Worst season since the takeover?

I can forgive that 08-09 season a lot as it's when my two lads (9 and 7) got into football started coming up with me from Cambridge and fell in love with City and Manchester.

14-15 hurt, literally. I fell headfirst into the next row on CB3 when Milner equalised in that terrible draw with Hull and had a back for weeks.

I've struggled this season, less with results than the absence of the joy of watching Phil and Jack at their gorgeous best. Form is temporary...
 
Goatmeal said:
One thing this season has shown us.
How bloody difficult it is to win a treble.
And the 4 league titles back to back is an even more amazing feat
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35 years taught me how difficult it was to win anything.
 
Completely expected after a 4peat, ageing squad, 115 looming and add the Rodri injury.

I think the taste of losing won't do us harm in the long run, we need to find the hunger to win again and I think Pep will do it.
 
K-Bo said:
There's a couple of years of competition IMO, though this year definitely contained the worst run.

My top 5, not necessarily in order of shitness but in order of how shit they felt:

1) 2012/13 -2nd place, 78 a decent points total in a bad year. Probably better on paper than a couple of other years, but I still think this season felt the worst to go through on a day to day basis. Maybe because of the incredible high of 2012, and the fast and brutal destruction of the Mancini reign. It was super messy, I feel like he was calling the club out weekly. Not to mention the Final against Wigan. Just a horrible year.

2) 2008/09 - 10th place. 50 points. Hughes got less points and finished lower than sven! What a bust this was lol after the takeover hype. Hughes should have been sacked day 1. Maybe didn't hurt as much because we had no expectations yet, but a really crap season when you think about it.

3) 2024/25 - ??? place. ???? points. I think 4 in a row has helped the medicine go down this year, and if we finished 3rd and had a regular off year then no problem whatsoever, players have earned it. But the amount of massive humiliations and horrible days, not to mention the historically atrocious run in November. it feels like it was worse then it had to be. If we dont win the FA cup it jumps up to second, if we do it drops to 4th.

4) 2015/16 - 4th place. 66 points. This year was awful, pellegrini checked out, players checked out. lucky to get CL at the end of the day with a points total like that. You can be zen and say this season was the price to pay for Pep, but man was it crap. Finished Yaya every week was rough, bit like this year lol. League cup a small redeemer.

5) 16/17 - 3rd. 78 points. Not a bad year in the longer term, and pep was figuring it out. but was def disappointing at the time. i thought pep would come and blow the league away from the jump. lot of awful results in this year. Smashed by everton and leicester etc. Main competition for this spot would be 09/10, missing out on CL to Spurs was pretty brutal.

What do you guys think.
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Your comment on 2008/09 resonates with me. That it didn’t hurt as much because we had no expectations. There is nothing like 13/14 years of success to breed entitlement and expectations that it will continue forever. I have to keep reminding myself of that when I get annoyed this year, like with the team selection at times.
Most disappointing season for me was 16/17, because from memory we won the first 10 games in all competitions, and then it all fell away, with some hammerings from average sides. But with hindsight Pep was learning English football and he certainly did learn it.
 
K-Bo said:
There's a couple of years of competition IMO, though this year definitely contained the worst run.

My top 5, not necessarily in order of shitness but in order of how shit they felt:

1) 2012/13 -2nd place, 78 a decent points total in a bad year. Probably better on paper than a couple of other years, but I still think this season felt the worst to go through on a day to day basis. Maybe because of the incredible high of 2012, and the fast and brutal destruction of the Mancini reign. It was super messy, I feel like he was calling the club out weekly. Not to mention the Final against Wigan. Just a horrible year.

2) 2008/09 - 10th place. 50 points. Hughes got less points and finished lower than sven! What a bust this was lol after the takeover hype. Hughes should have been sacked day 1. Maybe didn't hurt as much because we had no expectations yet, but a really crap season when you think about it.

3) 2024/25 - ??? place. ???? points. I think 4 in a row has helped the medicine go down this year, and if we finished 3rd and had a regular off year then no problem whatsoever, players have earned it. But the amount of massive humiliations and horrible days, not to mention the historically atrocious run in November. it feels like it was worse then it had to be. If we dont win the FA cup it jumps up to second, if we do it drops to 4th.

4) 2015/16 - 4th place. 66 points. This year was awful, pellegrini checked out, players checked out. lucky to get CL at the end of the day with a points total like that. You can be zen and say this season was the price to pay for Pep, but man was it crap. Finished Yaya every week was rough, bit like this year lol. League cup a small redeemer.

5) 16/17 - 3rd. 78 points. Not a bad year in the longer term, and pep was figuring it out. but was def disappointing at the time. i thought pep would come and blow the league away from the jump. lot of awful results in this year. Smashed by everton and leicester etc. Main competition for this spot would be 09/10, missing out on CL to Spurs was pretty brutal.

