Man City - the new bitters?

[Captain]

You can have a loss, but probably not against Man City.

[Red_or_Dead]

The only two possible destinations for him in club football are Juventus and PSG after Citeh.

[an tha]

1 hour ago, Leyton388 said:

It would help if teams actually bothered to turn up against the cunts rather than just writing the game off. I mean palace went there and won ffs and Newcastle did a number on them. 

 

If this is a sign of things to come where 97 points and only 1 loss won't win you the league due to those cheating cunts then what's the fucking point? 

 

29 years without a league title and we are about to have our greatest points total and league Champaign and it counts for nothing. 

 

It is hard to not feel like this.

 

The rest of the top 6 have been a fucking disgrace against them too.

 

Arsenal - dicked twice

Mancs - dicked twice

Tottenham - beat twice

Chelsea - 1 win and got embarrassed in other game.

 

Of course we only got a draw in our 2 games as well.

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 hour ago, Leyton388 said:

It would help if teams actually bothered to turn up against the cunts rather than just writing the game off. I mean palace went there and won ffs and Newcastle did a number on them. 

 

If this is a sign of things to come where 97 points and only 1 loss won't win you the league due to those cheating cunts then what's the fucking point? 

 

29 years without a league title and we are about to have our greatest points total and league Champaign and it counts for nothing. 

 

It does count for something, mate. I'm right there with you on the 'pissed off at this shit' table, but it counts for something. We are clearly a top side, doing really well again, players can see that. We are going deep into Europe and playing for the title in the final stages. That will mean more quality players will want to come and we can keep kicking on from there.

[an tha]

[Tony Moanero]

Ultimately, you don’t get a trophy for finishing second. Comfortable win for Man City today, in my opinion. Still, there’s a Champions League Semi-Final to look forward to. Yes, it has been 29 years since we won the league, but it has been almost a decade and a half since we lifted ‘Old Big Ears’, which is far too long, too.

[kop77]

[KMD7]

Fuck it I'm not giving up yet. Still 2 games to go. (Probably 1 game as Brighton are shit)

[Boss]

I think now's the time to be sensible and prioritise the Champions League. Barcelona have won the league so they can field a second team against Celta Vigo. If we're in the running after the Camp Nou it might be for the best if we play the second string against Newcastle and go for the jugular in the return leg. 

[Code]

We will beat Barcelona in both games.

[Strontium]

12 wins in a row. They are relentless, but you can be relentless when you have two first XIs.

 

[Anubis]

13 hours ago, Boss said:

I think now's the time to be sensible and prioritise the Champions League. Barcelona have won the league so they can field a second team against Celta Vigo. If we're in the running after the Camp Nou it might be for the best if we play the second string against Newcastle and go for the jugular in the return leg. 

City won in 2012 with pretty much their last kick of the game, while Utd fans were celebrating beating them to it. They won it because they kept going until the last. Keep going. Get the points at Newcastle. See where it takes us.

[Lee909]

Yeah, if they played first and beat Leicester I'd make changes but with 2 left and the chance to put the pressure back on we can't give it up 

[VladimirIlyich]

If we'd have drawn away against City then we'd be ahead on points instead of them. Those draws against Leicester,West Ham and Everton also have cost us dear. This season certain results have cost us and they have little to do with City. Arguably,not expanding our squad by one or two signings may have cost us in the long run.

[Tony Moanero]

As things stand we’ve draw one too many games. It’s that simple.

[El Rojo]

I think we’d lose momentum if we named a wholesale second string side against Newcastle.

 

Gomez, Lovren and Origi could potentially freshen us up and we already have a few options in midfield. 

[an tha]

We have 4 massive games in next couple of weeks...fighting for the two biggest prizes in the game.

 

We surely have to go as strong as possible in all 4 unless suddenly either becomes a prize we can no longer win.

[Bruce Spanner]

2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

If we'd have drawn away against City then we'd be ahead on points instead of them. Those draws against Leicester,West Ham and Everton also have cost us dear. This season certain results have cost us and they have little to do with City. Arguably,not expanding our squad by one or two signings may have cost us in the long run.

 

Pathetic.

 

This season has been, and could be more so, exceptional, all things considered.

 

We are up against the most financially doped team of all time and in a world where this isn’t seen as ‘adding to the competition’ then we’d have walked the fucking league and be playing the U16’s against Newcastle as we prepare for a European semi final against one of the greatest clubs of the modern era, which we are walking in to as perhaps very narrow favourites over two legs.

 

We don’t live on the era of Shanks and Bob any more and a few people need to take their head out of the arse and give credit to the exceptional position we find ourselves in. You only need to have a quick glance down the East Lancs Rd to see where nostalgia gets you, or perhaps the past 29 years here...

