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Stop acting like a tool ... how about an intelligent articulate response to defend your points .... 'Get a grip' is hardly Rene Descartes stuff is it ... either that or don't reply at all. This wasn't actually even in response to anything you said, unless you are just a Pseudonym of TCD. Saying that, I absolutely think you, ElCid and TCD need to get a fucking grip. Why? Because we have played 4 league games in the 2015/2016 season. This coming after 4 years of a team being built around Mike Williamson's lack of pace/ability and relying almost entirely on luck and Moussa Sissoko counter attacks to score goals. How long do you expect it to take players to adjust to a system that is based around actual passing and movement? I expect to see incremental signs of improvement, which 99% of people agree are happening. I can understand people having questions about team selection and formations etc, but to say this is more of the same Pardew shit and that you're writing McClaren off after 4 games is idiotic.

Get a fucking grip.

Well I guess we can cancel the award process for 'Worst post of 2015'.

The players he's got/signed are perfect for his shite negative hoofball. They'll struggle to win when teams sit back against them.

Can't hold this against him at all, we need to start picking up points vs the dross though.

Referee was a disgrace. I hope Robbie Savage gets the Arsenal badge stuck up his arse when he wanks off to it later. Cunt.

Sounds like he's too lightweight to play LB in the premier league*, we don't need another Shane Ferguson. Unless he's a left midfielder in the mould of Jeremy Mathieu *I've never seen him play.

I have included Mbember at left back in my team as i do like him a lot and prefer him at left back defending against Ramsey and co to Haidara. Just for now it seems a shame to break up the defence that did so amazingly well at Old trafford!…but at the same time Jaanmat is a top quality player who looked superb in midweek…. Colo and Taylor played so incredibly well its hard to just drop one of them after performances like that. Mbember and Colo also looked far from convincing as a partnership and have conceded 4 goals in the two game they played together ! I think that was more to do with being up against forwards who were much more of a threat in the air. Man U and Arsenal don't really have those type of strikers. giroud? He's not exactly massive is he? If our centre backs can't handle him in the air, they really shouldn't be doing the job. Same height as Pelle, both are significantly taller than Gomis. Saying that, Colo and Mbemba is the way to go, we can't just lose faith in Chancel because he's playing against someone a bit tall.

It depends on whether the likes of Tiote and Cisse can return to previous form and fulfill the squad roles they need to. If we had 2010-2012 Tiote then I don't see CM as a need. Obviously the left side of the defence has serious question marks. That said, Tottenham finished 6th with a starting CM pair of Nabil Benteleb and Ryan Mason, whilst Eric Dire and Younes Kaboul saw time at CB. Honestly I think 8th should be the minimum this Newcastle squad achieves.

I asked the same quetsion about Rudiger in the Bundesliga and was shot down for it.

They aren't exactly key squad members just because they started against Northampton

Agree and until McCLaren stops playing both Anita and Colback in midfield then I will continue to say he is not the right man for the job because it is so obvious to see there is no excuse for it. You'll never have a manager that does everything the way you want. No a good manager will see totally obvious errors in playing two players who do noting but pass a ball 10 - 15 yards - it's not about what I want it's about totally obvious inefficiencies which standout a mile and are to the detriment of the team. I think you'll find the number 1 thing McClaren wants from his central midfielders is sharp, accurate passing. The way some of these posts bang on they think replacing Colback with Sissoko is going to promote us from 17th to 4th. Get a grip.

Benteke is class at that now too.

Krul Janmaat Mbemba Colo Haidara Anita Gini Colback Thauvin Perez Mitrovic

I thought McClaren would play a 4-3-3, was surprised with the 4-2-3-1 when he started using it in pre-season. Can only think it was to get De Jong in the side. Perez and Thauvin have the look of being lovely floaty wide forwards in the 4-3-3, which bodes extremely well.

Was this after Belhanda left? I'm not sure, was an article someone posted in here. Said Cabella was basically a super sub 6th man in 11/12, then became the centre piece 12/14.

I read the other day that Montpellier designed their whole team in 2012-2014 around Cabella in the #10 role. He was never going to get that under Alan Pardew so it's not a surprise that he struggled. I'd say his best case career path leads him to become a player similar to Samir Nasri, be interesting to see how OM develop him. His decision making in the final third was particularly poor though. Albeit with no help given by teammates or 'coaching' staff.

Looking like you're about to make a mistake and actually making one are different things. Sakho ticks all the right boxes.

How often does said disaster happen though? The only bad game I've seen him have was when Liverpool got dominated by Arsenal.

I like Sakho, he's good in the air and quick. Mbemba appears to have the skillset of a good sweeper too, could be well matched.

Surely it's worth us loaning him out just to see what we have. If he doesn't stand out in the Championship/League 1 then fuck him, if he does then re-assess.

Disagree with you on that. Actually the opposite where players with potential leave us and don't fulfill their promise. Bit of both in my opinion. Vianna, Luque, Cabella et al..we have our share of guys with reputations simply not cutting it at the club to varying degrees, as well as some (fewer in my opinion) who have left us and then realised there potential sand some who simply flop everywhere. Either way we have a very weak record in developing players. Not too many in recent years have gotten better with us... Wish the lad luck. Tidy and tricky player undoubtedly but think he was maybe too slow/ dwelt too long on the ball for PL? Hope he does well in his career. These 3 would have failed wherever they went in the Premier league, just not good enough physically.

Team selections at the moment are being made on fitness and performances in training/friendlies. If Numberwang is still starting ahead of Aarons/Thauvin (chickens, counting, hatched) in November time then we may have an issue.

We were rubbish going forward with 11 men too. There was just nothing in attack at all today. We were definitely second best but I thought we had a couple of reasonable passages of play. There was plenty of that for 45 minutes against Southampton, too. I just don't think you can extract anything from today. Any hope of a result was irreparably shattered by one player completely losing his nerve against a winger who had the better of him. I don't have any major issues with McClaren choosing to go for damage limitation; not in a game where it'd have taken an obscene performance to turn it around. Just put this one to bed and move onto the next one. Just because he made a move that was undoubtedly negative doesn't mean he's Pardew mkII. The subs last week were pretty gash, granted, and I said so at the time. I'd like to think that he's being patient with the set-up, with a mind for establishing a solid unit from the players available. I don't think it's a bad idea. Yes, there are plenty of talented options for the front six, and hopefully they'll start sneaking into the side once it's found a coherent formula for both attacking and defending as a unit. Looking individually at the players waiting in the wings - Cisse has the nod over Perez, Cabella has been injured and Aarons is raw. The latter, by the way, has looked a promising player in the extremely fleeting appearances he's had, but I'm not up-in-arms that he doesn't get an immediate place on the teamsheet. We don't know much about him. With the defensive personnel that we have, it's going to be difficult to forge a side that's always difficult to break down - particularly away from home. Like I say - he's aiming for something functional, much like Pardew did at the beginning of that 11/12 season. It doesn't mean that McClaren is Pardew - it means that he doesn't think we're going to fly immediately into playing swashbuckling football where the opposition are immediately pegged-back. Especially when our defense is likely to crumble without proper protection. As I've said, I'm prepared to bide my time with McClaren in general, and I'm prepared to bide my time as far as seeing our best eleven out on the pitch. If, come Christmas, we're hovering in the bottom half of the table and he's still favouring the likes of Obertan over others who have more potential, I'll be concerned. Most sensible post of the year.

I'm not going to go back and search but I know I responded to some that were saying that.