I can't understand how keyboard warriors can aim such bile at a team they purport to (3 Viewers)

[wingy]

What Is Indisputable Is that form Is equivalent to that which saw Andy Thorne sacked

 

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[Kingokings204]

What Is Indisputable Is that form Is equivalent to that which saw Andy Thorne sacked

Eventually

 

[fernandopartridge]

What Is Indisputable Is that form Is equivalent to that which saw Andy Thorne sacked

It's not quite as bad as that yet is it? Certainly for Thorn's relegation season. We went 11 games without a win at one stage. There are definite parallels though. The lack of goals being one.

 

[Kingokings204]

It's not quite as bad as that yet is it? Certainly for Thorn's relegation season. We went 11 games without a win at one stage. There are definite parallels though. The lack of goals being one.

Lack of away wins at the start of the Season.

 

[Grendel]

The reason the hands tide argument fails to stack up is that last season after beating Rotherham the club only mustered 19 points from 21 games.

At that point only Clarke had left so with a supposed superior squad the club was getting a points per game ratio of a club that would be bottom of the league.

 

[wingy]

Lack of away wins at the start of the Season.

TBF the form for the first seven games or so we're reasonable ish

Redas sending off plus coming back have caused confusion to the rest of the season IMO , probably what Waggot would deem ""Bitty"
So we have had a second Influx and third of players maybe unnecessarily which has had an Impact on five or six other members of the original squad
This has led to a confused approach and created wsste
I think they'd possibly regret coming back from a pure football team perspective currently
Not necessarily for a financial /Political or Litigious one
However back to my point about waste, I'd rather we stuck to the original plan and saved the windfall from coming back for next season to build around instead of selling the likes of Maddison or a combination of others as we will surely have to

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

It's not quite as bad as that yet is it? Certainly for Thorn's relegation season. We went 11 games without a win at one stage. There are definite parallels though. The lack of goals being one.

Andy Thorn overall record

Steven Pressley record over the last 52 league matches

P52 W11 D 18 L23
21.2% win ratio

 

[bigfatronssba]

Alan Poole seems to be going down the same route as Led Reid.

I would have thought a journo of all people would appreciate the right for all to have and voice an opinion.

 

[covcity4life]

les reid is the only good journalist we have.

 

[Kingokings204]

les reid is the only good journalist we have.

We?

 

[Kingokings204]

The reason the hands tide argument fails to stack up is that last season after beating Rotherham the club only mustered 19 points from 21 games.

At that point only Clarke had left so with a supposed superior squad the club was getting a points per game ratio of a club that would be bottom of the league.

Very rare Grendel but great factual post.

 

[4waspsting]

Who let the c**t publish the article what a fuckin nob

 

[wingy]

Very rare Grendel but great factual post.

Couple that info with the manager giving the players a free pass saying the play offs were off then dropping Adams and Baker for the last two or three months

 

[Jack Griffin]

les reid is the only good journalist we have.

pmsl

 

[Cov kid 55]

Otis...I generally find myself agreeing with most of what you say...it's generally well considered and fair. But on this occasion I have to disagree with you in the most polite fashion.
It seems to me that those jumping in first here, to shoot the article down in flames, are those who might feel under some sort of personal attack about their comments, bile, on the internet. As I write this, there hasn't been one positive reaction to the article. I don't intend to defend or attack anyone here, but I'm prepared to cut Pressley some slack, because I too have noticed that chances have been created in front of goal, and squandered, penalties missed...none of which Pressley can have control of in that moment...that's down to the player. Had those chances been taken, I suggest we'd be a lot higher up the table, and our attitude towards our manager would be very different.
It's difficult being the front man when nothing is going right for you, and for the most part I accept Pressley's positivity...I also accept he has the right, to blow his stack, and to get it horribly wrong. And I also accept we have every right to tear him apart as we seem to be doing more than regularly on here.
But my real argument is this....we know all this, but are we helping! The problems at our club are huge, but are we helping by constantly pointing out the obvious! I travel from London for as many games as possible, because I'm a Sky Blue supporter. I never went to Northampton, because I'm a Sky Blue supporter. And as such I shall continue to support the team, and in this case the manager as well, because it's a thankless task, and as fickle fans, we are so easily swayed by what's in front of us, we fail to see the bigger picture...which is as far as I'm concerned sisu, and we will never move forward till they're gone.
It was a brave article to write, and I'll no doubt get some flack for writing this, but I have no idea what is really going on, and neither I suspect, do most of us. So in the meantime I'm going to sit it out under the dark cloud of sisu, and hope that one day soon, they do the decent thing and move on....then we can all let our shoulders drop, and look forward to watching our team play. PUSB!

