City v Boro Match Thread

[93:2012]

Starting Eleven:
Caballero, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Boyata, Kolarov, Milner, Fernando, Navas, Silva, Jovetic, Aguero

Subs:
Hart, Demichelis, Sagna, Clichy , Dzeko, Lampard , Fernandinho

C'mon City

I do not like the messing around with central defensive pair.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

Started slow and starting to come together now. Silva, boyata and Jimmy could have all netted. It will come

[Zabba]

Started better than last week, a sense of purpose and pace in our play.

[Zabba]

Our defence really is porous Middlesboro walking through it and their players lining up to shoot on their rare forays forward.

[Zabba]

Told you our defence was rubbish.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

What in the fekin hell was that

[Ludo]

Fernando is a tool.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

Willy was a pussy n all

[Zabba]

Kompany is way off form. I agree with Ali too much pissing around with our defence by Pelle.

[Zabba]

I wonder why we do not get penalty decisions could it be Referees know Pelle is just to nice to criticise them so no worries if they kop out of the decision.

[Lekos]

I also agree with myself too, sometimes.

[Ludo]

It's a bit embarrassing now.

[Zabba]

We should be 3 down with our defence getting walked all over and our attack toothless up to now.

[Ludo]

How can he leave Fernando on the pitch?

[andy1966]

We should be 3 down with our defence getting walked all over and our attack toothless up to now.

We are shite , we have just been very lucky this season
according to the telly never in a million , was it a penalty
  Pelli out ?

[Zabba]

We are awful and Boro deserve to win. Our home form is shocking this season.

[citoeast]

Absolutely poor as we have to play through defences as we have no aerial threat.

[Ludo]

It's disturbing just how many of our team are simply under-performing

Kolarov, Fernando, Navas and more have been dire.

[clevblue]

All this talent and no bite, no edge, just rubbish

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

Is dzeko playing as a winger???

[Ludo]

May as well be, Pellegrini's playing as a manager.

[citoeast]

No worries we will do the CL PL double lol. 1

Pelle has destroyed our defence and needs to rebuild it rapidly by stop dicking around with it.

[Lekos]

Thank fuck I'm not watching it.

[shandon]

We keep losing to championship sides in the FA Cup   

[goat]

Thank fuck I'm not watching it.

so thats you and kompany that missed it

fuck it, concentrate on the league now

[bry the guy]

City Chelsae,southampton and Spuds all out what a fuck up

[Tricky Trev]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

[andy1966]

Prepare to win fuck all this season , we are shite  we are carrying a shed load of overpaid overpriced and overrated players
and a manager of questionable ability
The main problem is we are now unable to correct it because of FFP  we seemed to buy anything that had a huge price tag , and half of them are crap , and should not be at the club IMHO

[andy1966]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

What he said LoL

[goat]

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

the what?

[shandon]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

Welcome to the board Tricky Trev

[Stephen Paul]

not doing so good without YA YA

[goat]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

another graduate of the citopest school of over fucking doing it

charvet
granville
etc etc

[andy1966]

Yes welcome Tricky Trev ,i agree with everything you said

[shandon]

City Chelsae,southampton and Spuds all out what a fuck up

I thought we had a bad day and Chelsea lost at home to Bradford 
At least Moaniho won't win 4 trophies this season.

[Lekos]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

[Lekos]

City Chelsae,southampton and Spuds all out what a fuck up

I thought we had a bad day and Chelsea lost at home to Bradford 
At least Moaniho won't win 4 trophies this season.

He said before the match he'd rather go out as well...

[shandon]

He's still going for the league cup though.

[andy1966]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

Afternoon stalker , wondered when you would show up
Goat let you out of the shed then ?

[citoeast]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

another graduate of the citopest school of over fucking doing it

charvet
granville
etc etc

In your humble and informed opinion.

[Lekos]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

Afternoon stalker , wondered when you would show up
Goat let you out of the shed then ?

