Bluemoon goes into Meltdown

To whom it may concern.

I apologise for my complete incompetence regarding the terrace song I composed. I realise it is not historically correct, and I'm sure it breaks numerous poetry rules.

I therefore submit myself to re-education as my parents obviously failed to ensure I attended a suitable school, a point evidenced by my failure to even be able to write this letter.

Regards,

Drainy.
 
:lol:

ok, I'll e-sign that.

Although, I'll have you know that I attended the same high school as Patrick Stewart, so the fact I'm a feck up is completely my own doing.
 
My school crest had FOUR stars...although they might've been bullet holes, come to think of it.
 
Drainy said:
:lol:

ok, I'll e-sign that.

Although, I'll have you know that I attended the same high school as Patrick Stewart, so the fact I'm a feck up is completely my own doing.
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Yeah, you could have spent a part of your life dressed up in a costume, pretending you were a spaceman and shooting fake plastic lasers at imaginary alien monsters, like a 5 year old.

Mind you, I bet the pay was good.
 
Bread said:
Great chant that, doesn't this fit better to the tune though?

"Three stars on the shirt, not there for a reason, 30 years of hurt, massive for a season"
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Blown, a billion, blown, a billion

Is COMS your home, is COMS your home, is COMS your

Sheikh's a fecking cnut.....
 
As far as I know they have a 250 year lease at a nominal fee..

Then they agreed to pay £2million a year for the naming rights. The tax payers really got shafted with that deal.
 
Drainy said:
Then they agreed to pay £2million a year for the naming rights. The tax payers really got shafted with that deal.
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I find this one ridiculous. Why didn't the council sell the naming rights themselves? I'm sure they'd have gotten more than 2m a year, although, it is shitty. What they should've done was ask for 50% of any naming rights proceeds.
 
Exactly. City were in a tight position, they could have asked for a large % of any deal. What are City going to do, say no and build a new stadium so the council don't get their nominal fee every year?

They really let the tax payers down there.
 
Their forum is struggling to cope with the number of visitors even though it has less than half the traffic currently on here. Smalltime forum, evidently.
 
"We are too good for our own good"

People may think this is arrogant or im talking sh*t but I think this is what is happening. The difference between us and them is 4/5/7 points because other teams dont attack us they constantly put 9 players behind the ball a draw is a good result a win is a bonus, even utd dont try to attack us. Its well known their defence and midfield are pretty poor but only compaired to ours!!! The media crucify de gea and utds defence but its still better than 17 other teams in the league. So the other teams attack them and get picked off by rvp, granny shagger, and little shit. I reckon they must play the long ball more than stoke this season and keep catching defences out. If utd had to break down defences every game like us we would be 6 or 7 points clear by now. You simply cant break 9/10 man defences down every week, teams get lucky, keepers have good days and we can have off days. Simply put utds weakness is an advantage to them and our strength is our downfall.
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I really don't understand what he is trying to say. Football is a game where teams win and lose?... Mind boggling.
 
ghaliboy said:
I really don't understand what he is trying to say. Football is a game where teams win and lose?... Mind boggling.
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He's saying that we win more games than City because teams attack us more because our defence is bad and therefore it's easier for us to score goals and win games.

This is sort of true in football on some occasions, but this really isn't one of them.
 
kouroux said:
This is too fecking much :lol:
"Simply put utds weakness is an advantage to them and our strength is our downfall. "
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People never fail to amaze me. To come up with a sentence like that and not realizing what's wrong with it.
 
fishfingers15 said:
Well then, welcome to our lives for the last 20 fecking seasons, you bastards
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This! Welcome to what happens when you become the champions!

Is the fool really saying we didn't attack them? We scored 3! That's not bad for not attacking!

Of course he'd love every team to go there open as hell, and try and take them on.
Clearly when you're playing a team assembled for 500 or so million, with a rag tag bunch of bargains, you're probably not going to come off well!

Having said that, hopefully SAouthampton try exactly that tonight :p
 
lunchforthesky said:
He's saying that we win more games than City because teams attack us more because our defence is bad and therefore it's easier for us to score goals and win games.

This is sort of true in football on some occasions, but this really isn't one of them.
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Well, I haven't watched City play all that many times this season tbh, but from a United point of view there's definitely some sense to what he's saying, we're certainly benefitting from our games being more open than they have been in recent seasons. If City are facing ten men behind the ball every week then I can see why they might be more likely to drop points in relation to ourselves who haven't had to contend with that at all this season. You'd think that surely it's just a matter of tactics, but I'm not convinced that on United's part is has been a tactical decision, more, like ya man says, that our defence has been genuinely ropey and thus teams are coming at us at every opportunity; but is there something more to this than meets the eye?

City's games have largely been much tighter than ours. They've drawn four blanks in the Premier League this season, only scoring a single goal in seven fixtures. Compare that to United who have only failed to score twice whilst scoring a single goal on a mere four occasions, you get a picture of how better teams seem to be defending against Manchester City in relation to ourselves.

Is this a valid excuse though? The BM poster seems to be saying that teams are getting their tactics wrong against United whilst more often getting them right against City; but can the reverse be true, that City are getting their own tactics wrong whilst us getting them right? As I've mentioned above, I'm not personally convinced that SAF has made a tactical decision to go into so many games seemingly exposed, open to be attacked or 'there for the taking', but it's certainly not impossible either. A few seasons ago we had a very similar issue to that the City fan is complaining about, in that teams were parking the bus with too much regularity against us, a 0-0 opening day draw in 2007 against Steve Coppell's Reading (source of the picture below) marked a distinct change in SAF's attitude towards how teams were defending against us, and since then work seems to have been done to address the issue. Could it be that this season in particular is seeing those efforts bearing full fruit? I'm not sure, but one thing is for certain, if City think that teams will discontinue parking the bus out of some sense of common courtesy, then they're mistaken; when faced with such tactics, the ball is in your own court, you can't sit whinging about it in the hope that your plight will gain you some sympathy and more attacking opposition, that's not gonna happen.

To sum up then, I think the Blue Moon poster has half a point, but that his complaint, such that it is, isn't down to simple dumb luck as he seems to be suggesting it is. City need to find a way to break down defenses whilst United have no problems in this regard; on such things titles are won and lost, and SAF sure has a good record when it comes to winning titles, so when our apparent weakness is seemingly one of our greatest strengths, you wouldn't put it past the manager as having a very carefully constructed method to this apparent madness.

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We've conceded lots of goals but our games haven't exactly been open, end-to-end for ninety minutes. He might have a point that teams try to attack us more but the pattern of many of our games this season has been we concede an early goal, the other team defend it for the rest of the game and we try and break them down. We've had to contend with a fair bit of bus parking, albeit not from minute 1.
 
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