****official thanks joey vs city thread******

[Jon London]

The defense was all over the place today.. no one could handle that right hand side, Richards especially and I cannot understand why not as he can out jump most on a football pitch.

Richards should never have had the armband - if you follow cricket it is like giving Alistair Cooke the armband ... your captain plays shit and the team plays shit only Dzeko and Yaya got us out of jail.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Best result of the season? Deary me if anyone thinks beating QPR 3-2 is better than beating United 6-1, something's very wrong. Maybe our hardest game but best result? No chance.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Best result of the season? Deary me if anyone thinks beating QPR 3-2 is better than beating United 6-1, something's very wrong. Maybe our hardest game but best result? No chance.

I was a bit harsh on Doug , but such is my wicked sense of humour I love to pounce on any ambiguity !! Beating the scum was obviously he best result ever witnessed... ..but to come to QPR and beat a team that played better than any other team we have come against this year is indeed a brilliant result and one that defines championship winning teams.

On a side note.... I dont know why I try winding Doug up....its water off a ducks back!!

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Best result of the season? Deary me if anyone thinks beating QPR 3-2 is better than beating United 6-1, something's very wrong. Maybe our hardest game but best result? No chance.

I was a bit harsh on Doug , but such is my wicked sense of humour I love to pounce on any ambiguity !! Beating the scum was obviously he best result ever witnessed... ..but to come to QPR and beat a team that played better than any other team we have come against this year is indeed a brilliant result and one that defines championship winning teams.

On a side note.... I dont know why I try winding Doug up....its water off a ducks back!!

Perhaps, but the point stands, to go to the Premier League champions and a team who hadn't lost a home game for about 40 years or something as the media would have you believe, and to win 6-1 surely tops any other result?

Fair play today, QPR deserved a point but lacked that bit of quality in the final third.

[Chopper]

Every season a newly promoted team plays out of their skin for a burst. We were lacking for a portions of the match, but champions always find a way even when not firing on all cylinders. Job done. I'm happy.

[Ted Hughes]

Can't think of the last time a City team wouldn't have lost that game. About 1978 probably.

[Beefymcfc]

We were shit but we won with 3 very decent strikes. We definiately missed Vinnie, for many reasons.

The journey continues.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Best result of the season? Deary me if anyone thinks beating QPR 3-2 is better than beating United 6-1, something's very wrong. Maybe our hardest game but best result? No chance.

I was a bit harsh on Doug , but such is my wicked sense of humour I love to pounce on any ambiguity !! Beating the scum was obviously he best result ever witnessed... ..but to come to QPR and beat a team that played better than any other team we have come against this year is indeed a brilliant result and one that defines championship winning teams.

On a side note.... I dont know why I try winding Doug up....its water off a ducks back!!

hahaha good stuff Carl and the feeling is mutual. I have only just revisited this thread and I still sort of stand by the comment. Of course battering the scum at the swamp was awesome and never ever to be forgotten but somehow for me this one meant a hell of a lot and gives more credence to us being champions material than anything so far this season.

The fact that we beat them by 5 could almost be out into the freak result category even though we know it's been coming that a team would finally play better than them and actually know how to score.The QPR result was hard graft against a team who had their best game of the season according to them. We didn't play that well,made mistakes at the back and still came out winners.Massive,massive result.

[brite blu sky]

Massive win indeed. This and grabbing victory against Villareal in the final seconds, for me are the best two results of the season so far. Showing that we have finally got to grips with that elusive quality that pushes the team to dig in and almost force a result. Those two games go further to proving City's credentials as a force than any other games so far.
Out of sorts yesterday facing a really determined side and responding 3 times to grab the points was basically a class act.
Chelsea facing the same kind of determination resorted to their usual ill discipline, we didn't, we showed patience and killer insinct. On a better day with Vinnie and not rookie CB pairing we may have controlled things better too.

After that game I'm happy to believe that this squad can go all the way to the title.

On another tack; that game still leaves oppo managers with a complete unknown of how to go about stopping City. Golum tried to kill the game and kill Silva - FAIL while looking like a twat. Warnock puts his players on steroids and takes the game to us - FAIL while looking great.

Now what's the betting there is a massive upsurge in red scoucers off on european city breaks the weekend we travel to anfield ?

[Ted Hughes]

However good the results v QPR & Villareal, the 6-1 win was not just the best result of this season, but baring in mind the fact they'd won the previous 19 there : it's the best result in the history of the Premier League, anywhere.

You only have to look at how Sunderland were struggling to string 3 passes together without making an unforced error, against a rag side which was on it's knees terrified of making a mistake, or how many times experienced Chelsea players were incabale of making a sure contact on the ball when clean through on goal because they were at OT, to realise the 100 mile thick wall of psychological BULLSHIT City had to break through to win there in that manner. It was fucking monumental what those boys in blue did that day.

The Villareal result was crucial to putting us in the right frame of mind for the rags but that & the QPR results just helped prove we can be the real deal when things go wrong, as well as when they go right.

The rags hammering was history being made.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

However good the results v QPR & Villareal, the 6-1 win was not just the best result of this season, but baring in mind the fact they'd won the previous 19 there : it's the best result in the history of the Premier League, anywhere.

You only have to look at how Sunderland were struggling to string 3 passes together without making an unforced error, against a rag side which was on it's knees terrified of making a mistake, or how many times experienced Chelsea players were incabale of making a sure contact on the ball when clean through on goal because they were at OT, to realise the 100 mile thick wall of psychological BULLSHIT City had to break through to win there in that manner. It was fucking monumental what those boys in blue did that day.

The Villareal result was crucial to putting us in the right frame of mind for the rags but that & the QPR results just helped prove we can be the real deal when things go wrong, as well as when they go right.

The rags hammering was history being made.

Couldn't agree more.

[brite blu sky]

However good the results v QPR & Villareal, the 6-1 win was not just the best result of this season, but baring in mind the fact they'd won the previous 19 there : it's the best result in the history of the Premier League, anywhere.

You only have to look at how Sunderland were struggling to string 3 passes together without making an unforced error, against a rag side which was on it's knees terrified of making a mistake, or how many times experienced Chelsea players were incabale of making a sure contact on the ball when clean through on goal because they were at OT, to realise the 100 mile thick wall of psychological BULLSHIT City had to break through to win there in that manner. It was fucking monumental what those boys in blue did that day.

The Villareal result was crucial to putting us in the right frame of mind for the rags but that & the QPR results just helped prove we can be the real deal when things go wrong, as well as when they go right.

The rags hammering was history being made.

I'd agree with that 100% if it wasn't a derby. The fact that it was makes it just slightly less tour-de-force overcoming of that psychology. Derbies are different. If say we were Arsenal and we went and did that then I'd agree.
Don't get me wrong it was utterly fantastic, but we can batter the rags in a derby and then go and turn in a lead balloon v W.Brom the next week.
We said before the derby that it was more significant for them, more riding on it and more pressure on them. I still hold by that and by the same logic it actually proved nothing for City but severely relegated the rags from position of best team.

So I'm still convinced pulling out results when underperforming and when really needed edge it for me, although they won't be remembered for very long, whereas the derby win will be.