Whilst still struggling to the cope with the loss of John O’Shea and Wes Brown to Sunderland, we’ve had a chat with Collin Randall from the excellent Mackem blog, Salut Sunderland, about their new signings.
Scott the Red: Are you pleased with the signings of Wes Brown and John O’Shea?
Collin Randall: Sunderland fans have broadly welcome the O’Shea singing more than that of Brown. I’m more positive, taking the view that you don’t get to play for United unless you’re pretty good. Also, I know some United supporters actually rate Brown higher than O’Shea.
STR: I’d actually say most United fans rate Brown more highly. His omission from the team this season wasn’t down to ability! Which do you think will get the most game time now they’re in the North East?
CR: I think both will play important parts in the first team squad, and probably start together in the first game at Anfield.
STR: You’ll have us lot cheering you on for that! Where do you anticipate them playing?
CR: We have serious centre-back injury problems so I’d expect that to be where they’d play. However, one area of weakness remains full back. Bardsley has proved he can play either flank so maybe Bruce has that in mind unless we make one more defensive signing. I don’t see O’Shea in a midfield role given all our contenders for that part of the formation.
STR: Any chance of either of them being captain?
I am deeply unhappy with the idea of Cattermole as captain; his disciplinary record did improve but that relied on a degree of luck. O’Shea as captain would feel like a good move to me.
STR: Do you think Bruce has done a good job in the transfer market this summer?
CR: Overall, yes. We are still short of a dependable striker, as we have been since Bent was inexplicably sold without a replacement in view. Gyan is good, but his commitment to the club is at best debatable, and Connor Wickham may take time to prove himself. And a left-back. Then Bruce must start offloading a few.
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1st lol
Gr8 pros Wesley and Sheasy is….really gutted that they left……….good luck to them tho
Thanks Scott and Collin. Good luck Sunderland!
If I was a Sunderland fan I’d be extremely happy with those signings… not any team gets to have Web and John in the line up!
good to hear from a Sunderland fan on our former players.
Enjoy them and hopefully 3 points against the dippers in the 1st game
This makes 22 articles in a week – average of 3 a day. Not bad going for someone who’s on twitter all the time!! Sunderland should do well with our boys
@Warwick
spot on my good man. I think STR is doing a fine job. It can’t be easy keeping a footie blog up during the summer period and i think he’s doing really well.
Kings…my copy/paste post (9:26am) of your previous post was an acknowledgeable t of that I had read it and agreed with it….as you see it was under my username of TonyBee and I had just simply copied your name and time of post …with an added comment of mine of it being spot on….. sorry for the confusion …..
I am me and no fucker else……
9.16 sorry
cant believe i have just said sorry….fuck it just got the fucking time wrong is all…too many fuckers with multiple user-names on here ….. making every fucker paranoid…….
Will miss them.
Aside from us getting 3 points in our first game…..nothing would make me smile more than if Big JOS got another stoppage time winner at Anfield!
On a related note, I’d agree with Scott- I do rate Wes higher (not a criticism of JOS), it’ll be interesting to see where he gets played. I’ve a feeling he’ll be used as a RB more than at centre back.
Not be long now…
I wish our B team all the best for the new season…. Except when they play the A team of course!
Sunderland already have titus bramble at centre back, bardsley at right back/left back. Who are now established reliable players for them. They also have a decent player in michael turner.
With anton ferdinand being a big liability they have made a good signing in wes brown.
Also with only george mccartney at left back, John O’sheasy can provide some experience in the wing back areas for them.
I wonder if sunderland are still after nedum onuoha, good young centre back that handled drogba last season and also scored a fabulous goal. If they sign onuoha they have potentially 4 good centre backs.(bramble,brown,turner & onuoha)
Im impressed by Stevie Bruce this transfer window, good signing in Larrson,united boys,wickham and that scumbag craig gardner.
Wes is better at CB and calling people cunts, John is better at SB, DM and GK so it’s pretty even.
both scored great goals against the scousers good luck 2 them..
I don’t think they will form a partnerhsip at the back for Sunderland. They played together as CBs on a few occasions for us and they didn’t click too well. I feel that one will play at full back and the other in the middle.
TonyBee – No problem mate. Just looked identical, that’s why I was puzzled. Thanks for the acknowlegdement. Hope you are well.
