munster said:LoveCity said:Independent back page: "Not so noisy now". Got to love how a nickname we don't even use for ourselves is used against us.
Ian Herbert has really exposed himself as a rag in recent days on Twitter, and here was I naive enough to believe that paper was the last bastion of objectivity.
Speaking of the rag media.
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Agreed fella. We've gone from being everyone's favourite (joke) team to being (predictably) a team most people want to fail. Your point on the "nosiy neighbour" moniker is absolutetly right. But we're made of stern stuff and aren't going anywhere
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dctid said:deano ou812 said:was mentioned on talksport rooney and twitter as you said taught us a football lesson today was what he tweeted or something similar,well what a fcuking clueless ugly cnut he is, maybe if it had been 4 or 5 nil but 3.2 with us not firing on all cylinders, imo come end of season he wont be as quick to mouth off....K49112008 said:This prick thinks they taught us a lesson today?? This is really what fucks me off the pure arrogance of these rags. And they wounder why everyone hates them.
sad fact is we was outplayed and made too look feckin clueless - the ecore flatter us because Rags were far far superior in every single department
I wouldn´t mind betting Woy will have them up for it and well drilled next week. They´ll be fitter and more fired up than us todaycitymad said:Man, this game has really stirred up a hornets nest hasn't it ? Thing was everyone was so confident going into this game thinking we would brush them aside when the truth is they have had an excellent pre season often cruising to victories. inter Milan was our first proper pre season game for the first team. Before that it was half a game here half a game there. Its no surprise that they looked sharper and moved the ball so well. They will start the season off to a flyer and I pity the team they have to play first. As for us hopefully this will have hurt the players and they'll want to come out fighting and their brains switched on. Next week Im sure Bobby Manc will have the defenders working on some things to get their solid look again.
TFC said:The more I keep telling myself I'm not bothered, the more bothered I get. That game was lost in the first 20 minutes of the second half for me, in fact it was 67 minutes before I remember us getting a foot on the ball and actually stringing 2 passes together.
Why is that? The rags are undoubtedly a good side, but to let them dictate like we did, that is what has really pissed me off I think. This City squad shouldnt be letting any fucker take the piss, friendly or not.
Yes, I know its a friendly blah de fucking blah, but when you see fat wankstain talking about giving us a 'footballing lesson'...knowing how good we can be, its not on. We'll be expecting so much more next derby blues.
black mamba said:dctid said:deano ou812 said:was mentioned on talksport rooney and twitter as you said taught us a football lesson today was what he tweeted or something similar,well what a fcuking clueless ugly cnut he is, maybe if it had been 4 or 5 nil but 3.2 with us not firing on all cylinders, imo come end of season he wont be as quick to mouth off....
sad fact is we was outplayed and made too look feckin clueless - the ecore flatter us because Rags were far far superior in every single department
The 10/15 minutes just prior to half time is the clue here ......
it was then that City scored twice , started to play at long last , and had the rags , and their supporters , praying for the half time whistle ........
that was the ONLY time in the entire game that City actually played any positive football ......... and the point of all this is that if you DON'T attempt play any football , and keep the ball , you DO look as though you've been outclassed !
LoveCity said:Mancini wanted to win it bad, the players let him down and he shouldn't be blamed too much. The tactics weren't that negative, he had Milner instead of Barry. One thing we can blame Mancini for though is in about 3-4 transfer windows now, he has managed to not buy one creative midfielder to compliment or rotate with Silva, unless he planned to have Assulin in the first team fold before he got injured.
If Mancini really treated it as a friendly he would have mirrored the rags and had Guidetti and Suarez on the bench, using them in the second half for the experience.
GaudBlessYa said:Odd event for me today. They seemed much more up for it than us, personally I reckon the game meant much more to them (especially after the Semi) and their season preparations than it did to ours. This extra motivation/desire meant they were often sharper around the field than we were. As one or two have pointed out, I would worry that most of our key players haven't played enough football in pre-season. It doesn't fill me with confidence when Mancini shrugs his shoulders when asked if we will be ready for the season to start come next Monday. No excuses if we are not.