It's not Pellers..It's not even the team..

Rolee said:
They were restricted to just one chance of note in 90 minutes and that came from an individual error from Dinho letting Vardy have a one one one with Hart. It was obvious watching that he had a plan to restrict Vardy and it was executed brilliantly. But let's ignore that as it doesn't suit the argument.
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Wonder why he didn't try to replicate that magnificent away performance yesterday? Perhaps he thought that Leicester would be overawed by the occasion.
 
Danamy said:
Once again you're both failing to see the bigger picture.
I'm sure he'd loved to pick Sagna and Clichy every week but to do so with our current situation would be naive
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Are you saying he dropped them because we have Spurs coming up?
 
Rolee said:
They were restricted to just one chance of note in 90 minutes and that came from an individual error from Dinho letting Vardy have a one one one with Hart. It was obvious watching that he had a plan to restrict Vardy and it was executed brilliantly. But let's ignore that as it doesn't suit the argument.
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Did you leave after 5 minutes? Never read such bollocks in my life. They scored 3 and Hart had to make at least three other saves. One chance of note?
 
Squad no where near as good in depth as we are led to believe.
Main players either getting older, legs gone, been injured or returning from injury,
MP - can't make my mind up, I would settle for some dire defensive 1-0 while we steady the ship.
Yaya - is finished, get him sold to China as a sweetener to whatever CFG have in mind there. Window closes 26/2.
Us / becoming raggish expecting to win a quadruple, Jesus, might have to drink the odd quadruple to get me through this season.
Pep- he is casting a shadow, on players and us

What can be done? Settled team with MP kicking some Arse and playing to our strengths. 2 proper DM to protect the centre backs would be a start
 
blueinsa said:
The truth is its a bit of everything right now mate.

Pellers is stubborn as fuck but all managers are the same.

Injuries have dealt us a hefty blow but its a squad game and we have to find a way of coping.

Players have just gone missing in action. Great when its going well but when its time to roll up the sleeves and do some dirty work, plenty just dont want to know and that applies to our goldn cows.

This summer is all about change and the next step and it shouldnt just stop at the manager. The squad needs a re build and players who will do what is asked of them.
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You are right, it a whole load of things but it is easiest just to blame the clown and the fat lazy bastard.

I have just started to read Pep Confidential, a book I long intended to buy if and when Pep agreed to come to City. One thing that I found interesting was not directly about Pep but about research on recovery from games and the difficulty faced by big teams that frequently play every three days. As I read it, it made me more convinced than ever that injuries have been a major problem and led to us overplaying some players, affecting both form and susceptibility to injury. The question then is, have City done everything they could to avoid problems?
 
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hilts said:
Okay can you list the number of games this season when we have had a team that is weaker than the opposition? Can you also do it for last season as well? I will then happily accept our manager is indeed a good manager and he has been unlucky and not bleeding useless
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My post was merely an acknowledgment of the previous poster's point that we have been affected by injuries - long term injuries - to key players. Indeed, even the press "league table " of injuries had us as number one.
I'm not interested in responding to you aggressive post because you clearly have other axes to grind relating to your hatred of our current manager. I was not referring to his performance per se. However I do actually think it has affected his options if you are interested in my opinion
 
hilts said:
Are you saying he dropped them because we have Spurs coming up?
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If you want to use the word dropped then yeah but not only Spuds a Cup Final and Champs League to boot.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this as I can see you're going down the Fifa everyone plays every week if fit ignoring injuries and upcoming competitions route
 
BlumerMooner said:
Management chose the training and recovery periods. Most our injuries have been muscular. Its small detail like this that Pep will be all over!
Therefore Pellers has to take some responsibility for this!
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He'll certainly insist they eat a meal, the right meal, straight after each game and, if City do not already have a nutritionist on board, they will do soon.
 
We have injuries. It does aefect the best team Pellers can put out. But if you have injuries you need to deploy a tactical solution that suits the players that are fit and counters the strengths the opposition have. Pellers does NEITHER if these things. He is a Charleton, a sheep in sheep's clothing. I actually suspect he'd have trouble managing to open a paper bag.
It is now abundantlly clear that if we win anything then it will be in spite of him rather than because of him.
He is a charming man though, I'll give him that.
What a waste of a season though. He should have been ejected last summer after last season's shambles.
Spurs could very well be my last game of the season as I've already donated my Wembley ticket to my daughter.I simply fail to see the point of travelling 180 miles to the Etihad just to bash my head against a vurtual wall watching the next installment of his incompetence.
I'm not the only one either - indeed to me it's worse than watching Stuart Pearce's team who were at least achieving the potential of the squad at his disposal.
 
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Prestwich_Blue said:
Did you leave after 5 minutes? Never read such bollocks in my life. They scored 3 and Hart had to make at least three other saves. One chance of note?
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Oh ffs, if you're going to quote me then at least look at the context I was speaking. The above post was about the game at their place.
 
OB1 said:
You are right, it a whole load of things but it is easiest just to blame the clown and the fat lazy bastard.

I have just started to read Pep Confidential, a book I long kntended to buy if and when Pep agreed to come to City. One thing that I found interesting was not directly about Pep but about research on recovery from games and the difficulty faced by big teams that frequently play every three days. As I read it, it made me more convinced than ever that injuries have been a major problem and led to us overplaying some players, affecting both form and susceptibility to injury. The question then is, have City done everything they could to avoid problems?
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Hallelujah, it's like a breath of fresh air has just walked in
Thank you!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Wonder why he didn't try to replicate that magnificent away performance yesterday? Perhaps he thought that Leicester would be overawed by the occasion.
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Well for starters he didn't have Mangala who was arguably our best player that day, his pace was a real asset against their attempted counters.

Conceding from a set piece after a couple of minutes also fucks up whatever game plan he started with so that's another factor.
 
hilts said:
He could have left 2 of those out though fella, injuries had nothing to do with that selection
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Avoiding further injuries may do. As mentioned already, one thing that is clear from the early part of Pep Confidential is the need to rest players to aid recovery. There's a whole science to this sort of stuff that laymen like me know little of but, hopefully, down at the CFA is well understood and well understood by City's current manager.
 
I don't see the logic at all in us prioritising the League Cup like we have.

The second half against Everton was great, but I wish we'd saved that performance for a league game. KDB's injury will also hurt us.

The final is a bit of a hiding to nothing for me.
 
Neville Kneville said:
If you have everyone fit & put Yaya Toure in a midfield two v Liverpool , you will lose 8 out of 10.
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It's a classic case of more than one thing being true at the same time. Have we suffered with injuries? Yes. Does this absolve the manager of blame? No.
 
Rolee said:
Well for starters he didn't have Mangala who was arguably our best player that day, his pace was a real asset against their attempted counters.

Conceding from a set piece after a couple of minutes also fucks up whatever game plan he started with so that's another factor.
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Bottom line is that our defence has been at its best this season with a Vinnie / Mangala partnership.
 
Rolee said:
They were restricted to just one chance of note in 90 minutes and that came from an individual error from Dinho letting Vardy have a one one one with Hart. It was obvious watching that he had a plan to restrict Vardy and it was executed brilliantly. But let's ignore that as it doesn't suit the argument.
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Yeah probably Mangala best performance this season who was missing yesterday, swap him with MDM and things may have been different?
 
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