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[ENIAM NAM]

Or you could say we haven't kept a clean sheet away from home, if we include the Charity Shield, we have thrown away a 2 goal lead twice and let Bolton back into a game when they certainly had not deserved to be that close.

4 games, 8 conceded. Questions about our defence surely need answering.

Nothing wrong with well thought out questions and analysis, but the over reaction from the modern day football fan is laughable.

I think it was a poor result from a game that was in a winnable position. I was certainly yelling at the telly when the game is on and I know emotions can get quite high. Usually I don't post for a day or so afterwards, but this "shut up, we are fine" post theme that seems to be populating the board at the moment is what I would expect from a plastic who does nothing more than read the paper for the results on Monday. At least the ones over reacting are honest.

So I am a plastic and dishonest?

Shut up. We are fine.

[Slim]

Or you could say we haven't kept a clean sheet away from home, if we include the Charity Shield, we have thrown away a 2 goal lead twice and let Bolton back into a game when they certainly had not deserved to be that close.

4 games, 8 conceded. Questions about our defence surely need answering.

Nothing wrong with well thought out questions and analysis, but the over reaction from the modern day football fan is laughable.

I think it was a poor result from a game that was in a winnable position. I was certainly yelling at the telly when the game is on and I know emotions can get quite high. Usually I don't post for a day or so afterwards, but this "shut up, we are fine" post theme that seems to be populating the board at the moment is what I would expect from a plastic who does nothing more than read the paper for the results on Monday. At least the ones over reacting are honest.

So I am a plastic and dishonest?

Shut up. We are fine.

haha, well played.

[Blue Blood]

Or you could say we haven't kept a clean sheet away from home, if we include the Charity Shield, we have thrown away a 2 goal lead twice and let Bolton back into a game when they certainly had not deserved to be that close.

4 games, 8 conceded. Questions about our defence surely need answering.

Nothing wrong with well thought out questions and analysis, but the over reaction from the modern day football fan is laughable.

I think it was a poor result from a game that was in a winnable position. I was certainly yelling at the telly when the game is on and I know emotions can get quite high. Usually I don't post for a day or so afterwards, but this "shut up, we are fine" post theme that seems to be populating the board at the moment is what I would expect from a plastic who does nothing more than read the paper for the results on Monday. At least the ones over reacting are honest.

In that case let's sack the manager, drop the entire team and dock the tea lady a months wages.

Unacceptable performance.

I'm going to cut my wrists now while singing blue moon.

*jokes*

I'm going to make a cup of tea and get a fucking grip, if we had won there would be no complaints, shit happens, to suggest that shouting and screaming nonsense makes you an honest fan is hogwash.

We buggered up, should we all punch the cat in a fit of rage over a draw, no, it happens, even to the twats in salford.

[CTID Hants]

File this thread under P for Perspective.

Can't be bothered to read all the dross that follows this post...... I half heard someone on sky say this is the best start to the league that fergiscum has ever had at the rags? Dropping a two goal is very disappointing, but FFS, absolutely no reason for the knives yet (suicidal or back stabbing the team/manager)

Like it or not those wankers are clearly the bench mark for successful SEASONS, simple as.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

You don't win league titles (and that surely is the aim) playing like that.
We are trying to compete at a level that means chucking a two goal lead away at the bottom club is NOT good enough. Margins are tight, and this might cost us. In the past 13/15 might have been ok, but top right now is 15/15.

[Dunnylad]

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Agreed Mancini pretty much said that afterwards, Barry has started the season well, yet against both Napoli & Fulham there have been costly mistakes - Kompany (as mentioned elsewhere) is having a poor run of matches by his high standards - if we weren't scoring (you could argue we aren't scoring enough) I'd be worried, but it seems that when we relax & think it's easy we forget the basics = Fulham, Bolton & CS (all three should have been comfortable wins)

[hyper]

im glad this thread is on, talk about overreaction weve got 13 pts scored 17 goals
and our main purchase this summer as scored 7 goals. a great start .
the scum wont win 38 games and finish with 114 pts ffs.
we lost a 2 goal lead it happens get over it.

This.

Some fans are living in fantasy land.

The scum lost leads and drew or lost on occasion last season and won the league. It happens!

This

Hear hear well said....

do you have some kind of listening problem?

cheers

Nope dyslexic fingers correct now LOL

Eh? It was correct when it was "hear, hear" - now it doesn't make any sense!
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/85048?rsk ... eid1883652

[ant london]

Good OP

There are some fucking spastics on here at times. I'm sorry to say it but some of the "new" fans are a fucking joke (and for clarity that does NOT mean all of them as most are a great addition to the board) and do not appear to have the remotest clue about football.

That match thread yesterday, some of the shite spouted. Well we should have an "official overreacting cunts match thread" for some of them in future. Some of the crap posted seemed like irony....it was so absurd but I am pretty sure it was straight up total shit.

