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CONFIRMED LINE-UP: United vs Blackburn

December 31, 2011

De Gea, Rafael, Carrick, Jones, Evra, Park, Nani, Valencia, Welbeck, Berbatov, Chicharito.

Scott Patterson

Scott is the editor of RoM and has a season ticket at Old Trafford. He started The Republik of Mancunia in March 2006. Follow @R_o_M on Twitter or @R_o_M7 on Instagram.

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g-man December 31, 2011

Match fixing?

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WillieRedNut December 31, 2011

The top threads back Fred? :shock: Bermuda triangle weird.....

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Costas December 31, 2011

Really liked Berba's performance today. Felt like he was the ones digging us out of the hole. As classy as he is, he's scored more winning goals than equalizers or goals that decrease the opponent's lead. In fact, until today he had only scored 3 goals from the latter 2 categories.

And he also scored our 1500th goal. Making it hard for Fergie to leave him out now. :)

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Giggs12Gerrard0 December 31, 2011

@slim 20.22

Not sure if you had me down correctly pal as I have not posted anything aimed towards yourself?

I'm terms of the game I do think the gaffer was to blame today I'm not insulting him just being honest in my assessment. The centre midfield was woeful as a partnership. In the summer SAF said he won't buy over priced midfielders when he has pogba and the. Plays Rafael there?

Plus notes from today was tony Valencia fuck me is he delightful, its like kanchelskis was a proper winger.

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CedarsDevil December 31, 2011

smartalex

Fair enough..... I will accept Meg's panties, signed of course and unwashed may I add! hahahaha

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Mr C December 31, 2011

@Denton - First up, a Happy New Year to you.

I know this is the season of goodwill but sorry I cannot give credit to Blackburn - I really do think they are shit. They were expected to park the bus. The fact that they were able to do so successfully despite having a weakened team themselves was due to us failing to deliver decent final ball despite prolonged periods of pressure. There was a degree of fancy dan over-elaboration at points that smacked complacency or a lack of respect for the opposition by some of our players. Even so we still scored twice. Blackburn's win, even more so than is the case in most wins, was due to bad mistakes on our part. It had little to do with Blackburn's quality. Blackburn were generally shit and resorted to time-wasting early on. I hope they go down.

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Costas December 31, 2011

Read Phil Jones' interview and he made a very good point about the team getting back in the game too soon. You could tell that we took the foot off the gas again after that. We should have put them through the sword like we did when they went ahead in 2007.

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Viva MG! December 31, 2011

slim

You are well entitled to your opinion

Freedom of speech and all that

As am I

I will repeat the man is passionate as are we all

Hates racism as do we all

Dislikes losing as we all do

Hates those that disrespect the manager as we together share in belief

So at the end if he is being singled out to be a prick

And as I am talking about myself here then I am too

I have nothing to heed you should know that I am not perfect either but if you see it as you see it fair play to you.

I don't see what you see but then thats free will

Happy New Year to you be safe

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WillieRedNut December 31, 2011

g-man

Match fixing. :lol: Here's a straw.........now clutch.

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smartalex December 31, 2011

If Sir Alex had brought Pogba on under the strained conditions, with players struggling to operate effectively, and Pogba struggled: we'd be listening now to all the bile from morons about his contract and his lack of quality. I'd rather not try to earn a point by sacrificing a starlet.

Of course, had he come on and scored, he'd be a hero. How far has that got macheda?

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GoatinaUnitedShirt December 31, 2011

denton davey

Comeback match. come back from what, a heavy kabab binge. Jesus christ I remember Giggs, Scholes, Keane and endless other players come back from injury and I welcomed them back. Anderson to me is STILL a youngster or a prospect and for him after so many years with us needing come back time, and get to grip time, is becoming a sodding joke.

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CedarsDevil December 31, 2011

Its a frigging freak show

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CedarsDevil December 31, 2011

I second MG at 20:48

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Bring Back Ruud December 31, 2011

@Denton, when I mentioned the points tally I meant the overall points tally will be high this season so Tottenham won't accumulate them in my opinion.

It's not really about logic and reason if you think about it, I'm basing my points on where we currently stand in the table and the fact that our main rivals over the years have a huge gap to close not only on us but Tottenham and City.

So taking that into consideration (I've not even mentioned Shittys lack of experience) we're in good stead at the moment and couldn't have asked for much more

But yeah, totally agree that football doesn't work only on logic and reason alone.

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smartalex December 31, 2011

slim

All the way from this 'prick' to your 'yellow-belly' I say

Happy New Year! Free yourself of all other unexpressed discontent, as you have with me.
Openly display your truth, the world shall be yours this year!

