The Manchester United thread 2006/2007 - featuring BBB leaving early

[Saha]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Daaaaave:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Saha:

I feel so bad for Mark Ah well, he'll get over it in time for next year's thread.

I just want a decent midfield, Ruud to stay, and for us not to finish fourth. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

you'll get 3rd, one decent midfielder, a domestic cup final...and you'll make the knockout rounds of the CL :*) </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

That'd do me, I fully expect us to actually finish fourth due to the efforts of O'Shea and Giggs tbh

[James07?]

there's almost a good point in there somewhere.

[Saha]

Wouldn't you be better served asking that in the scouse thread?

[Scatter]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Keyser:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Scatter:

so basically Holger Osieck (best name ever btw) reads Teh Sun. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

nah Podolski had a far better tournament than Ronaldo. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

maybe. but specifically singling out ronaldo from a tournament that has been crammed with cheats is absolutely ridiculous.

[snipersdream]

Debut season O'Shea > Maldini tbh

Where did it all go wrong :*(

[wakeyrocket]

We've always had a great "fox in the box" type of goalscorer RVN replaced Sheringham but who out there can we get to replace RVN? like you say Torres is Rooney esq as is Defoe

[snipersdream]

This will ALWAYS be my favourite.

Keano :*)

Quinn gutted :*)

So much wasted Turkish Delight :*)

[Barry Cartman]

Evra was fb on his debut

[Taz & The Devil]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JulesMUFC:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Taz & The Devil:

Too late Jules son. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

/o\, mon the dazzle. Im backing him to have a STORMER. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I hope he does too, i might think he's crap but if he plays i hope he does well.

Richardson too who has been good this pre season.

[wazup]

Fergie got his man then

BBC news ticker is saying so anyway

[NSteelez]

I'd be pleased if we signed Hargreaves but I am one of those who've always rated him. I'd also be pleased that we're signing British players. We're the only one from Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool that are maintaining a British base to our squad, something that I feel is part of the Man Utd ideal.

[No Longer Bling]

less chest hair also

[James07?]

the tiny bit of bum fluff on the upper lip is the only thing that stops him looking about 9.

[alilaw]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by James07?:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by alilaw:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by James07?:

I neither come from or live in Birmingham thankyouverymuch! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isn't it somewhere worse than that? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

there's somewhere worse? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

There speaks a man who's never been to Middlesborough.

I'm racking my brains trying to remember. Leamington Spa? Redditch? Something like that...

[James07?]

Sal's doing a 10 mile run the week before the vermin come to town, so no half marathon on the same day now \0/ \0/ \0/ \0/

[Mika]

If you want to do 0-100 yourself you're welcome though.

[Mika]

I still don't think we have a hope in hell of the title yet, so Chelsea all the way.

[gonch19]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by goon:

Gonch's location is a complete lie. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

not my words, the words of ajw10

:**)

now get out, you jinxing thread bandit

[Philip Rolfe]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">how, for example, would Jose Mourinho compensate for John Terry being injured in February? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

the same way we did without him at Fulham and did without him last night. Win comprehensively.

Boooooooooooooooooooulah

[Coldberg]

So who do we have as a backup striker if Smith goes out on loan & Solskjaer is injured?

I am talking about players whose primary position is a forward/striker here, not about moving Giggs or Ronaldo forward.

[Coldberg]

I am getting a new one sometime next week.

Not having a moblie isn't as bad as I thought it would be tbh.

Going to bed now though.

Don't be late

[JulesMUFC]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BBB:

yeah but you're ginger Jules, no hope mate </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

mate where is the safety wink , im about as ginger as Rio.

[ACou2000]

about to play the traditional Pro Evo simulation game before the important matches we play irl

WISH ME LUCK

[Taz & The Devil]

Has the club even released any injury new on Ronnie or Louis?

I know everyone is reporting they have knocks but i'm guessing they are just taking that from the fact they both came off injured against chelsea.

[Scatter]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Saha:

you should ring them up and say 'don't make me ang li, you wouldn't like me when i'm ang li'. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

that's just awful.

no glazers = no debt = something similar to the way barca are run >>>>>> treble.

we're living in fantasy land.

[gonch19]

i would walk to holland to get klaas jan huntelaar. he is so fffffffffffb

[Saha]

I'd still rather have him sitting in the centre of old trafford with a nokia up his arse than another O'Shea performance.

[Mika]

Ji

[Pickles]

GKs

Schmeichel

van der Sar

van der Gouw

Ds

Gary Neville

Stam

Ferdinand

Irwin

Parker

Bruce

Pallister

Johnsen

Ms

Beckham

Giggs

Scholes

Kanchelskis

Sharpe

Keane

Robson

Ronaldo

Ss

van Nistelrooy

OGS

Cantona

Rooney or Andy Cole (can't decide - I loved Andy Cole)

Got Wycombe vs Chelsea icket today \o/ £14, bargain!

