Mr Mancini. You are a liar.

[OJ Blue]

I don't agree with the negative tactics used, I understand Mancini usually chooses counter-attacking football against top teams but today I just don't see the counter-attack. Our game was like win the ball back, then slowly move the ball up again.

Yes, we got the draw, we didn't lose, but cmon, that is a weakened side of the Rags and we have home advantage, we COULD have beaten them, we COULD beat them, but we blew that opportunity.

weakened United side?! Really?

You telling me the granny shagging White Pele was sorely missed?

That was their strongest side.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

I don't agree with the negative tactics used, I understand Mancini usually chooses counter-attacking football against top teams but today I just don't see the counter-attack. Our game was like win the ball back, then slowly move the ball up again.

Yes, we got the draw, we didn't lose, but cmon, that is a weakened side of the Rags and we have home advantage, we COULD have beaten them, we COULD beat them, but we blew that opportunity.

weakened United side?! Really?

You telling me the granny shagging White Pele was sorely missed?

That was their strongest side.

Which is nothing like their strongest sides that we have been up against yet gone for the win.

 

[mcfcPakistan]

im happy with a point so is mancini, we're still in top 4 and 4 points clear

 

[stumpy_mcfc]

.....because you have repeatedly said the following:
"I am trying to change the mentality of this football club".

And he already has. We have conceded only 10 goals this season

Tonight I sat in the South Stand and before me I witnessed 11 players playing for Manchester City who were literally paralysed by fear and devoid of any freedom to express the undoubted talents they posess.
You have drained the life out of those players with cautious and stiffling tactics. Your mission AGAIN was to 'not lose'.
In your programme notes you stated the world was watching yet you made them watch a team that resembled the minnow, grimly holding out for the lucrative replay against the bigger team. I was embarassed, bored and frankly ashamed.

We had the best chance of the game. Possession was about equal and they only had 1 more shot on target than us!

So fellow City fans, was that what you all expected when in the summer we bought the magician Silva? The powerhouse Yaya? The dynamic Milner who ran Villas side on his own and scored many goals?

I expected another season of rebuilding. You can buy players but you need to build a team

Our own club has raised our levels of expectations to new heights yet we watch dross.

You have failed to manage your own expectations to realistic levels.

Mancini AGAIN bottled it. He played the media institution that is the scum. He played Charlton, Best, Cantona and all the other ingredients which make up that lot. He should have played Park, Fletcher, berbatov and co. Let's make no mistake, the Scum are NOT a good side anymore. Last season in the semi's they were not a good side. Yet City like most other teams have lost the game before the first minute. Oh, sorry, yes, we got a 0-0 draw. Well done Mr Mancini. Well done for sending out a side devoid of any attacking intentions. Tonight we were again little city, the small team in fear of the big bad opposition. It was pathetic.

You haven't noticed this media institution is unbeaten this season

Those who are satisfied with a draw have NO expectations and must be frozen in a time warp of zero expectation. I had no expectation for 25 years and was never promised any so i didn't moan. Now we are promised the world. We are told we are on the level of The Scum now, deserve to be favourites, yet we make substitutions in the 92nd minute to eat away time, and slope off with a point.

Or we're not spoilt new money brats who demand everything now!

Yes I'm annoyed. We have had average sides before which actually put 3, 4 or even 5 goals past The Scum, now we have the best team ever, they have one of their poorest and we scrape a 0-0 draw, the irony is stunning.

Nonsense. They are unbeaten, our team barely know each other.

I never wanted this guy. I certainly didn't want him retained this season. I bit my tongue, voiced my concern on here but always TRIED to understand something bigger, that Mancini MUST know something I couldn't see. Tonight he utterly ratified my original opinion from last season. He is too scared to take a chance.

So you admit you made your mind up last season before he had time to put his stamp on the team.

I waited a few hours, didn't want to react straight away, but tonight was such a bitter dissapointment.

You should have waited a few more. Or better still keep your tripe to yourself.

