Geordie Ahmed Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 My brother supports Man U, he is adamant both teams playing at their best would make it an easy win for Man U I find that an absolutely outrageous take so hopefully we can be at our best and batter them, I need to be able to gloat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 9 minutes ago, Dokko said: I'm a Whitley Bay FC lad. Honest. He was a club director and is still heavily involved with the club. I don't think he should be in charge of Manchester games, either city or the other lot, but that's just proximity to where he lives rather than anything else Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 4 minutes ago, Colos Short and Curlies said: He was a club director and is still heavily involved with the club. I don't think he should be in charge of Manchester games, either city or the other lot, but that's just proximity to where he lives rather than anything else No one in the world is an Altrincham fan without having at least a second team. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDog Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 22 minutes ago, Dokko said: No one in the world is an Altrincham fan without having at least a second team. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. Word is he loves Macclesfield also. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 (edited) Think one of the key reasons why where struggling this season has been Burn/Schar at CB and the goalkeeping situation. We can’t buy a clean sheet at the moment and think both CB’s especially have shown real signs of regression this season. Think we’ll score tomorrow but getting any result will depend on cutting out the basic mistakes. Where becoming a real soft touch and will need a much improved performance defensively to get anything tomorrow, despite their injuries. Edited December 25, 2025 by Whitley mag Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 We defend the box poorly. It's why we gave away so little xG, but si many goals. The current CB pairing and GK isn't helping. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novocastrian Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 Just now, Whitley mag said: Think one of the key reasons why where struggling this season has been Burn/Schar at CB and the goalkeeping situation. We can’t buy a clean sheet at the moment and think both CB’s especially have shown real signs of regression this season. Think we’ll score tomorrow but getting any result will depend on cutting out the basic mistake. Where becoming a real soft touch and will need a much improved performance defensively to get anything tomorrow, despite their injuries. The midfield is the issue not the defence. For some reason the structure isn’t working this season. A couple of seasons ago we could fall into a low block and be water tight. Now there’s too many gaps between midfield and defence and players going walkabout. We’ve had our first choice FBs in recently and Thiaw has been our best player. The defence isn’t the main problem (GK excepted). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 We haven’t lost a game with the Schar - Thiaw pairing from the start unless I’m mistaken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 8 minutes ago, Novocastrian said: The midfield is the issue not the defence. For some reason the structure isn’t working this season. A couple of seasons ago we could fall into a low block and be water tight. Now there’s too many gaps between midfield and defence and players going walkabout. We’ve had our first choice FBs in recently and Thiaw has been our best player. The defence isn’t the main problem (GK excepted). Both are an issue at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted December 25, 2025 Share Posted December 25, 2025 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Novocastrian said: The midfield is the issue not the defence. For some reason the structure isn’t working this season. A couple of seasons ago we could fall into a low block and be water tight. Now there’s too many gaps between midfield and defence and players going walkabout. We’ve had our first choice FBs in recently and Thiaw has been our best player. The defence isn’t the main problem (GK excepted). Ill throw another slant on it, earlier in the season we looked disjointed through having one forward who we were getting used to as they were getting used to the prem added to both first choice full backs being out. Now we are less disjointed but need to manage things better, maybe needing a formation/tactic change as games go on as the gaps we've left through the middle in the last 10 or 15 if games have been huge and put tge defence under more pressure than needs be. If we insist on 433 we may need to go 442/451 towards the end of games. Edited December 25, 2025 by madras Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Prophet Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 38 minutes ago, Novocastrian said: The midfield is the issue not the defence. For some reason the structure isn’t working this season. A couple of seasons ago we could fall into a low block and be water tight. Now there’s too many gaps between midfield and defence and players going walkabout. We’ve had our first choice FBs in recently and Thiaw has been our best player. The defence isn’t the main problem (GK excepted). I disagree. Our keeper and defence has let us down of late. Even if the midfield has been far from it's best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 Will be a good