stinkyblade
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Ever since the mauling at Arsenal, we have kept 6 clean sheets out of 7 games. Including 4 in a row. Hopefully we can keep it up.
So what got said?
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I think the major difference is, the sides we've been playing don't have the class or pace of the young Arsenal side that played so well that night.
Certainly think Morgan has improved his all round game since then, after getting a chance when Killa was sent off.
Certainly think Morgan has improved his all round game since then, after getting a chance when Killa was sent off.
Sheffield-Bl4de
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5 clean sheets danny lad, well they never shut up about it in the programme, whatevers happened, I want them to keep it up.
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Yeah, so surely if it said we had five clean sheets in the programme, we added to it today making six?
Anyway... I don't think any of you lads would know clean sheets if they threatened to strangle you
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Yeah sorry, didn't notice Watford game.
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Football is a funny thing, isn't it? But I think football fans are the funniest.
Has Chris Morgan been staying behind for extra training? Has he gone back to the academy to re-learn the basics? Has he joined the local library and hired out a book on how to be a better centre-half and club captain?
No. But some fans and forum-members, very recently, were saying how he's turning into a thug, becoming a liability and "not the great captain some would have you believe" I recall. Chris Morgan is what he is. The Pele of defence. Hardly. He's brave, determined, refuses to roll over, sticks his face in front of things most players would turn their backs on (hence his Calvin Klein model looks), doesn't piss about and commands a good back line.
It's marvelous to have such footballing full-backs as Naughton and Sun and it's refreshing to see the long blonde come striding out of defence with the ball at his feet but in this league it's important to have someone in the middle who will put his laces through the ball to clear the danger.
I'm not saying I'd always pick Morgan over Killa or Uuuuuugo but to suggest binning him off to bring in new blood is ridiculous. He is club captain for a reason, he earned it, and having your club captain in the heart of defence looks as though it's had the right effect in tightening up the back line. He will ALWAYS have his uses until the day he hangs up his boots and goes into Hollywood.
Has Chris Morgan been staying behind for extra training? Has he gone back to the academy to re-learn the basics? Has he joined the local library and hired out a book on how to be a better centre-half and club captain?
No. But some fans and forum-members, very recently, were saying how he's turning into a thug, becoming a liability and "not the great captain some would have you believe" I recall. Chris Morgan is what he is. The Pele of defence.
Hardly. He's brave, determined, refuses to roll over, sticks his face in front of things most players would turn their backs on (hence his Calvin Klein model looks), doesn't piss about and commands a good back line.It's marvelous to have such footballing full-backs as Naughton and Sun and it's refreshing to see the long blonde come striding out of defence with the ball at his feet but in this league it's important to have someone in the middle who will put his laces through the ball to clear the danger.
I'm not saying I'd always pick Morgan over Killa or Uuuuuugo but to suggest binning him off to bring in new blood is ridiculous. He is club captain for a reason, he earned it, and having your club captain in the heart of defence looks as though it's had the right effect in tightening up the back line. He will ALWAYS have his uses until the day he hangs up his boots and goes into Hollywood.
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Football is a funny thing, isn't it? But I think football fans are the funniest.
Has Chris Morgan been staying behind for extra training? Has he gone back to the academy to re-learn the basics? Has he joined the local library and hired out a book on how to be a better centre-half and club captain?
No. But some fans and forum-members, very recently, were saying how he's turning into a thug, becoming a liability and "not the great captain some would have you believe" I recall. Chris Morgan is what he is. The Pele of defence.
It's marvelous to have such footballing full-backs as Naughton and Sun and it's refreshing to see the long blonde come striding out of defence with the ball at his feet but in this league it's important to have someone in the middle who will put his laces through the ball to clear the danger.
I'm not saying I'd always pick Morgan over Killa or Uuuuuugo but to suggest binning him off to bring in new blood is ridiculous. He is club captain for a reason, he earned it, and having your club captain in the heart of defence looks as though it's had the right effect in tightening up the back line. He will ALWAYS have his uses until the day he hangs up his boots and goes into Hollywood.
Indeed, my only problems with him were his increasing consistancy of hacking the ball all of about 5 yard to an opposition player. Watch back the goals we conceeded before returning to a Killa/Ugo partnership last time around... i'll bet you in the build up to 90% of them we had an instance of that.
Now he's back in and IS clearing the ball properly there is absolutely no problem. The stats show our defensive strengths and the fact Killa can only make the bench speaks volumes for how they are performing at the moment.
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Absolutely, Foxy. I think my main gripe was that people were saying he'd changed, he'd turned into a thug, we should get rid. When a striker is out of form he doesn't score goals. Unfortunately, when a defender is out of form it can cost you goals.
Some people don't want to give players like Morgan the excuse that he's "a bit off-form", but rather label him, make presumptions that he's going to become a liability and drive him themselves to the next club that shows interest in him.
Unfortunately, we have some dead headed tossers who turn up on a saturday.
From the during the Plymouth match, i heard numerous tossers having a go at Beattie (granted he had a poor game and the only thing he done well was score the 2 goals) and everytime Webber got the ball, regardless of where it when, they started singing for Billy Sharp to come on. There was also an incident on the kop as far right as you can get concerning the afore mentioned "fans", which i will go on in further detail.
As we are doing pretty well, sitting 5th, i am a little concerned that certain "fans" may do their most to try and spoil what we have at the minute, by badgering certain players because they have not scored a hat trick in the 1st 30 minutes, or because they are not themselves United fans from childhood.
From the during the Plymouth match, i heard numerous tossers having a go at Beattie (granted he had a poor game and the only thing he done well was score the 2 goals) and everytime Webber got the ball, regardless of where it when, they started singing for Billy Sharp to come on. There was also an incident on the kop as far right as you can get concerning the afore mentioned "fans", which i will go on in further detail.
As we are doing pretty well, sitting 5th, i am a little concerned that certain "fans" may do their most to try and spoil what we have at the minute, by badgering certain players because they have not scored a hat trick in the 1st 30 minutes, or because they are not themselves United fans from childhood.
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