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[I used to fight with myself all the way over in my car, just don't go!]

Because they are soft.. Falls park running up hills in the snow with someone on yer back!!

I used to fight with myself all the way over in my car, just don't go! Tuesdays Thursday, vomit!

Brilliant! Preseason every year I remember thinking during training's that i'll see this training out then that's me done.  Every session I was jacking it in. 

[Kids are made of paperEvery injury now requires surgery!! Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

Honestly think every team in this division could beat the other on the day.  I would expect Cavan, Fermanagh and Louth to contest relegation, but for each of them to put a spanner in the works of the others. 

Armagh and Donegal are probably bookies favorites for promotion, consistency and staying clear of injuries (Donegal in particular) should steer both of them up. 

Should be a competitive league

[McTominnay is not high quality but he was left out in the cold like Maguire and then when shit hit the fan he needed them and they turned up.]

I know lads are saying that fans back ETH here, but not if you look or listen to some of the English coverage where it's poor Jades. The BBC did a have your say thing and it's pretty much made him a martyr.

I'd agree with the idea that Ten Haag is out the door soon. Like I agree with him standing firm with Ronaldo but he also had needless spats too. Like wtf did Varane do? I know he is pushing on but he is still a good player and never seemed to have attitude problems.

Antony seems like a dose and then you add in the scandal. Like that does come down to him signing lads like that. McTominnay is not high quality but he was left out in the cold like Maguire and then when shit hit the fan he needed them and they turned up.

Like Klopp for example doesn't seem to sign dickheads very often and there is a culture under him that doesn't seem to be at United for years.

There's so much to fix!

Aye exactly what I mean.  If it comes to a vote of no confidence from the players on their views, he has surely fucked himself over burning bridges.

Glad he is gone.  Ability wise he could have been a great asset, but his attitude would continue to drag the team down. 

The fact there is no buy clause in the loan move makes me think that United must be thinking if ETH goes at the end of the year (or before) would a new manager be able to deal with him and have him come back into the fold. 

I suspect the morale of the dressing room come the end of the year may have a say in whether ETH remains as well as results, he has publicly put down several players.  If a squad as a whole are unhappy with management it may be the end for him.   

interesting, more details.  Always love hearing how clubs are trying to get an edge

[minor/club/u21 bosses would have been able to tell him]

The rules are there for everyone and I'm sure all top managers would be aware of them. They are there to protect youngsters in the long term. So Donegal/jim didnt know he wasn't available to play this year! I know he has been out of game for long time but surely minor/club/u21 bosses would have been able to tell him. If he was aware but still played him then you have to take the consequences. I'm sure there has been a few other youngsters teams may have liked to play over the years. Particularly the weaker counties . Simple question for journalists to ask Jim - were you aware of rule?

Exactly.  Club bosses throughout the county (including the young lads own club, who i'm sure would love to have been playing him) would know the rules around playing underage players.  The question should be put directly to him alright, he isn't that slow. 

Given the thread is called cost of living you can hardly expect people to forgoe the basic enjoyments in living a life for the basic right to own a home.

I get your point to a degree, people do have silly outgoings, but going for a coffee or watching Netflix shouldn't need to be sacrificed to save for a deposit. When your having to get that granular, something is fundamentally wrong.

I always wondered about teachers persuading kids into returning for their A-Levels for the sole benefit of playing football, knowing fine well they are going to do nothing results wise, and are ultimately wasting years of their lives at school. 

Mcfadden, lacy, murphy, kavanagh, cassidy.  Not sure how well the mcgees were known prior to donegal taking off to be fair but you can't argue these werent top players prior to them getting success.

It's well known they had that bad culture that he rightly corrected, got them well conditioned and setup a system that naturalised better teams. 

The culture may not need corrected this time, all teams are expected to operate at a high standard of fitness and there is little separating them in that regard, so in my view it wil boil down to the quality of players at his disposal.

I'm stumped to think how he could setup the team to play any different than most county teams are playing also, so I don't think he will get an edge on teams there like he did last time

He had top quality players last time also, who knew they were close and that regime was what was needed to get over the line.

I don't believe the players are there this time around and surely he put doubt in the panels heads on their own abilities asking Murphy to come out of retirement.

Another ETH issue I would have would be his reluctance to go for the established Premier league players such as Kane/Rice, instead, opting for Hojlund, untested and too young to carry a team.  A question Scholes and ferdinand brought up last night. 

Perhaps squad wage budgets wouldn't have allowed for Kane to join, but the question certainly needs asked

This is the only saving grace that they are out of Europe completely.

Another two injuries last night, squad going to be massively stretched but no Thursday night games going forward gives them the opportunity to get some rest time.

Why is being out of the Europa league a good thing? Are we not trying to win trophies? What good is struggling into top 4 so we can have another calamitous champions league next year. If that's the height if it then we should just give up. That tool Ole was the king of picking crap sides in semi finals to rest players for the league and what in hell did that achieve?

Ten Hag I'm afraid is another spoofer. Played the hard man and got rid of Ronaldo but then failed to get rid of any of the other shite and worse then brought a whole load more rubbish in.

Ronaldo openly defied him and that  needed addressed, any self respecting manager would have done the same.  His business in the transfer window has left him wide open to criticism so I fully agree question marks arise over that.

Regarding the other muck lingering about, we'll paid long term contracts have hampered him in getting them flogged off, as they won't leave as they won't get lucrative deals elsewhere, so that issue was not of his making. 

Thursday night football is a balls of a thing, the travelling and lack of recovery, chances of picking up injuries etc.  I agreee any competition is worth playing, and given they are not competing for the league, they should have made dame sure they had something else to play for.

EtH will need 3-4 more windows to revamp this team.

These need moved on ASAP

AWB - get rid
Varane - get rid
Lindelof - get rid
Maguire - keep
Dalot -
Malacia -
Evans - sell, too old, otherwise would have kept on
Regulon -

Casemiro - get rid
Eriksen - keep, experienced
McTominay - keep, good squad player
DVB - get rid
Amrabat - get rid

Martial - pay to get rid
Rashford - keep, would be great if he had great players around him. 
Antony - get rid
Sancho - get rid

These have huge question marks over them
Onana - end of season to see if he can sort himself out
Mount - squad player, end of season to see what can be made of him
Fernandes - keep, would be more effective in a good team

Players who you'd want to keep
Martinez
Garnacho
Hojlund

Squad is an absolute f**king mess.

A big thing I think is that the overall squad is piss, and the better players are suffering for it.  We will never get the best of Rashford, Fernandes or Hojlund in an attacking sense, because the overall squad are lacking. 

That's not to say they haven't been underperforming.  For Fernandes and Rashford, they should be willing the team on in every game, but they seem to bend when it gets tough. 

Hojlund should find his feet, but the premier league is unforgiving, so he would need to do it fast.  Again, suffers from the lack of quality around him. 

Whoever at united signed off on mounts contract needs shot. Staggering amount for a squad player, that's all he was ever going to be