Ritchie Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Cisse to score off his arse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudil Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 It's got to the point where it doesn't matter who plays as the manager has shown complete inability to get our team to play as a cohesive unit. I miss the days of blind faith going into games where you always had that feeling we could win no matter who we were playing, I find myself expecting to loose most weekends these days. For the record though I hope he proves me wrong and we win.. but I just don't see it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard of Byker Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Debuchy to wang one in with his wanger. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 0-1, or 1-2. Howaaaaaay though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Have no faith or hope whatsoever for today. A point and I'll be extremely happy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudil Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. Aye, aye just saying I think that West Brom team is poor. Our shitness is unquestionable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. Lets not even bother playing it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Can't see us getting owt here, unfortunately. Pardew will set us up for a draw and we will end up losing 2-0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Obviously I hope we win above all else, and will take no delight in us getting beat. However like many I fear I know what's going to happen today. The team Pardew has put out is not far removed from what I'd pick in his position, but where we differ is how we'll utilise the players. He'll go for a rigid formation where we only attack with 3 or 4 men at once, meaning we're predictable and easy to defend against. He'll rely on a moment of genius from one of the front 3 to win us the game or get us a goal rather than pressurising the opposition and getting men forward. Our defence will sit deep whilst we attack, as will our two sitting midfielders. Two. Against fucking WBA. So when we attack, we'll see the following (I've pushed Debuchy up further than Haidara due to his natural predisposition to bomb forward, irrespective of managerial instruction): http://oi36.tinypic.com/2zrl20g.jpg Tbh looking at it, I've probably pushed Taylor and Yanga-Mbiwa further up than Pardew will, he'll have them a good 10 yards further back than that. When any decent, attack-minded manager rather than our incumbent coward would push the defence up, have only one sitting midfielder, and 2 midfielders trying to get into the box with the wide forwards actually offering some width whilst still being in a position to support the attack. If the ball goes wide, the corresponding fullback will be in a good position to overlap. Something like this: http://oi36.tinypic.com/35338z7.jpg I've watched many matches over the last week or 2 involving good attacking teams, and they all push the back line up to half-way and do something like the above. I urge everyone to watch other teams as well. Contrast that with how we play today and it's heartbreaking that we're so negative when we've got such a good team out there. There's a massive difference between attacking with 3-4 players and attacking with 5-6 players in how easy it is to defend against and how many options you give yourself when attacking. Anyway let's hope we somehow sneak a win. Also personally I wouldn't play Perch, though I've no problem with him as such. I'd play Anita instead and drop Sissoko back to DM which I think is his more natural position, with Anita up supporting Cabaye in the AMC roles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. It's hardly fucking Brazil is it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. Lets not even bother playing it Now, now, dear. If we're lucky some individual perfomances will save us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. Lets not even bother playing it Now, now, dear. If we're lucky some individual perfomances will save us. Will some individual performances not cause us to lose it too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyAnth Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 I know it doesn't feel like it after last weekend but we have won games before lads Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 West Brom (4-4-2): Foster; Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Popov; Dorrans, Yacob, Morrison, Brunt; Fortune, Lukaku That's a poor team if we're honest we should have a chance. You're being funny, yeah? If not, Pardew and Sunderland says hello. Lets not even bother playing it Now, now, dear. If we're lucky some individual perfomances will save us. Will some individual performances not cause us to lose it too? Mostly our tactician mastermind in charge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 I know it doesn't feel like it after last weekend but we have won games before lads What is this "winning games" you speak of? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybe_next_year Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 hate whatever i'm watching this on, have had a section on how great Martin O'Neill is followed by an advert for the europa league. rubbing salt in wounds here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Please use the match thread now folks: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,93945.msg0.html#new Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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