We have one of the most negative fan bases in football

Maybe so. Let me add to the negativity in saying that our team has got to be one of the least financially efficient sides out there. The cost/achievement ratio is frankly off. Also, I feel like Guardiola is not quite as competent as advertised or at least not quite on the level I expected him to be. I don't see how he's an upgrade over Mancini or Pelligrini.
 
blueinsa said:
Same names every week..........
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Not just the match day thread. The blowhards end up in every corner of the forum. Whether it's marding it up at people about who we should/should't sign because they're shite, yelling at people because Pep's clueless and "this isn't Spain anymore and he needs to adapt", or just generally acting like entitled know all dicks. We're one of the most spoiled supporter bases in the country and sadly it shows.
 
BillyShears said:
Not just the match day thread. The blowhards end up in every corner of the forum. Whether it's marding it up at people about who we should/should't sign because they're shite, yelling at people because Pep's clueless and "this isn't Spain anymore and he needs to adapt", or just generally acting like entitled know all dicks. We're one of the most spoiled supporter bases in the country and sadly it shows.
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Maybe that needs to be said, but I think your last line is a bit OTT.
 
Marvin said:
Maybe that needs to be said, but I think your last line is a bit OTT.
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Apologies Marvin (sincerely). I thought long and hard about posting it, but ultimately, it's how I feel and since many feel it's okay to express whatever irrational emotions they have on Bluemoon, I felt i wasn't going to censor myself. We have some incredible support there's no doubt about that. But if you look across all social media platforms we moan like we're still in a relegation dogfight with West Ham. It needs to change.
 
BillyShears said:
Apologies Marvin (sincerely). I thought long and hard about posting it, but ultimately, it's how I feel and since many feel it's okay to express whatever irrational emotions they have on Bluemoon, I felt i wasn't going to censor myself. We have some incredible support there's no doubt about that. But if you look across all social media platforms we moan like we're still in a relegation dogfight with West Ham. It needs to change.
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Always worth a reminder to think before we say something. I will pay attention. I agree with your sentiments that we are indeed very lucky and living through good times but it's good that we all still feel this emotional attachment to this club. It was great to see everyone hit the roof yesterday from Guardiola to the celebrating players and fans. That's what football is all about
 
Up until 2008 every single one of us had every good reason to support the rags. Winning everything in sight, no chance of poor refereeing decisions against us, arse-creeping media with a polite aversion of eyes when it came to the eye-watering money spent to achieve success in a virtual monopoly.

But we didn't. And why ? Because we're all contrary bastards. And I'm afraid that spills over into here. Most of us rein it in but there are those, presumably without friends, who are particularly loud and aggressive and tend to drown out the more moderate posters. Collectively, City fans are no more negative than any other fan base.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
Up until 2008 every single one of us had every good reason to support the rags. Winning everything in sight, no chance of poor refereeing decisions against us, arse-creeping media with a polite aversion of eyes when it came to the eye-watering money spent to achieve success in a virtual monopoly.

But we didn't. And why ? Because we're all contrary bastards. And I'm afraid that spills over into here. Most of us rein it in but there are those, presumably without friends, who are particularly loud and aggressive and tend to drown out the more moderate posters. Collectively, City fans are no more negative than any other fan base.
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Very true.
We're also mostly northern folk that generally call a spade a spade and it is a fact that we have to improve massively to even get lose to the title.
 
BillyShears said:
Not just the match day thread. The blowhards end up in every corner of the forum. Whether it's marding it up at people about who we should/should't sign because they're shite, yelling at people because Pep's clueless and "this isn't Spain anymore and he needs to adapt", or just generally acting like entitled know all dicks. We're one of the most spoiled supporter bases in the country and sadly it shows.
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I think you'll find that every football club has a supporter base that is pessimistic at best. Every start to the season the signing of new players boosts the average football fan's hopes and dreams only for the reality to kick in for most of them after a few games. For the lucky few, the winners, the top of the table sides, this pessimism is tempered somewhat by the winning of games. You only have to look at our dear neighbours for evidence of this. Some were unhappy about Lukaku, about Matic being a Chelsea cast off etc etc. It happens at every club.

As for spoiled? Why?
 
BimboBob said:
I think you'll find that every football club has a supporter base that is pessimistic at best. Every start to the season the signing of new players boosts the average football fan's hopes and dreams only for the reality to kick in for most of them after a few games. For the lucky few, the winners, the top of the table sides, this pessimism is tempered somewhat by the winning of games. You only have to look at our dear neighbours for evidence of this. Some were unhappy about Lukaku, about Matic being a Chelsea cast off etc etc. It happens at every club.

As for spoiled? Why?
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We're nothing like every football club. We're spoiled. We were shit, then our new owners decided to make us the financially powerful and stable club in the world. They packed the team with superstars. They essentially gave us what the supporters of every other club in the country including Spurs/Arsenal/United/Liverpool would want. The opportunity to be as big and as successful as we possibly can be with no limitations.

We are nothing like every football club, quite the opposite we are totally unique proposition. Sadly it's totally lost on the people I refer to who feel entitled to success after having had it for five minutes. In my opinion anyway.
 
BillyShears said:
We're nothing like every football club. We're spoiled. We were shit, then our new owners decided to make us the financially powerful and stable club in the world. They packed the team with superstars. They essentially gave us what the supporters of every other club in the country including Spurs/Arsenal/United/Liverpool would want. The opportunity to be as big and as successful as we possibly can be with no limitations.

We are nothing like every football club, quite the opposite we are totally unique proposition. Sadly it's totally lost on the people I refer to who feel entitled to success after having had it for five minutes. In my opinion anyway.
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The trouble is, as you said above, before we had rich owners, in between the previous successes, we were shit. Very shit. Run by idiots. Managed by buffoons. Everyone's second team due to our big gates and lack of success. The underdog. Remember the 2000 cup game v Leeds? Only 17 years ago. Lost 5-2 but went 2-1 up early on. The commentators were beside themselves. An upset was on the cards. Everyone praised us even though we came up short. Most of the fan base remembers those days. The feelings. The disappointments. Now fast forward...

We have owners who are striving to build a legacy, owners who are not after a quick buck, owners who actively put back into the local community but it all boils down to one thing and one thing only...success on the pitch. Last season, despite the above and the money spent on players we achieved the princely sum of fuck all success. The feelings, the disappointments are still there. It doesn't matter if the club is run right, as I said, it all boils down to what happens on the pitch...success.

Until we get a proper run of success, like the red halves of Manchester and Liverpool did, then all the money in the world won't change people's attitudes.

Besides, as I have already said, we are football fans, moaning is what we do best.
 
worsleyweb said:
The match day thread today was one of the worst ever - a disgrace.
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Its a good idea staying away from the match thread i have noticed in my time on bluemoon especially if things arent going so well. One is already feelin bad about the match situation and with all abuse, moaning and harsh criticism it just makes it more worse.
 
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