Regarding JOS, if I remember correctly it was a CL game against Basle away when we were suffering at the back, JOS was playing in the center whilst Silvestre was playing LB….. The boss then switched both players which proved to be a genius move……. In my opinion JOS is a lot more comfortable playing either LB or RB rather than in the center
Off topic
I’m surprised at anyone scoffs at downing joining l’arse. Personally i think he’s a food fit for em. Play the lad on the left and stick walcott up front with RVP. One major flaw sorted, especially if Mr Nasri is hell bent on moving on. Shame Cesc definitely wants out but more than anything the loss is mental one, well it should “just” be mental one anyway. Take a moment ,pause and look back fellas. We were in a similar position when Ronaldo left, some will say even more “precarious” but we came through and won a league title.and i’ll add Ronaldo hasn’t won one ever since
Cedars – Good memory? We conceded in the first minute. End up winning 3 1. RVN scored a wonder goal. Ole got one as well.
Off topic … but I’d really like to see the posts organized “latest first” instead of in the current order. That way, I wouldn’t have to scroll to the bottom all the time. Plus, after about 10 posts or so, those fucking “first!” posts would disappear to the bottom, where they belong. Just my 10 cents.
@Cedars
Yeah. O’Shea was partnering Brown at the start and then like you said, Fergie moved Silvestre next to Brown and O’Shea at left back.
Fergie continued with that trick for the Anfield game where Diego made them cry.
Willie
When it comes to United I have the memory of an elephant buddy! Ya that was a wonder goal by RVN
Costas
Indeed my friend, he comes from Uruguay, he made the scousers cry
Shrewd signings by Brucie.. Sunderland could have a good crack at the Europa league this season.
Best of luck at Sunderland Brown and O’Shea. Thanks for the massive contribution you guys made to United. I hope O’Shea gets the capataincy, that Cattermole is a liability.
Fair play to Collin Randall and Scott. I will always look after former United lads and how they are progressing. But until their support looses the munich songs I won’t be wishing them much success, except when they play our rivals, and that goes for every other bottom or mid level team in this league.
Would say alot about United development to have another team with a former United trainee as Captain.
Fergies plan for world domination?! The stealth United has defo got to deserve a mention for B -team of the year in 2011-12!
http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2011/07/10/2568724/manchester-united-set-to-hand-javier-hernandez-a-new-and
Could be the signing of the summer? I hope Goal.com is an OK source?
Cedars that blast towards me last night was un called for and Zibbie if you think I go round sniffing animals arses just because I disagree with you in regards to Sneijder then you can kiss my goat arse.
Zibbie … that was covered in the mainstream press too.
Thanks, I I’m learning the UK rags. Main Stream. Cool I hope it happens soon.
Goat
What on earth are you talking about buddy?
Goat
Oh it must have been that Shaun Goater post…… Buddy a poster and I were having a laugh at the ‘Goat’ i.e. the player who played for the bitters hahahah…… Nothing against you buddy!
@goat? I have never felt bad towards you. ? If some how, a comment I said was taken that way. My bad, I do like Sneijder and if you do not, I have no problem with that. Now about smelling goat ass? Huum ok once it was a fainting goat, it fainted I tried CPR on it never seeing a fainting goat before, in my excitement I began the CPR on the wrong end. That is enough GOAT ass for me.
I personally love your humor and look for your name. And always read you.
The Goats not on this earth.
@Goat please if you want post the post that offended I will take a look, if not all good in the hood with me, GOAT man.
Nope hang on, with all the paranoia going round about people using other peoples user names I inadvertantly made up an abusive conversation in my head and you or should I say your imposters were abusing me. I often dream of being abused. So in answer to your question, what post? Well I could have been making that up. But if your imposter is asking what post then Im telling you in no uncertain terms I will not take my head out from up my arse nor the imposter GoatinaUnitedShirts arse nor any other arse for that matter.
Time for another beer me thinks this is getting out of hand and Im not even sure who I am anymore. Cedars Zibbie, its dark in here!
The “whistleblower” who alleged Qatar paid huge bribes to three African Fifa executive committee members during the gulf nation’s campaign to host the 2022 World Cup has retracted the story, saying she “fabricated” it all.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/10/qatar-world-cup-whistleblower
Fifa, Uefa, FA, they’re all totally corrupt. Gangsters even.
