Kasper

There's no need to plant anything with the press making stuff up for them.

Yorky pls. That's Facebook.

Under 40, not British. Love it.

What the fucking fuck Riviere Where did that come from?

Slagging off one of the two players that constantly try to make things happen by themselves because the team has no plan or model at all.

Good for him.

And in the rare occasions they make themselves available they are static or moving towards our goal when receiving the ball. Never in a positive movement towards the opposition. Yup there are certain situations that happen during a game over and over again and a good coach normally models or formats positional awareness to deal with these. From the practice ground players should know where their team mates will be in different areas or phases of the game and also have alternatives this smooths the possession play and rids the need for panic or bad passes. This kind of thinking is light years away for us. Look how solid Chelsea are, how drilled and the huge amount of discipline...Man Utd have some of that but are often negative on the ball and don't transition dangerously as say Arsenal do. Spurs are normally all over the place but somehow magic goalscoring chances just by players over and over again making the same runs. The key is continuity - the teams struggling at the bottom don't have it. Exactly. In my eyes we're and have been completely dependant on the individual skill of the players to transform a negative position into a positive when receiving the ball. It's been like this for ages but now the skill level of the players on the pitch makes the lack of system jump out even more. They are unable to make that flashy turn or dribble to advance the play. Under Pardew when we were doing well and finishing 5th there was no system either. We just had skillful players high on confidence. Now that we have neither the team has nothing to fall back to. No basic way to play the game. It's an utter mess. I would argue that Ayoze is positive when receiving the ball, his first touch when he has his back to goal is quite often a turn that gets him moving towards the opposition goal. However, he then has absolutely no-one supporting him so has to either pass sideways or take someone on and loses it. Obviously, any coach worth his salt would encourage him to keep doing this and work out a way of getting players in positions to support him, but I imagine Carver frowns on these positive first-touch turns and would prefer him to just play the ball back into midfield. Absolutely true. Sissoko sometimes too but that's about it.

And in the rare occasions they make themselves available they are static or moving towards our goal when receiving the ball. Never in a positive movement towards the opposition. Yup there are certain situations that happen during a game over and over again and a good coach normally models or formats positional awareness to deal with these. From the practice ground players should know where their team mates will be in different areas or phases of the game and also have alternatives this smooths the possession play and rids the need for panic or bad passes. This kind of thinking is light years away for us. Look how solid Chelsea are, how drilled and the huge amount of discipline...Man Utd have some of that but are often negative on the ball and don't transition dangerously as say Arsenal do. Spurs are normally all over the place but somehow magic goalscoring chances just by players over and over again making the same runs. The key is continuity - the teams struggling at the bottom don't have it. Exactly. In my eyes we're and have been completely dependant on the individual skill of the players to transform a negative position into a positive when receiving the ball. It's been like this for ages but now the skill level of the players on the pitch makes the lack of system jump out even more. They are unable to make that flashy turn or dribble to advance the play. Under Pardew when we were doing well and finishing 5th there was no system either. We just had skillful players high on confidence. Now that we have neither the team has nothing to fall back to. No basic way to play the game. It's an utter mess.

And in the rare occasions they make themselves available they are static or moving towards our goal when receiving the ball. Never in a positive movement towards the opposition.

Great post. It continues to amaze me how simple the football discussion in England is. It's always so general and just scratching the surface. Seems like most people think that the managers job is to pick a formation, pick the team, "motivate" them and make subsitutions. You rarely see managers talking about anything concrete. It's always "we lacked a bit of urgency" or "we couldnt deal with this or that" or other nonsence. Where's the discussion about actual models of play? And I'm not talking about "playing posession football", "parking the buss" or "lumping it forward". About models that the team has drilled over and over again in practice and that guide everything they do on the pitch. Where they move or look for a pass in a certain situation. Are the players receiving the ball in a body position that is positive and open towards the play? Or are they constantly receiving it in a negative position? (in Newcastle it's the latter) Just for an example my own team (that I support I mean, not play for hah) plays in the 3rd highest division in Finland and this is basicly what the manager said in the match report after winning 1-0 today (free translation). "Worst game we've played since I came here. We didnt work collectively and it was very hard to find any of the models in the game that we've been practicing and succesfully implemented in previous games. Build up was too static and slow. In the build up phase our positions we're constantly negative and impractical. The movements the forwards made were poor. Anticipation, timing and reactions to play in defence were also poor." Jesus. How refreshing it would be to some day hear a Newcastle manager talk about football like this instead of the same old phrases. Someone who actually had an idea of how he wants his team to play football and the knowledge to coach them in a way that they could implement his ideas on the pitch. Maybe the managers are just serving up what the public wants but I would seriously be intrigued to visit the training in Newcastle to see what actually happens there and what kind of things are discussed. edit: and to be clear I'm not saying this is typical Finnish football discussion. No way. But considering the level of English football you'd think the talk around it would be a little bit more in depth.

What the shit "The club is in safe hands now" "But only if the club is in someone elses hands"

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Does Williamson ever put his fucking hand down? Especially idiotic since he looks like he doesn't have a clue about the offside rule.

Worked out well for you. Gutierrez could still score. Do own goals count?

There's so much space between our defense and the rest of the team Colback is nowhere to be seen and I'm not sure where Sissoko is supposed to be playing. Neither of them are helping the defense in any way

Pretty sure I'll be mostly watching ManU vs Tottenham.

Well deserved. Disgusting thing to do and have absolutely no time for retards who do that. Atleast he had the brains to admit it. Evans is an even bigger cunt for denying it. And anyone who says its a reaction...what kind of person has that as an reaction to anything? I'd rather see him throwing a punch than spitting.

Yay it's on tv.

Hatem pls u can live with me

Press to follow Conference...Conference Premier...Gateshead?

"I don't think its paper talk, I think it's a bit more than that. But we haven't heard anything so actually its just paper talk."

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You are deluded if you don't think that the longer this shit drags on the more likely it is that Carber will get it. If Ashley wanted him then he would be in by now. Ashley doesn't care what we think, he does what he wants. He gots plenty of stick but still does what he wants, from hiring Pardew almost instantly, to Sports Direct adverts, selling popular players, and even having Wonga as our main sponsor. If Ashkey wanted Carver in the job then he wouldn't wait in order to let things settle down, he'd just appoint him. See the appointments of Pardew and re-appointment of Kinnear at the club. The fact is that so far there has been no appointment of Carver and all reports indicate that Carr will be having an input in who to bring in as a manager with plenty of suitable names mentioned. Even the article that says Carver maybe in charge for the Southampton match indicates an outside appointment. Of course he cares what we think. Not as fans but as customers. Managing expectations and PR are clearly very important to the club.

Not bothered would be not putting up a photo of him and Pardew shaking hands on Instagram.