Top Four!

[Bingo Lewis]

I'm getting sick to death of Mancini's gameplan.
He better sort it out.

[lets all have a disco]

I'm getting sick to death of Mancini's gameplan.
He better sort it out.

Time for some rough crew justice me thinks.

You coming to Scouse game like la?

[Bingo Lewis]

I'm getting sick to death of Mancini's gameplan.
He better sort it out.

Time for some rough crew justice me thinks.

You coming to Scouse game like la?

Not got a ticket, gonna PM Spiv now actually.

[Wonderwall]

Prior to Mancini, I felt confident we could win EVERY game, I was not happy if we went behind, but I was confident we would turn it around. I had that feeling that someone was going to be on the end of a cricket score very soon as the attacking football was very good.

With mancini, I am nowhere near confident that we are going to win, I worry about the team selection as he baffles me. When I think he has selected a positive team, he plays people in wrong positions and it sits very uncomfortable.

I am very confident however, that we will not beat liverpool on sunday, I am hoping we do but the best I can envisage is a draw imo.

[avoidconfusion]

We were forced to resort to stopping them by giving away a continuous stream of fowls

it was like losing a game of chicken

Ha ha.
Mancini?

Fuck me that is one angry chicken!

[Dunne's Half-Time Pint]

Prior to Mancini, I felt confident we could win EVERY game, I was not happy if we went behind, but I was confident we would turn it around. I had that feeling that someone was going to be on the end of a cricket score very soon as the attacking football was very good.

With mancini, I am nowhere near confident that we are going to win, I worry about the team selection as he baffles me. When I think he has selected a positive team, he plays people in wrong positions and it sits very uncomfortable.

I am very confident however, that we will not beat liverpool on sunday, I am hoping we do but the best I can envisage is a draw imo.

This encapsulates my view.
I'd only add that my frustration at the current state of affairs does not match my apprehension as to what he'll do to the squad in the summer. A man with a 'football manager ego' doesn't come in, produce this little/these poor performances, and blame himself. I worry that he'll tear down what has been built/tear up a squad I quite like, rather than producing the little tweaks that - i felt - were all that was needed to propel us forward.

[brite blu sky]

Prior to Mancini, I felt confident we could win EVERY game, I was not happy if we went behind, but I was confident we would turn it around. I had that feeling that someone was going to be on the end of a cricket score very soon as the attacking football was very good.

With mancini, I am nowhere near confident that we are going to win, I worry about the team selection as he baffles me. When I think he has selected a positive team, he plays people in wrong positions and it sits very uncomfortable.

I am very confident however, that we will not beat liverpool on sunday, I am hoping we do but the best I can envisage is a draw imo.

This encapsulates my view.
I'd only add that my frustration at the current state of affairs does not match my apprehension as to what he'll do to the squad in the summer. A man with a 'football manager ego' doesn't come in, produce this little/these poor performances, and blame himself. I worry that he'll tear down what has been built/tear up a squad I quite like, rather than producing the little tweaks that - i felt - were all that was needed to propel us forward.

i would normally probably say that seems like a valid fear. However i have a sense the owners agenda doesn't read like that, and they wont listen to a manager saying that the players are not up to it, lets get some more. They might indulge a little bit given a good arguement on the back of some results, but i think they are aware that they have a lot of experienced premiership players and dont need wholesale changes. i also dont read Mancini like that either yet

[MaineRoadMemories]

Ha ha.
Mancini?

Nope this is Mancini. :-)

[Tokyo Blue]

What I WANT is for us to look like a side that merits a place in the top 4

So hang on, we are in the top four when we have played a game less than everybody else, but we don't deserve it?

Have I got that right?

[ant london]

What I WANT is for us to look like a side that merits a place in the top 4

So hang on, we are in the top four when we have played a game less than everybody else, but we don't deserve it?

Have I got that right?

No you don't have that right

Where do I say that we don't deserve it....I said that we don't look like a side that deserves to be there. We look bloody awful and have scraped the points lately to get up there. We should be there by a couple of clear points but we have scrambled (or more accurately been gifted by a referee) the single solitary poxy point that elevates us above fifth place.

We look like a side that, upon meeting some half decent opposition will be deposited on our sorry arses back OUT of the Top 4.

In short we do not look like a side that merits a place in the top 4.

Is that clear enough?

[Ted Hughes]

What I WANT is for us to look like a side that merits a place in the top 4

So hang on, we are in the top four when we have played a game less than everybody else, but we don't deserve it?

Have I got that right?

No you don't have that right

Where do I say that we don't deserve it....I said that we don't look like a side that deserves to be there. We look bloody awful and have scraped the points lately to get up there. We should be there by a couple of clear points but we have scrambled (or more accurately been gifted by a referee) the single solitary poxy point that elevates us above fifth place.

We look like a side that, upon meeting some half decent opposition will be deposited on our sorry arses back OUT of the Top 4.

