To Mr Roberto Mancini.

[remoh]

Sorry for the delay in my replying, but I thought you had gone to bed so I went to mine. Here we go;

You must have noticed how, for many games this season, our defence and midfield kept possession by passing sideways or up and back and back again.
Keeping possession is vital, but to do it as we did meant that our eventual approach to the opposition 18yd box was faced with virtually the whole of their team lined up and waiting. That's when we ran out of ideas as well as space.

Yaya Toure, apart from the occasional rampage forward, has been on basically defensive duties - making a seven man defence, often at home against poor opposition, until Tevez' injury forced a re-jig to try to form a link between defence and midfield. As you know, this worked very well and was the beginning of our late spurt.

Now, we no longer see such long delays getting the ball upfield ( Hart is also using the big boot, which I have never liked, but at least it is better than the slow approach) our forwards must think that it's their birthday. Perhaps this might even persuade Tevez to stay now that he will get a better service!

To sum up:

Allowing Yaya up front(almost) and abandoning the slow build-up, have been the major changes in the last few, vital games. These changes in Mancini's tactics saved our season.
Without a terrific squad, we could not have got away with it. Most of my thanks go to them and Sheikh Mansour.

Roberto has done some learning. When he learns the value of a good pair of wingers, playing on their correct sides, we'll be away.

That's a great post and bang on the money. Ya Ya's adapting to his role has been the big sea change this season. That and a few other factors...Richards's form at right back, Lescott at centre half and the availablity of a full strength squad.

That was a shit self obsessed know it all post, but really knows fuck all post. he hee

Have you been on the pop already, Rastus? Shame on you.
Perhaps that's why you think that your opinion is the opinion of everyone. They say that Hitler was a bit like that.

 

[samharris]

To all those that hijacked this thread with their own agendas ..grow the fuck up ..this is a thankyou thread ffs..

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Priceless....

Dont worry i wont send you blub pm.. I leave that to you. :)

 

[rastus]

Sorry for the delay in my replying, but I thought you had gone to bed so I went to mine. Here we go;

You must have noticed how, for many games this season, our defence and midfield kept possession by passing sideways or up and back and back again.
Keeping possession is vital, but to do it as we did meant that our eventual approach to the opposition 18yd box was faced with virtually the whole of their team lined up and waiting. That's when we ran out of ideas as well as space.

Yaya Toure, apart from the occasional rampage forward, has been on basically defensive duties - making a seven man defence, often at home against poor opposition, until Tevez' injury forced a re-jig to try to form a link between defence and midfield. As you know, this worked very well and was the beginning of our late spurt.

Now, we no longer see such long delays getting the ball upfield ( Hart is also using the big boot, which I have never liked, but at least it is better than the slow approach) our forwards must think that it's their birthday. Perhaps this might even persuade Tevez to stay now that he will get a better service!

To sum up:

Allowing Yaya up front(almost) and abandoning the slow build-up, have been the major changes in the last few, vital games. These changes in Mancini's tactics saved our season.
Without a terrific squad, we could not have got away with it. Most of my thanks go to them and Sheikh Mansour.

Roberto has done some learning. When he learns the value of a good pair of wingers, playing on their correct sides, we'll be away.

-- Mon May 23, 2011 3:00 pm --



When you say hijackers, I take it you mean those who took a thank-you thread and turned it into an attack on those of us who have a different opinion about Mancini. Agreed.

you my friend are a legend in your own lunchtime, nobody really cares about you trying to be a Football Manager and how your high standards havent quite been met.

This thread was I believe just to say thanks to the Manager...

Go back to the beginning and re-read the thread, Rastus, and you'll see which Blues first turned it into something else. I don't remember these characters joining the fray when the big debate was going on. They crawled out of the woodwork when the final results came in.

OK, but in fairness there will always be relief that those who didnt believe in mancini have been proved incorrect. And in that relief there will be fingers pointing to those who made our lives miserable, on Bluemoon at least.
They took a gamble in their stance that Mancini was not the man to take us forward and voicing such negativity that I havent seen here before.

So yep those calling for his head now deserve a mention, it takes a good man to say he was wrong and when he does the shit is forgotten and we move forward...together

 

[samharris]

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Priceless....

This... from a guy that has calling Mancini as 'clueless' as Rafa???

Come on, where's that Ashton Kutcher dude with the wind ups??

Plus we'd never win anything in his lifetime with Mancini in charge and Mancini is a fake and charlatan.

Silly is what the silly are..;)

 

[rastus]

That's a great post and bang on the money. Ya Ya's adapting to his role has been the big sea change this season. That and a few other factors...Richards's form at right back, Lescott at centre half and the availablity of a full strength squad.

That was a shit self obsessed know it all post, but really knows fuck all post. he hee

Have you been on the pop already, Rastus? Shame on you.
Perhaps that's why you think that your opinion is the opinion of everyone. They say that Hitler was a bit like that.

lol.. ha ha, no not on the pop, bacardi and coke Im still celebrating.

Damm I thought you werea bit like hitler? isnt that strange

 

[Didsbury Dave]

OK, but in fairness there will always be relief that those who didnt believe in mancini have been proved incorrect. And in that relief there will be fingers pointing to those who made our lives miserable, on Bluemoon at least.
They took a gamble in their stance that Mancini was not the man to take us forward and voicing such negativity that I havent seen here before.

