PineBarrens
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He's a striker... Did he miss any chances?...
He's a forward... Did he hold the ball up effectively? Did he bring other players into play? Did he create chances for others? Did he move well enough to make it possible for others to play him in? Did he score?
Created more goal scoring opportunities today than any other NUFC player according to the stats. Did he have a good game? No. Should he be dropped? Possibly, if there were any decent striking options on the bench but there are not.
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The banjo pluckers find themselves in a strange position; after running Brenda Fricker out of town for his geordie roots in spite of him achieving SAFC's highest league position since the other bloke they ran out of town had previously managed, they then were given the manager they nigh on universally wanted in O'Neill only for results and performances be, if anything, worse than the last bloke. They then turn to an Italian oddball with confirmed fascist beliefs, welcome him with open arms as the saviour of Wearside only for him to have the worst record of them all.
It's a rum do and no mistake for the Penshaw hillbillies...
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Would give him a start on Wednesday and hope a few chances fall his way.
No, he must be burned at the stake for he is 1000 times worse than Pat Heard and Shola combined, for the quixotic lords of Newcastle-Online have spoken...
Think he needs to be left out for a few games myself. Did not exactly exert himself today and seems to have got complacent because he knows he is guaranteed to start.
And that's fine, it's the posts accusing him of being a liability and a waste of a shirt and suchlike that are simply ridiculous. He's a good striker going through a lean period, it's not his fault that the club failed to bring in another striker (as well as Remy) during the summer to give him competition for his place.
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Would give him a start on Wednesday and hope a few chances fall his way.
No, he must be burned at the stake for he is 1000 times worse than Pat Heard and Shola combined, for the quixotic lords of Newcastle-Online have spoken...
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Domi going forward is the best left-back I've seen here.
You only need to watch the Shearer DVD for a snippet of why.
Left backs are in the side foremost to defend and Domi wasn't very good at it. Plus his attitude knocks points off for me , certainly rather have Bez in the trenches beside me than Domi, who we all know what unforgivable thing that he did.
I didn't think that Bez was all that good defensively either tbh, the only proper defender we had in the premier under Keegan was probably Peacock. Barton, Bersford and Albert were more about being good on the ball, although Venison was probably better in both respects even though he got bombed out by Keegan for indiscipline before Barton arrived.
What's this? I didn't know about that.
I remember thinking Peacock was s*** when I was a kid. I think I need to go back and rewatch some matches because it was probably because he was an out-and-out defender. Howey was a good defender as well tbh, he just seemed to be constantly injured.
Aside from a few iffy months when he first arrived and the odd game thereafter (Everton away in the FA cup 1995 springs to mind), he was a hugely underrated defender and was in fact voted player of the year in the 1996/97 end of season poll in the Mag.
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Ordered something online from nufc.co.uk the other day, got this email today from them -
We are pleased to confirm that your order from SD.com has been delivered.
How did we do today? Visit www.myyodel.co.uk and enter your parcel number to rate your delivery.
As a thank you, we?ll enter you into a prize draw (*).
Terms and Conditions apply, please visit www.myyodel.co.uk for details
Read into that what you will...
Who has taken the money? Was it the club or SD?
It says NEWCASTLE UNITED on my bank statement, so not a complete SD takeover just yet.
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Ordered something online from nufc.co.uk the other day, got this email today from them -
We are pleased to confirm that your order from SD.com has been delivered.
How did we do today? Visit www.myyodel.co.uk and enter your parcel number to rate your delivery.
As a thank you, we?ll enter you into a prize draw (*).
Terms and Conditions apply, please visit www.myyodel.co.uk for details
Read into that what you will...
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Dead man walking.
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Llambias was no where near as bad as people made out.
I know him quite well (am good friends with his son ) and he is nowhere near as bad as people on here make out...is he perfect no but compared to what we have he is miles better....
Any word as to what went on behind the scenes that lead to his resignation?
