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Some brain dead posts in this thread. Missing the old City and the culture of what it was like does not mean you'd want us to be shit again. There's a big difference.
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Why Does Ricky Hatton Want Us To Be Rubbish again?
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jimmygrimblesboots
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KippaxCitizen said:Some brain dead posts in this thread. Missing the old City and the culture of what it was like does not mean you'd want us to be shit again. There's a big difference.
true , for the older fan , its a nostalgia trip , and we appreciate were we have come from , and perhaps we dont have suicidal tendencies when we have a few poor results , i used to think andy morrison was our saviour , now our supporters are slagging our new £32m centre half , "the times they are a changing"
TGR
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jimmygrimblesboots said:KippaxCitizen said:Some brain dead posts in this thread. Missing the old City and the culture of what it was like does not mean you'd want us to be shit again. There's a big difference.
true , for the older fan , its a nostalgia trip , and we appreciate were we have come from , and perhaps we dont have suicidal tendencies when we have a few poor results , i used to think andy morrison was our saviour , now our supporters are slagging our new £32m centre half , "the times they are a changing"
The problem is we now have to live with expectation every game.
In the old days we were resigned to defeat before we started.
Anything else was upside.
Those were the days my friend...
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But all the promotion seasons were brilliant! And finishing 5th in 1991 and 1992, 9th in 1993, 9th in 2003 were good years and the last season at Maine Road and the first season at the CoMS were both nostalgic/exciting times.TGR said:jimmygrimblesboots said:KippaxCitizen said:Some brain dead posts in this thread. Missing the old City and the culture of what it was like does not mean you'd want us to be shit again. There's a big difference.
true , for the older fan , its a nostalgia trip , and we appreciate were we have come from , and perhaps we dont have suicidal tendencies when we have a few poor results , i used to think andy morrison was our saviour , now our supporters are slagging our new £32m centre half , "the times they are a changing"
The problem is we now have to live with expectation every game.
In the old days we were resigned to defeat before we started.
Anything else was upside.
Those were the days my friend...
People seem to think it was shit being a City fan for three decades, when a lot of the time it was great! It was only the odd horrible seasons here and there, but they seem to stick out to most for some reason.
The reality here is that a lot of people who started supporting City in the 80s and 90s onwards have never experienced the pressures involved in chasing titles or winning cups.
It was always about fighting relegation, and chasing promotion and chasing relegation and fighting promotion. Always City were expected to fail and most times didn't disappoint.
Being successful is a different experience, quite simply some fans cant handle it
Sheikh Mansour buying the club has blown peoples minds, bit like the Peter principle, so many people have been elevated to a status wildly beyond their current emotional capability.
The result when we have a wobble is plain to see and Blue Moon is a classic barometer of so many of these people.
Its no use telling people to chill out, they demand success, quite rightly, this flows through to the players and we can see the result
I thought our defenders were petrified, if only one of our early chances had gone in it might have been different. The two disallowed goals killed off any confidence building and it was only Sergio who rose above the panic. Startling statistic though at half time the shot count was 12 5 to City, at full time 23 17 and we had 59% possession.
The international break has come at a good time and as so many have pointed out we are two points better off than we were last year at this time.
All about perspective and patience. I daresay none of us would be able to cope with the pressures of being a manager or owner.
It could be a lot worse just look at Utd and Liverpool
It was always about fighting relegation, and chasing promotion and chasing relegation and fighting promotion. Always City were expected to fail and most times didn't disappoint.
Being successful is a different experience, quite simply some fans cant handle it
Sheikh Mansour buying the club has blown peoples minds, bit like the Peter principle, so many people have been elevated to a status wildly beyond their current emotional capability.
The result when we have a wobble is plain to see and Blue Moon is a classic barometer of so many of these people.
Its no use telling people to chill out, they demand success, quite rightly, this flows through to the players and we can see the result
I thought our defenders were petrified, if only one of our early chances had gone in it might have been different. The two disallowed goals killed off any confidence building and it was only Sergio who rose above the panic. Startling statistic though at half time the shot count was 12 5 to City, at full time 23 17 and we had 59% possession.
The international break has come at a good time and as so many have pointed out we are two points better off than we were last year at this time.
All about perspective and patience. I daresay none of us would be able to cope with the pressures of being a manager or owner.
It could be a lot worse just look at Utd and Liverpool
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The quality has improved tenfold, but you don't get ten times the enjoyment. It's a different kind of pressure and we can't have it both ways.
Otherwise we yearn for the return of something that wasn't quite as good as we remember.
Otherwise we yearn for the return of something that wasn't quite as good as we remember.
Re: Why Does Ricky Hatton Want Us To Be Shite Again?
Yes I went during the Keegan promotion season. I bet you were living life to the full then a young man so you remember it fondly and think the place was rocking every week or it was the first season you watched us do well.
Been to the vast majority of Maine road games since the mid 70s and of course there were some great times but this illusion that the place was bouncing is just not true its just a lazy thing to harp on about.
We very rarely sold out the 34,000 back then and got 20 odd thousand regularly over the years which was still great support in view of the league we were in and the standard of football.
Davs 19 said:crmcfc said:Millwallawayveteran1988 said:There is a lot of stuff I agree with in here but its a pathway that I cant see changing.
I was watching people enter the main entrance yesterday before the game for 5 minutes and there were two girls being paid to wave a flag each. I felt sorry for them as it was clearly the shit job of the day straw that they pulled out of the workers hat in the morning!
I see what you both think you mean.
There is a lot of rose tinted stuff looking back , thinking that Maine Road was some football mecca full of salt of the earth city fans.
Well at least since the late 70s definitely not it was a soulless, atmosphere less shit hole in the middle of an even bigger shithole pulling in 30odd thousand if we where lucky.
Every club is different to back then but for better of worse who knows? I just know that in another 30 years fans will look back to the good old Etihad and how it used to be so much better than now and on and on....
You obviously didn't attend during the Keegan promotion season, to name but one. One of, if not the best atmospheres in the country.
PS: For a lot of the later years, we could only hold 34,000.
I'm guessing you didn't actually get to go to Maine Rd much.
Yes I went during the Keegan promotion season. I bet you were living life to the full then a young man so you remember it fondly and think the place was rocking every week or it was the first season you watched us do well.
Been to the vast majority of Maine road games since the mid 70s and of course there were some great times but this illusion that the place was bouncing is just not true its just a lazy thing to harp on about.
We very rarely sold out the 34,000 back then and got 20 odd thousand regularly over the years which was still great support in view of the league we were in and the standard of football.
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maybe its an identity thing.
i know i identified with city as a kid as i wanted to support the underdog and it always felt better beating the big teams as the underdog,
now we have come of age, i feel part of that identity has been lost forever
but that's just my opinion
i know i identified with city as a kid as i wanted to support the underdog and it always felt better beating the big teams as the underdog,
now we have come of age, i feel part of that identity has been lost forever
but that's just my opinion
totallywired
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Its because he`s punch drunk.Malty said:In the interview with massive City fan Noel Gallagher, he said Ricky Hatton has told him he preferred us how we was before..
Anyone agree or find it bizarre?