Media thread 2022/23

[Gingers Dad]

Rooney's a better speaker now than people give him credit for. He galvanised the fans and players at Derby

Erm...

 

[Damocles]

and how did that turn out?

He very nearly turned around the biggest points deficit ever given out in the history of football using a squad which had about 9 full time professional players in it excluding youth players

 

[Spanishbob]

Well that’s another football media site I’m deleting F365 was ok for a while but it’s gone the way of all the others. It’s rags dippers rags dippers tarquins dippers rags( do I need to go on?). Only site I can go on to learn anything City related is on here now( to be fair it has for years).

 

[Ballosteve]

Andy mitten has got a face I'd never stop enjoying punching......

 

[FantasyIreland]

Rooney's a better speaker now than people give him credit for. He galvanised the fans and players at Derby

Ultimately it was a bridge too far.....but i think he did a great job.

He does impress when he talks,i suspect management will suit him very well.

 

[LongsightM13]

I think you are right.
There are plenty of Norn Iron contributors on this site to correct me if I am wrong but I think there used to be a tournament in that part of the world called, The Milk Cup (or some such thing) and United have been supporting that pretty much since its inception which could well have been in the 60s.
It was a mutually beneficial arrangement of course. The tournament got publicity and found it easier to attract teams and United got to cast the first eye over the next Best, Whiteside or er, Gillespie.
Anyway, it's become something of a tradition that United are represented in Northern Ireland during the off-season and local TV always covers it.
If BBC NI are covering the game because of lical interest, it seems a perfectly reasonable use of public money (to me, anyway) to make the game more widely available on a minor platform.

Yeah the Milk Cup was huge

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Rooney's a better speaker now than people give him credit for. He galvanised the fans and players at Derby

He could only ever improve upwards. He started from approximately twenty feet beneath the Mersey!

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Rooney's a better speaker now than people give him credit for. He galvanised the fans and players at Derby

Norah Battie, 73, regularly attended his one-to-one fan sessions commenting that they left her feeling, 'thoroughly pumped.'

 

[LongsightM13]

If he starts drink driving or wife beating he could always continue his career with Talksport, the opportunities are endless.

Already got nicked for drink driving a few years back on Water Lane in Wilmslow. After leaving the Symposium nightclub with a woman who was not Mrs Rooney…

 

[asahartford1]

Rooney's a better speaker now than people give him credit for. He galvanised the fans and players at Derby

I agree but that won't get it the way of this thread.

 

[deano ou812]

I think you are right.
There are plenty of Norn Iron contributors on this site to correct me if I am wrong but I think there used to be a tournament in that part of the world called, The Milk Cup (or some such thing) and United have been supporting that pretty much since its inception which could well have been in the 60s.
It was a mutually beneficial arrangement of course. The tournament got publicity and found it easier to attract teams and United got to cast the first eye over the next Best, Whiteside or er, Gillespie.
Anyway, it's become something of a tradition that United are represented in Northern Ireland during the off-season and local TV always covers it.
If BBC NI are covering the game because of lical interest, it seems a perfectly reasonable use of public money (to me, anyway) to make the game more widely available on a minor platform.

You are correct,this is the Foyle cup now played mostly as far as I know in stroke City Derry/Londonderry now ..Milk cup was around the Portrush/PortStewart,Coleraine ..

 

[M Gaudino]

Already got nicked for drink driving a few years back on Water Lane in Wilmslow. After leaving the Symposium nightclub with a woman who was not Mrs Rooney…

bit of a stretch to call that place a nightclub tbf

 

[LongsightM13]

bit of a stretch to call that place a nightclub tbf

Late bar? Never been in but he stumbled out of three at nearly3am iirc

 

[hammocity]

Ultimately it was a bridge too far.....but i think he did a great job.

He does impress when he talks,i suspect management will suit him very well.

Lacks nous, will never be anything other than a lower league/foreign trophy Manager.

 

[hammocity]

Norah Battie, 73, regularly attended his one-to-one fan sessions commenting that they left her feeling, 'thoroughly pumped.'

Still game?

 

[Gazza]

Already got nicked for drink driving a few years back on Water Lane in Wilmslow. After leaving the Symposium nightclub with a granny who was not Mrs Rooney…

FTFY

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Rooney's a better speaker now than people give him credit for. He galvanised the fans and players at Derby

Liam Rosenior certainly did......... ;-)

 

[edinburgh123]

He very nearly turned around the biggest points deficit ever given out in the history of football using a squad which had about 9 full time professional players in it excluding youth players

Bournemouth and Rotherham both survived with a 17 point deduction and Leeds once reached the play offs with a 15 point deduction
Derby had a 21 point deduction and were relegated by 7 points. However... the team they failed to overtake - Reading -ironically also had a deduction of 6 points. So in reality they had a 21 point deduction but finished 13 points behind - still a long way.
Not exactly Leeds/Bournemouth/Rotherham, but not bad I suppose given there were a lot of problems

 

[Maly]

https://www.espn.in/football/blog-s...hile-still-strengthening-with-haalandphillips

Another fair & balanced article, very similar to the Ducker one

 

[Ballosteve]

https://www.espn.in/football/blog-s...hile-still-strengthening-with-haalandphillips

Another fair & balanced article, very similar to the Ducker one

Must of really hurt the rag writing that......