Ireland speaks out [Merged]

[We are City....]

Good luck to Ireland, he is a quality player that will do fine at Villa.

Sadly there is no sentiment in success and hard decisions like this need to be made if we are to move forward.

 

[westy]

Its all about personal opinion but i genuinely do think Nedum is a better player than Kolo. I hope he has a good season at Sunderland plays a lot of games, shows his ability and forces his way back like Hart.

 

[lloydie]

You have never defended this club on this forum, in fact you have defended the rags more than us, so it's difficult to take any of what you say as anything other than a lie when you suddenly become a defender of Stevie's little outburst .....here's a little taster of your opinions when Stevie was doing well for the club,,,,








I can't be bothered dredging any of your other similarly worthless opinions but as far as a shameless volte face the last ones a humdinger for hypocrisy, please stop the charade before it gets even more embarrassing and we have to go looking for your defence of Keane, Giggs, Hunt, Scholes et al .
You are not a City fan by any stretch of the imagination and though you may net a few newbies on here but it's really not worth your, or our, time.

I have no time for Ireland whatsoever. But ye all did, I got a load of gried having a go at him, for what turns out he actually now is in yere eyes. But I'm curious that ye are so quickly dismissing what a player ye called superman 1 month ago, to just a selfish greedy fucker.

I actually think if you go back and look at when I said those comments (kinda ridiculous that you've nothing better to do with your life..it being a Friday night and all) I was called a RAG for saying so. And ask why all of a sudden ye have all changed ye're minds and wont listen to an opinion of a player ye valued so loyal and commited less than a month ago, just because he's spoken out.
I get called a RAG for catching on to a character of a player long before anyone on here does, and I get called a RAG AGAIN for asking why the sudden change of heart.
I am not defending him in the slightest, I just don't like seeing players, any players, no matter what little opinion I have of them, being treated badly, liked shoved into the reserves, and it being overlooked because we pay such a wage.

But seeing as I don't blab out the same old recycled City phrases again and again and again I'm not a fan. I wont ingore things that I think are wrong even if it puts City in a bad light, like wise I wont insult players endlessly because they don't play for this club.
I will and have defended this club, but I wont close my eyes and pretend things aren't happening like so many of ye do. I think there was something wrong with the way Ireland was treated, and no matter what low of an opinion I have of him, doesn't mean I'll ignore it.

And you wonder why this club has such a small appeal because it will not accept anyone who has a slightly different opinion, ie not praising it like a crazy dicatorship, they're RAGS. Somewhere in the desperation of the fight and the overwhelming impact of the money, this club has become that. Why there are so many Arsenal, Chelsea, United Liverpool fans around the world is because there is a wide appeal, with City, it's oh so very hard down the line exclusive and you can only have one opinion, any other will drive a world of abuse on you if you say differently on here. Whether that's a reflection of City fans in general I don't know, seems to be a large majority.

The club will not bring in more fans this way, and maybe that is what ye want. But this attitude is not attractive, because there will be many, many fans from all over who will not have the same clap your hands and smile and nod attitude of some of you "hardcore" fans.

Read the thread again, City fans are attacking him for washing dirty linen in public, once again you distort for your own agenda, i.e to have a pop at the club which many others do over many different issues and to suggest we don't tolerate a different opinion on here is just stupid, it's a barney a minute on here which suggests your purpose is less than genuine as does your constant defence of other clubs.
I suspect you have no idea of City fans in general because you've never met any, you clearly don't like us or our club so perhaps you should succumb to the appeal of Arsenal, Chelsea, United Liverpool you so clearly admire.
Yes it's the same friday night here as it is there (oh the ironing in your comment) and I do enjoy a good rag hunt, particularly when the quarry is some duplicitous boor who just wont let it go.
And finally can you tell me what a good bloke Roy Keane is just one more time please?

 

[lastmanback]

I love it when people post things to try and save face, what a certain billy boy says is "yeah but you dont know the real story, emotions run deep" blah blah when really he is thinking is oh shit i have defended my special friend ireland for so long and now he comes out with this crap and makes me look stupid because i have misjudged him myself. quality

and as for ireland himself he has resorted to type he was hardly going to be honest and admit that he wasnt good enough often enough, if you cant blame everyone else who is left?

he would have been better saying nothing apart from he wants to concentrate on his new career with villa, admitting your not good enough is difficult for most people, just a shame he has now tarnished his time at city and will regret that in the future

"resorted to type". Ireland plays football. A footballer. you work at your job, if you have one.
can your boss say tomorrow don't need you, got someone better and i don't think your up to it.
So your dumped,
I'm sure you would just walk away and say, such is life, these things happen,
bye bye, thanks for everything.
remember footballers all around the world are not members of mensa,
do not require masters degrees, they are ordinary people with feelings and
when rejected lash out,
maradona, messi, etc not gifted in the brain department.
they are footballers,
you sit on your arse, like myself typing this shit without ever getting close to
the standards of stevie ireland and spout this shite,
think for a moment would
you just walk away say nothing. ?????????????????
look at the krap your writing and your just a supporter who is not affected by this,
because in your mind, the club is bigger so fuck stevie ireland.
We can buy anyone we like, richest club in the world.
Was super mario given an I.Q test before signing.

