Coffee_Johnny

May seem daft, but having an array of top quality players competing for two (or on occasion three) CB positions may be easier to manage if you accept that one or two are going to miss a few games (hopefully not all at once and for long periods). It may always be better than having a couple of indestructible cart horses as back-ups.

We’ll get them too. Think there is a definite, and sensible, plan of getting good, potentially great, players if and when we can.

Maybe. I mean I know it’s Cat(t)s for you, like. But Keegan and Clark dream team for me.

I’d be delighted with both 🤷‍♂️

Quite liking the unpaid ambassador advocate role he does anyway.

Ah man, Kaka man! I’ve done it again. Watch the highlights on someone tenuously linked and now feel like we absolutely have to get him. Quick, strong, tenacious, good feet, athletic/fit, can use his swinger/left. He’d be a great option for us. He also looked the same (if not better) and completely unfazed in the Euros.

Gordon and Elanga are off to Saudi accompanied by a hen party from the Amsterdam Temperance Society. I think 🤷‍♂️

It’s a slippery slope, man! (Welcome back)

Think this was the bleach-blonde really proactive wide player (right footed, think he played on right but normally plays on left side) who was one of my personal ‘who could we sign’ stand outs from Euros. Seems so long ago!

Just took much longer to get the ball forward. Batty was brilliant at what he did, however a consequence of that was me often sitting thinking stuff like: ‘have they (opposition) got all their players back behind the ball? Nope not quite yet, any second now, ok now he releases it.’ Felt like what we gained in solidity we lost in rapid attacks.

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One of Gateshead’s finest. Loved Carroll when he was with us. Kind of centre forward I would have liked to be—similar physical attributes (and home town) but I couldn’t head the ball for toffee! despite my first Newcastle hero being (oddly perhaps…) Alan Gowling. I wonder where Carroll sits in list of best ever players from Gateshead? Probably a short list at the very top level, but others that spring to mind, Gascoigne, Waddle, Hunter, Stone, Hutchinson.

Some absolute belters there mind!

Did they appear in Cheers?

Well they’re all important attributes in a player but ‘talent’, to me, infers a high level of a learned skill.