As an aside, morton on at 89 mins I assume is to avoid some sort of penalty for not playing him?

Only 2 games in but we're already the only team to have played 2 games and not dropped a point. Watford haven't but have only played the one.

Nunez looks a player. Gonna be interesting to watch him vs haaland for golden boot

Duffy linked with a move to Fulham - not ideal Brighton getting rid of CBs that aren't JPVH. Be a good move for Duffy and should help Fulham get promotion next season.

I get your point but a few things 1. Wenger didn't replace Vieira, true. We're looking to replace Davenport / Johnson not quite the same gap that needs filling. Where there is a gap - Nyambe and Rothwell, we've spent money. Windows not over so just see what happens in replacing our departing centre backs. 2. What's the issue with focusing on young talent and selling for big bucks. We have a cat 1 Academy and there's no way we're going to build a decent war chest through ticket sales. We need to get into a cycle of buy low / promote youth and sell high and reinvest in the squad. The R number and % Academy minutes is to be fair a lot of overkill but to me I took it as he's just come fresh out of the job interview process and this is the usual BS they spout there. Many of us would have been happy if he'd just said "we need a realy focus on youth" without all the technical S behind it. 3. "You can't win anything with kids" was used as a stick to beat him with when Man Utd went on to win a lot of stuff with kids.

Yeah neither in anyway good. I've used some pre-school logic with edun. He was bought in as a LB and to cover CM CM + LB = CB 🤣🤣🤣🤣 shows how desperate my scan of the squad for cover at CB got.

So we're down to Wharton Ayala and Phillips? So essentially, we're down to Wharton and Phillips Genuinely what other centre back options do we have? We don't have any midfielders that we could repurpose for a couple of games do we? Unless Edun could do a shift there?

Like the saddo i am I just flicked through all the results from last season and I think we'd have 13 fewer points if you toom away his goals. He often scored in losing games and games where we won by 3 or 4 rather than 1 or 2. That would gave put us about 17th / 18th roughly

Something weird is going on at Man Utd. The dressing room didn't feel happy last season and comments from Shaw and Lingard backed this up. Players looked broken and not united in any way. Ronaldo and others leaving a preseason game at half time as well. Ten hag just needs to gut the club of the rotten apples and build a team. They'd be better off without Ronaldo from that respect.

I think scrapping the reserve teams is one issue. Now you just get kids playing kids rather than the best kids getting kicked about by some grumpy brick shit house who is deemed not good enough for the 1st team any more.

Free to air sports is key. If I can pick the remote up and flick to a sport I'll watch it. I'll only go hunting down streams for footy matches. If they put womens football on BBC and one Sunday afternoon I flick over to Blackburn Ladies playing, I'll watch it. If its entertaining I might make a conscious effort to watch who ever is playing the next week if im free and it grows from there. Then all of a sudden you've got an afternoon earmarked for a big derby game. More sports should be shown on accessible TV. It not only promotes that sport but would encourage youngsters to give different sports a try if the traditional sports don't spoke your interest. I'm thinking some of the more niche Olympic sports for example.

If he has that power I want it too! If it helps I've done tons of clicking around and can't see any option to delete threads in that section so if it's a permissions thing it doesn't seem to be affecting everyone.

I'll be optimistic when a centre back lands but positive signs after today

C'mon it's jokes from both sides. 3 irons on the shirt - women doing what men can't. Or does banter stop cos it's womens football?

5 players filling 2 positions in a busy season is not going to deprive anyone of the minutes they need.

He plays for Peterborough

And bossed it if I remember rightly

Only Travis Buckley and Morton ahead of them, they'll get plenty of minutes over a long season. He was, he was cack. The one before him though was quality

It was a joke 🙄

He plays for Peterborough Jim

Am I right in thinking that the unhappy dack theory came from one guy in the crowd who basically said that dack didn't wave to him?

I hope you weren't planning on doing anything like sleeping????

Where's the union thread gone? It was just getting juicy

Whoever decided to replay it in slow mo deserves a pint.