Quote Originally Posted by olderblue View Post
I watched it last night, mainly because I wanted to see how Simic was getting on, I thought Conte looked head and shoulders above everyone else and a lot fitter, I don’t think the loan move worked out well for him, but there again it didn’t really work out for Tanner when he went to York

I might be wrong but there’s still something about Conte imho
Maybe the realisation of what it’s going to be like outside of league football can spur him on, he’s worth persevering with

As for Simic, he worked hard and held the ball up, but it was a tough job as he was often isolated

I wonder if he’ll get any sort of run out in the first team this season?
I'm quite boring about Conte because I always say the same thing about him in that he's the only City player I can remember watching who I always think plays better for the first team than he does for the under 21s. I've watched him play three times in the past week and, like most of his team mates, he was pretty ordinary in the first two games, bur yesterday was a real step up from him and a few others and, as I mentioned earlier, that's the best I've seen him play at under 21 level.

Lord knows what happened to him at Woking as the moment I heard he was going there, I thought he's too good for them and as someone who played originally for a London team, you'd think things like home sickness would not be a factor with him.

As for Simic, it was a bad miss by him in extra time if his shot did not get the deflection he claimed there was, but, as you say, he'd played around a hundred minutes when he missed that chance and for much of that time he was battling away by himself. I can see improvements in his all round game already from when he first started playing for the under 21s, but the only way I could see him playing first team football this season is if we went on a good run which made us safe with a few games to play.