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Duff was embarrasing those poor Latvians for fun. Got into good positions with sheer pace and skill, which is something that Nobby cant do. I was very impressed by him even though the opposition was piss poor. Wasterful and selfish.. get a grip. bluesigh.gif Some of you are so easily pleased mate football is not about passing players and doing fu*k all...His end product was nothing...He was guilty of wasting so many chances by smacking it in front of millions of players standing in the way between him and the goal as if he thought so how the ball will actually go through those players' bodies and come out in the net on the other side What about his crosses...They were embarrasing...Solano would have pissed on him with his pin point crosses...Just because he can be a circus clown passing one, two or three players doesn't mean he is now creating chances for the team...So yes today he was the most wasteful selfish shooting happy player on NUFC side... His job was not the end product his job was the set up for someone to finish, we had nobody to finish unfortunatly and nobody getting in to positions for his crosses.

Ive also noticed certain match reports claim Milner was meant to be upfront, he rarely was, he was dropping back into midfield loads to pick up the ball and try and make runs and set people up, N'Zogbia was the bloke I felt sorry for, he was wide open so many times but the play was focused down the right most of the game, at one point Young Zoggy got in a proper strop and was jumping up and down cause he'd been ignored when he was wide open. Hopefully Roeder will have spotted this and get the team to switch the ball more and use both wings like when we had Gillespie and Ginola.

They can but it makes it even harder to get the ball when you stand at the edge of the box for the whole 90 minutes and walk round the pitch. Luque was marked by a bloke bigger than him which is why Luque was getting balls to his feet towards the start of the match, but because he hadn't ran to move away from his marker he had the ball taken away almost straight away. If he moved a little he could have got away from his defender giving him time to turn or lay the ball off to another player. The players on the pitch saw that the ball to feet wasn't working so they started getting the ball out to the wings more through Duff and N'Zogbia who in turn put in some good crosses right into the 6 yard box and the keeper didn't even get them. Our problem was we didn't have anyone making runs into the 6 yard box. There was so many times Luque could have ran to the front post to get the ball but he didn't he stayed at the exact same spot every time. If you get the chance to watch the match do it and watch where Luque is on every single attack. I'm a season ticket holder I've seen Luque play plenty and he always plays like this when I've seen him, and like I said this is why he won't make it in the top flight. The midfield had no choice but be selfish, they had nobody to get on the end of the balls upfront.

I take it your either 1) Not a fan of Duff or 2) A massive Nobby fan. Duff did ok he did some running down the right which scared the crap out of there defence, the problem was when his end ball came into the box there was nobody there which meant he ended up having to take it even further himself. I felt Duff and Millner linked up very well and were constantly changing position which help confused their defence and allow us to attack even more. My one worry is now we only really have Martins to play up front, he needs a good partner.

Big changes at the top after last nights game with only the top two out of the top five not moving at all despite them not picking up any points. 1 0 Robelix 8 3 0 5 14 10 4 65 2 0 benniggs 8 3 0 5 7 15 -8 56 3 +1 taylor27 8 1 4 3 4 14 -10 45 4 +1 edtheduck 7 2 2 3 6 14 -8 44 5 -2 Sam04je 7 1 4 2 7 14 -7 42 http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague

I don't normally comment on Luque because i've been trying to give him a try seen as he's not played many games but after watching him last night there is no real point in having him on the pitch. He may have some skills (yet to see them) and he may have a good shot (same as before) but he's a bloody lazy git. He walked round the whole of the pitch, he didn't run into new positions, he wasn't looking for where the ball would be going to, his positional sense stinks to be honest. I don't watch much Spanish football so I don't really know how he managed to get goals and score them in that league but he's never going to do it in our league unless he starts to move a bit, he was the same in the warm up before the match so I assume thats just the way he is but you need to be constantly moving in the Premiership, he's just going to be marked out of every game.

