Sam Allardyce

[Khalekan]

Never understand peoples obsession with pretty football, winning is the only thing I crave, its the only thing I want.

Close the thread....nowt more need be said

 

[Real_madras]

Never understand peoples obsession with pretty football, winning is the only thing I crave, its the only thing I want.

Pretty football comes when you win the battles on the pitch. City don't just got out and play ticker tacker football the are strong as well. Also I actually like to see a good defence playing. It's then being able to link the defence with the midfield then the attackers and defend from the front that wins matches.

 

[Milkman]

I always preferred the Moyes style of football to the Martinez kind. The latter had its merits, but I never enjoyed it as much as watching Baines, Pienaar and Arteta/Fellaini just play possession drills between themselves up and down the wing all game. Moyes was badly underrated by some for the quality of some of our football. Obviously it wasn't always like that under Moyes, there were some turgid performances too, but the good ones were better than anything else we've seen this century, in my opinion.

Anyway, my point is that we seem to be moving back to that Moyes style under Allardyce, which is fine by me. Yeah, we've hoofed it at times, but we hoofed it way more last year with Koeman in charge (at least this season we have a striker who likes challenging for headers). Most of our goals in the last three weeks have come from good passing moves. Sure, it'd be nice to do that more often, and I'm sure that's what the manager would say too, but a month ago we were losing 5-1 at home to a mid-table Italian team and 4-1 at a non-scoring Southampton. Soooo, you know, Viva Allardyce and all that.

 

[MickA]

We've seen less long balls played in the last few games than at any point under Koeman this season or Unsworth - and under both of those our attack looked clueless and defence worse.

Pretty black and white statement that. I presume you have the facts at hand to back that claim up?

 

[Agent Blue]

Just admit that the sight of Big Sam in the stands gave the players a lift that night!

Or the fear of God!

 

[Nymzee]

Never understand peoples obsession with pretty football, winning is the only thing I crave, its the only thing I want.

But what about all the rondo's?

 

[Goat]

But what about all the rondo's?

I watch City for entertainment.

 

[Nymzee]

I watch City for entertainment.

I watch action movies personally.

 

[Goat]

I watch action movies personally.

Sometimes I dress up in womens clothes at night and go hunting.

 

[Nymzee]

Sometimes I dress up in womens clothes at night and go hunting.

Are you Buffalo Bill?

 

[Goat]

Are you Buffalo Bill?

Put the Barkley in the basket.

 

[Death]

Alright fess up, who here has grown sexually attracted to Allardyce?

 

[MickA]

Never understand peoples obsession with pretty football, winning is the only thing I crave, its the only thing I want.

Well I think in the wider sense it's generally the prettier football the better the players you have and the better manager you have and the better league position you take. You can't aspire to play in the CL playing percentage football, same as you can't play tiki-taka in Swansea's position.

Horses for courses, what do you aspire to be?

 

[bluesb1970]

I watch action movies personally.

By that do you mean you don’t get someone else to watch them and report back to you?

 

[Nymzee]

By that do you mean you don’t get someone else to watch them and report back to you?

Film scouting eh? Sounds like my kind of career.