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After a claming down period I think I can give my tuppence worth... Joe didn-t have the best of luck with the team selection today, bassong suspended, beye out and Martins and Viduka injured. Out of those four, three are fundamental to any succes we can look for on the pitch. -Bassong gives coloccini a lease of life and they fit each other perfectly, in comes taylor and coloccini is a dithering fool. -Beye is our only right back. I thought joe made a mistake by putting edgar in there instead of Geremi, who would of added experience and at least some sort of attacking threat with Jonas. -Martins keeps teams further back and today we posed ZERO goal threat, they defended at a canter As well as being short of our most influential players (in the last couple of games at least), the rest of the team played in awe of theiur rivals and from the first minute looked like they expected a trouncing apart from our one constant Shay Given. I haven-t seen our defence so disorganised, I havent seen the midfield crumple so badly, I couldn-t beleive joe didn-t have th gumption to put somebody on gerrard in his free role, he caused us so many problems today. Best to forget and move on, I hope we win the next couple of games, they are SO IMPORTANT! GIVEN - NO SCORE NEEDED, SUPERLATIVE! Edgar (4)- out of his depth but tried hard Taylor (4)- positionally he is the worst defender we have, how many times was he pulled out of position so easily. Coloccini (3)- How can he be so different when paired with Taylor? He was crap today, second to everything and horrible decisions. Don-t understand? Enrique (4)- We need a new left back. He has a good game and then a pathetic one. So many bad passes put us under pressure today... Jonas (6)- Disagree with the detractors today, he was the only person capable of withstanding their midfield pressure, of finding an outlet. It doesn-t help much either that nobody offers themselves for a pass, or makes a run to open an angle. Feel sorry for him, deserves a better team, really! Butt (5)- Too old and it showed today against far ore athletic midfielders and people who were composed and who can pass without panicking.\ Guthrie (6)- Tried hard but was outfought and outpassed. Give him a couple of years...maybe Zoggy (4)- didn-t do anything to impress, had an off day aswell. He can defend but is a bit lazy at getting back for me Owen (3)- obviously needs the service, but being so one dimensional means that unless he gets pinpoint service in the box we can forget about having 11 players on the pitch. Duff (5)- worked hard but isn-t a striker. Posed no threat so what use was that to us. Didn-t drop back into midfield enough either. Shola (2) first ten minutes was very positive, then back to old self (suppose there was nothing to play for... but pride?) JFK- Bad again. Geremi instead of edgar. If you are going to play a 442 and attack them, make sure owen has a partner that is bigger or faster than him i.e. not duff!!

sad performance, really sad performance!

I FEEL SORRY FOR GIVEN AND JONAS, ONLY PLAYERS WHO COULD BREAK INTO A TOP SIX TEAM . SAD PERFORMANCE. FUKC OFF ASHLEY YOU FAT FUKCING KUNT!!

need to bring on shola, at least well have someone to jump against hyppia !!!

Taylor and Enrique are having stinkers. Coloccini is trying but looks lost without someone to sweep with him. Butt and guthrie are also fucnking useless in midfield, gerrard is having a whale of a time!! Owen looks lost and disinterested, at least duff is trying. Jonas is receiving hospital balls and they are doubling up on him as he is our only real threat. Zoggy needs to pull his socks up. I would change butt or guthriee for geremi in the middle, we just can t keep the ball and I would sling on xisco for the last 15 minutes for owen. No real feeling of hope, they are passing it around well and gerrard is having one of his days, benayoun is also playing very well. Never mind....

Looks like joe has funked up on the back row!!! I would have had Geremi at right back instead of edgar. He passes the ball better, links with attack better and has experience. Downside is his pace, but kuyt isn-t that fast anyway. Dissapointed. Owen up fro nt on his own with duff in midfield... no comment

Team: Newcastle United Current Position: 12th Where did you expect your team to cu rrently be: To be quite honest I thought we would be around 8th or 9th in the league had Keegan stayed. Best player so far this season: Gutierrez does it for me, just for the fact that he makes them worth watching again and his 100% effort as well as that gliding guile of his!!!! Worst player so far this season: Quite difficult as there have been apalling individual displays and then they have gone and proved themselves to be useful the week after. Duff, Enrique, Geremi, Butt and Shola have all done this... Best game so far: Portsmouth, we actually looked like a team and a clean sheet away from home with a commanding performance. man u came a close second. Worst game so far: Sunderland, they are in as bad a situation and we couldn-t lift our game to beat the plastic paddies...uuurgh Who would you like to sign in January: A left back to give back up and competition to enrique (who is playing quite well of late) and a creative midfielder who is also a battler. Who wyou like to sell in January:ould Alan Smith and Shola if we can get any dollar for them. Thoughts on your manager so far this season: An honest bloke who seems to be learning from his mistakes and isn-t ruled by the senior professionals. has the players in the team on merit and not name. Quite impressed actually. General thoughts on your team so far: We are capable of a lot more if we are lucky with injuries. A shame that the shambles upstairs has ruined our season, with a stable set up and the same team we would be in 6th or 7th position. Where do you think you’ll finish from this point to the end of the season: I think we will make it up to the top half of the table, can-t really ask for any more. If we do buy a couple of decent players in Jan we could even challenge for intertoto or uefa.

If I could get a guarantee that martins would stay fit and viduka eventually hit form then I would also take the money and run for lickle mickey...

If he doesn't want to be here then get rid.end of. He will only make the dressing room a weaker element. Get as much as possible and ship him out (if rumours are true obviously!).

I think we will sign a decent left back, back that up with a couple of youngsters and perhaps bring in a creative midfielder. No one leaving until end of season.

I think 0-1 with a last ten goal. I am totally flumoxed about who I prefer upfront with Owen, on one side Viduka did get the goal after doing sweet FA for the best part of an hour and the other is whether shola will turn up or not... I'll go for Viduka now that he's got another 60 mins under his belt and a few kilos less!!!

I look at that defence and really do think we are blessed now. I look at the midfield and forward line and think we were better then.

Bit of a bogey ground for the spuds isn't it! Hhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa hhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

I thought we kept a hold of the ball much better yesterday, seemed much more confident on the ball and shay seemed to pass it out to the defence instead of lumping it. Good sign!

Home game against liverpool, should make his debut when we are 3-0 up...

Fast and excellent reading of the game. Strong as an ox for his age Best potential signing for a while.

Lennon was too fast for him, that simple. Wasn't one of his better days but he was consistent at least... Do think we could do with a good left back for cover and also for competition. Bullard had another great game, Cheap at around 6 million...just what we need?

I am so happy That i am just a mere fool!!! :)

I was 0nly joking

Viduka is a waste of space; hasnt won anything in the air and is so static it's unbelievable!! I would have had duff on up with owen, at least it would stop us pinging silly longballs..

Just logged in for the last ten minutes of the first half, we look a lot more positive than they do and we are dominateing the ball more, still look a bit toothless upfront... Could go anyway.

if oba isn-t playing it makes us pretty flat up front. I reckon it will be 1-1 draw

Come on! let-s be fair... Taylor isn-t a bad player, he-s a good defender... It just seems that Bassong is better.

Bullard would be a decent signing but a bit too like Barton (when on form). Works hard and knows how to control the rythym of the game. Would get my vote anyway...

I agree with the majority of this thread. We have some cracking players but not enough back up i.e. squad This tells me that the scouting set up works but the money is not forthcoming to take us further. My main sticking point is the fact that we didn't invest the 12m we got from villa (milner hasn't pulled up many trees from what I hear). We should not have waited until now to get a left back and a creative midfielder, this is Llambias or Ashley not wise, vetre jimenez and co...