Northern Monkey
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I'm not a fan of Martin Samuel. I think he sometimes talks crap just to be controversial. But this assessment of Owen is spot on, as is Allardyce's assessment of how Owen performed at the World Cup.
I think Owen faces a challenge. The game is changing, and he has to show that he has the range of skills to adapt. Even in a 4-4-2, the top teams can't afford to have a specialist goal hanger.
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at a number of things in there. -
i like the idea of a "panic button".
'In Case Of Injuries To Mong-faced Forwards, Press Here'.
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Belletti -- Taylor -- Rozehnal -- Enrique
Milner --- Barton --- Emre --- Duff
Viduka --- Martins
that's more like it
The Zog has shown more ability than Duff, in fairness.
if you're using last season to judge Duff, use it for N'zogbia, both looked poor, one compounding the poor performances with an awful attitude
I rate N'zogbia, but Duff has a lot more vindication in terms of ability
Since joining us - although he has had more tiem, granted - The Zog has played better when he's played well than Duff. I fear Duff will turn into a game-picker, like a Babayaro.
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Villa waffle is a good read as usual, but this?
'Sunday sees us make the trip down the A19 to face the Smoggies in a 1.30pm start.
Following their first competitive live Toon game on Saturday, Setanta Sports will again be televising Sunday's Tees-Tyne clash.
For more details of their exclusive live UK coverage from The Riverside (no contract required) click on the logo above.'
*cringe*
can't blame them for that, surely. Its hardly intrusive.
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Why? if he can't do his job properly the last thing he should be getting is a pat on the back.
Will the public slagging and a week off make him a better referee?
Thought not.
Would going "he did well" make him better/good enough? Also, no.
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In other articles Oliver says Faye will be last signing
fuck, i hope not.
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Belletti -- Taylor -- Rozehnal -- Enrique
Milner --- Barton --- Emre --- Duff
Viduka --- Martins
that's more like it
The Zog has shown more ability than Duff, in fairness.
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Possibly frustration at the bad tactics/formation?
Or soem of the shit performances?
He had 90 minutes of football to turn round the home performances? That was the extent of your patience?
You'd better be fucking joking.
i didn't say I booed, stupid head.
And i THINK some of the booing was for the likes of Carr, who is just shit.
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Post some facts, then.
I don't have the facts to hand at the moment but when I do, you'll be the first person I tell about it
So on what do you base the statement that they're in the s***?
I'm not going to waste my time trawling the internet to find an article that backs up what i've heard just to appease a numpty on here. If i've heard wrongly then so be it.
I see. So you are essentially just talking out of your arse.
Maybe a job on the Chronicle beckons?
No, i'm posting what i've heard and read and I never claimed otherwise. Have you got a problem with that Ozzie?Then why not just admit all you're posting is gossip, instead of flinging insults at someone who's interested in what's actually going on?
Or post WHERE you heard them. Not even links, just a name.
...hang on....you heard it in the Sun, didn't you DI - SoG? on their "business" pages.
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Post some facts, then.
I don't have the facts to hand at the moment but when I do, you'll be the first person I tell about it
So on what do you base the statement that they're in the shit?
ooh, ooh, i know! Is the answer "made up stuff to sound clever"
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He's a c***, the kind of kid I used to melvin at school!
Should have had a much better standard of player available to us, but overall i'm happy with the guys he's brought in! Although Viduka is a slight dissapointment to me, but that can change over the course of a few matches! He just needs a goal!
Not Morts fault i suppose as it's Ashley that makes the wonga available.
Surley you'd have been beter of calling him "Chris", or "Christopher". If you called him Melvin and he didn't answer, he wasn't being a c***, it's just not his name.
Errr what?
I'm on about pulling someone's undercrackers right up there arse!
Oh, sorry. I thought you were on about name-calling, not physical bullying. Well done you.
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Post some facts, then.
On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
Jennifer Aniston's original name is Jennifer Anastassakis!
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
'pure speculation'
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"Chronicle is a must buy tonight!"
Never a sentence i intend to read without the appropriate note of hilarity. Like "Sports Journalist Alan Oliver", or "In The Know Gasuso".
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Best thing was Steven "Stevie G La" Gerrard's pathetic response to the whole thing, the hypocritical, twisty-faced cunt.
Aye, what goes around, comes around. In this case, it was within 7 days.
Yup. i thought that was class.Clearly Styles hasn't read the rule book about the Red Shite. There'll have ben some very cross faces on the planes back to Ireland and Denmark......
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if, as that article suggests, ameobi will be ahead of owen in the striker order, then football can f*** off.
I agree 100% mate. If Viduka is ahead of Owen then football and Allardyce should f*** off. I honestly see us as being a slightly better side than Bolton, better players but no flair. THAT IS NOT THE NEWCASTLE UNITED WAY.
Probably only a matter of time till both Martins and Owen leave if we carry on where we left of on Saturday.
The last couple of seasons I've been downhearted because we've under acheived. Sunday morning I was still in a bad mood after 90 minutes of a high punt into the box. Newcastle United should be above this.
You are clearly under 50 years of age - high balls 'NOT THE NEWCASTLE WAY'..
In 1969, we won the club's ONLY Trophy worth talking about in 40 years using a version of that strategy - most of the Foreign sides we faced simply couldn't handle Wyn Davies' ability to jump higher than their defenders, and Pop Robson picked up the pieces to blast in some memorable goals.....
It wasn't ALL about that, but gradually, the side tended to resort to that weapon, with a tough defence(Moncur, Burton/McNamee, Craig & Clark to back it up.
It was only when Davies went in 1971 that we started to try to play - Supermac was good in the air, but not like Davies, and we used his pace on the deck.
