United Thread 2015/16

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I've missed about 7 pages so forgive me if this has been said. If the family man get the position are we ready for a 4 hour documentary on constant loop?
 
aguero93:20 said:
Yes but if they start hiring and firing there's a good chance they'll sack that good manager before he can have any positive effect on the team.
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Oooh good point, there is that.
I must admit, if they manage to get Frank Clark after we let such a genius go, I don't think we'd ever live it down. We dropped a real clanger letting him escape out clutches. We could have been 20 times conference league champions by now.
 
On the subject of attendances i wonder what proportion of theirs is made up of day trippers there for the one off experience? If their poor form and lack of trophies continues [ Please God!] this section of support will drop away significantly.
 
The four main (big) headlines in today's "Times" footy pages: "Goals alone do not make Rooney one of game's greats" - " Martial's £58m fee ridiculous, admits manager" - "United stars in Van Gaal training row" - "Players crave escape from Van Gaal's rigid regime".
Are the written press starting to criticise the rags now? Would they have dared to write this under GPC's rule?
Funny though, not a lot of criticism on Sky. But at least some attacks on them are welcome.
 
pfazz said:
So now Rooney is saying on Sky he wants to replicate his England form for the rags at weekend, thought he'd been doing that all year........shite.
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Delusion is strong, he was bang average and scored 2 penalties.
 
I don't think Rooney is shit though he is starting to show signs of burnout now he has been playing at the top level for 13 years and not getting any younger.
 
Yates said:
Delusion is strong, he was bang average and scored 2 penalties.
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Get your money on a scum pen in the game on Sat, only way he scores nowadays! As Glenn Hoddle said "keeper got nowhere near it" despite getting a hand to it. The twats are everywhere!
 
Loving the home attendances from 1989, an average of 33,000 saw the games that Ralph Milne played that season.

I bet there's a significantly higher number who would claim to be associated with their 'Ralphie Milne Ultras'.
 
Rooney isn't the player he was 3 or 4 years ago. Since the 2011/12 season, when he scored 34 goals, he's been on the decline.

If you take the 2011/12 season, and the previous 3, Rooney played 176 times, and scored 104 goals, that's a decent return, a goal every 1.69 games. Since then he's played 120 times, and scored 52 goals, a goal every 2.3 games. That's quite a drop off, and he'd now the only recognised, established, striker they've got. In fact last seasons return, 14 goals, is the lowest number Rooney has scored in a season since the 2003/04 season, when he was an 18 year old at Everton!
 
M18CTID said:
Yeah, presume it was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Football League and also to fill the void of no European football. A bit like the Screensport Super Cup 2 or 3 seasons earlier. Not historical competitions so I'm not going to make an issue of the low crowds for these games. What I did find amusing was this:

May 1st 1989 Division 2 - Manchester City v Crystal Palace. Attendance: 33,456
May 2nd 1989 Division 1 - Manchester United v Wimbledon. Attendance: 23,368

So 10,000 more for a City home game than a United home game and both matches played just a day apart. Now I know that doesn't tell the full story - we were going for promotion and United had nothing to play for plus our game was on a bank holiday Monday whereas theirs was a Tuesday evening, but what it shows is that their fans were every bit as fickle as ours. As soon as United got knocked out of the FA Cup by Forest and their league form subsequently nose-dived, their attendances fell off a cliff - from 55,000 against Forest (granted there was a significant away following for that one) and 52,000 for the cup replay against Bournemouth to sub-30,000 crowds against Coventry and Wimbledon in the space of a couple of months. And if I'm not mistaken their next home game after Wimbledon against Everton pulled a crowd of around only 26,000.
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Excellent detective work - and the rumour about the Wimbledon and Everton games is that all season ticket holders were counted in, there or not... and many were not....
 
paulchapo said:
I don't think Rooney is shit though he is starting to show signs of burnout now he has been playing at the top level for 13 years and not getting any younger.
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He seems to function as a squad player and hod carrier not a striker, but he isn't anywhere near stella in his performances over the last few years.Thankfully they have to part with another 60 million until he leaves them with his wedge.
 
paulchapo said:
I don't think Rooney is shit though he is starting to show signs of burnout now he has been playing at the top level for 13 years and not getting any younger.
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Exactly. He was an early developer, which means in all likelihood, he'll be an early finisher too. He's always looked several years older than he actually is.
 
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