In short we do not look like a side that merits a place in the top 4.

Is that clear enough?

Well we're about to find that out.

Imo the during victories Mancini has had, (apart from rags) we've only looked quality for 20 mins v Wolves, the rest of the time we've been utter, criminal, weak, half hearted, shite & either the oppo hasn't tested us because they've been inept or when they have tested us we've fallen apart badly. Stoke really did go for our throats though & for the 1st time under Mancini, the players looked up for it. If they can take that attitude into future games, well I just can't see how we can attack so badly all season. Even if Mancini was Phil Neal in disguise, he surely can't permanently destroy all that attacking flair? Some of it must come back & when it does, the combination will be hard to stop. I hope that's Sunday.

If he has permanently fucked up the attack though, bearing in mind the players he has, it will rank as the worst managerial incompetence we've ever seen & I'm going to suggest starting a lynch mob & we'll hang the twat off a lampost by his scarf.

[eastlandsblue]

This is the time SKY start using the term top 4, not the ''big 4'' and not until the scousers break back in

[LCBblue]

I'm very glad with our current position in the top 4. But we have to pick up the pedigree of our performances. We aren't playing very well, Liverpool on Sunday is a MUST WIN.

[Erwin Rommel]

If he has permanently fucked up the attack though, bearing in mind the players he has, it will rank as the worst managerial incompetence we've ever seen & I'm going to suggest starting a lynch mob & we'll hang the twat off a lampost by his scarf.

If that is the case we have to rank the sacking of Hughes as the worst Executive incompetence we have ever seen then, maybe the lynch mob should go higher up.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

If he has permanently fucked up the attack though, bearing in mind the players he has, it will rank as the worst managerial incompetence we've ever seen & I'm going to suggest starting a lynch mob & we'll hang the twat off a lampost by his scarf.

If that is the case we have to rank the sacking of Hughes as the worst Executive incompetence we have ever seen then, maybe the lynch mob should go higher up.

Even worse than sacking Pearce? I remember you being gutted about that as well. And I also remember how you said you'd rather have Beanie in charge than Hughes when he was still Blackburn. That made me giggle.

[brite blu sky]

If he has permanently fucked up the attack though, bearing in mind the players he has, it will rank as the worst managerial incompetence we've ever seen & I'm going to suggest starting a lynch mob & we'll hang the twat off a lampost by his scarf.

If that is the case we have to rank the sacking of Hughes as the worst Executive incompetence we have ever seen then, maybe the lynch mob should go higher up.

Even worse than sacking Pearce? I remember you being gutted about that as well. And I also remember how you said you'd rather have Beanie in charge than Hughes when he was still Blackburn. That made me giggle.

Changing manager mid season was a bold move bordering on foolhardy.And hells own sh*t will hit the fan between fans and the club if the season fucles up.
I would tend to agree with Ted though ( the bit he wrote before that quote ) that Mancini wont fucl up our attacking capability and it is just that we are struggling to merge the new approach to what the players were doing under the prev manager.

The pressure within the team due to not performing seems to be rising with us starting to get frustrated with ourselves. This is needed in my view, so that we can wake up and start to try and take a game by the scruff of the neck. I wouldn't be surprised to hear some noises from mancicni this week to that effect

[carl_feedthegoat]

CAN SOMEONE TELL MANCINI THAT WE ARE PLAYING SHIT BORING WANK FOOTBALL AND IT IS NOT THE CITY WAY AND COULD WE PLEASE REVERT BACK TO PLAYING ATTACKING ATTRACTIVE FOOTBALL.
THANKS,

[Wooders]

CAN SOMEONE TELL MANCINI THAT WE ARE PLAYING SHIT BORING WANK FOOTBALL AND IT IS NOT THE CITY WAY AND COULD WE PLEASE REVERT BACK TO PLAYING ATTACKING ATTRACTIVE FOOTBALL.
THANKS,

I PM'd Chip Mancini

[Mike J]

This is the time SKY start using the term top 4, not the ''big 4'' and not until the scousers break back in

if we do finish 4th and liverpool finish 5th, guarenteed they will start saying big 5....... erm why cant it still be the big 4!?

[brite blu sky]

CAN SOMEONE TELL MANCINI THAT WE ARE PLAYING SHIT BORING WANK FOOTBALL AND IT IS NOT THE CITY WAY AND COULD WE PLEASE REVERT BACK TO PLAYING ATTACKING ATTRACTIVE FOOTBALL.
THANKS,

i really dont expect to see a major difference in performance ( unfortunately ) But i do think the penny has dropped with Mancini that having concentrated so much on defensive ability, we have lost the ability to go for it. I think that Stoke with 10 men really brought that home to him ( he was berating the players during the game and was having a go at them in the post match interview for not attacking aggresively enough ) I am putting my money on the idea that he realises now he must do something about it. Hopefully they will have some frank and open discussions this week and that it results in a change in mentality and a tweak in formation to help us play higher up the pitch.