Hard To Be Here

kaz7 said:
These days i am trying to get back into city and this forum, not doing that well on either. I tried the match thread as it was moving quite slow to start with, then the wums and those being abusive about the players flooded in, it is the same posters that i used to take on but i dont have the energy or the interest anymore

When it is the same posters time after time and they stand out to me but not enough it seems to the people with the power

I can no longer read from where i left off the day before so i just read the last couple of pages so i am not seeing them as often as before but they are there still

If they are genuine blues then i would really say take a break, it will do you good, the red shirts should get a life and support their own team, the dates they joined i notice, a lot these last few weeks but some who have been here since covid, they ruin the place as i did by reacting to them

I dont see an an answer to it really
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kaz7 said:
These days i am trying to get back into city and this forum, not doing that well on either. I tried the match thread as it was moving quite slow to start with, then the wums and those being abusive about the players flooded in, it is the same posters that i used to take on but i dont have the energy or the interest anymore

When it is the same posters time after time and they stand out to me but not enough it seems to the people with the power

I can no longer read from where i left off the day before so i just read the last couple of pages so i am not seeing them as often as before but they are there still

If they are genuine blues then i would really say take a break, it will do you good, the red shirts should get a life and support their own team, the dates they joined i notice, a lot these last few weeks but some who have been here since covid, they ruin the place as i did by reacting to them

I dont see an an answer to it really
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“the red shirts should get a life and support their own team, the dates they joined i notice”.
Get a life you say?
 
Dodge said:
When football was a working class game, where you could walk up to the Kippax and get in for loose change, it was an outlet for the frustrations of every day life. F and Jeff, crowd-float up and down the Kippax, proper verbals with the away lot, a bit of gratuitous violence, get clipped round the head by a copper. Stewards didn't swarm over you, CCTV didn't monitor your every move, it was rougher, tougher and you felt part of putting a collective 2 fingers up at the rest of society. Away games were weekend adventures, hitch hiking round the country, jibbing trains, jumping turnstiles and wearing the pin as a badge of honour. Every moan, groan and frustration was left at the stadium, then on the bus for a few sherberts, chippy and home. Maybe read the Pink.

The gentrification of our game has put us where we are now. Middle class, cash on hip day trippers have replaced the working class. Frustrations aren't left at the ground, you show any kind of emotion you're glared at, told to sit down or reported to a steward. A steward who will then closely monitor the "situation" whilst his mates scour CCTV looking for an excuse to mark your card. Block, row and seat number duly noted and bookmarked for observation or maybe a knock on the door from GMP at teatime.

So, whilst our collective venting was sated at the stadium, the only place to do it nowadays is on forums such as this.

Such is modern day football supporting life. Give me the Kippax days all day fucking long.
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Perfectly put.
Won't be long till I'm completely out .
The liberal twats can keep it
 
Dodge said:
When football was a working class game, where you could walk up to the Kippax and get in for loose change, it was an outlet for the frustrations of every day life. F and Jeff, crowd-float up and down the Kippax, proper verbals with the away lot, a bit of gratuitous violence, get clipped round the head by a copper. Stewards didn't swarm over you, CCTV didn't monitor your every move, it was rougher, tougher and you felt part of putting a collective 2 fingers up at the rest of society. Away games were weekend adventures, hitch hiking round the country, jibbing trains, jumping turnstiles and wearing the pin as a badge of honour. Every moan, groan and frustration was left at the stadium, then on the bus for a few sherberts, chippy and home. Maybe read the Pink.

The gentrification of our game has put us where we are now. Middle class, cash on hip day trippers have replaced the working class. Frustrations aren't left at the ground, you show any kind of emotion you're glared at, told to sit down or reported to a steward. A steward who will then closely monitor the "situation" whilst his mates scour CCTV looking for an excuse to mark your card. Block, row and seat number duly noted and bookmarked for observation or maybe a knock on the door from GMP at teatime.

So, whilst our collective venting was sated at the stadium, the only place to do it nowadays is on forums such as this.

Such is modern day football supporting life. Give me the Kippax days all day fucking long.
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Oh Dodge... That's absolutely perfect... I think I may have fallen in love with you.

(The brotherly type of love obviously)
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Here's the thing, though. I've put a few people on Ignore (as I would suppose a few have done with me). Not many. They were posters with a long track record of posting stuff that got right up my nose. (Not stuff I disagree with. It's good to have people to disagree with, and that can mean strong disagreement, incidentally). They've stayed on ignore. Some, incidentally, don't post any more, I notice. I guess they were just trolls, passing through. But in a few cases, I put someone on ignore, and then went back on it (it's a very good thing that there's that function, by the way), because I realised that there are just moments when they go pretty wild, but plenty of posts that are in fact worth reading when they're in their saner moments.
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Lots of it is down to frustration, particularly with the true City fans and not with the wind up merchants that aren’t City fans that are on here. I’m sure there’s a few, it’s trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.
 
This has become an increasingly depressing place, particularly after a defeat (no shit, eh?). I hate to break it to the newer, no patience, overly critical mob, but it was never going to be non stop sunshine and roses following City. It was never going to be wall to wall Centurions or treble seasons. There was always going to be low spots. I've said it many, many times on here; I don't mind constructive criticism. It's actually to be welcomed. Blowing smoke up players' arses when they've been poor is silly. But a lot of what's posted isn't constructive, it's just mindless abuse. Calling x, y or z a "fucking wanker" or "utterly shit" serves no purpose and doesn't add anything to a conversation.
 
jimharri said:
This has become an increasingly depressing place, particularly after a defeat (no shit, eh?). I hate to break it to the newer, no patience, overly critical mob, but it was never going to be non stop sunshine and roses following City. It was never going to be wall to wall Centurions or treble seasons. There was always going to be low spots. I've said it many, many times on here; I don't mind constructive criticism. It's actually to be welcomed. Blowing smoke up players' arses when they've been poor is silly. But a lot of what's posted isn't constructive, it's just mindless abuse. Calling x, or z a "fucking wanker" or "utterly shit" serves no purpose and doesn't add anything to a conversation.
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Newsflash, City fans are a bunch of moaning bastards, I can say it because I am one. I guarantee that in every City pub after the match, there were groups of City fans moaning about the performance, complaining about the tactics, slagging off the players and generally being negative. Doesn't bother me, we lost and played badly, if we win next week we'll be title contenders again, c'est la vie.
 
