Totally agree. We are still in the cup thats the main thing.lancs blue said:FantasyIreland said:Besides having an opinion that has generally gone against the grain,which,by the way,does not make it incorrect,what exactly has the OP done wrong?
What annoys me is the title "Disgusting...". When I saw the title I thought the thread might be about some fan misbehaviour or stewards acting like cocks but no, a draw in a tricky away Cuptie is "Disgusting...". What a load of bollocks.
DD said:Don't you just love the way that anyone who criticises anything is dismissed as being a "rag"?
The more I read these things, the more I realise that our fans are deluded fuckwits, who are happy to settle for any old shit as long as it was better than the Bristol Rovers game in 98-99.
We'd have won that game by a bag full if we had carried on playing as we did in the first half (assuming we'd tighten up on corners), yet, for reasons best known to the manager, we decided to abandon the formation, slap our three midfielders permanently in our own third of the field and let them do the work. As a result, we invite them to have possession, we invite them to have territory, and we build up their confidence.
This team of ours is good enough to speculate to accumalate, especially against lower division opposition, it's surely good enough to take the game to them, to be the boss, to be in charge, yet we continue to endanger things at the other end of the field with a no attack, no risk (which ends up being 'total risk') policy.
Tactics are totally stifling this team's ability. It's no wonder some of our players are visibly tearing their hair out. Give them a bit more poetic licence and this team is certainly good enough to break the 35 year spell. Stifle them like we do and we will win fuck all. Sweet fuck all!
Optimus Prime said:DD said:Don't you just love the way that anyone who criticises anything is dismissed as being a "rag"?
The more I read these things, the more I realise that our fans are deluded fuckwits, who are happy to settle for any old shit as long as it was better than the Bristol Rovers game in 98-99.
We'd have won that game by a bag full if we had carried on playing as we did in the first half (assuming we'd tighten up on corners), yet, for reasons best known to the manager, we decided to abandon the formation, slap our three midfielders permanently in our own third of the field and let them do the work. As a result, we invite them to have possession, we invite them to have territory, and we build up their confidence.
This team of ours is good enough to speculate to accumalate, especially against lower division opposition, it's surely good enough to take the game to them, to be the boss, to be in charge, yet we continue to endanger things at the other end of the field with a no attack, no risk (which ends up being 'total risk') policy.
Tactics are totally stifling this team's ability. It's no wonder some of our players are visibly tearing their hair out. Give them a bit more poetic licence and this team is certainly good enough to break the 35 year spell. Stifle them like we do and we will win fuck all. Sweet fuck all!
This is definitely a problem on this board. It does seem like anyone who ever has anything in any way negative to say simply gets branded as a Rag.
Its frustrating to see as it stifles debate, which is supposed to be what forums are all about. If no-one can have an opinion which diverts from the "Everything and everyone who has anything to do with City are brilliant, and could not be improved in any way" Party Line without being brainlessly referred to as a Rag, it will make this place very boring.
Having said all that, I do actually believe that this poster is a Rag - either that, or one of those City 'fans' who follows the team but doesn't actually support them, choosing instead to use their following of City as an outlet to moan incessantly about everything they do. I don't think I've ever seen him make a single positive statement about the Club, which makes you wonder why he bothers.
Unfortunately, Eastlands is full of 'fans' like these - who seem to pay their money and turn up every week just to shout abuse at the players and wind themselves up. Strange behaviour, to say the least.
PaulPowre said:FantasyIreland said:Besides having an opinion that has generally gone against the grain,which,by the way,does not make it incorrect,what exactly has the OP done wrong?
Dared to tell it how it is without sugar coating it.
lancs blue said:FantasyIreland said:Besides having an opinion that has generally gone against the grain,which,by the way,does not make it incorrect,what exactly has the OP done wrong?
What annoys me is the title "Disgusting...". When I saw the title I thought the thread might be about some fan misbehaviour or stewards acting like cocks but no, a draw in a tricky away Cuptie is "Disgusting...". What a load of bollocks.
stony said:PaulPowre said:Dared to tell it how it is without sugar coating it.
You didn't tell it how it is. You told it as you see it, there's a huge difference. Your opinion was knee jerk at best and moronic at worst.
PaulPowre said:How do you think we will go on next season when we could be playing away to Barcelona, Madrid, Bayern or the swamp. now they could be tricky away cup ties.
DD said:Optimus Prime said:This is definitely a problem on this board. It does seem like anyone who ever has anything in any way negative to say simply gets branded as a Rag.
Its frustrating to see as it stifles debate, which is supposed to be what forums are all about. If no-one can have an opinion which diverts from the "Everything and everyone who has anything to do with City are brilliant, and could not be improved in any way" Party Line without being brainlessly referred to as a Rag, it will make this place very boring.
Having said all that, I do actually believe that this poster is a Rag - either that, or one of those City 'fans' who follows the team but doesn't actually support them, choosing instead to use their following of City as an outlet to moan incessantly about everything they do. I don't think I've ever seen him make a single positive statement about the Club, which makes you wonder why he bothers.
Unfortunately, Eastlands is full of 'fans' like these - who seem to pay their money and turn up every week just to shout abuse at the players and wind themselves up. Strange behaviour, to say the least.
But what people tend not to notice is that these posters may equally be as positive when they have something to be positive about. The thing is, this guy has had the guts on here to say things as he thinks it is and all he gets is a belly full of abuse. Abuse from people who never have the balls or intelligence to start threads of their own.
I never shout abuse at players in the ground, it's counter-productive, but when on a forum, I'll open my mouth, say what is my opinion and not be intimidated out of that opinion just because the masses of sheep say it is not so.
Today, our second half tactics were deplorable; we were negative, we sat our three midfielders deep and we humiliated our forward three again by completely isolating them. Every neutral fan I have spoke to noticed it. The only ones that don't are the deluded clowns on this board who cannot see anything wrong in our management team.
It says something when every football pundit in the land and every football supporters not of the sky blue persuasion can see it, yet our own do not. There has to come a time when realism is taken more seriously than hope, surely.