Date set for postponed Man City game

That has been the case through the heavily congested fixtures of December and January. Even with injuries, he kept milking results when others floundered.

The one break we got was when this original fixture was postponed. As a result, our next opponents - WHU at home - played 2 games whilst we had a full week off.

It should have been advantage Everton. But no. We were lethargic and pedestrian and lost.

If we truly have ambitions to be one of the big boys again, we should embrace back-to-back games against strong opposition, not bemoan it or shy away from it.

We won the lot of them.

Bring it on I say.

Not much travel involved and these are the games we can really get to judge how good we are and also help identify who has and hasn't got it them to be kept involved next season.

He said early season when we were playing 3 games a week and in the congested months of December and January, we played well and won the majority of our games.

When we have a week off, the next game we don't play as well and don't always get a favourable result.

Carlo spoke about managing and rotating his squad - there are one of two reasons a player is not selected:

1) he didn't play well in the previous game
2) I am resting him

Carlo is well accustomed to handling a continuous weekend and mid-week game schedule.

The Colombian correspondent asked for clarification on why James didn't play v Leeds, offering his opinion that James didn't play well v Newcastle.

Carlo corrected him on that. 'That is your opinion. It is not my opinion. James played 3 consecutive games and I wanted to rest him and Michael Keane before the next games we play.'

From what he said in the presser, Olsen and Godfrey are definite starters. Expect Keane and James to return. The rest of the selection will be interesting, given he also honestly said 'We have played United twice and lost twice, so we need to try something different. Because if we play the same way again, we will lose.'

Other than that by the season's end if he keeps this form up, he is going to be pushing for a clean sweep of the players' and fans' player and young player of the year awards.

What d'ya reckon, Dave? A touch of the Duncan Edwards/Tony Kay about him..? Such a powerhouse.

I looked at the line ups from our two losses to Utd and Carlo talking about trying something different. I’d forgotten James missed both of those games, Coleman started both and even Bernard played a game and a half. So I’d bet on keeping Coleman out and bringing James in, and Bernard well his stock has fallen so safe to say he won’t play

Love him to bits and he continues to play well, but for me he was very culpable in the league loss for standing off Bruno Fernandes and letting him get two crosses into the box from which they scored.

As for that game at Southampton, Carlo got a few things wrong that day. He played James when not fully fit (following his injury in the previous game, the 2-2 draw in the Derby game) and compounded things (on top of Digne's sending off by not subbing the Colombian out. He was a total pedastrian for the last 10-20 minutes of that game with all the subs used up.

Early days indeed mentioning Godfrey in the same breathe as Edwards and Kay, but he has that warrior leading-from-the-front quality that they had.

I know ex players rocking up to Finch Farm is a contentious issue but Seamus is the sort of man we need to keep. The best money our club ever spent.

City took the proverbial, they will get their justice..