Beren

Incredible. x.x

Good shout.

Nobby's outside of the foot looping ball out wide that was crossed back in and scored... against Leeds I think. It's in all in his compilations, anyway.

So so so true.

So embarrassingly true. Our whole eleven plays horrifically against AZ, and "Bramble is back to usual". Bramble deserves a contract.

That is so weak. x.x

Haven't heard, but can't be worse than Motson/Lawro.

How does he do that? EVERY single NUFC forum brought to it's proverbial knees by Shepherd's number one fanboy himself. He never gets bored of defending Shepherd, wonder if another forum means a bonus? Fair play to the lad. Multiple forums and an in depth knowledge of the copy and paste shortcuts could well be enough for a Number 1 St. James' Park suite all to himself. He's like an inalienable force of the galaxy. It's quite cool really.

The ginger guy has been pulling all the strings this season, really. It should be his IMO. [Just please, no-one post -that- picture... it's bannable, Shirley...]

I'd put Romario in my top list as a goalscorer. It's difficult to reconcile 'greats' who played in different positions mind, but essentially you have to look at how well they did their job [though obviously some positions allow overlapping...]. Cristiano has some way to go IMO. Looking electric though.

2J, where standeth you on Romario?

I didn't hear it, but I heard a pin drop on the other side of the stadium. Duff got booed for a period, didn't he? Or am I hearing things... again *gulp*

Our squad is already paper-thin, and if past history is anything to go by we will no doubt loan these five out and then try to start buying.

Couldn't agree more. It's the silver lining to every loss heretofore.

Even with days separating them, all our matches are starting to coalesce with one another into something that has no beginning and no end... just the same mediocre, toothless monotony...

Sweeeeeet.

Haddaway and shite man, we've kept 1 clean sheet in the last 20. Just cos they say our defence is shit doesn't automatically mean it's not. It is. My attempt at brevity has, as ever, resulted in ambiguity. I was referring to how Bramble is blamed irrespective of what the circumstances are.

Andy Townsend, Mark Lawrenson &c. proving that propaganda works just as well in 2007 as it ever did.

He always uses the excuse with a thin caveat to be fair. "Now I'm not going to say we've had 13 players out injured but... *"blah blah" that is mitigated by the first part of the sentence*"

I think everyone agrees on this.

You're so slow, you're Huntington. aye didn't think so tbh I'll give you the most exaggerated example so you understand. Bramble is marking Invicta Toon. Ramage is marking Thierry Henry. Invicta Toon goes to Burger King, and Bramble, being fond of the odd burger, marks him. Back on the football field, Henry is running full pelt at Ramage... ...now then, do you think Bramble should have maybe helped out Ramage instead of following his inactive marker, mm? Invicta Toon, I should reiterate for you that this is just an example. E-X-A-M-P-L-E.

You're so slow, you're Huntington.

he was bloody awful, you could equally say "huntington couldn't keep a cool head alongside such and such" or "solano couldn't keep a cool head" etc etc. load of crap to say he's some put upon hero a la Maldini who is wrongly suffering due to his team mates, he made by my count about 15 or 16 INDIVIDUAL errors tonight, which is pretty incredible. awful even by his poor standards. Yes, yet there's a thread exclusively for him! The whole defence was shit. What would you expect from this CB you evidently wish was out there in his place? A god-like saviour amongst schoolkids? It says much for your tenuous stance that you would count his errors alone, after he'd been one of our best players recently. I take it you counted the errors of Oba Martins? Butt, maybe? Shay Given? Pathetic. Trying to scapegoat a god-awful team performance on any one player is worthy of Andy Townsend, brother. why is it pathetic? i have no grudge whatsoever against him. i actually think he is our best defender when on song. i even thought he looked immense for the first 5 minutes. i only started counting his mistakes as he made about 4 in one minute around 10 minutes into the match, and this caught my attention. but i notice you've no more to say about his actual performance. btw a piece of advice, stick to talking about the player rather than trying to undermine someone's motivations. My bad. I was wrong to lump you in with others who I've come across on the board. That said, I don't think he was the worst defender out there on the night. AZ focused much of their attack on the right because Louis Van Gaal had the critical knowledge of any N-O poster worth their salt, and knew that to disorientate our central defence, he had to get them to cover for our incompetent full-backs. This is why I think it is wrong that Bramble has his own thread. Huntington - Patently obvious that he was the worst player out there. Skinned repeatedly to the point where he single-handedly disrupted the shape of our team. Full-backs are uber-important in Europe. Solano - Uncharacteristically uncomposed. One of about three really stinking performances he's had at RB. In fairness to him, he was pegged back and had virtually no options. Looked very lost. Gave the ball away in dangerous areas and was out of position a lot. Taylor - Mistakes galore. Dangerous liability. Probably second worst out there behind Huntington. Bramble - Awful. Similarly to Solano, had little options, so ran his foot through it, so Newcastle had lost possession. This is something everyone was guilty of, mind. Was constantly pulled out of position [partly by AZ players, but more often than not, by NUFC players] and gradually lost the confidence that is so integral to his game. My apologises again.

he was bloody awful, you could equally say "huntington couldn't keep a cool head alongside such and such" or "solano couldn't keep a cool head" etc etc. load of crap to say he's some put upon hero a la Maldini who is wrongly suffering due to his team mates, he made by my count about 15 or 16 INDIVIDUAL errors tonight, which is pretty incredible. awful even by his poor standards. Yes, yet there's a thread exclusively for him! The whole defence was shit. What would you expect from this CB you evidently wish was out there in his place? A god-like saviour amongst schoolkids? It says much for your tenuous stance that you would count his errors alone, after he'd been one of our best players recently. I take it you counted the errors of Oba Martins? Butt, maybe? Shay Given? Pathetic. Trying to scapegoat a god-awful team performance on any one player is worthy of Andy Townsend, brother. Tend to agree, I thought Butt was worse than anyone for the first 60 minutes and yet he seems to be escaping from most people's criticism. People DO have favourites and they DO have players that they simply dislike and want to see the back of, it's just nature. Not sure you can blame people for picking scapegoats after that performance Ank, he was fairly abysmal - but as you say there were plenty on an even keel with him. I think the main point of people's frustrations is that he's still here after multiple performances of a similar nature over a number of years. Good post. This season he has been one of our outstanding players, when he hasn't been put in a beehive of a defence. If we had decent full-backs, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

he was bloody awful, you could equally say "huntington couldn't keep a cool head alongside such and such" or "solano couldn't keep a cool head" etc etc. load of crap to say he's some put upon hero a la Maldini who is wrongly suffering due to his team mates, he made by my count about 15 or 16 INDIVIDUAL errors tonight, which is pretty incredible. awful even by his poor standards. Yes, yet there's a thread exclusively for him! The whole defence was shit. What would you expect from this CB you evidently wish was out there in his place? A god-like saviour amongst schoolkids? It says much for your tenuous stance that you would count his errors alone, after he'd been one of our best players recently. I take it you counted the errors of Oba Martins? Butt, maybe? Shay Given? Pathetic. Trying to scapegoat a god-awful team performance on any one player is worthy of Andy Townsend, brother. Centre halves are judged by their mistakes and Bramble made a fucking bucketful. So did Solano, Huntington and Taylor.