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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #240 on: January 17, 2009, 05:19:16 pm »
rafa, please just go for it this year... please. we really have nothing to lose anymore.
table says the main difference (so far ) between  us and Man U is the 2 draws. interestingly we've scored about the same and they have conceded about 3 less goals. to be honest so far Rafa's been the width of a post wrong
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #241 on: January 17, 2009, 05:19:29 pm »
its in our own hands, stop whinging and fucking get behind the team when you are at the ground instead of being obsessed with united.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #242 on: January 17, 2009, 05:20:08 pm »
can u explain ureself mate. are forums not a matter of oponions? are u saying rafas decision making has been good. i believe i have raised some valid points

I'm saying there's far too many Johnny-come-latelys who have nothing positive to contribute to the forum, to the club, to anything really.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #243 on: January 17, 2009, 05:20:11 pm »
Nothing to do with what I posted. Too many people are afraid of Man United, it's totally embarassing. What's better- the players playing with a positive vibrant crowd supporting them all the way, or a bunch of whinging c*nts sitting on their hands and biting their nails? Win our games and we'll win the league. Oh, and by the way, it IS in our hands.

No its not in our hands and i'll tell you why. United will rarely if anything now drop points and have a game in hand still, the momentum is with them. We had the chances to put a cushion there and we bottled it.

Its in there hands.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #244 on: January 17, 2009, 05:20:31 pm »
can u explain ureself mate. are forums not a matter of oponions? are u saying rafas decision making has been good. i believe i have raised some valid points

Everyone drops points. Chelsea and Man Utd will be thinking, why didn't we beat Newcastle this season for example. And on the whole Rafa's decisions have been good, eg bringing Babel on agains the Mancs and playing Lucas in the Newcastle game.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #245 on: January 17, 2009, 05:21:15 pm »
People starting to get a bit pissed off, cos we've seen the mancs turn a 8 point deficit around in a week.

Hope Rafa and the players are just as pissed off, because if this c*nt of a last 7 days doesn't stir us into life nothing will.

Agree with Walshy's Mullet over this ' controlling' the game but coming away with a point buisness, due to being too cautious. I hate the mancs as much as most reds, but one thing you can't about them is that they are cautious.

We can't put it down to luck every time they get a late goal.
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« Reply #246 on: January 17, 2009, 05:21:44 pm »
No its not in our hands and i'll tell you why. United will rarely if anything now drop points and have a game in hand still, the momentum is with them. We had the chances to put a cushion there and we bottled it.

Its in there hands.

I'm not going to debate it with you any more, but the fact is, if we win all our remaining games, we win the league. That, in my opinion, means it's still in our hands.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #247 on: January 17, 2009, 05:24:53 pm »
I'm not going to debate it with you any more, but the fact is, if we win all our remaining games, we win the league. That, in my opinion, means it's still in our hands.

Isn't that one of those 2 way arguments though, cos if the mancs win all their remaining games they'll win the League.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #248 on: January 17, 2009, 05:25:43 pm »
Monday we will see if Rafa and the boys have the appetite for a scrap for the title.

A draw I regret to say will mean the end of our Premier League assault.




Get real will yer?

This situation is exactly what rednose was on about when he suggested we might "choke" with the pressure of a run-in with them.  What we have to do now is show that bastard that we can go toe to toe with them all the way.  Of course the media will say "Alex won the title for Utd in the last 7 days with superb mindgames" but fuck 'em, let them wank over him if they want.

in sone respects, i think we will do better if we have to chase from behind.  It's how we do things best - boro (H), city (a), Hull (H) .... istanbul 05, west ham 06 etc.

Long way to go yet and United won't keep doing this 1-0 thing.  They are merely going through a spell like we did earlier in the season with late wins.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #249 on: January 17, 2009, 05:25:56 pm »
Isn't that one of those 2 way arguments though, cos if the mancs win all their remaining games they'll win the League.

Obviously.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #250 on: January 17, 2009, 05:26:16 pm »
No its not in our hands and i'll tell you why. United will rarely if anything now drop points and have a game in hand still, the momentum is with them. We had the chances to put a cushion there and we bottled it.

Its in there hands.

If we win all our remaining games we'll win the league so its in our hands as much as theirs.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #251 on: January 17, 2009, 05:26:28 pm »
I just posted this elsewhere, but still.

