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Hull created enough chances to win tonight. Another striker is needed otherwise it could be the same story as last season.

City were crap tonight, nothing ever changes with my club, even after a pre-season of optimism.

Surely it changed when you got promoted to the top division for the first time and started winning at places like Newcastle and Arsenal? What were you moaning about then!

Communtiy shield tomorrow, be nice to play somebody other than Chelsea.

A pointless exercise.

We were crap. Ormerod was god awful and Grandin did nowt. We created more chances once Billy Clarke came on.

Saw enough of Hull to think you could do alright this year though, was very impressed with Robbie Brady.

On another night a couple of those chances would go in the back of the net and yo'd have hammered us.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ds-newsxml Interesting turn of events if true.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ds-newsxml Interesting turn of events if true.

Finally football is back, come on Wednesday, desperately need more strikers, hopefully we can mount a decent bid for Le Fondre because Clinton Morrisson is terrible!

Gabriel Obertan... dear, oh dear.

Do City fans not get bored of this? How can you support a team that is basically a team full of mercenaries who are in the team purely for the money? I don't see how City fans can take any glory or sense of achievement from it either, okay the first championship they win might be exciting, but it will get to the point where they can't really fail as every player in their squad is a £30m+ world class player on £150,000 p/w +.

Contrasting to Everton in the friendly against Villareal. If that's the shape the team is in one week from the season starting, questions need to be asked. The ing about to America, Austria and what not has done them no favours. They all looked lead footed and incapable of passing or recieving a ball.

I wish Citeh would f*ck off and die, i really do

Best time to try things is pre-season, but Henderson really shouldn't play on the right again. He's definitely a midfielder (not in the Gerrard sense, i.e. the bestest in the world), playing out wide really isn't his game unless you're playing him there purely for work rate/defensive ability, which would be odd.

Rotherham United fan here, off to a good start against Oxford United, 1-0 win, could have easily gone the other way though!

Against my better judgement I watched a small part of the Everton-Villarreal game. Apart from watching an apparently unfit Villarreal team run rings round Everton, the only thing of note was Everton's own fans quite clearly booing their own right-back (or number 2 anyway, Hibbert?) Why was that?

I might be going a bit out in left field here, but I'm assuming it's because he is utter sh*te.

A post that is not about Liverpool. I am impressed.

Saw bits of the game and it was hard going at times. Like Holloway said, if that had been in the Premier League Blackpool would have lost 3-1.
As for Hull City, the KC Stadium saw fewer goals than any other Championship ground in 2010/11 (3icon_cool.gif. More of the same I think.

Not a great start to De Gea's Unites career.

He's always been susceptible to the odd long ranger.

Where's that middle-finger emoticon?

Brilliant goal from Nani. A decent charity shield for once

Great game, that. City were poor at best, but it's early doors and i'm sure they'll get better. Impressed with Young, i said he had some impressing to do (IMO) and today surely helped. Smalling looked impressive again, albeit at at RB, and Jones looked fairly solid for 45 minutes. Error from De Gea gave that tree-stump Dzeko the opportunity to look good but that was all Dzeko did all game, and bottled his chance to win it just before the Utd winner.

Schoolboy error from Kompany. Looked devastated at the end.

Balotelli and Dzeko are too lazy to play together.