Hughesy

http://swissramble.blogspot.ch/2012/09/uefas-ffp-regulations-play-to-win.html interesting article on FFP. Hadn't realised how low our match day revenues were compared to rival clubs. We only generate 1.2 million a match, whereas Spurs with a capacity of 36,000 generate 1.6 million a match. Liverpool generate 1.5 million with a capacity of 45,000.

Get the train from London Bridge to Gatwick or the Gatwick Express from Victoria. Much much cheaper. And quicker from London.

Always remember watching us play at Highbury under Keegan when Arsenal beat us 2-0. They used exactly the same corner routine for each goal - corner to near post, flick on by Steve Bould, someone to then bundle it home. If we can't get it over the first man, maybe we should try this..

Didn't Wenger get a 2 game ban for a very similar thing?

Beardsley or Ginola. I reckon he is better than Ginola. Certainly when it comes to end product.

I don't understand how any professional footballer can fail to beat the first man to the extent that seems to occur. It's baffling - I am sure I could do it when I used to play football, so why can't they? Am I missing something?

yep im tired of seeing him putting his foot over ball while shielding the opponent from the ball with his body and basically just standing on the spot doing it not moving, Ba was guilty of doing the same thing. if you havent got a team mate to pass to, dribble away from your marker and look for a pass, what they did today was just lazy standing there all macho with their foot over the ball shielding, whilst backing into their marker almost like waiting to get spooned. its fair enough if we were winning and needed to waste some time on the corner flag, dont bloody do it when its 0-0 or 0-1 down ffs. You mean trying to hold the ball up and retain possession until teams mates are available for pass or would you prefer he ran down a dead end and lose the ball in a less macho fashion ? what i mean is look up look around team mates arent that far away, try turning, spinning away from your marker, football is pass and move basic stuff unless you're limited. I think if the option was on he or Ba would do that. Villa were closing us down quickly. ba and jonas were doing it for no particular reason, at times they did it when they could see a team mate to pass to, other times instead of beating their man who was on them they simply stopped dribbling, stood there and did that foot over the ball bullshit, lack of fitness perhaps, the jonas and ba of last season would have kept dribbling. Jonas does it week in week out Retain possession and hold the ball up? It's his default play, stand on the ball and shield it. It's fine sometimes, it doesn't make sense when there's no-one to shield it from, just buys the other team time. Cant say ive ever seen him hold the ball up shielding it from no one. Ill have to watch for it. It doesn't actually happen - so you'd be waiting a while.

Have they though? They lost their most promising young player and one of their main goal threats (granted on the decline), and signed Naismith on a free, Pienaar who was already there, and Mirallas (plus a few squad players like us). Not much stronger if any, than us imo. As I said earlier - Everton are being massively overrated by people. Their starting XI really isn't that good.

Everton being massively overrated by most I think. 6th for me - can't see Liverpool and Everton finishing above us.

I still have a feeling something might happen. Not sure why.

Only good things happened when Barton and Nolan questioned the ambition of the club. They left.

This please, since it's now pretty clear NUFC don't do deadline day. We use it to trouser cash Asset strip and pocket the proceeds.

Would love to know how many of the people who are complaining about the lack of transfer activity are the same people who: objected to the sacking of Hughton and predicted a disastrous season for us; complained about Pardew's appointment and predicted a disastrous season for us; complained about the sale of Carroll; stated that selling Nolan and Barton and replacing them the likes of Cabaye would mean a relegation battle; and complained about our style of football last season even when unbeaten for however many games it was. As a quick caveat, I am disappointed we haven't signed additional players. I think everyone is.

That's what I did when I went to Bruges - very easy trip.

It helps to start planning European jaunts..

1 hour in train Pretty regular service as well from what I remember?

Great games for going away. Got to get to at least one of these.

I'm confused. I keep forgetting the groups.

Don't forget the Belgian beer.

Luke Edwards on Carroll: "During my various conversations with people about Andy Carroll's move to West Ham it has been suggested to me that there is a January release clause in the contract the England international has signed with the Hammers. As I understand it any club, not just West Ham, can activate a permanent deal if the asking price is met in the next window. So in theory, Newcastle, if Demba Ba and Papiss Cisse are called up by Senegal for the African Cup of Nations can sign him permanently in the New Year."

Would you get to see much of Naples with their Ultra's out and about? Always dodgy with Italian sides these days I had thought about that - scrub that one then. I'll replace them with Bilbao.

I'd like: Marseille or Lisbon Napoli or Udinese AIK or Rapid Vienna. Purely from wanting to go to those cities, as opposed to a footballing perspective.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9511033/Transfer-deadline-day-live.html His entry at 09.59: "A nasty knee injury to Ryan Taylor, picked up in the 1-0 win over Atromitos in the Europa League on Thursday night, leaves manager Alan Pardew woefully short of naturally left-sided players and he has asked managing director Derek Llambias to pull off a late deal. The Magpies may also fancy Rose, which would put them in direct competition with their local rivals." On second reading, slightly more ambiguous (ie no evidence at all) than I had thought when I initially scanned it.

Luke Edwards seems to think we might be after Danny Rose on loan.

The context is, it seems the club knew Liverpool weren't going to sell him to us a month ago and the whole stuff going on from that has been a smokescreen to keep the fans happy by apparently look like we were interested in him still. That's pretty much undiluted crap.