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Needed a better final ball there, ended up passing it nowhere.

Holds on to it for too long, then either passes back to Krul or loses possession. I do wonder why that is. His style of play seems a world away from the simple destroyer of last season.

Moron Humourless gimp.

City look really good, cutting us open almost at will. We'll do well to keep this below three if it carries on like this.

Anyone gutted that was only yellow?

ffs. With our record of coming from behind we might as well just call next goal the winner at kick off and save everyone a lot of time.

Nothing to worry about. Even if we get humped 0-11 we still have a fence and a borehole we can be proud of. TV here has us lining up 4-4-2 btw, hope they're wrong HOWAY!

12:45 kick offs are great. You're all idiots. So there.

Adams was a great defender. Full of spirit, the archetypal 'go through the wall for you' player.

Man, it's so good. Cook all the chips on a baking tray and then grate the cheese on and back in the oven until it's all melted. I used to fucking love that. Give my right ball for some decent oven chips right now.

I know we take the piss but i'm actually quite fond of cheesy chips. McCains oven chips with one of those 200g blocks of cheese grated over it with Heinz tomato sauce.

Oh good, that didn't take long.

It's one of those games where you're not expecting anything at all so even a point will feel like a win. At least we won't have the usual hurt that comes from crushed hope and bitter disappointment.

Lille played Toulouse in their lasthome game so maybe Debuchy, Roux or M'Bengue? Their last home game before that was Valencia when they seem to have played a 2nd string.

So maybe Perch in midfield then? Unless he plays Marveaux at the advanced tip of a midfield 3.

If we assume Tiote will be playing DM then that's our 3 in the middle, just remains to be seen whether HBA makes it. If not I would hope for Marveaux out on the left if Cisse is going to be on the right of the front 3. I think i'd prefer Cisse out on the left though (if we're not going to play Ba there) so him and Marv can cut in like we did playing the 4-3-3 last season. Jonas was on the left. Forgot to add that to the post. Left of the front three?

If we assume Tiote will be playing DM then that's our 3 in the middle, just remains to be seen whether HBA makes it. If not I would hope for Marveaux out on the left if Cisse is going to be on the right of the front 3. I think i'd prefer Cisse out on the left though (if we're not going to play Ba there) so him and Marv can cut in like we did playing the 4-3-3 last season.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/Smileys/Newcastle-Online/dowie.png The fact that only last month he suggested statistics were misleading aside, it is quite concerning that he seems to have such a simplistic view of attacking play, and thinks that more crosses = more goals. How would you quantify chances or getting in positions to potentially create chances then, if asked? That's not the question he was asked. That's not an answer to my question. And one is the other but the other is not so which one is a swan?

Shit, get him, quick. Build a fence around him.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/Smileys/Newcastle-Online/dowie.png The fact that only last month he suggested statistics were misleading aside, it is quite concerning that he seems to have such a simplistic view of attacking play, and thinks that more crosses = more goals. Are we expecting a 30-45% conversion rate from shots on target? Plus the fact that Simmo could float in 500 crosses and we still wouldn't score from them. Quality not quantity please.

I think he will be off at the end of the season. I think he'll be off as soon as someone is willing to pay him a shitload of cash.

So it's got so desperate we've given up on analysing formations, training schedules and team cohesion and regressed to a stone age football fan state where the gods and evil spirits are making us shit?

That's got to be league only as I'm sure he had one season where he played more than 40 games in total. Yes, that's league only. Average of about 17 games a season. The last 3 seasons have been particularly bad and over his whole career he's struggled to do more than 50% of our league games per season.

2003–04 1 2004–05 13 2005–06 12 2006–07 27 2007–08 31 2008–09 27 2009–10 21 2010–11 14 2011–12 14 2012–13 11 Not a great appearance record.

What happened to hithere? Would be good to get his take on this game from a mackem viewpoint. Have they turned a corner or are Reading just shit?