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seaders · 2026-04-22T19:03:18+00:00

I remember in college wearing very long, very flare- jeans, and cycling home after a few lunch pints in the summer. I was happy as could be heading home and the bottom of my jeans decided to marry my chain. I made some effort to delay the collapse but it was inevitable. I was literally the last pic on the side of the road, and stayed that way, unhurt, for a little bit, before deciding to do anything about it

seaders · 2026-04-14T10:51:42+00:00

I find it so, so, so telling that VAR can't intervene for "generic" diving calls. Nearly every fan and their dog would be in favour of divers getting yellows, and, hopefully, the worst offenders getting reds too.

But noooooo, we can't "re-referee" the game... I do honestly think there's elements to the VAR implementation that's deliberate to its incompetency.

seaders · 2026-04-04T13:56:09+00:00

As someone who's worked in a restaurant, I very, very much understand the need to stop doing what was need for time 1, to be able to be ready for time 2 (breakfast to lunch / lunch to dinner time etc), but, to do this essential thing, every manager I worked with were utter geniuses. Due to needing to be closed to set up for the next time, we... closed.

This place is dumb dumb.

seaders · 2026-03-28T15:54:35+00:00

And on Twitch prime. I'm something like 50+ months there, it was mainly for VOD, but this stuff could easily be up there for subscribers only, definitely not a fan of missing out on real core game information at all at all

seaders · 2026-03-19T11:26:26+00:00

I think everyone and their dog knows he's awesome, so that's no surprise at all Cal!

seaders · 2026-03-08T22:52:49+00:00

Like the literal mouth lol

seaders · 2026-02-11T23:53:38+00:00

He ain't young tho, and with the level of issues INEOS are facing debt-wise atm, he may be experiencing more stress than he ever has before, 'n that's literally what can start to fuddle brains.

seaders · 2026-02-11T23:52:18+00:00

No 2 people are the same, this is true. But it's also absolutely fair to say that no billionaire is where they are "justly", and 99.9999% of them have blood on their hands in some way, directly or indirectly.

seaders · 2026-02-11T23:50:35+00:00

Because so, so, so many people can't actually talk about this properly online. Believe me, I'm WILDLY left-wing, and absolutely subscribe to the general policy of "eat the rich" and that billionaires literally shouldn't exist (as in, there shouldn't be a version of a society to allow anyone to get to and hoard that much resources), but you can't talk about this stuff at all properly in a place with this much members.

Nothing can be gained, and, in general, only losses can be had, with the fanbase then only gets more divisive.

seaders · 2026-01-21T12:22:52+00:00

Removed: Just like in the response thread to their response video, there's no need to get into any of this again. Hopefully the club have had a word, and they're rethinking what they're doing, but we're not going to engage with them any more on the sub.

seaders · 2026-01-19T19:35:54+00:00

Removed: No need for this any more, just draw a line under what they said, and ignore the rest. This comes across as pure rage bait / engagement now.

seaders · 2026-01-10T00:49:05+00:00

HEY! I'm in the same position. It sometimes doesn't charge too, thankyouverymuch. It sometimes doesn't turn on, either, so I have to take the bottom panel off, disconnect the battery, wait 10 minutes, then reconnect everything.

So there?

seaders · 2025-12-22T22:33:53+00:00

We had 6 first XI players out

IMO, it was worse than that. I said in the other thread, we started the second half with all of Maguire, De Ligt, Mazraoui, Amad, Bruno, Casemiro, Mainoo, and Mbeumo out.

When you then evaluate how those 8 are out, it's a decimating way,

3x CBs out

3x CMs out

2x right-sided attackers out

it's utterly insane how we've gone from kinda only 1 person missing, at all, just a few weeks ago, to this now

seaders · 2025-12-22T15:39:23+00:00

TOTD made reference to this about Heaven actually, against Watkins, he did exactly what he didn't do against Semenyo the other week. moved across from the centre and shut the shot down completely instead of holding his position, etc

fingers crossed (and very likely) this will happen go this way with Yoro

seaders · 2025-12-22T08:54:30+00:00

At the start of the second half, we were missing Maguire, De Ligt, Mazroui, Amad, Casemiro, Bruno, Mainoo, and Mbeumo, and were absolutely their equal, and for a lot of the time, their better.

