After the second time the commentator referred to Blackett as Blacklett, I just put the commentary on mute.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
They said several times that the pitch was soggy? And kept pointing out that players were slipping too much. In fact they didn't shut up about it.
Did you watch it on MUTV?
Got caught in possession a couple of times. Not great overall, tbh.@WyoManU Carrick wasn't awful at all
Played up front for the u21's all last season, didn't he?
Cruyff turn I thought and he'd want to spend less time practicing them and more time working on 20 yard passes to his own fecking team mates.Did Evans just do a Zidane turn?
Roma ran circles around us. We just scored from our two chances to progress.
I've seen Schweinstiger playing in a Manchester United shirt! - That will do for me from a rather messy match.
Why the Evans hate on here I will never understand. He looked way better than Jones for starters and it is not like other players didn't misplace passes. Smalling made a meal out of a much simpler pass which gave them an opportunity.
The dislike for a player often comes in the way of actually seeing how he actually performed.
Good 1st half against Roma bad 2nd.
Januzaj played as a striker today.
And I have no idea why.
Played well up top, more suited to that position than Lingard or Perreria.
Thought it was meh from what I saw..
Which is a good sign, as myself and everyone here, knocked one out over how great we were last pre season.
Good sign
Which is a good sign, as myself and everyone here, knocked one out over how great we were last pre season.
Good sign
Go and have a look at my comments on the Evans transfer thread yesterday and then come back and apologise for including me in your generalisation.
Watching a match and calling what you see is not hate, it is simply calling what you see.
Other players under hit passes or made mistakes under pressure. Evans on 3 occasions, hoofed long passes straight to the opposition. Once when he was under pressure and twice when he was not. Two of the passes put us under real pressure. I expect more from Evans and said so but that isn't "hate".
I disagree with you that he looked better than Jones today.
Best XI from today 4-3-3 (edit- best out of 2 players that played in each position)
Johnstone
Darmian Jones Evans Shaw
Carrick
Herrera Schneiderlin
Lingard Rooney pereira
Johnstone
Darmian Jones Evans Shaw
Carrick
Herrera Schneiderlin
Lingard Rooney pereira
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He did well, but he's a number 10 really. He needs a lot more involvement to show his quality as is the case with playmakers. It's preseason which is about giving everyone a chance but in the long run I hope we don't convert him. Even last season I didn't think he played his natural game (too much touch line hugging).
Would disagree. For me Depay would get in over Rooney, Young over Lingard and Schweinsteiger over Carrick.
You either love or hate him, and i absolutely despise him lol. He just completely ruins matches. I want to watch football, not a Spain tour guide.That isn't even exaggerated and exactly why I love him, he's so random at times and can make boring games so much more fun. Everytime I now see Arda Turan I think he's called super turk because of Sierd
Depay had some good touches but he too didn't exactly have a good game. I chose Rooney because he played the striker and he was better than Wilson. Schweini was good but had a few misplaced passes one of which almost led to a goal. He was good but not better than Carrick imo. Lingard was real good I thought. And he played better than mata did at RW
No Rooney, Lingard or Carrick for me. The former 2 did squat.
Rooney and Evans?? You sure you were awake?
Sierd de Vos is so weird, he's the only commentator who you actually notice. He commentates from Isco's dog (Barca) till a swimming pool when its rainy. He's great.
It's the best out of the two in each position. Evans was better than blind at LCB, Lingard looked better than mata Carrick was slightly better than schweini and Rooney was better than Wilson. Only Carrick is arguable
Carrick was caught in possession a few times in the first half, nearly gave a goal or two away as a result. Was really poor. Depay was the standout player of the first half imo, Rooney did absolutely nothing. I'd nearly have Wilson over him.
But football is about opinions.
Johnstone
Darmian, Jones, Smalling, Shaw
Herrera Schneiderlin
Januzaj Depay Pereira
Wilson
Neither Wilson nor Rooney did great, but Wilson marginally better
Darmian, Jones, Smalling, Shaw
Herrera Schneiderlin
Januzaj Depay Pereira
Wilson
Neither Wilson nor Rooney did great, but Wilson marginally better
Neither do I have the time nor the inclination to read other threads for your posts. As far as apologizing is concerned, I won't because your comment was unnecessarily harsh considering it was just the first match of the pre-season and there were players misplacing passes left, right and center.
