Guest Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 3 games in, thank God Srnicek improved as time went by. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Sunday night game and there was a fair bit of bother in town! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candi_Hills Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Sunday night game and there was a fair bit of bother in town! I loved that game. Kev’s team were unlucky and their one touch game was better than ours. He really had a unique ability to get average footballers playing great attacking football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 3 games in, thank God Srnicek improved as time went by. Ah bloody hell, i've never seen that season in full since it happened. I'll watch that later. Srnicek was bloody awful at first Just terrible on crosses Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 15 minutes in, I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a worse goalkeeper An incredible list of errors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Yep, he’d have been out of the door midway through the season with social media as it is today. Up to where he got injured and Tommy Wright came in and he’s still no better yet. Roger Tames describing him as, ‘The Controversial Czech’. He was never world-class but turned into a top 8-10 Premier League keeper in the end. Amazing turnaround. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Remember hearing talk of Srnicek's goal kicks going nearly to the other end of the pitch from reserve games as an initial impression. That Man City game, always remember the "There's only one Kevin Keegan" chant (from us) early on, if not at kick-off, blending into "There's only one Bobby Robson" which was perfect and profound. Like 'thanks we love you, but were with Sir Bobby now' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Andy Ansah scoring against us for Southend. Went on the star as Assistant Manager in Sky One’s Dream Team. God we were bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Had no idea that we started that season as favourites to go up too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 3 games in, thank God Srnicek improved as time went by. Ah bloody hell, i've never seen that season in full since it happened. I'll watch that later. Srnicek was bloody awful at first Just terrible on crosses Used to play in tracksuit bottoms when he first arrived as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I still remember being in the Gallowgate corner when David Kelly's shot hit the net in that Portsmouth game. Not sure if I have ever celebrated a NUFC goal as much as that. It came at a point in the game when I had all but accepted that we were heading for the 3rd divison. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Thank you to Disco[/member] for the reference to the Ten out of Ten video. Was great watching that back. Cannot remember that 4-0 cup win against Leicester ! Was the Anglo-Italian mind. Got a lift to it by a mates dad and he was bit keen that we got out early to avoid the rush, pulled a pretend toilet trip and snook back in to catch Mickey Quinn's goal. Later honed the technique to skive whole lessons at school and kill time at work. Few weeks later my art-teacher tutor mocked up a laminated black and white birthday card with Keegan's face superimposed on a figure. Probably the material possession I've had and lost that I most miss now. Gonna watch the Bristol City home-coming match this week. It really was a genuinely messianic feeling that week and that game to a kid just felt like something massive was happening the afternoon after I heard the news and all week. I went to every home game that season including the Anglo Italian Cup games. We played Leicester, Ascoli and Cesena at home in the competition. Ascoli game was mental. David Kelly got sent off for King fu kicking one of their players and I somehow ended up on the pitch during all the chaos immediately after that. Only 9k or so there but it just went crazy. The Cesena match I remember because I took an inflatable hammer with me for some reason and it was confiscated at the turnstile. Was the lowest crowd I've ever been in at SJP (circ 4,600) and I remember a cat just strolling around an almost deserted Gallowgate end during the 2nd half. Pretty sure we played Grimsby in the AI cup as well? Seem to remember being there and sitting down in the away end with fish and chips and Quinny playing. Few months later in May you couldn’t move. :lol: Brilliant. I was up above you in the Gallowgate wing of the Milburn Stand seats. The Leazes wing of the Milburn Stand was the place to be back then. Full of absolute nutcases but they narve made a hell of a racket! It was great in there back then. IIRC in KKs playing days the away fans would be in the end section of the Leazes, on the other side of the vehicle access bit? Sure i can remember a particularly lively atmosphere v Leeds one day. Think we won 2-1. I later got my 1st S/T in the Milburn centre paddock when Ossie was in charge, Around 1991. Not sure if there still was an East and centre paddock by then or it had been made into one big paddock? Back in 1991 the Milburn Paddocks were lettered from A to E. A and B were towards the Gallowgate End and D and E were the other side of the players tunnel towards the Leazes End. C Paddock straddled either side of the tunnel I think. Then the Leazes End was split into 3 Paddocks ( F, G and H, away fans were allocated H Paddock by 1991) and then the Gallowgate was 4 Paddocks (J which was "the corner", K which was "the Scoreboard", L and M, M was known as "the old man's corner"). It was a dump tbh but I just loved the place! Yeah, season ticket in 1991 in D paddock was 56 quid. Pretty sure A and E were general admission Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I still remember being in the Gallowgate corner when David Kelly's shot hit the net in