Stalker. Very ingenious of you using that word, firstly on a forum, and secondly one that the aforementioned goat used to use all the time. You don't need to copy him.

[goat]

pick a name and stick with it

and in a common sense and having seen them play kind of way, pretty sure mangala has had more good games than tony vaughn and nick fenton already

[citoeast]

The team is underperforming because we have messed around with team selection way too much. Play a consistent team of 11 from now to the ends of the season in the PL and CL.

Kompany is suffering because of not having a partner with whom he can build a partnership with.

Cabellero was crap today.

Navas is ineffective and Fernando and fernandinho are one and the same in style of play.

Kolorov just never gets better.

Aguero is not match fit.

Makes me think everything is being tuned up for the CL; which is a massive mistake in my opinion.

[goat]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

Afternoon stalker , wondered when you would show up
Goat let you out of the shed then ?

any reason id have him in a shed?

[Ludo]

I'm struggling to think of a player that Pellegrini has brought in that's actually made us better.

[Lekos]

So much for that "winter break" and shithouse game in Dubai, eh. I blame City Slicker and Alexsam.

[goat]

I'm struggling to think of a player that Pellegrini has brought in that's actually made us better.

fernandinho was massive last season

[citoeast]

I'm struggling to think of a player that Pellegrini has brought in that's actually made us better.

Pellegrini is a coach not manager; he has brought no one in.

[Ludo]

I'm struggling to think of a player that Pellegrini has brought in that's actually made us better.

fernandinho was massive last season

Yeah, fair enough.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

Afternoon stalker , wondered when you would show up
Goat let you out of the shed then ?

any reason id have him in a shed?

Cos you keep him as your gimp and he loves it!!

[Lekos]

the signings last summer obviously affected by FFP.  More utility players signed, which isn't Pellegrini's fault...though we still did manage to spend £30m + on Mangala, who will come good eventually (hopefully).

Will be interesting to see what Bony does n'all.  Maybe Dzeko will be sacked off in the summer.

[Lekos]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

Afternoon stalker , wondered when you would show up
Goat let you out of the shed then ?

any reason id have him in a shed?

Cos you keep him as your gimp and he loves it!!

Hey up; it's the three pint wonder!

[Swiss]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

another graduate of the citopest school of over fucking doing it

charvet
granville
etc etc

20 years was a bit much really!!! Sun Jihai!!!! To be fair, after Seaman left Sun picked up!
Ben Thatcher
Mike Frontzec
Murtaz Shelia... We could go on!
To be fair to Murtaz, I think he had a higher strike rate than some of our strikers 


Anyway, another shocking game from us. I wonder how long before Guardiola's name's being mentioned again!

And then with him a bumper new deal of £200m for sponsoring our training kit, allowing us to purchase Messi And then we still fail to score! Ahh City!

[gavin]

I didn't think we were too bad first half. On another day we could have had a couple of goals and their keeper was well worked for the last 20 or so. We were again very wasteful and guilty of trying to walk it in too often but we were dominating them and there seemed to be little danger. I wasn't particularly worried at half time.

Second half was poor indeed. We didn't look like scoring for much of it and they always looked dangerous on the break. We should be doing a lot, lot better. There's a number of problems that need addressing, players that are playing poorly. We don't have that killer touch up front and we always look close to calamity at the back and it is a dreadful combination. It could be that we just need a break at the right time and things will come good again but I'd like to see the manager do something to sort it now. You can't wave a magic wand to get attackers scoring, I think that is the bit that may come good on its own when some of the boys hit form, but you can organise a defence.

Nothing to do with the trip to Abu Dhabi, if anything we seemed a bit more energetic than in other matches of late. We just aren't playing very well and it didn't start this week in Abu Dhabi!

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

i agree with everything you said

You must be pissed because you've already posted that a few minutes ago.

Afternoon stalker , wondered when you would show up
Goat let you out of the shed then ?

any reason id have him in a shed?

Cos you keep him as your gimp and he loves it!!

Hey up; it's the three pint wonder!

Ye......yee.....

