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There seems to be a problem on the boards:

Dear Man City fans,

I'm a little bewildered as to why there is so much negativity towards RM on all the City forums I go on- even the posters who I would say are generous in giving time to our new managers seem to be up in arms.

His record for me is not that bad, there was a post up on BM this morning showing that in the last 8 games we have 18 points- same as Chelsea and 1 less than the rags.

Is it that ye want all out attacking football with two wingers or is it a hangover from the defeat to the rags?

I just don't get it

By the way, if pool beat arse tonight and we win our two games in hand we go above arse into 3rd place and we still have to play Spurs, Pool, Villa at home.

Yours etc,
Confused in Galway
(Otherwise known as Paul Lake's Knee)

PLK definitely has a point, fans are dissatisfied with what they see as negativity on the field, THREE defensive midfielders - at home - against Notlob?

My personal opinion is that Mancini can't afford many if any losses. He has a target to reach in a relatively short number of games, and has learned that life in the Premiership is not all pretty flicks and nutmegs, it hard and fast and physical. At the present, or since he arrived, we have been weak in defence, either through injury, international calls, or inexperience.

Mancini's first task was to school the defence, and that he has done without being able to call on his first team choices. That situation is gradually improving, thankfully, so Mancini will be more confident to attack, and give his forward players more confidence to push.

Thank God for Tevez, we have been saying, and Ade's goal last night was out of the top drawer. Mancini's two purchases in the last transfer window have made an immediate impact, notice, and although he didn't get Mariga, he done good. Hopefully.

Let's now support the current Manager and the team and hope he lasts longer than the last bloke - we don't want any more learning curves thank you, we need Mancini to become a success as much as Mancini himself needs to be successful. It's there for the taking.

CLEVBLUE