The away goals rule discourages one side from defending for the whole 90 minutes like they used to.
You know something, I've NEVER seen us play a big team myself and never been able to afford a season ticket. I go to games where i can afford it. You keep to your preconceived judgemental views and leave it at thatYet thousands could afford to go to London twice in a few weeks and pay a lot more than £20 for a ticket. For the quarter final they couldn't afford £20 with no travelling.And your remark is a bit daft as last season there wasn't a phenomenal difference in price between watching City play Man Utd and other clubs.
My season pass meant I paid about £20 a game for PL football last season
I'll bet that a lot of people who couldn't afford £20 tonight would suddenly be able to find £30 or more if we ended up playing one of the European glamour clubs.
Just another point to consider for those who agree that we should rest players - Internazionale, who won the Champions League within the last few years, put out their strongest possible available team despite the fact they won the first leg away 0-3. They want to get as far as possible in the Europa League despite the fact that if they dont make the UCL for next season as a bare minumum the manager will be sacked.
And before anyone talks about squad depth, they havent got it. They'll use their best XI all the way through I suspect and won't rotate.
Don't they also play fewer league games and I suspect they will also be involved in only 1 domestic cup competition.
A hull city side was put out last night that had it played to 75% of it's potential should have beaten a very average Lokeren side.The fact the majority played to 25% of their potential doesn't fall at SB's door.
The mistake he made however was expecting players accustomed to playing in a 3 man centre midfield to play side by side as a 2. The total lack of anything positive from Meyler and Livermore was our undoing.
Serie A is a 20 team division. And considering we tend to play our ressies in the two cups I don't see the relevance.
Nobody can ever convince me that resting players for these 2 games, at the start of the season, when we have an international break on the horizon, was a good idea. I am more gutted about this than I would ever be about relegation.
We won last night. The damage was done with the 9 changes for the away game.
edit - you could actually argue all outfield players changed in the away game as Chester was in defensive midfield.
Even then the damage was done through an individual cock up that no one could legislate for.
You know something, I've NEVER seen us play a big team myself and never been able to afford a season ticket. I go to games where i can afford it. You keep to your preconceived judgemental views and leave it at that
Bruce out. There's no other option. He's a ****ing fat **** and I hope he gets hit by a bus.
I hate the fat twat more than anyone.
This thread reminded me why i stay off forums now, full of self-opinionated judgemental w**kers. Most City fans are decent but the ones that arent are an embarrassment
This is getting a bit too deep for me, am scratching my head. Am disappointed how its gone but it will help us this season, although Bum Chin is right in that it might not help us and in fact anything can happen! Time to have a cold shower and hope we get a point or two v Villa
I would have still liked to f** her up the arse a few more times before we split though
.How come when we win we complain about how the press report "the other team lost" rather than we had won, yet now it's all about how badly we played?
We have to face it that Lokeren were better over the two legs according to the rules of the competition (i.e. the team scoring most goals and in the event of a tie away goals counting double).
Well done KSC Lokeren, come back soon!