s1ty m wrote:We lost the fewest away games (Sunday not included) in the entire premier league. Interesting.
bernabias_right_boot wrote:I can remember seasons where we haven't won away at all, so we're definitely getting better!
Beefymcfc wrote:Just had to chexk that! It sounds a nice stat doesn't it, and it does show how far we have come. For next year though, I'd rather turn a couple of our 8 draws into wins and lose a few, ie. go and attack them instead of playing not to lose.
Saying that, I'm still very pleased.
Nick wrote:People always say the draws under hughes but mancini has lost more games and 3 more home games than hughes zero!
IMO we should have beaten Everton and home and Hull Away and that would have done us. We should have also attacked U***d.
Beefymcfc wrote:1 win = 3 draws.
Kiss_The_Goat wrote:Nick wrote:People always say the draws under hughes but mancini has lost more games and 3 more home games than hughes zero!
IMO we should have beaten Everton and home and Hull Away and that would have done us. We should have also attacked U***d.
I dont really want to be drawn into an argument on what theoretically might have been under Hughes but I very much doubt we were we ever going to go the whole season without losing a home game? Not defending like clowns and giving teams like Burnley 2 goal head starts.
Hull away was poor but losing to U***d in the hunt for the title and an inform Everton are not exactly poor results when compared to the draws against Wigan away and Fulham, Burnley and Hull at home. Those dropped 8 points would have us sitting in 3rd place.
Grob wrote:A draw is a draw and a loss is a loss regardless of manager.
We shouldnt have drawn at home to Burnley, Fulham and Hull in theory, we also shouldnt have lost to Everton twice, Hull away, 3 times at home, and messed up against Stoke in the FA Cup in theory.
It seems to me that posters use the games we didnt win under whichever manager they didnt want to explain why we are not in the Champions League. I use the Mancini games more as they are more current from a personal perspective.
At the end of the day, if one of the games Hughes failed to win and one of the games Mancini failed to win had actually been wins then we would be in 4th, only needing to match Spurs's result on Sunday. Why cant that be a fair point of view?
john@staustell wrote:Grob wrote:A draw is a draw and a loss is a loss regardless of manager.
We shouldnt have drawn at home to Burnley, Fulham and Hull in theory, we also shouldnt have lost to Everton twice, Hull away, 3 times at home, and messed up against Stoke in the FA Cup in theory.
It seems to me that posters use the games we didnt win under whichever manager they didnt want to explain why we are not in the Champions League. I use the Mancini games more as they are more current from a personal perspective.
At the end of the day, if one of the games Hughes failed to win and one of the games Mancini failed to win had actually been wins then we would be in 4th, only needing to match Spurs's result on Sunday. Why cant that be a fair point of view?
Mainly because the soft home draws all came under Hughesy. People were actually discrediting Bobby's away draw at Arsenal, an excellent result, because by then we NEEDED the win. Everton and Spuds were both in top form when we played them, and you can lose to Scum anytime I'm afraid(until we get better next year!) But the results against Fulham, Burnley, Brum and Wigan show what surely would've happened in those draws if played later in the season.
I dont 'support' either manager, only CITY, but I know improvements when I see them, and still with some inadequate playing staff soon hopefully to be replaced.
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