Wullie

I'm fucking speechless. What the fuck was the linesman watching? Stupid cheating cunt.

Wonder if this fickleness from the Chewsee mob will be mentioned in the Daily Mail?

CHARLIE N'Z SO FUCKING GOOD. :smug: :smug:

Or, put on one of our strikers who does have composure in front of goal... Viduka will have to be introduced at some point.

Martins is desperately short on confidence, anyone can see that. Let's get him some chances, starting with pushing Charlie up (a radical idea I've just had) and pulling off the clown in front of him.

But he's such a good defender. I mean Chelsea have had no luck whatsoever on their right hand side this match What? Martins with another one-on-one that he misses? Christ 1 on 1? 5 on 1 more like.

Mackems winning, Boro winning, my fantasy team up the swanny and Hartlepool getting beat. Oh and Newcastle. I'm going in the bath for some toast.

N'Zogbia going past defenders? Well I never!

How bad is Duff? Christ almighty.

Fuck me. Future England captain tbh.

I didn't want to comment.

The team: Given Beye Taylor Cacapa Charlie Milner Butt Faye Smith Duff Martins

They've got armed guards in for when the team is announced and he finds out he's not playing.

Just been a development there. Beye shall play at left back, with Zog taking up a favoured right back role. Are you this funny in person?

I was just about to post something very similar.

My head says Arsenal, my heart says Newcastle. None of the other clubs mentioned could have kept quiet. What?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7164021.stm

Look at Man City though. 7, 8 new players and they're unbeaten at home and yet haven't won in 8 away (until next week obviously). Course, all of those are clearly factors but I think it's one of life's great mysteries. there has been a study done on it. don't know if it's online or even where to satrt looking. My dissertation tutor, Sandy Wolfson, did one actually: http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article192792.ece Testosterone levels apparently. Might be something in it. Is testosterone classed as a banned substance if taken as a supplement?

Look at Man City though. 7, 8 new players and they're unbeaten at home and yet haven't won in 8 away (until next week obviously). Course, all of those are clearly factors but I think it's one of life's great mysteries.

It's odd isn't it? Even the stone wall fact that there is obviously a significant correlation between results and home advantage is one that doesn't really make a lot of sense. 5000 Newcastle fans away from home make a hell of a lot more noise than Wigan or Fulham ever have at home, so you can't even say it's the crowd that's the dominant factor, though it clearly is one of a number. Strange phenomenon no matter what the sport.

I must say, I find this frequently made comment bewildering. I honestly couldn't give two fucks about hearing cliched sound-bites from managers or players post-match. I know what you say about the sound-bite bit. For me I would rather he came out to speak so to end his petty feud and also to be a man and front things when they have gone wrong because it gives him a great excuse not to have to explain situations like we find oursleves in now. To be honest, if I was arsed in the slightest, I'd just watch it on the Sky Sports website or something. I also don't think his feud is particularly petty with him and his son having been basically accused of criminal activity. Hasn't bothered Sir Alex.

Firstly I really couldn't care less if we go to Wigan and get beaten. Or Derby, Sunderland, Reading or indeed any other tinpot Premiership club that we've made to look good recently. Sh#t happens, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. You take it on the chin, you whinge and bitch about it a bit but you move on. That's football. What I DO care about is the performances. The insipid, turgid, dross we've been served up with is completely unacceptable. Going to places like these with the express intention of getting a well-fought 0-0 is disgusting. Did you see Man U going to Sunderland and playing for a 0-0 on boxing day? Did you sh#te. OK, we're not Man United and I'm not comparing our relative squad strengths, only our relative intentions. But West Ham stuck 5 past Derby recently when they went there with the right mindset - I can't recall an away game this year where we've managed 5 shots, never mind 5 goals. And home games have often been little better. We made these teams look good by sitting back and inviting them onto us. We offered nothing going forward as we were too busy being terrified about what these relegation-fodder teams might do to us. It didn't take long for them to realise this, so they felt safe attacking us knowing we had no will (Or ability due to the formation we went out with) to go down their end to put one past them. The results were, largely, predictable. So what can Sam do? Attack. Send out a team designed to rip the opposition apart. Show us that with you at the helm we're capable of making teams worry about what we're going to do rather than the other way round. If it fails, it fails. I honestly won't mind. But just send out a team to scare the opposition with the way we go about things and create a hatful of chances. And if by some miracle you can do this by playing 4-5-1 with N'Zogbia at left back, Milner on the left wing, Smith at defensive midfield, Martins god-knows where and Geremi as some kind of right-sided midfielder then I'll be the first to take my hat off to you and say "Well done". However it is my uneducated opinion that the aforesaid formation will produce nothing like that in a million years. So I'll go further and make some tactical suggestions that might help. Play 4-4-2, stick Enrique at left back, Milner on at right wing and N'Zogbia on at left wing, with Martins and either Viduka or Smith up front. Have Emre in the middle alongside Butt. Martins, Milner and N'Zogbia simply must play, and play in their correct positions, as irrespecive of anyone's thoughts about their respective abilities they're the only players we have in our squads who are actually capable of beating a man. But play that lineup, in that formation and with instructions to get at the opposition, beat their man and get the ball in the box and support the forwards and I assure you everyone will be a damned sight happier. But feel free to perservere with 5 men out of position in a 4-5-1 if you want, just don't go crying when it fails yet again to produce a single shot on target and you (Rightly, IMO) get your ass fired. :thup: :thup:

I must say, I find this frequently made comment bewildering. I honestly couldn't give two fucks about hearing cliched sound-bites from managers or players post-match.

Howay man. Did you see the Wigan game or what? Or the Derby game? Fulham? Derby away? sunderland? These are teams that get humiliated on a regular basis and we huffed and puffed in an attempt to get a point against all of them. Once is fine, twice is tolerable, but every bloody week? Wullie, lower your expectations, you're expecting too much. For the last three seasons we've been a mid-table side that has had the occaisonal flirtation with the relegation zone. That's the reality and that's not going to be turned around quickly. Of the sides mentioned, Derby are the only ones who are really poor. An away game against the others isn't a cakewalk for a midtable side. I'm not saying Big Sam hasn't made mistakes. He's finding out about the players and has probably made too many changes. But he's got to be given more than half a season. A cakewalk? We had one shot and it was exactly the same at Fulham, Derby and the SoS. Four games and the best chance in any was our centre half against Derby. That is not acceptable, I don't care how you dress it up. You're exaggerating, and ignoring some of the better performances. I'm frustrated as well. I expected things to be better. But Ferguson's underlying point is that the pressure exerted by the fans is doing more harm than good, and he's right on that one. Moyes at Everton, Hughes at Blackburn, Redknapp at Portsmouth have all been through difficult times, but look at them now. I'm not exaggerating actually. Rozehnal vs Derby was our best chance in those games. We went for a point in every game and were dreadful each time.