****Official City v Fulham Thread****

[Ted Hughes]

Hopefully this will stop our deluded fans saying we can compete with Barca, who btw won 8-0.

Spanish teams throw the towel in 2 down at the Camp Nou end of

Who the fuck said we can compete with Barca now? We are building an attacking style which is at times on a par with theirs. We have barely started & we will get better. We are moving on the road toward that standard & there is absolutely no reason we can't get there.

[Beefymcfc]

Kompany should be rested, seriously wank at the back and has been for ages.

As for Mancini, well..the subs were shit...it seemed noone knew what the tactics were.

Bad management in this game imo.

That's what I'm putting it down to. People may say that an away game after a CL game is nothing, but all the CL managers have stated it's more of a disadvantage having to travel etc. Mancini though, could've negated that by giving the team more of a rotation and it showed just into the second half. Bringing Zab's on for a clearrly fit Silva was strange but then go like-for-like with the next 2, without Silva or Nasri on the pitch, was even stranger considering they only had 10 minutes, or less, to get in the game.

Not the end of the world though, just a steep learning curve which we need to get over.

[The Original Special One]

Hopefully Mancini will reflect and agree that he was wrong to take Silva off
It was a huge psychological boost to Jol and Fulham

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Hopefully this will stop our deluded fans saying we can compete with Barca, who btw won 8-0.

Don't even know where to start with this. I tried to rant but I'm too annoyed at the result to work out if you are on a wind up. What could you possibly be getting out of a statement like this two minutes after we throw away two points otherwise?

Because people got far too carried away. We have a long, long way to go before we can overtake United, never mind Barca.

[bluej]

Hopefully this will stop our deluded fans saying we can compete with Barca, who btw won 8-0.

You love laying it on thick don't you?

Clattenburg, useless cunt. Shocking performance from all involved, cannot drop points from a 2-0 lead.

[highlight]You can't blame a useless, possibly bent referee for that result.[/highlight] We were abysmal for most of the second half, and instead of killing Fuilham off we bottled it/became complacent/reverted to type/etc. If we'd kept playing we could have won four or five nil, but we didn't fancy it after 50 minutes.

Indeed, which is why I continued to say the rest of that comment, which you quoted.

The reactions on here are appalling, yes we were shocking but did everyone honestly expect us to go the whole season without dropping points?

[Beeks]

Oh the Drama

Bobby Out

Seriously..we drew away from home after a perfect start

You can't win them all..

If someone offered me 4 wins and a draw to open the campaign I'd snap their hands off

Calm down a touch..

[mr_nool]

Oh the Drama

Bobby Out

Seriously..we drew away from home after a perfect start

You can't win them all..

If someone offered me 4 wins and a draw to open the campaign I'd snap their hands off

Calm down a touch..

I agree. I'm very disappointed that we dropped a two goal lead, but we will drop points every now and then.

[roblues]

Hopefully this will stop our deluded fans saying we can compete with Barca, who btw won 8-0.

Don't even know where to start with this. I tried to rant but I'm too annoyed at the result to work out if you are on a wind up. What could you possibly be getting out of a statement like this two minutes after we throw away two points otherwise?

Because people got far too carried away. We have a long, long way to go before we can overtake United, never mind Barca.

I don't understand your point. If the players get carried away that is a problem, but I didn't get that sense. If the fans get carried away, maybe they get complacent and don't cheer the team on as much - that certainly wasn't the case. These are exactly the sort of mind games rags like to play with us, talking about how we're no Barcelona and how the league is ours to lose with the money we've spent - we don't need it from our own fans. If the Blues you know are talking about us like we're on a level with Barca, they are nothing like the majority of Blues I know.

[Ted Hughes]

I don't think Silva going made even the slightest difference apart from perhaps we may have had a better chance of nicking a 3rd. Fulham could have been level before Silva went off. The game didn't change one iota.

[david yearsley]

Kompany should be rested, seriously wank at the back and has been for ages.

As for Mancini, well..the subs were shit...it seemed noone knew what the tactics were.

Bad management in this game imo.

That's what I'm putting it down to. People may say that an away game after a CL game is nothing, but all the CL managers have stated it's more of a disadvantage having to travel etc. Mancini though, could've negated that by giving the team more of a rotation and it showed just into the second half. Bringing Zab's on for a clearrly fit Silva was strange but then go like-for-like with the next 2, without Silva or Nasri on the pitch, was even stranger considering they only had 10 minutes, or less, to get in the game.

Not the end of the world though, just a steep learning curve which we need to get over.

The most negative decision he´s ever made imo. With Silva on and the possession we had last 10 we would have won it.