Now i think we realise when we are drawing, like the mancs today, we need to press abit more and go for it. The gamble of going for 3 points outweighs settling for 1 (therefore 2 dropped) when looking to win the title imo. If it turns out we went for it and lost, it's *just* a point dropped, but with our quality, and vs lower league teams more often than not we'd get a winner.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #252 on: January 17, 2009, 05:27:44 pm »


We can't put it down to luck every time they get a late goal.
There's nothing lucky about it. Okay, you get the odd bit of luck. You also get decisions going your way. But that's how you win titles.

Ask anyone who remembers the great years, we done the same thing all the time.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #253 on: January 17, 2009, 05:28:04 pm »
I'm saying there's far too many Johnny-come-latelys who have nothing positive to contribute to the forum, to the club, to anything really.
just saying i would to see more forward tactics and go for games instead of been happy not to lose

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #254 on: January 17, 2009, 05:29:51 pm »
I just posted this elsewhere, but still.

Now i think we realise when we are drawing, like the mancs today, we need to press abit more and go for it. The gamble of going for 3 points outweighs settling for 1 (therefore 2 dropped) when looking to win the title imo. If it turns out we went for it and lost, it's *just* a point dropped, but with our quality, and vs lower league teams more often than not we'd get a winner.

yep like utd, Chelsea and villa did today. Rafa needs to take more risks.

Rafa learns the hard way.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #255 on: January 17, 2009, 05:32:55 pm »
A draw I regret to say will mean the end of our Premier League assault.

No it wont. one Manu U loss and we'll be back in it
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« Reply #256 on: January 17, 2009, 05:34:43 pm »
IF we dont win the league this year we have one man to blame. some of rafas decisions this year are mindboggling. we should be 5-6 points clear at least.

He got us there. He's put in the hard work and he should be thanked for us having our best chance in years..... Could maybe take on the dea of pelting forward or a win though.
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #257 on: January 17, 2009, 05:34:46 pm »
rafa wont change, he plays his way, hes extremely stubborn.
if it doesnt work the way he wants it to, it doesnt happen.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #258 on: January 17, 2009, 05:35:28 pm »

No its not in our hands and i'll tell you why. United will rarely if anything now drop points and have a game in hand still, the momentum is with them. We had the chances to put a cushion there and we bottled it.

Its in there hands.
actually its not, we are in control of our own destiny
why is it rafa's fault if we dont win it this year?
Ever thought our players arent good enough? Keane not firing, torres injured?
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #259 on: January 17, 2009, 05:36:02 pm »
rafa wont change, he plays his way, hes extremely stubborn.
if it doesnt work the way he wants it to, it doesnt happen.


Hence the reason why utd are now top of the league.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #260 on: January 17, 2009, 05:36:18 pm »
No its not in our hands and i'll tell you why. United will rarely if anything now drop points and have a game in hand still, the momentum is with them. We had the chances to put a cushion there and we bottled it.

Its in there hands.

its in our hands too, if we beat everyone including them we win the league
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #261 on: January 17, 2009, 05:37:22 pm »
man utd have won 6 or 7 games this season by 1-0.

we have drew 5 games 0-0.


thats the difference (at the minute).
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« Reply #262 on: January 17, 2009, 05:37:40 pm »
I'm saying there's far too many Johnny-come-latelys who have nothing positive to contribute to the forum, to the club, to anything really.

It's not negative to say that there are other clubs in the world who have been more successful than us in the last 20 years... what can we learn from them?
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« Reply #263 on: January 17, 2009, 05:39:32 pm »
Hence the reason why utd are now top of the league.
thats exactly what i'm saying.

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #264 on: January 17, 2009, 05:40:10 pm »
As some of the brighter amongst us have said, it is still in our hands.

If we win our games we win the title.

The key point which some are forgetting is the trip to Old Trafford.

We don't have to have Man U drop any points, we can take points off them ourselves.


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« Reply #265 on: January 17, 2009, 05:42:36 pm »
we really need to make a big statement on monday.  3pts from a passionate team with a passionate crowd fully behind that team  (even if the line up reads kuyt starting as the lone striker  :butt ;D).

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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #266 on: January 17, 2009, 05:43:29 pm »
I would love to know these games were we haven't gone for it.

Stoke last 5 minutes hit the bar and post

Arsenal El Zhar inches wide with a header at the end

Villa Keane one one one at the end

We haven't taken our chances that has been the difference
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« Reply #267 on: January 17, 2009, 05:45:03 pm »
in some of our home games rafa has played kuyt up front by himself. surely this can be improved on. we should be playing two up front. iam not been negative just pointing out facts.

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« Reply #268 on: January 17, 2009, 05:46:33 pm »
I would love to know these games were we haven't gone for it.

