Man City v Everton. 5th Oct @ 12.45.

[Clubber Lang]

YES CHICO.

Boss

 

[Skeleton Crew]

Stars aligning.

Everton 2-1 on a Joe Hart howler and this McCarthy puts his foot through one Road House style.

 

[ijjysmith]

I prefer to have them on, thx.

While that's all fun and everything if you're gonna have them on you may as well have said our players > their players and be done with it.

 

[billycopper]

According to physio room Gibson and Mirallas will be having late fitness tests and Pienaar is likely to be unavailable too. With Barry also out, if the worst comes to the worst we could be left with:

_________Howard
Coleman Jagielka Distin Baines
_____Heitinga McCarthy
Naismith __Barkley ____Osman
__________Lukaku

(Joel, Deulofeu, Oviedo, Jelavic, Kone, Stones, Gueye)

Will Pelligrini persist with Hart or opt for Pantillimon? Either way, we need to put their 'keeper under as much pressure as possible.

 

[Norwegian Cow]

While that's all fun and everything if you're gonna have them on you may as well have said our players > their players and be done with it.

that wouldnt make a debate on which of our players is better than theirs.

 

[rayfox]

Bookies have us 4/1, 5/2 the draw, City 4/7.

We need Mirallas to play, I've not a clue what to expect honestly, I'll say a draw, or maybe a City win!

 

[Midnitemike]

"It’s literally like having Pump, Hexalite, Nike Air and Torsion in your MFI wardrobe 1989 and having to choose every time you leave the house". Back to your best Chico!

Tough one to call. Hopefully Toure and Fernandinho being run into the ground last night and not a lot of recovery time with it being the early Saturday kick off will help us secure a narrow victory. I'd be happy with a draw too. Hate getting beat in that early kick off - ruins your entire weekend.

 

[bignev23]

Is right! We can win this,no doubt about it. 2-3 Everton.

 

[paulbefc]

No disgrace in losing this at all. If we lose, we lose. They will beat 90% of their opponents there this year.

We may have a couple of important names out, too. We'll also go for the win whoever we have fit, so if we're unlucky or not at the races it could possibly be a heavy defeat. I don't think we need to worry if that happens though. We've seen enough positives so far to know that we're on the right track. We'll have plenty of time to get over it and get players back and fit over the break.

On the other hand, we're still a quality side capable of winning these games so we could shock everyone and come out of it with three points because we'll genuinely go for it too.

 

[The Esk]

Love the answers to Paul Futchers guest slot in Shoot!

 

[davek]

Love the answers to Paul Futchers guest slot in Shoot!

Ha Ha. Yes. He sounded like a proper surly bugger.

 

[blueser]

I prefer to have them on, thx.

Keep them on lad it's biased and I like it.

 

[MickM86]

Do you think Coleman and Baines will get up the wings as often? They've got a very strong country attack with Navas and Nasri

 

[Eggs]

...love the old pics. Now here's something, I actually played against Paul Futcher and scored a hat-trick, which shows how good he was. Anyway, memories of Main Road are not very happy so the pic of braziers on the pitch in fron t of that horrible Kippax Stand remind me of Brian Hamilton's disallowed goal. Was there in '66 for the 0-0 draw on the way to the FA Cup so not all bad.
Don't expect anything on Saturday, be made up with a point but would mostly like to see continued progression.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Howard
Coleman Jagielka Distin Baines
Mirallas Gibson McCarthy Deulofeu
Barkley
Lukaku

Man City 2 Everton 2