Get behind Pep and City for the last 9 league games.

[Roachy]

I'm 100% behind Pep, for the record. The forum now has a reasonable sized amount of folks who want Pep to move aside or move aside in summer with no improvement. I get it, but in my opinion he needs support and he gets fuck all in the ground.

But, on another note, I hope this season gets a specific chapter in any memoirs/autobiography of Pep, because I would absolutely bloody love to know his view on it, when the dust settles. There have to be reasons, mitigating circumstances etc, that are contributing to a very pallid representation of City, and I would really like to know Pep's take.

Get's fuck all? One of the only managers in the league who gets his name sung on a regular basis.

 

[shemnel]

Get's fuck all? One of the only managers in the league who gets his name sung on a regular basis.

probably need to make my point clearer, he does get his name sung you're right, i meant the team arent getting much support, as in the atmosphere is cack at the moment. But yes he does.

 

[Marvin.]

We need to think about the Leicester game. Wed. 2nd April, 7.45pm.

We've been passively watching City unravel in the Champions League and in the Premier League but from this moment on let's turn up determined to play our part. There have been games in our history where the fans for some reason showed up and made a difference. It's a long time ago but I remember a game around Boxing Day when we played Stoke in Div 2, and I think we won 2-1 and it was a turning point in that season that ended up with City getting famously promoted.

We do matter and can make a difference. Next time we play at home, turn up prepared to play your part. I don't know how to urge us all on but if anyone has any ideas, please post them over the next fortnight. Wearing colours and City scarfs will be a start. But being vocal is more important.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Today was dispiriting. The crowd was as quiet as I can remember in a long time.

I watched Pep's press conference after the game. He looked really nervous. He sounded emotional and anxious. I feel we are near the end of an era but that it is not yet gone. It's now time for us to play our part and return the favour to Pep and the team for all the joy they have given us over the last few years.

The next home game is Leicester at home. How we feel about that will depend on the FA Cup game but let's stop feeling entitled to a Premier League title winning team, and behave as Manchester City supporters. Let's intervene in our season and make the Etihad a fortress for the last 2 months of this season. Our football club has been under attack for years. The fans have looked helplessly on but now I think it's time that we make our voices heard for Pep and for City.

We need to do something now because this season is in the balance and we have 50 thousand voices who are currently neutered. They needn't be.

City fans are strong and extremely vocal.

Any time I watch an away game, I can hear on video the exuberance of our away fans chanting and signing at top volume - often drowning out homeside support.

But in the Etihad... it's completely opposite. Our home stadium is huge and vocal support - if not uniform across the stadium doesn't carry well. Too - numerous home seats are sold to casual supporters of City or neutrals.

The result - our home crowd is actually less loud - at least when watching the game on TV - than our away fans.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I don't think our levels of performance and quality of players has been this low since Sheik Mansour took over. For all the money we have spent this must be a concern for the senior leadership. I am at a loss to understand why we are so inconsistent. All teams have injuries, all teams have young and new players. All teams have transitions. Only City have Pep and our leadership. I will support City till I die and accept no team can win the league every season but this season we have not performed.

Just a one-off season. Lots of factors have hit us at once. If we win the FA Cup and get top five it will be great. Pep is rebuilding and moving to new system with two up front. This takes time. Pressure off the field with the 115 case, Pep’s marriage breakup, several players off the rails like Walker, Grealish. Others with personal health issues like Foden. Just a shitstorm of a season. Next year we go again.

 

[B\connellblue]

Play exciting progressive football and the atmosphere will look after itself.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

We need to think about the Leicester game. Wed. 2nd April, 7.45pm.

We've been passively watching City unravel in the Champions League and in the Premier League but from this moment on let's turn up determined to play our part. There have been games in our history where the fans for some reason showed up and made a difference. It's a long time ago but I remember a game around Boxing Day when we played Stoke in Div 2, and I think we won 2-1 and it was a turning point in that season that ended up with City getting famously promoted.

