Happy clappers / losing mentality

[mccity]

Is it time for the club to ditch some of our less successful fans in order to progress? It still seems there is a significant number of fans that think staying up, CL qualification year after year and 8 out of 12 domestic trophies, centurions and the quadruple is what success looks like. These are the sort of fans who think just finishing comfortably second, winning just one domestic cup and getting knocked out in the later stages of the CL is acceptable. Does this undermine the 'winning mentality' of our team and undermine our attempts to have legendary European nights in our quest to become 'European royalty''? Maybe we need to upgrade some of the older fans as well as get a decent manager?

Look if we're not winning the quadruple every season then what's the point of even being a football fan?

 

[flook]

Those who rely on gallows humour to dampen disappointment when we're obviously far beyond that now should also go, it's not what real elite clubs do

(top thread btw, well done)

 

[Keeper!]

It's also very easy for a great club to be complacent and lose the habit of winning trophies.

Liverpool, United and now Barca have shown arrogance, complacency and not strengthening when at the top and have fallen off a cliff.

Liverpool took 30 years to win a title , United are years away, Barca are in freefall.

Never get complacent or satisfied.

 

[Metalartin]

Finally someone said this, Lyon were world class last night, loads of chances compared to us(did we create any besides our fluke goal against the run of play?), Eddie must have been knackered. Pep's spent £1bn and last night got outclassed by Europe's Burnley, so this can be taken in isolation to PROOVE the whole team is simply not good enough and Pep is a bald fraud. We need to get rid of everyone except KDB and Laporte. Above all, we need to sack Pep and be ruthless, like Watford, with our managers from now on. If things don't go our way, scrap everything and start a rebuild every time. Our fans are too 'small time' too, I'm sick of being called a fannywipe for crying into my beer. I want a new fanbase who are 'big time' like Liverpool fans, now there's a classy fanbase who 'gets it'.

 

[Indaparkside]

Finally someone said this, Lyon were world class last night, loads of chances compared to us(did we create any besides our fluke goal against the run of play?), Eddie must have been knackered. Pep's spent £1bn and last night can be taken in isolation to PROOVE the whole team is simply not good enough and Pep is bald fraud. We need to get rid of everyone except KDB and Laporte. Above all, we need to sack Pep and be ruthless, like Watford, with our managers from now on, if things don't go our scrap everything and start a rebuild every time. Our fans are too 'small time' I want a new fanbase who are 'big time' like Liverpool fans, now there's a classy fanbase who 'gets it'.

Fuck the owners off as well while we’re at it I’m sure Michael Knighton is still available:)

 

[Keeper!]

Finally someone said this, Lyon were world class last night, loads of chances compared to us(did we create any besides our fluke goal against the run of play?), Eddie must have been knackered. Pep's spent £1bn and last night got outclassed by Europe's Burnley, so this can be taken in isolation to PROOVE the whole team is simply not good enough and Pep is a bald fraud. We need to get rid of everyone except KDB and Laporte. Above all, we need to sack Pep and be ruthless, like Watford, with our managers from now on. If things don't go our way, scrap everything and start a rebuild every time. Our fans are too 'small time' too, I'm sick of being called a fannywipe for crying into my beer. I want a new fanbase who are 'big time' like Liverpool fans, now there's a classy fanbase who 'gets it'.

 

[Rascal]

Is it time for the club to ditch some of our less successful fans in order to progress? It still seems there is a significant number of fans that think staying up, CL qualification year after year and 8 out of 12 domestic trophies, centurions and the quadruple is what success looks like. These are the sort of fans who think just finishing comfortably second, winning just one domestic cup and getting knocked out in the later stages of the CL is acceptable. Does this undermine the 'winning mentality' of our team and undermine our attempts to have legendary European nights in our quest to become 'European royalty''? Maybe we need to upgrade some of the older fans as well as get a decent manager?

I am the sort of fan who is just happy to go to the match, meet the lads, have a few beers and have a good day out. I have done that for over 50 years and 1000s of games home and away and although I want us to win I really couldn't give a fuck if we win or lose, because i don't support City because we are good, i don't support City because we are rubbish, i support City because its in my blood and my Grandad saw the King at Hyde Road and brought me up on stories about City good and bad. I treasure the bad as much as the good because its my club. If you want to ditch me because i am content when we get to 40 points or i am happy with a proper relegation battle then so be it, you could upgrade me for a glory hunter from Immingham who has just realised City used to have a ground called Maine Road and players who appeared in escape to victory because that will make fuck all difference to Ederson spilling a soft shot or Raheem missing an open goal.

Because the thing is when all the good things come to an end as they surely will, i will still be meeting my mates, having a few beers and going to City whilst the glory hunters will have moved onto to the next big thing whilst we back the lads in a scrap to get out of the Manchester Sunday league 4th divison.

Being a fan isnt about success, its about love, passion, its family on a grander scale, you love them, you hate them but you will never forsake them until the day that you die.

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

How does a team ditch its fans?

 

[Centurions]

Is it time for the club to ditch some of our less successful fans in order to progress? It still seems there is a significant number of fans that think staying up, CL qualification year after year and 8 out of 12 domestic trophies, centurions and the quadruple is what success looks like. These are the sort of fans who think just finishing comfortably second, winning just one domestic cup and getting knocked out in the later stages of the CL is acceptable. Does this undermine the 'winning mentality' of our team and undermine our attempts to have legendary European nights in our quest to become 'European royalty''? Maybe we need to upgrade some of the older fans as well as get a decent manager?

The puppy got me up at half five which is the only reason you very nearly got me, you bugger.

 

[Saddleworth2]

gosh you are either a happy clapper or an entitled fan. How about just a normal fan who is allowed to criticise a shit show of a tactical performance from our coach.