Stoke last 5 minutes hit the bar and post

Arsenal El Zhar inches wide with a header at the end

Villa Keane one one one at the end

We haven't taken our chances that has been the difference

spot on

Imagine if Torres had been playing in all of those 0-0's

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« Reply #269 on: January 17, 2009, 05:47:34 pm »
its simple we need to beat everton or were fucked, truth hurts i know i broke my monitor when united scored half a hr ago(lucky i got a spare)
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #270 on: January 17, 2009, 05:48:53 pm »
spot on

Imagine if Torres had been playing in all of those 0-0's

like fulham at home you mean?

(and maybe stoke at home but not 100% on that one)
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #271 on: January 17, 2009, 05:49:05 pm »
actually its not, we are in control of our own destiny
why is it rafa's fault if we dont win it this year?
Ever thought our players arent good enough? Keane not firing, torres injured?
Some cant seem to take the pain before the glory

some just expect to leapfrog from 4th to 1st without putting up with the pain of defeat

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Sorry what? Its in our hands? Well if its in our hands its also in Uniteds hands as they have an extra game still.

And that last line was effing ridiculous even for on here. Theres been years of league pain, years. The reason why its grating so much at the moment was those sequence of draws in november, where a lot of us KNEW we needed an advantage taken. I think a lot of people look stupid on here now after all the 'we're still top. we're still seven points clear' and all the rest of that garbage.
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« Reply #272 on: January 17, 2009, 05:50:32 pm »
like fulham at home you mean?

(and maybe stoke at home but not 100% on that one)

stoke at home we owned them. just couldnt get it in the back off the net.
were doing the same as last year playing well but drawing to many =D still in are hands kind off
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« Reply #273 on: January 17, 2009, 05:51:08 pm »
I would love to know these games were we haven't gone for it.

Stoke last 5 minutes hit the bar and post

Arsenal El Zhar inches wide with a header at the end

Villa Keane one one one at the end

We haven't taken our chances that has been the difference

Give me strength. We never 'went for it at Villa. We certainly didnt go for it at Arsenal, in fact we were worse in the last 25 minutes than anything ive seen bar Stoke. We waited 85 minutes at Stoke before we decided to actually attack them properly.

Straw grasping of the amazing kind there.
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« Reply #274 on: January 17, 2009, 05:51:09 pm »
Sorry what? Its in our hands? Well if its in our hands its also in Uniteds hands as they have an extra game still.

And that last line was effing ridiculous even for on here. Theres been years of league pain, years. The reason why its grating so much at the moment was those sequence of draws in november, where a lot of us KNEW we needed an advantage taken. I think a lot of people look stupid on here now after all the 'we're still top. we're still seven points clear' and all the rest of that garbage.
and they dont have a xtra game now son intill we play everton
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« Reply #275 on: January 17, 2009, 05:51:58 pm »
I think the key point is our attitude/game plan/formation at Anfield.

Yet again, the same as last season our record at home is not good enough and it is our form at home that is going to dictate whether we are in the mix or not come May.
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« Reply #276 on: January 17, 2009, 05:52:10 pm »
sitting on their hands and biting their nails?
that's impossible mate or are you saying that people at Anfield have arse for a head??
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Re: It's important to win... but more important not to lose.
« Reply #277 on: January 17, 2009, 05:52:26 pm »
hey guys..calm down..what happend?! .. ManU win? it doesn't matter!
let's stop thinking about them and be focused on our team and our next game!
just remember..
we have Torres back..
we have Alonso Back..
we have Skrtel back..
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« Reply #278 on: January 17, 2009, 05:52:32 pm »
I've heard Rafa on various occasions proudly describe himself as a 'calm' coach; by many accounts his attention to detail & meticulous approach to the game is second to none. This perhaps manifests itself in Rafa's reluctance to abandon his chess like view of football when an emotive gun ho approach is required i.e. the need for risky formations/substitutions, ala Istanbul. Logically we still had enough quality to beat Stoke. Problem is, the premiership requires a less tactical approach than in Europe.
 
I just think Rafa's overcautious approach is central to man himself and likely to continue to frustrate many of us. This approach makes the return to form of individualists like Torres and Babel more important as they can transcend the team's cautious ambition by making things happen on their own.   

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« Reply #279 on: January 17, 2009, 05:52:59 pm »
id point to westham an hull at home, as 4 points we should have had, had we got these 2 wins theres no way the mancs would have gone on such a run.  be LOVED  to be proved wrong  but thats where we lost it, an it looks like we need to win in their backyard to get the situation back on course.
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