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Robbie Savage

Postby Green & Blue » Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:08 am

The greatest advocate of Manchester City football club.Well maybe not but...

Never thought i would say that but at least presently in media ciecles it's certainly true.He's a bit of a legend.Since Mancini has joined the club he has been so so positive about the club.One of our only constant sources of support within the media.
Okay maybe the legend bit is slightly over the top but on Espn he has been all over us like a rash talking us up no end.

I never really liked Savage in his playing days as he was so full blooded on the pitch.That would have been great if he played for the club i support but when he's on the opposing team he's hardly going to endear himself.
I have to say in a way his City Bias has become quite entertaining and i'm really begining to like the chap, makes Espn a far more favourable viewing option than the lot at sky.
He hinted that his only criticisim of us today was that we should have gone for the jugular today and made it seven or eight.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Kladze » Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:52 am

Green & Blue wrote:The greatest advocate of Manchester City football club.Well maybe not but...

Never thought i would say that but at least presently in media ciecles it's certainly true.He's a bit of a legend.Since Mancini has joined the club he has been so so positive about the club.One of our only constant sources of support within the media.
Okay maybe the legend bit is slightly over the top but on Espn he has been all over us like a rash talking us up no end.

I never really liked Savage in his playing days as he was so full blooded on the pitch.That would have been great if he played for the club i support but when he's on the opposing team he's hardly going to endear himself.
I have to say in a way his City Bias has become quite entertaining and i'm really begining to like the chap, makes Espn a far more favourable viewing option than the lot at sky.
[highlight]He hinted that his only criticisim of us today was that we should have gone for the jugular today and made it seven or eight.[/highlight]


I agreed with him. We have to learn to be totally and utterly ruthless.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby shawzy » Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:32 am

I like savage as a pundit...Hes been good to City and was spot on with that jugular comment..There was a spell after the 4th goal where we relaxed and went into cruise mode...Not knocking our performance, it was awesome but we need to keep attacking for 90mins if were gonna meet and beat the likes of Barca.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Niall Quinns Discopants » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:47 am

Robbie Savage is utter clown both on and off the pitch. Just because he fancies us doesn't mean he is any good. I used to read his columns and all he ever did was have cheap shots on anyone he thought had been "in his way to world stardom" without hint of self sarcasm. I've also heard him on telly on some of those streams and he comes usually with some brainless non-sense.

British telly go wrong with pundits because they go for "good characters" rather than people who actually have something insightfull to say about football.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby JonnyAsh » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:02 am

Totally agree with him about going for the jugular. If there's one thing we can learn off the rags is that they showed no mercy to Arsenal today. they could have been forgiven for stopping at 5 or 6, but they never stop.
If we had today, we could well have been top tonight. I hope they learn if and when we are in that position again. Goal difference cost us second on our own last year, we must learn to be unforgiving in putting teams to the sword.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Slim » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:28 am

I like him, not sure if he was a presenter or a guest...I think guest when he was playing for Brighton, but he makes a lot of sense most of the time. Not too insightful but plain spoken and sounds like someone you'd enjoy talking to at the pub after a game.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby john@staustell » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:21 am

5-1 away at Spurs is pretty 'jugular' to me!!
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Dubciteh » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:25 am

former rag can we have ever take to him?

I too thought at 4 nil up after 60mins we could of got 7 or 8 but we slowed our play down to a certain extent...
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby john@staustell » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:26 am

Dubciteh wrote:former rag can we have ever take to him?

I too thought at 4 nil up after 60mins we could of got 7 or 8 but we slowed our play down to a certain extent...


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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby london blue 2 » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:42 am

john@staustell wrote:5-1 away at Spurs is pretty 'jugular' to me!!

This. I dunno what some of you expect. After the first two goals we went for the jugular and smashed 5 past a very decent team on their home patch.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby BobbyDazzler » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:26 am

I like him. He always comes across well on the Monday Night Club on five live. He is not afraid to speak his mind and clearly isn't afraid of upsetting fellow pro's with his opinion. He says it as he sees it and although I might not always agree with his opinion, it's refreshing to hear a pundit who actually has an opinion, rather than just bland observations who is frightened of upsetting an ex colleague/future employer. And he loves us.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Chinners » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:30 am

Savage is still a cent for me. He's doing exactly what he always does, choosing the lest popular stance to be different. He don't really like us, its just nobody else does at the mo so he chooses to take that stance. He'll be back to slating us come xmas when everyone else is drooling over our side.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby feedthegreek » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:37 am

hes a big mate of mancinis so hes hardly likely to slag us off his he.
they were both at leicester.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Nutzer » Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:54 pm

JonnyAsh wrote:Totally agree with him about going for the jugular. If there's one thing we can learn off the rags is that they showed no mercy to Arsenal today. they could have been forgiven for stopping at 5 or 6, but they never stop.
If we had today, we could well have been top tonight. I hope they learn if and when we are in that position again. Goal difference cost us second on our own last year, we must learn to be unforgiving in putting teams to the sword.

I totally agree with you. True champions at any sport have to develop a killer instinct. When we've got a team on the ropes, we've got to keep them there and run up a rugby score.
If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't really grasped the gravity of the situation.
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby Nigels Tackle » Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:02 pm

the man is an idiot
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby s1ty m » Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:12 pm

Kladze wrote:
Green & Blue wrote:The greatest advocate of Manchester City football club.Well maybe not but...

Never thought i would say that but at least presently in media ciecles it's certainly true.He's a bit of a legend.Since Mancini has joined the club he has been so so positive about the club.One of our only constant sources of support within the media.
Okay maybe the legend bit is slightly over the top but on Espn he has been all over us like a rash talking us up no end.

I never really liked Savage in his playing days as he was so full blooded on the pitch.That would have been great if he played for the club i support but when he's on the opposing team he's hardly going to endear himself.
I have to say in a way his City Bias has become quite entertaining and i'm really begining to like the chap, makes Espn a far more favourable viewing option than the lot at sky.
[highlight]He hinted that his only criticisim of us today was that we should have gone for the jugular today and made it seven or eight.[/highlight]


I agreed with him. We have to learn to be totally and utterly ruthless.


Me too, I think City could have done what they wanted with Spurs. 8-1 would not have flattered us and was on. Spurs were let of lightly at 5-1.
After the ball was centred, after the whistle blew...
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Re: Robbie Savage

Postby ross.mcfc » Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:32 pm

I always forget the rule on here. If the journo says something good about City then he's a great journo. If he dares write anything negative he's a munich lover.

Savage is a total prick. I couldnt care less if he sung blue moon live on TV. He's typical of the type of pundit British sports fans like with his everyman joe public routine. He was an average footballer that got lucky to play in a era where even being as poor as him means he gets alot more attention than he deserves.

The only reason he sings our praises is because Mancini is a good mates with him.

Redknapp, Neville, Savage are all guys who tell me nothing I didnt already know. Give me Gab Marcotti, Patrick Barclay or Guillem Balague any day of the week. Actaully Skys use of Balague on their Spanish football coverage sums it up perfectly. They have some no mark ex pro who has probably never even been to Spain doing the co commentary whilst the expert is stuck in the studio and given five minutes air time presumably because he's not English, educated and never played the game.
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