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Our current team will struggle to get as high as 4th bottom. I disagree.
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Hughton is no tactical mastermind. But he's got the team playing as a unit. For each other. Coming back from 2-0 against Eindhoven shows spirit. The old Keegan/Kinnear squad would have flopped. I think sheer grit and determination will pick us up more points over a season than a disharmonious squad of more talented players would, tbh.
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Newcastle United 2 - 2 PSV Eindhoven - 31/07/10
ChrisMcQuillan replied to ponsaelius's topic in Football
Harper Perch Campbell Williamson Enrique Routledge Guthrie Barton Jonas Carroll Lovenkrands then Krul R Taylor Campbell Henderson Kadar LuaLua Smith Nolan Vuckic Ameobi Xisco -
Who should partner Campbell this season? OLD THREAD ALERT
ChrisMcQuillan replied to Dave's topic in Football
iffy ?!?, he was shocking in that first season i'll reserve judgement until he can do it the premiership which i hope he can Shocking in the second half of the season, when everyone's confidence was shot. I firmly recall he was great towards the start of the season. -
Gotta feel for the lad.
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Exactly. So why wouldn't they sell him? lol
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Young. Unproven. I don't think he's exactly a hero there yet. I asked one of the Spurs subs what his full name was, and he said he only knew him as 'Jay'. Genuinely think the guy could be a real talent if nurtured right.
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Just back from watching Spurs U16 play FC Mechecen U16 in the Milk Cup. Spurs have a central defender who's already at least six foot called Janoi Donacien. I know Leicester City and West Ham were scouting players at the game. I'm certain he'll be one of them. Great positioning, strength, pace and athleticism. We should snap him up.
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Played through the pain with a long-term hip injury to help us out.
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TBF, he's also being heavily linked with the Scum, Fulham and West Ham.
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West Ham agree fee in region of £15m with Liverpool for Andy Carroll
ChrisMcQuillan replied to Pilko's topic in Football
Hughton was going to give the feckin' thing to Best, but Best turned it down. -
West Ham agree fee in region of £15m with Liverpool for Andy Carroll
ChrisMcQuillan replied to Pilko's topic in Football
That's the worst article I've ever seen. -
0 pace at CB. Just get Carroll to run towards Taylor. Should spark a bit of movement into the backline. Or put Nolan into CB and open a McDonalds in the Gallowgate.
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96% of the people in the other thread would disagree with that. He’s right though. The kind of football being advocatied (ugly, boring and negative) makes going to the match a fairly joyless experience. Winning provides a temporary respite from the drudgery but as it’s highly unlikely we’ll be winning many games next season what’s left is paying £20+ to be bored shitless for ninety minutes. While the ‘hardcore’ supporter might put up with it many will decide it’s a waste of money and find something enjoyable to do instead. Far better to invest a bit of money in the product and play your way to safety than reduce the pitch size and cross your fingers. I'm not sure anyone is advocating ugly, boring, negative football. The debate appears to be between those who would be willing to be relegated playing pretty football rather than ugly football, and those who can deal with a season of consolidation, where the football won't always be the best, but which lays the foundations for success in the long term, allowing us to progress to a level where we are playing great football on a weekly basis. I don't think anyone wants to see ugly football all the time, and given the choice between staying up playing attractively or negatively, it's really a no-brainer. That's not how this debate started, though. It started because a poster stated they'd rather be a yo-yo club playing nice football than stay up this year playing scrappy football. For what it's worth, my personal opinion is that we'll be far from an ugly side this year. I believe Hughton showed enough last season to suggest that he would, in an ideal world, like to play reasonably attractive football where prudent to do so (ie, against the majority of sides). How else do you explain his sticking with Guthrie over Smith, and his aquisition of a genuine winger in January? He's also shown an awareness of where the team needs strengthening, and his signings have addressed positions we all acknowledged needing sorting out, regardless of how you assess the signings themselves. What makes you think we’re laying the foundations for long term success? Our revenue for 11/12 isn’t likely to be much higher than it will be for this season, especially if we finish 16th playing negative football. If we can’t afford to assemble a squad that can’t stay up without resorting to stifling tactics this season there seems little chance it’ll change in the future. The debate started because it has been reported that Hughton has decided to reduce the size of the pitch. If true this strongly suggest we’ll be really going for it on the negative front. It might keep us up but I don’t see it as laying the foundations for playing decent football in the future. Once a team has gone down this route it is very difficult to change direction. For me we should have laid the foundations for the future last season. Committed ourselves to style of play a club of NUFC’s stature should aspire to. If that meant another season or two in the CCC so be it. What we got was a going up is all that matters attitude, and now it looks like it’ll be staying up at all costs is all that matters. Both are/were important but it’s all short term thinking. We’re not so much making progress as simply switching divisions. We'd have been so skint after that we'd have been signing Steve Claridge to play in goals as our star signing of the summer. The financial impact would have been unbearable. We're on the right course.
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This story is gathering quite a lot of momentum now, though, which is a bit worrying.