[Swiss]

I'm struggling to think of a player that Pellegrini has brought in that's actually made us better.

Fernandinho had a good season last year, not sure whats up this season but he looks a shadow of himself.
Negredo was on fire at the start of last season but tailed off.

Not sure whats changed this season, maybe what we need is a nice guy but someone who can bollock the players too

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Well - I thought we were good value in the first half. Just failed to convert it into goals unfortunately. Second half Boro came out with a lot more determination and we suddenly looked a bit nonplussed and flat footed. Even then, we still threatened from time to time but just could find the killer pass or finish. With either Yaya or Nasri on the pitch I think we'd have won fairly comfortably - but credit to Boro for some resolute and well organised defending. Unlike us..

I am starting to get a little tired of the "let's throw on Lampard" tactic in every game when things aren't going our way - like it's some magic touchstone or something.

Of the two centre backs I actually thought Boyata was better than Kompany.    Vincent looked more than a little out of sorts for the whole match, and the joke booking he then picked up (which should have gone the other the way - the Boro player hooked his arm through Kompany's and then pulled him down - but Dowd and the linesman completely conned) made Kompany even more tentative and uncertain of himself.

Fernandinho had a good season last year, not sure whats up this season but he looks a shadow of himself.

The fact that Pellers seems to prefer Fernando to him can't be helping his confidence, Having said that - neither of the two F's played particularly well today.

[Neil Mcnab]

The players arrived back from Abu Dhabi yesterday. If they had been playing Chelsea in the league today, you can guarantee that would not have happened. We havent taken the FA cup or the opposition seriously, I felt certain we would lose.

We havent been playing well and I dont think we will win the league. We could have a decent run in the chumps league, as Boro have shown desire, hard work and a well set up team can bridge the gap in class in a cup competition. We have some really good players, so the gap is not huge. I just doubt that some of our players have the hunger.

[bluebrendan]

How this clown still has a job is beyond me. I'm sick of this shit again, just like mancini he won the league more by the other teams failure than city being great. Then this second season, where the transfers are catastrophic, HOW CAN MANGALA BE SO BAD BUT WORTH 40 mil? Yes it's still early but currently he's the worst defender I have seen at the club in 20 years - and when you add in his price it's very embarrassing. In every single aspect city has regressed. It's by dumb luck(and sometimes incredible individual skill) city is positioned second, city have been AWFUL all season.

Fooking hell I'm frustrated, it's beyond disgusting what shittegrini is doing with this team- what an embarrassment.

In before the Heu heu you're the embarrassment comments.

another graduate of the citopest school of over fucking doing it

charvet
granville
etc etc

20 years was a bit much really!!! Sun Jihai!!!! To be fair, after Seaman left Sun picked up!
Ben Thatcher
Mike Frontzec
Murtaz Shelia... We could go on!
To be fair to Murtaz, I think he had a higher strike rate than some of our strikers 


Anyway, another shocking game from us. I wonder how long before Guardiola's name's being mentioned again!

And then with him a bumper new deal of £200m for sponsoring our training kit, allowing us to purchase Messi And then we still fail to score! Ahh City!

I intend to -

Jason Van Blerk
Tony Vaughan
Kit Symons
Alan Kernaghan
Darren Wassall
Scott Hiley
Matt Mills
Paul Beesley

And on today's performance throw Kompany in there as well, worst I've seen him play since Hughesless had him in midfield.

[shandon]

Well - I thought we were good value in the first half. Just failed to convert it into goals unfortunately. Second half Boro came out with a lot more determination and we suddenly looked a bit nonplussed and flat footed. Even then, we still threatened from time to time but just could find the killer pass or finish. With either Yaya or Nasri on the pitch I think we'd have won fairly comfortably - but credit to Boro for some resolute and well organised defending. Unlike us..

I am starting to get a little tired of the "let's throw on Lampard" tactic in every game when things aren't going our way - like it's some magic touchstone or something.

