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

[Confused Clarity]

If Torres has any sense he'll turn them down and come to us.

It's not just about going to the club who will give you the most money, it's about playing football. Torres loves to play the game and hopefully he'll see us as a club where he'll have the ability to play on a more regular basis and become a legend rather than being replaced by the next flavour of the month next year.

[Saha]

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

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

We could lock the thread every Tuesday. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

i'm sure i'm missing something obvious here... why tuesdays? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Why must everyone assume there's a reason behind my inane ramblings?

[Asmodeus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">John O'Shea will be put into midfield. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[BBB]

I can see mass booing as well if he stays.

[gonch19]

so the biggest day of our preseason results in us buying a shady, barthez-like keeper equally capable of the extraordinary or the howler, as backup for £4m?

i am now officially a doomlord

[Mika]

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

...every time he scored, he had a smile on his face and you knew it meant the world to him, especially the penalty against Arsenal.

</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

So true

[Taz & The Devil]

Great ball by Evra and Fletcher misses with a header from 2 yards if that.

[Pickles]

We've been mugged

[No Longer Bling]

angry puppy

[BBB]

You didn't want to sign Rooney either

[H.O.V.I]

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

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by H.O.V.I:

I want hargreaves at arsenal </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Unfeckin'lucky, then. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

things can change mate

[Razor Eddie]

Cantona 10 pts

Best 9

Hughes 8

Ruud 7

Keane 6

Charlton 5

Robson 4

Scholes 3

Ole 2

Stiles 1

And before any fecker says " you gotta have seen 'em "- I did

[ajw10]

haha the Sun has just got worse

[Nick OGS20]

This "we have midfielders who can do a job up there" rubbish can **** right off as well btw - so we're short on numbers in one area of the pitch, and we're now going to weaken that further by asking some of the few players we do have in that area to do a job elsewhere?

I've had enough of square ****ing pegs in round ****ing holes

[ericcantona7]

plasma?

[SLO_Fila]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

I only properly saw the 2nd half today but Fletcher actually looked rather good (certainly by his winger standards) on the right

Huge workrate and some decent link up play without too much giving the ball away etc. dfifb. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

He adds nothing to the offensive

His workrate helped him look good defensively, i even thought at one point "nicely done Fletch" but that was in our own half and doing the defensive job, not the offense.

[Nick OGS20]

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

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">You’ve the likes of me, mark, taz, nick and terry C. discussing the real issues in a mature manner, with the rest of you scrabbling around like so many delinquents in a playground. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Nick is honoured to have just been named in such esteemed company. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Indeed

Although I suspect once I say I agree with the 'Ole was fb on the right that season and, in that formation, WAS a long-term option there pre-injury' view, I'll be disowned by that illustrious company

[Nick OGS20]

my other half has just ordered it. yoink

[MarkH]

Gents, I thought I would post this in here rather than opening a new thread.

I am coming to Old Trafford for the Eng - Macedonia game on Sat 7th Oct.

We are getting the train to Manchester Picadilly. How do i get to OT from there? I understand that there is a metro/train link to the station, does it run often?

The game is a 5pm kick off, so we should be out by 7pm. My train leaves picadilly at 7.50 - what is the best/quickest way to get back to picadilly?

Cheers guys, i have only drove to OT before, public transport scares me...

Any help appriciated..

[James M]

Indeed

"A Club may at its discretion use three substitute players at any time in a match. Substitution can only be made when play is stopped for any reason and the Referee has given permission. A maximum of five substitutes may be nominated and they must be included on the Official Team Sheet handed to the Referee before the match."

Those are the rules for the youth cup, it won't be different.

[ACou2000]

pires keep it in the match thread kthx

[Gazz22]

Well at least we've got attackers on the bench to change the game...wait.

[Coldberg]

I cannot see us losing.

Rooney or Ronaldo will pull something out of their arse for us & hopefully Joe Cole will throw another tantrum o nthe pitch

Vidic to do the easy chant in his face (although I hate it) would be topping on the cake at full time

[Keyser]

see very first post here

[Mika]

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

If SAF gets even a tiny whiff of Mika optimism he’ll be resting players quicker than you can say ‘O’Shea and Richardson in midfield, Fletcher wide right and Tommy K in at right back for a laugh’ </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Imagine the reaction if I text the team news to the wall and it has Richardson in it...

[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 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 Mika:

Oh one other thing Taz, Boulahrouz did his medial knee ligaments. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Lucky twats, we would never be so lucky as to lose KR to an injury like that.

