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by **Owzat** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:32 pm

200-1 should have been the odds of us winning at old trafford. Just completes our 37th loss in 111 away games ie 1 in 3 exactly

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:26 pm

stmichael wrote:rafa needs a sh#tload of cash to win the league. thats the top and bottom of it.

today, united had £60m of talent on the bench to bring on (when you consider that tevez would cost £25m on top of hargreaves £18m and nani £18m).

we had benayoun, riise and crouch to come on. that's the difference.

No that's not the difference.

The difference was they wanted it more. Rooney ran us raggered. It was Wes Brown (a lad from their academy not a 20 million transfer) who opened the scoring. Money DOES NOT BUY you a win. If that was the case, Chelsea wouldn't of drew twice with us this season would they?

Just admit that United were better than us on the day and showed more passion and pride throughout.

by **bigmick** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:52 pm

I actually don't think those who considered the possibility that we could do something should feel embarassed, neither should anybody who wondered whether people would be proven wrong by our finishing position. I'm hugely encouraged by the fact we once again went in with our strongest team, and have absolutely no doubt that if we go into next season with the same attitude, we will go close.

It was always going to be a long shot to get involved with the top three this time after what has gone before, and results like this one have shown why. Football teams lose football matches though, and if we stick with an unchanged pattern against everton (with the obvious exception of Masherano) I'll be very interested to see if we can this time avoid a defeat turning into a bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. My belief is we can show a bit more bouncebackability this time around, and I wouldn't be too disheartened by todays sisplay either. Events conspired against us a bit, our formation was found out a bit, and overall we looked like what we are which is a bit of a work in progress. The truth is we never really got going, but were we to play them in the Champions league final, you can bet your erse they would be sh!tting themselves and I'd fancy us all over.

We've lost againt them many times in the recent past, and in my honest opinion it would be madness to ditch the newfound stability in selection and pattern after one bad result.

by **god_bless_john_houlding** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:08 am

Mick, I won't be embarrassed for saying we could win the league a few days back. I still think we can win the league now, because we can. I don't csre if we're 200-1 or 2-1, as long as it's possible I'll feel we can win it. Today's performance shows that we don't have the bottle to go and beat the better sides. Lack of passion, pride and desire cost us today's game. Not the ref (he didn't help of course) but ourselves. None of the players (that includes Mascheranho and Torres who aren't above criticism) showed enough belief that we could win. That's were our problems lie. That and rotation of course :laugh:

But the players go into these sort of games thinking that we can't win it. Whether it's a mental block or them just shitting themselves at the prospect of playing at Old Trafford I don't know, but none of them looked as if they honestly believed they could win today.

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