The right decision

[Hazy2]

I think walking on the moon was such a turning point. Just thinking of it yesterday. There it is... Way way off in space and man fucking walked on it. Im so happy. Dont get me started on the fucking wheel... wow.

WTF are you on about, Wed Morning, Champs League debut and you babbilliinngg I right load of old shite. The fucking moon, fuck that shit Oh the camptown race tack 5 mils long do dah do dah. See even I am catching the bug.

[Ted Hughes]

I think he did a great job & considering the money we've had available since & the (lack of) status we had to attaract top players at the time, the fact that DeJong, Kompany, Zabaletta, Barry & Lescott are still considered by the present manager as potential title/Champion's Lg winners & he's been unable to replace any of them with better is a remarkable acheivement by the previous manager.

I'm glad we had him as manager & would of had no problem with him continuing at the time. He did a great job preparing the groundwork for what we have now.

If people want to argue all day then let's go for it. Otherwise you could enjoy the Champion's Lg.

[simon12]

I think walking on the moon was such a turning point. Just thinking of it yesterday. There it is... Way way off in space and man fucking walked on it. Im so happy. Dont get me started on the fucking wheel... wow.

Drains and sewage for me OD.

[Duckman]

I think he did a great job & considering the money we've had available since & the (lack of) status we had to attaract top players at the time, the fact that DeJong, Kompany, Zabaletta, Barry & Lescott are still considered by the present manager as potential title/Champion's Lg winners & he's been unable to replace any of them with better is a remarkable acheivement by the previous manager.

I'm glad we had him as manager & would of had no problem with him continuing at the time. He did a great job preparing the groundwork for what we have now.

If people want to argue all day then let's go for it. Otherwise you could enjoy the Champion's Lg.

no need to argue.

I sort of agree with you Ted. Except with the part "had no problem with him continuing at the time". I think him staying beyond that point would have be a massive mistake. I have respect for Mark, used to like Rovers back in the day, but, at some point, Mark stopped being the right man to the job in City.

plus, didnt he played his football for the rags? )))

[mcfc1632]

I am a little surprised that a CITY fan thought that dragging this up was a theraputic thing to do on the day we start our 1st ever CL match

Seems (IMHO) either self-indulgent, deliberately mischeivous or something like that - cannot see how the timing is anything intended to be positive about CITY in the way the OP tries to present it

Whatever gets you get your kicks I guess.....

[Duckman]

I am a little surprised that a CITY fan thought that dragging this up was a theraputic thing to do on the day we start our 1st ever CL match

Seems (IMHO) either self-indulgent, deliberately mischeivous or something like that - cannot see how the timing is anything intended to be positive about CITY in the way the OP tries to present it

Whatever gets you get your kicks I guess.....

wtf are you on about?

What is the purpose of the forum? Whats wrong with startin any kind of topic on any kind of day?

Imagine its monday asswipe.

[Ted Hughes]

I think he did a great job & considering the money we've had available since & the (lack of) status we had to attaract top players at the time, the fact that DeJong, Kompany, Zabaletta, Barry & Lescott are still considered by the present manager as potential title/Champion's Lg winners & he's been unable to replace any of them with better is a remarkable acheivement by the previous manager.

I'm glad we had him as manager & would of had no problem with him continuing at the time. He did a great job preparing the groundwork for what we have now.

If people want to argue all day then let's go for it. Otherwise you could enjoy the Champion's Lg.

no need to argue.

I sort of agree with you Ted. Except with the part "had no problem with him continuing at the time". I think him staying beyond that point would have be a massive mistake. I have respect for Mark, used to like Rovers back in the day, but, at some point, Mark stopped being the right man to the job in City.

plus, didnt he played his football for the rags? )))

All I wanted from Hughes was for him to be allowed to build a platform, then by the time it was done, we'd know if he had the ability to take it to the next stage. I think we wasted a season & possibly missed out on a trophy by sacking him when we did. If he was to be sacked it should have been at the start of that season, not when he lost one game & had the team in a cup semi. The 2nd half of that season acheived nothing. It was always the case that another manager would come in unless the team was looking the part but the time for that decision wasn't at Christmas.

