TheGuv

On the topic of singing and chanting etc. cananyone remember this from our last semi final in 2005...? "Best song of the day: A simply spine-chilling second half rendition of the Blaydon Races that had more than one or two people sniffing and clearing non-existent dust from their eyes..... " https://www.nufc.com/html/2004-05html/2005-04-17manutd-n-fasf.html

Unless you were a ST holder. Quite hard to have 100 points you'd think without a ST.

Wife had to get a train to London for work this morning at 8am. "Is there a game on or something? Train is rammed full of blokes with crates". "Yeah, they'll be heading to Southampton". "FFS" Quite enjoying the updates. Apparently quite a few of them missed the train (which is a Lumo. So good luck getting on another train without paying). And now they're booting off because they didn't get tickets for next week. Odd, if they've got tickets for the away game you'd think they'd have plenty of points...or maybe they don't and they've been sold on

The fact someone is asking people to learn the songs is worrying. Is it getting that bad already?

Some of the comments

Would happily take a draw ands we'll do them at SJP.

Ffs

Every club in the PL seems to have a huge area in their stadium with thousands standing (and this includes clubs with no safe standing). But we kick off with about 200 lads in the SC. Ridiculous really.

I did indeed… Got to be able to have a live selfie for Insta/Twitter though I suppose

Genuinely don’t want them to ever sort that out for this reason

Nowt for me.

It’s not really chucking the system though is it? Its enhancing the system.

As someone too young to remember this. It still baffles me how much we cocked this up. So sad. Funny mind as 80 points to win the title really isn’t that impressive these days is it? I think the following year Man U won it on 75?

Pope clearly has the better defence in front of him and has only been here half a season. But he does command his box so much better and his shot stopping seems just as good as Given’s. Given did have a tendency to struggle due to his height imo. He was pretty short for a goalkeeper. However, Given had a dreadful defence in front of him, even when we were good Bernard O’Brien/Dabizas/Cauldwell/Woodgate/Bramble/Boumsong Griffin/Hughes My gut says Pope is a better keeper. But like others have said it might take another 18 months for it to be unequivocal.

I think it’s fair to say we’ve been figured out with our 4-3-3/4-5-1 formation. The 20 minutes against Fulham with the two of them was great. I don’t see why we can’t try that - it doesn’t have to be one or the other.

Buzzing you got to meet him! I was no help at all Hope you had the best day

When needed to make a save. He does!

Howe does seem far too overly cautious with subs. That’s my only (tiny) gripe with him on a weekly basis.

Daily Blaydon Races complaint…

Footballers really are soft as shit man.

Yep

Would like to see Isaak and Wilson up top together for the second half.

Liverpool out the blocks this half

It really depends on how much we’d pay. If it was anywhere near the £50-£60m being quoted last year. Nope! If it was £10-£20m I could see Howe turning him into a cracking player tbf. If the club think he’s a good purchase, I’m all for it tbh. Wood has been the only poor signing - and on paper he was a must have signing last January.