@ StatesideAussie,
that suggestion by you earlier ain’t a bad idea at all,because i think comments should be of a FIFO basis to allow peeps read latest comments at the top ,and to check the “1st” facade…..
On topic,First off i truly enjoyed the interaction between STR and the Sunderland blogger.I noticed some form of accord,like both guys truly appreciated the deals both clubs just made..
Out of JOs and Wes,am always gonna miss the former because during his time with us,he epitomised what United has always represented…GREATNESS!!
Must stink as well goat.
There is a light switch on the left side of the East facing door mate, for all great minds run in an abnormal way, that’s why your great. For every Ying there is a Yang. The people who shape the world we live in, through out history fight off the demons mate. Have a good fight, slay the Dragons, for after the darkness, comes the dawn.
Goat
What on earth are you talking about? And why do you keep mentioning me?
smartalex
OR maybe the guardian made up a story in the first place and with the ongoing investigation it all started to become clear that the British press lies through its arse. Anyway now with a “confession” the dirty cheater of Allah can be stoned to death for bringing the great kingdom of Qatar into disrepute and we can all get on as if nothing happened. Maybe a few bean flickers marching around London begging Cameron to boycot all Qatari goods because of abuse to woman ………………. blah blah blah ………………. Im so sick of it.
Fuck em all thats what i say. Sure Blatter and Platini have the power but if they ever walk down my street with their snidey fekking grinning boat. Youll have something new to read about in the Guardian.
I guess Gibson only has 6 months left to prove himself
Cedars
Don’t worry mate I often mention your name out loud even to the complete disgust of my wife.
@Cedars for it had me thinking, wow did I offend Cedars again, shit man, no response needed from you back. After all that has been said, I still like and think the world of you.
Gibson has no time left to prove himself. not included in the US-Tour squad. He’s off.
Back in my acid taking days, I would have loved to party with GOAT!
I wonder how much she was paid to retract her accusations.
Despicable.
She had to blow all the Fifa members. Yes indeed, she got shafted. Hardship is no mean feat.
The media and the powers are all dirty rotten to the core, GoatinaUnitedShirt.
They deserve to be something new to read about in the Guardian.
Shrooms gave me gas. Not a good thing thinking was that a fart? Or did I shit my pants when tripping. I preferred the guy with a masters or PHD in chemistry that made batches of liquid sid. Roller Coasters on Acid should be an experience had by all.
They probably threatened her. Simplest method to induce memory loss.
Bribery tends to come back. Then they’d have to do her.
There’s a book in here somewhere!
Time to char mammalian flesh. To all shades of Red have the best of days…
Book’em Danno.
Goat
Enough already…. I have already explained that my previous mention of the word Goat was in reference to an ex City player………… I love your posts and I have high respect for you so please let it go
Cedars it was a wind up mate, i was bored. I was making an argument with an imaginary Cedars. Everyone was being paranoid about people using their usernames so in order to stop the mounting confusion I introduced the newer concept of imaginary username abuse and imaginary abuse. I then fought such confusion with an imaginary retraction and hej presto everything is fixed or atleast I imagine it is. Calm down my friend.
I had no idea you had written a post about Shaun Goater for starters.
Stateside – I second that idea…would be particularly useful for the iphone version.
STR – is it possible to do this?
Goat
In that case piss off you cunt! You had me all worked up you bastard! My old heart cannot handle this type of crap anymore……..
reading the cafe on the nasri speculation, interesting comment about nasri
It’s obvious that you need a Modric-type player. Nasri wouldn’t make any sense for your side, he did his best work for us off the wing last season and you’re already well-stocked in that area. He’s not a CM at all. Sneijder would be perfect but are you willing to pay the required amount for his transfer as well as salary? I’m sure once City get the wind of any potential Sneijder transfer, they’ll blow everyone away with their disproportionate wage structure.
Call the nurse.
Makaveli the Don! Arise!
hmmm … seems like I have started a revolution here, to get the posts reordered. And as MikeKelly points out, it would be better for the phone app too … I hope Scott is iistening! (Or reading) I can’t imagine it woud be that difficult to do. Each new post simply has to be inserted at the top, as it arrives, rather than at the end.
Ha ha you’ll live.
