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Newcastle Utd 1 - 2 Swansea - 11/17/12 -post-match reaction from page 29


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Utterly horrific once again. Pardews insistence on playing 442 because he doesn't have the bottle to tell Ba to play on the left of a three or f*** off is infuriating.

 

He didn't have to move Ba today which is even more of a puzzle.

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Ba really should have scored that header.

 

Yeah it was a shame he didn't, but you can't expect him to score every match. Our centre backs should be heading in corners or free kicks and our midfielders have enough quality to be score if properly coached to get in and around the box and take a punt. We always seem to end up passing it to Santon/Simpson for a cross or shot or which they are both fairly shite at.

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Ironically at 2-0 down we went beserk and had players roaming about all over the place, Taylor carried the ball 40 yards, ben Arfa was on the left, midfielders were in the box, it was like we were trying to score a goal, which is not like us.

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Going by the 60 minute highlights -

 

Ba had a decent game, but is he really giving us 100%? The determination that got him the goal seemed a bit lacking at other times. He can do better.

 

Anita and Tiote don't look right together. Ironically, despite having two defensive midfield players, the back four was regularly exposed on the break.

 

It looked to me like people are being way too harsh on the young lads. Fergie and Sammy did okay.

 

All in all, the usual problems were there, but I've seen us play worse and win.

 

 

 

 

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Ironically at 2-0 down we went beserk and had players roaming about all over the place, Taylor carried the ball 40 yards, ben Arfa was on the left, midfielders were in the box, it was like we were trying to score a goal, which is not like us.

 

Yeah I recall this. I did wonder at the time whether the players have had a word with each other and said "fuck it, forget what Pardew's told us to do let's just play and try what we can to get a goal".

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Going by the 60 minute highlights -

 

Ba had a decent game, but is he really giving us 100%? The determination that got him the goal seemed a bit lacking at other times. He can do better.

 

Anita and Tiote don't look right together. Ironically, despite having two defensive midfield players, the back four was regularly exposed on the break.

 

It looked to me like people are being way too harsh on the young lads. Fergie and Sammy did okay.

 

All in all, the usual problems were there, but I've seen us play worse and win.

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder why that was?

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I think our goal was the only time we had more than 2 player's in the box from open play and it resulted in a goal.

there was a decent little spell of play in the first half which ended with ferguson crossing for ba and anita and ben arfa had got into the box, i thought it was a good sign of things to come...i was wrong.
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Ironically at 2-0 down we went beserk and had players roaming about all over the place, Taylor carried the ball 40 yards, ben Arfa was on the left, midfielders were in the box, it was like we were trying to score a goal, which is not like us.

 

Yeah I recall this. I did wonder at the time whether the players have had a word with each other and said "f*** it, forget what Pardew's told us to do let's just play and try what we can to get a goal".

 

That's exactly what I thought at the time, like.

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Ironically at 2-0 down we went beserk and had players roaming about all over the place, Taylor carried the ball 40 yards, ben Arfa was on the left, midfielders were in the box, it was like we were trying to score a goal, which is not like us.

it's called "being all over the place", there was no design behind it and was like 8yr olds playing. i'm all for movement, ffs it's my mantra on here, but if we are organised like we were after 2-0 we'll get hammered week in week out.
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