juan mata

who let the cops out?

guys,dont mean to stir any controversy,but do u think rooney still has heart to play for man utd?i can't comment on this since i still haven't watch any man utd game this season apart from the game against arsenal.what i noticed in the morning's match is that once he was subbed out,the goals came.coincidence?

I'm not denying Giggs' existence, I'm talking about people who can step up to the plate and eventually replace our evergreen veterans. Right now, I'm not seeing it. Maybe they'll take years to mature and get better, like wine or Fletcher (lol), but sometimes these youngsters get impatient and you see them running away like Tosic did. Sadly, I've never seen Cleverly play so I can't judge but Obertan and Bebe do have potential, they just have to work on improving. Gibson...let's not go there.
Rewarding Hernandez immediately with a starting position would be like a knee-jerk reaction I feel. As many of the others have said, Rooney's overall play hasn't been poor the past few games, though I think he and the whole team were a bit off the pace against a very energetic Blackpool side in the first half. Plus, that pitch looks like it's horrible to play in. Isn't it even worse than our Bukit Jalil stadium?

With Blackpool expending lots of energy trying to close our team down, they eventually ran out of steam near the latter stages of the game. Even if it's home ground, a pitch like that can drain your stamina IMO, and that's when fresh legs becomes crucial. If you ask me, the decision to sub Rooney was more of a tactical change than anything else.

No no,don't get me wrong,obviously Rooney will start scoring again,no doubt about that whatsoever. And the more he plays,the better he'll be. Trust me,im thrilled whenever i see Rooney in thet starting 11 and when he's not,i get worried. All im doing is thinking of an alternative if his form doesnt improve over the next few games. Who knows,maybe some bench time will do wonders for the lad?
But remember,Hernandez is a young fellow playing very well! This could very well be the season that defines him or molds him and propels him to be one of the great players of the future. He's been doing and saying all the right things plus the fans love him. How often do you see a young boy break into the first team and rise to the very top from there? IN MY OPINION,hernandez could be that one. So by giving him game time,it builds his confidence and he becomes mentally solid knowing that he managed to break into the first team of Manchester United during his FIRST season!!

What i mean is basically like this : Its his first season,he's playing well. This could be the season that shapes him into a great player. Besides we're not losing anything by playing him,he brings A LOT to the table.
But i can't comment on Owen la,if you can remember my posts from last time,i never really liked that fellow

with all due respect Wan, when did i say gibson "STARTED" on the wing? What i meant is, it is clear for everyone (and i think most of the people here will agree with me if they had watched gibson being shifted to the wing in previous matches) that he offers absolutely nothing to the team once he is shifted there. I cant see the rationale in shifting him there when it is obvious he is uncomfortable on the wing. Without being harsh, even if the team needs someone to do a job on the wing once we shifted from a 4-3-3 to 4-4-2, surely the better choice would be to shift Fletcher to the right and nani to the left ala:

Nani - Scholes - Gibson - Fletcher

At least we know fletcher will be able to do a good job on the right and offers more to the team. Although Fletcher can't play as an orthodox winger, he can still combine with rafael thru his movement, tucking inside, leaving space for rafael to overlap onto. Do we see that in gibson's game?? I can't stand how fu""king frustrating it is last nite, everytime that clown receives the ball and just stand there, doing nothing, clogging the space evra was supposed to run onto. Its like our attack stops whenever we try to play it thru his side.

With regards to formation, hey we can argue that 4-3-3 to someone is 4-5-1 to another. Those who interprets it as an attacking formation calls it 4-3-3, those who see it as a solidifying the middle of the park formation calls it 4-5-1. If fergie's intention is to counter the threat posed by blackpool, it didn;t really worked very well did it? I can't remember how many time last nite in the first half vaugh, the blackpool midfielder ran from deep without anyone tracking him, and how adams had so much time on the ball without anyone really getting near him. IMO, fergie changed from 4-3-3 to 4-4-2 because berbatov was isolated upfront. He was barely getting touches on the ball as such, fergie instructed rooney to play on top with berba to give us more goal threat after we are down by one. which brought us the urban legend called gibson (the guy who was expected to do a job on the wing when all he does is become a liability to the balance of our team).

