loki679

I don't think there's any chance of going top 8 by January. Yes, we've lost 4 games in a row but look who we were playing. Those are games we should have been picking up points in. Our fixtures in December are horrendous, realistically I can see us getting 5 points from December, maybe 7 if we beat Wigan. If no teams above us collect a single point in December that would put us in 7th by 1 point.

I'm sorry for Ba being Premier League Golden Boot winner is more important to you than us staying up i really am. But don't be so short sighted, there's more to football than just who scores the goals and we are suffering as a team due to Ba being the central figure. It is possible to be a crap team and still have someone scoring goals you know? Darren Bent has made a career out of scoring and dragging teams down with him. At the moment we are a crap team and as long as Ba is the central figure and we restrict the rest of our star players we will remain one. But hey if we go down you can console yourself with Ba's golden boot award. at the bit in bold. You're the most short sighted person on here over this clichéd 4-3-3 nonsense. It's all you've talked about all season. You assume it'll transform us into a wondrous passing and free flowing attacking team but it just won't. Life isn't a computer game. Blaming Ba for managerial ineptness is also hugely short sighted but whatevz innit. You stick with your dreams and fantasies of 4-3-3 and I'll live in the real world of Pardew being an idiot and Ba keeping us in the league. How's that working out so far?

4-4-2 for Ba means Cabaye, HBA, Cisse and Jonas suffer in their game but Ba gets goals. 4-3-3 means the team plays better, we have multiple goalscoring threats and look a much more potent side.

In more ways than one.

There's something wrong with the world if Danny Simpson gets a move to Roma.

According to transferleague.co.uk we've had a net transfer income of £28.65m since Ashley took over

Pointless to think of it in those terms. He has to work with Ashley, and he can't hammer him publicly. Good job. Maybe Mike moved office and didn't tell him.

Missed the boat with Arry Redknapp, a % of players sale sin his contract...thats tight up his cheeky cockney pipe. Good god. It's got to fit in between all the journos tongues tbf, even a single paper sheet contract would be tight.

I don't know actually I've always just seen it put like that so I did too without thinking. Shows how weird this board can be when you just do things like that without even thinking about it.

Might be a but if you put 'Hatem Ben Arfa - Skills + Goals | Newcastle United ' into a popular video sharing site there's a great video.

For me Ba isn't really the problem in that formation though. Playing 2 in the middle has us sitting too deep and when Cabaye and HBA get on the ball (our creative outlets) they're inside our own half and unable to influence the game as they should. In my opinion we either need two play two DMs and Cabaye in an advanced role in front of them and a front 3 or have Tiote sitting deep to protect with Cabaye and another in front of him getting forward, again with a front 3.

I still have a feeling that our failure to strengthen has damaged the morale of some of our players too.

Flatlining.

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I would have thought it would be 'I saw oldtype......'

Solskjaer, Martinez, Garcia, Clarke off the top of my head. Sure there must be more aswell.

HOWAY

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/218/530/wtf_is_this_shit_Very_Disturbing_Childrens_Book_RE_We_dont_say_ampquotGermanampquot_in_America-s400x297-59009.jpg?1324142033 3 defensive midfielders and Jonas. Silly fool is playing for 0-0. Against Stoke. Good luck Dembas, hope you don't expect any service tonight.

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Bimpy still got the new post bug?

Pards shouldn't you be concentrating on finetuning those ground breaking set pieces we'll be using tonight? Nobody has a chance with anything vaguely positive at the minute. Is this what it felt like when you were defending Ashley, Ian? This place has gone to utter s***. Why do you have to defend anyone? Why not just discuss what you think is best for NUFC and forget about 'taking sides'?

This came up a while back aswell and my opinion hasn't changed. I think it's good to have a 2nd tier european competition that the smaller teams can have a realistic chance of winning and doing well in. I do wish they'd stop the CL teams dropping into the europa though.

Obviously it's a factor, you can't prepare for two games at once, no matter who is going to be on the pitch on the night. I would say it depends on how you prepare. That's a bit too vague to argue with, but I can see how it would be much more difficult to work on your approach to a PL game if you're playing a game in Europe in the middle. Well, we've gone over this a few times before so I didn't want to get into it too deeply again but if our training was focused on how we play and not on stopping the opposition it would mitigate the preparation limitations somewhat.

Obviously it's a factor, you can't prepare for two games at once, no matter who is going to be on the pitch on the night. I would say it depends on how you prepare.