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Now please enough of the negative comments...

25 Joe Hart
1 Andreas Isaksson
12 Nicky Weaver
15 Sylvain Distin
22 Richard Dunne
17 Sun Jihai
4 Stephen Jordan
18 Danny Mills
26 Matthew Mills
16 Nedum Onuoha
2 Micah Richards
27 Hatem Trabelsi
8 Joey Barton
5 Ousmane Dabo
21 Dietmar Hamann
28 Trevor Sinclair
10 Djamel Abdoun
24 DaMarcus Beasley
30 Bernardo Corradi
14 Paul Dickov
7 Stephen Ireland
43 Ishmael Miller
20 Georgios Samaras
11 Darius Vassell

Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Puts it into perspective doesn't it!

Honestly WHERE?

Everyone says "enough of the negativity, have a look at this" I am finding this place nothing but positive at the moment...is it just a witty precursor to you starting a thread or are you hoping for immediate support for a thread you created from the rahrah cheers boys?

Everyone is being positive except crossan who is typically having a moan but not really being negative. How about, "how we've changed, look at this" if you want some other crap way to start a thread, at least it's better than creating imaginary villains for you to crucify, that's what David Fucking Moyes does, are you David Fucking Moyes? Don Quixote aint got nothing on you two.

Slim wrote:Honestly WHERE?

Everyone says "enough of the negativity, have a look at this" I am finding this place nothing but positive at the moment...is it just a witty precursor to you starting a thread or are you hoping for immediate support for a thread you created from the rahrah cheers boys?

Everyone is being positive except crossan who is typically having a moan but not really being negative. How about, "how we've changed, look at this" if you want some other crap way to start a thread, at least it's better than creating imaginary villains for you to crucify, that's what David Fucking Moyes does, are you David Fucking Moyes? Don Quixote aint got nothing on you two.

Come on Slim...If I could even be arsed trawling through a few threads...which I can't by the way...i'd find far more that Crosson having a moan about something or other...It seems that City attract more than their fair share of doom mongers even in such vibrant times as these!

i hope i never see another city team like that again.

my saturday league team has a better squad!

You could pick most squads over the last 25 years!

The doomers are definitely re-grouping, coming out of the swamps and forming a new strategy to deal with our sudden wealth!!!!!

Most of us were optimistic even when we started with squads like that!

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

Slim wrote:Honestly WHERE?

Everyone says "enough of the negativity, have a look at this" I am finding this place nothing but positive at the moment...is it just a witty precursor to you starting a thread or are you hoping for immediate support for a thread you created from the rahrah cheers boys?

Everyone is being positive except crossan who is typically having a moan but not really being negative. How about, "how we've changed, look at this" if you want some other crap way to start a thread, at least it's better than creating imaginary villains for you to crucify, that's what David Fucking Moyes does, are you David Fucking Moyes? Don Quixote aint got nothing on you two.

Come on Slim...If I could even be arsed trawling through a few threads...which I can't by the way...i'd find far more that Crosson having a moan about something or other...It seems that City attract more than their fair share of doom mongers even in such vibrant times as these!

Bah, not worth making a thread over if there are, but I would miss crossan if he weren't moaning, it's like an old warm blanket.

This is fucking magic times, like LAHAD said, this is our reward for staying loyal through all the shit.

john@staustell wrote:Most of us were optimistic even when we started with squads like that!

Embarrassingly, you're absolutely spot on with that John

I started every single season in the top flight thinking that we had a good chance of a cup win or maybe getting into the European spots...everytime we were relegated I was convinced we'd romp back to the Prem/First Division as league winners (despite ALL evidence absolutely contradicting this wild baseless optimism!) haha

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Didn't a large crop of that shite finish 8th after SP took over from KK though?

ant london wrote:

john@staustell wrote:Most of us were optimistic even when we started with squads like that!

Embarrassingly, you're absolutely spot on with that John

I started every single season in the top flight thinking that we had a good chance of a cup win or maybe getting into the European spots...everytime we were relegated I was convinced we'd romp back to the Prem/First Division as league winners (despite ALL evidence absolutely contradicting this wild baseless optimism!) haha

Hahaha me too lads!! It's funny coming to the sudden realisation that the gold you thought you had was really shit...

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Didn't a large crop of that shite finish 8th after SP took over from KK though?