Honestly wouldn’t mind if we dropped out of the Top 10 at this point. Every time I go to the Etihad it feels less like Football and more like a trip to Disneyland. Atmosphere is flatter than a pint of Carling left out overnight, and half the crowd are too busy perfecting their TikToks to notice there’s a game on. You’ve got grown adults holding up their phones for 90 minutes like they’re filming Planet Earth Live. Haaland could be scoring his 5th and nobody even reacts until they’ve checked if it got good angles for Instagram. It's absolutely bizarre.

Bring on Oldham Athletic (a) on Tuesday night. Cold wind battering your face, floodlights flickering like they’re on life support, ball lost in someone’s garden after a hoof into Row Z, surrounded by Supporters who love the club as much as I do.
 
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Berti No Show said:
Wouldn't mind if we dropped out of the Top 10 personally. Going to the Etihad now feels like we are off to Disneyland. Atmosphere is absolutely shocking and the amount of people in the crowd filming the game is embarassing.

Can't wait for Oldham Athletic (a) on Tuesday.
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Wait for it, wait for it :)

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So we all have to have erections when using the forum? ENOUGH WITH THE RULES!!! I’ll be hard whenever I want, or whenever I’ve got my pills.
 
Dodge said:
When football was a working class game, where you could walk up to the Kippax and get in for loose change, it was an outlet for the frustrations of every day life. F and Jeff, crowd-float up and down the Kippax, proper verbals with the away lot, a bit of gratuitous violence, get clipped round the head by a copper. Stewards didn't swarm over you, CCTV didn't monitor your every move, it was rougher, tougher and you felt part of putting a collective 2 fingers up at the rest of society. Away games were weekend adventures, hitch hiking round the country, jibbing trains, jumping turnstiles and wearing the pin as a badge of honour. Every moan, groan and frustration was left at the stadium, then on the bus for a few sherberts, chippy and home. Maybe read the Pink.

The gentrification of our game has put us where we are now. Middle class, cash on hip day trippers have replaced the working class. Frustrations aren't left at the ground, you show any kind of emotion you're glared at, told to sit down or reported to a steward. A steward who will then closely monitor the "situation" whilst his mates scour CCTV looking for an excuse to mark your card. Block, row and seat number duly noted and bookmarked for observation or maybe a knock on the door from GMP at teatime.

So, whilst our collective venting was sated at the stadium, the only place to do it nowadays is on forums such as this.

Such is modern day football supporting life. Give me the Kippax days all day fucking long.
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Glad I found this, Dodge. Saved me hours trying to come up with something similar. Bravo, Sir.
My usual (and I expect many others) Saturday match day experience was thus: Wake up- hungover, crawl to the pub, hair of the dog, scran (remember when they did home cooked bacon butties in pubs?), more beer, off to the ground by any means possible ("It's your turn in the boot." Lol). Mayhem or drudgery, depending on who we were playing, More beer at half time, back to the pub, Pink final , home, sleep, back out for 8 o'clock. Town. Oblivion. Sunday paper match report. Hangover. Work on Monday. Evening News match report. Counting down the days until Friday. No mobile phones, no Internet. Thing is... it was better.
 
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Tico Warrior said:
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.
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I'm struggling to find 1 positive from yesterday's performance
 
I just love Manchester City and all it entails. It has expanded my ‘family’, made me lots of new friends over the many years I have supported them.
I read some of the threads on here mainly, ignore the ones that go over the top, and take it all with a pinch of salt.
I don’t agree with Shankly(?) because there is life outside football.
In my opinion we have to keep a sense of perspective, hence some of my daft posts to (try and) make people smile or laugh.
We are mostly City fans. We don’t always agree with what the club are doing but I personally feel that they are doing it for our sake. They are not in the business of alienating, good, loyal fans. They must think they are helping us surely? Ok they don’t always help in the way some of us feel is right but they are trying

Oh crikey (or probably a swear word there) here’s a silly female happy clapper I can probably hear you saying but I have faith. I have faith because we are MANCHESTER CITY THE BEST TEAM IN THE LAND AND ALL THE WORLD.

We’ve been through worse than this, we’ve been loyal when we’ve gone down the divisions. We have had to have a siege mentality as we’ve been lambasted, insulted and lied about by the media, fans of other clubs, officials of other clubs.
Don’t let them break us now. BlueMoon is our forum (sorry @Ric boss man I know it’s yours really which you loan out to us) so don’t change it.
KEEP THE FAITH. THE FAITH IN CITY.

Sorry, if the Mods don’t like/approve of this post please remove it and I apologise for giving you extra work. (Especially @jimharri) ;-)
 
burning blue soul said:
If you don't like players being castigated I strongly suggest you stay in off-topic section.... oh, and don't go to the pub, the game, or family do's
There's just some things in the unwritten fan's charter that will never change, and slagging off the manager and players is one of them.
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Sorry mate, but that’s not what I said & im perfectly within my rights to challenge anyone spouting lies
 
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