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Thought de Jong was brilliant today, the amount of Arse attacks he broke down aswell as his last ditch tackles were top quality. Think he will be great for us in the derby next week playing against a midfields like United's.

Agreed. He's a usefull squad member to do a targeted role when the situation requires it

Looking at the ratings thread there seems to be a split opinion re NDJ. Some think he is crap and today was poor and then the maority seem to rate him and think today he was either good or very good. Aren't football opinions great?

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Looking at the ratings thread there seems to be a split opinion re NDJ. Some think he is crap and today was poor and then the maority seem to rate him and think today he was either good or very good. Aren't football opinions great?

I always held that the majority of football fans are idiots, glad to see City are covering their share.

Its weird watchin De Jong for City.I dont really notice him until he makes that crunchin tackle,but when he plays for Holland he stands out like a sore thumb.
Im a big fan though

i thought de jong put himself about today so fair play to him
i thought bridge played one of his best games so far
cant understand those attacking swp.yes he lost the ball on a number of occasions but at least he was taking players on
get behind the team folks they cant play a blinder every week!

Im shocked that some people on here did not see the vital work that he did. He was outstanding today, constantly breaking up attack after attack. Passionate as fuck, loved his fist pump after the Bellamy goal.

There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

played as well as nigel will play, He is a spoiler, that is his role. He is a very commited individual who will benefit us no end this season

All hail the mighty De Jong

brilliant again today, just gets on with his job.

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

That made me chuckle ;-)

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

You said Gelson was superb very early on in his City career.

No no, I believe YOU.

Slim wrote:

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

You said Gelson was superb very early on in his City career.

No no, I believe YOU.

There's a fourth kind:

4. People who were watching on TV and can't see his work off the ball i.e. taking away options/passes.

no offence.

exactly dhtp

Richard wrote:Im shocked that some people on here did not see the vital work that he did. He was outstanding today, constantly breaking up attack after attack. Passionate as fuck, loved his fist pump after the Bellamy goal.

He made 3 successful tackles today. 3.

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:

Slim wrote:

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

You said Gelson was superb very early on in his City career.

No no, I believe YOU.

There's a fourth kind:

4. People who were watching on TV and can't see his work off the ball i.e. taking away options/passes.

no offence.

None taken, people who were here during the game were pointing out how brilliant he was. In fact the original person we are quoting here was tucked neatly away in Scotland today.

I assume we all saw the same footage, I wonder how many of them have seen the game from start to finish 3 times now though.

Slim wrote:

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:

Slim wrote:

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

You said Gelson was superb very early on in his City career.

No no, I believe YOU.

There's a fourth kind:

4. People who were watching on TV and can't see his work off the ball i.e. taking away options/passes.

no offence.

None taken, people who were here during the game were pointing out how brilliant he was. In fact the original person we are quoting here was tucked neatly away in Scotland today.

I assume we all saw the same footage, I wonder how many of them have seen the game from start to finish 3 times now though.

then the OP got lucky.
De Jong clogs up the middle nicely, interrupts a team like Arse's natural rhythm etc. I thought he was solid today and there was a reason Ireland came off.

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:

Slim wrote:

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:

Slim wrote:

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

You said Gelson was superb very early on in his City career.

No no, I believe YOU.

There's a fourth kind:

4. People who were watching on TV and can't see his work off the ball i.e. taking away options/passes.

no offence.

None taken, people who were here during the game were pointing out how brilliant he was. In fact the original person we are quoting here was tucked neatly away in Scotland today.

I assume we all saw the same footage, I wonder how many of them have seen the game from start to finish 3 times now though.

then the OP got lucky.
De Jong clogs up the middle nicely, interrupts a team like Arse's natural rhythm etc. I thought he was solid today and there was a reason Ireland came off.

He gets in the way some of the time...when it's near him. Most of the time they were just passing around him and on a number of occasions when I thought he should be wearing Cesc like a second shirt, it was Bellamy who was sprinting back to knock the spainard off stride. I am not on a hate campaign for him...as much as it seems like I am, nor am I really lobbying for Kompany to come back there because I think he gives away too many freekicks in advanced positions. Last season we had two defensive midfielders and they STILL couldn't stop us getting scored on, surely this tells it's own story.

If we need another option there, I think we should see how Kompany is when he is fit (last term apparently he was carrying this toe injury for a long time) or give De Jong a consistant run against weaker opposition when we can allow him to gel into the team and boss the midfield at the same time.

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:

Slim wrote:

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:

Slim wrote:

ross.mcfc wrote:There are 3 types of idiots who couldnt see De Jong was amazing today.

1 People who simply dont understand football.
2 People who always have to have a boo boy
3 Australians.

You said Gelson was superb very early on in his City career.

No no, I believe YOU.

There's a fourth kind:

4. People who were watching on TV and can't see his work off the ball i.e. taking away options/passes.

no offence.

None taken, people who were here during the game were pointing out how brilliant he was. In fact the original person we are quoting here was tucked neatly away in Scotland today.

I assume we all saw the same footage, I wonder how many of them have seen the game from start to finish 3 times now though.

then the OP got lucky.
De Jong clogs up the middle nicely, interrupts a team like Arse's natural rhythm etc. I thought he was solid today and there was a reason Ireland came off.

I disagree, he isn't comfortable on the ball, he mis times tackles, his passing can be wayward and he can't do the type of searching balls that Carrick and Alonso do.

He's just an angry midget and we need to ship him out in january and replace him.