themanupstairs

The reason why it's tempting to play him central (and Pardew previously hinted at it with his no.10 comments) is when you imagine him weaving his magic up against clumsy centerhalves who are running backwards, as opposed to pacy fullbacks. Take the last third of his goal against Bolton for example. Plus he has the vision to pick out a killer pass into dangerous areas. Certainly worth giving it a try behind Ba and Cisse, as we're not actually getting much from out wide any way.

Don't be daft man. I just thought "hate" was too strong a word for someone whose decisions have never really impacted us. I think Clattenberg is useless, but I don't hate him. I hate Martin Atkinson and the spackems though

Why would you hate a ref who's never taken charge of a Newcastle match?

Not sure if he's just simply gone downhill, or if it's been curbed out of him, but since losing his long stride and turn of pace, he's become, on the face of it, nothing more than a defensive player. No one can fault his dedication and application in his new midfield role, but I'm sure even he himself knows that he's no good to us out on the left wing. Jonas attacks better in a side playing with confidence and swagger. When his team is under the cosh, he tends to rush his decisions in the final third.

Didn't realize they had a midweek game. Hope Suarez plays and ...

Simon Church will win it. Put your house on it.

5-5 yeah baby

Fucked on the telly?

Love Simon Church me

Where in the fuck did 5 minutes come from anyway? Roberts is right to feel aggrieved.

fuck me

Not enough love given to this. Lovely little write up about the great man

Hangeland would be exactly the type of defender we need to have a quality pool of players at CB. Very good defender whose massive frame and experience would improve us no end! Would love it if we got him.

What? does not pay attention to the rest je pense que c'est mieux si t'ecris en francais ici, et les twats geordies faisons la traduction avec google translate mate

But has someone else bar Ben Arfa completed a dibble for us...? Andy

They've been awful since we got promoted tbf. Plumbed new depths this year, at least 30% hit the first man. I keep scoring from corners swept into the near post (Colo mainly) on FIFA, and I keep thinking why on earth can't we have a man on the near post for flick ons? IMO Williamson should be there for every corner. You watch our players during corners, and they're ALL faffing about dead center in the penalty area, with hardly any movement. Ridiculous.

They've been awful since we got promoted tbf.

Long boot back to Cabaye on the centre spot then a lovely little through ball to catch them out as they're pushing out. Did we ever find out what our "perfect corner" we had worked out over the summer was? People keep mentioning Hatem against Spurs but I was away for that and never seen it if someone wants to describe it. Corner was played short, catching Spurs off guard. HBA jinked his way past 2 spuds before being brought down by Lennon to win a penalty.

Love how there's no middle ground for some people. Marveaux is either the second coming, or turbo turd and needs shipping out asap. In all his cameos, he has never been as bad as Obertan has been almost every time he's played in the PL. Yet Pardew continues to keep faith that Obertan can eventually come good. It could be that they're working with Marveaux behind the scenes to get him up to scratch. Point is, we don't have a fucking clue, so it's best to give our players the benefit of the doubt before making sweeping judgements.

Hopefully we'll play better and get all 3

Never leave early but of late I've been timing it so by the time I'm near a stairwell the whistle blows... Bloke sitting next to me for the first time said as i got up "You'll miss the winner" to which i responded by pointing out to him the exact part of the ground I'll reach when we do... And sure enough that's how it transpired which lead me to return back so far when he spotted me and we shared a knowing smile...

I'm not sure I remember this accurately, but didn't SBR make only minor changes for the European games? IIRC we had quite a consistent starting 11 for all major competitions - injuries/suspensions allowing. The more the same players play together, the better understanding they will develop. At the moment our starting 11 have been chopped and changed for nearly every game we've played (variety of reasons) and imo this is the reason we haven't got going yet.