Bob is now trying to attack. He's got a nuclear arsenal to do it with compared to Hughes' couple of tanks. It could still leave us with our pants down if it goes wrong, even with this squad. If that happens & we dump him at Christmas rather than letting him see it through, it will be a mistake. Building an attacking team is harder than keeping everyone in your own half & scraping results but somebody has to build one if we're to be the top club. Hughes tried it perhaps too early & paid the price.

[mcfc1632]

I am a little surprised that a CITY fan thought that dragging this up was a theraputic thing to do on the day we start our 1st ever CL match

Seems (IMHO) either self-indulgent, deliberately mischeivous or something like that - cannot see how the timing is anything intended to be positive about CITY in the way the OP tries to present it

Whatever gets you get your kicks I guess.....

wtf are you on about?

What is the purpose of the forum? Whats wrong with startin any kind of topic on any kind of day?

Imagine its monday asswipe.

I think I said in very reasonable terms what I suspect a lot of posters are thinking when they read your OP

If the suspicion was not well founded then I would have expected that you might have thought something along the lines of "..oh yeah - not the brightest thing to do today.........", but the way your responses to me and others are worded would only cements this suspicion (of course only IMO).

So I will not go further into detail as if I am right this will only provide more satisfaction over what was intended (again only IMO)

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

A PWP is Posted Whilst Pissed.

The first sentence of your post, where you claim that you have just realized that sacking Hughes was a good thing, made me suspicious.

I always thought it stood for "Pissed whilst posting".

Every day's a school day.

[Duckman]

I am a little surprised that a CITY fan thought that dragging this up was a theraputic thing to do on the day we start our 1st ever CL match

Seems (IMHO) either self-indulgent, deliberately mischeivous or something like that - cannot see how the timing is anything intended to be positive about CITY in the way the OP tries to present it

Whatever gets you get your kicks I guess.....

wtf are you on about?

What is the purpose of the forum? Whats wrong with startin any kind of topic on any kind of day?

Imagine its monday asswipe.

I think I said in very reasonable terms what I suspect a lot of posters are thinking when they read your OP

If the suspicion was not well founded then I would have expected that you might have thought something along the lines of "..oh yeah - not the brightest thing to do today.........", but the way your responses to me and others are worded would only cements this suspicion (of course only IMO).

So I will not go further into detail as if I am right this will only provide more satisfaction over what was intended (again only IMO)

Hmm, well I might over reacted.

Even so, what was the purpose of your post?

instead of questioning my intentions and motives, you could have tried to be constructive and contribute to the topic with your own humble opinion.

go join a political party.

[Duckman]

A PWP is Posted Whilst Pissed.

The first sentence of your post, where you claim that you have just realized that sacking Hughes was a good thing, made me suspicious.

I always thought it stood for "Pissed whilst posting".

Every day's a school day.

It was more an PWH.

[Original Dub]

Getting rid of Mandela was a big mistake. Winnie that is of course...

[Rag_hater]

It was definately the right decision.
That's all that needs to be said methinks

[Original Dub]

Getting rid of Mandela was a big mistake. Winnie that is of course...

[Rag_hater]

Getting rid of Mandela was a big mistake. Winnie that is of course...

n
Not if you were to ask Stompie's mom

[King Kev]

A PWP is Posted Whilst Pissed.

The first sentence of your post, where you claim that you have just realized that sacking Hughes was a good thing, made me suspicious.

I always thought it stood for "Pissed whilst posting".

Every day's a school day.

I believe either is acceptable.

