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Rooney was rubbish as were most of United last night. I don't think it was down to how Yoshida played to be fair.

I thought we have already offered him a new contract?

You would like to think that they would go right back to the beginning and double check everything in the case, including the evidence of all of the Tapas 7 and the McCanns.

He is a PL player, but in my opinion he is more of a QPR/Crystal Palace level player.

I am not a Yoshida fan but he wasn't too bad last night. He was caught knapping on the ball in the penalty area and he does tend to lose concentration at times but as a 4th back up CH he is ok. When I see his name on the team sheet though I always worry and I really do not think he is consistently good enough if we are looking for a top 6 place. I am very surprised that he keeps Gardos out of the team and it makes me wonder why we bought him if he is no better than Yoshida.

Many goals go through the keepers legs. If you don't spread you legs you have less balance and less movement. He has no idea where RVPs flick was going and no help from the defenders who were all left ball watching. Keepers are the last line of defence and if they make an error it is all their fault. What about the chances we missed at the other end???

I still think it is harsh to blame Forster for the first. The blame is solely down to Fonte in my book. Players like Van Persie don't miss many of those gifts. There were also a queue of Untied players at the far post for the second. Where was the marking? When Forster lets one in from the opposition keeper or tries to beat a player in his own area I will question his signing.

So the Sky jinx hits us again. I'd be interested to see the win/loss ratio when we have been on Sky. If Gardos is no better than Yoshida then why buy him? Yoshida is just not good enough at this level and was caught knapping on the ball once or twice again last night. Didn't do a lot wrong but just looks what he is, a makeweight. Would also have liked to see Reed on last night. Don't get Mane at all. Just hope Ron manages to help him become more consistent and make better decisions. Was lucky not to get sent off last night with that stupid challenge on RVP. Wouldn't it be great to have a world class goal scorer up front? RVP got them out of jail last night. Is Mayuka better than Igrove? Watched the match with a United supporting mate last night and he was very embarrassed at the final whistle!

There were two or three players free Whitey.

But would you also agree that we aren't going to be relegated? That was the consensus of many in the summer. No one thought we would finish top 4 then. We have had a really good season so far and have not disgraced ourselves against the so called top 4 teams. We looked so much better than Manchester United last night.

Forster should have done better but where was the marking? You cant just assume the keeper is going to deal with that ball and leave a player of Van Persie's class free at the far post.

Perhaps complacency is creeping in? We have given soft goals away against both City and United. Last night was very disappointing as United were awful and it was a game we should have won but not only did we make mistakes at the back, we made mistakes up front too. All to often we tried another pass instead of shooting.

What has happened to Reed?

How do you work that out? Assuming you are saying he would have saved from Fonte's mistake the rest of the match would have been totally different.

Odd to see Forster getting so much sh*t when Fonte let us down big time for the 1st. And what about all of the f@rting around in the box instead of shooting? We could and should have had at least three goals. We are turning into Arsenal up front, trying to walk the ball into the net.

This. As far as I am aware he is still a Southampton player and hasn't gone anywhere.

The article also says that Everton and Leicester are interested so sounds like his agent doing a selling job.

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I see that CB Fry is up to his old tricks again, the charmer.

264 posts Irene, and all about Boruc???

Always thought we didn't get the best out of him.

Really thought we would get something from the last two games but that is football and we were always going to be hit with injuries/suspensions at some point. Just a shame that so many have come at once. Still, everything is relative. If we had lost to Man City and Arsenal right after Liverpool we would be over the moon right now. Just hope that the injuries are not too serious. Great season so far but it will be interesting to see how RK handles things if the midfield remains so depleted.

An old school friend of mine died of AIDS about 10 years ago.

A girl could win the goal of the season competition above James Rodriguez and Van Persie, Make of that what you will. Saw it the other night and it was a cracker.

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