BrettNUFC

You don't help yourself like. Not quite sure why those three have been bolded? If hardly did a thing = goal, assist x 2, goal respectively I'd hate to see what players who put in average performance do. 'Hardly did a thing for what they are actually capable of'....Gerrard/Suarez tore Fulham to bits at the weekend and Suarez scored a hatrick prior to playing us, was up agaisnt 10 men agaisnt us for 45 minutes and he got an assist, it was hardly the performance from Suarez that we all know, why was this? Any credit to any of our players for this? Or did he just not really fancy it? I honestly can't remember a single thing Dzeko did in the 90 minutes, just remember him scoring a goal in extra time once his side took the lead. Perhaps they didn't play a their best ever game but to say they hardly did a thing when all 3 had a direct impact on the result is absolutely absurd in my opinion. I've said repeatedly I thought we've done alright/well in all our recent games too but obviously you're incapable of understanding that because you're too busy twisting the truth to fit to fit your own weird agenda where everyone is out to get you but that's irrelevant in this instance. And that's because of our players, right? We enforced that. It's not just one top player not playing excellent, it's a collective bunch over numerous games. This is my point, our players stopped them from playing their best, it's too much of a coincidence these excellent players all come up agaisnt us and struggle in general.

It's the same people looking for the negatives or constructive criticism that want Pardew gone. Everyone else is trying to build our team up for making the oppositon look 'toothless'. You still get people who refuse to accept that our players forced very good sides in looking average. However had we have got thrashed, be sure as hell they would be slagging off the players attitudes and Pardew's tactics. Yet because we won agaisnt top sides, something tells them the opposition musn't have been very good if we beat them when that's credit to our players.

You don't help yourself like. Not quite sure why those three have been bolded? If hardly did a thing = goal, assist x 2, goal respectively I'd hate to see what players who put in average performance do. 'Hardly did a thing for what they are actually capable of'....Gerrard/Suarez tore Fulham to bits at the weekend and Suarez scored a hatrick prior to playing us, was up agaisnt 10 men agaisnt us for 45 minutes and he got an assist, it was hardly the performance from Suarez that we all know, why was this? Any credit to any of our players for this? Or did he just not really fancy it? I honestly can't remember a single thing Dzeko did in the 90 minutes, just remember him scoring a goal in extra time once his side took the lead.

Ok, take him out put Oscar in if you like, or another 20/30 million player Chelsea have in their ranks.

You don't help yourself like. Not quite sure why those three have been bolded?

I have no complaints in the slightest playing defend and counter against the top 6. You don't expect to take anything off them especially away from home and if you manage to grab bonus points off them through negative tactics even if you take a hammering somewhere along the line, i'm fine with that. The next two games are bigger than what Chelsea/Spurs were, we've come out with massive massive credit in those games but we now need to back it up. Be very interesting to see how people react if Pardew and the players do indeed back up their performances. You're exaggerating. We haven't come out of it with massive credit at all. Chelsea's poor performance was discussed at great length and you'd be hard pushed to find a review of the Spurs match that doesn't have an entire section on Krul. We won both games and that's great, but that doesn't mean that we've automatically played well, or won those games in anything like a sustainable way. I'm not being all sad face about it, because you have to find happiness in the victories otherwise you'd go crazy, but how you can think relying upon toothlessness or an amazing performance from your keeper is a solid and sustainable way to get results is beyond me. We could have got thrashed 4-0 in both games and i wouldn't have been all doom and gloom, just like i'm not saying we are going to be top 6 because we beat both of these. The players do deserve massive credit because of their passion, their commitment, their spirit and togetherness as a team. I mentioned it to Venky how people on here can say Liverpool/City/Chelsea/Spurs weren't at their best or didn't turn up but i think 5 games in a row to say that is naive. Our players stopped them from playing their best, they couldn't play to their peak because we harassed them, we were organised and we showed we are a far cry away from the team of last season who would often roll over and teams 3 points when things got tough. And for that they deserve massive credit in turning themselves around and showing they do care for this club after all the nonsense they got last season about clicks in the camp and unrest. What is this? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about here. You wouldn't have been that bothered if we'd lost all games 4-0? We've turned up for 5 games in a row? I don't or can't understand where you're coming from here. It's the ramblings of a mad man. I mean, if we got thrashed 4-0, i wouldn't be saying 'well we are in for a relegation battle' or 'another s*** season ahead'. I would have taken it on the chin and looked at more reasonable games against Norwich and West Brom. We got 6 points which was excellent but they are bonus points because you expect nothing and chances are you could be on the end of a battering, but we weren't. Was meant to say 4 but i mean people criticise Liverpool/City/Chelsea/Spurs for not turning up against us, but it think that's far too much of coincidence. I think we've made them look average or poor. That’s' credit to us. Gerrard/Suarez, Dzeko/Navas, Torres/Mata, Soldado/Eriksen, there's 8 top players there who hardly did a thing against us for what they are actually capable of doing. Why do we look at these and just say they never turned up when we should be crediting our own players for nullifying their threat to a certain degree where they haven't performed to the best of their ability. We are too quick to play down the opposition rather than build our own team up.

