Stoke away post match thread

Scouse Blue said:
What an odd season.

Really pissed off today, which is becoming too frequent. Another shocking result..... but still in with every chance.

Expected to go to Arse with a fair points gap to catch up on the 21st, but that is now looking unlikely.

Shite day, but still in there.
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1st why did he start with that donkey Bony. We were playing 3/4 of the game without a striker. Iheanacho should have been given a chance. Bony has had his chance & failed. 2nd are Silva & Ferandininho injured? if not why take them off. Yes neither was having a great game but who was & they both can change a game in an instance. More than can be said of Navas who came on & like normal did nothing. We can say its because of injuries. Yes that is a big part. But with all the money spent & available why have we not got strength in depth? We have meant to have a good academy going. So why not give one or two a chance. Surely they can't do any worse than some of the ones who played today Demichelis springs to mind. We have a manager & his assistants who show no passion for the club. When did MP jump out of his seat & scream orders? Something we are never likely to see. He won the Prem with Mancini's team & I will always believe that. We have not improved since then but taken a step backwards.
 
C-Hop25 said:
Miss you Bobby! A team built for success from the back! Best defence in league for 3 years straight! God how we need sum1 like him to teach us how to defend again!
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Wonder how different his last season would have been if he would have got the players he wanted: RVP and Hazard? Pellers on the other hand been given everyone he wanted at massive cost and we look completely fucking clueless
 
Another unacceptable performance - how many more do we have to endure ? Stoke well worthy of a much bigger margin of victory. Fernando, Dimichelis, Sterling and Bony all not worth a starting place on the evidence of recent weeks. Silva miles off the pace and KDB wasted wide right.
 
I am as annoyed as anyone at this performance and I am not making any excuses for it but what no one seems to be mentioning is the effect of Europe combined with our injuries. Our worst performances have come on the weekend before a CL match. Spurs 4-1 before Borussia away; an unconvincing Norwich home win before Sevilla away; Liverpool 4-1 (again!) before Juventus away and now this rubbish against Stoke before Borussia at home. In fact when you think about it the only good performances before an European game have been Bournemouth before Sevilla at home (wow Bournemouth!) and Palace before Juventus at home (early in the season, no injuries concerns).

I think Pellers thinks he can win the league playing at 80% but needs to be 100%, however both the 80% and the 100% are NOT good enough!
 
Back from work. Thanks God couldn't watch it. Just seen the goals. OMG. The defence including Joe is just looking ridiculous.
Difficult to understand what is going on in this team. Going to Stoke without passion. It really hurts.

But then again I love to see a bloodless pussies team get kicked in the arse. Shame to say this about MCFC. But that's what happened today.
 
Mancity1980 said:
I am as annoyed as anyone at this performance and I am not making any excuses for it but what no one seems to be mentioning is the effect of Europe combined with our injuries. Our worst performances have come on the weekend before a CL match. Spurs 4-1 before Borussia away; an unconvincing Norwich home win before Sevilla away; Liverpool 4-1 (again!) before Juventus away and now this rubbish against Stoke before Borussia at home. In fact when you think about it the only good performances before an European game have been Bournemouth before Sevilla at home (wow Bournemouth!) and Palace before Juventus at home (early in the season, no injuries concerns).

I think Pellers thinks he can win the league playing at 80% but needs to be 100%, however both the 80% and the 100% are NOT good enough!
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I think there is something in this. I made a similar comment last week. The CL campaign concludes this week, and I think that is a cause for hope. Sure the Xmas period is busy, but every PL team is on a level playing field there.
 
Mancity1980 said:
I am as annoyed as anyone at this performance and I am not making any excuses for it but what no one seems to be mentioning is the effect of Europe combined with our injuries. Our worst performances have come on the weekend before a CL match.
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"Resting" players for the "more important" CL games has been part of the problem, like not picking Delph to start today. Conversely, as Iheanacho can't play in the CL he could have started today, and inexperienced as he is, he at least looks like making things happen unlike Bony (who doesn't even look capable of running)
 
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As has been said above - another shambolic performance just before a European game. Doesn't MP realise that if we don't finish in the top four then there won't be any Champions League football. Two points out of twelve from our last four away games is totally unacceptable. I really feel for the travelling fans, they turn up in numbers, shout encouragement to their heroes and what do they get in return - absolute rubbish.