No more confusion, lol.
smartalex
Wouldn’t it be funny if the qataris like some of these funny nations decided to take her to the national stadium then flog her to an inch of her life and then we have the Guardian saying we should boycot the final of the world cup (should we get there) in protest for the flogging. Maybe we should take some bean bombers with us. Short haired lezzas who burst onto the pitch and open their jackets and out shoots a hundred weight of delicately cooked Bulgar wheat, mange tois and pine kernels and all the players fall to their knees and eat way to much to carry on the game.
That will serve them right ha ha ha the verld iz migne a a a a a a a .
I wish them the best of luck at Sunderland. Hopefully playing time will improve Brown’s attitude, and hopefully with the money in the bank and freed up wages we’ll be able to strengthen the team in a CM.
FITB – Nasri sees himself as a CM. When it’s all said and done, the boss will decide who’s the proper fit in that area.
willierednut – true.scholes was not a natural one by trade, but position change saw him become the best CM of his generation.
@willierednut
I hope it’s not Nasri, but you are right I should trust SAF in finding the best fit possible.
Agreed with statseside and mike, get it sorted str. Come on wed night.
GoatinaUnitedShirt, While horrified journalists finish wringing every last penny out of the public lashing, all Fifa accredited newsmen will be toeing the party line. And the show must go on. No one will be expecting your dastardly plot, and as the all-consuming players engorge their dreams, the gold trophy can be purloined and traded for tickets or summat.
OMG. Really dark in here. @ cedars, let it go Man
O’shea for captain of united b team. What a legend.
Maybe I will sound like the voice shouting in the wind. But I think the reordering
idea will destroy what community and comradery we have on ROM. Every site has its local aura or feel. ROM is about lads that take time to read the posts, not the “top rated” post, or some other artificial construction. Here we have time to develop understandings, even relationships. If you want to save time go to the Guardian, see if you get any sense of personality from any of those posters.
STR, my vote is to keep it as is. Might add a spell checker, but otherwise think the format is uniquely good.
Stateside, you are an example of a well thought of poster. If this was a site that could order the posts for best loved or most hated, aka the Guardian, no one would ever know you. Think about it.
They’re both too good not to be in the starting line up for Sunderland & they’ll both get a great reception when we play they them too… Fantastic servants to the club.
He’s big, he’s bad, he’s Wesley Brown.
Being of an Asian origin, I thought my nose was brown……
From RVN’s twitter….
I won’t be in Scholesy’s testimonial. I am in Cadiz with Malaga C.F. playing a two day pre season tournament. Would have been great.. Ruud.
Would have been great to see Ruud at OT again.
Anyway we bought any fucker lately……
oh by the bye … I got a goatee……hope that means I aint gonna get abused……
abuse me.. abuse mne….. BUT BE GENTLE…… only two fingers….. xx :shock;
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
cunting smileys hee hee
Fletch … I hear you, but I wasn’t suggesting an arbitrary order like rankings or anything. What I meant was that instead of ordering them from oldest post (at the top) to latest post, just do it the other way around: put the oldest at the bottom, and the newest at the top. It would save on a lot of scrolling. If you are following a thread, as we have been here, it would save time. And if you are joining a thread, and want to read what’s come before, it wouldn’t make any difference — either way, you need to scroll to see the older posts, it’s just a question of which direction.
Regarding the suggestion by StatesideAussie, I’d have to disagree. I feel the current format works a lot better insofar as it allows one to follow the flow of conversation more easily.
Ruud, you legend. Thanks for passing on the “tweet”, united.george!
Well, now when I refresh, I have to scroll down to the bottom to see the latest comments. On a short thread, that’s OK (still a nuisance, if I’ve already the earlier posts though), but on a long thread with hundreds of posts, it’s a pain. Or I think so, anyway. So I scroll to the bottom, then scroll back up a little to see the most recent dozen or so threads, then slowly scroll back down through them as you read. What I’m suggesting is: when you refresh, the most recent comments are right there. If you want to read earlier comments, you would scroll down to see them, but if you’ve already read them, then you don’t need to. Sure, some people wouldn’t ever bother — they’d just leap into a thread and start posting news and gossip that others have already posted, but that happens now anyway.
