madras

his attacking side may flourish when he has confidence in those around him not to leave him exposed if he does go forward.

riise isn't as bad a lot make out. still dont think we need him mind.

not just to the right but through the middle. he doesn't give the ball away much either. has to be said he is a fetch and carry in his own half where as on occasion martins can make something happen from there.

The big problem with playing all 3 is the lack of width in the team, it wouldn't be too bad if our fullbacks were better going forward but sadly they're not. I also thought Viduka suffered by not having a midfielder pushing forward that he could lay the ball back to. Agree, just said in the Riise thread that I think both our full-backs could be replaced in the summer. Keegan will want more attack-minded players instead. As for the second point, that's what Barton should have been doing I thought. But he wasn't really at the races getting forward. In the system we played last night I think we'd benefit from having either Emre or N'Zogbia on instead of Geremi or Barton, giving us a better balance with a leftie in midfield. Ideally, if Barton started playing well we could drop Geremi and play Barton and N'Zogbia either side of Butt and encourage them to drive forward and get into wide positions. I think the problem in midfield comes from our fullbacks being poor going forward tbh. If Enrique and Beye could get up and down better then we could have played a midfield triangle with two sat deep and Barton pushing on, instead we had to rely on Barton and Geremi to pull out wide which meant nobody was in the middle to push on. or could it be we are that rubbish defensivly from midfield the full backs don't want to commit as neither of our wide midfielders have the tactical nouse to read a game and try to cover or be in a position to cover.............or dare i say it....the desire to cover ? No, the fullbacks are just poor going forward, you can tell it's just not a natural part of their game. i think they do ok and will do better with confidence,however defending has been the worst part of our game this season so you can't blame them too much for not wanting to move too far away. thought enrique done well last night when he had someone to pass to.

The big problem with playing all 3 is the lack of width in the team, it wouldn't be too bad if our fullbacks were better going forward but sadly they're not. I also thought Viduka suffered by not having a midfielder pushing forward that he could lay the ball back to. Agree, just said in the Riise thread that I think both our full-backs could be replaced in the summer. Keegan will want more attack-minded players instead. As for the second point, that's what Barton should have been doing I thought. But he wasn't really at the races getting forward. In the system we played last night I think we'd benefit from having either Emre or N'Zogbia on instead of Geremi or Barton, giving us a better balance with a leftie in midfield. Ideally, if Barton started playing well we could drop Geremi and play Barton and N'Zogbia either side of Butt and encourage them to drive forward and get into wide positions. I think the problem in midfield comes from our fullbacks being poor going forward tbh. If Enrique and Beye could get up and down better then we could have played a midfield triangle with two sat deep and Barton pushing on, instead we had to rely on Barton and Geremi to pull out wide which meant nobody was in the middle to push on. or could it be we are that rubbish defensivly from midfield the full backs don't want to commit as neither of our wide midfielders have the tactical nouse to read a game and try to cover or be in a position to cover.............or dare i say it....the desire to cover ?

Viduka, 3? he's only marking martins on 2nd half aswell

and relegation is the only way to do it ?

at least 3 times beyes had the ball 20-25yds out in space with men in the box and he's delayed and ended up playing it back to geremi.

Enrique seems to only have the hoof it down the other end pass in his locker. has he got other options ?

thinking it'll be a 4-3-1-2 with martins pulling wide on either side from the front 2. can't see it being an orthadox 4-3-3. not sure about it myself,midfierld looks very lopsided with and without the ball.of that 16 i'd have played n'zogbia instead of barton.. prove me wrong lads (please)

dforum name of "siscko2ndbest" advocating relegation may not be all bad. irony overload.

so then,cancel the lieu day i had in for staurday,replace it with sundays. good point.....more chance of getting my lieu day for the sunday bad point.....if i don't get the lieu day i had a slim chance of making the match on saturday...fuck all on the sunday.

chilled. whatever happens will happen. we have enough in our squad to get something from it though form suggests otherwise. at work early so i'll be watching completely sober.

i've got derby going down with bolton and wigan. chelsea runners up to man utd

the bottom pic must've been a second or so after solano hit the bar...................if not i cant understand what the keepers doing with the ball apparently in the air in the box. we were just entering the stadium as that happened. saw the ball hit the bar and go up but it took another 2 or 3 secs to find out it was th e inter keeper in that goal and we were attacking.

Hadaway and s****. I was there when we lost to Derby 4-1 when we really were in the clarts. whats the difference between then and now ? Back then relegation to Division 3 could have meant the club folded. The situation was a lot worse than the one we currently find ourselves in. as in this could only be the start of the process ?

this leak was before the draw and public so if it is derren brownish the other predictions ought to be out there somewhere. i've always thought the euro competitions (and world cups and euro champuioships were rigged)

he's rob leeish.....more goals and marginally not as good defensivly. you've got your head up your arse if you wouldn't want him here.

Hadaway and s****. I was there when we lost to Derby 4-1 when we really were in the clarts. whats the difference between then and now ?

you reckon...say 2 years time,he's been at barcelona and things have went as well for him as terry henry. ashley has spent wads and in 2010 we scarpe 4th place ? do you think he'd come if we offered the best package and the top 3 didn't want him ?

i think you are right apart from smith

yip,everyone i've asked gets karelse eventually andf forgets tommy wright. leads to me to think your a smart arse who's heard the question before.

if you've heard it please don't answer to look smart. this is not a trick question. seven keepers have played (in goal) for NUFC in the prem....name them ?. 5 easy 1 tricky 1 very tricky

Being bummed by a bloke and? being bummed by a girl with a strap on ?

in the strawberry after the man utd 5-0 game and the police,lord love'em, made the man utd supporters coaches wait for about 15mins directly outside the pub so they were trapped there having to watch us ridicule from the pub.