Properly baffling, this attitude. Spurs we relied a lot on Krul, of course, but Friedel also made some saves. And anyway, a keeper is as valid a part of a victory as any other player. Against Chelsea we made them look ordinary, restricted them and won fairly comfortably. Nobody is saying it makes us brilliant or as good as those two teams even, but I don't understand the rush to play down two absolutely fantastic results in this way. It's not playing them down, it's correcting Brett on this nonsense about people saying that we should be going toe to toe with these teams and dominating them. No one is saying that, but some are saying that the way that we played against Chelsea and Spurs isn't sustainable, whether they were fantastic results or not. Again, no need to change a correction into an 'outlook' Nobody is saying it's sustainable, man! It's not like we will go to Norwich with a similar attitude, we set up perfectly well agaisnt Chelsea and Spurs and took 6 points. It's credit to Pardew and the players for getting them. No need to dissect the performance and moan because Spurs pinned us in for 45 minutes in the second half, we nullified every threat they had be that with with good defending or top aves it doesn't matter. 5 minutes injury time went up and Spurs were already defeated, they had nothing left to offer that could break us.

Fwiw, had Spurs of scored, i think we would have stepped up and scored again like we did against Villa. I'm not buying the fact had they of scored we would have crumbled and them went on to win.

I have no complaints in the slightest playing defend and counter against the top 6. You don't expect to take anything off them especially away from home and if you manage to grab bonus points off them through negative tactics even if you take a hammering somewhere along the line, i'm fine with that. The next two games are bigger than what Chelsea/Spurs were, we've come out with massive massive credit in those games but we now need to back it up. Be very interesting to see how people react if Pardew and the players do indeed back up their performances. You're exaggerating. We haven't come out of it with massive credit at all. Chelsea's poor performance was discussed at great length and you'd be hard pushed to find a review of the Spurs match that doesn't have an entire section on Krul. We won both games and that's great, but that doesn't mean that we've automatically played well, or won those games in anything like a sustainable way. I'm not being all sad face about it, because you have to find happiness in the victories otherwise you'd go crazy, but how you can think relying upon toothlessness or an amazing performance from your keeper is a solid and sustainable way to get results is beyond me. We could have got thrashed 4-0 in both games and i wouldn't have been all doom and gloom, just like i'm not saying we are going to be top 6 because we beat both of these. The players do deserve massive credit because of their passion, their commitment, their spirit and togetherness as a team. I mentioned it to Venky how people on here can say Liverpool/City/Chelsea/Spurs weren't at their best or didn't turn up but i think 5 games in a row to say that is naive. Our players stopped them from playing their best, they couldn't play to their peak because we harassed them, we were organised and we showed we are a far cry away from the team of last season who would often roll over and teams 3 points when things got tough. And for that they deserve massive credit in turning themselves around and showing they do care for this club after all the nonsense they got last season about clicks in the camp and unrest.

I've no problem with Newcastle being sensible in the wage department, can only be a good thing for our club to have a wage cap. It's more of shame on the likes of QPR who just throw around silly wages on anybody which is bringing the game down. It's about time FA/FIFA worked towards some sort of policy to stop these ridiculous wages getting even more out of hand. How far does it all go before something is put in place?

I have no complaints in the slightest playing defend and counter against the top 6. You don't expect to take anything off them especially away from home and if you manage to grab bonus points off them through negative tactics even if you take a hammering somewhere along the line, i'm fine with that. The next two games are bigger than what Chelsea/Spurs were, we've come out with massive massive credit in those games but we now need to back it up. Be very interesting to see how people react if Pardew and the players do indeed back up their performances. Probably a good time to have an international break actually, prepare ourselves for the different approach needed in these upcoming games. Possibly, also have the feeling now we are in good form you just want to keep going. I love a win on the back of an international break though as your happy about the club for a couple of weeks rather than being depressed looking back at a loss. Norwich got themselves a decent win too at the weekend but West Ham were all over them for 45 minutes, not convinced by them and i fancy us to take 3 points. Be surprised if Ben Arfa isn't recalled, we'll need his creative edge in a agme like this where Norwich park the bus.

