Pellegrini Satisfometer

[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?

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.

Aye mate, you're right, the football at home has been excellent and most of the away games have still been decent in terms of play. The problem is, I remember saying the same after the Cardiff game, then the Stoke game, then the Villa ........ do I really need to go on?

We need to prove, that's all.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

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.

So essentially you are now saying the exact same thing I was saying in Pellegrini topic where you were acting like a mouthy fucker?

Tool.

[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.

So essentially you are now saying the exact same thing I was saying in Pellegrini topic where you were acting like a mouthy fucker?

Tool.

I didn't disagree with the content of what you said. It was the way you went about it.
You didn't post after our biggest ever PL win, or after we qualified from the CL group stages for the first time. Yet you post within seconds, of a loss.

And the way you posted. You decided to create a separate thread, despite there already being a thread for Pellegrini.
But then your post was a solitary full stop.
That was it.
You purposely tried to provoke people and acted like a smug cunt.

Then you came up with excuses like 'I have a new job' as to why you didn't post after we won but the second we lost, all this free time magically appeared.
I'm still waiting for you to respond to the Nasri corner point you made, claiming he'd never beat the first man. And then when I pointed out he did so for one of our goals against the Rags you quickly changed topic. Then you accuse other people of talking shit.

[Ted Hughes]

We are now better at most things than we were imo.

Not just in comparison to last season, but in comparison to our title winning season, where, although at the start & finish we produced some of the best football ever seen in this country, in the middle period we were mainly quite shit, even when we won.

We were poor at the back in that period then, just as we have been this season, but we didn't have quite as many Joe Hart & individual howlers.

I think this season we have mainly been brilliant, good, or ok, but defensive mixups etc have dropped us points.

Last season, we struggled defensively v most of the top sides imo, but people kept quoting 'clean sheet' stats as teams like the rags scored 3 against us & Arsenal could have had 5 at our place.

The main difference is that we haven't produced the kind of solid defensive performance we produced at the Emirates last season, but we hardly ever produced that under Mancini, without Kompany being in the side.

I have given Von Krolock some shit for his defensive setup & probably will again, but I don't actually think the Count wants to organise us to play that way. I don't think it's because he can't; I think it's because he believes we can do something better than the level we have played at in the past & he is willing to keep pushing it until we can do it.

We just put 6 past Spurs, without Kompany or David Silva. Could we also have done it without Yaya ? I recon we could.

Could we have done the same, without those players, a year ago ?

Imo, no fucking chance.

[carl_feedthegoat]

That just about sums it up for me as well Ted.
We have actually played just about the best football ever, imo - individual fuckups have cost us.

[sheblue]

If we can just get our heads around what sems to be some form of 'psychological away barrier', then we will be there. The most important thing now is to get on top of this away form before it gets too deep rooted.

[lets all have a disco]

The Etihad is a major fortress no doubt if we can get this away from sorted out then we are laughing.

Just need to stay in touch up until Christmas then kick in oh and obvs beat the Arsenal and Scouse 1 at home.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

The Etihad is a major fortress no doubt if we can get this away from sorted out then we are laughing.

Just need to stay in touch up until Christmas then kick in oh and obvs beat the Arsenal and Scouse 1 at home.

To be fair, it's been fortress for years now.

[Alioune DVToure]

To be fair, it's been fortress for years now.

Hate that term. If it was a fortress, the opposition wouldn't make it through the main entrance, let alone be allowed on to the pitch.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

To be fair, it's been fortress for years now.

Hate that term. If it was a fortress, the opposition wouldn't make it through the main entrance, let alone be allowed on to the pitch.

It was LAHAD who said it first!

[Alioune DVToure]

It was LAHAD who said it first!

It's more of an abattoir.

[Sideshow Bob]

We just put 6 past Spurs, without Kompany or David Silva. Could we also have done it without Yaya ? I recon we could.

Could we have done the same, without those players, a year ago ?

Imo, no fucking chance.

this is spot fucking on. it didn't occur to me until well after the match yesterday that silva hadn't played. under mancini, silva was our only creative spark...without him we were usually at sea.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

It was LAHAD who said it first!

It's more of an abattoir.

I had to google the word. I would've known slaughterhouse though.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

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.

So essentially you are now saying the exact same thing I was saying in Pellegrini topic where you were acting like a mouthy fucker?

Tool.

I didn't disagree with the content of what you said. It was the way you went about it.
You didn't post after our biggest ever PL win, or after we qualified from the CL group stages for the first time. Yet you post within seconds, of a loss.

And the way you posted. You decided to create a separate thread, despite there already being a thread for Pellegrini.
But then your post was a solitary full stop.
That was it.
You purposely tried to provoke people and acted like a smug cunt.

