Hard To Be Here

[Haaland94]

Did this need a thread? Do you only want to read things you like/agree with? Not sure that’s how forums work?

I would also add that we have set the standard now. We respect the club and rate our management so highly that we know what we're capable of, so it's frustrating when we are not doing everything we can to get back to that level.

If you don't care, don't respect, or don't rate someone or something, then you don't bother. It's when you care and value someone or something, that's when people criticise, question. The reality is that probably not even Pep knows what the solution is to our problems, so I bet he would welcome any ideas, and probably likes to debate himself.

You can learn something from everyone because not one person is perfect, and everyone brings different perspectives. It would be boring and counterproductive if we all posted Pep knows best, so let's trust the process and only support our players. We're all doing that in real life outside of this forum already.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

A.Knott from Droylesden would disagree.

He delighted in wumming and wound many a blue up ever since he started writing his misery in Pink Final. I used to give him stick on the MEN comments section and i met Ted in his Droylsden local several years ago. Several blues accused him of being a rag, he's definitely not. I asked him why he was a wum and he grinned before saying he enjoys winding people up. I wasn't surprised tbh because he went out of his way to wind people up. I found him a decent fella face to face over a few beers.

 

[Lowtower]

Pearce? Fuckin hell - how about being a kid that's new to football and all his mates are rags that never go, you get a season ticket and Franny Lee decides to have a meltdown and appoint Ball and in your first season of watching football you watch your club get relegated. Then in your second you watch your club get relegated again haha. Those were the days! Pearce was a walk in the park compared

Its nearly 20 years since Pearce mate

Just using that as the yard stick

 

[Blue tiger]

Pearce? Fuckin hell - how about being a kid that's new to football and all his mates are rags that never go, you get a season ticket and Franny Lee decides to have a meltdown and appoint Ball and in your first season of watching football you watch your club get relegated. Then in your second you watch your club get relegated again haha. Those were the days! Pearce was a walk in the park compared

Yea I started supporting City in the mid 90s too at the age of 9. They truly were dark days. I come from a family of reds on my dad's side and Bolton on my mother's (chose City as my big sister picked United and I wanted wind her and my dad up!). Both regularly finished above us between the mid 90s to mid 00s. Pearce Era was particularly dreadful though that 06/07 season was downright painful. Today was dreadful but most of us on here have seen a lot worse in our time.

 

[madloaf]

As a regular contributor to the forum, and a fan since 1968, I am looking at the forum tonight, and for large parts of last season, and wondering how I can avoid becoming so utterly irritated by mindless comments. Apparently Rico is the least athletic player in the entire league, Cherki will have the flair taken from him, and Pep will ruin Omar Marmoush, just as three examples. Every single one of us feels a defeat, but does it really need to come with comments so devoid of sense or sporting insight because we didn't take away the points and have lost our heads?

Why are football fans constantly surprised when other football fans are mad that their team plays bad? I find that a bigger mystery.

 

[Dodge]

It's not just a City thing, it's all successful clubs who attract the shiny new trophy fanboys and internet dickheads.

Living and working in Leicester, even after their solitary league win, it happened to them. The match going lads at work showed me very similar stuff as their form dropped off and they descended into oblivion. They don't get it now as the idiots have simply moved on.

Just need to engage our FOC thick skins and ignore the tossers.

 

[Marvin.]

As a regular contributor to the forum, and a fan since 1968, I am looking at the forum tonight, and for large parts of last season, and wondering how I can avoid becoming so utterly irritated by mindless comments. Apparently Rico is the least athletic player in the entire league, Cherki will have the flair taken from him, and Pep will ruin Omar Marmoush, just as three examples. Every single one of us feels a defeat, but does it really need to come with comments so devoid of sense or sporting insight because we didn't take away the points and have lost our heads?

This was not just a defeat, it was a maddening defeat. I had spent most of my Summer hoping that Pep's City was going to be reincarnated. Now I realise it's not, and its hard to take. I thought that maybe last season was a temporary aberration due to injury but it was more final than that. City are now an ordinary side.

 

[Tico Warrior]

It's always been busier in terms of the post match thread after a defeat for as long as I can remember. People are more negative, that's why people are more likely to leave negative reviews for poor service than positive reviews for good service. And a lot of the people use it as a way of venting and say stuff in the heat of the moment that they don't fully mean.

You also don't have to engage or agree with what is being posted if you don't agree. You could start threads about positives you can take from the game if you want the forum to be more positive.

 

[tweety]

It's sport, it's unpredictable, a lot of people have yet to grasp the concept. I missed the game today as I was playing golf, I was shite, but last week I was great, that's how it works.

