Sunday drink

[DaddyDozy]

And by interesting I mean thoroughly depressing

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

100k car.....don't mind the Panamera to be honest. It has space for the kids. And unlike a Range Rover are not ten a penny.
Millionaire Footballers eh....paid a fortune and have shit loads of time to themselves. What else to do but spend their cash on classless luxury goods to make them stand out from the crowd as being rich.

For every Diamond encrusted gold Rolex....there's a Patek Phillipe or a Panerai which is a little more understated.
For every Ferrari Scaglietti there's a Panamera.
Louis Vuitton...Burberry etc etc etc......

So long as a Billy likes the car I couldn't give a shit. Though I agree that I don't like players turning up in such cars when they have just been outplayed by a lad for Southend who drives a Mondeo as a family car.

If I were in charge I would request a bit more respect for the average guys paying good money to watch them. We don't need their fortune shoving in our faces, we know they are wealthy guys. You turn up in a car provided by the club, a sponsored car, and everyone has the same. Something ressonable....VW Golf.
You arrive in a suit....again provided by the club. Everyone wears the same.
Anyone arriving in headphones....fined. Anyone arrives with flash watches and bling....fined.
If you are spending more time thinking about your hair, your choice of coloured boot, your tan, competing with a team mate for best .....you aren't spending enough time thinking about football. Fined.

These guys have enough time away from the club to do that shit. Back to basics, back to the football. Don't care if it's old fashioned, I know it's not the Army but it may well be a lack of discipline that's the issue with the club.

I agree with many of your principles mate, but I agree - some might call you old fashioned. Old fashioned in the sense that it isn't a United-specific issue, it's every football club - are you turning up to training in your latest Aston Martin, or are you turning up to match day at the Etihad with your latest Rolex, Dre Beats headphones, your hair done and your little washbag under your arm?

I'd be all for a bit of discipline, it may already be happening. When I played Ice Hockey, especially for Peterborough's academy - they were big on rules and respect. Suit for home games, phones off as soon as you enter the rink, one set of music that everyone agreed on (so no iPods), your kit had to be laid out before hand, changing room kept tidy, you had to have eaten by a certain time beforehand, and for away games we were permitted to dress down for comfort when travelling, but were expected to wear club track suits. It wasn't archaic, it just meant that you felt prepared. For me, there was no surprise that we challenged in the league and cup whilst I was there and we made it to the national final, it helps that we were good at the sport of course, but we were focused first and foremost.

 

[bladesmanluke]

I've attached the question on to this. Its actually a practice question my Mrs was using to study with from 2011, so not as recent as I thought. An interesting read nontheless. I'll have to ask her if she still has her notes on it!

We really have made waves around the world for all the wrong reasons. The management since 2011 has been even worse.

 

[Grizzly blade]

I agree with many of your principles mate, but I agree - some might call you old fashioned. Old fashioned in the sense that it isn't a United-specific issue, it's every football club - are you turning up to training in your latest Aston Martin, or are you turning up to match day at the Etihad with your latest Rolex, Dre Beats headphones, your hair done and your little washbag under your arm?

I'd be all for a bit of discipline, it may already be happening. When I played Ice Hockey, especially for Peterborough's academy - they were big on rules and respect. Suit for home games, phones off as soon as you enter the rink, one set of music that everyone agreed on (so no iPods), your kit had to be laid out before hand, changing room kept tidy, you had to have eaten by a certain time beforehand, and for away games we were permitted to dress down for comfort when travelling, but were expected to wear club track suits. It wasn't archaic, it just meant that you felt prepared. For me, there was no surprise that we challenged in the league and cup whilst I was there and we made it to the national final, it helps that we were good at the sport of course, but we were focused first and foremost.

If you have earned the right to parade about like this it isn't a problem. City....Man Ure...they can have it. They have the players with egos earned from world cups, medals, cups and so on.
for a club which on the whole has a working class background and operates around that level (price structure and facilities), I think it's fair the players respected that and reflected it in themselves.
Fergie battled with his players for years on that kind of thing. And a club built on respect and principles is a good place to start.

