Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Read Mod Warning in OP 7/1/15

1…457910…328

Comments

  • #182
    Will I Amnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭Will I Amnt


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    that gerrard thread has serious potential, i think its best a few of us stay out of it.....:pac:

    I'd say it will be tame enough, nothing like the Giggs retirement one anyway...


  • #183
    glued
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭glued


    When are Blind and Rojo due back?


  • #184
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,283 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    Missed the game today. Just caught the highlights.

    Shocking defending again today.

    Evans really should still not be anything more than 5th choice CB behind even McNair and Blackett. Use him for micky mouse cup games and a sub option when we have the game won already. He really is awful.

    For a guy who's had many years of experience playing at the top level he really should be better.

    Jones and Smalling aren't much better.

    We're probably going to have to wait until the summer to get 2 good CB's in if we're lucky.


  • #185
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    that gerrard thread has serious potential, i think its best a few of us stay out of it.....:pac:

    Too late.


  • #186
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    that gerrard thread has serious potential, i think its best a few of us stay out of it.....:pac:

    What a joke of a captain. Their team struggling and here he is announcing a luctrative big money move away to the MLS.. etc etc etc.

    Enough them got the digs in at Giggsy and Vida :pac:


  • Advertisement
  • #187
    Will I Amnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭Will I Amnt


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Enough them got the digs in at Vida :pac:

    Ha, it's funny how things turn completely on their head in such a short space of time. United were terrible for letting him have the captaincy last year :)


  • #188
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    Got deleted on the stevie g thread so I'll say it here. I started the giggs thread when he was finishing last season and not one carded post across 6 pages of trolling about his personal life and other stuff, already a few cards in the stevie g one.


    Justice?

    At least Giggs didn't cost us a League title.:cool:


  • #189
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    that gerrard thread has serious potential, i think its best a few of us stay out of it.....:pac:

    How about you turn on your sig and start posting in it :pac::pac:


  • #190
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,947 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    Got deleted on the stevie g thread so I'll say it here. I started the giggs thread when he was finishing last season and not one carded post across 6 pages of trolling about his personal life and other stuff, already a few cards in the stevie g one.


    Justice?

    Shouldn't be tolerated in either thread tbh. Schoolboy stuff from both sides unfortunately. Hopefully it quietens down, the Giggs thread stuff was not on and would be a shame to ruin another one for petty rivalry reasons.


  • #191
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    8-10 wrote: »
    Shouldn't be tolerated in either thread tbh. Schoolboy stuff from both sides unfortunately. Hopefully it quietens down, the Giggs thread stuff was not on and would be a shame to ruin another one for petty rivalry reasons.

    I'm not saying it's right, but we got it in the nose pretty much all of last season and into some of the summer. Wasn't a tap done about the huge amount of trolling that was going on.


  • Advertisement
  • #192
    Will I Amnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭Will I Amnt


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    I'm not saying it's right, but we got it in the nose pretty much all of last season and into some of the summer. Wasn't a tap done about the huge amount of trolling that was going on.

    Meh, makes for hilarious comeuppances this season...


  • #193
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,790 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    What exactly are you complaining about with regards to Giggs? It would be impossible to discuss his career while ignoring the most unreal off pitch scandal involving a world class footballer. Most of those posting about it acknowledged his greatness on the pitch. A John Terry retirement thread would be the same.

    Some small thinking there imo.


  • #194
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,947 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    What exactly are you complaining about with regards to Giggs? It would be impossible to discuss his career while ignoring the most unreal off pitch scandal involving a world class footballer. Most of those posting about it acknowledged his greatness on the pitch. A John Terry retirement thread would be the same.

    Some small thinking there imo.

    I think it was more the posts using it to put him down in his retirement thread rather than a discussion point of his career. John Terry's thread probably will be the worst of the lot alright!


  • #195
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had to bloody go searching for the Giggs thread to see what the fuss was about.

    Turns out a post early on by a Utd fan actually helped derail the thread.

    Jaysus lads do bad mouthing one of your players really hurt so much that revenge is needed?

    I say that as someone who had a decent word to say about Giggs in that thread


  • #196
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    What exactly are you complaining about with regards to Giggs? It would be impossible to discuss his career while ignoring the most unreal off pitch scandal involving a world class footballer. Most of those posting about it acknowledged his greatness on the pitch. A John Terry retirement thread would be the same.

    Some small thinking there imo.

    Where was the high horse when half the pool superthread were wandering into anything to do with utd last season gloating?

    Voice of reason alright...


  • #197
    Bridge93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    Where was the high horse when half the pool superthread were wandering into anything to do with utd last season gloating?

    Voice of reason alright...

    At least the whole experience hasn't left you feeling bitter...


