17 Jan 2026 20:10:44
Eckert `We did enough to win the game`

Totally deluded.

We actually didn`t Tonda - they scored 2 clinical goals. We didn`t.

They played fast counter attacking football. We played ponderous sideways and backwards russball.

Just can`t see how we get out of this downward spiral.

1.) 17 Jan 2026
17 Jan 2026 20:50:32
Solution is get rid of all ideology around it. Anyone who had that indoctrinated into them needs to go. All players, all coaches, chefs, coach drivers. And start again.

Football isn’t a hard game. We just like making it incredibly difficult. All United really did today was defend in a solid shape, press at the right times and counter attack clinically. When you do that against a team passing it around and not creating good chances, you will only lose if you make a bad error. They didn’t, Hull didn’t.

What’s really worrying is the years and years of people within the club saying ‘we did enough to win the game’, ‘we were the better side’, ‘we were unlucky’, ‘we just need to take our chances’. We’ve been told that for the best part of five years and know it’s absolute bulls**t.

We’ve haven’t been doing the basics right for a long time. Buying journeymen hasn’t done it, buying expensive primadonnas hasn’t done it, the best bet is to focus on the academy again and grow kids into what we want as Ralph was trying to do.

Fed up. Upset. Less than a decade ago we beat Inter Milan and were in a cup final. So sad.