[mcfc1632]

I am a little surprised that a CITY fan thought that dragging this up was a theraputic thing to do on the day we start our 1st ever CL match

Seems (IMHO) either self-indulgent, deliberately mischeivous or something like that - cannot see how the timing is anything intended to be positive about CITY in the way the OP tries to present it

Whatever gets you get your kicks I guess.....

wtf are you on about?

What is the purpose of the forum? Whats wrong with startin any kind of topic on any kind of day?

Imagine its monday asswipe.

I think I said in very reasonable terms what I suspect a lot of posters are thinking when they read your OP

If the suspicion was not well founded then I would have expected that you might have thought something along the lines of "..oh yeah - not the brightest thing to do today.........", but the way your responses to me and others are worded would only cements this suspicion (of course only IMO).

So I will not go further into detail as if I am right this will only provide more satisfaction over what was intended (again only IMO)

Hmm, well I might over reacted.

Even so, what was the purpose of your post?

instead of questioning my intentions and motives, you could have tried to be constructive and contribute to the topic with your own humble opinion.

go join a political party.

Ok :-

1/ Hindsight is as they say 20/20 - so anyone using it can position themselves to be very very right at this moment, because:

2/ Everyone - no matter their position in December 2009 must be very very happy and concur with you that (irrespective of the issues at the time) the decision has proven to be the right one. We are where we are and no matter how things could look very different if the scum had scored early on in the semi or the Arse had not imploded - that is all in the past so why not just rejoice, especially because:

3/ We have moved on again and the squad, with only a few additions, now clicks together like a complete jigsaw - with double pieces in case any get lost, which has led to:

4/ The majority of our detractors having to wave the white flag and even reluctantly seek to crawl onto the bandwagon (I hope Vicky K has kept full detail of previous transgressions and fucks a few of them off), and:

5/ The wave of positivity is so large that if we continue to be successful on the field it may just become the tsunami level that will cement us into the elite fuckers club that are protected by FFP and more generally UeFA - as sickeningly corrupt as that is - it is better to be within than without.

But for me these are likely all statements of the bleeding obvious based on the 20/20 here and now and the types of things that we should just be focussing on now because (as has been mentioned elsewhere) there is no better time to be a blue. I do not see the benefit of focussing on them in a negative manner, i.e. by dragging up all the bitterness and contention that was present in the 2009 period. This may not have been your intention?, but it could have been an outcome for which surely there is no benefit today of all days - which was my point.

FWTW, I think my position was typical of many of those that were not 'rabid-anti' Hughes. We were not so much pro-Hughes as pro-stability having seen CITY continuously ravaged by ill-thought through change after change. So all those of my persuasion were then quickly behind the new CITY manager, Mancini, as we were behind previous CITY managers simply because they were the managers of the club we love. We may have thought in the early months - is this going to work out any better than Hughes?. We also will have been robust in our defence of Mancini because we are pro-stability.

Some might think that Hughes might have succeeded had he been allowed to continue - others will not and will think Mancini was always 'God in waiting', my personal view (once the decision to make a change was made) is thank fuck it has worked out (in the end because it was not always on track) because:

1/ there is now no better time to be a CITY fan and this 'new dawn' looks like the real thing and

2/ this closes the door to that self-obsessed twat Jose taking over - thank fuck!!

So lets rejoice - but I would suggest in a way that celebrates going forward rather on that drags up past recriminations - this is what I(obviously mistakenly) thought would be a likely outcome of your OP - so if there was no intention to rubbish Hughes and start that old dialogue off again etc - then apols

[Duckman]

I am a little surprised that a CITY fan thought that dragging this up was a theraputic thing to do on the day we start our 1st ever CL match

Seems (IMHO) either self-indulgent, deliberately mischeivous or something like that - cannot see how the timing is anything intended to be positive about CITY in the way the OP tries to present it

Whatever gets you get your kicks I guess.....

wtf are you on about?

What is the purpose of the forum? Whats wrong with startin any kind of topic on any kind of day?

Imagine its monday asswipe.

