Match Day Thread Gillingham v Southampton, EFL Cup 1st Round, 8th August, 19:45
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I must admit I do find this whole "oh look how amazing the championship is" combined with "but we MUST get promoted this season" rather baffling.
Yeah meant to put “or lower”
Anyway it’s not like we have any chance of winning a domestic cup. The chances of winning one when not a European level team are remote enough let alone when not even a Prem team.
The team he chose had no balance. I don’t think this game was ever going to prove anything apart from RM didn’t want to win!
Yep Boro won in 2004, Birmingham won in 2012 and Birminhgam.lost to Pool in 2001.
No one lately, due to the ****/negative attitude of coaches to cup competitions
Moussa for me literally has zero football brain. The others are just pretty ****, but Moussa I wonder if he actually knows the game, rules etc.
And yep, I’d suggest RM has some ammo of get these useless ****ers out the club. They are toxic in their crapness.
Surely we have better CBs in the club than Lyanco.
And I’m sure with Alex, the club would love to have rid but he wont go for his wages. Sent he in the last year (again) of his contract?
Come on now. We may be losing 3-0 to a league 2 side, but we sold a player to a CL side this week and made SR a wedge. It's not about winning games anymore, it's about selling youngsters with a huge mark up. Yes Gillingham are through to the next round, but did their owners pocket 30 odd million quid? We know who the real winners are today 
Think this was the bigger issue than the personnel tbh. Not sure what we expected playing just 1 CM who has played CB all preseason.
I stupidly put my bet on before seeing teemsheets. Schoolboy error.
At least Martin has seen exactly who/why he can't trust
I’d be furious paying a fiver for the audio to this.
Listening on talk sport and I’m pissed off its wasted some charge on my iPods.
It’s quite simple really. The Championship is amazing for a side like us because we are the Man City of the league financially, this means we should win lots of games and be competing at the top of the table. This makes it amazing
We then must get promoted because if we don’t we quickly aren’t the Man City of the league due to relegated teams taking that honour and quickly become the Saints of the league and do **** all every year losing more games than we win.
The ideal scenario is to be a Fulham/Norwich yo-yo team where every year we are either contending for promotion or trying to not get relegated, keeps it interesting (well as interesting as it can be)
I’d be surprised if he couldn’t see that Moussa, Lynaco etc were **** from training. TBF, we thought we’d got shot of Lyanco.
Lincs, I have to like this, as I seem to agree from a different angleCome on now. We may be losing 3-0 to a league 2 side, but we sold a player to a CL side this week and made SR a wedge. It's not about winning games anymore, it's about selling youngsters with a huge mark up. Yes Gillingham are through to the next round, but did their owners pocket 30 odd million quid? We know who the real winners are today
Oh yeah I don't disagree, just pointing out that wasn't the best example lol as we're certainly not a worse team than Bradford were.
It's not all about winning though (luckily for SFC) . Playing new teams, the run itself, unexpected results, the excitement of a draw. Look how poor we were last year and still made a semi.
The City win was probably the highlight of the entire of last season? I'm gutted to be out as I always am.
Need a big performance on Saturday.
He must have etched horror shows for last season and known that already
I'd prefer to yoyo between Champ and L1 tbh. Get some seasons of the first round of the cup and no international breaks then.
Okay, but Man City take every competition seriously, so we are not the Man City of our league. Mabe the Cystal Palace of our league?