Today's result is all Yaya's fault, he didn't turn up for this game, invisible for the whole 95 minutes, and his teammates were wandering around looking for him. (Shit, just remembered he was injured that was why he wasn't there).

Being serious - we played that whole game with ten men, Bony is just not suited for our style of play - there is simply no movement from him for the "creative" players to put balls into space. Sterling took too many wrong options today trying to beat players rather than playing the ball into the box (Oh just a minute there was no one in the box to play to). The only defenders that seemed to try were Sagna and Otamendi the others were just not switched on defensively and Fernando was hopeless today, just when I thought he was coming good.

I honestly expected a half time reaction (as per Liverpool) but no, same starting 11 until the 60th minute.

I'm getting a bit pissed off at getting up in the early hours of the morning with great expectations only to have then shattered by players that don't perform. The only consolation I had today was that I was sitting in a nice warm house not suffering like those poor souls who were at the Britannia.

That's my two cents worth, its up to MP and the squad to turn it around YET AGAIN.
 
gerrygowsjockstrap said:
1st why did he start with that donkey Bony. We were playing 3/4 of the game without a striker. Iheanacho should have been given a chance. Bony has had his chance & failed. 2nd are Silva & Ferandininho injured? if not why take them off. Yes neither was having a great game but who was & they both can change a game in an instance. More than can be said of Navas who came on & like normal did nothing. We can say its because of injuries. Yes that is a big part. But with all the money spent & available why have we not got strength in depth? We have meant to have a good academy going. So why not give one or two a chance. Surely they can't do any worse than some of the ones who played today Demichelis springs to mind. We have a manager & his assistants who show no passion for the club. When did MP jump out of his seat & scream orders? Something we are never likely to see. He won the Prem with Mancini's team & I will always believe that. We have not improved since then but taken a step backwards.
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Yyaaaawwwwnnnnn
 
BL2blue said:
I disagree. There's plenty of quality out there for similar prices to those we paid for Yaya, Silva, Kun and in particular Kompany. Bony is so unsuited to our style it's unbelievable but we still threw away £25m on him at a not too dissimilar cost to the players mentioned.
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Agree on Bony . Who are all the other top players you were thinking about that were available and we should have bought for half the price ? Cant think of any myself !!
 
heslops barnet said:
Sorry but I had to turn off after 15 minutes...no spirit, leadership, desire need I go on?

Embarrassed I'm afraid
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I confess that I was tempted to go back to bed at about the same time - but then I thought, NO, there are City fans having to tolerate not only the hostile environment that is Stoke but also the taunts of the home fans - so I stayed to the bitter end but switched the computer off when the final whistle went.
 
this has got the end of bobbys era all over it, pellers knows hes goin, the players know hes goin and no one seems to give a fuck, its just like the cup final against wigan being played out every week
 
What the fuck is going on here? MP is either trying to get himself sacked or just doesn't give a fuck.
Zero passion , Zero desire, it always appears that they've just met in the car park before the match. The owner must be going crazy. This is totally unacceptable for a squad that costs this much.
One thing, Leicester are top and 3 points clear of us. If they don't sort this shambles out, we will be lucky to stay in the top 5 let alone challenge for the title.
 
We could easily have lost than 5-0 and had absolutely no complaints.
Completely disjointed, no heart, no desire.
Demichelis and Fernando should never play for us again.

4-1 tottenham, 4-1 liverpool and a (very flattering) 2-0 against stoke when they have played together.
 
Has anyone blamed the officials for the result?

I don't but I do think we had yet another display of refereeing inconsistency. Otamendi got a yellow but the Stoke players didn't for similar offences.
 
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