start knocking those easier chances in and we'll have an ever-improving chance of staying up. Cos at the moment, without winning games but drawing them, we're gong down.

On the one hand he scored two from 'five' chances today (a lot of other games he's scored zero from three, four chances) and gets in position to miss/score them; on the other the header in front of the EE was an abysmal effort and not untypical of some of his finishing this season plus, for me, he is at fault for missing 1 v 1s the same way - straight at the keeper. Has he tried to go round the keeper at all (I honestly can't remember! He may have done!)? Surely he should be (and may be) working after training to get that bit of his game right as it is clearly amiss. In our line of work, whatever it might be, we'd work on something that wasn't up to the mark. Couple of things on here: http://thenatchwall.wordpress.com/ But don;t all go too mental, it's all just a matter of opinion! No matter what, gotta keep getting behind him and the lads cos by not winning games like this (ie in this manner) we are going down...

Now come on, mathematically that doesnae add up: left-back to centre-half 1 is one pass centre-half 1 to centre-half 2 is two passes (total) centre-half 2 to right-back is three passes (total) and then the same back again, meaning three passes per full width of the defence. 16 divided by 3 is 5 and a third times across the defence, ie 5 times the full width of the four players plus a final one pass (this being one third of a full width of the four defenders full passes width and third times thirteen equals, ah, um....) What was the sum again?

back in the shadow, sglos? I'm with you on all this, but when have they emerged from said shadow in the past, oooh (pick a number at random), 20 years? I can appreciate from your name, mind, how difficult these past couple of years must have been for you, so more power to your elbow. And knee. And all joints between. That all said - and it is a great song - are we getting carried away too much, having a judicial review doesn't mean their plans are in tatters does it? Don't get me wrong, I want them to pfaff up as much as the next man, but as much as they laughed at us when we were stalled by the dog-walkers, as much as we are laughing at them now, couldn't they be laughing again at us

As some are saying here - enjoy him while he's here and playing. He may well end up some place where he doesn't play as well and fade (again) but get down AG while you can...