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I think there is a general malaise about City at the moment; we're handily placed in the league and still in the cup but we seem to be a club treading water. It's all a bit flat, in the pubs and on the forums. Not that we haven't anything to talk about, it's that we've got too much to talk about. The problem is the only talking point is potential or what's going to happen, it's all conjecture. We've got ephemera when what we need is solidity, we're brilliant at marketing but we're not producing substantial results.

It's difficult to preach patience to a set of fans that haven't seen success since the Dark Ages but what we need is a period of boring stability, every day we pick up the 'papers and see who's next in, Ribery, Kaka, Vidic and Uncle Tom Cobleigh an' all, our new manager will be along in the summer, we're developing the ground, we're buying Arsenal as a feeder club.

To the new management the United semi final was a bad defeat but to us it was another in a long history of City letting us down. Nobody at the club can or should be blamed, these are the scars we carry with us from Hamburg, West Ham, Blackburn to name but a few recent calamities; how can we explain the hurt of being one penalty kick away from Europe to a manager that hardly knew of our existence when it happened?

So now when we see all this investment we expect players like Adebayor, Lescott, Toure et al to stop the pain and actually win something for us; our expectations and desires are magnified a hundred fold and our anxiety is unfairly passed onto a squad that through no fault of their own find themselves at City.

This season City have provided the media with more column inches than we have in the previous 10 years combined so there's no shortage of stuff to talk about, we just need something to talk about that doesn't involve yet more change. ~Ian Guildford~