So I thought that when you’re joining a thread, it wouldn’t make much difference, and when you’re actively following a thread, have already “caught up” on what’s gone before, and are now just hitting refresh a lot, it would be easier because there’d be less scrolling. Especially on the mobile, but even on a regular browser if there’s tons of posts.
Its interesting,after being quiet and going about his business without any flash or drama,always avoiding the media, suddenly Paul is giving interviews and speaking his mind .
He seems to confirm what lots of people have thot about the England team.
Paul is surely charting new territory here,brilliant.
True what he said about the national teams, once Spain figured out how to play for thier country in unity and for the team ,look what happened.
Sunderland have made good moves in the transfer market. Wes and John will do what they have been doing for us , at sunderland. Good move,Brucie.
For fellow R.O.M ers:
This week will see arse,livers and chelki tour Asia ,thier adverts on tv screens are constant and I change the channel when i see it. stupid shit.
Manutd answer to all this was to have some of our stars tour with the trophy around Asia , it was a success.
So Manutd supporters have to put up with all the blah blah blah from the enemies for this current time. stupid shit.
And I am pissed , looking thru the weeks schedule have not found any telecast of our tour games in the US. stupid shit.
So if Modric claims of a gentlemens agreement with Levy is true,the lad bringing it up means he is determined to leave.
This fight is getting bitter.
Levy holds his ground or lose his credibility forever.
Somehow I beleive If Fergie was handling this situation ,he may have done a better job at convincing the player.
Drama is on now at spurs,ugly.
Stateside – I know what you mean mate. Especially when you have to rely on your phone!!
My two pennies worth on scrolling up/down
I access this site on a nokia 5230. When i access a blog, if i click on the title i get to the top of the blog. If i click on the number of comments, it loads up at the bottom so i can scroll up to where i left off last time.
God i’m spoilt ha.
And back on topic, can’t see Sunderland starting a game without our two exes unless forced to by injury. Just hope to god Brown stays fit and gets some good outings.
Heywood – you lucky fucker!!!!
cmd↓ takes me to the bottom of the page, no scrolling.
@smartalex: a swish of the finger and a bit of a boogie woogie and Hayley goes down on me!
smartalex.
Lots of options, exactly. One of the things I love about this site is that lads take the time to “teach”. I use Firefox as my brouser.
Some nice tricks about Firefox.
1. If I refresh, my page will eventually update and refind my last postition in the list.. No need to ask or scroll down etc.
2. Instead of clicking on a link, I right click (control click for some) and get a short list of options. If you sellect “open link in a new window” then you get the link up without leaving ROM. Thus refreshing ROM can be done while I read the other link. This also works for all of the daily threads, all can be open in a different window, click refresh on one and then click over to the other thread to read while the old thread is updating. Again, no scrolling.
Sure there are lots of other tricks.
Good to hear mackems’ view on their signings…
I think that ideally we’d be able to ‘check for new comments’ and download those only.
off topic..Becks scores from a corner kick..LEGEND !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn71IqxE5A4
. . .
They make take our lives but they will never take our freedom!
Just because it has fuck all to do with scrolling and I’m watching Braveheart lol
Till later me hearties
Classic quote by MG!!!!!!!
Kinda reminds of Optimus Prime rounding up the Autobots…
Well,always loved IronHide..
GGMU,peeps.
here is a problem has reason why i cant see united getting scneijder
http://gulfnews.com/sport/football/manchester-united-baulk-at-sneijder-s-d
fuckin hell.
was sneijder out with Anderson for 3 weeks?
Me peepy you, but ya can’t peepy me!
CONGRATULATIONS becks on the baby girl.
now to other news. stevie the cunt actually commends wayne rooney albeit indirectly claiming he has that fire in his belly that makes you want to watch him all the time even likened his edge to zidane’s. but then it all goes wrong when he compares roo with suarez. OH NO.
Rai- i am truly blessed. Not wi talents that are useful, just a phone that gives me options ha
Yep. Congrats to Becks for finally getting a daughter. And congrats to Sheasy, who recently became a dad too. Unfortunately, no one even knew his wife was expecting. According to the media, Victoria is the only woman that ever gets pregnant.
