Loki679

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?

Hopefully Curtis Good can be that later in the season. I think its still too soon from him, I was thinking along the lines of a Tavernier, someone who has played quite a bit on loan but maybe at Championship level. Hope Good does turn out Good like We've come to expect better than that from you, Bimpy. You've not only let yourself down, you've let down the whole board, nay, the whole city with that terrible ending.

yep, making him our attacking coach. He certainly had the footballing brain. That'd be like being the sex ed coach at a nunnery.

Not at all. Hopefully we get kicked out of the FA cup for it. Agreed, we wouldn't want to risk winning something and jeopardising our scintillating premier league charge.

Club are doing half season tickets sales again.

I was thinking a little higher than coach

Hmm, Nobby needs a job, eh?

8:45 pm here, perfect start to saturday night About time the asia side got some love after the thursday and monday night games.

Before we have a distinct style and method of play throughout all levels we need to have one for the first team. The way we focus on stopping and countering the opposition means that we can't have our own distinct way of playing because we play different teams requiring different strategies every game. The number of times we change formation during games is symptomatic of this, we're trying to stifle the other team and nullify their gameplan rather than impose our own upon them. Until this changes we're fucked imo.

Target man? Not what we need imo. His goalscoring record isn't too impressive either, just hope it's bullshit.

Bethy ‏@bethcockburn @adamcampbell_ thanks for visiting my little sister on the intensive care unit today xx Nice guy

Shola for Ben Arfa. Shola. For. Ben Arfa.

I find it's easier just to stay up drinking until kick off. You're nice and rat arsed by the time the game starts so it doesn't seem quite so bad.

Is benny on the left or in the centre?

We're fucked.

Shit, quick, board up Minhosa's house.

Or maybe he heard about Fergie's 'Siege mentality' and got the wrong end of the stick / took it a bit too far. I don't know, the whole thing is fucking nuts and getting weirder by the week.