Dubaimancityfan wrote:If we don't win the PL, then no. We were joint 2nd last season but we won the FA Cup. So this season we have gone backwards no matter how many points we end up with !
We threw away the CL, Europa, FA and League Cups too easily mainly due to our home results which is quite strange and unforgivable taking into account how commanding our home form has been in the PL. Still can't believe we conceded 2 goals to Lisbon at home and lost the tie. Not to mention the 3 conceded to the scum after battering them away a few weeks earlier !!
Still I would like Bobby to stay as we need continuity and hope he has a good break in the summer and think about and accept the mistakes he made and then fix them (strange starting line-ups, strange or too late substitutions, prepare the team better for away games at Everton !!).
bluej wrote:"Joint 2nd" isn't a position, we finished 3rd.
saulman wrote:If we finish 2nd then it's an improvement on last season. Whilst achieving that position we've played some of the best football anyone here has seen City play in our lifetime. We've turned over some of our real bogey sides (including a double over Spurs) and we humilated the filth at the Swamp whilst giving baconface his biggest ever defeat.
I don't know about anyone else but I've enjoyed this season better than any other I can remember. Anyone who thinks that we'll just walk it to the title whilst wiping each and every other team aside needs to get a grip and remember that this is City. You can't have all these good times without some of the obligatory shite that goes with being a City fan, no matter how big and rich we've become.
Regardless of what happens here on in, I will see this season as a success. If we don't win anything, so what? It's nothing new. It's not like I'm not used to it. Aside from last season we've gone decades without winning anything, now we're expected to win something every season?
We should still be improving and still growing and still building. Each season should be better than the last and if it is, then that should be seen as a successful season. If we keep heading in the right direction, the trophies will come.
saulman wrote:If we finish 2nd then it's an improvement on last season. Whilst achieving that position we've played some of the best football anyone here has seen City play in our lifetime. We've turned over some of our real bogey sides (including a double over Spurs) and we humilated the filth at the Swamp whilst giving baconface his biggest ever defeat.
I don't know about anyone else but I've enjoyed this season better than any other I can remember. Anyone who thinks that we'll just walk it to the title whilst wiping each and every other team aside needs to get a grip and remember that this is City. You can't have all these good times without some of the obligatory shite that goes with being a City fan, no matter how big and rich we've become.
Regardless of what happens here on in, I will see this season as a success. If we don't win anything, so what? It's nothing new. It's not like I'm not used to it. Aside from last season we've gone decades without winning anything, now we're expected to win something every season?
We should still be improving and still growing and still building. Each season should be better than the last and if it is, then that should be seen as a successful season. If we keep heading in the right direction, the trophies will come.
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:It will be a shocking failure. And there is one man to blame for it.
Douglas Higginbottom wrote:If we finish on 85 points or so and come 2nd it will be a semi success as we will be one position higher and 15 points better off. But not to win anything at all must be considered a failure.We are too good a team not to win anything this season.
But I think Mancini should definitely stay and show that he heas learned from the mistakes,but a few,let a few go and we will be stronger and better next season.
Ted Hughes wrote:The key imo, is that we finish the season looking like a team who is ready to take it a step further. I said the same last season, when I was very unhappy with a lot of Bob's moves; we needed a strong finish to propel us into this season in the right shape. We got it.
The same now & this season is a big success imo. It's what we originally aimed for; a title challenge. We got it & it's not over yet. Any kind of Sven type collapse though & the opposite will be the case. We won't improve next season if we collapse now.
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