Laughing Stock

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Well its disappointing but most of the criticism is unfounded. The team selection was sound. We were by far the better team til Ade unfortunately but rightly got sent off. Then two goals found our Achilles, Shay in the air and Bridge completely losing his man. We certainly tried and the tactics looked fine. Once we spurned two one on ones the writing was on the wall. Its not about managers. We have several players who are performing badly and we are having no luck. We are far from being a team, spirit wise. But this has been the case since the project started. We try to play like a big team but we aren't convincing the oppos or ourselves. It just aint gonna be easy, full stop.And it aint a lot of fun at the moment.So just try and have a lot of sex, or drink loads or play your guitar. What ever you do, dont rely on City cos that way lies insanity.

Nice one. I can go with a lot of that but the point you made "Its not about managers" I think is a good one. Just like now it isnt all down to Mancini it wasn't all down to the manager before either but that didnt stop him getting sacked.

I fear the same might happen again.

[BobKowalski]

Well its disappointing but most of the criticism is unfounded. The team selection was sound. We were by far the better team til Ade unfortunately but rightly got sent off. Then two goals found our Achilles, Shay in the air and Bridge completely losing his man. We certainly tried and the tactics looked fine. Once we spurned two one on ones the writing was on the wall. Its not about managers. We have several players who are performing badly and we are having no luck. We are far from being a team, spirit wise. But this has been the case since the project started. We try to play like a big team but we aren't convincing the oppos or ourselves. It just aint gonna be easy, full stop.And it aint a lot of fun at the moment.So just try and have a lot of sex, or drink loads or play your guitar. What ever you do, dont rely on City cos that way lies insanity.

Nice one. I can go with a lot of that but the point you made "Its not about managers" I think is a good one. Just like now it isnt all down to Mancini it wasn't all down to the manager before either but that didnt stop him getting sacked.

I fear the same might happen again.

Possibly. But the buck does stop with the manager which is as it should be in my opinion. To be honest I am not convinced that ADUG are as trigger happy as they are currently portrayed but we shall see. I'm with mctavish on the sex part though.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Didn't think there was a lack of desire from most of the players myself. Just think we have a manager who's turned one of the best attacking teams in the PL into Fulham.

Bit harsh on fulham, they play some good stuff!

Please come back to me you funny fucker.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Ok so under Hughes in knockout comps THIS SEASON WITH THIS SQUAD, we beat Palace, Fulham,Scunny and Arsenal and lost/drew none. Under "Bobby Wanc" we've beat Boro barely, Utd at home, lost away, drew home to Stoke and been beat away.

Is the league that much better that we can afford the cups to be this much worse?

I am in no way saying Hughes was the answer, but if this was the alternative, should we not have just given him the season before getting a proper manager in?

[ant london]

I was saying the same last season when I had my petty prejudices in front of the club's best interests

Why is that?

at the moment I hate YOU YOU YOU AND YOU

hypocrites all of you

I'm not slagging you off....I just dislike you all intensely


LOVE CITY

HATE MANCINI

[Kyle]

I miss the old City. This money has fookin ruined us. At least even in our days in div 2 we had good honest players playing good honest football. Im gettin to the point where Id say bollox to trophies, Id rather have my club back. I never loved City through trophies. I loved City as a club.. its sad to say, but Im losing that love.. Even goin up on the train there were loads of City. I used to be the only one and now I find myself on a train surrounded by loads.Where were they before we had this cash?? We'll be a club like the rags and Chelsea soon enough with fookin arseholes that just jump on a bandwagon.. Id rather have the lesser, but loyal fans, thank you..I feel like we are sacrificing the soul of the club in order to get success.. Id keep the soul any day..

I miss the old days..

Top top post mate, I really enjoyed reading that. Although I never supported city through the times that many of you lot have, I agree one hundred percent.

