Lancet Fluke said:Oh god, not this thread again. Is this going to be resurrected every time we fail to win a match and then a title challenge thread bumped every time we win?
Soulboy said:iluvrobinho said:Yes, we have lost games and points recently but I think we are where we should be. The games we have coming up aren't too bad and if we win them we should be in the CL next season.
I think it's just the fact that our defensive line isn't excellent and we have relied on Joe Hart to save us far too many times this season and now that he isn't playing to his best we're seeing too many goals being conceded. Perhaps people can blame Mancini for not dropping Hart or not buying a defensive player in the transfer market but apart from the latter I can see his reasons. He wants to try and develop a team spirit which we don't have within our squad and this will not result from dropping players at the drop of a hat. He also wants to instill into our players the winning mentality that he had at Inter so that we will become champions.
Seriously, all the team needs is a little more team spirit and winning mentality because that was the only thing that United had over us yesterday. That will NOT come from sacking a manger who is as good as Mancini and I honestly believe that he is the man to lead us to great things in the future.
Remember, we are still in with a shot of winning the FA cup, the UEFA cup and being in the Champions League next season. Maybe I'm wrong but was that not our aim at the start of the season?
Us blues need to believe.
PS. It worries me that a 17 year old, female City fan has more belief and optimism than many regular posters on here.
What has age and sex got to do with this?
That is a very sexist view in my mind, that somehow just because you're a woman, you shouldn't be respected for your opinion.
Bizarre.
hertsblue said:Bring in a set piece coach to sort us out. We are toothless from them. Utd's weakness is from headers from set peices. Yesterday we didnt threaten them.
There are so many points to be won by set pieces but we seem to only want to score the perfect goal and not from them.
Also a few shooting practice sessions + tell the players to shoot outside the box now and again wouldnt go amiss instead of trying to walk the ball into the net
PowderBlue said:This 'winning mentality' thing is getting to me. where does it come from because we cant seem to get it. Yes i know we have won plenty of games, but I cant remember the last time we truly fought back in a game to achieve a win, or turned a drawing game into a result (ok maybe Blackpool, but really they are shit)
We are not sharp enough in front of goal, fucking rags yesterday, two half chances (shrek not even half chance) and bang, two goals.
Wherever it comes from, we need a sackful of it pretty sharpish, or we're going to finish 5th.
PowderBlue said:This 'winning mentality' thing is getting to me. where does it come from because we cant seem to get it. Yes i know we have won plenty of games, but I cant remember the last time we truly fought back in a game to achieve a win, or turned a drawing game into a result (ok maybe Blackpool, but really they are shit)
We are not sharp enough in front of goal, fucking rags yesterday, two half chances (shrek not even half chance) and bang, two goals.
Wherever it comes from, we need a sackful of it pretty sharpish, or we're going to finish 5th.
dom said:PowderBlue said:This 'winning mentality' thing is getting to me. where does it come from because we cant seem to get it. Yes i know we have won plenty of games, but I cant remember the last time we truly fought back in a game to achieve a win, or turned a drawing game into a result (ok maybe Blackpool, but really they are shit)
We are not sharp enough in front of goal, fucking rags yesterday, two half chances (shrek not even half chance) and bang, two goals.
Wherever it comes from, we need a sackful of it pretty sharpish, or we're going to finish 5th.
Wolves a couple of weeks back ?
stop flapping
blueinsa said:Millwallawayveteran1988 said:What I find completely baffling is that Mancini is doing only slightly better points wise than when he was in charge last season despite spending over £150 million on his players.
Last season 21 games......points per game 1.80
This season 27 games......points per game 1.81
The number of goals per game as also reduced significantly and the goals conceded only improved slightly.
Surely we should be doing better than that after that outlay.
The demise in form of all the usual suspects has helped our league position this year without a doubt.
Nothing has changed for Bobby, top 4 or he will be gone and rightly so.
levets said:blueinsa said:The demise in form of all the usual suspects has helped our league position this year without a doubt.
Nothing has changed for Bobby, top 4 or he will be gone and rightly so.
Nothing has changed for Bobby, top 4 or he will be gone and rightly so.
Will not happen.. You will see