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We'll win.

Quite pleased with that team actually.

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Fyi, the team @realradio have spotted Alan Pardew on the pitch with.... Joey Barton. Maybe, just maybe. #NUFC

This a worrying. Pardew is just like Roeder and Souness. He don´t know how to training properly. Just compare the injuries now and under Hughton.

I agree.

We shouldn't even bother with training tbh.

I didn't think Webb was too bad tbh.

 

As for the vendetta, people forget quickly don't they?

 

I remember the penalty he gave us against the Mackems after Steven Taylor took a dive.

 

So because of one penalty, he's entitled to have a stinker when he referees us?

 

I'm sorry like but I know what I saw with my own eyes, his performance wasn't "alright", it was dire.

 

He wouldn't let the game flow at all, he played right into the hands of Everton players with their persistent time wasting and dropping like flies, and he missed blatant fouls throughout as well (Jonas on the edge of the area comes to mind)

1) He didn't have a stinker

2) I never said that because of one penalty he's entitled to make wrong decisions - was simply stating that the wrong decisions work both ways.

3) Jonas wasn't fouled - and if he stopped diving theatrically everytime somebody got within a metre of him he'd get a lot more decisions his way.

I didn't think Webb was too bad tbh.

As for the vendetta, people forget quickly don't they?

I remember the penalty he gave us against the Mackems after Steven Taylor took a dive.

After 91 minutes I actually shouted "Jesus, Lovenkrands is still on!"

 

 

A rotten showing and enough is now enough.

 

Towards the very end I was repeating over and over again how Lovenkrands had managed to survive 90 minutes and 3 substitutions. Stunning incompetence from him and from Pards for leaving him on for the whole game.

Enrique went off injured.

Best went off injured.

Steven Taylor went off because we needed to make a tactical change.

I love this forum after a loss.

bench

Subs: Tim Krul, James Perch, Sol Campbell, Steven Taylor, Ryan Taylor, Nile Ranger, Shefki Kuqi

 

Bloody hell we're screwed if any of our Midfielders get injured.

 

I think Perch and Raylor are considered the 'midfielders' of that bench.

 

That doesn't change the situation, though.

 

I think we'd either turn to a 433 with Ranger upfront or carry on with a 422 but have Loven drop to the left and partner Ranger upfront with Best.

Blimey. Starting the match with 9 players? We must be confident.

Why should he put it towards the playing staff?

 

Serious question.

 

Because he's the owner of Newcastle United? If he'd rather piss away his considerable spare cash frivolously on some roulette table what does that say about his priorities?

He can do what he likes with his own money.

The fans have given him nothing but shit, he's not even a fan of the club - but he should use his own money on the club?

Get real.

Why should he put it towards the playing staff?

Serious question.

Why would he bunk with the cash?

He hasn't yet, why start now?

The title is appropriate. This goal was truly truly an act of God. The boy has not shown an ounce of goalscoring ability in his entire time at the club, but when that ball came to foot, there was never any doubt about the destination. An absolutely perfect and pristine strike. One of the best I have ever seen. Very good player, Tiote. Hope he can stay for some years.

 

He has hit some howlers in his time, but even before today, I've seen enough of Tiote to suggest he could be really good going forward. It's a tricky one because you wouldn't want him to jeopardise his defensive keeping-things-simple style which is so invaluable and rare, but it helps to have a midfield general who can do both - and I think he's always had it in him. His distribution (even going forward) is underrated IMO.

Some of the balls he was playing today when we were going all out were absolutely sensational.

better than the 5-1 feeling draw or not, lord how would we feel if we'd actually won

Imagine if that Nolan shot went in at the end! There would have been a pitch invasion.

This has to be right up there with the best feeling after a NUFC game.

Written off by everyone (even our own fans), the press, saying how we couldn't score without Carroll, how our team spirit had been wrecked.

Well, we fucking showed them. We showed them the NUFC way. Amazing, totally amazing.

Imagine if Nolan's shot had have gone in 

Can't wait for Wengers post-match interview.

We needed to take some pride out of the second half - match was over but the team needed to show teh fans that we're not certainties for the drop like many of you are making out.

They've done it well so far.

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Bahaha, what is Gordon doing?

There's a lot of similarities between the Fulham match and the Stevenage match.

The main one was the size of the pitch - both are short, narrow pitches which quite clearly don't suit our game.

Simpler 4-5-1 formation would probably work

                                        Harper

Simpson    Williamson/Taylor      Coloccini          Enrique

                                        Tiote

Barton                                                                Jonas

                              Nolan          Ben Arfa

                                    Ameobi/Best

I'm sorry like, but when the team puts in a pathetic performance like that people aren't going to react very well to it.

 

People don't pay to travel down to London/buy match tickets and pay Sky subscriptions to watch a lacklustre pathetic excuse of a performance from the team and not have the right to criticise it.

Look, I'm as disappointed as anybody else, but we were still missing our 2 best players (HBA, Tiote), and we've got Ireland coming in to look forward to as well.

Our issue tonight wasn't our strike-force, even if Carroll was playing it wouldn't have made a difference, it was our midfield. We created no chances at all, and it's hard to ask your strikers to score goals with no service.

This forum is hilarious at times 

Carroll was going to miss our next 5 games anyway, which means that really we'll only be without him for 9 matches. We've already been without him for 5 and picked up 8 points, if we carry on that record we'll get to about 48 points.

It is honestly depressing coming on here after a loss, honestly.

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Carroll wouldn't have played today anyway?

We've won 2 and drawn 2 when he hasn't been playing.

Bad performance. Put it down to a one off, not an easy place to go and surprised most of you were expecting a win. Draw would've been a good result.

Much easier run of games starts after we've played Arsenal.

The issue isn't what he said - he has every right to say what he did to Carroll as a mate/whatever, and tbh not much that he said I disagree with.

The fact that he did it publicly is what pisses me off about it.