SHOCKING DEFENCE, WORRYING BUT PLENTY OF PASSION AND HEART

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To me that was shocking, any club that gives away two goals against a poor West Brom team in eight minutes are always going to be on the back foot and the odds were always going to be stacked against us to get those three points.

My biggest worry is,yes we can score goals but we certainly know how to concede sloppy ones and the defence in my opinion has not improved one bit and has actually got worse and that is going to be Ole's downfall.

I thought for the first 30 minutes we were clueless all over the pitch and thankfully some could say a wonder goal others might say different but Mutch's goal put us right back in it, I have always said going in at half time to get yourself back in the game is everything and fair play somehow we had managed it, I had been dreading if they had scored the third.

For the first time in months, I feel David Marshall had a nightmare of a game, he was responsible for their first goal and after a great equaliser by Stephen Caulker, Marshall was totally to blame for West Brom's third.

Just a few players I am going to mention, Zaha's moments of brilliance but once again only in patches, I thought Bellamy was everywhere without achieving anything, Campbell was everywhere as he usually is but no end product, Gunnarsson was well below par.

To me Daehli who only played 45 minutes of the game was my man of the match not just for his great goal which made it 3-3 in the dying seconds and sent the City fans into raptures but I felt he kept opening up the game and his passing and his runs were all spot on, it took a youngster to drive the team forward.

I feel a lot of those players need to look at themselves and Ole needs to sort that defence out ASAP otherwise we are going down, it is well and truly out of our hands,six games left and we have to win at least three or four games to stay, can it be done ? Personally to me it looks impossible but as City fans we have always got to believe until it is impossible.

We have to beat Crystal Palace, Stoke, Sunderland and Southampton or Newcastle and still hope that other teams mess up, our fans were amazing today and they are the ones who deserved the equaliser to make it 3-3

Fair play to Ole, when he came over at the end I loved seeing the passion and heart in him and the care he showed towards us but is that enough to keep us up?

I wouldn't exactly blame the first goal on the defence, freakish goal.

Not sure why you are surprised.

Taylor, Gunn, KTC - says it all really!

You can't afford three lightweights in a team who should desperate to win, those players have so many weaknesses, makes you wonder how bad others are who can;t get in the first team!

I think there's going to be a lot more twists and turns, but I honestly think that, that last second goal by Matt's will do the team the world of good , its what they deserved and its something we have not had for a while. The bottom 9 teams are still in trouble . Its going to go to the last game of the season. Confidence and belief and a little bit of luck and who knows.

Totally agree about Marshall
Agree zaha is offering very little
Gunnerson is so off I can't believe it
Bellamy played himself in 2nd half after a poor first half
Deilie changed the game for us without doubt
But come on annis the defence is Malky ,s legacy
Taylor caulker turner ktc all Malky,s signings
We missed cala big time
To come back the way we did TWICE was excellent
So take off those Malky blinkers and for a change support ole and the boys until we are safe or down
And I don't mean by just singing and shouting we will always be blue

Also to say the fans were brilliant is not quite right
Just like the players us fans started slowly but in the end came good

was Cala injured today?

was Cala injured today?

Yes

Gunnerson Taylor average championship players end of'

was Cala injured today?

Yes

He was a big miss but still a good result

Totally agree about Marshall
Agree zaha is offering very little
Gunnerson is so off I can't believe it
Bellamy played himself in 2nd half after a poor first half
Deilie changed the game for us without doubt
But come on annis the defence is Malky ,s legacy
Taylor caulker turner ktc all Malky,s signings
We missed cala big time
To come back the way we did TWICE was excellent
So take off those Malky blinkers and for a change support ole and the boys until we are safe or down
And I don't mean by just singing and shouting we will always be blue

Malky's defence but it's Ole's tactics end off

Were u Steve singing We will Always be BLUE as well today and at other games? Yes I love the song in fact I was one of the first to ever sing it Sept 2012 By the way Ole loves it as well

Not sure why you are surprised.

Taylor, Gunn, KTC - says it all really!

You can't afford three lightweights in a team who should desperate to win, those players have so many weaknesses, makes you wonder how bad others are who can;t get in the first team!

Agree poor signings, our lack of depth has been the problem all season.

People forget it was a massive game for wba too. If they had won today it would have put a gap between us. After all the warcry in the week, they were always going to come out of the blocks 100 miles an hour. Problem was Medal made the mistake of heading that ball backwards and their player got lucky. That goal knocked us for six and lifted them. We were all over the shop for 10-15 mins after that.