I have no complaints in the slightest playing defend and counter against the top 6. You don't expect to take anything off them especially away from home and if you manage to grab bonus points off them through negative tactics even if you take a hammering somewhere along the line, i'm fine with that. The next two games are bigger than what Chelsea/Spurs were, we've come out with massive massive credit in those games but we now need to back it up. Be very interesting to see how people react if Pardew and the players do indeed back up their performances.

Ben Arfa's off every transfer window Don't know why we do it to ourselves. We all know every player has a price and this board have shown unless a big big offer comes in, they won't be leaving.

I don't know why people think we should be controlling games against likes of Chelsea/Spurs. I watched Barca/Betis last night and Betis set up a high line and tried to control the game against Barca, it was suicidal. They had their fair share of possession and created numerous chances but they got beat 4-1. It's good from a neutral point of view seeing a team give it a good go but if you're of an inferior class to the opposition, you should have no qualms with sitting back and soaking up as much pressure as possible, riding your luck and looking to break away when possible to grab a goal. Norwich will do exactly the same to us in a couple of weeks and then it's down to us to prove that we have a different dimension to our game and we aren't just a team who can only defend and counter. It's still a big question mark above our side whether they have it in them as West Ham/Fulham/Hull/Sunderland weren't convincing in the slightest, the next two home games are our acid test so to speak. It's down to Pardew and the players to show us what they are really made of, the next two games could make or break our season.

He blamed tiredness the reason of their late goal on Thursday. He should criticise his teams slow start today but he'll probably praise their comeback and feel unlucky to concede late again. Either way he will be content with their home draw to Stoke. Nee need to actually listen to what Laudrup has to say lads. Brett's got this. Didn't realise the referee had give him such an easy kop out of an excuse. Although he did well to control his emotions and not get a ban from the FA for criticising the officials because in fairness to him it was an awful decision. Even though he was wrong about no Stoke player claiming for the pen, he must have seen Begovic's gloves 10 feet in the air waving around, couldn't have missed them.

He blamed tiredness the reason of their late goal on Thursday. He should criticise his teams slow start today but he'll probably praise their comeback and feel unlucky to concede late again. Either way he will be content with their home draw to Stoke.

Harsh I'm not putting any more money on them! Another late late goal, idiots! At least against Cardiff I knew my fate at a decent time, Thursday and this is just piss taking

Fuck off Laudrup, get sacked you Danish cunt!

Tired are they ? I never mentioned tiredness at any point, Bimps. Europe just made them get off to a sluggish start. Fwiw I still can't see them having a good season. Around 14th ish I reckon. Laudrup deserves praise for his half time team talk. Worked wonders, think he's just making up for losing me money last week, knew I had BTTS and Swansea to win so gave Stoke a little head start.

Was inevitable that. Least they've won my bet this week, well if they hang on!

Was a horrendous comment, like. The only thing they have better than us their manager. With all the extra travelling they will have to do, extra games, their squad was never going to be able to sustain their form of last season whilst we were never going to be as bad as last season.

Brett are you actually 12 ?. They actually are though. In poor form of late Swansea, squad is rather thin. Laudrup got a difficult job on his hands this season. Lost their derby last week, conceded late midweek in Europe, down 2-0 off an awful Stoke side. Things are looking bleak from them. Funnily enough this might be fun, i dont remember who it is on here, but someone quoted them stating 'i'll eat my own s*** if we finish above Swansea' Someone's actually got it as their sig, i think.

Brett are you actually 12 ?. They actually are though. In poor form of late Swansea, squad is rather thin. Laudrup got a difficult job on his hands this season. Lost their derby last week, conceded late midweek in Europe, down 2-0 off an awful Stoke side. Things are looking bleak from them.

Swansea struggling with the Europe like, can't say it's surprised me. Tough times ahead for Laudrup.

This f***ing sentence, man. Is this what some of us have actually become? That's what we mainly did when we finished 5th, just made ourselves a hard team to beat. We are showing signs of that form again. If we come out agaisnt Norwich and play soem nice football, get the 3 points, we will be in a strong position. I think we are improving all the time. You are aware setting up attempting to 'keep it tight' and hoping to sneak a goal out of no where are not the hallmarks of a consistently successful sides? Chelsea won the champions league like that didn't they?