shurlock

Odd that people are extrapolating from half a season of form when there's a whole career's track record to look at.

You regularly get done at the back?

Agree completely.

Never particularly rated him; at the same time, we haven't really given him a chance.

That's complete garbage considering its only the second game of the season. To indulge your pointless little game, we're also on the same amount of points as this time last season. We've just played man u, a team everyone on here was expecting to give us a hiding. Now that people have been made to look a bit silly, the goalposts have been quietly moved. We need greater quality and composure in the final third; but there are plenty of positives to take from tonight's performance - as a matter of fact, we threatened more tonight than we did last season at OT. Next week will tell us much more.

Sounded defensive to me. Forster had no more real saves to make than De Gea.

Not all on Davis. Carragher saying that VVD was partly responsible for the goal for not shifting over.

Heads dropped after the pen. Before that we were well in the game - indeed the better side at the start of the second half. Worked some good positions and openings; Redmond and Long just lacked that bit of class and composure to make them count. Apart from a 10 min spell after the pen, United were pretty average. Forster did not have a save of note to make.

Nonsense pal. In theory, the anchor man and the sides of the diamond gives us three in CM.

Good play again

Are we going to get a replay of our chance?

We created more chances in the first half than our last two games at OT.

Quite a bit, though I don't think they have much to stretch sides.

Not impressed with United at all.

How much time did Rooney have?

Good start. Hojbjerg a bit erratic at times.

The #bantz is strong tonight.

Good. As strong a team as we can field at the moment.

The way Puel was talking in his presser, got a sneaky suspicion that Yoshida might start over Fonte. We'll see.

Shalom Les.

The Fall's Hot Runes is a great song about Alan Brazil.

Pretty clear AR10 is just reciting publicly available data, though its too early to conclude he's just another fantasist. The mystification around the black box is plain odd: at most, it's a glorified home entertainment stroke data storage unit. There is nothing 'intelligent' or 'predictive' about it.

This is an absolute mess of a post.

Sorry FFP remains a red herring - it certainly imposes limits but not to the extent you're suggesting. It isn't the main driver of, or constraint on the club's recruitment strategy. Redslo's original blogs, for instance, confused at a fundamental level the difference between players wages and club staff wages.