What do you guys think.
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2028/2029 was a shambles:-)
 
Been the most boring season for an age, I can't think of one game this season where I've said that was a brilliant performance City. The first half against Newcastle was the best by a mile but apart from that very little else
 
I'll remember this season as the one time when the "Flappers" and "Fanny Wipes" were right all along, whilst the belittlers ignored the warnings from those weak performances when Rodri was suspended in 23-24.

A fully fit Rodri will make next season so much easier.
 
Gray said:
And to finish it off we have:
  • 12:30 on a Saturday
  • 20:00 on a Tuesday
  • 20:00 on a Friday
  • 15:00 on a Sunday
Has Saturday at 3pm been removed from the calendar?
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The suits have fucking destroyed the football calendar.

4 or 5 International breaks with no Club footy for 2 whole weeks.

Domestic games crammed in and second fiddle to European football which is well behind International shite in the pecking order that a fraction of people watch in person or on TV compared to Club football.

Cup Final on a Domestic weekend so 4 teams will be losing that weekends game too.

And they wonder why S/T holders can't make every game or casual fans wont pay £50+ for a low level midweek match.

Fucking barmy.

Why does no one question prices for games at stupid, awkward times?

Any other activity is charged accordingly for less popular times.

Matinee, Early Bird, Midweek etc etc, cheaper prices for less popular times.

Football, charges full whack whether a game is 3pm Saturday or 1900 Sunday or 2000 Monday night!

Live televised games should be cheaper too because a match going fan is paying for the exclusivity of seeing the match, in theory.
 
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ysmsa said:
The suits have fucking destroyed the football calendar.

4 or 5 International breaks with no Club footy for 2 whole weeks.

Domestic games crammed in and second fiddle to European football which is well behind International shite in the pecking order that a fraction of people watch in person or on TV company to Club football.

Cup Final on a Domestic weekend so 4 teams will be losing that weekends game too.

And they wonder why S/T holders can't make every game or casual fans wont pay £50+ for a low level midweek match.

Fucking barmy.

Why does no one question prices for games at stupid, awkward times?

Any other activity is charged accordingly for less popular times.

Matinee, Early Bird, Midweek etc etc, cheaper prices for less popular times.

Football, charges full whack whether a game is 3pm Saturday or 1900 Sunday or 2000 Monday night!

Live televised games should be cheaper too because a match going fan is paying for the exclusivity of seeing the match, in theory.
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Enough to put you off for good isn't it mate
 
ysmsa said:
The suits have fucking destroyed the football calendar.

4 or 5 International breaks with no Club footy for 2 whole weeks.

Domestic games crammed in and second fiddle to European football which is well behind International shite in the pecking order that a fraction of people watch in person or on TV company to Club football.

Cup Final on a Domestic weekend so 4 teams will be losing that weekends game too.

And they wonder why S/T holders can't make every game or casual fans wont pay £50+ for a low level midweek match.

Fucking barmy.

Why does no one question prices for games at stupid, awkward times?

Any other activity is charged accordingly for less popular times.

Matinee, Early Bird, Midweek etc etc, cheaper prices for less popular times.

Football, charges full whack whether a game is 3pm Saturday or 1900 Sunday or 2000 Monday night!

Live televised games should be cheaper too because a match going fan is paying for the exclusivity of seeing the match, in theory.
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A brilliant post. The people who run football are taking the piss. Maybe it's being done deliberately in a concerted effort to deter people from becoming season ticket holders, so clubs can then hike prices for casual fans. Either way they are slowly sucking the joy out of football.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
I'll remember this season as the one time when the "Flappers" and "Fanny Wipes" were right all along, whilst the belittlers ignored the warnings from those weak performances when Rodri was suspended in 23-24.

A fully fit Rodri will make next season so much easier.
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We will no doubt be a better team with him, there are a lot more problems than his absence though, even if he single handedly turned it around, we are only an injury or suspension away from a poor run
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
We will no doubt be a better team with him, there are a lot more problems than his absence though, even if he single handedly turned it around, we are only an injury or suspension away from a poor run
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Oh yeah not disagreeing and the biggest issue will be the complete lack of a goal threat without the usual 2-3 suspects when there used to be 8-9.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
We will no doubt be a better team with him, there are a lot more problems than his absence though, even if he single handedly turned it around, we are only an injury or suspension away from a poor run
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No one one is expecting him to single handedly turn it around 2 or 3 additions,especially in midfield, to replace KDB, Gundogan, Kovacic maybe Silva to add to the 5 that arrived in January, we'll have a very different, younger more energetic squad than this season.
 
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