[blues2win]

What was obvious against Napoli is that the centre backs were left horribly exposed time after time. You can't have both full backs pushing up all the time and you can't have both 'defensive' midfielders pushing forward at the same time either. One full back has to stay back at all times and we need one sitting midfielder to fucking sit. At least de Jong can be relied on to do that. He's not the quickest but he's quicker than Barry and Yaya is never going to stick reliably to a defensive role as far as I can see.

What is just as worrying is the lack of leadership when we go through a sticky patch. What we needed was a good solid spell of possession after the first goal to take the wind out of Fulham and shut the crowd up. It didn't happen.

What a dreadful fucking day.

Then Rooney misses a penalty!

[carl_feedthegoat]

Oh the Drama

Bobby Out

Seriously..we drew away from home after a perfect start

You can't win them all..

If someone offered me 4 wins and a draw to open the campaign I'd snap their hands off

Calm down a touch..

You should win against the bottom fucking team after being 2 nil up....so stick your fucking calm down touch.

There are Winning and losing mentalitys...yours is obviously a losers one if this draw didnt piss you off !

[DoomMerchant]

Pretty theatrical reaction on the whole. Natural to be disappointed and that - feeling a bit sorry for myself for sure - but didn't expect the level of histrionics on here...

Really?

i'm more surprised no one has offed themselves yet tbh.

Poor result...and i'm still watching it at 80m because of a 30-minute tape delay.

Once this is over tho, i'm planning to kill both of my dogs, and then get shitfaced and go on a crime spree. Should help.

Also, a quote from the wife from about 10 mins ago "They should have left Silva on."

interesting to see if we will fuck off the cup match as i suspect is Mancini's plan, which will mean, imho a loss, following the two draws.

Also, why does Tevez looks like a fuclin Persian tribal warlord now? remarkable. Fitting for how he's played. Why wait to bring him on at [strike]82m[/strike] 87m in tho? as soon as they got the second the obvious move was to throw on someone to find the winner. Waiting 10 mins did nothing for us.

cheers

[saulman]

Hopefully Mancini will reflect and agree that he was wrong to take Silva off
It was a huge psychological boost to Jol and Fulham

Aye. Spot on.

Fulham could quite easily have won this one after that.

[guv111]

This is why we won't be winning the league, you can't loose a 2-0 lead to anyone especially to teams like Fulham.

The rags are tearing Chelsea a new one and its only half time. I hate the scum like every one else but they all ways come up with the goods when it matters, and this is what we need to start doing if we want to get to their level

We've played two decent sides since the start of the season, lost to one of them after leading 2-0 (familiar theme), and struggled to scrape a draw against the other. Now can't even beat the team bottom of the league.

If Mancini actually does know what he's doing we might get a result in Munich, if he doesn't then we could easily get thrashed if we don't bounce back quickly. Before Bayern, we ought to wipe the floor with Birmingham, but then we've got our bogey team, Everton. Fail to beat them and there will be some serious worries again about whether Mancini is up to the job. Atrocious subs again today, a common theme of last season.

[Ted Hughes]

Hopefully this will stop our deluded fans saying we can compete with Barca, who btw won 8-0.

Don't even know where to start with this. I tried to rant but I'm too annoyed at the result to work out if you are on a wind up. What could you possibly be getting out of a statement like this two minutes after we throw away two points otherwise?

Because people got far too carried away. We have a long, long way to go before we can overtake United, never mind Barca.

No we don't we have to play together a bit longer, find out what our weaknesses are and solve them, then continue trying to reach the standard set by Barca. Fuck United.

[PALUS]

but whole team is shit after 50 minuts poor fulham press us that is not posible when u going for title

[roblues]

I don't think Silva going made even the slightest difference apart from perhaps we may have had a better chance of nicking a 3rd. Fulham could have been level before Silva went off. The game didn't change one iota.

The Yaya-Barry combination as a two is what is worrying me. In the last two games both have been given plenty of the ball and are finding it difficult to drive us into good areas. Last year Yaya was always guaranteed that two midfielders were left behind if he surged forward but the system with the fluid 4 up front doesn't allow for it anymore. It will work against open, attacking teams like Spurs but when we are playing teams who will look to counter we are going to struggle to open them up with Yaya or Barry initiating attacks.

On a more positive note, both de Jong and Milner have it in them to drive forward out of tackles and get our attacks started quicker so that the opposition are panicking rather than thinking about how they can counter when they regain possession. Everything through Barry and Yaya today was too slow.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

I'm not angry about the result, you can't win them all. However the way we absolutely crumbled was pathetic. Against a bottom 6 side. We lacked any sort of resilience.

[The Original Special One]

Nasri withdrawn 20 minutes after Silva; was he not able to pick up the slack?
I've always had questions about his capacity to scrap and battle when the going gets tough, which was why I was wary about us going for him.
But the Napoli game was his first real test; and he failed.
Perhaps today, also?