So all you lot who are jumping up and down cheering because we held the mighty Darren Fletcher and co to a 0-0 draw, congratulations. You must be happy. You are probably the same ones who were smiling as they left the ground after winning 2-1 in last seasons 1st leg, although the cluued up fans knew it was a wasted opportunity.
For me, the only team which threatened to score onight was the scum. Not us. The home side. They didn't create much of note but I always had a feeling they just might. Never had that with us.
Mr Mancini, another opportunity gone.
YOu said you wanted to change our mentality, well I believe you have. before we were just inconsistent City, scoring many, conceeding many, usually crap but never dull.
Now we are just dull, lifeless and sterile. You certianly changed it Mr Mancini.

Shame he can't change some of the idiot fans.

Well Gelson nothing else for me to add -WELL PUT, you have more energy than I have.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

weakened United side?! Really?

You telling me the granny shagging White Pele was sorely missed?

That was their strongest side.

Which is nothing like their strongest sides that we have been up against yet gone for the win.

Fair enough but arguably in the past we have had a lot less to lose from a defeat agianst united. It used to be all about local pride etc, now matches against them are genuine 6 pointers and whilst a win would have been lovely, I can at least understand why Mancini saw not getting beaten as very important. If we win on Saturday then it is 7 ponts from 3 matches, still clear in 4th (at the very least) and complaints against the manager will look a bit silly. Don't get me wrong, they were there for the taking and I was frustrated but I do feel there needs to be a sense of persective.

 

[cityboy1]

Last night's performance was utter dross and the OP is absolutely spot on. Can anybody on here tell me/us when we have played well this season, because I haven't seen it yet. With the players we have we shouldn't be afraid of anybody, but to cower down and play like we did - at home - against Un*ted was fukcing disgraceful.

arsenal,west brom, Chelsea,liverpool

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Which is nothing like their strongest sides that we have been up against yet gone for the win.

Fair enough but arguably in the past we have had a lot less to lose from a defeat agianst united. It used to be all about local pride etc, now matches against them are genuine 6 pointers and whilst a win would have been lovely, I can at least understand why Mancini saw not getting beaten as very important. If we win on Saturday then it is 7 ponts from 3 matches, still clear in 4th (at the very least) and complaints against the manager will look a bit silly. Don't get me wrong, they were there for the taking and I was frustrated but I do feel there needs to be a sense of persective.

I get all that. I do. But lets consider that that wasn't their strongest side of recent echelons, and it is our best. Thems are facts. That's why we should be going for it. I might be alone in this opinion, but if we have the players to win, why not go for the win? Surely players want to win games. I know I did at school, in Sunday league, in semi-pro, etc. That's why people compete. Not for a shake of the hand and a 'well done', but to say, 'hah you were schooled'.

I'm not complaining that RM is at the helm. I think he's got the right attributes to do us proud. What I don't like is buying all these players and then settling down for a midfield battle against teams (not just last night) that we should be beating (and I mean no disrespect to any team in the Prem by that).

I'll reiterate that I'm happy we didn't get beat by that shower, but I'm not overjoyed in the manner that we got the point.

 

[DD]

Fantastic post.

They were there for the taking but we didn't have the guts to take a chance.

I can forgive almost anything in football but I cannot forgive the manager for the utter dross he has subjected us to over the last eleven months.

This isn't football we are watching. We are not trying to win games. We are trying to attain points by strangling the life out of the opposition. The fact that we have scored just 15 goals and conceded 10 in 12 league games tells you everything you need to know about how we are going about our business.

All this bollocks about the team needing time to gel is just that. It's the same at every other club but they don't still trot it out three months into the season and 19 games in.

This is Mancini's football and it isn't going to change. At least when Stuart Pearce made us dull there was a reason for it. He had no money to spend and it was the only way he could keep us in the top flight. There are no excuses now.

The sense of anticipation of watching an enjoyable 90 minutes has gone, and whilst I will be unwavered in my support of the team whilst I am there, I am starting to see signs that many people around me are getting very restless and it's only one big balls-up against crap opposition before many are tipped over the edge. Frustration is rife. People just want to see some football. Is it too much to ask for?

DD = Drivel Squared & in this case Cubed

Thanks for that thoughtful insight. If it's drivel, why?

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

DD = Drivel Squared & in this case Cubed

Thanks for that thoughtful insight. If it's drivel, why?

Coz it wasn't in the Bible.

 

[LoveCity]

Mancini is our second best manager in history, behind Big Mal.

Eat it, go and support Spurs if you want constant attacking football, has been working great for them in the league lately (2 from 12).