It was only Swansea

[Paul68]

Am pissed off with the press and certain other fans giving out with the bollox that City won like that 'cos it was "ony Swansea".
Was sort of expecting negative jealous shit - we will have to get used to that - but this particular bollox really gets on my tits.
City were fucking superb (after about 15mins!) :-) and this is exactly what we should be doing to teams like Swansea - no disrespect intended.
I've known times when I would have been shitting meself at the thought of them turning us over in shock defeat but was never in any doubt this time round.
We have sent the message that we are serious about winning the league and we have to continue treating the "smaller" teams like this and banging in a hatful of goals against them. Fuck them - if we have the opportunity to score 5, 6, or even 7 then we should be taking it.
1-0, 2-0 wins against the scum, tottingham, scouse, the arse etc will be realistic and certainly feasible and together with "big" wins against strugglers and weaker teams should hopefully put an end to the "yeah but it was only xxx".

what do you think?

[Alioune DVToure]

Am pissed off with the press and certain other fans giving out with the bollox that City won like that 'cos it was "ony Swansea".
Was sort of expecting negative jealous shit - we will have to get used to that - but this particular bollox really gets on my tits.
City were fucking superb (after about 15mins!) :-) and this is exactly what we should be doing to teams like Swansea - no disrespect intended.
I've known times when I would have been shitting meself at the thought of them turning us over in shock defeat but was never in any doubt this time round.
We have sent the message that we are serious about winning the league and we have to continue treating the "smaller" teams like this and banging in a hatful of goals against them. Fuck them - if we have the opportunity to score 5, 6, or even 7 then we should be taking it.
1-0, 2-0 wins against the scum, tottingham, scouse, the arse etc will be realistic and certainly feasible and together with "big" wins against strugglers and weaker teams should hopefully put an end to the "yeah but it was only xxx".

what do you think?

I don't get wound up about the press, but I do appreciate that downplaying our drubbing whilst proclaiming that the Munes are 'nailed on' for the title after a lucky 2-1 win at WBA is ridiculous. But whatever. I honestly couldn't give a flying cunt about the press or envious fans of other sides.

[Cityfan]

Not really bothered either way. It was a great match to watch and we played well but no matter who it was against you need to be at least 10 matches into the season before you can really start looking at form or judging a team in my view unless it is spectacularly bad or very good against decent opposition.

[darwenblue86]

Am pissed off with the press and certain other fans giving out with the bollox that City won like that 'cos it was "ony Swansea".
Was sort of expecting negative jealous shit - we will have to get used to that - but this particular bollox really gets on my tits.
City were fucking superb (after about 15mins!) :-) and this is exactly what we should be doing to teams like Swansea - no disrespect intended.
I've known times when I would have been shitting meself at the thought of them turning us over in shock defeat but was never in any doubt this time round.
We have sent the message that we are serious about winning the league and we have to continue treating the "smaller" teams like this and banging in a hatful of goals against them. Fuck them - if we have the opportunity to score 5, 6, or even 7 then we should be taking it.
1-0, 2-0 wins against the scum, tottingham, scouse, the arse etc will be realistic and certainly feasible and together with "big" wins against strugglers and weaker teams should hopefully put an end to the "yeah but it was only xxx".

what do you think?

I don't get wound up about the press, but I do appreciate that downplaying our drubbing whilst proclaiming that the Munes are 'nailed on' for the title after a lucky 2-1 win at WBA is ridiculous. But whatever. I honestly couldn't give a flying cunt about the press or envious fans of other sides.

Exactly what I was thinking, sod the press cos they're going to spend all their time licking red arse anyway (regardless of sketchy wins!) There's nowt we can do about that so focus on the positives.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Strange that the press/media seem to be full of praise for Swansea in the way they passed the ball,kept control for 60 minutes etc etc and yet in the next sentence they (or some of them) say ah well it was only Swansea. I am with ADVT and don't really give a monkey's what the press say.

As I see it the scum are the favourites and so they should be with all that experience and a very good squad but we are,not should be, we are the main challengers.I was/am excited before the season started and don't feel any more so after one home win but it was a lovely start. Well maybe a little more after seeing Aguero for the first time but lets just see how we fare in a few away games before going to far.

[Tokyo Blue]

I see it as a bit of motivation for the players. If they can be arsed reading the papers.

[Tokyo Blue]

1-0, 2-0 wins against the scum, tottingham, scouse, the arse etc will be realistic.

Why settle for only 1-0 or 2-0? They are there to be beaten and I think we can do the same to anyone in the division if we play to our best and to our strengths.

[Ted Hughes]

Did anyone see Arsenal's defence last night? They made Swansea look lke Juventus from the 70's. Fucking Liverpool & rags will get the chace to cash in on that & if they do, everyone will wank tnemselves into a coma about it. We would have put twelve past them.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Its human nature to take notice and get wound up when items, be it in the press or on TV spout out negative shit about our team.

Its obvious to everyone but LookmumimaTiT that most pundits and journalists are anti City and will continue to cheer whenever we fuck up on or off the pitch.


