Bridge'srightfoot wrote:In the past I've been a critic of Mancini, especially some of the dire, dire shit we played last season.
carl_feedthegoat wrote:Blue2 wrote:Lost a game have we?
FFS. His subs , imo, were spot on last night, we had no chance of winning the game and the best option was to try and hold on for a draw, which very nearly worked apart for an unlucky pen.
Yaya or Milner should have been subbed before the wheels fell off.
Is Mancini the right man for City?
Ted Hughes wrote:Tbh, although I'm right behind what Bob is doing 100% (and that includes if we don't win anything, provided we are still growing as a team) I don't agree that last season was good entertainment or that what he did was right for a lot of it. At the end we started to play but we spent months & months working on details of defending; doing something which has just totally failed at Bayern & Napoli. For that to have been worthwhile, we should be like George Graham's Arsenal now when we lose the ball but instead we're pressing more like Barca. It's different than what he spent more than a year teaching them. We still leave players unmarked at crosses & set pieces & are not especially brilliant at any of the things he spent all that time on. With a team full of quality players, we should have been able to tighten up a bit & still play great football, rather than being so negative early on.
It's what happens when you sack a manager in the middle of a season though; the new one has to start over learning about his players & making mistakes. He should have been in earlier if they knew they wanted him. I don't blame Bob for that & I love what he's doing at City but I'm not having it that the preceding year & a half was anything more than 'ok' apart from the end part of last season, which was very good & got us a trophy.
The job he's doing now is fantastic & more like the evolution of the team I would have expected & wanted when he first took over.
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Tbh, although I'm right behind what Bob is doing 100% (and that includes if we don't win anything, provided we are still growing as a team) I don't agree that last season was good entertainment or that what he did was right for a lot of it. At the end we started to play but we spent months & months working on details of defending; doing something which has just totally failed at Bayern & Napoli. For that to have been worthwhile, we should be like George Graham's Arsenal now when we lose the ball but instead we're pressing more like Barca. It's different than what he spent more than a year teaching them. We still leave players unmarked at crosses & set pieces & are not especially brilliant at any of the things he spent all that time on. With a team full of quality players, we should have been able to tighten up a bit & still play great football, rather than being so negative early on.
It's what happens when you sack a manager in the middle of a season though; the new one has to start over learning about his players & making mistakes. He should have been in earlier if they knew they wanted him. I don't blame Bob for that & I love what he's doing at City but I'm not having it that the preceding year & a half was anything more than 'ok' apart from the end part of last season, which was very good & got us a trophy.
The job he's doing now is fantastic & more like the evolution of the team I would have expected & wanted when he first took over.
Ted, you have the happy knack of often saying what I'm thinking.
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