Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Probably goner anyway. I think it will be a mistake in a long run and that'd already be second manager in Moyes era but that's what you get for putting your trust on has beens like Gareth Barry.
I totally get where you are coming from, I do, but I do not agree. I understand any supporter who is appreciative of what Mancini has done. I have been supporting City for 14 years, so clearly not my lifetime, and for the most part I have seen us only in the top flight. When I first saw City we were in the first division on our way up. We did go back down, but for the most part I have enjoyed us at the top flight.
That said, I get it. First trophies since 1968. We won the league, won the FA Cup, qualified for Europe then the Champions League. These are great accomplishments, and for those of you who suffered in the time prior to when I became a fan in 1999, I understand your position and your love-fest for him. HOWEVER, I am totally convinced with a more competent manager we would have one or two more trophies, if not three (two league titles and at least 2 FA cups titles). Instead we won in the dying moments last year, when we should have won the trophy 2-3 weeks earlier. We will come in second place this year to a Un***d team that is not 15 points better than us, and clearly not as good as they were last year. I am not saying we should have won the league, but we should have put up a much better effort to push them. Why is this? Simple. We drew against teams in the lower half of the table where Un***d did enough to win those games, no matter how bad they played. I hate Fergie as much as the rest of you, but his players played like they would die for him, our played like they could careless about our manager, and I am not blaming the players as I have had little faith in Mancini.
His tactics are weak, his insistence on using a 3-5-2 on many occasions without result says a lot about how unaware he is about the game at times. Today summed it up perfectly. A team on the verge of relegation, a team we barely beat 1-0 at home (in other words we got to scout them out two weeks before out biggest match of the year) outplayed us for all but 20-25 minutes and ultimately won a match they deserved. Once again he decided that he was a genius and pulling off Tevez in favor of a midfielder made sense. Pulling off Nasri (debatable about how useful he was) instead of an ineffective Barry is inexcusable. Was he the only one that did not see Yaya struggling the last 60 minutes with some injury?
Lastly, he showed why his players do not respect him. I do not care what our BACKUP keeper said in the press, he gave the man his word he would play all FA cup games and he ditched him. Whatever Costel said should have had no bearing on this match. Mancini is not a leader. Last year he said Tevez will never play again for this club, he did. Costel is our keeper throughout the League and FA Cups, he was not.
This is not the right man for our team. Any competent manager would have won us the league last year, the FA Cup two years ago, and certainly today. The manager has two jobs, make goo tactics/substitutions and motivate your team. Mancini has neither of these qualities, at least at this level.
Today sucked, but time to move forward with a new leader. Mancini was out-managed and out-classed by Roberto Martinez today, Wigan and he deserved this one.
I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I am all out of bubblegum.
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