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Play him in a 4-3-3 with Ben Arfa on one side and Gouffran/Remy on the other and he'll score goals; persist with him either as the lone striker or 4-4-2 with Shola alongside him and he'll struggle.
I wonder which formation Hot Shots: Pardew will choose to ignore...
Its more than just formations....
You're right, the service provided is the worst in the premier league. When deployed in a proper 4-3-3 he was fantastic. The boy's a class act and those that cannot see that deserve Kinnear, Pardew and fat Mike.
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Play him in a 4-3-3 with Ben Arfa on one side and Gouffran/Remy on the other and he'll score goals; persist with him either as the lone striker or 4-4-2 with Shola alongside him and he'll struggle.
I wonder which formation Hot Shots: Pardew will choose to ignore...
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Serious question - How many times have we played well and won in the last twelve months?
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Seriously though, I wish someone in press had the bollocks to ask Pardew or Kinnear how the likes of Cardiff f***ing City are more willing and able to 'compete' with the 'big clubs' than Newcastle United are.
Just to see what he'd say like.
The Chronicle are scared to and the likes of Caulkin would rather stay chummy with Pardew than ask of him the serious questions that most fans would like to.
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f***ing hell man, this place
So nobody can play well against Man City without the sarcastic comments coming out? We don't always roll over, last season we gave Man United, Chelsea and Spurs tough games. I know times are tough at our club but can't some matches be enjoyed outside of this bubble?
It's not that other games can't be enjoyed as a spectacle, but seeing a newly promoted team having a right go at 'The Untouchables' exacerbates our current position of flailing in the great lake of mundane.
Our owner is here under duress and sees our club as an advertising outlet for Sports Direct at best and is actively taking back his loans as of last year and is due to take another 18 million within the next 12 months.
Our director of football is a gin-soaked Walty Mitty with an inability to talk anything other than rubbish and our manager is a misanthropic negameister who would have you believe that we're in the Unibond league and we can't compete with Southampton or Norwich City.
We're sponsored by a pay day loan company who prey upon those in financial hardship in one of the most economically depressed areas of the country and one of our best players is currently refusing to play for us - there's nothing whatsoever at present to be happy/excited about regarding Newcastle United football club, nothing at all.
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Massively over hyped on here, penny finally dropping though. Shame it takes people so f***ing long mind.
If people think some other strikers going to come in and start banging in goals without any service they are in for a rude awakening when he's dropped. Remy might be able to pull goals out of thin air, he's a canny dribbler, but a new striker isn't going to magically transform Pardew's turgid football into slick passing heaven.
Gerd Muller at his peak would have struggled for goals in this set-up.
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Alan Pardew: "West Ham came and played long ball football"
Match stats -
Long balls;
Newcastle: 44
West Ham: 38
Make him go away please.
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There was a number of people sat around me today who are season ticket holders and their views couldn't be any more different to the general consensus on here.
1) Shola is the in-form striker so has every right to be picked
2) Sissoko is garbage
3) Anita is not built enough for this league and should stop moaning about wanting first team football.
4) Sammy should get more game time
5) We have to trust Pardew's decisions, he sees the players every day in training.
6) Debuchy is terrible, Simpson was better
7) Marveaux should be nowhere near the first 11
8) West Ham are not better than us
9) Why are people booing? This was a good result.
Baffling.
Shit like this makes me almost understand why supporters of other clubs laugh in our general direction.
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He's such a negative bulb, makes Leonard Cohen sound like Daphne & Celeste.
Kevin Keegan in his programme notes against Spurs in the first home game of the 93/94 season said something along the lines of 'Watch out Manchester United we're coming after you!'; this misanthrope is content with a drab goalless home game against West Ham with no shots on target. He's already making Morcambe away sound like a daunting prospect.
Worst of all though is his constant lowering of expectations and attempts to talk this club down, as if we're a poxy tin-pot club festering in the lower reaches of the leagues. The sooner he leaves this club the better for all concerned.