All of you who have actually been through the years of shit that most of us have...get a grip. We've had a cracking start, yes we should have closed that out easily yesterday but the fact is that results elsewhere really went our way with Liverpool, Chelsea and Stoke all getting a drubbing. I'd rather sit lurking in second than be out in front with people trying to knock us down. Every match against us for lots of teams will be a "cup final" this season. Credit to Fulham for getting back into the game but it was down to some slack play from us.

I'm delighted with our form thus far and that is without Nigel, with Yaya in very unconvincing form and with the whole team still getting to know each other. Some of the stuff we played first half yesterday was magical.

My glass is very much half full

[Beefymcfc]

Good OP

There are some fucking spastics on here at times. I'm sorry to say it but some of the "new" fans are a fucking joke (and for clarity that does NOT mean all of them as most are a great addition to the board) and do not appear to have the remotest clue about football.

That match thread yesterday, some of the shite spouted. Well we should have an "official overreacting cunts match thread" for some of them in future. Some of the crap posted seemed like irony....it was so absurd but I am pretty sure it was straight up total shit.

All of you who have actually been through the years of shit that most of us have...get a grip. We've had a cracking start, yes we should have closed that out easily yesterday but the fact is that results elsewhere really went our way with Liverpool, Chelsea and Stoke all getting a drubbing. I'd rather sit lurking in second than be out in front with people trying to knock us down. Every match against us for lots of teams will be a "cup final" this season. Credit to Fulham for getting back into the game but it was down to some slack play from us.

I'm delighted with our form thus far and that is without Nigel, with Yaya in very unconvincing form and with the whole team still getting to know each other. Some of the stuff we played first half yesterday was magical.

My glass is very much half full

Fucking hell man, half full, it should be frothing over with a flake positively sprouting from the top. 4 wins and a draw is absolutley fantastic in my book and it's only the fact that United have started so well (there best ever Prem League start btw) that has took the gloss off ours. Take them out of the equation and eh presto, we are the Dogs Danglies.

[ant london]

I meant more half full as a reaction to yesterday's result mate, one of those draws that feels like a loss!

My glass is full with a depth charge of Jaegermeister floating down!

[s1ty m]

Or you could say we haven't kept a clean sheet away from home, if we include the Charity Shield, we have thrown away a 2 goal lead twice and let Bolton back into a game when they certainly had not deserved to be that close.

4 games, 8 conceded. Questions about our defence surely need answering.

Nothing wrong with well thought out questions and analysis, but the over reaction from the modern day football fan is laughable.

I think it was a poor result from a game that was in a winnable position. I was certainly yelling at the telly when the game is on and I know emotions can get quite high. Usually I don't post for a day or so afterwards, but this "shut up, we are fine" post theme that seems to be populating the board at the moment is what I would expect from a plastic who does nothing more than read the paper for the results on Monday. At least the ones over reacting are honest.

I was screaming at the screen from about the 50th minute, when City decided to stop playing football and reverting to some of the shite they poured on us at times last season. 13/15 is very good, but it's not the point. Given the players, etc, 2-0 up at Fulham to take a point is totally unacceptable. The manner in which Mancini yet again screwed up substitutions was there for all to see.

[Green & Blue]

Nothing at all new about yesterdays after match reaction, it's by no means something that "new fans" have brought in.
It's the norm for many fans to overeact when we let a 2 goal lead slip against a far lesser team.What else would you expect in the aftermath of game that almost feels like a loss?

I'm surprised so many think this to be strange as you have all been posting on here for a long time and this happens over and over again in match threads.

If fans are unhappy with a result or feel it's not good enough of course they are going to have a go.

[london blue 2]

What's all this crap about "new" fans... How do you get labelled a "new fan".

[ant london]

What's all this crap about "new" fans... How do you get labelled a "new fan".

being a spastic who doesn't understand the game....or the club....or its fans

I don't care if people are new fans or long suffering but what annoys me and annoyed me yesterday was people spouting utter clueless shite about how shit we are/this player or that is...when if they understood the game and where the club had come from they would shut the fuck up

[Ted Hughes]

It was Fulham, we were 2 up & we drew, you fucking knobs. Of course it was a bad result & of course people underperformed. Fucking phone Mancini & ask him what he thinks, but tell him not to make it public in case he upsets people.

[london blue 2]

What's all this crap about "new" fans... How do you get labelled a "new fan".

being a spastic who doesn't understand the game....

You've just described the majority of this forum ;)

[Green & Blue]

What's all this crap about "new" fans... How do you get labelled a "new fan".

being a spastic who doesn't understand the game....or the club....or its fans

I don't care if people are new fans or long suffering but what annoys me and annoyed me yesterday was people spouting utter clueless shite about how shit we are/this player or that is...when if they understood the game and where the club had come from they would shut the fuck up

Wtf??

That is all.

[Chinners]

Good OP

There are some fucking spastics on here at times. I'm sorry to say it but some of the "new" fans are a fucking joke (and for clarity that does NOT mean all of them as most are a great addition to the board) and do not appear to have the remotest clue about football.

