Pellegrini Satisfometer

[johnny crossan]

it's truly amazing that 140 souls on here are neutral or better about Manuel's mistakes.

[Original Dub]

it's truly amazing that 140 souls on here are neutral or better about Manuel's mistakes.

Which would you list as his mistakes directly?

[johnny crossan]

it's truly amazing that 140 souls on here are neutral or better about Manuel's mistakes.

Which would you list as his mistakes directly?

principally tactical blunders against Cardiff, Hull, Stoke, Villa, Sunderland and Munich but also dropping Hart and persisting with Garcia at CB

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

it's truly amazing that 140 souls on here are neutral or better about Manuel's mistakes.

I personally think that both extremes are ridiculous judging by the results. There has been some mighty ups, no one should claim otherwise, and there has been some shitty performances as well, no one should claim otherwise.

Personally, and uncharasterically, I'm on the fence regarding him. This really could go either way and I don't see any evidence to show otherwise either way.

[Original Dub]

principally tactical blunders against Cardiff, Hull, Stoke, Villa, Sunderland and Munich but also dropping Hart and persisting with Garcia at CB

What are those blunders?

Persisting with garcia when better options were available with I agree.

Dropping Hart has not affected our play adversely in any way.

[Original Dub]

What are those blunders?

Persisting with garcia when better options were available with I agree.

Dropping Hart has not affected our play adversely in any way.

Well?

[Bleed_Blue]

I have rated Pellegrini as satisfied after a first couple of changes and didnt change it even after derby win or loosing all away games.

Seeing the boring pre match interviews I seriously want to drop the rating a notch down.

Does anybody else thinks, he is really bad at pre match interviews. More like a parrot which says " I dont want to talk about this" and "We will see, we will see next week"

[Slim]

What are those blunders?

Persisting with garcia when better options were available with I agree.

Dropping Hart has not affected our play adversely in any way.

Well?

Would you like me to answer that?

Failure to use width against compressed defences. Failure to shut down the gap in between the defence and the midfield. Failure to have a clear assignments when defending corners and persistence in using zonal marking when we have the strongest team in the league and man-to-man we'd bully them right out of the area. We've dropped more points from winning positions so far this season than we did in the entirety of the last season. Plays Kolarov into form and drops him, plays Garcia at all, replaced Kolo with a lesser player.

[london blue 2]

Continues to allow us to play a wide open game even though its clear to everyone fans, oppo, pundits that we are getting fucked on the counter time after time.

[AG7]

I have rated Pellegrini as satisfied after a first couple of changes and didnt change it even after derby win or loosing all away games. Seeing the boring pre match interviews I seriously want to drop the rating a notch down. Does anybody else thinks, he is really bad at pre match interviews. More like a parrot which says " I dont want to talk about this" and "We will see, we will see next week"

I agree totally about his pre and post game pressers ... they are starting to annoy me big time!

[Beefymcfc]

I have rated Pellegrini as satisfied after a first couple of changes and didnt change it even after derby win or loosing all away games. Seeing the boring pre match interviews I seriously want to drop the rating a notch down. Does anybody else thinks, he is really bad at pre match interviews. More like a parrot which says " I dont want to talk about this" and "We will see, we will see next week"

I agree totally about his pre and post game pressers ... they are starting to annoy me big time!

Although it isn't a pre-requisite to be entertaining in a press conference, it would be nice for him to at least come across as having a bit of interest. To be honest, I've always enjoyed the pressers and their usually the first thing I want to see in the build up to the game but after watching the first few I've not bothered logging onto them.

Do people actually still take the time to watch them - have they got any better?

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

I have rated Pellegrini as satisfied after a first couple of changes and didnt change it even after derby win or loosing all away games.

Seeing the boring pre match interviews I seriously want to drop the rating a notch down.

Does anybody else thinks, he is really bad at pre match interviews. More like a parrot which says " I dont want to talk about this" and "We will see, we will see next week"

I love them. He says nothing, so no hostages to fortune and no ridiculous headlines because of what hes said.

[sheblue]

I have rated Pellegrini as satisfied after a first couple of changes and didnt change it even after derby win or loosing all away games.

Seeing the boring pre match interviews I seriously want to drop the rating a notch down.

