Blackpoo V City

sdavros wrote:scrape a 1-0.

even money on Jim exploding over negative football

bluealf wrote:So in effect you want to play 4-4-2 ?

A formation that died in the top flight some time ago, it is all 4-5-1 switching to 4-3-3 whilst attacking.

Be patient Jim, success and glory are just around the corner.

As an aside you wouldnt get anything better entertainment wise out of Jose, he knows how to win ugly and he does that well.

mat wrote:I know where your coming from Jim. The Carling cup would have made me happy if we only won that this season.

I'll settle for us tonking the Rags in Dublin!!!

jimharri wrote:I just don't think we're in a position to pick and choose what trophy to go for. If we'd been winning the odd bloody cup every few years, then fine. Rest the ''big guns'' for the ''big'' games. But we haven't been, and I'm desperate to win something, even the so-called Mickey Mouse cup. Here's something to get you thinking; Oxford United, Wimbledon, Sheffield Wednesday (I think!) and Luton Town have all won a 'proper' trophy since we last did. That is shameful.

But that is the point jim, we are in a position to pick and choose what cup to target.

I want us to win a trophy, the carling cup would have been great last season as well as the previous 30+ years but to win it at the expense of the title is just utter madness.

Your dislike of Mancini and the tactics used so far, are blinding you to the fact that we have moved on from that trophy.

He didnt rest all his "big guns" some of them were injured.

Also in all due respect what is your point by naming "Oxford United, Wimbledon, Sheffield Wednesday and Luton Town" as cup winners. ?
It's certainly not helping them now is it.

jimharri wrote:

But that is the point jim, we are in a position to pick and choose what cup to target.

Disagree Alf; until we get that monkey off our backs, I don't think we can pick and choose.

wrong, we have a squad to challenge for the title not the carling cup


I want us to win a trophy, the carling cup would have been great last season as well as the previous 30+ years but to win it at the expense of the title is just utter madness.

And you think we'll win the title this season? If you do, then fair do's.
we have a squad to challenge for the title, I hope we do not think we do.

Your dislike of Mancini and the tactics used so far, are blinding you to the fact that we have moved on from that trophy.

If you can show me a post I've made where I've said I dislike Mancini, please do. As for his tactics, yeah; I don't like them. I won't pretend otherwise. At the moment, they're getting results, which is to be commended. But teams will start to get wise to them fairly quickly. Blackburn held us at bay pretty comfortably, we just scraped past Newcastle, Sunderland did for us and we got battered at Spurs, especially in the first half. Averaging a little over goal a game will only put immense pressure on the defence and is highly unlikely to win us anything.
The only team to cause us major problams have been Spurs, Newcastle to a degree but Sunderland should have been buried by half time, Blackburn did not hold us comfortably,we did have 15 shots and they had Samba and Robinson on fire and a glaring error for their goal.

He didnt rest all his "big guns" some of them were injured.

Exactly. Some of them, not all of them. Last season we put out our strongest teams in the Carling cup at places like Palace and played more or less the same team the following weekend. You simply can't keep the players wrapped up in cotton wool, in case they get injured. Sometimes a manager will have to take the chance and play them. Yes, sure. Tevez, Milner, Yaya, Vinny and players of that standard etc might well have picked up injuries at the Hawthorns. Then again, they mightn't. We'll never know now, will we?

This is the best one, We did play our strongest team in the carling and didnt win it, also at the same time drawing games for fun as players no doubt felt the after effects of a heavy season and us failing to get the fourth place to take us into the champions league. No finer example can be made.

Also in all due respect what is your point by naming "Oxford United, Wimbledon, Sheffield Wednesday and Luton Town" as cup winners. ?
It's certainly not helping them now is it.

The point is, I was talking talking about winning trophies, not current league positions. Of course I wouldn't swap our current position for theirs. I was simply making the valid point that it is ridiculous that they have each won a trophy since the last time that we did.


Anyway, while we all want the best for City, we'll have to agree to differ re. the best way of doing it. I don't mean any offence in any of those comments I've made, and if you have taken offence at any of them I apologise for that. I do stand by them though.

stony wrote:I'll take a spawny win any day of the week. Although I don't remember Andy fucking Gray going on about all the offside decisions that the rags get.
Bridge was rusty and when everyones fit he won't get anywhere near the first team.
Ade might as well have not turned up. Sell the lazy twat as soon as possible.
Tevez is better than Rooney fact.
Silva is getting better every game and is going to be fucking awesome for us.
Well played Blackpool you were unlucky but class showed in the end.

And finally a big well done to Newcastle, Danny Murphy, Stan Collymore and that dutch cunt. You succeeded in doing what no player has managed to do this season and kept DeJong out of the game.

sdavros wrote:

stony wrote:I'll take a spawny win any day of the week. Although I don't remember Andy fucking Gray going on about all the offside decisions that the rags get.
Bridge was rusty and when everyones fit he won't get anywhere near the first team.
Ade might as well have not turned up. Sell the lazy twat as soon as possible.
Tevez is better than Rooney fact.
Silva is getting better every game and is going to be fucking awesome for us.
Well played Blackpool you were unlucky but class showed in the end.

And finally a big well done to Newcastle, Danny Murphy, Stan Collymore and that dutch cunt. You succeeded in doing what no player has managed to do this season and kept DeJong out of the game.

he never had a tackle.. fucking bastards. I love how Bobby has protected him all week though. He has stuck by him in a big way.

On form Carlos is the best centre forward in the league. He is phenomenal. What a little magician Silva is. He completely changed how we played when he came on. In saying that it was like playing with 10 with that other shit bag up top

bluealf wrote:4-4-2 working well I see.

jimharri wrote:

bluealf wrote:4-4-2 working well I see.

Chelsea did alright with it earlier in the season (Drogba and Anelka). If we had someone playing upfront with Tevez who actually gives a fuck, it may well work. If Mancini is going to persist with the lone striker policy, where's he going to play Balotelli when he's fit? Midfield? He's a striker. As I've already said, we won't agree on it, so i'm not going to try to impose my opinions on you. Please pay me the compliment of doing likewise, and we'll call it a truce. Fair enough?