[Byrnie]

3 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

If we'd have drawn away against City then we'd be ahead on points instead of them. Those draws against Leicester,West Ham and Everton also have cost us dear. This season certain results have cost us and they have little to do with City. Arguably,not expanding our squad by one or two signings may have cost us in the long run.

What the manager and players have done in terms of getting points has been remarkable. Picking out certain results is very harsh, imo.

 

You can't win every single game. We'd all have snapped hands in August for 91 points after 36 games. 

[kop77]

[kop77]

mam city.
tickets still on sale, 

last home game of the season,
going for the league, 
bank Holiday.

[Bobby Hundreds]

They will dick Leicester everywhere infront of a half empty stadium and newly entitled fans who don't really give a shit. Fuck them all their honours are hollow.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 29/04/2019 at 11:34, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Pathetic.

 

This season has been, and could be more so, exceptional, all things considered.

 

We are up against the most financially doped team of all time and in a world where this isn’t seen as ‘adding to the competition’ then we’d have walked the fucking league and be playing the U16’s against Newcastle as we prepare for a European semi final against one of the greatest clubs of the modern era, which we are walking in to as perhaps very narrow favourites over two legs.

 

We don’t live on the era of Shanks and Bob any more and a few people need to take their head out of the arse and give credit to the exceptional position we find ourselves in. You only need to have a quick glance down the East Lancs Rd to see where nostalgia gets you, or perhaps the past 29 years here...

No,its not pathetic at all. Its an honest appraisal of how the staff will look to maybe remedy those things next season. Klopp and staff learn every season about different things to tweak and we may see us try to take more risks in some of the games we've drawn and risk losing them but most often will sneak a win given how the (hopefully not) champions will have lost three more games than we have. Your point about 'we can not win every game' is a very fair one and not one I disagree about,but if you look at the games I mentioned that we drew,they actually came in a cluster of around 7/8/9 games around the turn of the year and early year. Could a new face or two have helped the workload around that time given injuries to players like Oxlade Chamberlain,TAA,Matip etc? Its all about small margins in the professional game and these maybe those things. I am a big fan of Klopp and want him here for years but him and his staff will look for possible ways of improving and these things may be considerations.

My post was not pathetic,just an opinion on how we may have just fallen short.

[kop77]

8 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

No,its not pathetic at all. Its an honest appraisal of how the staff will look to maybe remedy those things next season. Klopp and staff learn every season about different things to tweak and we may see us try to take more risks in some of the games we've drawn and risk losing them but most often will sneak a win given how the (hopefully not) champions will have lost three more games than we have. Your point about 'we can not win every game' is a very fair one and not one I disagree about,but if you look at the games I mentioned that we drew,they actually came in a cluster of around 7/8/9 games around the turn of the year and early year. Could a new face or two have helped the workload around that time given injuries to players like Oxlade Chamberlain,TAA,Matip etc? Its all about small margins in the professional game and these maybe those things. I am a big fan of Klopp and want him here for years but him and his staff will look for possible ways of improving and these things may be considerations.

My post was not pathetic,just an opinion on how we may have just fallen short.

it is pathetic to be honest, maybe next season we,ll not lose one game 

[Bruce Spanner]

36 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

No,its not pathetic at all. Its an honest appraisal of how the staff will look to maybe remedy those things next season. Klopp and staff learn every season about different things to tweak and we may see us try to take more risks in some of the games we've drawn and risk losing them but most often will sneak a win given how the (hopefully not) champions will have lost three more games than we have. Your point about 'we can not win every game' is a very fair one and not one I disagree about,but if you look at the games I mentioned that we drew,they actually came in a cluster of around 7/8/9 games around the turn of the year and early year. Could a new face or two have helped the workload around that time given injuries to players like Oxlade Chamberlain,TAA,Matip etc? Its all about small margins in the professional game and these maybe those things. I am a big fan of Klopp and want him here for years but him and his staff will look for possible ways of improving and these things may be considerations.

My post was not pathetic,just an opinion on how we may have just fallen short.

 

Having a bit of a ‘mare here, mate.

 

You've misquoted me to try and build a straw man with unspecified parameters. 

 

We are competing against a team that has two 1st 11’s capable of winning the league, and numerous others who are paid more than some of our first teamers to sit around in the stands just on the off chance that one of the other 30 internationals isn’t up to it (though admittedly ours don’t exist on a tiny stripend). This is not a level playing field, but we have managed to keep chase, and against the odds, be in with a chance with a game to play. This is not to mention that we are also in the semi final of a European cup on fucking merit and not by fluke. We are having an amazing season, given the circumstances and for people to be asking for more is, frankly, fucking pathetic. They (you) sound like ten year olds who have only ever experienced football through the prism of Championship Manager with cheat codes.

 

Pathetic yes, constructive no.

 

You are asking for the moon on a stick and when given it being appalled that the stick isn’t diamond encrusted.