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keano99 December 31, 2011

Happy new year reds let's hope 2012 finds us injury free. Red Army

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Giggs12Gerrard0 December 31, 2011

Smartalex

There was no reason to play rafa on the centre today with a better pairing we would have not have lost that game. Why was Rafael not playing and valencia in the middle? The boss said last year Tony V can play down the middle. He definitely got it wrong today.

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Giggs12Gerrard0 December 31, 2011

Smartalex

There was no reason to play rafa on the centre today with a better pairing we would have not have lost that game. Why was Rafael not playing and valencia in the middle? The boss said last year Tony V can play down the middle. He definitely got it wrong today.

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denton davey December 31, 2011

Mr C @ 20:47: "Blackburn’s win, even more so than is the case in most wins, was due to bad mistakes on our part. It had little to do with Blackburn’s quality. "

Sorry to be a party-pooper but I disagree with your disparagement of "Blackburn's quality". They had two significant senior players available - Yakubu and Samba. Both of these guys made huge contributions - Yakubu bullied Carrick for the second goal; Samba was "unplayable" by Dimmy and that led directly to their first goal after the penalty. Most of the rest of their team were kids and/or second-stringers yet they played a very disciplined defensive away-match. The only "bad mistake on our part" was the third goal and De Gea is young and new to the EPL - he's going to make "bad mistakes". It's part of the learning process.

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smartalex December 31, 2011

Giggs12Gerrard0 - I must say that in my uneducated opinion you are right. I haven't had a chance to look closely at it all, but I intend to understand what Sir Alex and the technical team were doing. Once we have a better picture of any unknown factors (Rooney/Fergie spat; injury; whatever), it will be easier to understand the thinking.

Did Sir Alex get it right? - I don't think so.

Why did he get it wrong? - Not clear yet (awaiting unknown factors / tactics)

What did he get wrong? - We weren't able to score more than them. I'm not being trite.
'No defenders, let's score more than them, should only need a couple' - didn't pan out.
Why? Because we were asking too much of too many players that were out of their natural positions. How much of this was SAF's fault, we will soon be better able to judge.

Say you or I were involved at United, faced with the same knowledge and situation before the game, we'd likely have done exactly what they did, and also got it wrong!

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gaurav12931 January 1, 2012

@denton davey
We really need Anderson to kick off from now on though,he certainly has quality but his consistency is lacking,but he does bring a little bit of pace into the midfield especially considering we don't even have the 'luxury' or pairing Carrick with Jones thanks to the injuries around.The way we were bossing arround in the first half especially before they got their penalty i was sure pogba would get his chance coz i thought wed hav the match wrapped up by half time,but i think Sir alex did not want to throw him into the deep end once we were down two goals,
And yea Anderson has a more mean look rite now.

Hope you have a great year ahead.

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denton davey January 1, 2012

gaurav12931 @ 5:54: "Hope you have a great year ahead."

Cheers, m8. Right back at you - and to all the other guys on this marvellous blog.

I'm going to spend two months in Puerto Vallarta, on the Mexican Pacific coast. IT beats the hell out of spending those two months in TheGreatWhiteNorth (Toronto). I've now got an iPad so I'll be connected - and, hopefully, my friends' satellite-tv connection will keep my eyes on the prize. Now if only the schedule calls for no more early, early matches !

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FRO-NAM January 2, 2012

Hope all my fellow reds are enjoying the new year and the title no 20 it will bring. Long time follower of this thread first time posting. Few things about the Blackburn game.

Totally respect SAF, he's a legend but think he made a few errors of judgement with team. But in saying that it was the players on the pitch that underestimated rovers and had to pay for it. I would have liked to see fryers at centre back (he's done CB before, think he prefers it) would have freed up Carrick to control middle. Park and rafael in middle is industrious but altogether lacking in creativity and stability.

Was excited at start of game hoping the youngsters Would get on for some valuable minutes if we bossed the game but sadly not. Hoping pogba gets thrown in the deep end soon, if he ain't good enough we will soon see but I've seen the kid action for reserves and he's a beast!! Will keane coming on was great to see, quality wee player.

Think most will agree with me that linde has to be no 1 choice, he's not afraid to come for crosses and the team is more confident if him bring between the sticks (just going on recent expressions from players when DDG doesn't deal with situation correctly)

All in all we didn't try hard enough. Berba is underrated class act, nani is king of inconsistency, jones is my fav playa at mo! We didnt push for goals early enough, But these things happen! Vidic is missed!! UNITED TILL I DIE!

Roll on st James!!! (ba could cause problems to our dodge defence tho!) interesting to see all the madness of the transfer window....

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