Does anybody else thinks, he is really bad at pre match interviews. More like a parrot which says " I dont want to talk about this" and "We will see, we will see next week"

I love them. He says nothing, so no hostages to fortune and no ridiculous headlines because of what hes said.

Absolutely, these interviews are total bollocks, he should keep going exactly as he is and say nothing.

[Dameerto]

I haven't seen that many of them but most of the time he seems like he is dodging loaded questions from the usual wankers that ask them (and make up stories anyway). He appears to be better at it than Mancini who was honest to a fault sometimes.

[bigblue]

If you are not satisfied you are a miserable fucker.

Only 6pts off the top with a +22 gd (8 higher than the 2nd best gd). 7-0 and 6-0 back to back at home. Playing some out of this world football.

Long live Pellers!

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Football we're playing at the moment at home is on another planet. Watching us play today though makes me wonder how the fuck a side that good lost to Sunderland, Cardiff and Villa.
We really, really need to win the next away game.

Lets hope Cardiff can nick something today.

[Beefymcfc]

If you are not satisfied you are a miserable fucker.

Only 6pts off the top with a +22 gd (8 higher than the 2nd best gd). 7-0 and 6-0 back to back at home. Playing some out of this world football.

Long live Pellers!

Let's not go over the top there mate. It's not the home form that is concerning anybody, everybody must be loving it. It's the away form that needs to be sorted and if we get results against Brom and Southampton then it's a very different outlook.

I wonder if Blues could've been called miserable fuckers after the Sunderland game?

[Original Dub]

Absolutely, these interviews are total bollocks, he should keep going exactly as he is and say nothing.

Dead right. I remember everyone saying the same thing in mancini's first few months.

Then he started getting roped in by the rag interviewers and became more "entertaining". More bad press about him etc. etc...

Slim, some fair enough points, although some are speculative as to whrther it is directly his fault.

Also, I thought loads on here were giving about us using man to man marking instead of sticking to zonal. So someone's confused.

Anyway, imo anyone who thinks we'll continue to break records at home and continue to lose away needs their head checking.

I'm satisfied we'll get it right. I also believe we'll win the league and I'll be very satisfied with that.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

If you are not satisfied you are a miserable fucker.

Only 6pts off the top with a +22 gd (8 higher than the 2nd best gd). 7-0 and 6-0 back to back at home. Playing some out of this world football.

Long live Pellers!

Let's not go over the top there mate. It's not the home form that is concerning anybody, everybody must be loving it. It's the away form that needs to be sorted and if we get results against Brom and Southampton then it's a very different outlook.

I wonder if Blues could've been called miserable fuckers after the Sunderland game?

Agree fully Beefy. It's all well and good beating Spurs 6-0 or Norwich 7-0, but you don't win titles if you then keep losing to the likes of Sunderland and Cardiff the week after. Want to see some solid away performances now to back this up.
I could not be happier with the home form and as soon as we sort the away form, we won't be far short of the best sides in Europe.

[bigblue]

If you are not satisfied you are a miserable fucker.

Only 6pts off the top with a +22 gd (8 higher than the 2nd best gd). 7-0 and 6-0 back to back at home. Playing some out of this world football.

Long live Pellers!

Let's not go over the top there mate. It's not the home form that is concerning anybody, everybody must be loving it. It's the away form that needs to be sorted and if we get results against Brom and Southampton then it's a very different outlook.

I wonder if Blues could've been called miserable fuckers after the Sunderland game?

Only 1/3 of a season into the job and he has broken the chains holding back many of our best players. We are playing incredible stuff at home; its the foundation. Fixing the away form will come with time. I would worry if we were struggling in all our games and failing to have a spark. Plus, most of our goals conceded away have come from stupid individual mistakes (not from general bad play).

But a pitch is a pitch. If we can do it at home, we can do it away. We have plenty of strong characters in the dressing room and Pellers seems like a well reasoned bloke.

34 goals and +22 gd in the first 12 PL games? Satisfied.
Only 6 points from the top after "dreadful" start? Satisfied.
7-0 demolition of spuds? Satisfied.
Will we outlast Arse, chavs, and scouse over a whole season? Yes.
Outlook for the season (in terms of likelihood to get silverware and entertainment value)? Excellent.