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Attitude it has to be our problem ?, it cant be anything else.

At home in front of a partisan crowd we are sight to behold. Fast free flowing football, intrinsic passing with a good work ethic. Entertainment at its best, we are irresistible more often than not.

On our travels we are the Polar opposite ,not just this season either, so we cant simply blame Pellegrini for our short comings on our travels. Mancini picked up on it, he felt our plethora of World Class talent found it difficult to up their game on away days. We get easily out worked and overrun, and give the impression that we are just not performing to our optimum levels.

A very good point today, if undeserving. The performance was so frustratingly predictable and very annoying.

Pellegrini needs to sort our squads attitude out going in to away fixtures if we are to become Champions this season.

Also at West Brom the television cameras caught Hart and Lescott fooling around laughing and joking flicking bits off paper at team mates during game play. Today the cameras caught Hart and Richards acting like children again during the game. I mean ffs they are grown men, watch the fucking game and act like your interested in what your team mates are doing on the pitch instead off acting like fucking idiots entertaining your selves during the game,it just dose not look good on television

zabbadabbado wrote:Attitude it has to be our problem ?, it cant be anything else.

At home in front of a partisan crowd we are sight to behold. Fast free flowing football, intrinsic passing with a good work ethic. Entertainment at its best, we are irresistible more often than not.

On our travels we are the Polar opposite ,not just this season either, so we cant simply blame Pellegrini for our short comings on our travels. Mancini picked up on it, he felt our plethora of World Class talent found it difficult to up their game on away days. We get easily out worked and overrun, and give the impression that we are just not performing to our optimum levels.

A very good point today, if undeserving. The performance was so frustratingly predictable and very annoying.

Pellegrini needs to sort our squads attitude out going in to away fixtures if we are to become Champions this season.

Also at West Brom the television cameras caught Hart and Lescott fooling around laughing and joking flicking bits off paper at team mates during game play. Today the cameras caught Hart and Richards acting like children again during the game. I mean ffs they are grown men, watch the fucking game and act like your interested in what your team mates are doing on the pitch instead off acting like fucking idiots entertaining your selves during the game,it just dose not look good on television

And what difference does that make? 2 players keeping the mood in the camp intact and you are complaining about that?

Today, it was all about tactics and fatigue. 4-4-2 against a team with a good midfield and pressing is suicide and it was proved again. Secondly our players looked tired. Unfortunately there couldn't be much rotation at all because our depth is either not good enough or injured.

Clowncrete wrote:

zabbadabbado wrote:Attitude it has to be our problem ?, it cant be anything else.

At home in front of a partisan crowd we are sight to behold. Fast free flowing football, intrinsic passing with a good work ethic. Entertainment at its best, we are irresistible more often than not.

On our travels we are the Polar opposite ,not just this season either, so we cant simply blame Pellegrini for our short comings on our travels. Mancini picked up on it, he felt our plethora of World Class talent found it difficult to up their game on away days. We get easily out worked and overrun, and give the impression that we are just not performing to our optimum levels.

A very good point today, if undeserving. The performance was so frustratingly predictable and very annoying.

Pellegrini needs to sort our squads attitude out going in to away fixtures if we are to become Champions this season.

Also at West Brom the television cameras caught Hart and Lescott fooling around laughing and joking flicking bits off paper at team mates during game play. Today the cameras caught Hart and Richards acting like children again during the game. I mean ffs they are grown men, watch the fucking game and act like your interested in what your team mates are doing on the pitch instead off acting like fucking idiots entertaining your selves during the game,it just dose not look good on television

And what difference does that make? 2 players keeping the mood in the camp intact and you are complaining about that?

Today, it was all about tactics and fatigue. 4-4-2 against a team with a good midfield and pressing is suicide and it was proved again. Secondly our players looked tired. Unfortunately there couldn't be much rotation at all because our depth is either not good enough or injured.

I wouldn't say our substitutes acting like tits in the dug out sends out the right signal mate.How can showing no interest in the game be a good thing for them or City if they are not focused on the match in hand.Hart problem has been his concentration span,if a 5 year old kid can sit and watch he game ,i am sure professional players can at least try too.

