Thick & fast

[Shay_K]

Sorry let me be clearer

We are short at Full Back as we only have two specialists that I believe to be at the right level; Trent and Robbo. One is injured and out until New Year at least. Without Trent too we'd be mighty fucked. Hence we are 'short'

Regarding midfield we have two long term injured, one seemingly 'fragile' (Jones) and Gravenberch potentially so too. Leaves us with Szobo, Mac Allister and Endo as our core midfield. A bit of a worry for 10 games in 31 days

Finally up front we have a luxury of options for the left and the centre but neither Doak nor Elliott feel good enough to cover for Mo. We can't expect him to do all 10 and then fuck off to the AFCON

FYI last AFCON DJ stepped up.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Are you speaking from bitter/disappointing experience?

 

[Frogfish]

Your welcome

... your ?!

You teasing trollop !

 

[tombrown]

Fazakerley

 

[tombrown]

Your welcome

cheer's

 

[dee]

... your ?!

You teasing trollop !

Baited and waited

 

[Frogfish]

Baited and waited

See the white text

 

[dee]

... your ?!

You teasing trollop !

oh - very James Bond!

 

[Shay_K]

... your ?!

You teasing trollop !

.....grammar is appaling.

 

[dee]

From the resumption of the season post-International break to the Boxing Day game we have 10 games in just 31 days. Thanks to the shit show against Toulouse we can't let up on any fixture. Whilst we have fared better with injuries so far we do have a few out for these games already and this is where injuries are likely if the squad isn't managed well.

25/11 EPL Man City (A)
30/11 EL LASK (H)
3/12 EPL Fulham (H)
6/12 EPL Sheff Utd (A)
9/12 EPL Crystal Palace (A)
14/12 EL Union St. Gilliose (A)
17/12 EPL Man Utd (H)
20/12 LC West Ham (QF, H)
23/12 EPL Arsenal (H)
26/12 EPL Burnley (A)

At first glance it does look kind in terms of opponents compared to our rivals but we are far from invincible and the run up to Xmas could well define our season.

Injuries:

• Robbo - out to NY
• Bacjectic - Out to NY
• Thiago - Out to NY
• Konate - unclear but suggestion not a bad one (thigh) and back soon
• Joe Gomez - no news
• Gravenberch - expected to be available for Man City
• Jones - expected to be available for Man City

So two down, four injured returned but two added to the list. We have one of the least injured Squads at the moment and the games are all winnable.

Excited? Much? I fucking am!

 

[dee]

25/11 EPL Man City (A) 1-1
30/11 EL LASK (H) 4-0

3/12 EPL Fulham (H)
6/12 EPL Sheff Utd (A)
9/12 EPL Crystal Palace (A)
14/12 EL Union St. Gilliose (A)
17/12 EPL Man Utd (H)
20/12 LC West Ham (QF, H)
23/12 EPL Arsenal (H)
26/12 EPL Burnley (A)

 

[dee]

City”s fixtures:

3/12 EPL Spurs (H)
6/12 EPL Aston Villa (A)
10/12 EPL Luton (A)
13/12 UCL Red Star Belgrade (A)
16/12 EPL Crystal Palace (H)
19/12 CWC TBD (SF)
22/12 CWC Fluminense (F)* (game vs Brentford postponed)
26/12 EPL Everton (A)

 

[The Nomad]

I'm expecting us to bury LASK on the 30th Nov. and Toulouse won't win at Union St. Gilloise so that will be the EL group won - giving us a free hit (youngsters) away at Union St. Gilloise for the last game in the group, and a nice rest for the senior players between Palace on the 9th and United on the 17th.

Xmas by far the worst of that fixture list because of the West Ham ¼ final in the LC just before Arsenal 3 days later.

Fair Play.. you called it.

 

[Frogfish]

So two down, four injured returned but two added to the list. We have one of the least injured Squads at the moment and the games are all winnable.

Excited? Much? I fucking am!

Have to say I'm a little worried with Ali being out (who was the silly bugger who recently said he never gets injured) although I have confidence in Kelleher he's still not Becker.

 

[Frogfish]

City”s fixtures:

3/12 EPL Spurs (H)
6/12 EPL Aston Villa (A)
10/12 EPL Luton (A)
13/12 UCL Red Star Belgrade (A)
16/12 EPL Crystal Palace (H)
19/12 CWC TBD (SF)
22/12 CWC Fluminense (F)* (game vs Brentford postponed)
26/12 EPL Everton (A)

Meh. Bar Villa away there's nothing they won't win at a canter. Hopefully winning the CWC takes it out of them.

How about Arsenal? More worried about them as we play United, Union G. then the Arse within a week. They have a full week's rest before they play us. We'll need to rest the whole of the 1st team at Union G. although at least it's not far to travel to/from.

5th Dec (A) Luton
9th Dec (A) Villa
12th Dec. (A) PSV. (Arsenal have won the group already)
17th (H) Brighton
No midweek game - already out of the LC.
23rd (A) Liverpool

 

[dee]

Meh. Bar Villa away there's nothing they won't win at a canter. Hopefully winning the CWC takes it out of them.

How about Arsenal? More worried about them as we play United, Union G. then the Arse within a week. They have a full week's rest before they play us. We'll need to rest the whole of the 1st team at Union G. although at least it's not far to travel to/from.

5th Dec (A) Luton
9th Dec (A) Villa
12th Dec. (A) PSV. (Arsenal have won the group already)
17th (H) Brighton
No midweek game - already out of the LC.
23rd (A) Liverpool

They go to the Netherlands we go to Belgium, both group winners already so that's a 'snap'. We play 3 games on the bounce at home United, West Ham (LC) and then Arse. So we do have the extra game but mitigated by no travel and we have (at the moment) a strong squad available to select from.

Alisson (probably back for United) - Robertson - El Muerte, Bajcetic - Jota

 

[dee]

So, so far so good!

Second in the league with the best GD. Despite having a shit strike force, no defensive CM and a CB crisis

 

[Modo]

So, so far so good!

Second in the league with the best GD. Despite having a shit strike force, no defensive CM and a CB crisis

We had the best attack in the league at the start of the season

 

[dee]

We had the best attack in the league at the start of the season

I was being a touch sarcastic!

 

[Dreambeliever]

So, so far so good!

Second in the league with the best GD. Despite having a shit strike force, no defensive CM and a CB crisis

The wheels wil come off and everyone will spaz out. Just enjoy the ride. But we are playing a high risk game and eventually you lose.