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Did anyone say he is world class? He deserves to play over anybody at the moment. He has been our best and most consistent player so far this season.what exactly did Fletch do so special today ? He had a good game, against Bolton. and ?. Now he is world class ?. wtf ?
He is having a good run at the moment. He is playing well , I have not got a problem with that. Long may it last. But steady on peeps.
Possibly Evans and Possebon this season too!Fletch and Brown are two quality players to have come up from the youth.
Possebon's hardly "brought up from the youth".Possibly Evans and Possebon this season too!
I largely agree. Except I've always believed he is superior to Butt.Always rated the lad, defended him a few years back when he was made the scapegoat on these forums by the majority of posters. He keeps things simple, he keeps things going. He reminds me of a Nicky Butt style player, loyal to the core and would keep running for the full 90 minutes.
IndeedI think at the moment he should be our first choice centre midfielder. He is often made the scapegoat (wrongly) for abject United performances. He has been fantastic this season. The one thing you get from him is 100% effort. He'll run all day and close down the opposition all day and stop them from playing. Very underrated player.
Yep, quite a few in this thread infact. It would help if you read it !Did anyone say he is world class? He deserves to play over anybody at the moment. He has been our best and most consistent player so far this season.
Indeed. The Roma demolition crew haven't had enough games together. Yet when they are used we beat Roma 7-1, murdered Arsenal in the fa cup, then pumped 5 past Newcastle at St. James Park last season. The Milan games are the only blight on their record so far. If I'm not mistaken.He controlled the match for the first half an hour. Wasn't quite so good for the rest of the match, but still one of our best players.
Fletch has always done well as the tireless hassler against the top teams, but generally struggled against lesser teams where we've needed better use of the ball. But he's showing signs of coming good in that area as well, he ran the show for the first 30 today and did the same in one of our other games (Villareal I think).
Hopefully he can keep this form up, I want to see the Carrick-Fletcher combo again. The two of them together have pulled off some of our best performances of the last two seasons, but haven't really had a good run together.
How becomingly humble of you!This place never ceases to amaze me. I spent about 4 years fighting a virtually lone battle in thread after thread, arguing that Darren was a good footballer, wan't shit, wasn't talentless, wasn't a Championship player, had plenty to offer. Now he gets a bit of consistency and scores a couple of goals and suddenly he's brilliant, a great player, world class.
You're a bunch of fecking retards
What do you expect from this place? For the record I've always backed him as well.This place never ceases to amaze me. I spent about 4 years fighting a virtually lone battle in thread after thread, arguing that Darren was a good footballer, wan't shit, wasn't talentless, wasn't a Championship player, had plenty to offer. Now he gets a bit of consistency and scores a couple of goals and suddenly he's brilliant, a great player, world class.
You're a bunch of fecking retards
How becomingly humble of you!
The true test of how good a player he is now will come from Fergusons selections. It wasn't random bad luck that Fletcher didn't feature in a Premiership starting line up last season until Sunderland towards the end of December, it wasn't injury, Fergie simply didn't fancy him with his other options available
Injuries have opened the door to Fletcher this season early on, and he's looking a very decent player. Lets not go overboard, we're still not playing very well, and he's not exactly playing like Keane reincarnate. But for someone like me who doesn't think he should even be in a United squad previously - it's not that he's so bad, it's more I see it as more productive that young players who have the potentially to be the best in their position, like a Possebon, have their opportunities held back by his presence. But I'm being made to look a little foolish with that opinion right now
You also backed Liam Miller so of course people are going to doubt you.This place never ceases to amaze me. I spent about 4 years fighting a virtually lone battle in thread after thread, arguing that Darren was a good footballer, wan't shit, wasn't talentless, wasn't a Championship player, had plenty to offer. Now he gets a bit of consistency and scores a couple of goals and suddenly he's brilliant, a great player, world class.
You're a bunch of fecking retards
Fletcher is more mobile than Butt. Although Butt's tackle is better.I largely agree. Except I've always believed he is superior to Butt.
The only reason why I felt he is superior to Butt is for me he passes the ball better than Butt ever could. Plus he now seems to be able to score goals too. Defensively though Butt still shades it because he was always a fantastic tackler and game reader. While Fletcher is still mastering that part of his game.Fletcher is more mobile than Butt. Although Butt's tackle is better.
As Fletcher has, hopefully, a lot of his career in front of him and Butt hasn't then it was right to sell Butt.
Superior? Not yet, anyway.
... they were running through us far too easily.........
Agree with this. I've always thought Fletch had the potential to be a good player with United. It used to be that he was a bit unreliable when he first came into the side after a spell out of it and needed two or three games to get back on his game at which point he would start to impress. That's not a lot different to most players. He seems to have added the ability to be completely reliable from game 1 of a spell which is one of the things that made Nicky Butt such an asset to the squad. Any United fan who isn't happy to see someone who can play the role Nicky Butt did wants his head feeling.The thing about Darren is he's the perfect pro. He lives and breathes football. He lost 2 very important years of development due to his knee so it's not surprising that he's still improving at 24. I'm sure he'll get even better over the next 2 seasons.
Can you not praise any any midfielder other than Carrick?He did well but the defending was pretty shocking, they were running through us far too easily and it's his job along with Anderson to stop that
But we were missing Vidic and Ferdinand for that game in MilanIndeed. The Roma demolition crew haven't had enough games together. Yet when they are used we beat Roma 7-1, murdered Arsenal in the fa cup, then pumped 5 past Newcastle at St. James Park last season. The Milan games are the only blight on their record so far. If I'm not mistaken.
So? The midfield simply couldn't compete with Milan. Especially at the San Siro. But now they probably can because they are both greatly improved.But we were missing Vidic and Ferdinand for that game in Milan