 

[calculated]

The blame lies with Mancini, he couldn't get the best out of a talented player, he must be held responsible. A half decent manager will have Ireland firing again at Villa. He also found no use for Bellamy, a player we will miss A LOT. I have lost all confidence in this clown, he's not a top manager, he wanted to manage Sunderland at one point ffs. We'll be looking for a replacement in a matter of weeks and when we finally do get a world class manager, we'll wonder what he could have done with Ireland and Bellamy.

 

[Joga Bonito]

The blame lies with Mancini, he couldn't get the best out of a talented player, he must be held responsible. A half decent manager will have Ireland firing again at Villa. He also found no use for Bellamy, a player we will miss A LOT. I have lost all confidence in this clown, he's not a top manager, he wanted to manage Sunderland at one point ffs. We'll be looking for a replacement in a matter of weeks and when we finally do get a world class manager, we'll wonder what he could have done with Ireland and Bellamy.

rag

You sound exactly like talkshite and that other bloke stating we're doomed without Bellamy

 

[hilts]

our new owners have invested heavily in our club and want us to be up there with chelsea and the rags, to do this we cant have players who performed the season before last, we need players who will put in performances most weeks, you have to ask yourself if you would prefer city to finally win something or not, do you think if drogba had a decent season in 2008 only he would still be at chelsea?

if nedum,dunne and ireland were that good why are they now playing for teams that finished below city?

Trying to be up there with the top teams, and trying to turn us into Chelsea are two very different things. We could fight tooth and nail to get up their and still be City, not sell every part of us that makes us City. City isn't 11 superstar egos playing individually. And that wont win us anything. Getting rid of hard working squad players is a mistake, players that could be developed, given time, into top team players. Something which the United's and Chelsea's of the world do.
We don't need to sell our soul and turn our ground from a fortress of noise and atmosphere and intimidation into Stamford Bridge with packed seats but silent crowds and little designer flags to go with their prawn sandwiches.

I guess it was naive of me to think we could be succesfull while still being us, staying the same, without turning into one of them. Strange place to be though. The group we used to fit into the mid table clubs no longer see us as one of them, but as ruining football..etc. while the top clubs ahead of us certainly don't see us as being one of them, but as wannabes and bitter. And our mind set is stuck somewhere in between.

lets be realistic here for a start coms is not a fortress of noise or atmosphere, modern players as a whole see playing football as a career, what makes any club is its fans not the players owners or managers, if city become successful some of our personality will be lost

anyone supporter who gets upset about a player leaving for emotional reasons is niave becuase they wouldnt get upset about leaving you

 

[Hooch]

The blame lies with Mancini, he couldn't get the best out of a talented player, he must be held responsible. A half decent manager will have Ireland firing again at Villa. He also found no use for Bellamy, a player we will miss A LOT. I have lost all confidence in this clown, he's not a top manager, he wanted to manage Sunderland at one point ffs. We'll be looking for a replacement in a matter of weeks and when we finally do get a world class manager, we'll wonder what he could have done with Ireland and Bellamy.

Bellamy has only been worshipped as much he has because of his performance in the OT derby, however other than that he had an average season: even under Hughes in many games.

Same goes for Ireland, however in Ireland's case he had a good season, however, the beginning of last season under Hughes Ireland didn't repeat his form from the previous season.

We really do have to move on from this.

 

[westy]

i wanted to upload my beer version of stevie in his villa shirt. I'd done an excellent photoshop version with a slight amendment to their sponsor. I had found a reason why hes gone to Villa....my expert photoshopping read "Trade follicles like a pro". Ave that baldy ;-) Shame my uploading skills are lacking!!Good luck superman

 

[zeven]

The blame lies with Mancini, he couldn't get the best out of a talented player, he must be held responsible. A half decent manager will have Ireland firing again at Villa. He also found no use for Bellamy, a player we will miss A LOT. I have lost all confidence in this clown, he's not a top manager, he wanted to manage Sunderland at one point ffs. We'll be looking for a replacement in a matter of weeks and when we finally do get a world class manager, we'll wonder what he could have done with Ireland and Bellamy.

you really are a nasty fucking rag. GET the fuck out, you dont care a shit about the club, why dont you support Villa you TWAT.