The stuff about Hart and Micah messing on the bench is bullshit and overly critical. They may be grown men, but they're still pretty young really and at the time we were winning and they were just being normal people having a laugh. You don't have to sit there totally stoic and stone-faced. It just shows they're happy

Don't agree re the 2 players and don't agree the attitude is wrong in away games.We were 2nd best today and that's really for the first time since the Stoke game.

Today I put it much more down to Soton than anything else.Their approach to the game along with very good fitness stifled City.We had started quite well and taken the lead but they just pressed us high and got in our faces very very well.We had moments and could have won but there were plenty for Soton as well and I thought we hung in well and showed a pretty good battling attitude to do that.

If someone had said to me last Sunday before the Swans game you will get 7 points this week with two away trips in that run of games I would have snapped their hand off. Slowly getting a run together, long may it continue.

Sister of fu wrote:If someone had said to me last Sunday before the Swans game you will get 7 points this week with two away trips in that run of games I would have snapped their hand off. Slowly getting a run together, long may it continue.

This. Well said Sis....

I think I would rather have my players goofing around on the bench over staring darts at the gaffer or sleeping. Any player that can play practical jokes is one I want on my team, character can help win matches.

I don't think the attitude of the players on the pitch was the issue (maybe concentration was), certainly not those on the bench.

It was just an average performance against a side having a real go.

Shame Arsenal aren't likely to do the same tomorrow.

My concern was the lack of desperation to go for the win at the end.

Sister of fu wrote:If someone had said to me last Sunday before the Swans game you will get 7 points this week with two away trips in that run of games I would have snapped their hand off. Slowly getting a run together, long may it continue.

Agreed.

I don't see anything wrong with the attitude of the players and believe that trying to lay the challenges we've had on attitude is a lazy copout.

They're all grafting hard but just seems to be in different directions at key times - as opposed to a unit, specifically without the ball.

The attitude of the opposition is different home and away.

Apart from Arsenal, non of the top 6s away form is outstanding. Away form is always going to be worse than home form. 2 away games in a week involving alot of travelling, i'm happy with 4 points.

dazby wrote:My concern was the lack of desperation to go for the win at the end.

Hmm, Southampton are one of the teams where an all-out offence at the end could be a massive mistake. They're one of the fittest teams in the Prem, and could easily launch a counter attack that I doubt we'd deal with well.

Twobob wrote:I don't see anything wrong with the attitude of the players and believe that trying to lay the challenges we've had on attitude is a lazy copout.

They're all grafting hard but just seems to be in different directions at key times - as opposed to a unit, specifically without the ball.

I agree.

It could seem like we lack effort to some, but that is imo down to the team we put out, ie Yaya/Fernandinho alone in centre mid areas v greater numbers, plus a general lack of pace in the back 4.

Lack of individual intelligence was the biggest disappointment for me.

Some of the stuff Zabba & Demichelis were getting up to was criminal. At the other end, Aguero & Negredo, running at two cbs who make Demichelis look like Usain Bolt, kept getting simple passes wrong & giving the ball away.

Also the instance when Negredo jogged past their cb with ease, straight into their penalty area, then stumbled into the ball & passed it back to their keeper, set the tone for the whole performance.

We could have scored 6 v that cb pairing but ended up happy with a draw, down to almost every player on the team playing like shit.

Not because they didn't run about.

Sister of fu wrote:If someone had said to me last Sunday before the Swans game you will get 7 points this week with two away trips in that run of games I would have snapped their hand off. Slowly getting a run together, long may it continue.

Spot on. You can't win all the games especially away. Ignore the media who still bleat on about our away form. Like a point away at a top 6 club is a bad thing

there isn't a winning culture at the club
in fact, very few clubs have one
at the moment there is probably only one in europe and we're playing them this week

BlueinBosnia wrote:Hmm, Southampton are one of the teams where an all-out offence at the end could be a massive mistake. They're one of the fittest teams in the Prem, and could easily launch a counter attack that I doubt we'd deal with well.

I'm on about things like being eager to get the ball when we had a throw in. We didn't need to throw numbers forward but the ones that were had to show some intent.