We finally re-grouped and took the game to them. Second half I thought we were the better team and once we got to 2-2 we should have up the tempo and won the game.

Not the best result but who knows we are still in the fight, which didn't look likely after going two down and 3-2 down after 90 mins.

Ole commented on how good the fans were after the game

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Your a true blue Annis

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Steve your 2 Seats behind me on the coach, thanks for the sandwich and your iPad

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Steve your 2 Seats behind me on the coach, thanks for the sandwich and your iPad

Any deserts Steve ?

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

Just desserts you mean

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

Our defence was just as shit under Malky as it is under Ole the stats say so

It's a myth we were losing and not scoring
You can't win games if you don't score

People forget it was a massive game for wba too. If they had won today it would have put a gap between us. After all the warcry in the week, they were always going to come out of the blocks 100 miles an hour. Problem was Medal made the mistake of heading that ball backwards and their player got lucky. That goal knocked us for six and lifted them. We were all over the shop for 10-15 mins after that.

We finally re-grouped and took the game to them. Second half I thought we were the better team and once we got to 2-2 we should have up the tempo and won the game.

Not the best result but who knows we are still in the fight, which didn't look likely after going two down and 3-2 down after 90 mins.

Ole commented on how good the fans were after the game

Ackers a fair post

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

But you have to admit Ole knows how to get the players scoring goals 6 goals in 2 games Malky was clueless regarding our attack though, so i think we call it even and just get behind the team forget about this manager competition for now

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

Our defence was just as shit under Malky as it is under Ole the stats say so

Today was the 12th league match with OGS in charge of the team and we have collected 8 of the 36 points available, scoring 14 goals, conceding 29 goals, failing to score in 6 games and keeping 1 clean sheet.

In MM last 12 games in charge we collected 9 of the 36 points available, scoring 7 goals, conceding 21 goals, failing to score in 6 games and keeping clean sheets in 2 games.

So when Annis says we have a shocking defence you can sort of see where he is coming from. But one thing is certain we are carrying far more goal threat under OGS than we ever were under MM.

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

Ive played a couple of games in my time, but never have i blamed my own mistakes on tactics. im sure you will enlighten us with your brilliant analyzes when your done flirting on the way home.

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

Our defence was just as shit under Malky as it is under Ole the stats say so

Today was the 12th league match with OGS in charge of the team and we have collected 8 of the 36 points available, scoring 14 goals, conceding 29 goals, failing to score in 6 games and keeping 1 clean sheet.

In MM last 12 games in charge we collected 9 of the 36 points available, scoring 7 goals, conceding 21 goals, failing to score in 6 games and keeping clean sheets in 2 games.

So when Annis says we have a shocking defence you can sort of see where he is coming from. But one thing is certain we are carrying far more goal threat under OGS than we ever were under MM.

Your only providing stats for Malky on his last 12 games when in fact he was in charge of 18 games, what are his stats for all 18 games? Somewhat worse?

I just can't see us beating a Crystal Palace side marshalled by Tony Pullis, I'm sorry to say buts it's 1-3 palace I believe

But it's the same players do you really think ole sends them out to switch off like they do
And yes I do sing that but also sing lots of other songs unlike you

Malky until Tan hammered him always had a mean defence and u have to admit Ole is clueless regarding our defence, honesty please

But you have to admit Ole knows how to get the players scoring goals 6 goals in 2 games Malky was clueless regarding our attack though, so i think we call it even and just get behind the team forget about this manager competition for now

Yes plenty of goals, but if we score the oposition will score as many or on most occasions more, so at that ratio, we can only go down and that means failure and come May if Ole fails, City's attendances will be at least 10,000 down next season and we will be a Championship side thanks to Ole's exciting football but terrible tactics which win no prizes at the end of it and that's what really matters in football, a fact.

Ole has also yet to get even a point of a top 10 team , where as nearly all the other teams in the bottom half can get points and many have beaten top 10 teams. Also I can never forget the Swansea and Hull humiliations . Top bloke Ole, nice genuine man, very passionate but sadly way out of his depth in the Premier League.

Hopefully come May, I will be wrong

Just another player to have a go at, Marshall been outstanding this season, 1st goal was a freak goal just like ours, if our defending was better we would keep clean sheets,