United Thread 2015/16

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bluetonium said:
Well that's one way to stop us hammering them every week at youth level. I remember the days when we took our ball home and refused to play them because they won a few games against us. Oh , hang on.. actually we just all got pissed and laughed at ourselves too for a while. A while being just over three decades - half a decade of serious local competition and the red side is imploding!

No women's team, no coherent youth policy, no vision. Not sending out a good message are they, particularly when the blue half is talking about building a sporting complex to rival anything seen worldwide, chasing titles on every level and investing in the future relentlessly.

Seriously though, can they really go crying that all the best youngsters seem to want to go to the team with the best facilities? Even their ex-players send their sons to us, soon maybe their daughters also at the rate women's footy is taking off. That surely shows that any loyalty they have is overruleed by knowing what is best for their children.

United have sleepwalked into troubles largely after resting on their laurels following their successes of the 90s, whilst their fans were shouting about being the best club in the world, they forgot to cement their position with any kind of meaningful infrastructure and planning. This can be kind of summed up with their decision to buy Van Perise - forget the future, GPC wants to go out on a bang! Where was the investment off the back of all that prize money, all those shirt sales worldwide? I'll tell you where, in the Glazer's black pockets. Either that or they are as creative with their incomes as they are with stadium attendances. So they can hardly come crying now when someone is talking advantage of their lack of strategy and foresight.
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Nice post, mate. They are reverting to type, using restrictive practices as their main means of defence. It rarely works in the long run. As in most walks of life, you have to be innovative and competitive to stay with the leaders otherwise you gradually slip down the pecking order.

And guess what, they are flailing around without a coherent strategy and starting to fall behind those who do.
 
moomba said:
Whats the rags problem with our youth team?
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a) We keep battering them
b) We scout their players when they play against us and try and sign the best players. (which seems like common sense and what every team in the country does) They are really only upset because before they did this to us, but now the opposite is happening and they've spat their dummies out.
 
Don’t know if it’s been posted yet but apparently LVG was speaking at some fans do last night and came out with some interesting comments namely:

They will finish 2nd or 3rd in the league i.e. he accepts they won’t win it.
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Martial was purchased for their next manager – Mr Ryan (shagger) Giggs!!!
 
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