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Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by Libby, Aug 4, 2017.

  1. Thus Spake Zarathustra

    Thus Spake Zarathustra GC Thread Terminator

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    Have you taken to writing in iambic pentametre?
     
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  2. Diego

    Diego Lone Ranger

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    Jones should never have been near that pitch, think he has been involved in two games in nearly three years.
    I love the guy, not a great talent but would die for the team and considers shedding blood normal.
    Not a great talent but a true warrior, the camera went on him around 17 mins in the area while you were waiting to take a corner, the guy was ****ed and gasping for breath.
    Too loyal and desperate to prove his worth for his own good.
     
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  3. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

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    Absolute pleasure reading those last 6 pages.

    The forum ain't seen luvgonzo murder so many people in one go since Heysel.

    Fella'd all you <applause>:emoticon-0165-muscl:emoticon-0146-punch<laugh>
     
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  4. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

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    Fukin brutal<laugh>
     
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  5. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    You’ve spent like a drunken sailor who hasn’t seen land for a year. And as wisely.
     
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  6. Chief

    Chief Northern Simpleton
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    Yeah, if he'd stuck with the actual wing backs in Dalot and Telles, on the correct side of the pitch, and played wan Bissaka as one of the three instead of Jones, there's no way it would have been as shambolic as it was.

    Pogba should never start a game for us again after Saturday, let alone a match of this magnitude. He showed absolutely everything about himself by bottling it within ten minutes and faking injury.

    I'm half in the mind to give Rangnick the benefit of the doubt that in playing Pogba and Lingard (and Jones to an extent) just to prove that these people have to exit the club in a few weeks time. A few of his selections were inexplicable otherwise.

    When Pogba and Lingard go, they can take their stupid dancing partner Rashford with them for me as well, that's a permanently busted flush if ever I've seen one.

    Not that he's danced, or even smiled, for a good while.
     
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  7. Treble

    Treble Keyser Söze

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    I don't want Rashford out tbh. His form may be **** and has been following his injuries/surgery but there's something else going on with him regarding his confidence at the moment but I think he genuinely still wants to be at the club and wants to do well. He's a different character to Pogba and Lingard imo and still has a lot of credit left in the bank, for me.
     
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  8. Chief

    Chief Northern Simpleton
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    He's not trying.

    I know there are other things going on, he was in every commercial break during the match last night, but it doesn't excuse him not trying. He used to be literally on the shoulder of whichever defender had the ball, pressing to get it back. He's nowhere near at the moment.

    I think his mate Greenwood's situation is also bearing down on him.
     
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  9. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    I'd gone to bed mate ... turning your thread notifications off was just as pointless and nonsensical as your team ... but dissing one of your own (even if it was Diego) is '"very United" right about now <whistle>
     
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  10. Treble

    Treble Keyser Söze

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    I don't buy into the idea being in commercials or his off-field work is his priority or in any way impacting on his form. But there is something going on with him mentally or physically or both which is impacting on him and I believe it's everything to do with what's going on inside the club, with his own confidence, and I dare say what's going on in that dressing room.

    I think he deserves a chance under the new manager. We'll have a much better idea of whether he has a future at the club under Ten Hag, who's been known to get the best out of players who have previously lost form. If he can't do it in a season under him then fair enough.
     
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  11. Treble

    Treble Keyser Söze

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    That's nice mate. If only you hadn't got out of bed now. Just don't make me turn them off again yeh.
     
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  12. Sharpe*

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    Just watched the highlight of Maguire for one of Salah's goals.

    Gives the ball away with a dodgy pass and then comes out of the back line leaving a huge space behind and exposing the other defenders.

    I mean christ!

    Seriously bad defending.

    Playing offside on his own!

    I mean come on!
     
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  13. Chief

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    Didn't see the fourth goal as I turned off and read a book after the third.

    The third goal I did see; Lindelof lumped the ball straight to an opponent who simply recycled it forward and the ball was in the net after another couple of seconds.

    Point is, Maguire gets blamed for everything when Lindelof gets away with too much. Lindelof isn't good enough. Maguire, with Varane alongside, is, just about.

    It's not really Maguire's fault he's be lumped with the captaincy either, this idea he should be a leader of some sort. He'd be better off taken out of the limelight to concentrate on his job. Give that to someone else, he's obviously not comfortable with it.
     
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  14. Treble

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    I'd agree with that. Now if only we had someone who we could give the captaincy to <laugh>
     
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    Treble Keyser Söze

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    And btw I don't doubt that's part of the reason he was given the captaincy in the first place, because out of everyone he probably fit the bill the most. But it hasn't worked out for him for whatever reason.
     
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  16. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    IF? <laugh>
     
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  17. Spurlock

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    Rashford doing a Dele Alli

    football gone to **** because he’s too distracted with being a politician amongst other things but no one dares call him out due to the cause he fought for during lockdown.

    footballers should play football…that’s why they have any credibility in our lives. Once other things take over, politics, pussy, partying n fashion then they get distracted and tbh a bit too self important for their own good.

    My advice to these footballers:

    Just concentrate on kicking that pigs bladder about…there’s a good lad
     
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  18. Solid Air 2

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    Morning folks
    can i just ask you to keep the noise down today as i'm feeling a tad delicate
    thanks
     
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  19. Welshie

    Welshie Chavcunt fanboy dickhead

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    DCL should deffo get his mind off fashion.

    That er, "fella", is on another planet.
     
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  20. Spurlock

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    prime example

    had 1 outstanding season

    now he thinks the world needs his input and he goes around implying blokes have been doing it wrong for centuries, they should carry handbags.

    Pissoff ****
     
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