Why after today has Mancini lost the fans?

[Danny Hoekman]

He ain't lost me.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

He lost me weeks ago, and it would certainly appear an ever- increasing cross-section of blues, not to mention, a part of the squad.

In isolation, aside from Silva, the rest of his signings are all up for debate.

And in terms of the horrible Kolarov and Boateng, a serious question of his judgement.

He has killed the goose that laid the golden egg, a never-to-be-repeated chance of exploiting teams who are well below capacity.

And yet, we find ourselves in the same position as last season, albeit with a cup run which any team outside the top four can attain in any season.

Serious questions need to be posed about this word attitude, which Mancini uses all too often, but fails to practice what he preaches.

Tell me how Chelsea can be so far off the pace, but still retain belief, yet we dull expectation.

He has stifled the team to such an extent, he has conditioned them and many of our fans to believe it's for the best.

It is not, it is only prolonging and exacerbating the pain, each and every time we come up short.

Regardless of what transpires over the remainder of the season, I would say thanks for your efforts, but we want to go in a new direction.

 

[forevermancity]

Surely a manager with a winning mentality gets through the tiredness?

If I'm in a class and my instructor starts telling me I'm tired towards the end of the workout it's not going to inspire me

Telling me everything will be worth it in the end and there is not long to go, pain is temporary pride is forever etc etc

Yet another sign of bad management

 

[blueju]

Chelsea attacked in waves last night. Not bad for a team that was supposedly dropping out of the big 4 along with the dippers. How come they (and the dippers to a certain extent) see the way back into contention as being to attack and not give up on the philosophy of using your players to tear other teams a new arsehole?

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

If Mancini hasn't lost all of the fans yet, saying shite like this will surely do the trick :

"We don't have the Europa League anymore, so maybe we can do well in the last eight games."

 

[stonerblue]

It was Chalsea away so a point would have been good enough. I must admit there has been a huge sway of supporters who have turned against him on all the boards and radio phone-inns.

What was the final straw?

He's not lost me

 

[JULES]

My belief in Mancini is still there, i'm not going to change my opinion based on a game against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. I've admitted on here numerous times recently that while we are in a good position in terms of league position and in the FA Cup performances have to improve and thats still the case. I don't think we played that bad yesterday, infact we started off extremely well but Chelsea grew into game and created a couple of chances but i thought we defended well and Chelsea didn't really look like scoring before their goal

I thought Mancini got his tactics in terms of keeping Chelsea out pretty much spot on, unfortunately theres nothing as a manager he can do about players making ridiculous fouls when theres absolutely no need which result in a goal and change the game completely, of course in football players are going to foul other players, i have no problem with that when they're mistimed but what Richards did yesterday was pointless, Luiz was going nowhere, all we would have won was a throw in so why make a daft tackle like that and put us under pressure when we looked like we'd possibily see it out and get a point? Of course i understand that the way we play relies on players not making mistakes so it makes us kind of vulnerable to a mistake like yesterday but it's still annoying that a pointless foul ended up costing us and changing the whole game

We've not played well enough recently and results on the whole haven't been great, thankfully we've now got a two week break where players can recharge their batteries as they've played a hell of a lot of games lately. We are still in a good position to win a cup and still in the driving seat to finish 4th, at this stage thats the most important thing, we've not played well recently but we are still in a good position, it's important that we come back from the international break and hit the ground running starting with a win against Sunderland

For some Mancini is a dead man walking, he has been for a while, for me he's still our manager who has us in a good position in terms of league position and chance of winning a trophy, i still have faith in him getting us to finish in the top four

good post

 

[PSmyth07]

He doesn't inspire confidence. Playing negatively is only going to make fans negative but its upto some of the players to step up.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Tell me how Chelsea can be so far off the pace, but still retain belief, yet we dull expectation.

Great point Tolmie. Chelsea are ONE point ahead of us and Carlo and players are saying that their title push is back on. Mancini, on the other hand, is saying we're too tired but fingers crossed we might win some of the last 8 games.

The players need inspiration and dogged determination from the manager, NOT bloody excuses and pre-explanations for failure.

 

[banzaibuddy]

Teams like Chelsea and the rags are experts at scoring in the last few minutes of the game. Its no use expecting our admittedly very strong defence to withstand these kind of barrages. You need to go and try and score!
On paper Dzeko Balo and Tev should be an awesome strike force but somethings happened to stop them performing.
Bring back Kevin Keegan! (joke) - but some more friggin attack would not hurt.