that Portsmouth game. Not sure if I have ever celebrated a NUFC goal as much as that. It came at a point in the game when I had all but accepted that we were heading for the 3rd divison. That day was amazing, the tension in the ground was something I’ve never experienced again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 :lol: Brilliant. I was up above you in the Gallowgate wing of the Milburn Stand seats. The Leazes wing of the Milburn Stand was the place to be back then. Full of absolute nutcases but they narve made a hell of a racket! It was great in there back then. IIRC in KKs playing days the away fans would be in the end section of the Leazes, on the other side of the vehicle access bit? Sure i can remember a particularly lively atmosphere v Leeds one day. Think we won 2-1. I later got my 1st S/T in the Milburn centre paddock when Ossie was in charge, Around 1991. Not sure if there still was an East and centre paddock by then or it had been made into one big paddock? Back in 1991 the Milburn Paddocks were lettered from A to E. A and B were towards the Gallowgate End and D and E were the other side of the players tunnel towards the Leazes End. C Paddock straddled either side of the tunnel I think. Then the Leazes End was split into 3 Paddocks ( F, G and H, away fans were allocated H Paddock by 1991) and then the Gallowgate was 4 Paddocks (J which was "the corner", K which was "the Scoreboard", L and M, M was known as "the old man's corner"). It was a dump tbh but I just loved the place! The one and only thing that I really envied the Mackems for in the 80s was that they had a roof over their home end. If the Gallowgate had a roof in those days the noise coming from it would have been unreal. Thats one of the main reasons I loved going to all of the away games back then as the away end would usually have a cowshed-style roof and the noise we generated in all those games was off the scale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Alan Thompson came through that season, I think there was one or two others who were canny as well. He also signed a couple of forwards who were quite pacy but crap but can't for the life of me remember the names. Gary Brazil maybe, although not sure if that was a Smith signing, but there was another one who's name escapes me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I’ve heard Walker’s name before but honestly can’t remember or remember seeing Gavin Maguire’s name before, that seemed to play a couple of games at centre-back. Commentator says he made a similar cock up against Germany for Wales that week...looking at his Wiki he never played for Wales again. Also a goal we conceded in one of Kilcline’s first games in that video, slowest I’ve literally ever seen a footballer running. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Sunday night game and there was a fair bit of bother in town! 7pm kick off on a Sunday for a Keegan return, mental. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Alan Thompson came through that season, I think there was one or two others who were canny as well. He also signed a couple of forwards who were quite pacy but crap but can't for the life of me remember the names. Gary Brazil maybe, although not sure if that was a Smith signing, but there was another one who's name escapes me. Yeah he did, along with Clark, Watson and Elliott if I remember correctly. Brazil was under Smith, 89ish. Played about 40 games and scored 2-3 goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Alan Thompson came through that season, I think there was one or two others who were canny as well. He also signed a couple of forwards who were quite pacy but crap but can't for the life of me remember the names. Gary Brazil maybe, although not sure if that was a Smith signing, but there was another one who's name escapes me. Yeah he did, along with Clark, Watson and Elliott if I remember correctly. Brazil was under Smith, 89ish. Played about 40 games and scored 2-3 goals Ardiles signed a tall rangy kid who Oliver kept talking up because of his pace ( pace was a real luxury asset for a Newcastle forward in those days!) but can't remember his name. Will have to do a bit of googling. EDIT: found it, Andy Hunt. What a no mark he was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Would 1990-91 and 1991-92 prior to Keegan be the worst the club's been at? Obviously you could suggest now but there might not be a Newcastle United FC if we hadn't have stayed up in 92. Late 70s and early 80s again prior to Keegan must have been awful too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankpingel Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 78 to 81 felt awful from football side but I was there home and away throughout and have some brilliant memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Prior to Keegan arriving in the February, that 91/92 season was incredibly grim. A different kind of grim to that which we are currently experiencing, but exceptionally grim all the same. I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Alan Thompson came through that season, I think there was one or two others who were canny as well. He also signed a couple of forwards who were quite pacy but crap but can't for the life of me remember the names. Gary Brazil maybe, although not sure if that was a Smith signing, but there was another one who's name escapes me. Yeah he did, along with Clark, Watson and Elliott if I remember correctly. Brazil was under Smith, 89ish. Played about 40 games and scored 2-3 goals Ardiles signed a tall rangy kid who Oliver kept talking up because of his pace ( pace was a real luxury asset for a Newcastle forward in those days!) but can't remember his name. Will have to do a bit of googling. EDIT: found it, Andy Hunt. What a no mark he was. Didn't he go on to have an ok-ish career? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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