[BobbyJ1956]

No, I want to see them win stuff. I wanted to go to Istanbul last year and if Elano's shot against Hamburg had been an inch the other way I could have. I thought for sure I was going to Wembley at least once this season. I don't want City to be just a "nice" club like Fulham or West Ham, I want to see them on top. OK, when I was a little kid City were unpredictable and inconsistent but then they started winning, which coincided with me beginning to understand as a young man what football was about and how it could be played. There was a spell when they were winners playing beautiful football, it brought a league title, FA Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup. Their prime was my prime. I saw most games in those seasons and I want that back. I can't have my prime back because I'm an old bugger now and 3,000 miles away but I want to see City in their pomp again. Most of you lot on here have been accustomed to dross relieved by an occasional win against the rags as the highlight of a season, and most of you have seen so many false dawns you're sick of them. But I remember when it was real what the song says, about City, City the best team in the land in all the world, and if it takes the Sheikh's mega-million fortune and the bandwagon jumpers that come with it to make that happen it's OK with me. So let's go for 4th this season and build from there. Please, Mr. Mancini, Mr. Khaldoon, I just want to see City win the league and the Cup one more time, not even necessarily in the same season, before I disappear to talk to Joe Mercer and pay him back the three bob he spent buying me a bacon butty and a too-milky tea in a cafe near Maine Road.

[mcfc1632]

No, I want to see them win stuff. I wanted to go to Istanbul last year and if Elano's shot against Hamburg had been an inch the other way I could have. I thought for sure I was going to Wembley at least once this season. I don't want City to be just a "nice" club like Fulham or West Ham, I want to see them on top. OK, when I was a little kid City were unpredictable and inconsistent but then they started winning, which coincided with me beginning to understand as a young man what football was about and how it could be played. There was a spell when they were winners playing beautiful football, it brought a league title, FA Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup. Their prime was my prime. I saw most games in those seasons and I want that back. I can't have my prime back because I'm an old bugger now and 3,000 miles away but I want to see City in their pomp again. Most of you lot on here have been accustomed to dross relieved by an occasional win against the rags as the highlight of a season, and most of you have seen so many false dawns you're sick of them. But I remember when it was real what the song says, about City, City the best team in the land in all the world, and if it takes the Sheikh's mega-million fortune and the bandwagon jumpers that come with it to make that happen it's OK with me. So let's go for 4th this season and build from there. Please, Mr. Mancini, Mr. Khaldoon, I just want to see City win the league and the Cup one more time, not even necessarily in the same season, before I disappear to talk to Joe Mercer and pay him back the three bob he spent buying me a bacon butty and a too-milky tea in a cafe near Maine Road.

Me too

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Why do people keep bringing up the old manager. Especially those who were firmly against him?

because of the ORIGINAL POST of course. Constantly going on about someone who isn't luckily ever coming back.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Why do people keep bringing up the old manager. Especially those who were firmly against him?

because of the ORIGINAL POST of course. Constantly going on about someone who isn't luckily ever coming back.

Your double standards are laughable. What about a quick slagging of the useless cunt in charge now just to balance it out a bit.

Can we start a new club called the Bobby wanc lickers maybe?

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Managers available as caretaker until the end of the season

Graeme Souness,

Apart from Megson, I would have all above Mancini right now.

Definitely a WUM

I said weeks ago it's Dev. One of his favourite wind ups to throw Souey in the mix. Happened consistently under Pearce when he thought Stu was the man for us.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Why do people keep bringing up the old manager. Especially those who were firmly against him?

because of the ORIGINAL POST of course. Constantly going on about someone who isn't luckily ever coming back.

Your double standards are laughable. What about a quick slagging of the useless cunt in charge now just to balance it out a bit.

Can we start a new club called the Bobby wanc lickers maybe?

Eh? Have I tried to hide the fact that I think Mancini is the man for us? It's not like some great revelation you tool.

