I still think we will win the league

[BlueAnorak]

The remainder of our season in a nutshell:

 

[waspish]

At this moment I still believe we will win it.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

The title will be won with the lowest points total ever , so many teams are capable of beating each other , i predict between 72 and 75pts will win it , which means we need 8 or 9 victories from the last eleven league matches , to be in with a shout , we win the next couple and stuff the Rags to put them back in their box , then we can still win the title , i expect a top four of City,Spuds,Leicester and West Ham .By the end of march we will be the favourites , keep the (blind) faith , lads and lasses , the treble is still on.

 

[BobKowalski]

Nah. Every time there is a chance to make ground we shit the bed and we have been shitting it in the league since Jan last year so I see no reason why it will suddenly change. Winning the cup makes it an OK season and we will probably nick a CL spot so do yourselves a favour and sack the league off and count the days until Pellers is binned.

 

[Goater=Legend]

It's too late. We'll probably beat Villa and Norwich and then most likely get beat by the rags and Chelsea.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

can anyone explain to me why this club tortures its supporters ? In '68 , i went to Newcastle to watch us concede 3 goals and win the title on the last day , QPR was a nightmare for 92 minutes in 2012 , and another last day win in 2014 , now we are playing catch up again ,and you can guarantee we will have a nail biter at Swansea , this club doesnt do "easy" .My life expectancy has decreased by at least ten years with this lot , but i would do it all again in a heartbeat , CTID.

 

[simon23]

we will not get anywhere near winning the league....

we are in a fight for 4th as we are playing that badly we cannot even rely on beating even the supposed easier teams at home.

MP has had a very poor season int he league....consistent poor tactical decisions revolving around trying to play the same way regardless of availability of players.

Injuries haven't helped but thats his job (to manage these situations) and he has failed big time for the second season running.......

The only reason that he is still in job is because we have already got a manger in place for the end of the season....if it hadn't been for that he would be gone and the noise from the terraces would for this to happen would be a lot louder and probably would have started earlier in the season.

Personally I've never settled with him...i just think he has never had the balance right in the team and he has single handedly turned the best defensive team int he country (who could still play decent attacking football) into an absolute shambles defensively

I notice someone said about Kuns body language not being good......Ive been saying this about Kompany for a while now.......its blinding obvious that he doesn't agree with what the manager is asking the team to do and i think the same can be said of silva.....people were talking about Kompany's positioning tonight but Ive been saying it since day one of MP reign...Kompany is being pulled into areas that he knows he doesn't want to be in but in a last ditch effort has to be to cover the woeful set up in front of him....a lot of the time we get away with it because as an individual Kompany is that good but you can tell he aint happy....you have to remember Kompany isn't your average footballer - he is very clever and he knows what he is seeing and having to play in is wrong.....(i also think Silva is the same)

Nice guy, poor tactician and an average manager

 

[nicko]

Ye of little faith.
We will beat Villa, Norwich, Utd, Bouremouth and West Brom
Lose to Chelsea, and win the rest.
10 wins from last 11 games.
Think about - this is Manchester City - just when all is lost and you have given up, that is when (and only when we react)

Impossible for us to do it any other way

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I think when we played those teams we where in the worst patch. There are undoubtedly some green shoots sprouting. We actually have balance as team. That Liverpool intensity and movement would have beaten any team in the league. Our intensity we shown in the first twenty of the game has been a level higher than we have scene all season. If we had yaya in for Silva today. Would have been a different match . like I said green shoots.

We are more than capable of beating those teams. We just a little luck. And to get 2 wins in a row.then its on.

You're having a fucking laugh. We've been the same for 12 months or more. Routinely outrun and outfought, and bar a 3-0 win against an abject Chelsea back in August, we haven't beaten a top level Premier League team in over a year. We've assembled a squad filled with small lightweight midfield players, none of whom can tackle and all of whom are easily muscled off the ball, and we've been saddled with a manager who seems to delight in consistently selecting exactly the wrong team for exactly the wrong opposition. Occasionally he'll stumble across a winning formula like he did in Seville, but he'll then try and make that same tactical set up work again the following week, against different opponents with different strengths and weaknesses, with entirely predictable consequences. I've lost count of the times he's had to make half time substitutions because he's fucked up royally with the initial team selections, be it Ya Ya in a two, or Spanish Dave plonked out on the left wing or Silva, Ya Ya and KDB all selected away from home so that the back 4 is completely overrun.

I was prepared to cut him a little slack tonight, what with Ya Ya being out, but that modicum of goodwill went West with the truly cretinous substitution of Fernandinho for Iheanacho. Yup, in the face of what was already a swarm, he removes the one bit of tenacity and mobility at our disposal, and plonks a one paced 19 year old striker (and for all his attributes as a poacher and a smart finisher that is what Kelechi is - he has no change of gear whatsoever) out on the left wing, whilst moving Silva, who much as I love him is at best defensively negligent, into the engine room, whereupon Liverpool promptly take advantage of the additional space and score a third.

Given the resources at our disposal this has been one of the most badly managed campaigns in living memory. I might have registered as marginally less irate had I not travelled 236 miles (complete with overnight stay) to watch that laughably disorganised shambles tonight, but alas I did.
And one more thing; whomever it was that scouted Raheem Sterling and thought him worth £44m, should be shot, killed and buried, and then dug up and shot again just to make sure. Green shoots my fucking arse.

 

[simon23]

You're having a fucking laugh. We've been the same for 12 months or more. Routinely outrun and outfought, and bar a 3-0 win against an abject Chelsea back in August, we haven't beaten a top level Premier League team in over a year. We've assembled a squad filled with small lightweight midfield players, none of whom can tackle and all of whom are easily muscled off the ball, and we've been saddled with a manager who seems to delight in consistently selecting exactly the wrong team for exactly the wrong opposition. Occasionally he'll stumble across a winning formula like he did in Seville, but he'll then try and make that same tactical set up work again the following week, against different opponents with different strengths and weaknesses, with entirely predictable consequences. I've lost count of the times he's had to make half time substitutions because he's fucked up royally with the initial team selections, be it Ya Ya in a two, or Spanish Dave plonked out on the left wing or Silva, Ya Ya and KDB all selected away from home so that the back 4 is completely overrun.

I was prepared to cut him a little slack tonight, what with Ya Ya being out, but that modicum of goodwill went West with the truly cretinous substitution of Fernandinho for Iheanacho. Yup, in the face of what was already a swarm, he removes the one bit of tenacity and mobility at our disposal, and plonks a one paced 19 year old striker (and for all his attributes as a poacher and a smart finisher that is what Kelechi is - he has no change of gear whatsoever) out on the left wing, whilst moving Silva, who much as I love him is at best defensively negligent, into the engine room, whereupon Liverpool promptly take advantage of the additional space and score a third.

Given the resources at our disposal this has been one of the most badly managed campaigns in living memory. I might have registered as marginally less irate had I not travelled 236 miles (complete with overnight stay) to watch that laughably disorganised shambles tonight, but alas I did.
And one more thing; whomever it was that scouted Raheem Sterling and thought him worth £44m, should be shot, killed and buried, and then dug up and shot again just to make sure. Green shoots my fucking arse.

fully agree except the sterling bit

The guy is clueless and his weaknesses have been obvious since day one and are still there. Im just surprised it took some opoopsiotn managers so long to cotton on how to play us