AlanSkÃrare Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Had a shit game like many others. Not worried the slightest about him though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Had a shit game like many others. Not worried the slightest about him though. Same here. I thought Taylor was far worse tbh, got done for the first goal and could easily have conceded a penalty as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Thought he was alright today unlike Taylor who seemed to be playing up to the pantomime villain part. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Good first 5-10 minutes then faded away and had a rough game against Graham ffs. What we know for certain is that he's not physical. Still need to get someone in like Douglas in the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 He was poor, so was Taylor (Taylor was worse actually), but abysmal?, no more so than the rest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I have no confidence in his left foot, yet he seems to insist on using it a lot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammys_Tekkers Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Not too worried about a couple of poor performances tbh, with him coming in midway through the season and in a partnership with a defender you don't speak the same language as is always going to be difficult, reckon he'll be fantastic next season once he's properly settled in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavericknufc Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 He's been caught out a few times recently by being too tight and getting turned easily. Thought Graham caused him lots of problems today, will need to up his game against Lukaku next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 don't mind his wayward passing( obviously prefer is not to be so) but his first few games i was secure in that he just wouldn't get done. today though he was so jittery on the ball and defending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 He was bad, Taylor was worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Thought we had re-signed Bramble without anyone telling me yesterday. Absolutely woeful. Graham tore him a new arsehole. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Thought we had re-signed Bramble without anyone telling me yesterday. Absolutely woeful. Graham tore him a new arsehole. Put things into perspective man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Thought we had re-signed Bramble without anyone telling me yesterday. Absolutely woeful. Graham tore him a new arsehole. Put things into perspective man. Love how you cant even have a bit of a laugh on this forum anymore without people pulling you up on it! Obviously he is way better than Titus, but man was he terrible yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Where the hell were our fullbacks? For two of the goals, they were nowhere to be seen or easily played with. Not good enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Where the hell were our fullbacks? For two of the goals, they were nowhere to be seen or easily played with. Not good enough. We were chasing the game in the second half, hardly surprising if we left gaps at the back as we got more and more desperate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 My dad was in Lisbon when Benfica was over here and he doesn't support Newcastle or anyone except Santos for that matter, but he told me he was shocked at how bad Mbiwa was that day. I obviously told him it was this one performance only, until sunday. Been terrible for couple of matches now but I still think he'll turn out to be one of the best in the league. It's just very obvious now that he's Colo replacement and not a phsyical defender that we'll need to get in the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Won't be the last foreigner to struggle to adapt to the PL. Just a shame we're already reliant on him totally. Same with all the new players. He'll come good though, no doubt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Never really understood why Colo and now Mbiwa always seem to get detailed to mark the big target men. It would have made more sense to me if Taylor was on Graham and Mbiwa stuck to Sessegnon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Never really understood why Colo and now Mbiwa always seem to get detailed to mark the big target men. It would have made more sense to me if Taylor was on Graham and Mbiwa stuck to Sessegnon. More that Colo / Mbiwa always play at left centre back and the manager will not change that. Other managers notice and set up their strikers accordingly, Pardew is seemingly not willing to do anything to counter such situations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Never really understood why Colo and now Mbiwa always seem to get detailed to mark the big target men. It would have made more sense to me if Taylor was on Graham and Mbiwa stuck to Sessegnon. More that Colo / Mbiwa always play at left centre back and the manager will not change that. Other managers notice and set up their strikers accordingly, Pardew is seemingly not willing to do anything to counter such situations. Why am I not surprised? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 You can't do anything about it if Graham decides to just wander off to Mbiwa and stick to him, that's what I was told to do when I played upfront; go and mark the smallest centre back when we don't have the ball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 If Danny Graham is able to bully him I'm genuinely worried, tbh. Lukaku will eat him for some sort of pre-breakfast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 In fairness, it was fairly clear that there was some sort of conversation between Taylor and Mbiwa (possibly at Pardew's instigation) that they should switch when it came to Graham. They just didn't seem to follow up on it particularly well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 The way Graham turned Taylor in the box early on was such bad defending, both cb's weren't good enough yesterday. Like ElDiablo said it's easy for Graham to just stick to Mbiwa and if Taylor goes across with him also it opens up space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Brilliant today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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