 

[thegoatsthegoat]

Can pick holes in most of today’s performance and last seasons from a footballing perspective. Happy clappers just don’t want to hear it

 

[jrb]

Blue Moon could be worse, it could be Red Cafe, or even worse, God forbid, it could be RAWK.

There’s enough sensible posters on Blue Moon to pacify the the angry loons after the 1st home defeat of the season.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

A.Knott from Droylesden would disagree.

I bet Leslie Holt and Ken Smallwood would have different views.

 

[youngbob]

Pearce? Fuckin hell - how about being a kid that's new to football and all his mates are rags that never go, you get a season ticket and Franny Lee decides to have a meltdown and appoint Ball and in your first season of watching football you watch your club get relegated. Then in your second you watch your club get relegated again haha. Those were the days! Pearce was a walk in the park compared

The football under Pearce was dire and he had no idea how to get goals that weren't set-pieces but at the very least he knew how to organise a defence. The club was on the brink of administration during the 06-07 season and our squad was comprised of teenagers, 35-year-olds, and Dunne and Distin. But somehow he kept us up with a few games to spare. Absolutely dire to watch, but those wins at Newcastle and Boro were proper backs to the wall jobs.

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Can pick holes in most of today’s performance and last seasons from a footballing perspective. Happy clappers just don’t want to hear it

Bingo

 

[Blue and still suffering]

The whole point of social media is instant reaction, so it results in an over the top response both positive and negative. That then creates the hits. As the old saying goes why let the truth get in the way of a good story.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Have you thrown your granny slipper at the telly yet, EB? ; )

*lol* I was too busy at the match shouting at the players and the referee!! With an extra shout for that thug Richarlison. He should have got two yellow cards at least. (not that he could get more of course.)
I had a great time apart from the result. It was lovely to catch up with everyone again and get lots of hugs.

 

[burning blue soul]

Can somebody please tell me difference between fans slagging off a bad performance and fans slagging off fans for slagging off a bad performance?

I find the vitriol that fans have for other fans infinitely more annoying than fans have for players.

Having a pop at other forum members for their knee-jerking, or ignorance, or youth is, in my opinion, a disgrace.
That is the right of forum members to voice their opinions (however wrong or right), and others have the right to engage respectfully or walk on by.

Football is emotive, and different people express it in different ways. I suspect the vast majority of posters on this forum moaning about other posters moaning about certain players are doing so to unburden themselves of their own frustrations. Which I find I am deeply uncomfortable with (and so should they be).

That the 'mob mentality' mob think this is an OK way to behave to others is THE saddest indictment of modern society. Before slating other people on here, who, I might add; visit free of charge to the club, unlike the players, a certain minimum level of respect is due out of common decency... also, if this confuses any of you, then a quick flick through the COC will educate you.

Peace out. BBS

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

I’m not happy at all with the hubris leaking into our fanbase(Rico shouldn’t be slagged and is fine/Kovacic is good enough etc) but I agree, the influx of posters on here recently has the place in the toilet.

There’s a nastiness and I don’t think most of these are real fans whatsoever.

Price of success I guess.

 

[Coatigan]

As a regular contributor to the forum, and a fan since 1968, I am looking at the forum tonight, and for large parts of last season, and wondering how I can avoid becoming so utterly irritated by mindless comments. Apparently Rico is the least athletic player in the entire league, Cherki will have the flair taken from him, and Pep will ruin Omar Marmoush, just as three examples. Every single one of us feels a defeat, but does it really need to come with comments so devoid of sense or sporting insight because we didn't take away the points and have lost our heads?

Yeah sometimes it feels a bit like.. 'where were you when we were good?'

 

[mexico1970]

Can somebody please tell me difference between fans slagging off a bad performance and fans slagging off fans for slagging off a bad performance?

I find the vitriol that fans have for other fans infinitely more annoying than fans have for players.

Having a pop at other forum members for their knee-jerking, or ignorance, or youth is, in my opinion, a disgrace.
That is the right of forum members to voice their opinions (however wrong or right), and others have the right to engage respectfully or walk on by.

Football is emotive, and different people express it in different ways. I suspect the vast majority of posters on this forum moaning about other posters moaning about certain players are doing so to unburden themselves of their own frustrations. Which I find I am deeply uncomfortable with (and so should they be).

That the 'mob mentality' mob think this is an OK way to behave to others is THE saddest indictment of modern society. Before slating other people on here, who, I might add; visit free of charge to the club, unlike the players, a certain minimum level of respect is due out of common decency... also, if this confuses any of you, then a quick flick through the COC will educate you.

Peace out. BBS

One member : "So and so had a bad game today".

Other member "Why do you hate so and so?".