atmosphere, they’ll be trying to win it which will play into our hands. Bookies have them as marginal favourites but it’s splitting hairs 6/4 v 13/8. If we can play like we did first half against Chelsea we’ll cause them problems. It’s how we hang on which will define it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 Them missing Bruno is the main one for me, he makes something happen for them consistently. Think we might see Joelinton involved for this one, Eddie intimated he was very close when prompted in the presser Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 5 hours ago, Lucky said: Will be a good atmosphere, they’ll be trying to win it which will play into our hands. Bookies have them as marginal favourites but it’s splitting hairs 6/4 v 13/8. If we can play like we did first half against Chelsea we’ll cause them problems. It’s how we hang on which will define it. Had this conversation with my gf's, sisters, boyfriend who is also a Man U fan, he said he expected us to smash them, but I think he's just hedging his bets to save face if we do win. I said we'll blow them away early on, but with our away record and our inability to maintain our high press for the full 90 that they'll get a chance to get a result in the dying stages of the game. We'll need to score at least twice to have a chance of winning this, but if we play like we did against Chelsea then we'll be too much for them. I'm sticking with my 1-2 prediction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 (edited) Great opportunity tonight but we have our weaknesses too so who knows what the outcome will be. Christ if we could get a win going into the next handful of games…….we still aren’t that far off 4th despite our inconsistency, but that is our issue, sometimes we just don’t turn up. Edited December 26, 2025 by ExiledGeordie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzy Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 Frustrating draw incoming. 1-1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 (edited) Fucking hate these cunts. Every fucking plastic manc I’ve had the misfortune of encountering since the 1990’s, arrogant entitled cunts. Kids on the school bus in Northumberland in 1996 taking the piss because “they’d” won the league. Fucking arseholes had never been to Manchester in their lives. Probably couldn’t have pointed to Manchester on a map. Subhuman scum. Let’s smash these cunts into smithereens. And then dance on their broken souls. Edited December 26, 2025 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 6 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: Fucking hate these cunts. Every fucking plastic manc I’ve had the misfortune of encountering since the 1990’s, arrogant entitled cunts. Kids on the school bus in Northumberland in 1996 taking the piss because “they’d” won the league. Fucking arseholes had never been to Manchester in their lives. Probably couldn’t have pointed to Manchester on a map. Subhuman scum. Let’s smash these cunts into smithereens. And then dance on their broken souls. It always amuses how North East based plastics absolutely despise Newcastle. Nothing finer than beating Man U and Liverpool and seeing these cunts go into hiding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 9 minutes ago, Whitley mag said: It always amuses how North East based plastics absolutely despise Newcastle. Nothing finer than beating Man U and Liverpool and seeing these cunts go into hiding. It is weird, despite knowing a few Mackems the most stick I actually got after the Derby was from a Man U fan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 12 hours ago, Geordie Ahmed said: My brother supports Man U, he is adamant both teams playing at their best would make it an easy win for Man U I find that an absolutely outrageous take so hopefully we can be at our best and batter them, I need to be able to gloat They have been mostly irrelevant for a good 10 years. We've had no issues beating them last few years and I think we can beat them today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 1 hour ago, bobbydazzla said: Fucking hate these cunts. Every fucking plastic manc I’ve had the misfortune of encountering since the 1990’s, arrogant entitled cunts. Kids on the school bus in Northumberland in 1996 taking the piss because “they’d” won the league. Fucking arseholes had never been to Manchester in their lives. Probably couldn’t have pointed to Manchester on a map. Subhuman scum. Let’s smash these cunts into smithereens. And then dance on their broken souls. They’re complete filth. First against the wall when I finally obtain power. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 1 hour ago, bobbydazzla said: Fucking hate these cunts. Every fucking plastic manc I’ve had the misfortune of encountering since the 1990’s, arrogant entitled cunts. Kids on the school bus in Northumberland in 1996 taking the piss because “they’d” won the league. Fucking arseholes had never been to Manchester in their lives. Probably couldn’t have pointed to Manchester on a map. Subhuman scum. Let’s smash these cunts into smithereens. And then dance on their broken souls. Not me though Bobby, right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 1 minute ago, Froggy said: Not me though Bobby, right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallumG6 Posted December 26, 2025 Share Posted December 26, 2025 Watching this at the brother in laws, there’s two of them, both Mancs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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