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General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    He is playing like he doesn't give a shíte. I wouldn't have him in my way.

    Newcastle get their deserved lead.

    I fully expect United to take Rashford off now. He's a passenger.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,702 ✭✭✭doc_17


    What the hell did AWB think was gonna happen in the situation? Brutal player.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Schar really has the freedom of the park.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Rashford and Martial off, no surprise.

    Hojlund and Antony on.

    Not sure they will make enough of a difference. Newcastle want it more, United look all over the place but it is still only 1-0 and the door is being left open for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    As one-sided a 1-0 as you'll see so far.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,488 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    A sorry sight to see a lot of these fellas out there phoning it in and a manager showing no sign of learning and looking more and more lost at sea.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    Fernandes, Shaw and Maguire keeping Utd from a shellacking here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,045 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    To be fair to Maguire, he has been giving his all any time I've seen him this season. Solid yellow for his troubles there.

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    That was a very good block in fairness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    A well coached team versus a not-so-well coached team.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    If Newcastle get a second, they could easily get 3 or 4. United have shown nothing going forward but at 1-0 they are still only a kick of a ball from an undeserved draw.

    An interesting last 15 to come.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,488 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    We can't get out of our half 😂

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    There's a reason.

    'Sit back, counter attacking, rely on individual brilliance' football means Maguire has protection. As soon as Utd try to play like a top team, he'll be found out again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,045 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    I didn't realise there was a rule to stop play because a goalkeeper gets an injury.

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Another injury for Newcastle, Pope looks in a fair bit of pain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,488 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    That's not our set up, but our set up means we have no control in games so we have been penned back a lot of the time.

    Maguire is a solid defender nothing more, always has been, we have been playing teams that play to his strengths, direct and aerial a lot. He will struggle when up against teams who pass it round the ground, quickly down his sides.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Ottoman_1000


    That's always been the rule as long as I've been playing and watching football...



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    He was well off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    Joelinton is some man for a fake injury.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    Whatever the set up is meant to be, when Utd have no control and can't keep pressure up the pitch, and his main job is simply to defend his box, he's fine.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Newcastle really are lacking a proper number 9. Isak really has been mostly unnoticable tonight despite all the possession and chances. A Shearer type player would transform Newcastle and propel them into league challengers. Injuries aren't helping but a big signing in January might come in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,702 ✭✭✭doc_17


    Ten Hag rightly complaining to the 4th official about Newcastle having more than one person in the technical area.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,067 ✭✭✭slegs


    Shockingly poor United team. A few recent lucky wins can’t hide that fact



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    In fairness, he should be more focused on his teams inept preformance, annoying at the 2 lads freely being in the area is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,702 ✭✭✭doc_17


    I wasn’t ranking the things he should be most annoyed about. I suppose my point could have been better put, the PL amended the rules this year, because of Tindle’s behaviour last year. And they are ignoring their own rules. Either it’s a rule or it’s not.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 36,250 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    I agree, it is annoying and it should be referenced by managers to the media - they are surely the most guilty of it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,067 ✭✭✭slegs


    The biggest problem United have is their supposed big players Fernandes and Rashford give no leadership whatsoever.

    Until United get rid and acquire proper leaders it ain’t going to get better. Also, how is Martial still getting game time. He offers nothing at all. Surely there is some young lad in the u21s who deserves a chance ahead of Martial.

    For all the flack Maguire and Shaw have gotten over the last couple of years at least they work hard and deliver a performance most of the time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,892 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Just want to clarify, Newcastle won 1-0 home to a team featuring Maguire, Dalot, Mainoo, McTominay, Garnacho and Martial right? Because I would swear I’ve just heard the commentators as usual going on as if they won 6-0 and gone top.


    Ive no love for United but I would be raging listening to them going on non-stop about Newcastle’s injury crisis after what they’ve suffered this season.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,925 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    Alan Tate booked for it today in the Burnley game. It's just poor and inconsistent officiating not to have done Tan-dall for it there.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,045 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    I'm not disputing it, just saying I didn't realise it was an actual rule. I just assumed it was something that happened out of decency.

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