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This ain't NUFC V WHUFC, this is pardew v allardyce.
Whoever wins, mankind loses.
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Cisse and Shola don't look like a combination in theory, and practice is bearing it out.
Shola and anybody else don't look like a combination, in theory or in practice.
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It is disgusting that Shola Ameobi is still starting premier league games for Newcastle United, the blame for which must be attributed to both Ashley and Pardew (not the Fenham Eusebio's fault that he's selected and is by all accounts a thoroughly lovely, polite chap).
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On a similar note -
MIKE ASHLEY dramatically broke his silence over the turmoil on the Toon and defiantly declared: "I had to act and now I'll do it MY way!"
Newcastle's' billionaire owner insists he is ready to step out of the background to run the club the way HE wants to from now on.
On Tuesday he will jet back from a Far East business trip to join forces with chairman Chris Mort as they strive to bring success to St James's Park.
And there will be times when he swaps his trademark Newcastle shirt and returns to civvies as he plots the way ahead in the wake of the departure of boss Sam Allardyce.
Today, in an exclusive News of the World interview, Ashley outlines his New Year vision for Newcastle including the qualities he's looking for in the club's next manager.
He said: "I want a team that will go all out to try to give Chelsea a walloping, that'll try to stuff Tottenham and that will be brave and bold enough to attack Man Utd.
"To date I have invested £250m to try and make it happen.
"And I'm not the only one who could see it wasn't working with things as they were.
"So when my chairman told me it was time for a change I knew it had to happen.
"I just knew it was time for me to become involved.
"After all I bought this club to make it a success and the harsh truth is there wasn't much prospect of that.
"I bought this club to have some fun and I wasn't having much fun at all. So I did what I should have done in the first place and decided it was time to run the club the way I wanted.
"I must admit that when I bought this club my gut instinct was to bring in my own team to run it straight away, including a new manager.
"That's no reflection on Sam, that's just the way I have always done things.
"But for once in my life I ignored my intuition and, looking back, that was a mistake.
"My instinct had never let me down in the past, in fact it's been one of my biggest strengths, one of the major reasons behind my success.
"Yet I went against that better judgement after buying Newcastle.
"Now is the time to put away my Newcastle shirt. I'm not saying I will never go back on the terraces but now I have to be in the boardroom — I have to be hands on."
Ashley was left desperately disappointed with the return on his massive investment.
A procession of poor performances, ropey results and off-field problems was a shocking reward for his massive outlay.
It was not Ashley's vision for the sleeping giants of English football.
He added: "I want a team that is going to be admired up and down the country because of our brilliant, attacking football.
"Like they did when Kevin Keegan was in charge here.
"In those days everyone in the land loved to watch Newcastle in action. I certainly did.
"And I am determined it will be like that again."
That sort of stylish, buccaneering football has only been rarely glimpsed at St James's Park this season and Ashley makes no apologies for demanding Newcastle play the way the loyal Toon Army desire.
He added:"People might mock me for that and reckon that's all pie in the sky.
"But this is a football club, remember — it's about passion, about dreams, about glory. If it's not, then why bother?
"Make no mistake I bother, I care and so I will try my hardest to make this club successful.
"And I know I don't stand alone — I stand at the head of the Toon Army.
"Remember this is a club with a real passion running through it — not least from all those Geordie fans.
"And I share that passion."
Yet Ashley has still taken a battering over events last week with Allardyce elbowed after just eight months in charge of the Magpies.
But those pundits who would have you believe Ashley's a mug punter who does not know what he is doing should beware.
After all this is a guy who built his Sports Direct business empire up from nothing.
A man who at just 41 years of age boasts a fortune of £1.6billion — put it another way that's one thousand six hundred million pounds.
Some mug, then!
Yet Ashley is big and brave enough to accept some of the blame, even though he sees positives in his controversial decision to take a back seat so far.
