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Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - See Mod Warning in OP, 09/11

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  • #6602
    Chagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭Chagan


    Your Airbag wrote: »
    Yeah reddit is the sh1t. The soccer forum is great. Posters from all over the world and the sense of humor and jokes floating around are great.

    Reddit as a site is great, you can get lost there for hours. Great content everyday. It makes you wonder how tosh like Facebook is so popular.

    As a final year sport management student, maintaining to one messageboard has been difficult enough! Don't encourage me to browse reddit even more!


  • #6603
    Giggsy11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    Did any of you find funny that few Liverpool fans said '2 medicore teams" when trying to compare both teams in various threads? How can a team with De Gea, Rafael, Shaw, Herrera, Carrick. Blind, Di Maria, Rooney, Falcao can be mediocre?


  • #6604
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,164 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Giggsy11 wrote: »
    Did any of you find funny that few Liverpool fans said '2 medicore teams" when trying to compare both teams in various threads? How can a team with De Gea, Rafael, Shaw, Herrera, Carrick. Blind, Di Maria, Rooney, Falcao can be mediocre?

    They are just hoping they won't be alone next year watching eastenders


  • #6605
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Your Airbag wrote: »
    The format takes a few days to get used to but once you do its great.

    Some tips. You have the front page or www.reddit.com and then you have subreddits, so if you add /r/soccer to the end or www.reddit.com your in the soccer subreddit or on its front page. Each subreddit will have its own banner, usually soccer has a different photo for a recent match. The default tab you'll land on is "hot". So any trending topics with the most upvotes and comments going on are sorted there.

    Thats the other thing, you can upvote and downvote comments. So plenty of banter between fans and intenional winding up goes on.

    You can then subscribe to the soccer subreddit (or any other subreddit) once you have an account and it will shortcut to the top of the webpage.

    You can also use reddits internal search bar for whatever your looking for.

    Another tip is that each new topic popping up is its own thread and you can sort the comments in certain orders. Clicking the title will take you to the video/gif/article link but under the topic you see the amount of comments so if you click on this you enter the thread and discussion on the posted topic. Usually its best to sort the comments by top i.e the most upvoted or popular as the most replies and debate will be visible.

    If you use Firefox there is an addon called the reddit enhancement suite, it makes clicking and browsing around easier, I higly reccomend installing it. You can drop down view gifs and pics without the need to enter a thread, it just makes things quicker.

    All the content is user driven, so if you like a topic, photography or whatever you can start and mod your own subbreddit based on it. So you have the usual subreddits like

    /r/movies
    /r/music
    /r/worldnews etc etc

    and some weird, wacky and hillarious ones

    There are many soccer subreddits, ones for each club and then stuff for tactics and downloads

    League of Ireland - /r/LeagueOfIreland - @LOI_on_Reddit - /rLOI on Fb


    England

    Leagues



    see here for a full list


    http://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/wiki/relatedsubreddits



    Its really a rewarding site but very pun and reference heavy, it takes a bit of hanging around before you get them but once you do its great craic. Give it a chance and you'll love it.

    Link to the boobs pics please!


  • #6606
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Giggsy11 wrote: »
    Did any of you find funny that few Liverpool fans said '2 medicore teams" when trying to compare both teams in various threads? How can a team with De Gea, Rafael, Shaw, Herrera, Carrick. Blind, Di Maria, Rooney, Falcao can be mediocre?

    They just haven't watched United recently at all. It doesn't help that the main wind up offender isn't banned anymore like he was for a long time. There's just no changing their minds about the fact that they've missed United's improvement. Can't accept facts and sure most of the players you mentioned there are poor anyway :p


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  • #6607
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Last season we drew with Southampton in both matches, 1-1 draws in both games.

    In the previous season it was two wins for United, 2-1 at home and a 3-2 win away.

    So we haven't lost to them since they were promoted.


  • #6608
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Stupid rumour that United will bid £50 million for Mario Gotze, who Bayern will replace with Reus.


  • #6609
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Maybe we will get Scholes back...last night he was playing... :p

    https://twitter.com/ManUnitedWorld/status/541199604403175424

    Yeah, it's only the third time it's been posted.


  • #6610
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Yeah, it's only the third time it's been posted.

    I am so blind lol.

    I will edit and put in a different post, not Scholes goal related.


  • #6611
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Impress us


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  • #6612
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    Impress us

    I doubt I did, but both sides have scored in every game we played since Southampton were promoted.

    Good thing is we are playing a team who have lost both their previous two games and drew the game before that.

    Rooney scored both goals in our last win.

    In our last 4 games, RVP has been our top scorer.
    RVP 4 goals including a hattrick in a 3-2 away win.
    Rooney 2 goals in our home win January of last year
    Mata with a goal in our 1-1 draw last May.

