The first twenty mins of every game

[Duckman]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

don't get me wrong, I am very pleased with how we look now, BUT

if we come against some very strong european side and concede a goal...

[carl_feedthegoat]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

Stop spoiling the piss taking - of course it will all go wrong very soon in a match or 2..but lets milk it whilst we can!

[Kladze]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

Stop spoiling the piss taking - of course it will all go wrong very soon in a match or 2..but lets milk it whilst we can!

That's all very well Carl but Doug is right. We're gathering new 'fans' regularly now and the last thing we ought to be doing is encouraging them to become cocky, arrogant fuckers like those from Trafford.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

Stop spoiling the piss taking - of course it will all go wrong very soon in a match or 2..but lets milk it whilst we can!

That's all very well Carl but Doug is right. We're gathering new 'fans' regularly now and the last thing we ought to be doing is encouraging them to become cocky, arrogant fuckers like those from Trafford.

FUCK the new fans.. I've been there like most of us when we were SHIT for decades so I have a god given right to take the piss at this moment in time and Ill be fucked if I care what other folk think....Ill carry on the piss taking until it actually does go pear shaped.

[phips]

[highlight]I think it's much more calculating than that. We let teams play with the ball in order to draw them further up the pitch[/highlight], make them think they are in a game that they really aren't confident in our defensive ability to make sure they don't score(Okay, last night they scored but what Kolo, Savic and Pantomime were doing was baffling, cause it sure as shit wasn't defending). Once the spaces are there, we have just the best passing attack this league has seen in a decade and slice through them like they aren't even there.

Take a look at the 5th goal last night, best goal of the night and it was a tap-in, because there was space and movement, crisp passing and using the right options and every goal should be like that.(Admittedly, a lot of ours ARE like that)

Very reminiscent of my old cat, he would let you tickle him under the chin and then he'd roll over, he'd then let you tickle his tummy and after he thinks that you think that he's not going to do it again, he rips your hand to pieces with his claws and teeth!

you surely must be talking about my cat, not yours.

[King Kev]

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Please send me a share of your winnings.

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[everyonehatesus]

well ive never had scum fans avoid me like this before, its bloody crazy the way other fans are now really shitting it when we play them and the bnter has just gone. Nobody seems to come over and try to take the piss anymore, even the crap about buying the prem has gone. After 32 years of piss take and upset im making the most of every second, so let them have their 2o mins because when we get our 70 im gona make the most of it.

[Beefymcfc]

Pfffff, I mentioned this eons ago.

[Slim]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

I don't think it's arrogance, I think it's recognition of Mancini's strategy taking form. Don't panic, when they have the ball we maintain our shape and discipline and pass ourselves into the game, very Italian.

There will be games where it doesn't work, Bayern for example, but the fact it has worked in 11 games out of 14 this season means he is onto something.

[david yearsley]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

I don't think it's arrogance, I think it's recognition of Mancini's strategy taking form. Don't panic, when they have the ball we maintain our shape and discipline and pass ourselves into the game, very Italian.

There will be games where it doesn't work, Bayern for example, but the fact it has worked in 11 games out of 14 this season means he is onto something.

Disagree

I think v Bayern we WEREN´T patient and we tried to take the game to them too much early doors INSTEAD OF being cagey and shadow boxing for the first half hour. We shot our bolt and got picked off way too easily

[Ted Hughes]

Do I detect a touch of arrogance developing in some Cty fans?

Let them have the ball for a while,tire themselves out and then batter them :) Great when/if it happens like that but there will come a game when we go a goal down at the opposition have a defence! Top response last night to going a goal down but it won't always be that easy

I don't think it's arrogance, I think it's recognition of Mancini's strategy taking form. Don't panic, when they have the ball we maintain our shape and discipline and pass ourselves into the game, very Italian.

There will be games where it doesn't work, Bayern for example, but the fact it has worked in 11 games out of 14 this season means he is onto something.

Disagree

I think v Bayern we WEREN´T patient and we tried to take the game to them too much early doors INSTEAD OF being cagey and shadow boxing for the first half hour. We shot our bolt and got picked off way too easily

We don't have the cutting edge in the CL though, for some reason. I don't think we've played as well in the Champion's Lg as we have in the prem either tactically or individually. Personally I don't think it's down to the oppo being so much better, just the fact that we've been poor. Imo, many of our PL performances would have been good enough to get at least a point at Bayern & beat the other two but we don't play with the same fluency or width. Nerves perhaps ?

[brite blu sky]

My take was that we were complacent v Bayern. We started well and didn't show nerves imo, were fluid and kept the ball off them. If you remember the problems started when everyone started marauding upfield at the same time. After getting suckered we failed to react well enough to Bayern gaining confidence and upping their game somewhat. We then lost it for a while after the second.

I would say it was inexperience basically and on another day with more care we would have beaten Bayern or kept it to a draw. Unlike perhaps many I am not worried about the Bayern return game, I think City are better than Bayern but need to respect them properly.