Time to Stop This

[GaudinoMotors]

Ok - I'm disgusted by this, and concerned about future interventions by board - but you are right - we have to move on and accept it - although I would prefer to be waiting for Hiddink's press conference - this is a gamble that could go either way very quickly - let's hope for once it goes our way.
Good Luck Roberto!

 

[missing person]

Bobby Mancs blue and white army!!!

Baz Luhrmann is a blue is a blue

goodnight

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Good post Damocles and i agree 100%, and we should judge Mancini after 6-7 Months, not one match. Btw do you have any idea when the interview is in Australian time?

What? You have fucking clocks in Australia? You banana binding jockstraparoos can tell the fucking time? What the hell has Captain Cook done?

 

[Damocles]

Good post Damocles and i agree 100%, and we should judge Mancini after 6-7 Months, not one match. Btw do you have any idea when the interview is in Australian time?

What? You have fucking clocks in Australia? You banana binding jockstraparoos can tell the fucking time? What the hell has Captain Cook done?

I know. I blame Cheesy.

 

[JohnMaddocksAxe]

Yes I did live through the swales times. at least then we had some dignity!!!!!

What planet are you on?

He wrecked our club, with a proper show of classless behaviour. Not sacking a manager classless, I mean fucking the club about just so you can be a member of the FA, classless. Oh, and buying players just because United wanted them classless.

Swales stripped the dignity from the club then, and we have never regained it since.

Agree with the thread.

This sort of statement, comparing the shambles of Swales to these events is astonishing.

I asked this question of people banging on about dignity and integrity yesterday and didn't receive an answer. I'll put it again and I'll be interested to see if there is an answer.

We have jut sacked a manager who has underperformed over his whole time here. It wasn't done in the best way but compared to some other sackings in football then it was not the worst either. It is, in a lot of respects, the nature of the business.

Now we have people willing to slaughter the club and the above claiming that it is worse than the events that went on under Swales.

I can only presume that the person saying that is either lying about being there or is a complete and utter drama queen that can't see beyond events that are fresh in their mind. One day that might have been handled better against years of shambolic, selfish and egotistical behaviour, with numerous people being 'screwed;.

But, this is the question that I want these paragons of virtue to now answer.

You are quite keen now to slaughter the club, call the best owners we have ever had all the names under the sun because you feel that they have offended your morals.

I'll leave aside the holes that can be picked in your whole moral argument and not compare the morals shown by various peope during their time here.

However, let's talk about something that you will all most definitely remember.

Let's talk about the previous owner.

Let's talk about how he connected the name of this club with issues that no football club should ever be associated with.
How he dragged this club's name into political and financial corruption affairs.
How he dragged this club's name into human rights abuse allegations.
How he used this club as a political tool for a movement on the other side of the world without any concern for whether the supporters had any support for that political movement or how it fitted in with the history of the club.
How he made all sorts of big promises and couldn't keep them.
How he took the club to the brink of extinction, all in the name of his vanity project.
How he sacked and undermined a manager over 6 months.
How he had that manager manage the team, with everyone knowing he was being sacked, for weeks and weeks, not just one game.

I could go on.

Now, that is bringing shame to the name of this club. The club's good name was associated with things that it should not be within 100 miles of. The day to day and footballing side of things descended into farce. The club was a properganda tool for a politican with a very, very dubious background.

So, I'd like to know, if the sacking of a manager in a much more dignified way than the previous manager was sacked has got you so outraged, so disgusted with the club and so wound up, how did all of the above affect you?

You must have been about to explode with rage, given that it was all a million times worse in terms of dignity, integrity and decency.

Was it a hunger stirke, did you write to MPs, did you slaughter those that really were damaging the name of the club in a much more vocal way than you are now trying to disparage the owners?

Cos all I remember is, in general, a wall of silence, with people willing to put up with all sorts of crap because they had Thaksin bullshit promises to fall back upon.

Seems to me that people pick and choose when they bring words like dignity and integrity on these issues depending on how much personal investment they have made in the manager.