I like the sound of your Hockey background, and is similar to the academy football I know. Shame that it gets lost somewhere, and these lads can become materialistic and forget why they play the game. Sometimes, the old ways are the best.

 

[Blade56]

I've attached the question on to this. Its actually a practice question my Mrs was using to study with from 2011, so not as recent as I thought. An interesting read nontheless. I'll have to ask her if she still has her notes on it!

Omg how depressing, we are used as an example of how to get it wrong then do it another 5 times from 2011-16. Unbelievable.

 

[Bladepicker]

Same amount of clubs as Zlatan Ibrahimovic (8)

Indeed. Not a criticism of Sharp btw, just an observation that despite his goalscoring record clubs don't bust a gut to keep him.

With Zlatan, evidence shows that is down to his attitiude and wanting to do the best for himself (ie moving at the end of contracts).

I don't think you can question Sharps attitiude, nor his goal scoring record in the right type of team but he certainly needs a certain style of play to be succesful in his career so far. At the moment how we play under Wilder doesn't fit that model and sure enough he is struggling.

Only 4 games though so plenty of time to turn it round.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Bladepicker

I saw no criticism...

I was looking at Billy's record of managers too, to see who was the one he'd scored most goals for...
That was about 0430 this morning...
I might get around to finishing it off...

I wonder if there really is a correlation between a player and a manager?

Alladyce and Kevin Nolan

I wonder if Sharp would have followed Brian Laws, if he hadn't become manager at S6?
Laws did want Sharp with him, if I remember rightly?

Any others, United related?

 

[grafikhaus]

I wonder if there really is a correlation between a player and a manager?

There obviously was between Crouch and Redknapp, if 'correlation' is another word for 'bung that goes into Harry's dog's account.'

 

[TJB.]

I've attached the question on to this. Its actually a practice question my Mrs was using to study with from 2011, so not as recent as I thought. An interesting read nontheless. I'll have to ask her if she still has her notes on it!

 

[TJB.]

God that's fucking embarrassing.

 

[The Crab]

It's a well known fact that money cannot buy you taste or class . It's like wearing a big black fuck off watch .

Sometimes less is more , but if Billy can get his mojo back and score , make goals , he looks great in his hairdressers sports car.

If Patek Philippe could score goals

Patek Phillipe, now they do some nice watches.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I've attached the question on to this. Its actually a practice question my Mrs was using to study with from 2011, so not as recent as I thought. An interesting read nontheless. I'll have to ask her if she still has her notes on it!

FUCKING HELL

You couldn't make it up, that needs posting to the club and plastering on the walls at the next meeting in the boardroom while they are making these 'phantom bids'

 

[Seph_Blade]

And by interesting I mean thoroughly depressing

"We will use the academy and development players to supplement existing experience" is the same line used every year. Utterly depressing. The line of "we have tried to buy success and it hasn't worked, we must change this approach" also made me laugh as we've now tried doing it on the cheap for 6 season and that hasn't worked either so what option are they left with??

 

[Blade56]

"We will use the academy and development players to supplement existing experience" is the same line used every year. Utterly depressing. The line of "we have tried to buy success and it hasn't worked, we must change this approach" also made me laugh as we've now tried doing it on the cheap for 6 season and that hasn't worked either so what option are they left with??

Might not work buying success but neither does selling the opportunity. How can we bring young players through if there aren't any left? Rhetorical SB

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I've attached the question on to this. Its actually a practice question my Mrs was using to study with from 2011, so not as recent as I thought. An interesting read nontheless. I'll have to ask her if she still has her notes on it!

Marvellous – we are a perfect case study for mismanagement and failure.

 

[TJB.]

I've attached the question on to this. Its actually a practice question my Mrs was using to study with from 2011, so not as recent as I thought. An interesting read nontheless. I'll have to ask her if she still has her notes on it!

Any way of finding out who's had the highest ever score on this particular question? We can send the answer to McCabe and he Prince...