Fletch … yes, you are right about Firefox. I am cursed with having a bunch of different browsers because my job requires them (let’s not go *there*). My personal favorite is a little known one called Opera, because it has a great feature set that I have grown used to over many years and is blazing fast (a few seconds faster than Firefox loading a 400+ post thread from this site, using the same machine and connection). But it does have that quirk: it loads everything up, scrolls to my last position — and then zooms to the top. I didn’t realize that was a browser-specific quirk before. I tried Firefox (Mac/Win), IE (Win) and Safari (Mac), and they all behave as you said. So I will use Firefox for this site from now on, though as I said, it is a little slower to reload. Cheers!
Statesideaussie
I use Opera Mini as my phone browser. Faster than my T-Mobile one and uses less data
Statesideaussie
I use Opera Mini as my phone browser. Faster than my T-Mobile one and uses less data
Seems the Tevez excuse is going world wide. Robbie Fowler breaks his contract wi an aussie club then moves to Thailand. Apparently his new club are known as the Manchester United of their country, and use some of our chants amended to their club. Wanker
Heywood … I use Opera Mini too on my phone, but they have a full-size browser for PC and Mac too. A browser is one of those things that takes getting used to, and we all have our favorites. But I have used Opera since the mid 90s. But I will switch to Firefox for this site. But I still think it makes more sense to have the most recent comments first
So lads, Are we actually playing for 2 trophies with Anders as our number 1?
That’s what I call guts for glory.
MLS all star game (v Beckham, Henry, etc)
Audi Cup (v Barca etc)
United Move for Modric – £10m bid plus 2 players
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Sports/Football/2011/Jul-09/Man-United-make-Modric-move.ashx#axzz1RkSErOqB
http://cantheyscore.com/2011/07/10/21-and-counting-the-brazilian-boys-timeline/
The Twins.
Cant wait to welcome to OT our new orange wesley! :]
Clint … I don’t think that report has much credibility. It doesn’t quote any sources, not even anonymous ones. And Modric has made it pretty clear he wants to go to Chelsea. I also don’t believe Sneijder would choose Malaga over United. OK, so they’re owned by yet another rich sheik. They also finished 11th in the La Liga, aren’t within shouting distance of any silverware, and have a stadium that seats less than 29,000, and with the new financial rules coming in, will be limited in their ability to buy their way into . To be honest, it sounds like the sort of place a guy might go when he’s too old for the big clubs, has given up on the idea of actually winning stuff and just wants to rake in some dough before he toddles off into retirement. And Sneijder isn’t at that point yet, not by a long stretch. I can’t see any amount of money persuading a guy at the top of his game, as Sneijder is, to spend his prime years languishing in obscurity in the middle of the Primera Division.
… back to the browser wars … seems like Firefox also doesn’t scroll down when you actually submit a comment, instead of a plain refresh…
Yawn.
Zibbie-First you insult us by saying abusive things now you expect us to be friends with you.I say you FUCK OFF.
5 United players in Maradona’s Top 100
http://unitedbanter.blogspot.com/2011/07/maradonas-top-100-united-chapter.html
i cant wait to watch sunderland v liverpool.. hope john and wes school the fucken scousers
@stateside- i’m using a nokia 2700 with opera mini as well. To avoid scrolling, all you need to do is select ‘options’ and select ‘find in page’. You can type ur username there and it takes you directly to where ur name is mentioned on the page. You can press ‘next’ if your name is mentioned more than once@stateside- i’m using a nokia 2700 with opera mini as well. To avoid scrolling, all you need to do is select ‘options’ and select ‘find in page’. You can type ur username there and it takes you directly to where ur name is mentioned on the page. You can press ‘next’ if your name is mentioned more than once
@stateside aussie: why don’t you use rockmelt? it’ll display all articles in a tab on the right side of your window.. when tthere are new comments you can directly open them from the tab.. kind of eliminates the need to refresh..
but i agree with you STR should make an ordered comments page
ive been reading all comments been a fantasticread o far…meanwhile i was going throughthe fixture list ..noticed there were no sundays fixtures? did i miss somthing ? or epl is only on saturdays this year? idiotic questions i know..
Good Morning ROM!
Firstly, on the comments thing, I don’t think some people seem to be getting what Stateside is saying which is a very practical idea, but one that has never been used on blogs or forums that often. What he says is spot on, I follow this thread entirely and I only need to see the new comments that are posted whereas people who are new can read everything, only they have to go from down to up. For someone with limited bandwidth like smartalex, it makes more sense.