I remember someone in this forum calling fletcher a headless chicken.  Its obvious that fletcher is not in good form for the past few months but we can see in the 2nd half, what a great job him n scholes did in a center midfield 2. As i pointed out in my first post, the 3 CM stank for the first 45 min. Scholes was non-existent, fletcher was everywhere but getting nowhere near the opposition's midfielder, gibson....... so bravo for the upturn in performance in the 2nd half. Credit given where credit due.

Sigh.... which brings us back to the question everyone would like an answer for... why is gibson still an united player. The way i see it, gibson is not in the team based on merit. Its just that  fergie had promised him that he will get to play a set amount of games this season (let say X number of game), and fergie is trying to find games to stick him into to meet the quota and pray that he would get through it without being a liability. If we are really short on CM for this game (Ando carrick hurt) we can always tuck o'shea on as the shield of the back four. IMO, o shea with a definitive set of instruction to keep things simple and shield the back four will be more efficient that gibson last nite. Nonetheless, fergie's mind had always been hard to pick. Won't be surprised to see gibson start on the wing in the next game against southampton.

U can't really compare gibson with fletcher. Fletcher was only picked on when he was younger becoz of all the excessive hype and expectation placed on him when he was younger (the label "next beckham"). If we can look through all that hype, clearly from the first few games he played he's not the same player that beckham was. If we are able to look past that, and judge his performance objectively, he actually did a competent job on the wing (when fergie started him there earlier in his career) and was more than competent at passing the ball. In the last 4 years, after taking those steroids and harrying the h.e.l.l out of opposition CM and absolutely owning the midfield in big games did he get some form of recognition.

I'm not gonna go thru the route everyone seems to use when he comes good and say i told u so blah blah blah, had been supporting him from day one thru thick and thin.........u get what i mean.( been seeing a lot of these closet fletcher supporter). I just thought he was a competent player who had raised his game during the last 4 years and i am glad for him.

However, as i am a bit lazy i might be wrong, I had never seen anyone substituted at the stroke of half-time as much as gibson when he starts a game. Not even during the "horrendous stick" period fletcher went thru. Something surely must be amiss here when everytime he starts a game, he doesnt appear for the 2nd half. If the writing is not on the wall for him as a liablitiy for the team, i dunno what is.

brother, tomolo no kuda,no magnum, no toto la. Today onie got. u still got 1 hour 10 min to place a bet. I give u toto nombor.

2(blackpool goal)

3(united goal)

10 (extra time)

15 (no. of min needed to turn game around)

28 (no. of the player i wanna see gone)

45 (the amount of minute we stank as a team last nite and oso the landmark time where "sir" ryan giggs came on and changed our season)

FYI, the winner of toto get 28million          (i want half after u win okok??)
Seriously, i know the whole team was bad in 1st half. i aledi said the 3 CM first half stank. but my opinion on gibson is not just based on one game. Its just that everytime i see him out wide, i kinda wanna cry for the FB playing behind him. Sorry tho about the sub bench. wasn't aware oshea didnt suit up. Woke up switch on TV, ngam ngam kickoff. Didn't see sub bench. Made my point on fletcher on wing during young career in the above post. Anyhow, i agree that gibson may had been given orders to make runs from midfield to support the attack. But the funny thing is (and i hadnoticed this a lot), he likes to do this weird move where he will pass the ball to fletcher who is in a tight position and then just ran straight into the penalty box when it is clear the pass was never on. Then i will go like W.T.F u doing!!!! 

I hope he does. Really want to see him in action.

BTW Wan, do you still have MUTV? How is it? Worth to subscribe or not?

Rafael out for 2 weeks.

Sos Tomato

17* i think. I rarely switch on the IPTV box. I thought, you being the early birds of Unifi subscribers, would know?

I think, live matches aren't shown thru MUTV right? reserves' and academy's are broadcasted live on the channel.

Maybe Newbie knows?

thats a very difficult one to call for
no, earlier as in before he left juve to join fulham.

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Added on January 27, 2011, 7:37 pmif he were to join us back then before he moved to fulham, he would've spent a decade with us till now