[mark g]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by mark g:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

I see what you're saying and I'm not worrying as such, I just don't see the six points as being as significant as it might look. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm more looking at a 6 point lead, effectively 7, as being beyond my wildest dreams for this stage of the season had you asked me in august. I see what you're saying in terms of significance, as bigger leads have been lost to lesser teams than Chelsea at this stage of previous seasons. But the same assumptions that might suggest us finishing second this year wouldn't have given us this lead either, so there's at least hope where before there was none. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Fair enough, as you know I'm not particularly one for hope, unless there is a good reason for it.

I would rather be 6pts up than 6pts behind of course, there's just a)a feeling that things about the current squad feel too good to last, the lack of injuries etc b)Chelsea have too much class not to get it together c)We've had chances liker against them at home, the Newcastle match etc to extend the lead and that it really should be more than 6 atm and it'll come to haunt us.

I realise that each of those can be just as easily countered, but I'm usually going to take the cautious/pessimistic argument </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I do take your points, and i think they have merit. I'm not going to counter them as such, just simply say that there are enough reasons to be happy that the inevitability of a Chelsea title victory hasn't been there so far this season, even if that's still the eventual outcome.

[ACou2000]

gh :*(

[mark g]

The last minute match saving volley against Oldham in the FA cup semi has to be up there.

I think the best he ever scored purely on technique was for Wales against Spain. Similar to the one against City, but higher, further out, and with more power.

As for him being manager one day, he's progressing well, but he's nowhere near there yet. As far as i'm concerned the fact he's a former player should have no bearing on it, and if you took that factor out and judged him purely on his managreial record you wouldn't consider him yet. As far as i'm concerned, ranking managers more highly because they're former players is akin to ranking managers for the national team more highly because they're english. The advantages are very minor, and for me should only be looked at in the event of two otherwise pretty equal candidates.

[Saha]

First or third, but yeah none of them are fantastic.

[Mika]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by alilaw:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mika:

The Bellion > Saha though. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ruud hate >>>>>>> Saha hate </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Daaaaave]

I am wes orange tbf

[Weststandred]

quality

[RedBlood]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">idn't watch the HT analysis because of Ian Wright/Shearer being so **** so didn't see/hear the abuse, did he do 5 times on the broadcast? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">did he do 5 times on the broadcast? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dean off here text me said he gave the five fingers to the united lot

[BBB]

I'm not sure, think it's 500 metres per lap, doing 10 a day. will gradually increase, running first thing in the morning ifb.

aye RB, out today, ditto RN

[BBB]

I hate Boro, so so much.

What a hovel of a city, utterly **** poor ground, literally it's plonked in the middle of nowhere. Police stopping us at a petrol station to search for beer, then a escort to the ground.

Having Fergie talk over the tannoy to tell us to "respect the stewards", having several messages of "Riverside is an all seater stadium please sit down", then the scoreboard "Sit down if you love football" a stadium announcer with a voice like a helium balloon.

Police on horses charging at United fans for commiting the horrible crime of not getting onto the coaches, a copper shoving a young lad for the same thing.

then onto the boro fans waiting for us giving us abuse and clenched fists and easeh chanting :*************)

I'd love a nuke to hit that utter hovel of a City, won't be going there for a game again in a hurry.

[ACou2000]

actually 'do one' is a phrase that should be used far more often

Monkfish from Fast Show wffb

[Ratinho]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Keyser:

If you have reported him, you're the worst mincer in this thread since Carter

:ratinho: </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Relatively intrigued.

[mark g]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BBB:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by No Longer Bling:

was out in town one night with my then girlfriend and saw him in nandos with some lad she knew. she refused to go and speak to her mate tho as because id had a few drinks was convinced i was gonna stick a fork through his eyes. should have too.

i blame myself for this defeat. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Should have sacrificed yourself </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep. Like samauri diners of old, you should have thrown yourself on your fork

[H.O.V.I]

both you and roma have been fined for the crowd trouble in rome.

not sure how much mind.

[alilaw]

We played Fulham in 99, no?

[Gazz22]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Razzler:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">feeling pretty confident about tonight, we've got goals all through the side, and I just can't see us not scoring. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Everyone said they couldnt see Chelsea not scoring last night </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Who said that?

Haven't Chelsea not scored against Liverpool at Anfield in a good few matches in the CL? It wasn't that big of a shock that Chelsea didn't score.

[ACou2000]

yeah it clearly was Silvestre, the poor deluded bastard

get rid Fergie ffs. Heinze going first though :*(

[No Longer Bling]

i went with nick, think it was fairly easy this year.

good all round posting, a **** out in the scouse thread and not bad on the eyes. cant ask for much more.

[Mika]

Because the Ruud debates were getting ridiculous and annoying everyone and one in particular irritated me so I thought it was best to take a break from the thread to let things settle down.

[Nick OGS20]

hope Smithy stays if he's happy to play a squad role, but at the same time wouldn't blame him at all for seeking a first team spot somewhere if we bring in another forward or two (unlikely ofc).

Saviola would be class on a free, not quite the non-fragile Saha we're looking for but he's a mobile goalscoring frontman, technically-gifted and not exactly a slouch. just lacking the physical presence we need really.