The last few days events could happen every day for 100 days and it still wouldn't come anywhere near how Thaksin damaged the name and reputation of this club.

Integrity? Yeah, right. Only when it suits though, huh?

 

[padgey]

I think most City fans I know convinced themselves that if Hughes was to go then he would be replaced by either Hiddink or Mourinho and that influenced the decision on whether it seemed ok for them to support his dismissal. Now Its Mancini people are unsure, I know from having family in Italy he is very very highly regarded and the response over there is very favourable in terms of Mancini's appointment, so for me

Benvenuti Mancini buona fortuna

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Ok guys and girls,

We've had a constant 18 months of being at each other's throats about Mark Hughes, and his management of our club. Everybody on the forum wishes that it could have ended a different way, but it didn't, so let's try and move on. I'm sure I speak for most, when I say thanks to Mark Hughes for everything that he has done, and good luck for the future.

At 4.30 today, our new manager holds his first press conference. Up until then, we can argue until we're blue in the face (hehe) about the decision to sack Hughes, the decision to appoint Mancini, and the way it was handled.
Nobody has the right to be slagging Mancini off. Maybe you think he was handed the cups at Inter, maybe you don't, maybe you think he is good enough, maybe you don't (wear sunscreen though). All that matters is that he has never managed a game for City. Until he has, let's all reserve judgement on him.

City fans are currently ashamed of City fans due to some of the threads and posts on here. For whatever reasons they have, it is still a daft thing to do. We are literally all in this together. I slightly envy but also pity those who feel that they could just stop supporting City because of a decision that they disagreed with. I can't, and I know that most of you can't. Saturday is a ritual, and not one that can be broken by Peter Swales, Franny Lee/Alan Ball, Stuart Pearce, Kevin Keegan, Shinawatra, nor Mancini/Cook/Al-Mubarak.

We are all here as one, and with the bastards sniping at us from every possible angle, we should be looking at putting up a front of positivity and solidarity. Nobody is happy with the way that things went down with Hughes, but at 4.30 when Mancini opens his mouth, it's time to stop the barracking about Hughes, or the board, and get back to our bread and butter, which is supporting our football team through thick and thin.

We've been through worse times before, but never in City's history can I remember us not backing a new manager. Even Hughes and Ball got the backing of the fans. Mancini deserves our support. It's a clean slate for City, and yet another new era. Let's remember who we are and stop all of this shit we are slinging at each other, after 4.30.

Hypocritical!

We've had numerous posters not supporting the manager for 18 months, some from the day he arrived. Where were your grand words then?

If it's OK for them to do it then it's OK for others. I support the club not the manager and I have a long and public history of criticising them when I think they're in the wrong and this is one of those times. I absolutely assure you, my understanding is that this is a temporary appointment until the summer.

 

[Cheltblue]

Hypocritical!

We've had numerous posters not supporting the manager for 18 months, some from the day he arrived. Where were your grand words then?

If it's OK for them to do it then it's OK for others. I support the club not the manager and I have a long and public history of criticising them when I think they're in the wrong and this is one of those times. I absolutely assure you, my understanding is that this is a temporary appointment until the summer.

I believe Damocles was also one of those supporting the Hughes regime.

How is this being Hypocritical?

 

[Damocles]

Umm..they were on ManCityForum, as I hadn't bothered to register here yet.

Sorry.

I believe Damocles was also one of those supporting the Hughes regime.

How is this being Hypocritical?

That's correct. Above all though, I'm a City fan. I supported the Hughes regime, and I will support the Mancini regime with equal valour.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

We've had numerous posters not supporting the manager for 18 months, some from the day he arrived. Where were your grand words then?

If it's OK for them to do it then it's OK for others. I support the club not the manager and I have a long and public history of criticising them when I think they're in the wrong and this is one of those times. I absolutely assure you, my understanding is that this is a temporary appointment until the summer.[/quote]


Wouldn't mind knowing more about the bold bit?