  • #198
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Bridge93 wrote: »
    At least the whole experience hasn't left you feeling bitter...

    Frustrated != bitter


  • #199
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,019 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Bitter seems to be everyones favorite word when you make a post they dont like


  • #200
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,790 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    Where was the high horse when half the pool superthread were wandering into anything to do with utd last season gloating?

    Voice of reason alright...

    The above doesn't address the post you quoted imo.

    However, if you wish to talk about a different topic: I haven't complained about the reverse and haven't gone lobbying the mod team for rule changes because my team is perforning relatively poorly. I never report posts either. If you can give it you can take it imo.


  • #201
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, today's post of the day is a good one courtesy of a now ex-poster in the LFC thread!


  • Advertisement
  • #202
    Bridge93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Bitter seems to be everyones favorite word when you make a post they dont like

    Have a look at the definition of bitter then read the posts again.

    Hey those nasty Liverpool fans ruined our thread. Look how scummy and rude they are. Oh look a thread on Steven Gerrard, let's go troll it too and derail a second thread because sure its fair game when they did it to us first. It's only revenge they still started it so it's their fault.

    There's some pretty pathetic stuff on both sides. It seems no thread on anything to do with either club can be discussed without bickering from either side. It's a small minority but it just ruins threads. The trolling on the Gerrard one isn't even relevant in any way to the topic as I'm sure the stuff on the Giggs one wasn't either.


  • #203
    Will I Amnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭Will I Amnt


    stankratz wrote: »
    For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, today's post of the day is a good one courtesy of a now ex-poster in the LFC thread!

    Yeah, seen it in the posts/moments/threads of the year thread. Kudos for taking something way too seriously yet going out in such a blasé and funny way.


  • #204
    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    Real Madrid's Pepe is stalling on renewing with RM. #mufc are willing to bid. [marca]

    I know we need a new CB or two but not him, please!

    (Hopefully it's just his agent's ploy to get him a better contract with RM)


  • #205
    DARK-KNIGHT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,353 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    Come on woody get the conveyer belt rolling


  • #206
    mcratsix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 192 ✭✭mcratsix


    Infuriating to see Rooney wasted in midfield. Hopefully Herrera forces his way into the team, making Rooney play more advanced (assuming he can't be dropped as captain.)
    I really don't think it's good for the teams balance to try and cram Mata Rooney RVP and Falcao into the team.


  • #207
    Elliott Ugly Owl
    Posts: 27,583 ✭✭✭✭ Elliott Ugly Owl


    DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »
    Come on woody get the conveyer belt rolling

    He was spotted outside Vidal's house yesterday....

    EqqTXiu.jpg


  • #208
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Will I Amnt wrote: »
    Yeah, seen it in the posts/moments/threads of the year thread. Kudos for taking something way too seriously yet going out in such a blasé and funny way.

    Him signing off with a couple of Kenny Powers gifs was the clincher for me, very appropriate to the tone of the post!


  • #209
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Will I Amnt wrote: »
    Yeah, seen it in the posts/moments/threads of the year thread. Kudos for taking something way too seriously yet going out in such a blasé and funny way.

    I don't know, I'd probably do something similar if I was a Liverpool fan and forced (i know it's a bit hyperbolic) to read and post in that thread everyday. The fact that the main antagonist thanked it is indicative of what drives me mad when I post there which I only do sporadically anyway.


  • #210
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    To be blunt, overnight, there's been way too much backseat moderation and incitement to troll from certain users.

    I don't care what happened in the past, there's no excuse for breaking charter at this stage, and some people would want to step back and realise that what they've posted is obviously disrupting the thread and going to cause problems.

    The other mods have already dished out some cards over night, and one or two users should count themselves lucky about that cause I was going to dish out harsher punishments than they got. Trying to get cheap digs on people in a bid to disrupt the thread and cause problems (while admitting to doing so) is not on.

    Either get back to United related matters or stop posting.


  • Advertisement
  • #211
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    After seeing the results of the Christmas schedule, I don't know if our results were good, or a total missed opportunity.

    Cant help but feel we blew a big chance. Always feel Xmas schedule is a great chance to close gaps, or widen them. And historically we have always had a strong christmas period thats let us close gaps.

    We could have been putting a lot more pressure on City and Chelsea. Personally feel it's a major chance wasted, although that may be too harsh considering injuries and all other things concerned.

    Falcao again yesterday...he grew into it, but there is something horribly poor about him receiving the ball back to goal. Perhaps its just rustyness/match fitness related, but he just constantly seems to loose the ball.

    Hopefully it is just match fitness related, took his goal well, and would like to see him hit the ground running for the rest of the season. Has been by far my biggest disappointment of the season so far.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement