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More poppycock:

Some div has been arrested for posting images of him burning a plastic poppy on Facebook.

His message just about says it all: "how about that you squadey cunt"

Yes. "Squadey".

The horror. The horror

Not played much yet but the guns feel superb. They seem to have nailed the feel of them (or what I assume they would feel like)

Yeah, they've deffo beefed up the recoil and clattering noise. Even the infamously wimpy Assault Rifle is a pleasure to fire

343 have done an amazing job

Guardian Reader QED

Sanctimonious

Fucking know it all

You probably live in Islington

My first "2 lines were so spectaculraly fucking dumb"

Ignorant Prententious Knob

Oh dear

Not having that, Cech would save that shot 100 out of 100 times, any half decent finisher would aim for the far corner.

He's a left-back, not Robbie Fowler

I think it deserves its own thread as its a pretty specific question and people seem very reluctant to answer it elsewhere and unlike others I dont cry in several posts if I dont get an answer to a question I have asked.

 

That and another issue will be solved by this thread.

I think sometimes you mistake "reluctance to answer" for the very different "can't be fucking arsed to answer"

Chuck D is right about everything

It's very thoughtful of you to post essentially the same fucking thing, making the same fucking point, in several threads across both Forums.

Just in case anyone - say a casual browser or someone who might occasionally dabble in football-related topics - missed it the first time. Or second. Or hundredth.

You're one of life's givers.

Luis fouled to get his goal on Sunday- that decision did go our way.

I'd call it a "cute little nudge"

i never wanted carroll to go and think he would be boss for us now if we had kept him (although i admit he did play shit for us a lot). I'd also like kevin nolan. oh and enrique pisses me off. not just because he now looks like a cunt.

I've always quite liked Kevin Nolan and wanted us to buy him a few years ago.

Largely because he scores a lot of goals.

However, his main drawback is that he doesn't do that much else. As a midfielder he doesn't really dictate play, or tackle much, or pass cleverly. He's almost invisible in lots of games. And then he scores.

He was the only one of Kenny's summer signings that I wanted, but he just went right off the boil for a bit. Brilliant start, defensively he was very good for that while, and never beaten 1-on-1, but didn't have the same impact up top as Glen can.

 

That reminds me of code's hatred of Johnson. Anyway, agree with you, he could have won it.

Well, I think Magic's a great player full stop.

Enrique was our best player yesterday, and put Suarez through for what should have been the winner.

He had a very good shot towards the end, too.

I don't know what happend to him after his very good start at Liverpool, but I hope we can get that player back on a consistent basis, because that Enrique is one of the best LBs in the Premiership.

Not at the level of Cole or Baines maybe, but very good, and our best since Riise was at the top of his game.

So they cost about the same as Carroll, Downing and Henderson?

Worse United team I've seen in years, yet they're top.

We can only sign mediocre players because, the odd great night apart, we have been mediocre since 1992. Unfortunately we have to start building from the bottom, like 1959 (I'm not old enough to remember that though!!)

Anybody who demands instant success is naive and clueless. It's not happening.

God bless the sky generation.

United's team last season weren't great, but still threw away the title very narrowly. And they've added one of the best strikers in Europe to that team, as well as one or two other promising squad players.

And we don't need to "start from the bottom". We aren't at the bottom. Yet.

We have proven top quality performers like Gerrard, Reina, Agger, Skrtel, Johnson, Suarez. We have some decent footballers who can improve and do a job at Premiership level like Allen, Shelvey and Enrique. We have some promising young players like Wisdom, Sterling, Suso and Assaidi. At least one of which should make it to the very top level.

I don't give a toss where we finish so long as it is not in the bottom 3. I don't care at what stage we get knocked out of the cups.

I'd rather this year was the low point. Ground zero. For me it is all about development and transition from her on in.

New style, young players, long term development. I'm all for it. Might not work but there is no viable alternative.

That's a "no thanks" from me.

Says the poster with a chef avatar.

Well, yeah, but in his defence it's a Swedish, Muppet chef.

Who are famously well-adjusted. And also not real.

John Terry Translation device:

"HURTY! Mongo leg-foot bad hurty! No more play kickball"

Translation:

"I am in severe pain. I think I may have suffered some ligament damage and therefore require immediate substitution from the field of play"

Don't suppose anyone has noticed that Liverpool have conceded the same number of goals as the mancs, that team 5 points clear on top. Having Van Persie, Rooney and Hernandez makes a huge difference. BR sounds confident about funds in January, let's hope so.

Agreed, but RVP, Rooney and Hernadez cost £60m. Have we got that much?

And even if we did, we'd never be able to sign a player like RVP.

