Gawalls

Agree on this after living there for 17 years. Never thought about it but no I can’t think of any Man U I knew down there. A few West Ham fans, shit loads of spurs, hell even three QPR fans and a lot of Arsenal but can’t think of any Man U off the top of my head.

Yet he’s got them into CL and Europe in two back to back seasons whilst winning two trophies. All of this whilst his team could improve a lot more in the league. Getting into finals and winning them are two totally different skill sets and getting the job done is something Howe hasn’t mastered yet (nor has Poche thinking about it) but ETH clearly has. Not saying he should stay I’m just saying his time there has been weird and there’s two ways to spin it. I work with two Man U fans who actually go to the games so it’ll be interesting to see what they say on Tuesday.

You can’t blame others for us not getting the job done - they’re excuses not reasons. Fact is we dropped a lot of points this season that would have got us over the line.

Always said that getting over the line is a completely different skill set.

Think he’s getting at he’s championship level player and he’ll be getting paid too much for their level of wages.

Why isn’t that money split between championship clubs? That would make that league stronger and the money has already been allocated away.

They’ve probably combed the exchange server from arsehole to breakfast time looking for dirt on him. Complaincy is a dangerous thing.

Talking about defending - my gripe with him is he’s not a defender but a midfielder that was moved to left back. He looks so much better going forward yet so much this season we’ve played longstaff week in week out whilst hall is sat on the bench. Surely he could have been given a chance.

I do believe put pope in goal and that conceded goal total half’s.

Learning to win in those big games is a completely different skill set that players and managers need to learn in time. Poch has had it follow him his entire career taking spurs to the edge of a prem title and a CL final or semi (can’t remember which) but he just couldn’t get the job done.

Imo if you’ve scored two goals away from home then the forwards have done their job. Always going to be hard if your defence makes sure you have to score three just to get a point.

The question is though should we be playing them week in week out when hall has spent most season on the bench, pope is now available and is not being used, barnes is not getting games.

We beat them regularly when there’s only three points on the table but when it counts we don’t. Said it a few pages back but our players and manager at the moment just aren’t experienced in getting over the line as that’s a different skill set. It will come in time but at the moment cup finals, big games like this to get pretty much into Europe, against Chelsea in cup etc we just don’t get the job done.

Happy for hall at least - waited patiently for his chance and grabbed it. Good on him

Rarely let three goals in when pope plays but it’s almost expected when dubs plays. i have a theory that tripps has always had mistakes when defending in him but we don’t notice it normally as pope bails him out most of the time.

As it stands we’re still the 7th best team in the country so how the fuck are they “frauds”. I seriously find you so trying.

Why is it a must? If we finish 8th I’ll personally be happy with what he’s achieved this season.

Neither do you mate

The two games against Man U (cup final last season and this to put one foot in the door to Europe) has proven to me that at the moment we just don’t get the job done yet in the big occasion games.

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Someone his age and injury record - £20m id snap their hands off personally as I don’t think he’s worth that. Not now.

We got tripps for £12m - £20m for Wilson to a Saudi club would be questioned I think.

I’d like to see an east anglia derby in the prem

Not seen the game but we haven’t been beaten at home in the league since 13 Jan and that was Man City - that game being the only league home defeat in 2024 so I’m not going to get upset because we’re not winning all of them. Been an amazing season for me all things considering and imo it’s simply just a shame we didn’t get the win and that’s all.

Villas chasing top four and they got beat off Brighton last week. Teams get beat and that’s football- we don’t have to always find a reason or blame something.