John P

Thought he was really poor on Saturday and has been for a while. Often when we had the ball moving forward he was just stood on the halfway line / hiding behind a West Brom player. He also couldn't be arsed to track back a lot of the time either. Looks like he can't wait to get away to be honest, which is fair enough, but the lack of effort he showed on Saturday was unacceptable.

I'm guessing this is a Pardew quote?

Excellent post mate.

He was raging that De Jong came on first instead of Armstrong too. He had a few touches of the ball but 5 minutes later Mills was saying 'what has De Jong done since he came on, has he even touched the ball? I don't think he's the right person to bring on in this situation at all, he's not going to graft and work.' Armstrong then came on, predictably touched the ball about twice and did nothing and only then did Mills shut the fuck up about it, which was after about 85 minutes. It was fucking torture man.

Danny Mills was co-commentating on the Leicester feed I watched and he wouldn't shut up about Jamie Vardy being the difference between the two sides and how we should get Armstrong on (after about 30mins) instead of Ayoze or Riviere because he cares about the club, would work his arse off and run about loads and apparently 'is in good form'. It epitomised a lot of what people are saying on here about the British mentality to football, ie work hard and you'll win. Nothing was mentioned of the fact that we had Ryan Taylor and Jonas playing centre midfield and no shape or system to speak of, just that we didn't have anyone that worked as hard as Jamie bloody Vardy. It's infuriating and almost unbelievable that someone who played at international level would think that.

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.

Seriously this forum is the only place on the internet, or in real life for that matter where you would find people suggesting Vernon Anita (a failed in the PL right footed midfielder) playing as a left back. Mental. Frank de Boer: Yeah he played at left-back quite a few times for Ajax I think.

If Pulis wasn't a massive negative bellend he would play Anichebe and Ideye up front, with Berahino on the right or left. Luckily (not sure if it is or not?) he is a massive negative bellend, but they would absolutely destroy us with that. Colo gets physically bullied by Shane Long and the thought of Ryan Taylor trying to defend against someone of Anichebe's size is hilarious.

Good to see carver showing his support for Cabella by dropping him

I'd say you're looking relatively ok at the minute like. Could do better.

Still think we'll manage to scrape a couple of points somewhere, probably from the 2 home games, which will just about keep us up. But, like many others, I'm struggling to care anyway. If we go down we deserve it, and Mike Ashley above anyone else deserves it for ruining our football club. We're not going anywhere in the Premiership so we might as well be a team fighting for promotion in the Championship, at least we would have some sort of meaning to our existence.

Might be Giggs but thought I'd post anyway: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/11568347/Newcastle-United-owner-Mike-Ashley-goes-to-church-to-confess-his-sins...what-might-that-look-like.html

Everything becomes clear.

Despite all the good things people are saying about Lascelles, he's 21 and isn't a regular in Forest's back four. Needs to step up massively in the next season or two if he's going to be as good as people are saying. Lucky he's moving to the perfect club to realise that potential...

Sounds like a trap lol. Carver and Woodman in hoodies and scarves covering their faces just inside the box office entrance.

Will be due another standing ovation from the Mackem masses at the weekend then.

New target man for the rest of the season, will bang them in to save Carver's bacon and land him the job full-time, then piss off back to Ukraine.

Forgot about this guy, surely worth a sub appearance ahead of Riviere and Armstrong

It really is very sad. Nobody seems to have realised the importance of football clubs to the community until it's too late. Really they should be like listed buildings or assets of community value and only changed within very controlled limits. Particularly in Newcastle, where the club is city centre and such a massive presence in the town. Walking around the ground used to exciting, even on a non-matchday. It's visible from everywhere, it used to be inspiring. Tragic what has happened, only hope is that we can get angry enough to force a change. TBH I'm not sure it's possible, but it's good to see people are trying. The feeling I have is one of sadness. We cancelled our season tickets for next season and I can't see us going back anytime soon once this season is over. For a while now I've been watching games and not caring when we concede or lose, barely celebrating if we score, feelings I thought inconceivable until this season. To be this disconnected from a club that I have supported passionately since I was able to understand what football was is really so incredibly sad. At the minute I can't really see myself following the team next season, I can't care about a club that means nothing to the fans, nothing to the people running it and nothing to most of the players. To be a passionate supporter for so long and to now not care is a position I never thought I'd be in, but it's become impossible to identify with anything associated with the club for such a long time now.

As has no doubt already been said, subbing Abeid off at half time and having Ryan Taylor at centre mid for 90 mins was quite incredible. I almost felt bad for Taylor as Spurs players continued to glide past him with ease, it was embarrassing. Carver clearly doesn't like Abeid and has treated him appallingly since he took over, loves subbing him off and blaming him in public which is an atrocious way to treat a young, talented player. No doubt he's one of the players he feels isn't 'good enough', whereas Taylor will always be worth a place in his team.

This was a couple of minutes into the second half from the gallowgate west corner. Think a couple of the previous photos are a little bit misleading but it was definitely noticeable how many empty seats there were. Level 7 looked about a third full, the corners were pretty sparse (including where we were) and other patches of the ground had pretty large sections of empty seats. My guess would be around 35-40k. http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/04/19/4395640f045436331b637a033a99996d.jpg

Klopp doesn't seem to fit with Man City for me. His successes at Mainz and Dortmund were with 'underdog' teams that he got playing above their level with honest hard-working players. Not sure his style would work with the overpaid prima donnas at City. Plus I love Klopp and hate City so would be quite painful seeing him at a club I despise.

Did I see somewhere that Pards said they played like Brazil on Saturday? Admittedly I didn't see the game but all four goals just came from long hoofs!

I've said it before as have many others, but the floated set penis is almost a wonder of the modern world. For a Premier League team to only have one idea of what to do at a set piece and to repeatedly do it over and over again, despite the fact that it has never worked or come close to working in near enough 4 years, is quite incredible. It's embarrassing for any professional team. Actually, it's embarrassing at Sunday league level. Come to think of it, when I played for a 5-a-side team a few years ago we actually had a few different things we would try if we had a freekick. The Spurs coaching team are probably analysing our games at the moment and pissing themselves laughing at our set pieces - 'so all we have to do is stick our centre half on Williamson and we're fine then yeah, because they'll just do the same thing over and over and over again?' 'Believe it or not, yes.' It's representative of the shocking coaching at our club being done by jobs for the boys dinosaurs who have absolutely no idea what they're doing and it's a complete piss-take.

My Dad told me last night that there were plenty of seats left in the Newcastle end and asked if I wanted to go. All I could do was laugh in his face.