This is a well reasoned post. There are often well considered and thoughtful posts on this forum, critical of SP's management. There are also posts that are vitriolic and abusive, and I don't see what good purpose these serve. I suspect that the manager works really hard to get results, and that he feels awful, as we do, when the team has lost, and played badly. Sure, he'll make mistakes, don't we all in our jobs?! Marcus Tudgay has today appealed to the fans to stay with the team, a good call, we need to get out of this together. At Preston, our support was excellent, at Rochdale, there was a relatively small but highly vocal group of fans who poured horrific abuse on the players at the end of the match. So the players feel bad about the result and the performance, and then a proportion of the crowd turn on them. I've supported City for 53 years, and have been lucky enough to see some of the good times, whereas a lot of our fans have only known struggle and disappointment. I do believe however, that we will stay up this season, and the more our players feel that the supporters are behind them, the better we will be. Being positive about the next game is what keeps me going.

 

[standupforcity]

Who let the c**t publish the article what a fuckin nob

Thanks for your insightful, helpful post...makes me proud to share the terraces with you!

 

[AJB1983]

So as soon as someone argues against the hate mob they're not allowed to?
Like players who get abuse or booed aren't allowed to give it back?
And this Phil saying that Alan poole called all City fans illiterate is the same as when Chris Coleman apparently called all city fans Neanderthals.
One might be inclined to suggest that those who don't read these pieces properly are the illiterate few he was referencing...

 

[Samo]

So as soon as someone argues against the hate mob they're not allowed to?
Like players who get abuse or booed aren't allowed to give it back?
And this Phil saying that Alan poole called all City fans illiterate is the same as when Chris Coleman apparently called all city fans Neanderthals.
One might be inclined to suggest that those who don't read these pieces properly are the illiterate few he was referencing...

Coming from Coleman of all people - not the sharpest tool in the box! And didn't that cheeky fucker Adams call us vegetables or some such? Great history of PR at our club!

 

[AJB1983]

My point is he didn't call all fans illiterate, nor did Coleman call all city fans Neanderthals.

 

[M&B Stand]

So as soon as someone argues against the hate mob they're not allowed to?
Like players who get abuse or booed aren't allowed to give it back?
And this Phil saying that Alan poole called all City fans illiterate is the same as when Chris Coleman apparently called all city fans Neanderthals.
One might be inclined to suggest that those who don't read these pieces properly are the illiterate few he was referencing...

I've just listened to it, Phil didn't say Alan Poole called ALL city fans illiterate, Eakin replied as if he had said it because he was losing the argument.
some people hear what they wanna hear.

 

[Grendel]

I've just listened to it, Phil didn't say Alan Poole called ALL city fans illiterate, Eakin replied as if he had said it because he was losing the argument.
some people hear what they wanna hear.

To be fair the caller totally misinterpreted that bit of the admittedly stupid article. Eakin has my sympathy. If I spent my Friday evening in the company of nasal Nigel and Alan from Wyken I would probably last one show.

 

[M&B Stand]

But he didn't say Alan Poole had called ALL city fans illiterate, that's what eakin tried to pull him up on.

 

[Grendel]

But he didn't say Alan Poole had called ALL city fans illiterate, that's what eakin tried to pull him up on.

He didn't actually say any fans were illiterate. He said some of the illiterate comments - that is different. Someone on here posts fuck off you Scottish c**t would fall into that category.