When was our last boring season?

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I really cant remember the last time I got bored following city, every season we seem to have been either getting relegated, getting promoted, getting taken over, winning things, getting charged from Uefa or the premier league, whats the last time nothing was happening in a city season?
 
J.G.Blue. said:
Strange, I had forgoten all about that Pearce season, now that was boring.
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it was ok until we got to FA cup QF which we had to play on Monday night but still had to play Wigan on the Saturday, we rested players and still lost both games, think we went on a huge losing run then only victory was at Villa
 
After the initial couple of seasons at COMS there were a few a couple of 'nothing seasons' weren't there. The one under Sven started well but that also became a bit forgettable (apart from the win at The Swamp and that 8:1 defeat!!). The period from 95/96 until we got promoted playing very entertaining football under Keegan in 2002 certainly wasn't boring. A couple of brilliant last day promotions and huge amounts of unbelievable shite...but rarely boring! (6 out of 7 seasons either relegated or promoted)
 
gloryhuntersince85 said:
probably 05/06 with Pearce, the following season 06/07 I still can't believe there were more that 3 worse teams than us
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winner with the first post, that was truly a dire time, we were more exciting (although for largely the wrong reasons) under world cup winner Alan Ball
 
I'd say Pellegrini's last season. There was a terrible sense that everyone was just waiting for him to go gracefully, which was compounded by the knowledge that The Man was arriving. And that includes some of the players, by the way. Some of the matches were just playing out time.
It was sad, genuinely, because his first season was nothing short of glorious. It wasn't just the fact that we were champions (and won a League Cup, don't forget), it was that we did it with fantastic style. Don't forget the absolute caning that we gave to the rags, both home and away. On aggregate it was 7-1. Same as in 2011-12, you'll notice.
I always felt really bad about the cock-up that involved people hanging around for about twenty minutes after his last home match (was it in fact more?). Which meant that most of the stadium had cleared off at that point. He deserved better than that.
 
without a doubt
2015-2016
when the whole team gave up
except fernandhino after pep was announced in february by pelligrini.first season in the new
south stand level 3.
 
I could never get on board with 1985-86...after two years in Divvy 2 and the elation after Charlton after the faltering promotion push, I was all excited to be back and I was convinced Paul Simpson was going to take the first division by storm...but the season back was kind of "meh"
However signings like Sammy Mcllroy & Gordon Davies didnt really get me interested and the season was kind of a non event. Dont remember really any highlights (go on then Arthur Albistons own goal) or for that matter lowlights (and yes I include that Full Members joke cup in there)
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I'd say Pellegrini's last season. There was a terrible sense that everyone was just waiting for him to go gracefully, which was compounded by the knowledge that The Man was arriving. And that includes some of the players, by the way. Some of the matches were just playing out time.
It was sad, genuinely, because his first season was nothing short of glorious. It wasn't just the fact that we were champions (and won a League Cup, don't forget), it was that we did it with fantastic style. Don't forget the absolute caning that we gave to the rags, both home and away. On aggregate it was 7-1. Same as in 2011-12, you'll notice.
I always felt really bad about the cock-up that involved people hanging around for about twenty minutes after his last home match (was it in fact more?). Which meant that most of the stadium had cleared off at that point. He deserved better than that.
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Agreed. Loved Pellers, me. That 2013/14 season was fantastic filled with free-flowing, attacking football. Will always be one of my fondest seasons, that.
 
Obviously Pearce but I hated watching City under Reid and Ellis I know we finished 5th twice but the football was dire the long ball to Quinn to flick onto White , away from home it was depressing I remember going Southampton on Boxing Day got beat 2 1 shit ,went Boro twice in a week for 2 cups games got beat twice 2 1 and then when I wanted to lose to Leeds as they where going for the league with them lot we beat them 4 0 , we sold Michael Hughes and replaced him Tricky Ricky Holden wank , sold Colin Hendry who then went onto to win the league a year later with Blackburn and to really take the piss used to pick Heath week in week out and left Clive Allen on the bench , Reid out Ellis out
 
Harlaching Sky Blue said:
I could never get on board with 1985-86...after two years in Divvy 2 and the elation after Charlton after the faltering promotion push, I was all excited to be back and I was convinced Paul Simpson was going to take the first division by storm...but the season back was kind of "meh"
However signings like Sammy Mcllroy & Gordon Davies didnt really get me interested and the season was kind of a non event. Dont remember really any highlights (go on then Arthur Albistons own goal) or for that matter lowlights (and yes I include that Full Members joke cup in there)
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Getting beat 3 0 at home by them lot was a proper low even Mike Duxbury scored , Albiston scored a cracker the highlight that season is them cunts won there there first 10 games and then finished 4th , hate them
 
100% Pearce's tenure. Nearly gave up my season ticket while I was still living in Manchester it was that bad.
 
Harlaching Sky Blue said:
I could never get on board with 1985-86...after two years in Divvy 2 and the elation after Charlton after the faltering promotion push, I was all excited to be back and I was convinced Paul Simpson was going to take the first division by storm...but the season back was kind of "meh"
However signings like Sammy Mcllroy & Gordon Davies didnt really get me interested and the season was kind of a non event. Dont remember really any highlights (go on then Arthur Albistons own goal) or for that matter lowlights (and yes I include that Full Members joke cup in there)
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Interesting. I'd moved abroad at that point (in fact I was on the other side of the world, so was reduced to following what I could on the World Service fading in and out on the best short wave band I could get).
Was there a sense on the terraces — and you know which ones I'm talking about! — that City were simply back where we belonged? And that the two seasons in Division 2 had been an inexplicable anomaly: a blip?
Because from where I stood I definitely believed that.
Nobody, I think, anticipated that we'd spend twenty years crossing the desert, like Moses crossing the Sinai for his forty years.
It was the McNeill period, wasn't it? At the time, I thought we'd got ourselves a seriously good manager.
 
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Jack74 said:
Obviously Pearce but I hated watching City under Reid and Ellis I know we finished 5th twice but the football was dire the long ball to Quinn to flick onto White , away from home it was depressing I remember going Southampton on Boxing Day got beat 2 1 shit ,went Boro twice in a week for 2 cups games got beat twice 2 1 and then when I wanted to lose to Leeds as they where going for the league with them lot we beat them 4 0 , we sold Michael Hughes and replaced him Tricky Ricky Holden wank , sold Colin Hendry who then went onto to win the league a year later with Blackburn and to really take the piss used to pick Heath week in week out and left Clive Allen on the bench , Reid out Ellis out
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Yeah but watching Adrian Heath orchestrate the game from midfield was like prime David Silva
 
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