‘Supporting’ City

I guess I’m one of the ‘happy clappy’ folk but that’s not because I can’t see or inwardly note when someone’s playing poorly. I just prefer not to join in.
Plus I also feel that a player doesn’t come onto the pitch to play a bad game so I keep my mouth/keyboard shut! Just my way. Sorry to be a happy clappy. But I guess I’m too old to change now. :-) ;-)
 
Not a happy clappy supporter by any means neither am i an entitled glory hunter, but i have criticised some players and Pep when i feel it warrants it. Pep, although great, reacts slowly to what is happening on the pitch if it isn't going to plan. We seem stuck in tippy tappy mode, like watching a blue circle on a PC screen. If we have to play possession football, at least organise a defence against a quick break
 
Eccles Blue said:
I guess I’m one of the ‘happy clappy’ folk but that’s not because I can’t see or inwardly note when someone’s playing poorly. I just prefer not to join in.
Plus I also feel that a player doesn’t come onto the pitch to play a bad game so I keep my mouth/keyboard shut! Just my way. Sorry to be a happy clappy. But I guess I’m too old to change now. :-) ;-)
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If you don't want to join in that's fine.

I always compare it to going to a restaurant you go to regularly. If the serving staff bring the wrong meal, miss out a side dish, the food is cold when it should be hot, it's not cooked prop or something is wrong with the taste, would you sit there smiling and say everything was fine? Or if you buy a product that doesn't work properly within a few days of buying it, would you return it or just accept it and buy another?

I'm sure some wouldnt say anything but you're perfectly within your rights to complain. I don't get the attitude that we shouldn't criticise a poor team or individual performance. We certainly should go over the top but it's not a crime to express a negative opinion and we shouldn't be afraid to do that.

Pep sometimes makes mistakes and players sometimes have bad games. I'm not sure why some think we're not allowed to express an opinion on that.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
If you don't want to join in that's fine.

I always compare it to going to a restaurant you go to regularly. If the serving staff bring the wrong meal, miss out a side dish, the food is cold when it should be hot, it's not cooked prop or something is wrong with the taste, would you sit there smiling and say everything was fine? Or if you buy a product that doesn't work properly within a few days of buying it, would you return it or just accept it and buy another?

I'm sure some wouldnt say anything but you're perfectly within your rights to complain. I don't get the attitude that we shouldn't criticise a poor team or individual performance. We certainly should go over the top but it's not a crime to express a negative opinion and we shouldn't be afraid to do that.

Pep sometimes makes mistakes and players sometimes have bad games. I'm not sure why some think we're not allowed to express an opinion on that.
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Errr, I didn't say anything about anyone else expressing an opinion. I just said what I do. Please do not include me in a rant about opinions.
Thank you. :-)
 
AshtonBlueMooner said:
Where do I start with this one?
We’ve had untold success that we are unlikely to ever repeat.
We’ve broken countless records.
We’ve seen the best ever Premier league team, indeed football league team with a four peat.
Treble winners, Centurions, the list goes on.
Top scoring premier league player.
Goalkeeper with the most golden glove awards.
A midfielder winning Balon D’Or.
Yet some of our fan base has become the epitome of everything we mocked our neighbours for. I’m not an avid social media user but my lad has shown me some of the nonsense being posted. Some absolute tools out there. We don’t need them, don’t want them and I’m fed up of these ridiculous comments, ‘expectations have changed’, ‘don’t keep dwelling on the past’, ‘you need to keep improving’, blah, blah, blah.
‘Influencers’ put them in the bin.
‘You tubers’ majority of them, put them in the bin.
I’ve seen the good, the bad and the downright bloody ugly.
And I’ll tell you what, I won’t slag my manager or team off after a couple of iffy results.
Get a bloody grip. Get behind the team, do exactly what you’re professing to be, a supporter, in good times and bad times and we’ve seen plenty of those.
So many threads, on here, with very entitled posts. Yes, we’re all allowed to have differing opinions but just a sense of perspective would be appreciated at times.
Certainly from those of us that are a little longer in the tooth. It’s old fashioned I know, probably will get a pile on for it but hey, just felt it needed saying.
Come on you blues.
CTID
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Social media is a wonderful/appalling thing.

The reality is that hundreds of millions use it worldwide. In City terms, we have ten times more people talking about City on one platform or another than actually go to games.

Therefore, you are always going to get people who wind you up with their opinions. You are going to get people slagging the team off for dropping two points, no matter how well we have been playing.

That's perhaps why many people are better off avoiding social media, and for every one that might think again after reading a post like yours, a thousand wouldn't. It's just a fruitless waste of your time trying to argue, although it does pass the time quite well during an international break.

At the end of the day, I don't get annoyed by our fans or fans of others slagging City anymore. When you see the amount of posts on platforms such as X or You Tube displaying blatant racism, bullying, harrassment etc, and trolls laughing and mocking death and misery, you simply have to turn a blind eye or walk away from the platforms. It'd just drive you mad. The reality is that you can't take any faceless people on platforms such as those two that do not provide consequences for their posts, and if you take on one, they've got thousands behind them, who will round on your. At least Bluemoon gives you a chance to take on people in discussion without fear of major personal abuse, but you need to put the other platforms, as you say, "in the bin".
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
If you don't want to join in that's fine.

I always compare it to going to a restaurant you go to regularly. If the serving staff bring the wrong meal, miss out a side dish, the food is cold when it should be hot, it's not cooked prop or something is wrong with the taste, would you sit there smiling and say everything was fine? Or if you buy a product that doesn't work properly within a few days of buying it, would you return it or just accept it and buy another?

I'm sure some wouldnt say anything but you're perfectly within your rights to complain. I don't get the attitude that we shouldn't criticise a poor team or individual performance. We certainly should go over the top but it's not a crime to express a negative opinion and we shouldn't be afraid to do that.

Pep sometimes makes mistakes and players sometimes have bad games. I'm not sure why some think we're not allowed to express an opinion on that.
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Indeed.

There’s a difference between criticising something and being a **** slagging it off, not just with City but in all walks of life. Some people find it hard to distinguish between the two and see their arse or argue against good points that are raised.

Now, some comments about Kyle Walker recently - an excellent player in the Pep era for us, for a few years was the most consistent player at the club - that are a bit cunty and slagging the lad off in total disrespect.
But there are other points made about other things where I can’t understand where they get argued against.
 
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