    RVP to play given his form against this team...their goal scorers are either at Liverpool or injured apart from Jay Rodriguez.


  • #6613
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Makes so little sense that United didn't get Janmaat in the Summer


  • #6614
    Giggsy11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    Liam O wrote: »
    They just haven't watched United recently at all. It doesn't help that the main wind up offender isn't banned anymore like he was for a long time. There's just no changing their minds about the fact that they've missed United's improvement. Can't accept facts and sure most of the players you mentioned there are poor anyway :p

    Yeah and also there is no logic of player out of form or having a hard time. Just past his peak or not good enough.
    Liam O wrote: »
    Makes so little sense that United didn't get Janmaat in the Summer

    He was not that good before his move to Newcastle IMO at least in WC.


  • #6615
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    20 mins left. Newcastle 1 Chelsea 0


  • #6616
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just like Christmas creeping in earlier and earlier every year courtesy of the retailers who need the cash, the Summer transfer window is already being dragged out by the journos who also need the cash. Yesterday, on December 5th, LVG had to quash talk of next Summer's transfer window after a week where the mainstream sports media heavily reported on lists of United targets and budgets for next Summer. It was only at about 4 minutes into the 7 minute press conference when a relevant football question was actually asked, and LVG commended the person who finally asked a relevant football question. (Will Wayne Rooney be fit for the Southampton game? was the question)

    Transfer speculation and window predictions are torturous at the most of times, but starting the Summer talk now is just fúcking insane and for me it is akin to hearing Fairytale of New York on the radio in June. I will not be taking parting in or giving attention to any of it for at the least another few months. It is the journalistic equivalent of going through periods of **** while waiting for some actual sex to come around.

    Speaking about yesterday's presser; LVG fúcking hates journalists and from about two minutes into it you can sense the journalists' apprehension and caution in the way they worded their questions, love it! Also, kudos for the subtle little dig that he took at our old rivals who we'll be playing after Southampton. Oh, and he didn't mention 'philosophy' once! Guess he doesn't need to mention it now that it's starting to talk for itself in the team performances.


  • #6617
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    20 mins left. Newcastle 1 Chelsea 0

    2-0 now :eek:


  • #6618
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    A win on Monday is a must to keep our title chances alive.


  • #6619
    Manutd_4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Manutd_4life


    Chelsea have lost :eek: I reckon stoke can upset arsenal :D:D


  • #6620
    Your Airbag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,547 ✭✭✭Your Airbag


    RobertKK wrote: »
    A win on Monday is a must to keep our title chances alive.

    8 points behind them if we win. We'd need another couple of Chelsea slip ups to get back into it but its not looking as impossible now as it did last month.


  • #6621
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,253 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    If Everton could do a job on City this evening, that would be great.


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  • #6622
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Chelsea's away form is not something any team should fear.

    Only won one of their last four away PL games, a win against Liverpool.

    In the same period we had one away loss too, to Man City.

    If we can make our away form as good as our home form, we have a chance of a great season.


  • #6623
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Arsenal already 1-0 down.

    C'mon Stoke and Everton today.


  • #6624
    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Arsenal already 1-0 down.

    C'mon Stoke and Everton today.

    Make that 2


  • #6625
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Your Airbag wrote: »
    8 points behind them if we win. We'd need another couple of Chelsea slip ups to get back into it but its not looking as impossible now as it did last month.

    Rival fans can call us deluded all they want but when you have 20 odd games left and have the quality such as di Maria, Rooney, van persie, ddg and whoever else becomes flavour of the month, 8/11 points isn't that much. A half decent title challenge is starting to take shape.

    If we win the next 2 games that will be huge


  • #6626
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A Stoke masterclass is currently underway at the Britannia, 3-0, unbelievable Geoff!


  • #6627
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Bombleswizzum wrote: »
    Make that 2

    Make that 3.

    That game against us really brought on Stoke to a new level :D


  • #6628
    ElChe32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,690 ✭✭✭ElChe32


    #WengerIn


  • #6629
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Your Airbag wrote: »
    8 points behind them if we win. We'd need another couple of Chelsea slip ups to get back into it but its not looking as impossible now as it did last month.
    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    Rival fans can call us deluded all they want but when you have 20 odd games left and have the quality such as di Maria, Rooney, van persie, ddg and whoever else becomes flavour of the month, 8/11 points isn't that much. A half decent title challenge is starting to take shape.

    If we win the next 2 games that will be huge

    Exactly.


  • #6630
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Could the welbinator not save the day?


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  • #6631
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    Could the welbinator not save the day?
    THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T START THE WELBINATOR!


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