Watch Chelsea go and replace him with some £30m defender now. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Jose said he'd rather play his 55 year old Assistant there than sign someone

But yeah, he surely has to bring someone in. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

He said he'd rather play his assistant than pay well over the odds for someone, which is not the same thing.

[Mika]

No replay \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

[James07?]

I normally do too Matt, but I've not got the TV on so I thought I'd wait until MOTD for once..given up now.

Mark - not that I know of

[Gazz22]

MotM: Ronaldo

Runner-up: Vidic

Credit must also go to Scholes and Carrick who made all the right decisions.

Ronaldo is turning into something of a game-opener. This isn't the first time he has broken open the scoring against a team.

[Mika]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ACou2000:

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

i wouldve gone with 94 99 03 07 tbf </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

whs

Ruud </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

:*)

Though 2003 really was the start of the transitional period between the 1999 team and the current side I guess, I'd probably put it at the end of the 1999 side if anything. One description I remember of that season was that it was the last stand of a great side, and as it turned out, I think that was quite accurate.

But still, what a side :*)

[Nick OGS20]

<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 Nick OGS20:

Saha was utterly abysmal, worst i've ever seen him play - no first touch, no movement, no effort or workrate and never looked like scoring the chances he had. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't mince your words Nick. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

he was utterly infuriating. he has these days like today all too regularly (albeit not quite on this scale), just a complete waste of space when he's in that mood.

[T!mbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWAAUIWCmsc

Taken from today's Guardian sports video blog.

[Scatter]

we will this time

[JulesMUFC]

we were ****, no one really deserve motm. vds was ok, rio was better than vidic, scholes was doing well for a while.

motm: fergie for going 4 4 2, yelling at g nev and SEETHING afterwards.

2nd: ref for LOVING us. (L)

[Mika]

And old favourite there :*)

[Blink2k]

ha, so on fm07 i drew Roma in the qf's, beat them quite comfortably, am now in the final against liverpool...

but i lost the premiership towards the end of the season and liverpool knocked me out of the fa cup.

[Mika]

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

I'm not construction savvy so can I just make sure that I understand what a "cantilevered stand" would entail?: </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isn't that to do with basically allowing the roof to be there without having the being supported by pillars unlike at Goodison etc?

[Weststandred]

<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 Weststandred:

chubbed for Chelsea. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Can't get through. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

i'm guessing when you got through you found out you'd been chubbed?

[Wilbie]

<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:

wp wilbie btw who threw some notes on scholes scoring iirc </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Indeed. Shall pay for my night out tonight.

Performance of champions today lads, it's ours.

[Nick OGS20]

and yeah, i'd much rather be home first. keep it tight, don't concede any away goals and then pick them off on the counter in the second leg. if we played as we should play that'd be even more the case. as it is, with our current style, i can almost picture 0-0 in Rome and then them picking us off as we desperately try to manafacture a goal using our brilliant 451 at OT.

[merry_miller]

If you get to that situation again then might be worth offering turnstile bloke a sly tenner if your attempt at jibbing doesn't work and there's none of the ob in view - he's got nowt to lose by letting you push through after all his clicks would still add up and he's got all ticket stubs from people.

[claytonzane]

Arteta >>>>>>>>>>>>> MGP

Can't really see why anyone would want MGP to come to us, he's got no pace and can't beat a man one-on-one to save his life.

[ACou2000]

14AlanSmith pretty spot on there.

If I had to attach blame to anyone for the 1st goal it was Evra .. at the time the free kick was given I was pretty annoyed at him for being so stupid

[Maverick]

Yeah, stick her at left back for the City match, see how she does.

[Young Jimlad]

World of Warcraft

[ajw2255]

on filed anelka may be worth a fair bit of money, but including his personality reduces his value by a few million imo.

5m at most for him imo

[EmmYouEffSee]

Kanchelskis then Becks then Ruud...all awful moments in time

[Coldberg]

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

nah, the paedo stuff is no way as constant at keith. iirc noone else "banters" with me as much as you do, whereas keith gets it from everyone. if keith told me to stop it then I would, if I told you to stop it, will you? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

If it upsets you & makes you want to self harm then yes I will. ****ing hell just tell me to **** off or kick me in the balls or something.

[Nick OGS20]

being sat where i do for that Carrick goal was very very special. following the line of the shot and then jerking my head back the other way as it struck the inner side-netting :*)

same thing for Rio's vs Liverpool in the other corner actually