You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Official City v Fulham Thread
- Thread starter Grand Master Ram Rod
- Start date
we have a good starting 11, but as soon as ANYONE gets injured we are in serious trouble..
in addition, the players simply just didnt look hungry today. I cannot understand it. And as soon as they got their first one that was it.
..i`m not even going to mention Dunne...
How many times have individual errors cost us this season; there was 2 in this match alone!
Are they all tired or something??
in addition, the players simply just didnt look hungry today. I cannot understand it. And as soon as they got their first one that was it.
..i`m not even going to mention Dunne...
How many times have individual errors cost us this season; there was 2 in this match alone!
Are they all tired or something??
WickyWain
Well-Known Member
Are you having a laugh? We had 1 chance and scored from it and they should've been at least 2-0 up after 10 minutes, oh but we were winning we must've been playing good.Breaker said:Uwe Rosler's Grandad said:I watched the first half after which I couldn't be bothered turning on for the second half. I think Hughes is defo a dead man walking and only a big performance this Thursday can save him (which I can't see happening right now). Hughes clearly cannot motivate his troops...I can tolerate a loss if the team have given their all, showed some passion, run themselves into the ground and never stopped trying but we very seldom seem to get that from Hughes' team.
I thought we played well in the first half? One-nil up at that point.
Tattooedcityfan
Well-Known Member
surely De Jong can't have been tired he's not been playing twice a week.boj and petrov are obviously 0% match fit,etuhu never looked like skinning anybody,richards and dunne are having a mare every match,garrido is crap,zab had an poor game,Ned was ok,given was helpless,if fulham had been on their game could have been 5 or 6!
OrigamiNinja
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 10 Oct 2008
- Messages
- 11,456
GJF said:we have a good starting 11, but as soon as ANYONE gets injured we are in serious trouble..
in addition, the players simply just didnt look hungry today. I cannot understand it. And as soon as they got their first one that was it.
..i`m not even going to mention Dunne...
How many times have individual errors cost us this season; there was 2 in this match alone!
Are they all tired or something??
Dunne is a fucking clown, he tried to put on Johnsons shirt at one point in the 2nd half, surely he must know that it wouldnt fit him? Andy Gray said 'What is Dunne thinking there'? The problem is he doesnt think because he does not have a brain. Ive never been a fan of Dunne but I am now at the point where I am starting to hate him, Vass was always public enemy number 1 but now he doesnt play Dunne is challenging for this title, luckily for Dunne, Richards is just about pipping him to it at the moment!
As for his captaincy have we ever had a worse captain than him? Fucking shocking, he has the leadership quality of a teabag!
baggy
Well-Known Member
GoForGlory said:To be fair I think the new tactic of having Ireland score the first goal and then end up losing 1-3 has worked flawlessly all week. :)
haha.
Tattooedcityfan said:surely De Jong can't have been tired he's not been playing twice a week.boj and petrov are obviously 0% match fit,etuhu never looked like skinning anybody,richards and dunne are having a mare every match,garrido is crap,zab had an poor game,Ned was ok,given was helpless,if fulham had been on their game could have been 5 or 6!
true..but ive not seen us play with that little drive since we lost away in the FA cup a couple of seasons ago with Pearce. Why dont we run at teams??? balls to it...we are all going over the same thing..
I am not in favour of sacking anyone, but I actually do think that if Hughes doesnt finish any higher than last season he`ll get sacked. Today was terrible. I mean..i applaud putting on more attacking players but you need players to setup up strikers! we were behind and we put on more strikers (good), but kept our defensive midfielders (bad). I can understand it in europe but not in the league....
oh well..at least no work tomorrow.
somervillain
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 25 Feb 2008
- Messages
- 474
I waited an hour to cool down after the match before coming on here, but I can feel my blood pressure spiking just thinking about that one. Two games into The Biggest Week of the Season (To This Point), it's been an absolute disaster, with this season's and next season's UEFA Cup/Europa League hopes now hanging by the thinnest of threads.
Today's result was definitely the worst of the league campaign -- at home against one of the worst road clubs in the Prem. Maybe on par with the Forest result for worst of the season.
I've defended the idea of sticking with Hughes, but when you lost at home 3-1 to a club that had scored six away goals all season in the Premier League, it doesn't matter which players you were without. That's just a shocking result.
Coincidentally, it was a thrown-away lead at home against the very same woeful away side in last year's fixture that made me okay with the manager getting sacked. After watching that catastrophe today, I'm now officially with Hughes getting the sack at the end of the season. He simply hasn't met the minimum expectations this season to justify giving him a second season.
If someone with an actual track record of winning with high-priced talent is available this summer, I'm now 100 percent okay with a decision to switch managers.
Today's result was definitely the worst of the league campaign -- at home against one of the worst road clubs in the Prem. Maybe on par with the Forest result for worst of the season.
I've defended the idea of sticking with Hughes, but when you lost at home 3-1 to a club that had scored six away goals all season in the Premier League, it doesn't matter which players you were without. That's just a shocking result.
Coincidentally, it was a thrown-away lead at home against the very same woeful away side in last year's fixture that made me okay with the manager getting sacked. After watching that catastrophe today, I'm now officially with Hughes getting the sack at the end of the season. He simply hasn't met the minimum expectations this season to justify giving him a second season.
If someone with an actual track record of winning with high-priced talent is available this summer, I'm now 100 percent okay with a decision to switch managers.
