How are you feeling ahead of the new season?

To The Etihad and beyond! With just five days until our season opener at Manchester City, I thought perhaps now is the time to ask everyone how they are feeling ahead of the new season.

So far another disappointing transfer has seen supporter frustration levels grow - levels which haven't been helped by bizarre decisions like hiring Joe Kinnear as Director of Football.

However there is at least some welcome distraction upcoming. Not just for fans of United but for fans of every Premier League club. The new season brings new feelings so I'm just asking what everyone thinks about the new season, what their expectations are and so on.

To be fair, if you look at our opening fixture, it doesn't make for good reading. Manchester City away is one of the toughest games in the league these days which doesn't bode well when you combine that with our ability to just simply forget to turn up and roll over whenever we face them.

I call it a "gimme game" in the sense that I expect nothing from it so if we sneak a point or three by whatever means I'd be over the moon but the reality is that achieving that is going to be massively against the odds. If the expected happens and we do get best it's important to remember that City will beat better teams than us this season and not to get too down about it.

In a way our season starts properly with the two games after Manchester City. Two home games against West Ham and Fulham and I'd be expecting us to take the bull by the horn in those games with us being the home team and, with the greatest of respect to them, both sides not being in the same league as a Manchester City.

I think those three games will give us a clearer idea of how things are looking. Football is unpredictable a lot of the time so all of it is an unknown really. I'm just wondering how everyone else is feeling before the big kick-off on Monday evening?

Your thoughts please...

P.S - Don't forget that we'll be cranking up the volume here on NUFC Blog the closer we get to the match on Monday so make sure you check back for match previews, stats and facts ahead of the big game.