But if you read comments on here in the past week, the front 3 sucked and they all needed to be sold and replaced.
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Are we? That's quite funny.
But yet we don't have the best goal difference. Just a DM and a DC to bring in and we'll be smiling.
to be fair - I would assume those comments were before tonight, and before tonight where were we in the league in terms of goals scored? (I don’t know the answer, but assume not top?).
We just won 9-0
Do any of us watch United ?
There's really a massive disconnect between how the team performs on the pitch and how the team is discussed on here.
It's weird.
There's really a massive disconnect between how the team performs on the pitch and how the team is discussed on here.
It's weird.
Joint second with Liverpool and one ahead of Leicester, although there may have been games in hand.
Still you'd think we were mid-table the way some were carrying on.
True, but fans were happy to thrash out goal difference and go ballistic if you tried to say martial got sent off against spurs
it’s not something I look at. So near the top of the league! Agreed, the swing in mood is far too frantic on here. It’s a problem that each and every game is scrutinised forensically.
A third of our goals were scored in 2 games 
The pendulum swings once more!
You're right about the mood.
Honestly we're not shit and we're not brilliant but we are improving if you view things over the medium to long term.
Our front 3 are not performing anywhere near the level the did last year.
Many of us have said if they (martial rash greenwood) hit post first lockdown form we will be very well placed to win the league.
We've been carrying martial and greenwood virtually all season goalscoring wise.
We've won 9-0, so let's start a snide, moaning thread like a joyless cnut rather than enjoying it.
Passion for a team coupled with years of disappointment creates unbelievably jaded supporters. It's why the majority of people on here are always cautious and expecting a let down during a good run of form, while after a bad run everyone is calling for the entire club to be liquidated.
This effect has only been exacerbated by the echo chamber that the internet and in particular Football Twitter has become.
It's sad really, as I think the vast majority of our supporters don't appreciate the team's performances, nor individual players, properly aside from a new signing that immediately hits the ground running (Bruno) or an academy player. Instead we'll have people complaining about Pogba being inconsistent after he drops a 9/10 performance or lamenting why Martial or Rashford missed a certain chance even if both put away goals in a winning effort. People also seem to have this idea that good/great teams just constantly play the opposition off the park for the full 90 minutes, when even the best teams scrape wins against lower sides on the back of okay performances or a period within a game where they blow the other side away with 3 goals in 20 minutes.
Agree with this.
And without much of a right wing! Huge improvement compared to any of the previous years post Sir Alex. Good to see.
Burnley (in 15th) have conceded less goals than us, our problem is not scoring goals I’m afraid.
Its obvious we need to stop conceeding. The scoring seems to be ok. Either we can go the Klopp way and go all out attack like he did and hope he scores more than he conceeds until buying a VVD calibre defender or we can go the mourinho way and go into our shells and have more bodies defending which will negatively impact on our goals. After 2-3 years of the later, i hope we decide to go the former route. Dont want to see mourinho ball played again here for a while
The thing is, the attacking players of Utd, City and Liverpool have all been quite poor this season. Salah has scored plenty of goals but from what Liverpool fans have been saying he's been fairly poor, similar to how Rashford has good stats despite not playing well.
I'm not sure if it's directly related to the short preseason and strange season, whether it's just a coincidence that it's happened all at once, or something else.
I'm not sure if it's directly related to the short preseason and strange season, whether it's just a coincidence that it's happened all at once, or something else.
Really misleading thread. Most comments on our goal scoring draught were made prior to tonight's game and we achieved an imperious scoreline tonight largely against 10/9 men. Great performance but let's put things in context.
Why not? There are plenty of snide, moaning threads the rest of the time.
When we win a game is your first thought 'how can I have a snide dig at other elements of our fanbase I disagree with? It just baffles me that there's a certain type of poster that seems to enjoy using a victory to attack others on the board, rather than enjoying it for itself- eg I bet the Ole out brigade hated that!- any Martial critics -he scored two!- anyone questioning our defence -clean sheet!- etc.. It's just rather tiresome.
You're right thought, I probably should just let these self-righteous types wallow in their own juices, but it doesn't do the forum any favours when we have stacks of these threads.
It's the worst thing about the forum by some distance, the constant petty points scoring.
Utterly joyless tiring morons. Imagine still wanting to cause friction and be snide after a result like last night. Embarrassing "fans" when your first instinct is to behave like this.
It does make you wonder where their priorities lie, doesn't it?
Win - the Ole In camp are out in force.
Lose - The Ole Out camp are out in force.
I think that's how I became an Ole Inbetweener. Subconsciously my brain refused to be associated with either camp 'cos the cringe was too much, like a defence mechanism or something.