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Positives * Very Good first 20 minutes * Duff playing his best in a while * Carroll looks good enough to be floating around the first team now. Then again, that probably says more about our first team than it does about Carroll * WE SCORED AGAINST MAN UNITED OMFG!!!! Negatives * Dear God.

compared to his usual level of play, this was actually a good Alan Smith preformance. Still the absolute depths of shit though.

no booing because no one's left in the stand to boo. I guess that's a plus. Roll on next week.

Are they? I might be mistaken.

wow, that defending... Just, wow.

I'm a compulsive Given apologist but I have to admit that Harper's been looking better these last two games.

Only team in the prem (other than Derby) playing worse than us at the moment. Five league losses on the trot, no league goals in the last four matches, last won on December 22nd. Seeing how the Mackems/Boro/Wigan/Birmingham are all playing decently and Fulham and Derby are already down, I think it's basically us v. them for the last spot. Surely they won't get anything at Villa Park, so hopefully our head start is staying at six points. They also arguably have the more difficult schedule from now on. However, the complication is that we still have to play them and we always seem to lose these games against team's having a bad run. So.. Think we can do it?

Smith obviously trying to change the fact that he hasn't gotten his obligatory yellow card yet

oh come on Milner just pass it to Carroll why'd you have to run into three red shirts

duff and milner havent created much either and theyve had the added benefit of not playing in defence Milner's been contributing quite a bit, Duff is just a better player than N'Zogbia as far as I can tell.

Ferguson just denies 1000000 people extra fantasy points by taking of Ronaldo.

Sir are you mental? Taylor was in position to sort it out and got bullied by that pansy Ronaldo. Taylor is bloody wretched. End of. did you not see that rubbish "clearence" by faye? both at fault, clearly. It's just that Taylor's mistake was funnier.

Would be nice if carroll could nick a consolation goal for us

Harper?

oh well, maybe next week. Would be nice if we got a win before Liverpool gets to slaughter us again. Torres probably rubbing his hands right now. "I want a hat trick too!"

well hi Ronaldo, here's a hat trick for you.

oh well, Howay Villa. If Reading keep flying headfirst into the shit pile for us, we can keep losing everything and we won't really have to care.

honestly I would consider dropping him and just playing Duff and Milner on the wings with Enrique at LB. like I've said several times already, he's flashy and nice to look at, but he hasn't really created anything after the first three games of the season.

Keegan needs to stop playing a left midfielder at left back just because he can't choose two out of three wingers. Nicky Butt is absolutely done as a footballer. I appreciate that Keegan got 110% out of these players (at least before conceding the second,) but he's going to have to answer for his team selection.

alright, I'm gonna go get my handgun now. See you in the afterlife.

You honestly think we're playing well? I think we're just finding ourselves in decent positions, and completely cocking up. Yeah I do, like I said, everyone just about playing to the best of their abilities. Can't help it that Man Utd is just 32908420394 times better to begin with.

still playing well... Honestly could just as easily be us with the lead here. Hope we don't do the second half collapse again

everybody's actually playing to the best of their abilities today, it's just that them on a bad day>>>>>us at our best. hope we get a goal from somewhere.

please.

oh God, I'm almost so horrified I can't watch. How are we going to get anything out of this?