He explained: "My thinking was to come into Newcastle United and examine the club from every angle and from every aspect. I wanted to see how it ran, how it worked, what the staff could offer and what the supporters were all about.
"I wanted to understand what made this club tick, I wanted to find its soul.
"I have done that now and taken a lot of flak along the way.
"People have complained I have been in the background too much, not done enough. Are you sure?
"Let's get this straight. I paid £140million to buy this club.
"I've also paid off £100million worth of debt so today this club doesn't owe a buck to anyone.
"And I also gave Sam funds for new players.
"Yet I've been hammered by certain people and for what?
"Yes, wearing my Newcastle shirt and sitting with the fans.
"The critics were suggesting in some way that this was just a cheap trick that would boost sales of shirts in my own stores.
"But anyone who knows anything about Newcastle knows all the fans already have their shirts so it's all nonsense, just unbelievable.
"And do you know something? I don't regret those days with our supporters at all.
"I might own the club but they are the heartbeat and I had a lovely time with them.
"And I guarantee that you haven't seen the last of me out there with the lads and lasses.
"I will do it again from time to time. That's because among the fans he felt at home but when he sat in his own directors' box he was condemned as unconventional.
He explained: "I can't stand this self-imposed etiquette in the boardroom and directors' box.
"You're supposed to wear a suit, a shirt and tie and behave like a headmaster.
"Why? It's like one of those , snobby, snooty golf clubs where they have rules for this and that. It's nonsense and I won't go along with it.
"I want to go to football and enjoy it.
"I want to celebrate when my team scores, when my team wins.
"It's a game of drama and emotion — of highs and lows, of highlights and heartbreaks. And I want to live it.
"So from now on it's all down to me.
"I am here because I want to be here and because I want to win trophies.
"That's it — period — to get trophies in the cabinet and have a ball doing it. I can't see anything wrong with that at all.
"Buying a football club is something I've always wanted to do so it's living a dream.
"I always said I bought this club to become part of its passion.
"I'd like to think I've done that. Now I want to channel that passion into bringing success and I just can't wait until it happens."
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'We have to react to the market. If we were Man City and need a striker, we just go out and pay £37million for one and everyone else has to react on the back of that.'
'If we were to sell one of our big players, which would generate funds, we might split it into two and use the finance to replace him and strengthen in another position.'The bottom line is that we have a procedure in place to get transfers in and now Joe is directly the in-line manager for the board and Mike, the owner, so therefore I request to him what I think the team needs and he has to try to get them over the line. We all work together to do that.'
'There is a process where he comes in but the proof is in the pudding really and we have to make sure we get one or two transfers over the line before deadline. This has been a particularly poor week on a number of levels. But you get that. Sometimes adversity comes, so let's get it out of the way, let's sort ourselves out and make sure we are ready to rumble in the 37 games left.'
Are these the quotes which are meant to get us all in a twist?
Quotes from a Daily Mail article, nowt online regarding the Gazette quotes yet.
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'We have to react to the market. If we were Man City and need a striker, we just go out and pay £37million for one and everyone else has to react on the back of that.'
'If we were to sell one of our big players, which would generate funds, we might split it into two and use the finance to replace him and strengthen in another position.'The bottom line is that we have a procedure in place to get transfers in and now Joe is directly the in-line manager for the board and Mike, the owner, so therefore I request to him what I think the team needs and he has to try to get them over the line. We all work together to do that.'
'There is a process where he comes in but the proof is in the pudding really and we have to make sure we get one or two transfers over the line before deadline. This has been a particularly poor week on a number of levels. But you get that. Sometimes adversity comes, so let's get it out of the way, let's sort ourselves out and make sure we are ready to rumble in the 37 games left.'
Papiss Cissé
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NUFC stats on twitter. Well he certainly can't play as a lone striker and appears to be most effective in a 4-3-3, as evidenced by his wondrous form from January-May 2012. So it's either drop him for an inferior striker in Shola or Gouffran or persist with him in a 4-3-3 formation. Another striker in January is essential.