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    Newcastle United 1 - 1 Tottenham - 22/01/11 - post match reaction from p22

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    http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/187/explanationa.jpg

    Perch is not in a good position either? Stood unmarked on the 6 yard box with a free pass ffs :lol:

     

    He's coming in really fast, he'd not have composure to slot it in. You can't see that in the pic, though. :lol:

     

    I dunno about the television, but it was f***ing obvious from sitting in the stand behind the goal that Perch was in a glorious position to score. All Ranger had to do was slot it to him and he'd have scored - it's not like he was running in like a f***ing roadrunner :lol:

     

    The problem with our strikers (and that's all that featured today - Best, Ranger, Shola and Lovenkrands) is that they don't lift their f***ing heads enough. There were a number of opportunities in those closing stages whereby if the attacker in question had glanced up and saw his options, we'd have been laughing away with 3 points.

     

    spot on  :-*

    Newcastle United 1 - 1 Tottenham - 22/01/11 - post match reaction from p22

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    Haway people, to expect a young striker to pass when he's in that position is total nonsense. If he doesn't have the instinct to shoot in those situations, he shouldn't be playing up front.

     

    If he was 30 with 200 goals in his account he might have had the maturity to look up. But at this stage in his career it's a non-problem.

     

    I understand what you mean, but that's none sense tbh. If he had passed to Lovenkrands, you wouldn't be sat there saying that he doesn't have the striker's instinct to shoot. Strikers are there to put the ball in the back of the net. Whether by scoring themselves or providing chances is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

     

    Well I agree with that sort of, but if you don't have the hunger to get goals and the instinct to shoot then you won't make a very good striker. At least not unless you'r a non-scoring one like Kevin Davies.

     

    Obviously I wouldn't have been criticising him if he squared it and we'd scored. That doesn't mean that I do have to criticise him because he didn't! Bit of a logical stretch that one.

     

    I don't blame the lad at all for shooting. But come training Monday morning, I wouldn't be telling him well done for having a go. I'd be saying, you made the space for yourself, which is great. Next time, look up! I'm not sure if the replays show whether or not he looked up. He may not have seen PL in the better position, so that would be what I'd ask him to work on. Awareness of course improves with experience, which ties in with what you're saying.

     

    IMO Lovenkrands with his experience should have got much tighter to the post to follow up.

    Newcastle United 1 - 1 Tottenham - 22/01/11 - post match reaction from p22

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    Haway people, to expect a young striker to pass when he's in that position is total nonsense. If he doesn't have the instinct to shoot in those situations, he shouldn't be playing up front.

     

    If he was 30 with 200 goals in his account he might have had the maturity to look up. But at this stage in his career it's a non-problem.

     

    I understand what you mean, but that's none sense tbh. If he had passed to Lovenkrands, you wouldn't be sat there saying that he doesn't have the striker's instinct to shoot. Strikers are there to put the ball in the back of the net. Whether by scoring themselves or providing chances is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

    Harry Redknapp

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    Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp robbed in Madrid

     

    Harry Redknapp was the victim of pickpockets on a trip to Spain last night. The Tottenham Hotspur manager and his assistant, Kevin Bond, were in the Spanish capital to watch Real Madrid defeat their local rivals Atlético 1-0 in the Copa del Rey.

     

    "They took all my money, credit cards, everything really," Redknapp said of the incident, which took place before the game. "We were walking round the outside of the stadium, me and Kevin, and it was so packed. The next thing there's two guys on their knees in front of me and I felt someone pull my overcoat. I didn't take any notice but then they've got my trousers and they kept pulling them.

     

    "I didn't know whether to knee them in the gob because I was thinking: ' What are they doing, these two blokes?' I'm going: 'Let go of my trousers,' pushing them away and while I'm doing that the others are rifling my pockets.

     

    "There were about six of them. I put my hand in my pockets and realised what they'd done."

     

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/21/harry-redknapp-robbed-madrid?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+%28Football%29&utm_content=Twitter

    why do you get the feeling that the money and credit cards weren't his to start with ?

     

    It's not true, Redknapp wasn't mugged.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    He thought he was but it was only the Inland Revenue  :lol:

     

    :harry:

    Report: Alan Smith to leave NUFC in January?

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    There is an interview out there somewhere that Alan Smith did with one of the papers (maybe Times or Telegraph) where he described the effect that the bad injury he got at Man Utd. was having on his career. He admitted he'd lost pace and mobility and would never be the player he was before he was injured. It's hardly then his fault that we bought a player who hadn't recovered from a bad injury and in fact never could fully recover, or that managers have continued to pick him to carry out a role that physically he is not capable of doing. The same applies to Nicky Butt, once rated one of the best midfielders in the world, but continually picked by managers of NUFC, when once again physically he could no longer do the job they asked him.

     

    The club signed these players up to long lucrative contracts what is the player meant to do, say I retire, i'm now useless and don't worry about paying me for the next couple of years?

     

      :thup:

    NUFC transfer rumours in the press

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    Can't help but think Ireland would be a disaster here.

     

    Maybe under Hughton in the CCC, less pressure and less limelight, he might have got on with it, got into the team spirit etc and got his form back. Now, with Pardew in charge, and a couple of "bad boys" already in the squad, I agree.

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