Newcastle United v Manchester United - who is the worst? Official Match Thread 6th October

Originally Posted by jem

nope. got some good players coming through. the senior players are a bit shonky, but we only need a couple of players who know how to play, influence a game and set the tone. one midfielder and a striker whi can hold the ball or a winger who can beat a man and look up.....

yup. however, if you're telling me we needed maguire more than a midfielder or two.... nope.

So, rocking horse Pop...

Originally Posted by waynes ear's

https://www.utdforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144040

what a tit.

Originally Posted by waynes ear's

https://www.utdforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144040

nobody ever expects the spanish enquiry

Originally Posted by dunk

So, rocking horse Pop...

everyone else seems to be able to find them.

Originally Posted by jem

everyone else seems to be able to find them.

Do they?

Originally Posted by dunk

So, rocking horse Pop...

Aleksandar Mitrović

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Aleksandar Mitrović

he'll get Fulham promoted then drop back to the Championship to get us promoted

Still absolutely fuming over yesterday tbh, one of our most disgraceful games of recent times.

(up there with the 1-2 at home to Norwich which soured me on LvG for good)

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Still absolutely fuming over yesterday tbh, one of our most disgraceful games of recent times.

(up there with the 1-2 at home to Norwich which soured me on LvG for good)

There have been far worse recently where lack of effort pissed me off. Yesterday was just lack of quality and ideas.

Originally Posted by dunk

Do they?

teams like wolves and west ham do.

i'm now predicting relegation so any finish above 18th place is a good season for me

Originally Posted by MagnificentSeven

i'm now predicting relegation so any finish above 18th place is a good season for me

What sort of attendances do you think we'd get in the championship ?

Originally Posted by Soviet

What sort of attendances do you think we'd get in the championship ?

40-50k

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

40-50k

In our first season after relegation 60k+ average, a few sell outs, wouldn't dip below 57k even on a Tuesday night in January, probably dip by 8% in Y2. Can't bloody wait tbh.

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

In our first season after relegation 60k+ average, a few sell outs, wouldn't dip below 57k even on a Tuesday night in January, probably dip by 8% in Y2. Can't bloody wait tbh.

If we can't go straight back up in such a (still unlikely) scenario, then things are even worse than they appear right now.

Originally Posted by dunk

Yep. Just weren't enough of them. And possibly prioritised the wrong area in signing yet another CB and not bothering with the midfield/striker. Have to take into account budget and availability of players though.

we agree on something....

never in a million years did we need a cb over attacking players especially with the lack of quality attacking options we have.

also with tuazabe coming back a competent defender...made no sense.

Originally Posted by marlo

we agree on something....

never in a million years did we need a cb over attacking players especially with the lack of quality attacking options we have.

also with tuazabe coming back a competent defender...made no sense.

We’re better defensively, and you have to create solidity somewhere if you’re going to build so it might as well be from the back. If we were getting beaten 4-2 and 5-3, people would be saying why are Smalling and Jones still our CB pairing. If we can get a good defensively aware midfielder in now it’ll be much easier to commit more bodies forward.

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

In our first season after relegation 60k+ average, a few sell outs, wouldn't dip below 57k even on a Tuesday night in January, probably dip by 8% in Y2. Can't bloody wait tbh.

Relegation would at least be something new to which we could look forward.

Otherwise we are probably just going to face another new manager, shit football, and wondering when the cycle will repeat.

But with relegation we will get all that and be in a new league.

Originally Posted by marlo

we agree on something....

never in a million years did we need a cb over attacking players especially with the lack of quality attacking options we have.

also with tuazabe coming back a competent defender...made no sense.

For me, the reason the defence struggled last season was because the midfield and attack were so weak. We should've been building the midfield and adding threat in attack, we've actually further weakened both areas horribly.

Honestly think he had targets, asked the question and they were too expensive or unavailable so decided to buy Maguire as he wanted to come, there was no competition at the price and Leicester were willing to deal.

A competent club capable of scouting and concluding deals swiftly gets 3 players for the price of the cowardly slab.

Originally Posted by utd99

We’re better defensively, and you have to create solidity somewhere if you’re going to build so it might as well be from the back. If we were getting beaten 4-2 and 5-3, people would be saying why are Smalling and Jones still our CB pairing. If we can get a good defensively aware midfielder in now it’ll be much easier to commit more bodies forward.

I'm thinking of a team in the premiership who were getting those kind of results....
can you think of a team that got their attack in order than only after that bought in two defenders and are now doing quite well in our league?