Geordie Ahmed

18 minutes ago, Big Geordie said:

Got a weird feeling about this one tonight - Man United have not been playing well, but getting results. Will their luck continue to hold out?

 

I hope not, obvs!

Yeah, got a horrible feeling I can't shake that we'll not get a positive result 

At full strength with options off the bench I'd be confident we smash them 

1 minute ago, mosstef said:

According to Livescore it's Jacob Murphy on the bench. Shirley it's Alex Murphy, right?

It will be Alex, they obviously aren't aware we have another Murphy

Finishing 3rd and there still being a decent chance of qualifying has taken a lot of jeopardy out of the group stages 

Group D looking canny

Surely that will be Heckingbottom getting the sack 

Players like Murphy are difficult to replace, not necessarily based on ability but he's versatile and more importantly he's a positive character, I've never seen a sub being subbed that was as happy as him

Having said that due to FFP we do need to sell players from time to time and a fee of £20-25m is pretty good

Guess Howe will have to weigh up whether the fee is worth losing such a valuable member of the squad

16 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

 

It's like £40 so yeah. I'm hoping they don't ask me to send it back, but if they do I'll pay up front then you get it back from DHGate after

I ordered 4 nufc tops back in July (2 adults, home and away, 2 kids, home and away)

There was two issues with the order, firstly only 2 of them arrived (one and one kid) and secondly they were Celtic tops 

Opened up a dispute with DHGate, the seller offered a resolution of £0.01 and he also messaged asking to allow him to sort it but I declined the resolution and full refund was authorised. They didn't ask me to return the 2 the arrived (they were personalised so not sure if that was a factor)

By the time January arrives we should have Barnes back, maybe Murphy too and as others have said he'll be away to AFCON, by the time that's done the above two along with Anderson/Willock will be back

Him staying at Feyenoord is absolutely the right thing to do for the remainder of the season, especially as he's getting regular minutes

In the summer it will be interesting to see what we do, if he stays there is the luxury of him not taking a squad space and Howe can take a closer look at him

Though I'm sure for 2025-26 he still doesn't take a squad space so even another season long loan could be a good idea 

They've got a solution for dissent already, they just need to enforce it

Sin bins will just become an inconsistent farce

They should focus on ensuring everyone knows what is covered under dissent (should know already) and then be firm and consistent in applying it

How often do we see players clearly swearing at the referee and absolutely nothing happens, especially if it's the bigger players at the "bigger" clubs

We are just lucky that teams don't turn up against us whereas because they play carpet football they are seen as a scalp so everyone raises their game 

1 hour ago, janpawel said:

Yeah I think to play in our midfield 3 requires a huge amount of intelligence and each position seems to be unique, ie Longstaff and his relationship with tripper/Miggy is totally different to joelinton and burn/Gordon... It's not a case at all of just slotting in and winging it

 

Amazing he can fill in as effectively away at a European superclub. 

 

Wonder what we will do next season with him, a loan at some point I'd have thought would be the plan but he looks good enough to genuinely be a key part of our squad 

Can't see him going out on loan, Howe had made it clear he's part of the first team squad, he'll get enough minutes here and continues to be around Howe/players

Don't really see what value a loan would offer, especially if it's at a lower level 

Fair play, she's done the right thing

Why wasn't she the ref yesterday?

Ref being sent to the monitor, let's see if it's overturned

No idea who this commentator is but that's never a penalty 

That's never a penalty man, ridiculous 

Joke penalty against Copenhagen at first viewing

Wow, how did that stay out 

Would be good if Copenhagen can hold on here

Full time

Beeeeeeeeews can be heard 

5 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Media suggesting it will be played next Tuesday and their midweek Chelsea game will be postponed.

I'd rather they played tonight then 

6 minutes ago, Disco said:

You’d hope with BVB more or less out of the title race in Germany and out of the cup they’d value the coming top of the group. You never know though. Even dropping half a % can be the difference. Just need to make sure we do our job and then we can have no complaints either way.

They are only a point ahead of Leipzig in 5th so they'll not be going easy in the league

The winter break coming a couple of games after the PSG could help in ensuring they still give it maximum attention 

3 minutes ago, jackyboy said:

Dortmund will already be top of the group so might play a weakened side against PSG

They won't top the group if they lose to PSG so they do have an incentive to avoid defeat 

4 minutes ago, joeyt said:

Do people feel more sick about last night or the Liverpool games this season and last?

Liverpool felt worse, maybe because we last night we still got a point and there is a chance we can still qualify 

14 minutes ago, Fezzle said:

30 pages of handball outrage and you want a red for him accidentally falling on the ball?

Is that what I said? Try reading it again 

12 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

Yep, nobody seemed to mention that, I guess VAR has no power over it because it was outside the box?

That's my understanding too, though maybe if they think it's a handball and therefore a red card it should have been looked at?

5 minutes ago, TaylorJ_01 said:

I'm just absolutely sick of VAR. It's ruining nearly every game. It takes up 100% of the chat and seems to make one absolutely woeful decision per game. It just feels like it isn't compatible.

 

And this is at the top end of the game. It's even worse in SPL etc where you have poorer quality refs and slower tech. It's also sapped up all the refs into SPL and the lower leagues are now reffed by random cretins.

 

Could it ever be binned or are we too far gone?

I think it's too far gone, invested a lot of time and money into it, they won't go back

So focus needs to be on how to improve it, how to make the laws clearer and how to up the standards of the referees