Like 1979, I was thoroughly pissed off after yesterday's result and performance. It was a dire game and our injuries/suspension list isn't helping. I felt very much last night that Bruce had taken the team as far as he could. However, part of being a supporter is sticking by your club in the hard times, something which a club of our size will experience in this league. The lads need our support on Boxing Day and we need to let them know we are behind them. As fans, we need to be vocal from the off and back the team. A lucky break/goal and 3 points may resurrect our faltering season and we have the squad which can go on a good run; especially when we have a set of winnable games from now until the Chelsea game in March (barring Citeh, of course). Our form at present is frustrating and poor but it's vital we stay behind the team during games. The amount of people who were leaving in the North Stand around me at around 70 minutes was disgusting. We may have been playing very poorly but at 1-0 down there is always a chance your team can get back into it. My grandfather watched City for 57 years and sadly died in 2003; he never realised his dream of watching City play in the top division. We owe it to those generations of City fans who never lived to see these times to make the most of these times at football's top table without squabbling and failing to back the team.
Dear Polly13, I have a genuine question for you. At what point would you or will you start to show some honesty, cynicism or negativity towards our current plight? It bemuses me that someone can be so blind to factual and blatant problems. Is it because you have been so vocal and prevalent as a fence sitting excuse maker and thus have gone beyond the point of being able to say anything marginally different to the sympathetic and pathetic stuff you have been posting on here. Would a loss at Leicester or Sunderland finally open your eyes or would it take relegation? Give it long enough then sure we are bound turn things around and get some results. But. How long can you wait and risk that with it potentially not happening? There is only so many negative and poor performances people are able to endure before they rightfully become worried, skeptical and wanting to see change. I don't know if it's naivety, arrogant ignorance or blind optimism. But I am sure you will have some sense of self righteousness when or if we do finally stop the rot. But the main question is. When? When will enough be enough for you? For me I want Bruce to stay but if we haven't got any results or the performances don't change soon then its a case of a few games. For you I imagine it would be relegation and hoping we get promoted again.
I agree, we were very lacklusture up front, but something can happen out of nothing: that is how strange football is sometimes and if you don't believe that something will happen, why go in the first place? Leaving a game that early when we still could have got something is really t**tish and embarrassing.
Polly won't like this Spinach. I expect your username will be challenged and Polly (is it an he or a she) will be be offended you have even challenged how the team are performing.
I don't think Bruce should go. If we do go down, he's the perfect manager to get us promoted again. However, relegation will start looking like a probability instead of a possibility if we don't win both of our next two games. We need to win against Sunderland and Leicester. Signing Ramirez and Ben Arfa were terrible decisions, as it has disrupted the squad for no good reason at all. We never even got a chance to see what Ince could do at this level.
I think the players have let Bruce down but he is the manager and it his remit to get the best out of the players. So ultimately his head when it goes wrong. ATM it is going wrong big-time.
Imagine what you like, pal. What a pathetic statement. You're bemused that I'm not moaning about the team? Negativity is the comfort zone for too many of you lot. How many times do I have to state that I know we're playing ****e? What good does it do to come on here pontificating about what Steve Bruce should do, though? Like you, I'm a footballing nobody. I'm not gonna offer my expertise on here, in case I look as stupid as everyone else who is doing it. (And how long has "fence-sitting" meant "not wetting knickers"?)
Stop going, then; I'm sure plenty of people who sit near you will be glad to see the back of your undoubted pissing and moaning.
Slightly on a whim but I don't see why you have such a problem with pissing and moaning on here, it's what the forums for. All support at the ground, bring the pissing and moaning back here. That's how it should be shouldn't it? I'm fully with you about people pissing and moaning at games, they can **** off.
How it blind support any better than moaning? I show up every week and get behind the team. Yet week after week we lose, draw and put in s**te performances. There are only so many times I can mentally psych myself up before it all just becomes a fruitless and pointless exercise. Week after week I see no improvements and largely I see a regression. I don't understand why you appear to have an air of superiority and arrogance about you simply because you choose to to burry your head in the sand or act like things are hunky dory. Our form and results are within the realms of a manager been sacked and the saving grace thats buying Bruce more time is the FA Cup. I don't understand what world you live in when you think the answer is blind support. There is a point when serious questions need to be asked and merely getting behind the team isn't enough. Do you even go to any games? The language you use such as 'poodle' and 'knickerwetting' paints you as a being young. Can you not see any validation in the negativity and moaning? It happens at every club in the world and rightly so. Don't perform, don't get results then expect criticism. Why would such dire displays and lack of results prompt more and more blind optimism. Like I said. At what point would you begin to moan or criticise? Is there a point that you would say enough is enough? or will you just keep recycling the same material.
I am very much a Pro Bruce man but i have to agree with what someone said above we don't look like scoring. I agree that at 1-0 anything could happen but i said it at half time yesterday that we would not score and we didn't, and the way we are playing it doesn't feel like we are going to. Something needs to change, i don't think that is the manager but the way we set up and play needs to change we are so negative at the moment compared to the early part of this season.
Ok... let's look back at last season. 27th December 2013 - Malkey McKay sacked. Outcome: Cardiff relegated 14th Feb 2014 - Rene Meulensteen sacked. Outcome: Fulham relegated 6th Apr 2014 - Chris Houghton sacked. Outcome: Norwich relegated. On Dec 28 2013, bottom 2 clubs were West Ham and Sunderland. Both clubs stuck by their Managers. Anyone guess what happened? Anyone???