Don't get me wrong - I like to see football played the Brazilian way, but not many can get away with that ;
KK's team won nowt, despite some of the best football played at SJP in 40 years...
I personally couldn't care less if we win every game 1-0 by boring people to death - Football today is about money & success - if you don't have the latter, you won't get the former and the better players you can buy with it..
NUFC fans are going to have to live on a sparse diet for a while and become, like the team, more professional.
We won't get those wins with a 433 and our current players, though, and as Bolton showed, it doesn't actually bring that much tangible success playing that playing that way.
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Umm, the problem with his article is when Owen came on against Villa we actually changed to more of a 4-4-2 with him and Vids up front. Or was that just me that noticed that?
Someone didn't tell the "wide" men that then.
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Best thing was Steven "Stevie G La" Gerrard's pathetic response to the whole thing, the hypocritical, twisty-faced cunt.
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He's a cunt, the kind of kid I used to melvin at school!
Should have had a much better standard of player available to us, but overall i'm happy with the guys he's brought in! Although Viduka is a slight dissapointment to me, but that can change over the course of a few matches! He just needs a goal!
Not Morts fault i suppose as it's Ashley that makes the wonga available.
Surley you'd have been beter of calling him "Chris", or "Christopher". If you called him Melvin and he didn't answer, he wasn't being a cunt, it's just not his name.
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Even if it does go through and we end up with Diouf it's not so bad considering we're playing 4-3-3.
I'd rather have Anelka, please.
Me too, rather have Anelka over Martins ability wise.
...personally I'd swap any of our strikers for Anelka.
Even Mark "He's totoal class him, you'll see, 20 goals a season" Viduka??
Annoyed at not being able to do it about Dyer any more, Northern Monkey now seeks to put words in to peoples mouths about Mark Viduka.
Wind it in, soft lad.It was a generalisation about soem of the hysterical shite some people were putting on here about the Viduka and how great they claimed he was, in the face of all historical evidence and common sense.
It wasn't a FACT, it was a tongue-in-cheek statement. Get over it.
Sorry, think I missed this guy out
It was a joke Monkey!Oh, ok.
Twat.
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That said, Chelsea have done ok over the last 3 seasons Parky.
They haven't spent a penny have they?
They've spent money and had the most successful 3 years in their history. Your point being?
It's Kenyon's point that matters.
Yeah, but what was your point? Or did you not have one?
Kenyon's thinly veiled critique of Mourinho.
I was suggesting Chelsea wasn't a very good example to bring up of a club having a DoF and it not working in the Premier League though. They aren't and neither are Spurs. Going purely off the relative recent records of the clubs. Which is all that really matters. The rest is largely conjecture about wranglings behind the scenes.
So who are we blaming for the Spurs left side?
So, that was the point you were making when you brought up Kenyon? Spurs' left side.
Not even worth replying to that one Parky. Nice try, see if you can hook someone else. I though YOU were talking about Spurs AND Chelsea?
Let's put it another way ManU might have won the league last year cause Mourinho didn't get the players HE wanted.
I was talking about Chelsea and (to a lesser extent) Spurs. Fairly obvious (I'd have thought) I was making a general point about the relative recent success of those two teams and how that would tend to suggest a DoF can work. Dein at Arsenal has also been mentioned and is a case in point due to the role he had.
Btw, I think Man Utd. won the league by playing stunning football last season. As to why Chelsea didn't, it's a lot of ifs and buts, as with everything in football. They're still probably in the middle of their most successful spell ever though.
Ok I stand corrected.
Somebody frame that
Seems you were right about Jol though, all over the radio this morning that he's a goner and Ramos is replacing him. Lippi was also mentioned as a replacement and so was (wait for it) Harry Redknapp. I shit you not.
It transpires that his remit for this season was top 4 and nothing less.
The delusion has spread from the support to the boardroom it seems.
I thought WE had the copyright on those sorts of delusions?? Sue the cockney bastards.
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Even if there is some truth in it, it might not make a difference. The Icelanders might acquire some of the ownership, but Mort stay as chairman, or whatever. It might mean extra investment in both playing staff and facilities. Who knows? But it wouldn't necessarily be bad. Like Ashley, these aren't mere speculators, but people who run solid, successful businesses.
Don't think of it as a new upheaval, but a sign that the previous upheaval hasn't quite yet settled down.
Damned right. Its the "change is bad" principle that some people bought into that kept Shpeherd (and to a lesser degree the likes of Roeder and Souness) in post for too long.
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God please don't sell him. I just bought a strip with "9 Martins" on the back, all my Man U classmates would laugh their asses off if I'd wear it in school....
Go to a school with a fucking uniform then. No wonder this country is on its fucking knees. I blame the French.
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He's not used the press to get his name/face out there in the same way as Shepherd did, or to bleat on all the time as Allardyce has a history of, so good for him.
I don't think he's made any overt mistakes, and the review he's carrying out is exactly what we've been crying out for since how many years ago?
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If Sam insists upon playing 4-3-3 then Owen will be as much use to NUFC as a Toon Ultras dick.
So are Martins and Viduka in a 433, in fairness.
Viduka can play it being solitary up front but agreed regarding Martins.
I just can't see how it will ever work when our front 4 are all 4-4-2 players. Sam will make life tough for himself if he doesn't change things - he might need to think about Mort stating almost from the off that Sam wasn't their choice.
I think Viduka CAN play in it, but he's just not really the player we need there, if we insist on 433, is he? He's not a particularly good/consistent striker. I'd have a number of other players instaed of him (although not Ameobi, natch).
Martin Samuel on Owen
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if Owen plays a full season, in a decent team with a decent formation/style, he'll get 15+. But he won't in a 433 for us, i'm afraid.