Of the two centre backs I actually thought Boyata was better than Kompany.    Vincent looked more than a little out of sorts for the whole match, and the joke booking he then picked up (which should have gone the other the way - the Boro player hooked his arm through Kompany's and then pulled him down - but Dowd and the linesman completely conned) made Kompany even more tentative and uncertain of himself.

Fernandinho had a good season last year, not sure whats up this season but he looks a shadow of himself.

The fact that Pellers seems to prefer him over Fernando can't be helping his confidence, Having said that - neither of the two F's played particularly well today.

I would've thought Dzeko should have come on earlier than with 12 minutes left.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Our substitutions do seem to be very one dimensional.

[Hesperus]

Indefensible result really. We seem to be following the same pattern as the season after we first won the prem only worse. I'm gutted we've thrown away our chances in the league and fa cups without putting in any real performances. If we lose to Chelsea and get knocked out by Barca the season could go down the pan very quickly.

I'm also seriously pissed off that during a time we could be dominating we've let our rivals (Arse, scum and dippers) in with a really good chance of picking up silverware and gaining more confidence.

So far this season we've had stuttering league form, we were bloody lucky to get into knock out rounds of the champs league and we've gone out of the cups early.  Very disappointed this morning.

[Zabba]

Fact is this squad is hugely underperforming and massively overrated. Yea they have won the PL twice but a very poor PL and lost it to an extremely poor Utd side.

Our performances in the CL have exposed the real ability level of this squad. Like Celtic capable of putting up a big CL performance now and again through sheer effort and concentration, but in general not a realistic challenger to win it.

A summer clear out is sorely required followed by a rebuild.

[goat]

I intend to -

Jason Van Blerk
Tony Vaughan
Kit Symons
Alan Kernaghan
Darren Wassall
Scott Hiley
Matt Mills
Paul Beesley

And on today's performance throw Kompany in there as well, worst I've seen him play since Hughesless had him in midfield.

considering that team i didnt think hiley was that bad seeing as he stepped up from exeter or some shit

dont forget matts dad danny

[Tricky Trev]

Although those players mentioned are worse, we could buy them all for 1 mil, instead of 40. It's such a poor investment, in a time where money is precious. You could make the same case about Fernando. The gamble with Fernandinho paid off last season, he was very much an unknown and a brazilian. But where the fuck is he this season? Shittegrini is not a winner, and I'm sick to death watching city do major feckups SEVERAL times throughout a season. So many changes, but city is still city, why? A few steps forward, then twice the amount back. It shouldn't be possible to lose vs boro.

[Zabba]

Although those players mentioned are worse, we could buy them all for 1 mil, instead of 40. It's such a poor investment, in a time where money is precious. You could make the same case about Fernando. The gamble with Fernandinho paid off last season, he was very much an unknown and a brazilian. But where the fuck is he this season? Shittegrini is not a winner, and I'm sick to death watching city do major feckups SEVERAL times throughout a season. So many changes, but city is still city, why? A few steps forward, then twice the amount back. It shouldn't be possible to lose vs boro.

I feel your pain.

The salary and transfer fee of the current squad makes comparison to poor City totally irrelevant; then we were just a Boro level club with championship level players now we are more a top level club with top players.

We do several major fuck ups a season because of player/team complacency which is now an ingrained characteristic. We lost at home to an inferior team Saturday because they wanted the win massively more than we did and they were 100% committed and together as a team, we were not.

We even chilled Abu Dhabi for another day because players and manager were so confident they could win no matter what the preparation. Sheer arrogance and we fans pay the price. The manager is bound to have sought player opinion on this late return.

I am alright with Pellegrini but he needs to show he can deliver now and that players need to fear him; by dropping underperformers and selling them. He had no bother shitting all over Nastastic, he needs to drop and sell a few more and send players a clear, 'clear as a bell' message, play 100% every game or rot on the bench or in the reserves. He needs to sort defence asap or it will be bye bye to the Champions League.

The way it works now is no matter how lazy and pathetic you play you will still get picked (in rotation).