“John Hawley.”

“John Horley to replace Swanny”

“Correction - game is on at 7 am Pacific Time / 4am Eastern”

“after tuesdays fantastic performance it has to be the same team again.imo. man citys defence gives the tigers massive hope of a win as long as we remain tight ourselves.

reports suggest adam johnson and vieira will make there debuts which also helps. with 2 winnable away games to follow this is a good place to start. UTT”

“For everyone else here in Yankee Town - FSC has the game at 7:30 am PST - 4:30: EST ..... will have the DVR on, but will get to the see the game!”

“Mel, :) cant help u w that one mate. Egyptians and Algerians are bros, anyone that says otherwise has had their head brainwashed by the media of both countries. Many victims of that though unfortunately.”

“Bloody Hell Maestro!!!!.I've just scoffed a curry (hence the logo)and knitted and purled 342 rows of Mels scarf reading that.”

“Pitcher, Queens gardens 13:33 - Great point son, let Phil Brown do the job he gets paid for, couldn't agree more, .... so with that line of thought, you too should do the job you get paid for: drink cheep booze and sleep under a park bench in Queens Gardens. Hooray for sanity!”

“By heck Maestro, you put a shift in with that post. Watch out or Jez will have you for it.

By the way, we would all like a chant that Zaki would like to here. Bearing in mind where some of our other players come from.”

“There's alot to talk about but i'm gonna choose consistency as Costa mentioned it earlier in this post. Consistency is definately important, as I'm sure many of you that are happy with recent performances might argue, fearing that any change to the starting squad could change the results/performances that we have seen lately. In my humble opinion, there is only one performance, and it was that agst Chelsea, and I disagree strongly with Andy, Chelsea was outplayed, outspirited and outperfomed and Hull was not only a match to chelsea, in terms of tactics, Hull controlled the game both offensively and defensively. Up to 3 changes in the squad u maintain consistency, for instance, let me demonstrate, take Ivanovic a bulky huge defender, hunt killed him, he was faster, more agile, quicker on the stop and go, so Ivanovic had to go in my opinion, because he wasn't suitable for Hunt. Mcchane is a fighter, he was having all sorts of problems but was still killing himself for the team and that spirit is needed because its simply contagious, however as many have mentioned, Bellamy will run circles around him. Every game has different opponents and different mixes and matches and that's where the management comes in, you can't have a slow or a bulk player marking a sprinter, it simply won't work, and that's y a manager will mix and match from his subs to match each game. So consistency does matter but its resembled in the main frame of the squad, fearing the change of a player in the startup is more towards superstition than consistency. As for keeping Zaki on the bench to keep Altidore and JVoh on their heels, could be like saying keep Rooney on the bench so Owen and Berbatov could get it together, metphorically for illustration and not comparatively. It also doesn't make sense. Back to the Chelsea game, the reason I call it the only performance, is that I am backing those on here that are starting to believe, rather than those that remain negative and are waiting fo PB's next f..kup. This game saw a complete change in spirit, in confidence, in tactics...pressing the opponent, tightning the humungous gaps (in the wolves game) between the lines, taking the game to them, attacking play, team play, external mangemnt....the worx. Its not just the 4-4-2, although it helped enormously, but actually playing EPL football rather than the good old CCC mentality, fearing relegation w half the season ahead, parking da bus specially in away games which are to come, all this shld and I hope is coming to a stop. The top strikers in the league are commonly from the top clubs in the league, no coincedance, and if they are not than they shld be. Its all about attacking football, confidence, team spirit and support...the results will come sooner or later. Fear and superstition take u nowhere but down, they create barriers and then people beleive these barriers to be real and after a while can't cross them. U get the point, I just get worked up by loser talk. Enough.
Back to the article. Yes I think PB shld start w Zaki "if he is fit" for the following reasons, JVOH did alot of running yes, lost a few too many balls yes, but largely was ineffective, more effective in the wolves game. Zaki was ineffective on goal yes, however due to comin on in a dead time of the game, he keeps the ball under his feet giving a chance for the midfield to catch up, creating effective play, runs his balls off, and most importantly gives confidence to his mates, keeping possession and hence moving the team forward and lifting the pressure off the defence, who against man city will have more than a full plate. Also I wld really like to see what he and Altidore can do, when its game on in the first 45, rather than the last 30.
On the left Hunt will take care of wright but might be constrained a bit defensively, a battle worth watching.
On the right Fagan.....hmmmm....there is something most definately there, but he kind of ran outta steam early. I dunno whats”