The Agenda (Merged)

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Re: so this agenda thing.

Ha ha laughable look at his body language arms folded etc total agenda with a real axe to grind when are we going to get past all this media hatred!!

I'm not sure if you can call that an agenda exactly, he's just decided before hand that he'll be controversial but comes away looking a pratt.
The nonsensical claim that everybody we play can put 3 or 4 goals past us if only they were more ruthless is laughable. Surely that should apply to everyone including us?

Well we've played nearly every team in the league, and even when well off colour, They Haven't.
Think some journos just need to look at the GD column in the tables. We've only let in 1 more than
the all conquering Chelsea defence.

 

[Len Rum]

Re: so this agenda thing.

I am sure most claiming an agenda are doing it very much tongue in cheek, but I do fear one or two fans are genuinely paranoid enough to believe there is a master plan probably involving aliens out there planning to get City!

There is no agenda , there is just some average journalists out there who realise theyske more money (which is their job) playing to their readership which is made up of a lot of armchair rags, mickeys and gooners. These armchair clowns are desperate for us to fail so when we give a chance or when's situation allows journalists to write a story their readers want to read they do it. They are not paid for brilliant incite full pieces or neutrality they are paid to give what their readers want.

I have always found the victim mentality to be a Scouse mentality and I have always found the there is an agenda mentality to be distictly Raggish - ie they would win everything always if there wasn't an agenda against them.

Personally I wish this would be the last post in this thread as the agenda thread makes me cringe and just makes us look stupid , small time, over sensitive and paranoid!

Thats, word-for-word, what I think of all this.

That's strange because what's being described represents an agenda against us, and yet both of you are saying there is no agenda!
P.S. An agenda does not have to be a 'master plan' against us

 

[kev20971]

Re: so this agenda thing.

I like the new bullshit that is getting started my the media ie City getting all the decisions, especially at Eastlands ! Funny the lineman get's call wrong and it's "disgraceful" yet that piss poor Ref Lee Mason shows a straight red for a good tackle and it's only a bad dicision ! Also the snide dig off Neil Warnock on motd about City getting all the dicisions "because this is the Etihad" Maybe he didn't see the derby !

 

[Len Rum]

Re: so this agenda thing.

There seem to be a lot of posts seeking to prove/state that there is no agenda - when there seems to be - at least through my blue-tinted paranoid specs - almost daily occurrences of flagrant bias.

But for me the 'issue' is with the word 'agenda'. Agenda infers coordinated/managed/targeted - in the way that FFPR was introduced - where in fact for me there is just so much institutionalised bias in rag loving media organisations.

Also individuals in the media have a deep rooted love of the old guard and therefore a dislike of us which borders on hatred - they cannot report/write objectively. We see it all the time on Sunday supplement - remember the one that looks like a vampire in drag for who the word City was like a bath in holy water......

So is there an orchestrated agenda? - maybe not. Are there widespread and daily examples of bias ranging from mild to extreme? (IMO) certainly - so much so that it feels like an agenda sometimes.

"Agenda 'infers' coordinated/managed/targeted" - no it doesn't. It could involve these elements but it doesn't have to.
Collusion,collaboration or conspiracy( in the case of illegal or harmful intent) would be the correct expressions to describe what you're getting at . An agenda does not have to involve any of these.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Re: so this agenda thing.

I am sure most claiming an agenda are doing it very much tongue in cheek, but I do fear one or two fans are genuinely paranoid enough to believe there is a master plan probably involving aliens out there planning to get City!

There is no agenda , there is just some average journalists out there who realise theyske more money (which is their job) playing to their readership which is made up of a lot of armchair rags, mickeys and gooners. These armchair clowns are desperate for us to fail so when we give a chance or when's situation allows journalists to write a story their readers want to read they do it. They are not paid for brilliant incite full pieces or neutrality they are paid to give what their readers want.

I have always found the victim mentality to be a Scouse mentality and I have always found the there is an agenda mentality to be distictly Raggish - ie they would win everything always if there wasn't an agenda against them.

Personally I wish this would be the last post in this thread as the agenda thread makes me cringe and just makes us look stupid , small time, over sensitive and paranoid!

Thats, word-for-word, what I think of all this.

That's strange because what's being described represents an agenda against us, and yet both of you are saying there is no agenda!
P.S. An agenda does not have to be a 'master plan' against us

Agree with this. The whole thread is a bit embarrassing. What do you want them to do, get their cocks out every time we are up for discussion.

 

[Len Rum]

Re: so this agenda thing.

Thats, word-for-word, what I think of all this.

That's strange because what's being described represents an agenda against us, and yet both of you are saying there is no agenda!
P.S. An agenda does not have to be a 'master plan' against us

Agree with this. The whole thread is a bit embarrassing. What do you want them to do, get their cocks out every time we are up for discussion.

Nope, nothing to do with dicks out, just a level playing field in the way we are reported on by the media.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Re: so this agenda thing.

That's strange because what's being described represents an agenda against us, and yet both of you are saying there is no agenda!
P.S. An agenda does not have to be a 'master plan' against us

Agree with this. The whole thread is a bit embarrassing. What do you want them to do, get their cocks out every time we are up for discussion.

Nope, nothing to do with dicks out, just a level playing field in the way we are reported on by the media.

I think we got used to a lot of media support when we were the plucky little underdog and the team that always did it the hard way. That's gone now as we are setting the standard and people will try to knock us. The rags had it for years, lets deal with it better than they did!

 

[barryo]

Re: so this agenda thing.

"Borini sprints down the tunnel to give his teammates every opportunity to equalise "
Motd 2 commentator.

I have no words ......!!!!!

Imagine that was a city player !!!

 

[Len Rum]

Re: so this agenda thing.

Agree with this. The whole thread is a bit embarrassing. What do you want them to do, get their cocks out every time we are up for discussion.

Nope, nothing to do with dicks out, just a level playing field in the way we are reported on by the media.

I think we got used to a lot of media support when we were the plucky little underdog and the team that always did it the hard way. That's gone now as we are setting the standard and people will try to knock us. The rags had it for years, lets deal with it better than they did!

We don't get knocked because of us 'setting the standard' ( not sure what you mean by that), we get knocked because of the money thing,who are owners are, that we don't have many British players/managers and that we upset the established order in which the interests of the media were very much tied up.
The Rags did not have a negative media campaign against them other than a suggestion that they got the odd 'dodgy' penalty awarded or such like.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Re: so this agenda thing.

Agree with this. The whole thread is a bit embarrassing. What do you want them to do, get their cocks out every time we are up for discussion.

Nope, nothing to do with dicks out, just a level playing field in the way we are reported on by the media.

I think we got used to a lot of media support when we were the plucky little underdog and the team that always did it the hard way. That's gone now as we are setting the standard and people will try to knock us. The rags had it for years, lets deal with it better than they did!

"the rags had it for years" like bollocks they did. they had their cocks suck for twenty odd years to my knowledge