You could make some up where you don't get points if you want

hehe it's nice to get a little hope.

Sorry guys thought I'd done this, right it's updated now and the top 5 currently looks like this 1 0 Robelix 7 3 0 4 14 7 7 62 2 +1 benniggs 7 3 0 4 7 13 -6 53 3 -1 Sam04je 6 1 4 1 7 10 -3 42 4 0 taylor27 7 1 4 2 4 11 -7 42 5 +5 edtheduck 6 2 2 2 6 10 -4 41 Movers and losers looks like this Movers and Losers[Week 6] geordie234 +38 Bellers +34 Geordiesned +30 Ridzuan +29 toonelaide +29 ballacks -93 nufc -94 geordie2000 -95 cliffy99 -97 iamthemedia -117 If you havn't joined you still can just head to http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague and sign up, it's bonus point time for tomorrows game so it's easy for anyone to catch up.

Actually it's a bit harder to get points now, people could catch up before cause of the bonus points for friendly and European games. No bonus points for the league though. Though of course it also means the current leaders need to get results spot on to keep their leads, so now is the time to play especially while we are still in Europe.

Joined with me in fact

If you havn't done it already make sure you enter your predictions for todays game.

Right I've not made this sticky I've put it in the sticky thread to help find certain posts and it's under nufc forum posts.

Think I'm going to sticky this as I keep loosing track of it. League is updated once again and still no change at the top after last nights game. No bonus points for next weeks match so you'll all have to try and get it spot on: 1 0 Robelix 6 2 0 4 11 7 4 51 2 0 Sam04je 6 1 4 1 7 10 -3 42 3 +21 benniggs 6 2 0 4 4 13 -9 42 4 -1 taylor27 6 1 3 2 4 9 -5 39 5 -1 craigy225 5 1 2 2 6 9 -3 33 I've added the matches up until the Fulham game on September 9th now so get prediciting.

Im neither for or against Luque but what makes you say this ?

Just realised I'd forgotten to update this so it's updated now. Table now looks like this at the top: Pos User Name P W D L F A GD Pts 1 0 Robelix 5 2 0 3 10 6 4 48 2 0 Sam04je 5 1 3 1 7 9 -2 36 3 +1 taylor27 5 1 2 2 4 7 -3 33 4 -1 craigy225 5 1 2 2 6 9 -3 33 5 +5 smittentoon 5 1 0 4 8 8 0 27 Robelix seems to be trying to keep a hold of that top spot. Biggest move of the week was me I moved up 25 places to 82nd

I think it's broken I'm about 103rd

Two more fixtures have been added to the prediction league today so don't forget to add your predictions http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague/

Updates have been made to the prediction league the table looks like this Pos User Name P W D L F A GD Pts 1 +3 Robelix 4 2 0 2 7 4 3 45 2 +4 Sam04je 4 1 2 1 7 5 2 33 3 +28 craigy225 4 1 1 2 6 5 1 30 4 +4 taylor27 4 1 1 2 4 5 -1 30 5 +84 ThreeWiseMonkeys 4 1 1 2 5 6 -1 27 You can see the full table here http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague/index.php?sid=6d4aa433b9f0a0c2daad4a3653581f27&cmd=table Anyway can still sign up if they want to, scores seem to be changing every game. Sign up at http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague

Just thought I'd bump this to make sure people have updated their scores for today.

I've emailed you back. For everyone avatars are disabled in Prediction league for the time being.

It's all change at the top after the results of the norwich game. Parker17 who was top of the pile is now down in 16 place, with his place at the top being taken over by Robelix. Check out the table at http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague/index.php?sid=23474c1b21e8f870c0a9a3e7740e0469&cmd=table

For all those who are taking part in this seasons prediction league, the table has now been updated following on from the last two matches. Check it out at http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague/ it's also not to late to sign up as plenty of people have no points still (me included )

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I dont' believe either club have tabled any bid but never mind