MarcusX

Absolutely, a week or too in Germany on holiday with the Mrs and watching England at another tournament Plus I’ve resigned myself to the fact members won’t get a sniff. Fair play though, great pricing and a massive crowd incoming.

I wonder if there should have been something for members with X away games too ahead of just members - but then there’s probably several people in the pecking order somewhere who think they should be higher. Ive got 3 England group game tickets to buy Sunday, a week before Xmas so may just give this a miss anyway

We’ve been better away

Fair play to the club for the pricing but anyone else not that bothered about the game? A team we’ve played several times in recent years, little chance of a win and a shit area to get to - and now it’s a Sunday too. I get it’s a new ground, but it’s a terrible experience especially for away fans.

The board, 100%. It’s not the players - they were giving their all for Pearson. I just don’t think some of them are good enough to play this style of football and the the rest just need time to adapt to what’s being asked (as a team I mean - patterns of play and movement etc). it’s not Manning. He’s been brought in with a particular remit and a lot of pressure due to the idiots above him comments. its the Board, Jon, Tinnion and Steve ultimately to blame here if it gets worse.

Coulda woulda shoulda Sums up life as a City fan to be fair, that bit isn’t new at least

Had their commentary on and they felt they were let off tonight. Uncomfortable viewing they said. I’m with OP on this though, it’s regression. Also, I like Max but he’s not good enough with his distribution to play possession football. There’s no point knocking 10-15 passes around then Max hoofing it under pressure. The truth is, we’ve completely changed our style and some players aren’t good enough to adapt. We’ve built a squad to suit Pearson’s style and now we need to change players again.

Of those 5 how many did we expect to win? Leicester and Leeds away practically a given, and Ipswich home which we almost got a draw from. Stoke was a freak result but definitely poor to lose that form 2 up. Then consider his injury list. 1 defeat in 7 in the league before those 7. Out of Mannings 6, we’ve won 1 and would have reasonably expected to win 2-3 more (Huddersfield, QPR and Blackburn)

On this occasion he was actually “saved” by VAR… could have been straight red for the first one

Brill, I shall rush home from football and virtually nip across the channel

In fairness, the fans don’t have to step out on a pitch and perform at an elite level. Take the environment aspect out of it, flying can make sense for performance. Same reason teams stay over night before games etc. Long travel can be detrimental to performance what irks me from an environment perspective is usually when clubs fly, someone still drives the coach up too to transfer them. I think it’s more likely to be confidence / United. They’ve ruined several players, just look at the Sancho situation.

I’ve seen this game won’t be available on Robins TV? Is that just UK viewers or not shown at all?

Not sure we can win and get a negative goal difference… we’ll be 8th, if we win by 2 it’ll be 7th

Perhaps it's not trendy but people are more comfortable about talking about their issues and don't see it as negatively as many used to? That's not necessarily a bad thing. I was about to reply to your first comment above suggesting it came across as ignorant towards how hard it actually is to get a diagnosis. I was then going to revoke the ignorant comment as it's clear you do realise how hard it is to get a diagnosis, then I read your last line. There are not "big numbers" that identify as a cat FFS

Seen quite a bit of it recently, at Millwall there was one particular lad and what I assume was his dad continuously V signing and other gestures at the away fans all game and even stayed after the game to carry on. Lad must have been about 10-12 no older. Similarly at the Ipswich home game in Dolman block next to away fans there was a young lad who spent half the game shouting, swearing and what not towards away fans and each time looking back at his dad for approval. I feel sorry for these kids, they’ve been let down by shit parenting, but it’d also not new - I remember at school when we started going at that age there was a group from our year who where Swindon fans and just went to try and scrap every week.

You can’t give results based on perceived deservedness

I think this is where it’s frustrating, if you need 5 minutes to review it then it probably wasn’t a clear and obvious error. Been lots of examples lately of weird decisions though - for and against England last week (Kane “dive”, Maguire foul was a pen and the handball wasn’t IMO) I don’t think it’s working in its current state and it’s an awful experience for a fan in the ground

I’m in and around that area too. There’s also a guy I’ve seen I think Chatteris way when I’ve played there, seen a bloke and young lad (possibly his son) on separate occasions wearing a city shirt. Always takes me by surprise that far from home!

Nah no sympathy for Leicester, they cheated their way out of the Championship

“Recent” record means nothing, especially when you’re going back 10-15 years

Blue? New Year’s Eve, or possible the day before maybe if I recall? They’d gone the calendar year unbeaten at home to that point

From my experience, introductions of sin bins haven't really dettered people from dissent - as someone else said there were already punishments available for referees to handle dissent, I still just see that same that some do and some dont. Also, a sin bin doesn't go through as a fine like a yellow (or red) does. It's about £16 now for a yellow card which is much more of a detterant to most I play with than 10 minutes off the pitch. And you can be on a yellow and get sin binned, it doesn't lead to a red - and vice versa you can pick up a yellow after returning - so almost gives you an extra offence before a red

Agreed, we have them at our level and it's just another inconsistency that gets frustrating No idea, never seen a sin bin for it at our level

Yea it’s not quite as Caulker has put it from what I’ve read. It wasn’t TV it was an online platform and solely sponsored by bet365.

I had a Beckham shirt on But, if there's 2 things I f****** hate it's paper aeroplanes and mexican waves I think at the moment front 4 picks itself, although Saka's having a downturn in form recently I'm sure he'll come back. We could do with a better left back option materialising. Rico Lewis perhaps. Trippier does a job for now, but isn't the ideal answer. Still not sure about Trent in midfield, he's got a good range of passing but a bit of a luxury player off the ball. Maddison is an option. Centre Back is the interesting one. Big 4 months for someone to stamp their place on that position, Colwill perhaps like you say. It's still Maguire for me at this moment in time