James

Also, the number of players we've had in the final third with the ball regularly under our control in that area is insane. Bodes well for the second half if that continues. If still level at 60 minutes, I'd bring on Duff and Emre for Martins and Viduka.

I thought Derby's goal was because we were put under pressure by players not tracking back down our right hand side.

Players in order of goodness so far: Beye N'Zogbia Viduka Smith Butt Barton Milner Martins Cacapa Rozehnal Given

http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=48061.new#new

Should be on Radio 5.

Go, Go, Go!

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This 424 may be some cunning plan by Allardyce to try and teach Martins to stay disciplined on the right hand side.

It's practically 424.

It won't be you deleting this thread. Because there is no need to

David Beckham

I'm still sceptical about starting Viduka. Good player, good technique, good brain, but only seems to perform in the first half, or as a sub. The tactic of bringing him on when others are tiring works in my opinion. Same for Emre.

So how come we've done just as well with 4-3-3 as we have with 4-4-2? Individually certain players' games might benefit more from 4-4-2 but the team as a whole hasn't shown it can and will any more than 4-3-3 has or hasn't so I think "10 times better" is exaggerating things personally, sorry Johnny. How have we? You're going to have to explain that one to me I'm afraid. Cos we got a point against Arsenal minus their best players? Boro fucking beat them. They played 4-4-2 for the record. We've played 4-3-3 more than once. Yep. Birmingham - could have gone either way, took us a penalty and a set piece to get anything. Fulham - shite. Derby - shite. Reading - shite. Blackburn - better than previous but still poor We got well beaten. Boro - poor. Mackems - shite. Villa - you guessed it. So we've got Arsenal and one half at Bolton, Birmingham too if you push your luck. You are forgetting that the goals and better spells against Birmingham and Sunderland and Fulham occurred in 442 conditions.

It should be Martins losing his place to Enrique if we continue to persist with 433.

433 wont work with us for as long as Charle N'Zogbia plays LB and Martins plays RWF.

What was the name of that left-footed right-winger that played for Southampton, and who Souness tried to sign for us? (EDIT: Fabrice Fernandez???) He was better on the right than Milner is on the left.

£100 million debt meant that it was time the last board moved on.

When were we regulars in the top 4? There were Newcastle love-ins at Sky between about 1994-1997 and 2001-2004. It paranoia to be honest. Commentators are always going to show more approval towardsthe better teams because they play better football.

It would be great if somebody could summarise what was said.

Just looked it up, I stand corrected. As he played competative football for the U21's, he can no longer play for Nigeria. TBH, who cares? Didn't Tim Cahill get that rule rescinded? Is he playing in the ACN as well? He played a competitive game for Samoa U21s aged 14, but now plays for Australia. You only become resticted to one country if you play for the Seniors.

I'm just saying that I'm familiar with the footballing environment the kid would have been brought up on. At school, playground facilities consisted of narrow alleyways between concrete buildings, plus a minute fenced in playground shared by 100 pupils where any ball played over six feet equals a lost ball. After school, due to the estate being on a steep hill there were not very many places to play, so it was a case of either jumping over the school gate, or playing on my Gran's cul-de-sac which was built on the same platform that had been raised for the school. The nearest park was mostly woodland apart from a very steep grassy bank. It took a ten minute drive to get to the nearest playing field, and parking was difficult. Thus he was raised in an environment where kids had to improvise in tight spaces in order to keep the ball under the teams control.

My Dad went to that school, and was in the same team as Francis and got to the Plymouth Schools Cup Final with him. My Dad was inside left, and Francis was centre forward. Also, my Grandmother lived about 100 metres from this school, and when I was younger, I'd spend many Saturdays in Pennycross playground, or the nearest park, or the adjoining cul-de-sac playing football with the local kids - there is a fair chance that I could have played with him at some point. This does mean though that Tozer lived in a part of Plymouth where he wouldn't have had much access to football on flat grass until he moved on to Plymstock aged 12, so he would have learnt his early skills in a very compact concrete environment with kids that could be described as slightly rough. This could hopefully mean that Tozer is a mentally strong and technical player.

Just looked it up, I stand corrected. As he played competative football for the U21's, he can no longer play for Nigeria. TBH, who cares? Didn't Tim Cahill get that rule rescinded?

I reckon they just read that we were losing four Africans, and forgot about Geremi.