Pathetic, pitiful, disgraceful and an absolute embarrassment

It's a reasonable point.

If only Ryan Giggs were in charge to sort out all of our problems.
 
If you paid money and went all the way to the ground to watch another dire performance devoid of any entertainment, you'd probably be angry too.

United offer no entertainment value anymore and it is really concerning. Everyone I know - big United/footie fans - is finding it painfully dull to watch United.
 
Feed Me said:
Not at all.

I've held my hands up about that bout of lunacy. It was pathetic.

However, at least I lost it after a spell of genuinely shite form.
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So you decide when its appropriate to complain? Despite us sitting in a fairly healthy position in the league of complete mess we also look like we're heading for the exit door in an easy CL group. Add to that us being out of the COC against a lesser team and last but not least, we are playing some really shit on a stick football against every team. And it looks like LvG is unable/unwilling to fix it.
 
For anyone dropping the :lol: at me calling for Van Gaal's head last season, yes, that was pathetic. I have admitted that plenty of times.

The negativity at the moment is ludicrous though. People are calling this one of the worst performances post-Fergie.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Thread title describes the performance fairly well.

The OP needs work though.
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Yep, I thought the title is actually describing our performance.
 
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So you decide when its appropriate to complain? Despite us sitting in a fairly healthy position in the league of complete mess we also look like we're heading for the exit door in an easy CL group. Add to that us being out of the COC against a lesser team and last but not least, we are playing some really shit on a stick football against every team. And it looks like LvG is unable/unwilling to fix it.
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I have happily held my hands up for being a fecking idiot last season. People can post old threads all they like, I will still give my opinion.

The current negativity is way over the top.

Blaming Van Gaal for player profligacy is stupid in the extreme. A philosophy doesn't make players miss sitters.
 
I rarely find booing correct, but that second half performance is as close to the situation to do it as possible. I've defended LVG a lot and understand his primary job is to get results. But in the second half the fans got a team incapable of passing a football. They could get the ball forward. If expect a relegated PL team to be able to do that. The fans deserve better than that. There's dull mechanical football, and then there's what we saw in the second half, which truly moyesesque stuff.
 
The crowd were shit tbf. When they anounced injury time there was not a murmur. What the feck happened to that last big roar for a final injury time push? There's always a roar if we need a goal. Every club does it! Had they really all gone home?
 
amolbhatia50k said:
I've defended LVG a lot and understand his primary job is to get results. But in the second half the fans got a team incapable of passing a football. There's dull mechanical football, and then there's what we saw in the second half, which truly moyesesque stuff.
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I've said this previously with some of our worst performances. People confuse deliberately boring negative tactics with just total inability to execute basic techniques, like short passes to team-mates. Sure, both are ultimately down to the coach, but in entirely different ways. I just can't understand how they were so bad in the final half hour... most plausible theory seeming to be they were knackered, but why?
 
It's just frustration, it really is a hard watch a times, but if Jesse had put that chance in and we'd have continued to play crap afterwards but won, then most people would have brushed it under the carpet been happy with qualification and praised the defence.

It's when you don't win that it really does press home how dire we are to watch and the frustration justs gets the better of a lot people, a win at Leister and all will be well with the world again, but in reality we'll not be properly entertained again until the LvG era is over.

Don't get me wrong I don't want LvG out, but he is merely turning the ship around and laying the groundwork for our next manager imo.
 
Mciahel Goodman said:
These are the games you want to be in control of -- having to go to fecking Germany and win is not an easy task. Aside from that, worst performance I can remember in a long time. Absolutely dire stuff. Who the feck wants to watch that?
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The scariest thing is we have said that so many times this season already. And yet it keeps getting worse....
 
Sir A1ex said:
I've said this previously with some of our worst performances. People confuse deliberately boring negative tactics with just total inability to execute basic techniques, like short passes to team-mates. Sure, both are ultimately down to the coach, but in entirely different ways. I just can't understand how they were so bad in the final half hour... most plausible theory seeming to be they were knackered, but why?
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I really can't either. I don't know how professional footballers at that level can struggle to actually get the ball forward into the opposition half. Usually you see bad decision making once it gets there but we couldn't even get it there.
 
I admit that the football has been below par at times, but how anyone can liken this to United under Moyes...

We missed genuinely presentable chances tonight, yet the manager gets hammered.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
I rarely find booing correct, but that second half performance is as close to the situation to do it as possible. I've defended LVG a lot and understand his primary job is to get results. But in the second half the fans got a team incapable of passing a football. They could get the ball forward. If expect a relegated PL team to be able to do that. The fans deserve better than that. There's dull mechanical football, and then there's what we saw in the second half, which truly moyesesque stuff.
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I know what you mean. That second half was the first time in a long time where I was having genuine flashbacks to the Moyes 'era'.
 
When Leicester are top of the league, I don't think being 2nd really compensates for the absolute dire football that millions of paying fans are being served up.
 
Feed Me said:
I have happily held my hands up for being a fecking idiot last season. People can post old threads all they like, I will still give my opinion.

The current negativity is way over the top.

Blaming Van Gaal for player profligacy is stupid in the extreme. A philosophy doesn't make players miss sitters.
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Depends on your preferences. Do you enjoy watching Mourinho's football? Is it worth to clear your calendar every weekend to watch a 90 min snoozefest where we might snatch a win if we're lucky? This isn't a knee-jerk reaction from us critics. This pathetic brand of football has been going on for far too long - and the booing is a result of people not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel.

Rewatch the CP game this season. There you will notice that both set of fans were really up for it. Until LvG's football took over - resulting in complete radio silence from both ends. This is death to football as I know it. The most frustrating part? We have a pretty solid squad (as results show) but he strangles the team's offensive play completely.
 
I believe the negativity tonight is in proportion to the level of performance the players delivered.

Feed Me said:
I admit that the football has been below par at times, but how anyone can liken this to United under Moyes...

We missed genuinely presentable chances tonight, yet the manager gets hammered.
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I think the only true chance that we had was the Lingard one that he blazed over. The others were pretty much routine for their keeper, it's not like he played a blinder or anything.
 
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Our fans.

Second in the league, in control of our CL fate.

The reaction in the ground, on the Caf, on Twitter...

Jesus wept.
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I really thought you were describing the performance until I opened the thread.
 
I'd boo if I had to have a few hours drive home after watching that shite.

Watching Smalling run to the half way line and have nothing to pass too was eye gougingly awful to see. I was right with every frustrated noise from the fans.
 
justboy68 said:
I know what you mean. That second half was the first time in a long time where I was having genuine flashbacks to the Moyes 'era'.
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Yeah I had that aura of desperation that was a constant theme of the Moyes era. It's that feeling at OT where the players don't seem to know what they're actually doing.
 
Hed Zitin said:
I'd boo if I had to have a few hours drive home after watching that shite.

Watching Smalling run to the half way line and have nothing to pass too was eye gougingly awful to see.
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I wish someone would ask LVG how this happened. I'd really like to know how it's possible/what went wrong.
 
The fans paid their own money to watch the team dish out that shite they are well entitled to leave when they want.

As for the fans that did stay and booed that was justified too.
 
The funny thing is that this is probably the most appropriate time for Feed Me to go create one of those listed threads, ever, and instead he does the opposite.
 
Feed Me said:
A philosophy doesn't make players miss sitters.
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We should have created a lot more than 2 chances at Old Trafford against this team. We should have been camped and battering their goal. I can't remember their goalkeeper making a save.
 
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