Not really. We had James, Bosvelt, SWP, Fowler and Anelka that season.

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Didn't a large crop of that shite finish 8th after SP took over from KK though?

Not really. We had James, Bosvelt, SWP, Fowler and Anelka that season.

Sven also had Elano, Petrov, Corluka, Geovanni, Garrido, Benjani, Caicedo, Gelson, etc etc etc

HUGHES OUT!!!!!!!

This is the squad that finished 8th btw, fucl knows how they managed that!

25 Geert de Vlieger
1 David James
33 Kasper Schmeichel
32 Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard
12 Nicky Weaver

27 Mikkel Bischoff
5 Sylvain Distin
22 Richard Dunne
17 Sun Jihai
41 Stephen Jordan
43 Patrick McCarthy
18 Danny Mills
16 Nedum Onuoha
2 David Sommeil
3 Ben Thatcher

24 Joey Barton
26 Paul Bosvelt
31 Jonathan D'Laryea
20 Steve McManaman
14 Kizito Musampa
6 Claudio Reyna
28 Trevor Sinclair
29 Shaun Wright-Phillips

44 Willo Flood
8 Robbie Fowler
11 Jon Macken
10 Antoine Sibierski
42 Bradley Wright-Phillips

I don't have any problems looking at that squad. It's all part of our history.

You enjoy evolution more when you are familiar with what you have evolved from and this is a fine example.

Also, it would be more interesting to compare that squad with the one from five year previous, as I am sure that in comparison we would claim this 2006-7 squad as 'world beaters'!

Now .... what will be even more interesting ..... is reviving this post in five years time and I would bet that we will be reacting similarly when comparing our current squad to what we will have in five years time.

The time to worry is when we agree that our previous squads were better than what we have at the moment. Hopefully, this is something I doubt we will be doing for a long time yet to come.

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Didn't a large crop of that shite finish 8th after SP took over from KK though?

Not really. We had James, Bosvelt, SWP, Fowler and Anelka that season.

Sven also had Elano, Petrov, Corluka, Geovanni, Garrido, Benjani, Caicedo, Gelson, etc etc etc

Ummmm....yes. Your point being what? Those are all players Sven bought.

lythamblue wrote:I don't have any problems looking at that squad. It's all part of our history.

You enjoy evolution more when you are familiar with what you have evolved from and this is a fine example.

Also, it would be more interesting to compare that squad with the one from five year previous, as I am sure that in comparison we would claim this 2006-7 squad as 'world beaters'!

Now .... what will be even more interesting ..... is reviving this post in five years time and I would bet that we will be reacting similarly when comparing our current squad to what we will have in five years time.

The time to worry is when we agree that our previous squads were better than what we have at the moment. Hopefully, this is something I doubt we will be doing for a long time yet to come.

Which is what I expect most Rag fans will be doing at the moment!!

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Imagine that Sven inherited that crop (of shite) and got us 9th. Magnificent job.

Didn't a large crop of that shite finish 8th after SP took over from KK though?

Not really. We had James, Bosvelt, SWP, Fowler and Anelka that season.

Sven also had Elano, Petrov, Corluka, Geovanni, Garrido, Benjani, Caicedo, Gelson, etc etc etc

Ummmm....yes. Your point being what? Those are all players Sven bought.

My point being, a shit squad similar to the one Sven inherited got us 8th, so obviously it wasn't as shit as we thought. You replied saying we had the likes of Bosvelt, SWP and Fowler when we got 8th. So I was pointing out we had the likes of Petrov, Elano and Corluka when we finished 9th.

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

Fidel Castro wrote:

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

Fidel Castro wrote:
Didn't a large crop of that shite finish 8th after SP took over from KK though?

Not really. We had James, Bosvelt, SWP, Fowler and Anelka that season.

Sven also had Elano, Petrov, Corluka, Geovanni, Garrido, Benjani, Caicedo, Gelson, etc etc etc

Ummmm....yes. Your point being what? Those are all players Sven bought.

My point being, a shit squad similar to the one Sven inherited got us 8th, so obviously it wasn't as shit as we thought. You replied saying we had the likes of Bosvelt, SWP and Fowler when we got 8th. So I was pointing out we had the likes of Petrov, Elano and Corluka when we finished 9th.

And I was saying that squad that finished 8th was nothing like the squad Sven inherited. Squad Sven inherited had finished 4 points above relegation zone.