Match Day Thread Hull City v Man City

[City Man]

They'll know we are in the Premier League and ask something daft for him; I don't know how long he has left on his contract, but I'd guess at around £1m. Same thing they'd do if we went in for Paddy Madden.

6 more months and we'll be same league as Scunthorpe.

 

[Steven Toast]

6 more months and we'll be same league as Scunthorpe.

Perhaps, but if they lose their manager now it'd cripple them.

 

[GlassHalfHull]

Subs are always a risk when legs are getting tired and we're playing a decent side. It's a no win situation for Phelan; try to make a change or stick with a setup that isn't producing goals. Football is cruel; Mbokani deserved something today and really made us appreciate his ability. As a team in 20th place we really set ourselves up and played to take points today. Sadly it wasn't to be, but I feel so much better about this team than I did a month or so ago despite our league position. Shame about our owners...

 

[Bengals Tiger]

I was delighted to see huddlestone come off,thought he must be injured as he had been outstanding along with the big nuisance up front
Tactically Phelan had got it pretty on up to that point as we really struggled to make any inroads in between the lines where we really look to hurt teams and but for a brainfart from the lad in the box on our black John Inman it could've gone either way
Special mention for the referee who thinks all 50/50s go to the "bigger club",his performance was dire and does far more harm to the game as a whole when ridiculous leniency is allowed to one team fouling consistently over the other. Used to happen to us all the time so it's easy to see it in reverse and it's not your paranoia kicking in.

"Black John Inman"!! Brilliant, and totally appropriate!

 

[Bengals Tiger]

According to NBC commentator (ex-Arse) Lee Dixon, we were "the boys in orange and black". At least Arlo White had us in Amber and Black.
Good game. I really like Mbokani, against whom countless bad fouls went unpunished. Reminds me of Drogba.

 

[City Man]

According to NBC commentator (ex-Arse) Lee Dixon, we were "the boys in orange and black". At least Arlo White had us in Amber and Black.
Good game. I really like Mbokani, against whom countless bad fouls went unpunished. Reminds me of Drogba.

The match report in the Guardian singles out 'Mbokani up front and Turner at the back' as our star larkers!
Back to the future.

 

[GLP]

No one in particular but it seems to be a general consensus, yet again, that our defeat was down to one simple factor that anyone on here could have avoided. Absolutely nothing changed with Huddlestone coming on (although yes he had played very well). We happened to concede the inevitable penalty just after him coming off. To believe that the two are linked is as daft as native Americans believing that their ritualistic rain dance was the reason for the drought ending the following day.

It is almost as bad as being completely ignorant to the fact that taking off a key player drew pressure onto the defence and allowed Man City to set up camp in our half.

Edit: You mean Huddlestone coming off.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

I like Phelan, he's done a half decent job in ****ty circumstances, but there's no doubt that his substitutions today were appalling.

I keep wanting Mason to come good, but sadly, we seem to have paid £13m for a player who's not much better than me and I'm ****ing terrible.

Why do you like phelan what's he done to make you like him. Cos to see **** all

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Any lower league manager would be no better than Phelan with his financial hands tied.

He desperately hopes

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Anyone mentioned marshalls **** kicking??
Obviously this will draw scorn from the usual simperers. But FFS why keep kicking to Snodgrass when Mbokani has the **** CB on toast. To be fair anyone but a ****ing dwarf could beat Otamemdi in the air.

Why the **** didn't we see stick Harry up front for the last ten minutes??

 

[BrAdY]

Mason is worse than simon walton

 

[Charon]

Why do you like phelan what's he done to make you like him. Cos to see **** all

probably cos he's got more points on the board than Brucie did from the same games 2 years ago/ last seasons promoted teams - at least we don't have to put up with the worst case of nepotism ever to blight our game anymore - I see fatty managed to beat Burton with a £50 million team today

 

[Amin Arrears]

I agree we are not in free fall. The disgraceful substitutions by an incompetent manager have cost us points in each of the past three games. Without them, and bad luck (posts and disgraceful reffing) we could well have had wins against Palace, West Ham, and the Mancs, and been well clear of the relegation zone with 9 more points

. Something however needs to be done about Mason. Phelan appears blind to his weakness and we got taken to the cleaners by Levy yet again. The only solution is to leave him on the bench or loan him out as currently he is a massive weak link and must be disruptive to team morale. Clearly none of the others will pass to him and he tackles/marks nobody. I'd be interested to see how many goals we've conceded when he's on the field!!!!

Sorry Canada but what an absolute pile of ****.

 

[City Man]

Just had a look on 'FMTTM' and it's both comforting and reassuring to see their armchair managers place the blame fairly and squarely on the shoulders of Aitor Karanka and his 'in game management' decisions at Burnley today.

 

[Ernie Shackleton]

Taking the mighty Tom off?

The worst managerial decision since Alf so called Ramsey pulled off Bobby Charlton verses Germany in 1970.


Is Phelan a ****ing idiot? He's sure acting like one. Mason and Henriksen are ****e. If they are the future of this club then we are as ****ed as a twopenny whore at a 50℅ off brothel with reduced rates for twosomes.

 

[PLT]

According to NBC commentator (ex-Arse) Lee Dixon, we were "the boys in orange and black". At least Arlo White had us in Amber and Black.
Good game. I really like Mbokani, against whom countless bad fouls went unpunished. Reminds me of Drogba.

He played well doing what he does, but if he had any pace he'd have been much more of a threat today. There were a couple of times when we got the ball in behind for him and he couldn't outrun their defenders. If he'd just been able to get ahead then it suddenly becomes very hard to stop him without a foul which would be a red card. Because he didn't have that, the defender was just in front every time and ended up getting the soft free kick their way.

 

[Cortez91]

No one in particular but it seems to be a general consensus, yet again, that our defeat was down to one simple factor that anyone on here could have avoided. Absolutely nothing changed with Huddlestone coming on (although yes he had played very well). We happened to concede the inevitable penalty just after him coming off. To believe that the two are linked is as daft as native Americans believing that their ritualistic rain dance was the reason for the drought ending the following day.

We lost our shape and seemingly invited pressure with Huddlestone's removal. Mason was an non-entity in midfield unfortunately.

Nobody is linking the two as cause and effect as a direct thing but it changed the pattern of play definitely.

The substitution also killed the atmosphere as, after a few NO chants, the stands seemed to silence.

 

[Cortez91]

Subs are always a risk when legs are getting tired and we're playing a decent side. It's a no win situation for Phelan; try to make a change or stick with a setup that isn't producing goals. Football is cruel; Mbokani deserved something today and really made us appreciate his ability. As a team in 20th place we really set ourselves up and played to take points today. Sadly it wasn't to be, but I feel so much better about this team than I did a month or so ago despite our league position. Shame about our owners...

The players didn't look tired. They'd had a longer midweek break than normal too (Sat to following Monday) so I doubt he brought Hudd off because he was tired.

 

[Cortez91]

Anyone mentioned marshalls **** kicking??
Obviously this will draw scorn from the usual simperers. But FFS why keep kicking to Snodgrass when Mbokani has the **** CB on toast. To be fair anyone but a ****ing dwarf could beat Otamemdi in the air.

Why the **** didn't we see stick Harry up front for the last ten minutes??

Said this after the West Ham game on that match thread. Kicking is really poor. Most went out of play or to a Man City player.

 

[City Man]

Said this after the West Ham game on that match thread. Kicking is really poor. Most went out of play or to a Man City player.

Bravo banged one straight into touch today too.