Smalling misplaced a much easier pass 10 yards away which nearly caught us out. Schweini misplaced a simple pass. Jones hit 2-3 long passes which went nowhere near any of our players. He was also caught out of position when he charged upfield to tackle a player and Darmian had to cover for him.
I don't see you picking out any of these things but only seemed interested in pointing out a couple of long passes from Evans which he misplaced. Not to mention you conveniently forget the passes were hit long because of us getting pressed at the back and our midfielders all being marked.
But hey, go ahead and tell us how Evans is shit.
Sierd isn't to everyone's taste, I didn't like him at first either. But after spending many afternoons watching boring BBVA and EL matches I started to appreciate his little tips during matches to google names of players their hot sisters
Everything is arguable, as it's all subjective. I'd personally have januzaj ahead of rooney as he almost played as a striker today. Schweinstiger definitely better than Carrick IMO. And lingard did nothing for me. Mata was better despite being just okay himself. Opinions.
Bravo. Great reasoned response. And good job following the rule of discussing a point and not attacking a poster.
Carrick is debatable yes. Schweini too made mistakes. On second thoughts yes having Schneiderlin and darmian would probably have helped schweini too. Hopefully it is just rustiness. Rooney got into positions and even got in a shot (which was shit). Wilson ran hard with no real end product. Got a couple of chances which amounted to nothing. He imo is still raw and needs a loan this season (unfortunately we are short of strikers so I don't see it happening)
I tried the reasoned response mate. You read and took what you wanted to take.
I'm not getting drawn into an argument with a guy who's already decided what my opinion is and explicitly refuses to receive posts which show otherwise.
Plus he always makes it insanely obvious how much he loves barca and dislikes madrid lol. Its not fun to watch the match when you are a madrid fan. I sit there watching hearing him rant about marcelo/pepe/ramos like the majority of the match how they got no brains, or should be locked up....or suggesting that marcelo puts chili peppers in his anus.Sierd isn't to everyone's taste, I didn't like him at first either. But after spending many afternoons watching boring BBVA and EL matches I started to appreciate his little tips during matches to google names of players their hot sisters
I pointed out what I saw in the match in terms of other players being equally rusty and you didn't bother to notice any of that, even if you did you didn't take the effort to put that in your posts.
However you explicitly mentioned Evans' lack of passing skills which is what I pointed out. When I mentioned other players making similar sloppy passes and having poor positioning, you came up with that stupid line about arguing with idiots and what not. Learn to accept that people can have differing views than you. I didn't attack you personally when you thought Evans was poor. I just mentioned that personal bias can come in the way of reasoning which is true for most people.
So how good were we?
This is my last post on this matter.
I am perfectly happy that you have a different point of view. If you hadn't refused to look at the posts I made yesterday, you would have seen that I agree with your point of view and criticised what I felt was unfair treatment Evans was receiving in the transfer forum last night.
What I am not happy with, and tried to explain to you, is you telling me what my opinion, or bias is and then refusing to listen when I tell you you're wrong. I am unhappy with you putting words in my mouth about Evans lack of skills or "telling you how shit he is" on the back of one offhand remark about doing Cruyff turns after 3 very poor passes in 45 minutes. The same sort of comment I would make about Smalling, Rooney, Schweinsteiger or bloody Messi in the same circumstances.
That is what earned you the pidgeon, not your opinion on a football player.
Guys where can I see the full game?
Overall it was a decent run out for the team and thankfully no one got injured on that rough pitch. Most of the threads of the players that stood out have been bumped but one that hasn't is Paddy McNair, I thought after Pereira he was the youngster that really took his chance in that second half.
that commentary was fecking woeful and so was the refereeing, the ref looked like it was his most important match in his career and whistled almost everything..
can't wait to see another game, three long days to go, damn
About a yard offside for me. Not that I'm complaining.
What was Carrick doing for the first 5 minutes