I think I said in very reasonable terms what I suspect a lot of posters are thinking when they read your OP

If the suspicion was not well founded then I would have expected that you might have thought something along the lines of "..oh yeah - not the brightest thing to do today.........", but the way your responses to me and others are worded would only cements this suspicion (of course only IMO).

So I will not go further into detail as if I am right this will only provide more satisfaction over what was intended (again only IMO)

Hmm, well I might over reacted.

Even so, what was the purpose of your post?

instead of questioning my intentions and motives, you could have tried to be constructive and contribute to the topic with your own humble opinion.

go join a political party.

Ok :-

1/ Hindsight is as they say 20/20 - so anyone using it can position themselves to be very very right at this moment, because:

2/ Everyone - no matter their position in December 2009 must be very very happy and concur with you that (irrespective of the issues at the time) the decision has proven to be the right one. We are where we are and no matter how things could look very different if the scum had scored early on in the semi or the Arse had not imploded - that is all in the past so why not just rejoice, especially because:

3/ We have moved on again and the squad, with only a few additions, now clicks together like a complete jigsaw - with double pieces in case any get lost, which has led to:

4/ The majority of our detractors having to wave the white flag and even reluctantly seek to crawl onto the bandwagon (I hope Vicky K has kept full detail of previous transgressions and fucks a few of them off), and:

5/ The wave of positivity is so large that if we continue to be successful on the field it may just become the tsunami level that will cement us into the elite fuckers club that are protected by FFP and more generally UeFA - as sickeningly corrupt as that is - it is better to be within than without.

But for me these are likely all statements of the bleeding obvious based on the 20/20 here and now and the types of things that we should just be focussing on now because (as has been mentioned elsewhere) there is no better time to be a blue. I do not see the benefit of focussing on them in a negative manner, i.e. by dragging up all the bitterness and contention that was present in the 2009 period. This may not have been your intention?, but it could have been an outcome for which surely there is no benefit today of all days - which was my point.

FWTW, I think my position was typical of many of those that were not 'rabid-anti' Hughes. We were not so much pro-Hughes as pro-stability having seen CITY continuously ravaged by ill-thought through change after change. So all those of my persuasion were then quickly behind the new CITY manager, Mancini, as we were behind previous CITY managers simply because they were the managers of the club we love. We may have thought in the early months - is this going to work out any better than Hughes?. We also will have been robust in our defence of Mancini because we are pro-stability.

Some might think that Hughes might have succeeded had he been allowed to continue - others will not and will think Mancini was always 'God in waiting', my personal view (once the decision to make a change was made) is thank fuck it has worked out (in the end because it was not always on track) because:

1/ there is now no better time to be a CITY fan and this 'new dawn' looks like the real thing and

2/ this closes the door to that self-obsessed twat Jose taking over - thank fuck!!

So lets rejoice - but I would suggest in a way that celebrates going forward rather on that drags up past recriminations - this is what I(obviously mistakenly) thought would be a likely outcome of your OP - so if there was no intention to rubbish Hughes and start that old dialogue off again etc - then apols

Ok mate, if you reread my posts on this one, you could see that "I have respect for Mark, loved the Rovers back then, blah,blah", still, my point was that Mark Hughes should have been replaced immediately after the take over, just because he couldnt have taken us this far ( my humble opinion, and the board's as well, so it seemed).

cheers, and lets make the statement tonight.

Come on City.

[Florida Blue]

I think the mistake was sacking Keegan. I mean think about it, we would be top of the league if we weren't so [highlight]negative[/highlight], we easily would have more goals and better GD than scum with Super Kev in charge



(relax Lee the negative comment was tongue-in-cheek!)

[Avalon]

I think walking on the moon was such a turning point. Just thinking of it yesterday. There it is... Way way off in space and man fucking walked on it. Im so happy. Dont get me started on the fucking wheel... wow.

How about fire? Or things like agriculture?