So yep those calling for his head now deserve a mention, it takes a good man to say he was wrong and when he does the shit is forgotten and we move forward...together

Football finished forever yesterday, did it?

City have finished the season superbly, and we have to be delighted with our progress. But that progress must continue for Mancini to be worthy of the God-like status a few have already bestowed upon him. All we've done is reached the point that The Skeikh believed we should be at 12 months ago.

I didn't think Mancini could preside over a City team which suddenly looked as motivated and united as the one we've seen for the last 5 weeks. I was wrong about that and I'm delighted to thank him. But I'm far from convinced he's the man to lead us in the long term. If he stays, that is...

But he's proved me wrong once, who's to say he won't prove me wrong again. I really really hope so because the alst 5 weeks have been the best 5 weeks in my 35 years of following the Blues.

 

[remoh]

you my friend are a legend in your own lunchtime, nobody really cares about you trying to be a Football Manager and how your high standards havent quite been met.

This thread was I believe just to say thanks to the Manager...

Go back to the beginning and re-read the thread, Rastus, and you'll see which Blues first turned it into something else. I don't remember these characters joining the fray when the big debate was going on. They crawled out of the woodwork when the final results came in.

OK, but in fairness there will always be relief that those who didnt believe in mancini have been proved incorrect. And in that relief there will be fingers pointing to those who made our lives miserable, on Bluemoon at least.
They took a gamble in their stance that Mancini was not the man to take us forward and voicing such negativity that I havent seen here before.

So yep those calling for his head now deserve a mention, it takes a good man to say he was wrong and when he does the shit is forgotten and we move forward...together

Well, I've defended my point of view now several times on here. If Mancini had continued his tactics, we would have had nothing a the end of the season. He was big enough to adapt and for that I'm truly grateful.
At the time when I, and many others, complained about his management, we were right, so you wont be seeing many apologies on here.

 

[samharris]

Oooooo! sarky!!

Yes. Sarcasm. Well done you for spotting it.

;) ;)

(and totally wrong)

Okay, well I would stand by everything I said there.

I guess you have your own examples of what's changed, but as you haven't detailed any of of them, that's all I can do, guess!

Sorry for the delay in my replying, but I thought you had gone to bed so I went to mine. Here we go;

You must have noticed how, for many games this season, our defence and midfield kept possession by passing sideways or up and back and back again.
Keeping possession is vital, but to do it as we did meant that our eventual approach to the opposition 18yd box was faced with virtually the whole of their team lined up and waiting. That's when we ran out of ideas as well as space.

Yaya Toure, apart from the occasional rampage forward, has been on basically defensive duties - making a seven man defence, often at home against poor opposition, until Tevez' injury forced a re-jig to try to form a link between defence and midfield. As you know, this worked very well and was the beginning of our late spurt.

Now, we no longer see such long delays getting the ball upfield ( Hart is also using the big boot, which I have never liked, but at least it is better than the slow approach) our forwards must think that it's their birthday. Perhaps this might even persuade Tevez to stay now that he will get a better service!

To sum up:

Allowing Yaya up front(almost) and abandoning the slow build-up, have been the major changes in the last few, vital games. These changes in Mancini's tactics saved our season.
Without a terrific squad, we could not have got away with it. Most of my thanks go to them and Sheikh Mansour.

Roberto has done some learning. When he learns the value of a good pair of wingers, playing on their correct sides, we'll be away.

-- Mon May 23, 2011 3:00 pm --

To all those that hijacked this thread with their own agendas ..grow the fuck up ..this is a thankyou thread ffs..

When you say hijackers, I take it you mean those who took a thank-you thread and turned it into an attack on those of us who have a different opinion about Mancini. Agreed.

Agreed.........no need for it after how things have panned out..A simple thankyou is however beyond the comprehension of many on here.

 

[remoh]

That was a shit self obsessed know it all post, but really knows fuck all post. he hee

Have you been on the pop already, Rastus? Shame on you.
Perhaps that's why you think that your opinion is the opinion of everyone. They say that Hitler was a bit like that.

lol.. ha ha, no not on the pop, bacardi and coke Im still celebrating.

Damm I thought you werea bit like hitler? isnt that strange

It must be the moustache.

 

[SWP's back]

Go back to the beginning and re-read the thread, Rastus, and you'll see which Blues first turned it into something else. I don't remember these characters joining the fray when the big debate was going on. They crawled out of the woodwork when the final results came in.

OK, but in fairness there will always be relief that those who didnt believe in mancini have been proved incorrect. And in that relief there will be fingers pointing to those who made our lives miserable, on Bluemoon at least.
They took a gamble in their stance that Mancini was not the man to take us forward and voicing such negativity that I havent seen here before.

So yep those calling for his head now deserve a mention, it takes a good man to say he was wrong and when he does the shit is forgotten and we move forward...together

Well, I've defended my point of view now several times on here. If Mancini had continued his tactics, we would have had nothing a the end of the season. He was big enough to adapt and for that I'm truly grateful.
At the time when I, and many others, complained about his management, we were right, so you wont be seeing many apologies on here.

He did continue his tactics. What changed was the squad came together and gelled and our injury list shortened along with not playing 7 games every 21 days. Grrrrrr