Kasper

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.

Perhaps the whole "looking for a head coach" was designed just for him.... Scary.

Or playing 3 games in 7 days.... Real unlucky coincidence that they all missed this one, and none of them missed a minute of the others mind. All that travelling can't have helped matters either. Well I dont think it's anything to do with luck that players are likely to suffer more from fatigue after playing 3 games in 7 days than before that. what? you don't actually buy that shit do you? what? that playing 4 games in 11 days is too much for most professional footballers? yes. yes i do. So the rest of our team are fine but our star players aren't? right Who exactly are in this "rest of the team" you're talking about? Dummet? Seeing as he's the only one who started all previous games and also today. Those rested: Perez - started all 3 Sissoko - started all 3 Colback - started all 3 Gouffran - started all 3 Janmaat - started all 3 Coloccini - started all 3 See a pattern?

Or playing 3 games in 7 days.... Real unlucky coincidence that they all missed this one, and none of them missed a minute of the others mind. All that travelling can't have helped matters either. Well I dont think it's anything to do with luck that players are likely to suffer more from fatigue after playing 3 games in 7 days than before that. what? you don't actually buy that shit do you? what? that playing 4 games in 11 days in the middle of the season is too much for most professional footballers? yes. yes i do.

Or playing 3 games in 7 days.... Real unlucky coincidence that they all missed this one, and none of them missed a minute of the others mind. All that travelling can't have helped matters either. Well I dont think it's anything to do with luck that players are likely to suffer more from fatigue after playing 3 games in 7 days than before that.

Or playing 3 games in 7 days....

Is it really impossible to believe that playing 4 games in 9 days is just not possible. It's not really a secret that there's a peak in injuries at the Premier league during this period because of the amount of games played in couple of days and right in the middle of the season. Why do you think all other leagues have a winter break? Add that to our injury list and maybe you have your answer why someone isnt played if he isnt 100% or even close to that.

I dont hate it.

Imagine working everyday with someone so full of himself.

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