2025/26 David Moyes

[blue to the bone]

It's actually sad to see his ramblings today . Like your drunk uncle with conspiracy theories.
Probably needs therapy.

 

[Drico]

The fact we had a man sent off and players were ill-disciplined that early in a game underlined a team was sent out on the pitch without proper management of them.

Obviously that Keane v Gueye spat has been coming. How has Moyes not seen that and ended it in training?

As I said above: we could easily be here this morning if Cunha had started for them with a rabble of players and a loss.

There is no redeeming moment for Moyes in last night's result. He got it wrong from the off and the rest was just throwing all the chess pieces in the air to see where they landed.

I love your work...but that's a stretch even for you. "If Cunha had started"... What if Branthwaite had started?

Criticism has to have some balance and credibility to have merit. Last night the manager got it right. Gueye let him down. How he manages that situation from here will be telling, but I'd be very slow to remotely blame him for Gueye's moment of madness.

 

[DanEFC92]

It's actually sad to see his ramblings today . Like your drunk uncle with conspiracy theories.
Probably needs therapy.

And banned from certain threads.

 

[davek]

I love your work...but that's a stretch even for you. "If Cunha had started"... What if Branthwaite had started?

Criticism has to have some credibility to have merit. Last night the manager got it right. Gueye let him down. How he manages that situation from here will be telling, but I'd be very slow to remotely blame him for Gueye's moment of madness.

Last night was a mad house where just about anything could have happened if you completely throw the usual game plan out. That's how we won.

This was not a well thought out plan to beat United at OT with 11 v 11 in a usual game.

Anyone believing Moyes has turned a corner with a master tacticians stroke and we get a newer bolder Moyes now are letting their giddiness at an unexpected 3 points get the better of their judgement.

 

[wandyr79]

Raging at an Everton win.

Lol.

Well, you certainly don't seem happy that we won. Coming up with hypotheticals where we lost and then blaming Moyes on us losing in these hypotheticals.

 

[MikeH72]

Raging at an Everton win.

Lol.

Your head fell off Dave, we all saw it. An absolute shambles.

Maybe just fully commit to supporting Forest full time and you’ll be happier, as that seems to be what you want to do.

 

[wandyr79]

I tell you what, I have to now admit that Moyes got lucky last night.

If Man Utd had developed technology to bring back peak Maradona and peak Pele, and they played last night, we would have definitely lost that game.

 

[Telford-Feb-85]

Come on Dave, we were all over them. I think it would have been a comfortable win without the sending off. But they are sh1te so thats what i would have expected anyway. Its not proof of brilliance or luck either way.

 

[Furey1878]

Why?

What tactical move did he make?

We went down to 10 men and it was just 10 behind the ball for most of the remainder of the game.

I'll give him credit when we see a tight game against class opposition won with an astute substitution or tactical change.

It was how we relieved pressure from ourselves by using the ball and still pressed them up the pitch with a man down that impressed me, mate.

 

[wandyr79]

It was how we relieved pressure from ourselves by using the ball and still pressed them up the pitch with a man down that impressed me, mate.

I think the pattern of play when going down to 10 men is more or less the same for most teams, sit back and defend the box and hope to counter them. Where we were especially good last night was the first half, after the sending off. We did not change our style of play. There was still an intent on going forward and pressing them high up the pitch.

The last 10 minutes of the game, as well, was so well managed and we were one striker not falling over the ball from having a great opportunity to make it 2.

 

[Furey1878]

Not many teams will go anywhere and win with 10 men for 80 minutes of the game, let alone Old Trafford. It’s still a tough place to go for the majority of teams in the league.

Doing it with 10 men for as long as it was was the impressive part. The point I'm trying to make though is that winning at Old Trafford, in and of itself, with this current United side, not so much.

I'm hoping it will do us the world of good psychologically, at least a couple of times a season we'll go away to a side better than us and win, say Forest, Palace, and Newcastle last season. But it's partly because we don't go there treating them like they are this unbeatable force.

 

[Furey1878]

All of that is true - but it's also true that Manchester United have been there for the taking countless times over the years and we've rarely managed to do it.

This is a huge psychological hurdle the team got over in exceptional circumstances.

It should be celebrated on its own terms.

By us as fans, absolutely. I had mates in the away end last night who were over the moon, I watched it in a pub last night and stayed for like 4 more drinks after full time and have been watching endless replays and videos of the away end.

But, I just hope the people inside the club see the bigger picture.

 

[MikeH72]

The only time we have won this century at Old Trafford was when Moyes was manager of United.

Can we for one night only get him to manage United again.

Glad we didn’t take up this offer.

 

[Moomin]

Glad we didn’t take up this offer.

We would have won 2 nil and been in the top 10.

 

[b-rad]

The fact we had a man sent off and players were ill-disciplined that early in a game underlined a team was sent out on the pitch without proper management of them.

Obviously that Keane v Gueye spat has been coming. How has Moyes not seen that and ended it in training?

As I said above: we could easily be here this morning if Cunha had started for them with a rabble of players and a loss.

There is no redeeming moment for Moyes in last night's result. He got it wrong from the off and the rest was just throwing all the chess pieces in the air to see where they landed.

Bless