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Not so sure about that. They'll gather their share of the arrivistes. But Manchester City just aren't as sexy a concept as Chelsea were went they did the same thing a few years back. Speaking from a purely Yank perspective. Maybe its the London bias, but I can't see American glory-hunters going for Man City in the same numbers as they fell for the "big four". (That is, unless, they really go over the top and dominate the Premier League for two or three seasons... ) They've got some really good players though, can see a lot of people latching on to them because of the likes of Silva, Ballotelli, Aguero, Nasri.

It's not too different to a long-term Sky customer always paying the full whack for the top package and me swanning in as a new customer and getting free Sky Sports 2, 3 and 4 for 6 months and then free HD for the 6 months after that really, is it? And incidentally I kept the sports and am now pondering whether to keep the HD. That's what this is all about surely, that and improving attendances and hopefully the atmosphere in the short-term.

We're still not buying Carlton Cole.

Cos that'll happen won't it?!? 'Alright mate, seen this deal the toon are doing, £207 for a season ticket!!! Wanna use my details?' 'Aye, cheers mate!' 'Nee bother, cost ya £50 (or whatever!!!)' They'd tell you where to go. So even though it's only available to existing ST holders by no means are we going to come out of this better off in any way. I'd probably buy the person a few pints or give them £20 or something. Better than nowt. I can see where people are coming from with this but they're not filling the ground. As I've said previously there's a delicate balance between filling the ground and not pissing off season ticket holders. It'll go down well with my dad because he's bought one for my brother at a big discount but I can see why people would be a touch peeved. They'll be hoping they don't need to do as much stuff like this from next season onwards, that will be the idea here.

You know exactly where the whole thing's going with that phrase at the beginning.

Hope that's true man.

We've had easy fixtures / they're still waiting for their superstar signings to settle and blitz the league. Daylight robbery.

Spot on. Smith didn't even get a game in the last 2 rounds against lower league opposition, would be very disappointed if he was involved in this game. Can't wait until the fucker's contract finally runs out, such a drain on the club.

FFS man.

He is a good bloke my dad like.

Reminds me of a couple of Tino stories that were doing the rounds.

He's one of the biggest twats going.

Aye, I'm finally warming to him, I still think he's a bit of a prick but as a manager he's doing phenomenally well and I can't help but commend him. Subs-wise he was spot on for a change yesterday imo, well almost. Best had been ineffectual and we all wanted to see Ben Arfa play more than 20 minutes, Ba looked knackered and Shola had done enough in the last game to play a decent chunk, Marveaux for Obertan was a no-brainer but could have probably been actioned a touch sooner. He's doing a great job at the minute, it has to be said. 19 points from 9 games is unreal.

Aye, brilliant pass. My favourite non-NUFC moment this season, my jaw dropped.

Funny one that like, Brighton's the other end of the country.

He enjoy watching the match on a stream yesterday? Dickhead.

Arsenal game was pretty bad but other than that we've been good as gold iirc. Seemed way dirtier last year than this.

The East Stand's a fucking special case though.

Aye, it's mental how everyone's saying we're playing pure shite and our league position's unacceptable. I honestly don't get this attitude that players and performances are beyond criticism because we're winning games. Everyone's clearly delighted at how we're doing, I'm fucking delirious with how it's gone and today was a massively satisfying win imo. You can always improve though.

Amazing creatures.

This year. We've had him a little over two month. You know what I mean, we've played 9 league games and he's been ridiculously quiet in at least 3 or 4 of them. And I know he popped up with a great goal today and of course I like him and rate him.

What the fuck, I presumed that one of them said magedia once and we all laughed. They're actually using that regularly, are they?

yes exactly, some people need to lay off this guy, yes he had some shitty moments today but gettng on his back like that was shocking, the moaning and groans from our own crowd was embaressing, i think obertan should just accept that he's got a shit right foot and use it less, we know he's left footed but every time he crossed with his right foot today was simply not good enough. i think if the crowd cut him some slack he may had, had more patience and worked the ball back to his left side then cross or pass or wahtever. give this kid a break. He's left footed, is he? I'll never have a go at a player when I'm at the match (well I'd not gan mad anyway) but I think people are perfectly within their rights to discuss his merits as a player away from the match. As for people cheering when he went off, I agree that that's not on. However it will be born out of frustration and also a slight desire to send a message to the manager that as well as we're doing this guy should not be starting games. Sounds stupid but to me Obertan seems the opposite to Nolberto Solano to me, you don't have to be a ridiculously gifted athlete if you've got footballing intelligence like Nobby had, but you'll soon get found out if you've got pace, pointless tricks and nowt else.

I do think Cabaye's done his invisible man impression quite a few times this year mind, delectable as he is let's hope that's more a case of him getting used to the league than an indication of the type of player that he is.

Fucking hell, I honestly thought Tiote had a really good game.