Green & Blue wrote:How do you feel about the competition?
I'm really pissed with how we have performed so far in the champion league, managing only 3 clean sheets in 23 matches just about sums up our struggles so far.
It seems as if quite a large number of City fans are taking the approach that they don't care for the competition.I don't know if that's out of frustration at how the club has performed or contempt at how Uefa operate as a governing body.
I really want to see the club rise to the challenge and start competing with Europes elite in the latter stages of the competition.I personally feel our treatment from Uefa should be driving the club both players and fans alike to want to go on and perform better in Europe despite them not being used as a reason to undermine the importance of the competition.
Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
fair point, but barca was a knockout and the atmosphere wasn't great either, mind you it wasn't helped by the fact we set up like a league two side away to Chelsea. After years and years of mediocrity, seeing us play the likes of Madrid barca and bayern should be events to enjoy, but for some reason they aren't.Im_Spartacus wrote:Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
The hamburg atmosphere was in a do or die quarter final, and the united and Liverpool games you refer to are in the knockout stages too, their fans don't get up for the group games, and the munichs only go because their season ticket would be suspended if they didn't!
It's the group stages that's the problem, they are fucking tedious, and allow a team to make mistakes but still scrape by so on average the performances, even of the top teams are well below what they would turn out for a league game
Bridge'srightfoot wrote:fair point, but barca was a knockout and the atmosphere wasn't great either, mind you it wasn't helped by the fact we set up like a league two side away to Chelsea. After years and years of mediocrity, seeing us play the likes of Madrid barca and bayern should be events to enjoy, but for some reason they aren't.Im_Spartacus wrote:Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
The hamburg atmosphere was in a do or die quarter final, and the united and Liverpool games you refer to are in the knockout stages too, their fans don't get up for the group games, and the munichs only go because their season ticket would be suspended if they didn't!
It's the group stages that's the problem, they are fucking tedious, and allow a team to make mistakes but still scrape by so on average the performances, even of the top teams are well below what they would turn out for a league game
Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
In the 1990s and the early part of this new century, I went a fair few times to the Swamp to watch some of the mid-week European games with a friend of mine who, although he is a Geordie, is a Scum fan (Just for the record, he used to get two tickets for himself and his son and if his son couldn't make it, he used to ask me. He had a beautiful Alfa 164 which I used to love and it was worth going, just for the pleasure of riding in that car).
From what I can recall, although the Swamp was pretty much full to capacity on such evenings, the 'atmosphere' was never much to write home about and the crowd were often quite subdued. To be fair, these were usually the earlier games in that competition, so the crowd reaction might have been different in the later stages.
All in all, it was nothing to shout home about and when, in 2002, he sold his 164, I didn't go after that.
Goaters 103 wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
In the 1990s and the early part of this new century, I went a fair few times to the Swamp to watch some of the mid-week European games with a friend of mine who, although he is a Geordie, is a Scum fan (Just for the record, he used to get two tickets for himself and his son and if his son couldn't make it, he used to ask me. He had a beautiful Alfa 164 which I used to love and it was worth going, just for the pleasure of riding in that car).
From what I can recall, although the Swamp was pretty much full to capacity on such evenings, the 'atmosphere' was never much to write home about and the crowd were often quite subdued. To be fair, these were usually the earlier games in that competition, so the crowd reaction might have been different in the later stages.
All in all, it was nothing to shout home about and when, in 2002, he sold his 164, I didn't go after that.
Different strokes for different folks I suppose but you could offer me the chance to drive a Formula 1 race car to the game, and a seat in the Directors box, but if it was a Utd game at Old Trafford, Id rather nail my bollocks to a plank of wood.
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Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.
In the 1990s and the early part of this new century, I went a fair few times to the Swamp to watch some of the mid-week European games with a friend of mine who, although he is a Geordie, is a Scum fan (Just for the record, he used to get two tickets for himself and his son and if his son couldn't make it, he used to ask me. He had a beautiful Alfa 164 which I used to love and it was worth going, just for the pleasure of riding in that car).
From what I can recall, although the Swamp was pretty much full to capacity on such evenings, the 'atmosphere' was never much to write home about and the crowd were often quite subdued. To be fair, these were usually the earlier games in that competition, so the crowd reaction might have been different in the later stages.
All in all, it was nothing to shout home about and when, in 2002, he sold his 164, I didn't go after that.
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