And finally, United have been fucking APPALLING defensively. I don't think it's anything to aspire to. It's like when people keep pointing out how "rubbish" United's centeral midfielders are, as if the first step to aping their success in the Premiership was to buy some crap midfielders.

This was never going to be a quick fix. If we wanted a quick fix, O'Neil, Allardyce, or somebody like that, they'd have been better placed to give us a short-term boost with the players we had. We could have kept Andy Carroll and got a right-winger to balance Downing on the left. I just don't think it'd take us very far in the long term. It'd be another sticky plaster for a gunshot to the head.

It could be a quick fix if we get some owners with lots of cash. And then spend it with someone like Mourinho in charge. Because failing that, we won't ever challenge again.

As for your gunshot analogy, I'd prefer a sticky plaster to another gunshot to the head.

The way Rodgers wants to play has no Plan B, and no team has ever won the Premiership playing tippy-tappy Barca-lite football. And never will.

I thought this earlier. I've been banging on about us getting a powerful midfielder for ages instead we keep buying players who's idea of a good pass is passing it backwards.

Yeah. You need a tough, powerful, imposing midfielder. If he can play a bit too - unlike Sissoko - all the better.

And I tire of all this "who cares how fast/ big he is" when talking about Sahin and Alen and using Alonso as a comparison.

Xabi Alonso could tackle like a demon, was tough as fuck, positionally a genius and could spray a pass 40 yards forwards as well as 5 yards sideways.

Which is why he was, and is, miles better than either Sahin or Allen.

Yeah, my question is whether or not you'd prefer Allardyce's West Ham, and their lack of possession but one goal against Newcastle - and the future prospects he'd bring - because it's quite easy to make possible. Would you have Allardyce and Big Andy over Rodgers and what he's going to try to do over the next few years?

Would I prefer ceding the possession count and winning, to losing but having higher possession stats?

Of course. Everyone would.

I tried to do his recipe for chilli once, took fucking ages, a right faff, making a butter that then melts into the meat. Me and wife sat down to eat it, had a mouthful each and agreed it was shite. I'm more than aware of the possibility that my shite skills fucked something up and rendered it the worst thing I've ever tasted but I was gutted after spending hours on it.

 

Now he's got a range of ready meals at Waitrose and the same chilli is one of them, I'm going to have to buy one to see if I fucked it up.

I've seen that chilli one. Quite interesting, but absurdly protracted and complicated for a bowl of fucking chilli. But I suppose that's the whole point of that programme.

I'd bit your hand off to finish above 8th to be honest.

 

Though Glen Johnson was excellent vs. Chelsea. Looked what he is supposed to be this season - an experienced player of International quality.

 

It's all about January now - direct forwards who can score. Over to you LFC.

Johnson is a great player. If we can add a few signings in January, we have a good side, but I fear Rodgers's tactical intransigence is going to be disastrous

----------------------Reina--------------

Johnson------Agger---------Skrtel--------Enrique

-------------Allen-----------Wanyame---------

Sterling---------------Gerrard------------New Player

----------------------Suarez----------------------

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

Guillermo Del Toro's name was - once again - splashed all over the cover, but it was clear he had minimal involvement.

Guy Pierce was in it, hopelessly miscast and useless, and Tom Cruise's ex.

Little girl gets terrorised by evil fairie-folk from the basement. Who are about 6 inches tall.

Some comedy scenes in which the diminutive baddies swarm all over some poor unfortunates, slashing them with scissors and little blades.

It was a bit like that 80s classic "The Gate" except not as (intentionally) funny. OR scary.

5 "Produced by Guillermo Del Toro"'s out of 10

Guess I bought into all the bullshit that was flying around - we'd play like Barca etc. He'd had a decent season with a Swansea outfit who'd played good football.

 

Guess I judge a manager by how he conducts himself. Gerrard's playing rubbish, there's some weird shit going on with Reina and he keeps making excuses in post-match interviews.

 

He just ain't the man for the job and it'll probably taker losing Suarez before people realise this.

But that just reflects poorly on you, your judgement and your expectations, and thus renders irrelevant your new conclusions that he "ain't the man for the job"

I'd like us to buy Celtic's Wanyama (and of course, an attacker. Or two).

Allen and Sahin can't dominate midfields and we need some extra muscle and power. He'd be perfect.

That would allow us to send Sahin back to Madrid early, as he's been fucking useless, and also get rid of Henderson, as he is useless also.

1. Suarez

2. Enrique

3. Sterling

 

Honourable mention to the living legend too.

Tempted to swap Sterling for Gerrard, and Carragher was good also.