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True enough, but as I saw someone else point out recently, none of our senior team, EDS and U18s have lost a single game in any competition since the 1-0 defeat to Sunderland in November... It may well be true that you saw it somewhere fella, and well done you for pointing that fact out here.

It's all good! Results since the Melbourne Heart announcement... First team FA Cup (4th round), Saturday 25 January (this game was kids for a quid) City 4 Watford 2 : Match report, Highlights, Tunnel Cam Barclays Premier League, Wednesday 29 January Spurs 1 City 5 : Match report, Highlights (SloMo Cam), Highlights League standings Next game: City v Chelsea, Monday 3 February City's EDS (Elite Development Squad) Manchester Senior Cup (semi-final), Wednesday 22 January Oldham Athletic 0 City 4 : Match report Barclays U21 Premier League, Monday 27 January Man Utd 1 City 2 : Match report, Highlights League standings Next game: City v Bolton Wanderers, Wednesday 5 February City's Academy Barclays U18 Premier League, Saturday 25 January City 2 Sunderland 0 : Match report League standings Next Game: Man Utd v City, Saturday 1 February

So, six eminently winnable games coming up next?

Ta. So 27 games against 9 opponents. How does that work for home and away games given that each plays each other three times? How is it decided who gets the extra home games? they tend to alternate it every year. Ta

Ta. So 27 games against 9 opponents. How does that work for home and away games given that each plays each other three times? How is it decided who gets the extra home games?

How many league games are there, and how many more before the final series starts?

Well done Heart. Saw the last 10 minutes and the last goal. Looks like you were determined with 10 men. Who was sent off?

Ironic in that Australia's wealth is founded on exploiting the country's natural resources. Oh, and that Murdoch is a humble cock.

And proper RB cover.

There's some debate on Bluemoon as to when this game can/could/should/will be played... http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=296549&start=610

Not at all. Some will have emigrated to Australia with their club allegiances, some will have adopted their parents' club allegiances, some will have followed their friends' allegiances, some will have started to support successful teams, some will have started to support prominent teams, and some will have started to support teams for the seemingly most inconsequential of reasons. I know this because, as we know from Bluemoon, City is supported around the world for all of these reasons. And some in Australia will, quite naturally, support teams in other national leagues for exactly the same reasons. And what I believe is that, once past a certain age, that commitment will be lifelong. Very much like religion. I would put that age at fairly young, say up to early adolescence, when the individual starts to appear. Consequently, I believe that someone who comes to football as an adult will not be as committed to a chosen team as would be the case in childhood.

City drawn at home to Chelsea in the 6th round (last 16) of the FA Cup. It is Maureen's birthday today so what a birthday present that was! Chelsea have just managed a 1-0 home win against Stoke today - an Oscar free kick. The game at Etihad Stadium should be good to watch, to be played the weekend of 15-16 February. The other draw of the round is Arsenal vs Liverpool. Everton will be at home to Swansea, which should also be a cracker. That's most of the televised (in UK) matches taken care of, if not all of them - I don't follow what the satellite broadcasters do.

Haha! Just noticed the closing date! Either the closing date hasn't been edited properly in the email template or I've been deliberately excluded from the survey(!) Can't remember having received it already. Haven't tried to complete the survey yet - finding 15 minutes to concentrate and pontificate is not so easy!

It has been mentioned that Man City canvas the opinion of supporters. This is an example. The email received today. As the links may include coding to identify me, I have replaced the links to the survey with imitation links. And this is the first page of the survey, omitting the array of radio buttons, which I can't get to be reproduced here.

Thinking of CFG as any other global business where resources are moved around the world to maximise business performance, staff development and cultural reinforcement, there could be the possibility of having a City player as marquee as well as taking on youngsters for development.

and then goes on to say that maybe we could play in City's away kit, which is red and black. Wtf?

Don't think they'll be coming back from 0-4! Looks like more still to come. Where's it being played, the MCG? ;o) The Heart news has unsettled them or is this their usual standard?

Yes, pink and white and it looks ghastly but a few women do wear them.

Actually 110 goals in 36 games, so just over 3 goals per game, and 4 per home game. This is a lot!

Red and black is fine (see my avatar/photo)

This just sounds like the media trying to stir up a story. "Speculation is rife" is just that, speculation. To say that the reason the name may be changed is "so its initials will be the same as its owners" just shows the risibly poor quaity of the reporting. Mr Alan Howarth is then selected to speak on behalf of not just all City supporters in Melbourne but all city supporters in Australia. Honestly what a load of pugwash. Basically, the issue has got nothing to do with City supporters in Melbourne, Australia or anywhere. Two things you must remember: City, like any other club, has its fair share of ignorant, bigotted, small-minded, unimaginative, self-centred twats; and, secondly, not everyone on forums (or appearing in the media) who purports to be a City fan is actually a City fan - you will no doubt come across some here or on Bluemoon, along with the windup and just plain insensitive City fans.

"We are the Heart, the Heart of the City!" Yeah, possibilities for chants... Just remember that no matter what happens to your club's name, no one can steal your Heart. ;0) Nicknames are for the supporters and for how you refer to your own club. City supporters refer to one another and the team as Blues. The term Citizens has fallen out of favour amongst supporters, the younger ones anyway, more recently, although it is still used by the print media when writing about City.

It might be a bitter-sweet moment for you; seeing your sister club in Red & White defeat the club wearing sky blue! haha Actually, I'm pretty relaxed about it, and for three very good reasons. Heart don't play in an all red shirt and white or black shorts. That would be really difficult if you did. I like red as a colour (some don't and won't have anything to do with it) and love our red and black kits. Sydney won't be in sky blue and white. It is the colour combination that's important. Probably most traumatic for Heart's Spurs fans! I have no special affinity for Sydney FC, whereas youHeart supporters seem to be a good bunch of blokes, very like City supporters in your treatment of your (pre-takeover) situation with gallows humour. I'll tell you what was disconcerting though: seeing City play in Naples in the Champions League the year before last. Napoli looked like City and City looked like AC Milan! Very discombobulating.

It's a bap, ffs.

My stream cut out early in the second half so I missed the best (and worst) of it. If the City way is the Heart way in the future, you will not try to defend a lead but keep trying to score more. This makes for very exciting football as the lead can be lost by being too adverturous as much as by sitting back if those extra goals aren't forthcoming. So, Sydney at home on Friday at 7.30pm? If today's was 6.30am, then I make the Sydney game 9.00am UK time and a game well worth catching - a benefit of being retired!