We do matter and can make a difference. Next time we play at home, turn up prepared to play your part. I don't know how to urge us all on but if anyone has any ideas, please post them over the next fortnight. Wearing colours and City scarfs will be a start. But being vocal is more important.

I'll get laughed at for this but there was a character in the Beano or Dandy or some comic when I was a kid...the character was called leather lungs and he was the one who always got the crowd going at games....that's what City need...one hundred leather lung types willing to sing their hearts out when the going gets tough which will help the rest. That's what Pep.wants when he is trying to gee up the crowd. It's a 2 way thing. Make it a cauldren of noise & the players will respond.

 

[JGL07]

Just watched the highlights of the Brighton game. It doesn't tell the full story granted but from the comments post match it sounded like we were terrible. Well I thought we were not too bad.
OK defensively City are at 6s & 7s, but if Nico's header against the post goes in we win the game. Yes Brighton had chances too but a bit of perspective required.
We are missing the world's best player from 2024. Going forwards their are lots of positives. Gvardiol broke away more than once and found good space. Marmoush looked very sharp & got a great goal. Haaland penalty very good. Kdb excellent ball into the box.
Plus Nico had an excellent shot v Forest that hit the post. If he scores both his recent chances we are 3 points better off. Fine margins make a difference in the Premier league.
I say wait till we are back at full strength before making judgements. If I believed everything I read in the post match thread we would be getting rid of half the squad that won 4 titles in a row and the world's best manager!!!!
We used to do other clubs huge favours by making knee jerk reactions. I say wait and use pragmatism.

Agreed 100%.

I couldn't make the match but listened to the commentary and watched the (near) full replay on Sky as well as the Match of the Day highlights. I avoided the match day thread as per usual as I gave it up years back because appeared to be occupied entirely by suicide watch pessimists and undercover rags. The match day thread crowd now appear to have migrated to the post match thread. I could not recognise the match I had watched from the hysterical comments.

The abuse that Rico Lewis gets on here is ridiculous. He has made 89 appearances for City and is 20 years old and has 5 England caps and suddenly he is Conference League material.

 

[urban genie]

Fans respond to imteresting football, raw aggression and determination.

passing football of sideways, sideways, back, sideways, up to the winger stand on the ball and pass back to the keeper, ignoring tge striker waiting on a through ball, keeper pass sideways, tgen sideways, back and repeat for 10 mins isn't inspiring anyone.

The problem isn't the possesion game, we have always played it, it's the lack of end profit and return to laboured sideways football, Mamoush mde at least 5 openings on sat that were ignored for a back pass, Haaland has made countless ones over the season, the lack of drive from some players to give and go and to instead play safe and pass back has frustrated many.

Entertain and you will be cheered amd engaged with, bore people and they will zone out and chat amongst themselves, that is the simple crux of it, rightly or wrongly.

 

[oldius]

Fans respond to imteresting football, raw aggression and determination.

passing football of sideways, sideways, back, sideways, up to the winger stand on the ball and pass back to the keeper, ignoring tge striker waiting on a through ball, keeper pass sideways, tgen sideways, back and repeat for 10 mins isn't inspiring anyone.

The problem isn't the possesion game, we have always played it, it's the lack of end profit and return to laboured sideways football, Mamoush mde at least 5 openings on sat that were ignored for a back pass, Haaland has made countless ones over the season, the lack of drive from some players to give and go and to instead play safe and pass back has frustrated many.

Entertain and you will be cheered amd engaged with, bore people and they will zone out and chat amongst themselves, that is the simple crux of it, rightly or wrongly.

I think you have a point BUT we ignore the contribution of teams who endlessly sit eleven behind the ball, deep, and hope for one counter-attack to win the game. Partly as a result of our success, the league has become tactically led, and many teams are ultra-defensive. I don't think your second paragraph is reflective of that, but we do need to find another way to play that does not allow teams to get set into this ultra-rigidity.