Wankers - I mean WBA are World class arnt they.....imagine if we had laboured to a 2-1 win with the winner being an own goal.

[lovecity8utd]

I made teh mistake of listening to TalkSport Tuesday afternoon and "it was only Swansea" was mentioned countless times. Only thing that got to me was that it was a bit disrespectful to Swansea - they are in the Prem on merit after all so deserve some credit.

[dazby]

We should be comfortable with our underdog status. Let em heap the pressure on the rags. Build em up and let them fall.

[DoomMerchant]

We should be comfortable with our underdog status. Let em heap the pressure on the rags. Build em up and let them fall.

underdog status? it's more like "us vs the world." That's more like almost the opposite of the underdog, no?

[Slim]

It was a team we should have put to the sword and we did, I don't get the problem.

Liverpool should have beaten Sunderland and didn't, Arsenal over Newcastle, Chelsea over Stoke(although Stoke are very good at the Britannia) and even the filth needed an own goal to get up over West Brom, and don't get me started on Tottenham, they didn't even seem to turn up at all.

It may have been "only swansea" but we did what was expected, no-one else in the top 6 did.

[dazby]

We should be comfortable with our underdog status. Let em heap the pressure on the rags. Build em up and let them fall.

underdog status? it's more like "us vs the world." That's more like almost the opposite of the underdog, no?

not in regards to winning the title. We are defo the doggies in that regard.

[DoomMerchant]

We should be comfortable with our underdog status. Let em heap the pressure on the rags. Build em up and let them fall.

underdog status? it's more like "us vs the world." That's more like almost the opposite of the underdog, no?

not in regards to winning the title. We are defo the doggies in that regard.

i dunno...maybe i have a different definition of "underdog."

we are the team that people are heaping expectations upon and claiming that if we don't win it with our expensively assembled squad then we've underachieved. Underdogs would be those with only a longshot or worse chance of getting it done...as in Blackpool last season...and are typically a team that neutrals want to root for, thereby giving them the rooting support which begats more support as a 'dog facing the big boys, etc.

Are we likely a lower probability than the Rags to win the league? i'm sure...but i'd hardly class that as making us underdogs. Maybe i'm being silly, but i don't see us as having that tag.

We are, in contrast, to use my good friend Ice Cube as an example, are someone who is getting little respect in most circles, and who are on the verge of "fucking up the program" to paraphrase...

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[john@staustell]

The immediate reaction was that "WOW City are going t win the league". But then there was a bit of a reaction along less hysterical lines. To be expected.

11 months ago every wise head told us Chelsea would win the league by a country mile, which turned out not to be the case.

[Slim]

The immediate reaction was that "WOW City are going t win the league". But then there was a bit of a reaction along less hysterical lines. To be expected.

11 months ago every wise head told us Chelsea would win the league by a country mile, which turned out not to be the case.

I think one of those twats on the Sunday Supliment said the league would finish filth and us in 2nd, he was close.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Yeah it came out ok in the end and we've all got to be excited by Aguero's debut and the promise that brings, but there were warning signs.
Bob started with his negative tactics in evidence again and they were not working well in the first half.
It really changed with a moment of brilliance from Silva and an injury to Nige. Would Mancini have changed it if it hadn't been for that?
Once we had two strikers on it looked more like what we would have hoped for. But it still bothers me that Bob has such a default negative mindset.

However you can only beat what is it put in front of you.

[ant london]

I think that's a bit overly negative re our tactics/approach at the outset.

I have no issue with us setting out with a plan for the first 15-20 minutes of taking the sting out of the opposition and then starting to impose our game on them and I think that is what we were aiming to do. Had Silva's shot that the keeper saved or the one that hit the bar gone in I think we would have seen the performance of the second half starting earlier but things just didn't run for us.

We were well in control of the game and playing positively well before Kun came on IMO.

Swansea looked great on the ball but in reality (even in that first 20-25 minutes) did they really threaten our goal or look seriously like they could win the game, I say not. We always had the upper hand even when we weren't totally controlling the ball.

I criticised him plenty last season but I've got some faith now that he knows what he's doing and the team can actually implement his t types of game plans rather than turning out turgid one paced crapennacio

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

I think that's a bit overly negative re our tactics/approach at the outset.

I have no issue with us setting out with a plan for the first 15-20 minutes of taking the sting out of the opposition and then starting to impose our game on them and I think that is what we were aiming to do. Had Silva's shot that the keeper saved or the one that hit the bar gone in I think we would have seen the performance of the second half starting earlier but things just didn't run for us.

We were well in control of the game and playing positively well before Kun came on IMO.

Swansea looked great on the ball but in reality (even in that first 20-25 minutes) did they really threaten our goal or look seriously like they could win the game, I say not. We always had the upper hand even when we weren't totally controlling the ball.

I criticised him plenty last season but I've got some faith now that he knows what he's doing and the team can actually implement his t types of game plans rather than turning out turgid one paced crapennacio

I take on board what you say. But why not just impose ourselves from the outset when we are so much better than the oppo? Why give them a sniff? We look so good when we are marauding forward and so poor when we aren't. It will cost us against better teams.