And why don't you start 'I give player ratings despite not seeing the game' group? My fiver says you didn't even see the game last night.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

We need a manager with a proven record in the English league, who can motivate cloggers and primadonnas alike, who can circle the wagons when under attack by the media. A manager who appreciates youth but can find gems in the transfer market. A manager who has a winning mentality come what may. We need......... oh shit!

that is EXACTLY our problem. There's only one man who fit those criterias. If we aren't trying to get that coffin dodgin' cunt in then there aren't too many options.

[mcfc1632]

You weren't saying the same last season when we lost to fucking Forest under the mune.

Why is that?

so you are going back 13 months and tyring to prove what exactly?

YOU WANTED MANCINI AND HE IS FUCKING SHITE, do you still believe he is the messiah?

What about him being a proven winner? Silverware etc etc etc.....

you thought it'd happen in two months? To get these lazy turds playing who had got used to no tactics and no team discipline?

But hey ho, gary neville is soon available.

Whoa - now the way Mancini has this team playing is Hughes fault!! - truly gobsmacking - some people are just unable to have the pair to say they were wrong - what is done is done re Hughes - but people should at least be able to be honest and not speak such bollocks

[avoidconfusion]

Eh? Have I tried to hide the fact that I think Mancini is the man for us? It's not like some great revelation you tool.

And why don't you start 'I give player ratings despite not seeing the game' group? My fiver says you didn't even see the game last night.

So you still think Mancini is the man for us despite the fact that under him we crashed out of the CC, the FA cup, play absolutely dire football now and have lost more games than under Hughes this season? :)

[ant london]

I thought this thread was going to be about NQDP, Socrates, King Kev and the rest of the Hughes Out brigade

How disappointing that it turns out to be about our incompetent manager

[Alex Sapphire]

I thought this thread was going to be about NQDP, Socrates, King Kev and the rest of the Hughes Out brigade

How disappointing that it turns out to be about our incompetent manager

it might have been if the 2 you name and others had had the cojones to comment on it.
At least Pants is standing his corner.
Although reverting to calling our squad "lazy turds" does look a bit desparate

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Eh? Have I tried to hide the fact that I think Mancini is the man for us? It's not like some great revelation you tool.

And why don't you start 'I give player ratings despite not seeing the game' group? My fiver says you didn't even see the game last night.

So you still think Mancini is the man for us despite the fact that under him we crashed out of the CC, the FA cup, play absolutely dire football now and have lost more games than under Hughes this season? :)

Like I said when we appointed him, I think he is the man for IN LONG TERM.

We've improved our league position in short term and I believe that's what he was signed to do.

What I do or don't think is irrelevant here though. Mancini has been given until summer and the owners will make judgement whether they feel this is acceptable.

For what it's worth, I'm fucking fuming about last night. I don't know what winding me up will achieve except me hurling insults at people. Which I'm pretty close to doing. But I'm desperately trying to remain zenlike here.

[Alex Sapphire]

We've improved our league position in short term and I believe that's what he was signed to do.

so I'll just take a peak in Pandora's box (oo er):

are you sure you want this statement to be your summary of what RM has contributed?

[mcfc1632]

Eh? Have I tried to hide the fact that I think Mancini is the man for us? It's not like some great revelation you tool.

And why don't you start 'I give player ratings despite not seeing the game' group? My fiver says you didn't even see the game last night.

So you still think Mancini is the man for us despite the fact that under him we crashed out of the CC, the FA cup, play absolutely dire football now and have lost more games than under Hughes this season? :)

Like I said when we appointed him, I think he is the man for IN LONG TERM.

We've improved our league position in short term and I believe that's what he was signed to do.

What I do or don't think is irrelevant here though. Mancini has been given until summer and the owners will make judgement whether they feel this is acceptable.

For what it's worth, I'm fucking fuming about last night. I don't know what winding me up will achieve except me hurling insults at people. Which I'm pretty close to doing. But I'm desperately trying to remain zenlike here.

Hurling insults - is that the only reaction you know? - try admiring you were wrong - you might earn back a little of the respect you have lost