sir baconface
Well-Known Member
Equally stupid reactions from some of the more vocal happy clappers too. Calling people rags is a sure sign of an impoverished argument, as is following any manager uncritically. A few points if I may:
- The thread is NOT infested with red cartel fans. If any of you genuinely think it is, let’s have a few names. I’ll settle for 5. If you can’t or won’t, then you’ve fcuk all entitlement to be calling others.
- Read the more critical posts and the vast majority say Pep has enough credit in the bank to be given a chance BUT is not currently showing any inclination of how to solve it. Therefore they are worried. How the fcuk is that either irrational or treasonable?
- (A minority of posts have gone OTT. Neither Pep nor any players deserve abuse. Even then I put it down to frustration and annoyance rather than reds in the bed.)
- Since when has past performance been a surefire guide to future success? I doubt you’ll find a single poster (even among the alleged red cartel fans) who doesn’t rate Pep as one of the greatest and most innovative football managers ever…. but under very different conditions than now. When has he ever before lost 9/12 matches and presided over an injury hit, dispirited looking, ageing and fatigued squad?
- How many of the above problems lie at Pep’s door, either directly or in part?
- History shows that every empire has its day. This may well be the end of our dominance because the players who took us there are mostly at or near the end of their City careers. It doesn’t signal the end as a top club though. Many of us are realistic enough to settle for that, whether under Pep or someone else, but we won’t just sit and wait. People will still shout and moan if they can’t see remedial measures being taken.
- And, because the club will continue, there will always be a tension between expediency and long termism (if there’s such a word) on player development policy. Both sides have their points and it doesn’t mean the opposing viewpoint is crap.
- The thread is NOT infested with red cartel fans. If any of you genuinely think it is, let’s have a few names. I’ll settle for 5. If you can’t or won’t, then you’ve fcuk all entitlement to be calling others.
- Read the more critical posts and the vast majority say Pep has enough credit in the bank to be given a chance BUT is not currently showing any inclination of how to solve it. Therefore they are worried. How the fcuk is that either irrational or treasonable?
- (A minority of posts have gone OTT. Neither Pep nor any players deserve abuse. Even then I put it down to frustration and annoyance rather than reds in the bed.)
- Since when has past performance been a surefire guide to future success? I doubt you’ll find a single poster (even among the alleged red cartel fans) who doesn’t rate Pep as one of the greatest and most innovative football managers ever…. but under very different conditions than now. When has he ever before lost 9/12 matches and presided over an injury hit, dispirited looking, ageing and fatigued squad?
- How many of the above problems lie at Pep’s door, either directly or in part?
- History shows that every empire has its day. This may well be the end of our dominance because the players who took us there are mostly at or near the end of their City careers. It doesn’t signal the end as a top club though. Many of us are realistic enough to settle for that, whether under Pep or someone else, but we won’t just sit and wait. People will still shout and moan if they can’t see remedial measures being taken.
- And, because the club will continue, there will always be a tension between expediency and long termism (if there’s such a word) on player development policy. Both sides have their points and it doesn’t mean the opposing viewpoint is crap.