That match thread yesterday, some of the shite spouted. Well we should have an "official overreacting cunts match thread" for some of them in future. Some of the crap posted seemed like irony....it was so absurd but I am pretty sure it was straight up total shit.

All of you who have actually been through the years of shit that most of us have...get a grip. We've had a cracking start, yes we should have closed that out easily yesterday but the fact is that results elsewhere really went our way with Liverpool, Chelsea and Stoke all getting a drubbing. I'd rather sit lurking in second than be out in front with people trying to knock us down. Every match against us for lots of teams will be a "cup final" this season. Credit to Fulham for getting back into the game but it was down to some slack play from us.

I'm delighted with our form thus far and that is without Nigel, with Yaya in very unconvincing form and with the whole team still getting to know each other. Some of the stuff we played first half yesterday was magical.

My glass is very much half full

I tell you what, thats an impressive post considering the time in the morning, will it hold to claim the 'Post of the day' award ... yes, yes I reckon it just might

[mcfc1632]

This is my 1st visit to the site since getting back from the match yesterday. I have not seen football first but watched MOTD last night.
My observations based on seeing it live at the ground are a mixture of what I have read in this thread – of course there is no need to be negative and over-react, but there are some things that definitely need to be looked at.

Main points (IMO):

1/ Needs to be said I am afraid no matter how it sounds like a lame excuse – Clattenberk is a twat who will look to give CITY nothing – I do not just mean the blatant foul before the equaliser – but all through the game he gave every decision he could to Fulham – just grateful there was not even an half shout for a penalty.

2/ Did not show up on MOTD as they showed very little of the game but before the 1st Fulham goal they were a team that had given up and it was only through a shocking lack of our ‘killer instinct’ and concentration / professionalism that they were gifted a way back into it. They were dead and had given up – we let them back in rather than them earning it. I hate the scum with a passion and it leaves a bad taste to say something positive but when they get 2 up they seem to get more urgent rather than complacent – which seems to be the disease we have and one which I hoped we had left behind.

It seemed to creep in just after the disallowed Aguerro goal – less urgency in the tackle, sloppy passing, less tracking back etc – it was the air of a team that has ‘switched off’ – the CITY fans in the crowd could sense it before the 1st Fulham goal was scored and were urging the team to buck up. Micah’s stupidity on the throw-in (why oh why does always take them?) and his half-hearted attempt to block Zamora’s shot are 2 obvious examples – but it was the same in other areas / players.

This is something that Mancini has to (and I am sure he will) address – he seems to hate such casualness and it needs to be driven out – when we are in charge – kill the opposition off FFS rather than adopt this ‘we are superior ‘ and can afford to be casual attitude – it is the difference (IMO) between champions and challengers.

3/ I think that Mancini is right to point out the fact that we have 6 away games after the CL league fixtures (the scum of course have 6 home ties) – of course it is not just the luck of the draw - but no point bleating about it – we have surely the squad to handle this situation – we handled it yesterday – we dropped points through poor attitude not lack of available players.

4/ If we are to play with the width coming from attacking FBs – seems to be absolutely the right approach, it shows the need for de Jong and the need to sort out his contract – to protect the 2 CBs from the counter-attack. You also need FBs who will get back asap not jog.

5/ Again if that is the approach I can see changes in our FBs. Micah has improved out of all recognition from 18 months ago when he seemed to be a world class jogger, but there still seems to be question marks over both his attitude and his skills as an attacking FB. People that love him are fully entitled to their opinion – as are those that raise questions – for me it is just that if that is our tactic then you need top players in that role and I would not be surprised if there is a new arrival in that position within the next 2 transfer windows (just an opinion). For the same reason I would see Clichy being ahead of Kolorov.

6/ Adam Johnson seems to have lost some (most?) of the mojo/confidence that saw him in the past take some responsibility to attack defenders and create opportunities. I do not know if this is something to do with the instructions he has been given (cannot see why that would be the case) or if he has just loos a yard of pace and a good deal of confidence – but we need more from him when he comes on.

7/ The CITY away crowd remains one of the most satisfying things to be a part of – what an atmosphere and noise – again this did not come across on MOTD – they were fantastic.

All in all – no reason to panic / over-react – but there are things that need sorting – and I am sure Mancini will get it done.

[ashton287]

Yeah because title challengers drop points to bottom of the league sides dont they. United do it all the time.

Everyone got carried away after 4 wins but in reality spurs was the only game that exceeded expectations and that was as much down to spurs playing shit as it was to us playing well.

When silva came off yesterday we had absolutely nothing going forward which is a huge problem if we intend on winning anything this season. The subs were all fuckups.

AJ is only useful against teams that will come out and attack and at 2-2 fulham we're not going to do that.
Tevez should of been on for dzeko who had 1 chance in the box i can remember and went down far too easily to give them the equaliser.
zabs for silva, what the FUCKKKK???, Silva's face when he was coming off was the same as every city fan watching.

But apart from all that, if we are aiming for second this season then we are still on target which is a plus.