Then you came up with excuses like 'I have a new job' as to why you didn't post after we won but the second we lost, all this free time magically appeared.
I'm still waiting for you to respond to the Nasri corner point you made, claiming he'd never beat the first man. And then when I pointed out he did so for one of our goals against the Rags you quickly changed topic. Then you accuse other people of talking shit.

Let's see what I have in plate: I run a department of roughly 35 people now, I've had fairly serious health scare recently (which turned out just fine but it's been horrible few months waiting for the results), I have wife who is pregnant and I got 2.5 year old who watches the game with me now (meaning I will not be typing shit here). Not that you deserve explanation why I post or don't post and when I do so.

Smug cunt, pot kettle black.

[Dronny]

Let's see what I have in plate: I run a department of roughly 35 people now, I've had fairly serious health scare recently (which turned out just fine but it's been horrible few months waiting for the results), I have wife who is pregnant and I got 2.5 year old who watches the game with me now (meaning I will not be typing shit here). Not that you deserve explanation why I post or don't post and when I do so.

Smug cunt, pot kettle black.

All this and still your use of colloquialisms could be better.....you have things "on your plate" not "in the plate"

As Chinners would say D-

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

We are now better at most things than we were imo.

Not just in comparison to last season, but in comparison to our title winning season, where, although at the start & finish we produced some of the best football ever seen in this country, in the middle period we were mainly quite shit, even when we won.

We were poor at the back in that period then, just as we have been this season, but we didn't have quite as many Joe Hart & individual howlers.

I think this season we have mainly been brilliant, good, or ok, but defensive mixups etc have dropped us points.

Last season, we struggled defensively v most of the top sides imo, but people kept quoting 'clean sheet' stats as teams like the rags scored 3 against us & Arsenal could have had 5 at our place.

The main difference is that we haven't produced the kind of solid defensive performance we produced at the Emirates last season, but we hardly ever produced that under Mancini, without Kompany being in the side.

I have given Von Krolock some shit for his defensive setup & probably will again, but I don't actually think the Count wants to organise us to play that way. I don't think it's because he can't; I think it's because he believes we can do something better than the level we have played at in the past & he is willing to keep pushing it until we can do it.

We just put 6 past Spurs, without Kompany or David Silva. Could we also have done it without Yaya ? I recon we could.

Could we have done the same, without those players, a year ago ?

Imo, no fucking chance.

Great post, Ted. I think we are on the verge of something really special.

[bayblue]

One interesting thing from yesterday is that for the first time in ages we had less than 50% possession. As we all saw it's what we did with the ball that counts, and we cut through them like the proverbial hot knife through butter.
In many ways we almost played like the away team, with less possession and fast counter attacks. In this we were helped by the early goal giving Spurs no option but to attack and this played straight to our strengths.
I think Pellegrini genuinely seems baffled that this approach hasn't yielded benefits in the away games as it should be ideally suited to it.
I think the next couple of away games are now key to our season. If we can impose ourselves and get the results then it's game on. If we can't then is it the players fault for not being able to reproduce their form consistently or Pelligrini's for following a "one size fits all" strategy. ??

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Let's see what I have in plate: I run a department of roughly 35 people now, I've had fairly serious health scare recently (which turned out just fine but it's been horrible few months waiting for the results), I have wife who is pregnant and I got 2.5 year old who watches the game with me now (meaning I will not be typing shit here). Not that you deserve explanation why I post or don't post and when I do so.

Smug cunt, pot kettle black.

And all that magically goes away the second we lose to Sunderland? Especially when you come on here after to almost gloat because you felt you had half a point.
And you don't respond to a single football related point. ' Surprise, surprise'

Why did you feel the need to create a separate, provocative thread and posted only a full stop? Despite there already being a 23 page thread discussing the manager. Are your opinions so important they deserve a separate thread? (Don't answer that last point)

You've still not responded to the Nasri corner point you made. When you were clearly wrong, but rather than admit it you dish out the insults and change topic as per. Please do respond to that point.
Then in the Ronaldo thread, about 5 or 6 people said they would have Ronaldo here, yet you only quote me, with your contribution being 'surprise, surprise'.
And then YOU go on about how others can't hold a football debate to your high standard.

You are simply a provocative, hypocritical sod.
That's about it really.

[Beefymcfc]

And all is right with the world ;-)

[Socrates]

Within the context where I remain totally unconvinced that the club has made the right senior appointments I am now looking at Pellegrini himself more favourably. I think the highs and lows will typify his stewardship but look around the football world and cannot see any particularly better options that would fit the project in it's current direction and under it's current leadership. I think the DoF will take time to adapt to the English league and am hopeful rather than confident that he will do so successfully. While the process is ongoing, we may as well be entertained and while I predict much more clowniness, in among some spectacular performances, I remain in my original position whereby he has two years to establish himself and am now marginally in the 'satisfied' column based on the sheer entertainment value alone.