I'm just back. And I'm fuming. One of the worst performances since Pearce. No heart, no effort, no defence, no attack. Ireland's goal was good. But he didn't do much else. Most of the side was poor, but Richards especially. Good to see Petrov back, but he obviously isn't 100% yet. Shouldn't have started.
blue 1992
Well-Known Member
I've just got back, absolutley appauling. The players should be ashamed of themselves, they just didn't look ar*ed today. I doubt it's tiredness, just lazyness and tbh, on todays perfonce as an example we should just limit it down to goal limitation.
mcfcJosh111
Well-Known Member
its that time in the season again where we just lose every and we just have to look forward to august when we get organised.
Todays performance was crap, we have been crap all season under hughes. Now I know that its his first season and he has a lot of crap players still in the side, I think the worst thing City ever did was sack Sven. Sure the football we played at times was not that attractive but we were getting results. It was only when talk of Sven leaving at the end of the season came that the results started to decline. You really have to ask yourself under sven where would be in the league now with the players we have. I think 4th or 5th.
The new owners want to buy all of these big name players and want city to be the biggest club in the world, the only way to achieve that is to make a big name "manager" signing that is highly regarded on a world scale and that international players have huge respect for. There are not many of these managers and Sven was one of them, unfortunately for us we fuckin sacked him.
You think Kaka would of said no if someone like hiddink or mourinho was in charge? I think not.
My other gripe about this season why we are not getting results is simple, poor tactics from hughes. I mean the formation he sets out EVERY game is to have about 7 players behind the ball at ALL times, leaving 3 to break (Swp, Robinho, Bellamy) unfortunately the distribution from the defensive players is shite and there is too many of them, resulting in the 3 attacking players having to come deep for the ball then having to sprint the full length of the pitch to try and create something! no wonder they are knackered after 35 minutes.
We need to scrap this defensive formation now if hughes wants to get anything from the season. The formation is Ok don't get me wrong until we concede, once we concede you have little attacking options as the 3 lone attackers have to start tracking back leaving NOBODY up front. When this season have we conceded or gone behind and hughes has actually changed the formation for an attacking one???? the answer is never, its an old cliche I know but the best form of defense really is attack.
I am fed up of watching 7 defensive players play it side to side back to front then back again.
Boring boring display, no wonder we got hammered....again.
The new owners want to buy all of these big name players and want city to be the biggest club in the world, the only way to achieve that is to make a big name "manager" signing that is highly regarded on a world scale and that international players have huge respect for. There are not many of these managers and Sven was one of them, unfortunately for us we fuckin sacked him.
You think Kaka would of said no if someone like hiddink or mourinho was in charge? I think not.
My other gripe about this season why we are not getting results is simple, poor tactics from hughes. I mean the formation he sets out EVERY game is to have about 7 players behind the ball at ALL times, leaving 3 to break (Swp, Robinho, Bellamy) unfortunately the distribution from the defensive players is shite and there is too many of them, resulting in the 3 attacking players having to come deep for the ball then having to sprint the full length of the pitch to try and create something! no wonder they are knackered after 35 minutes.
We need to scrap this defensive formation now if hughes wants to get anything from the season. The formation is Ok don't get me wrong until we concede, once we concede you have little attacking options as the 3 lone attackers have to start tracking back leaving NOBODY up front. When this season have we conceded or gone behind and hughes has actually changed the formation for an attacking one???? the answer is never, its an old cliche I know but the best form of defense really is attack.
I am fed up of watching 7 defensive players play it side to side back to front then back again.
Boring boring display, no wonder we got hammered....again.
B
B
BLUEMATT23
Guest
Another big NAIL in the Mark Hughes coffin.
Tick Tock Tick Tock..............................
Tick Tock Tick Tock..............................
adamkeyworth
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 11 May 2008
- Messages
- 423
Without this sounding so strange, I think that maybe that utterly SHITE display may in fact give us the kick up the arse we need for thursday's game.
I do believe though that anything other than us qualifying for the semi's will see the end of Hughes.
I do believe though that anything other than us qualifying for the semi's will see the end of Hughes.
Not only am i questioning the fitness of whether hughes has what it takes to run our club but also also his signings, who seem to be blameless however poorly they play. De Jong had an absolute shocker, the goal he gave away just capped his performance and this is not just on today's performance and i'm afraid jol has done us up like a kipper there. He's supposed to protect the back four , break up play and then set us going forward....or that's as i understand the supposed definition of the holding player ...he doesn't do any of it...the occasional good tackle, granted, and then yes he's very accurate with his 15 yard side footed passes...he seems incapable of using any other part of his foot, nor does he drive forward and set us going forward.......in the past i would have been fine with him...seems committed but we've set the bar higher now....so a major signing in a key position should be the dogs bollocks, and that's why i think kompany and zabaletta don't cut it either, much as i like them both...kompany's neither top class as a centre half nor as a midfielder...there his touch and passing just isn't good enough...in that role we should be looking at a viera in his prime...and the two just don't compare...zabs was bought as a right back and as much as i love his committment and passion, he's not top class there either, not good enough dedensively..so again, if we want to challenge the top 4, we're going to have to buy again for that position. now if for hughes these are signings just for us to be going on with, a step in the ladder if you like, then i'd be far happier if he could actually motivate his team, play players in their right position and rest players at the right moment..today for instance, okay stevie gets the goal, but he was knackered..should at least have been replaced by elano for the second half...and his handling of kompany's injury and well being has been nothing short of shocking..i've been in favour of hughes, i hate to see us get rid of another manager so soon, but i'm afraid if we want to get where we can now afford to be, then he has to go in the summer, on the proviso that we get someone in who's actually won a few trophies.
2bluegp
Well-Known Member
you lot still reckon zabs is better than coluka? today was a pile!
Zubrman
Well-Known Member
Even my banana feels let down!