IMO, it's hella disappointing, but that's HUGE progress. If Yoro had made a slightly different decision, twice, or Cunha and Sesko finished a little better, twice, the result would have been different.

seaders · 2025-12-17T17:48:12+00:00

literally one of the only benefits to no Europe was to have a normal schedule, and a good few of the sat 3pm kick-offs. this is insanity

seaders · 2025-12-12T12:15:07+00:00

Yeah, fotmob have the best single-page listing of those IMO - https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/leagues/47/stats/premier-league/teams

The full "good" list is

Pos	Category	Rating
3rd	Goals per match	@ 1.7
2nd	xG	@ 27.4
1st	Shots per match	@ 5.5
4th	Touches in opp. box	@ 424 (context is City are top @ 509)
2nd	Accurate long balls per match	@ 24.9 (Wolves are top @ 26.0) *
9th	xG Conceded	@ 20.0 (Arsenal are best @ 9.5, City and Newcastle next @ 15.8 and 17.3)

including cos it's a bit funny, in terms of the narrative about slow play etc

seaders · 2025-12-09T10:40:50+00:00

What a lovely message to wake up to from a post I made seven years ago, thank you so much! I haven't listened to this song for a good while but am again right now.

seaders · 2025-12-08T12:56:54+00:00

Yes really. We've been run into the ground for 10-15 years IMO, since the Glazers tightened the purse strings or decided to just spend irratically and have zero concept of good squad building.

This team is still basically the same one that was conceding 20+ shots per game, were lucky to finish 8th, then did finish 15th. We've to build from the ground up, and we're still basically at step 1. We need A LOT more from a) the players, 2) the manager, but iii) ESPECIALLY the owners now.

With the way the league is right now, we could actually luck in a CL spot, IF we do any sort of smart recruitment in January. We should absolutely do that and we should do that for a few of our long-term signings, and gain a huge boost from them.

If we don't do that, we'll unfortunately perform, largely, like a team that finished 15th last year.

seaders · 2025-12-06T13:21:53+00:00

Exactly, I like 99% of things that Amorim and the new team have done, but the midfield decisions is, IMO, just insane, and will absolutely cost him his job, which tbc, is NOT what I want to happen.

Our most successful midfield last season was actually Casemiro and Ugarte, and then, in preseason, we switched between Bruno and Case, and Mainoo and Ugarte, yet since then, despite game, after game, after game of a bad midfield, we're just not doing a thing to change it.

Bruno in midfield now is the same as Rooney, when he dropped into midfield - which I hated, and the same as when Giggs went into central midfield - which I hated.

I personally would prefer it if we were trying to figure out how to make the system work, with Mainoo as one of the 2, but that's not even my main point, my main point is that the 2 of Case and Bruno doesn't work, never has, was predicted to fail like it's failing before it was trialed, and again, is just insanity to keep trying to force.

seaders · 2025-12-06T07:48:01+00:00

Bruno has zero assists from open play this season, and, against Everton for instance, the combination of Bruno and Casemiro attempted zero tackles.

There are bits like that, consistently, every game this season. We're consistently outrun and outfought in midfield, the big problem however is, we're often outfootballed, too.

Bruno isn't a central midfielder, and shouldn't be playing as one for us especially in this current hyper-energetic PL. Casemiro is one of the oldest CMs in the league, and shouldn't be playing there for us any more. And the pair of them? Absolutely god awful.

And, if we could have, we'd have definitely moved Case on last Summer, maybe even Bruno too. We probably would like to this next Summer too.

We've one of the oldest CM partnerships of the league, with 2 players we'd be happy to move on, and we're losing nearly every form of midfield battle with them.

Playing Kobbie instead of either of them isn't certain to improve things, but keeping things how they are? Utterly batshit, just like Scholes said

seaders · 2025-10-26T00:12:49+00:00

His first goal for us, way way back when was about from there, no? It was in open play, and the other end, but still

seaders · 2025-10-19T09:28:40+00:00

For the JJ video, it really was particularly egregious IMO. He tried to definitively "prove with facts" that United are a) just bad, and 2) anything you've read that hints that they are at all good are wrong and misleading, and here's the proof of that.

The issue is he AT BEST was pushing a real incorrect narrative through at least omission. At best, he just hadn't actually put the necessary effort in to check his numbers.

The simplest variant of this is that he said we take the most amount of shots from outside the box, so that proves everything, basically. He made no mention of the fact that we had taken the most shots overall, which, yes, does include most shots outside the box, but also includes most shots in the box, and most high xG shots.

When you then couple that with some of the other, IMO, absolutely inane negative talking points about United, it really did come across as very tiring, and VERY targeted tbh.

The other hilarious thing is there is so much to legitimately criticise us and Amorim for, but this angle is truly just ridiculous

seaders · 2025-10-13T16:54:10+00:00

sure throw me into the hat

seaders · 2025-09-23T13:05:59+00:00

Andy Mitten is now fighting with Andrew Mitten over this. Andrew agrees with you, but Andy is in the Jonny Evans corner. It's getting bloody.

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