If Scott is using WordPress, and by all means I have no reason to think otherwise, there are a few neat options in-built into the system. One is the request put in by Stateside which is to make newer comments appear first. The other is to have comments appear split into pages with the last numbered page being loaded by default and it holds the newest comments also. This is also a decent option but it will make it a pain in the ass for people new to a thread, so it is not really optimal. Both are readymade options in WordPress should Scott duly take note of the requests put forth in this thread.
Also, I don’t know whether many of you have noticed, when you post a comment, the URL to that specific comment appears on the refresh. So, each time you refresh after that, the page will automatically come to your comment. Every comment in WordPress has a specific URL and you can automatically come to them by clicking on the date above each comment. This is how clicking the “Link” and “Comments” also works. The comments takes you to the URL for adding comments which is the same URL as the link with a #respond at the end. Don’t know how many know this, but just throwing it out there.
On-topic, it feels good to know that our players are going to be as loved elsewhere as they were here. You could argue that every club loves its players, but we know this is not entirely true looking at the likes of Chelsea. So, to know that our players are at a club like Sunderland who are making changes with a forward-view like ours and have a manager who respects his players and have fans who love the players who put on their jersey alleviates the pain of losing them in the first place.
Another thing to add, if Sneijder moves to Malaga, I will jump off my office which is in the fifth floor. No way that is happening as Stateside posted. He either stays at Inter or moves to us. Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t Chelsea in for him at one time.
I don’t know, but doesn’t the entire summer feel strange to all you guys. We were linked with Modric, but he wants to stay in London and looks likely to go to Chelsea for all intents and purporses. We were linked with Nasri and reports have him with a more likely move to City than us. We are linked with Sneijder and nobody else is in for him. We have free rein to make a move. I don’t know but the entire summer just “feels” like one of Sir Alex’s masterstrokes to me. I just hope to God that I’m right.
pepsivoltron Just waiting on Sky sports and Espn to announce there live games for sunday`s.
@Scott
Two posts at 3.59 and 4.06 were not from me mate. Whoever it was, is trying to get me and Zibbie into some argument on here. They must have been aware, of the disagreements on here between Zibbie and some of the regulars.
@Zibbie
That wasn’t me. You have to take my word for it. Scott would be able to confirm, it wasn’t me. I was sound asleep lol.
@willierednut thanks, that is not your style dude.
Seeing as this thread is on our ex-players, here’s an update on another:
Harper Seven Beckham was born weighing 7 pounds and 10 ounces at approximately 7 a.m. The daughter’s middle name Seven represents good luck; it was also the time of day, month, and day of the week in which she was born. Seven was also Beckham’s jersey number when he played soccer for Manchester United and the English National Team.
http://www.allmediany.com/details_article.php?art_id=852
If Wes & O’Shea both play & Sunderland beat L’pool, it will be good business, plus it will bring ‘pool down a notch as they seems to think ‘this is their year’ without actually saying it.
Bruce said: “The versatility of John O’Shea is quite staggering. He has played right-back, centre-back, left-back and in midfield for Manchester United. Wes can also play in more than one role in the back four. Having players who are versatile is crucial at times when you do come up against injuries. We needed to give ourselves a bit of strength in depth and the Manchester United two have done that.”
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/sunderland-afc/safc-news/2011/07/12/safc-boss-bruce-hails-brown-and-o-shea-72703-29036435/
The US tour Begins July 13th, New England Revolution v Man United at the Gillette Stadium followed by games against Seattle, Chicago, All star Team and finally the big one gainst Barcelona.
Here’s a preview of the US Tour- Will the Fringe players make their mark?
http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/man-united-usa-2011-tour-of-opportunity/
Sunderland manager Steve Bruce is expecting John O’Shea to be back in action shortly. The former Manchester United man was substituted against Arminia Bielefeld after tweaking a muscle and was replaced by Anton Ferdinand. Bruce, who is also without O’Shea’s former United team-mate Wes Brown, says he wasn’t about to take any risks in the second game of the pre-season schedule.
“It is nothing to worry about,” Bruce said. “It’s a bit of strain and as it’s only pre-season we didn’t take any chances.”
http://www.safc.com/news/20110717/sb-oshea-off-as-a-precaution_2256213_2394831
Entire article quoted here. Linked for info only.