totally underwhelmed

[sutty66]

Good point but awful tactics by Mancini, no team plays 2 holding mids let alone 3, Tevez had to come far to deep to get the ball and was basicaly a midfielder because they were so far back, SWP has no confidance to beat a man and richards was and is shocking, do spuds come to us and play these tactics? or the other big teams? This is why we missed out on 4th last season and will do again if mancini keeps being defensive. We have a quality squad and should be going at teams and let them be afraid of us not this slow backwards passing. I lost count on the amount of times we passed it back to Hart then lumped it forward to no one considering the size of tevez, silva and swp against king and dawson.......

its better to lose 3-0 i agree
its better to draw 7 in a row agree
its better to have a joke of a defence i agree,

actually anything except from playing 3DMs are ok..

This isnt about hughes....

I'm saying with the players we have we should be approaching games to WIN and if mancini is going to play this way we will have more draws....

 

[moomba]

team plays 2 holding mids let alone 3

You think Yaya is just a holding midfielder? Barry?

De Jong was the only proper DM in the side yesterday.

 

[zeven]

its better to lose 3-0 i agree
its better to draw 7 in a row agree
its better to have a joke of a defence i agree,

actually anything except from playing 3DMs are ok..

FFS we have played one GAME away to Tottenham a team better than ours, last time i checked.

This isnt about hughes....

I'm saying with the players we have we should be approaching games to WIN and if mancini is going to play this way we will have more draws....

 

[samharris]

I gave hughes shit for 18 months of shit with his own team the final straw was the 3-0 loss to spuds, youre giving Bob shit after 1 game with his own team after a 1-1 draw with spuds..

Let's play a little game its called spot the difference ;)

Who scored? ;)

the wine obviously :) still a point eh... fook me i was there too.. damn.


Great wine though :)

 

[zeven]

its better to lose 3-0 i agree
its better to draw 7 in a row agree
its better to have a joke of a defence i agree,

actually anything except from playing 3DMs are ok..

This isnt about hughes....

I'm saying with the players we have we should be approaching games to WIN and if mancini is going to play this way we will have more draws....

FFS we have played ONE game, away to spurs, do you even remember when we got something from WHL last time?


PS.
you dont win 3 Serie A titles by not scoing goals.

 

[Marvin]

Agreed. If he had played them agaist Spurs and lost there would have been pandamonium on here, more so than when we've managed to take a point from a team who (believe it or not) are not going to drop that many at home.

It is unjust and unfair IMO to judge and criticise the team on a single performance. Especially when that performance has meant we got a point where 3 or 4 managers before have all failed.

Were you as critical of Hughes last season when we got wallopped 3-0?

i dont look at the debate as hughes v mancini, more of when are we going to attempt to score goals against top sides under mancini.

football is bloody expensive, i want the match to be exciting, not a war of defensive anti football.

Fair criticism if we are producing that football in Janaury 2011.

However much we spend, and whoever we buy it's not going to click just like that. You know that. The whole world of football knows that. Indeed many observers think we should be building a team slowly, by stealth and it's impossible to do what we are doing ie changing half the team every 12 months and seeing a huge turnover of players in the process

 

[samharris]

This isnt about hughes....

I'm saying with the players we have we should be approaching games to WIN and if mancini is going to play this way we will have more draws....

FFS we have played ONE game, away to spurs, do you even remember when we got something from WHL last time?


PS.
you dont win 3 Serie A titles by not scoing goals.

i remember what we got last time at WHL.....slaughtered.

 

[sutty66]

FFS we have played one GAME away to Tottenham a team better than ours, last time i checked.

This isnt about hughes....

I'm saying with the players we have we should be approaching games to WIN and if mancini is going to play this way we will have more draws....

So it's ok to play crap and get a lucky boring draw because there 'better than us'.....

FFS we need to get rid of this mentality if we want success, next u will be saying its ok to lose by 'just 1 goal' to chelsea and the rags.....

 

[Bill]

HAHA :)

Did we play for a point away to Burnley last season?

What happened when Lord Hughes of Salford pitted his wits against Burnley at home?

I know absence makes the heart grow fonder but in some cases it does not like no one misses having the shits, no one misses an unfortunate disease and no fucker should miss Mark fucking Hughes the draw specialist.

another selective example using burnley, bob was negative and played for a draw everywhere, home or away, regardless of the opposition, inc Hull ffs.
you all keep bringing hughes up, i find that odd as the people who liked the guy never mentions him.
bob and his dour football are just his way, nothing to do with hughes in any way shape or form.then again its a good deflection for you to use when bob yet again bores the fuck out of everyone with another totally inept display in a game of "football".

 

[scorer]

This isnt about hughes....

I'm saying with the players we have we should be approaching games to WIN and if mancini is going to play this way we will have more draws....

Fair enough but would you rather play tactical (could be called boring) football and win the league or be involved in high scoring games finishing mid table.

I been following City for too long and experienced to much of the latter and worse to get uptight about performances.

I accept that he could have dropped SWP yesterday, let Carlos drop back and Play Ade or Jo upfront but..... he didnt and we did get a point. That's good enough for me at a ground where we have failed to do that in our last six visits.