Guest neesy111 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 When have we looked a "bloody good team" at any point this season, other than 2 or 3 games where we've played well on the day? Villa away. Chelsea home. West Ham away. Hull away. Man Utd away. Stoke home. Thats what I'd say were our good wins this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Generally speaking - very few significant transfers in Europe are less than £10 million I would have thought. When did anyone say significant transfer? I was pointing out we paid a decent sum for Anita which for us it was. Fair enough - All I'm getting at is that he wasn't going to be a world beater for that price. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 When have we looked a "bloody good team" at any point this season, other than 2 or 3 games where we've played well on the day? Villa away. Chelsea home. West Ham away. Hull away. Man Utd away. Stoke home. Thats what I'd say were our good wins this season. I wouldn't include Stoke at home, they were the far better side and leading until the sendings off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Generally speaking - very few significant transfers in Europe are less than £10 million I would have thought. And why we have signed no one for nearly 18 months, Ashley isn't willing to spend more than £7m or so. Good players cost decent money and the days of us getting players like Cabaye on the cheap are gone, clubs are wise to us now. I'd defo say thats the case about clubs seeing us coming now. Don't think we'll see much movement from the french market this summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 When have we looked a "bloody good team" at any point this season, other than 2 or 3 games where we've played well on the day? Villa away. Chelsea home. West Ham away. Hull away. Man Utd away. Stoke home. Thats what I'd say were our good wins this season. Palace away was very good, IIRC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Generally speaking - very few significant transfers in Europe are less than £10 million I would have thought. And why we have signed no one for nearly 18 months, Ashley isn't willing to spend more than £7m or so. Good players cost decent money and the days of us getting players like Cabaye on the cheap are gone, clubs are wise to us now. I'd defo say thats the case about clubs seeing us coming now. Don't think we'll see much movement from the french market this summer. Unless we cough up proper dough, which we won't. God it's going to be horrendous this summer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Generally speaking - very few significant transfers in Europe are less than £10 million I would have thought. When did anyone say significant transfer? I was pointing out we paid a decent sum for Anita which for us it was. Fair enough - All I'm getting at is that he wasn't going to be a world beater for that price. Ofcourse not, but he was a good player before we signed him though from what I've read. Actually him joining us seems to have pushed him further out of the international picture if anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 There isn't a team in the league who wouldn't look good against 9-man Stoke tbf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 When have we looked a "bloody good team" at any point this season, other than 2 or 3 games where we've played well on the day? Villa away. Chelsea home. West Ham away. Hull away. Man Utd away. Stoke home. Thats what I'd say were our good wins this season. Palace away was very good, IIRC. Totally forgot about that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 7 or so games out of 34, not bad going Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Chelsea at home was a good 20 minutes out of the 90 tbh. The usual nothingness from our point of view before that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I had dinner at the Masters last night with Guy Roux - just me and a colleague and him and his son who works in golf. Roux is one of the most famous French Managers ever, winning the title with Auxerre. As you guys know, without being a Pardew apologist, I think a lot of the criticism of him is misplaced and that the issue is the owner, lack of investment and a team that has played the second half of the season basically without Cabaye and Remy. With both those players and the same manager, we looked a bloody good team before Christmas. If you ask football people in France and Holland for example, they will tell you that players like Tiote, Anita (yes really), Goffran and Sissoko were not true, top-drawer players when they played in those leagues. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, just trying to be balanced. Despite the above, Guy Roux said that Ben Arfa would always be on his teamsheet before Remy..he also said that Remy will always be injury-prone because of some sort of injury he suffered when he was wrong. He also talked fondly of Laurent Robert, who he managed. Good luck with that. But yes, we do need a major overhaul in midfield, where technically we are really lacking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 When have we looked a "bloody good team" at any point this season, other than 2 or 3 games where we've played well on the day? Villa away. Chelsea home. West Ham away. Hull away. Man Utd away. Stoke home. Thats what I'd say were our good wins this season. I wouldn't include Stoke at home, they were the far better side and leading until the sendings off. Discount Hull as well. We didn't have Cabaye - the entire point of the claim is that we need both to play well and in any other circumstances, it's ok to get murdered. Palace was good too, but I'm not sure about Chelsea at home. Great win but "bloody good team"? We reduced the game to nothing and essentially nicked it with a set piece. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 There were some very decent performances in the first half of the season, there was a point where we looked like we might be going somewhere and a bit of a philosophy was starting to emerge. Then it unravelled and showed it was all built on confidence rather than a consistent plan, it all went to crap, as a result. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I had dinner at the Masters last night with Guy Roux - just me and a colleague and him and his son who works in golf. Roux is one of the most famous French Managers ever, winning the title with Auxerre. As you guys know, without being a Pardew apologist, I think a lot of the criticism of him is misplaced and that the issue is the owner, lack of investment and a team that has played the second half of the season basically without Cabaye and Remy. With both those players and the same manager, we looked a bloody good team before Christmas. If you ask football people in France and Holland for example, they will tell you that players like Tiote, Anita (yes really), Goffran and Sissoko were not true, top-drawer players when they played in those leagues. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, just trying to be balanced. Despite the above, Guy Roux said that Ben Arfa would always be on his teamsheet before Remy..he also said that Remy will always be injury-prone because of some sort of injury he suffered when he was wrong. He also talked fondly of Laurent Robert, who he managed. Good luck with that. But yes, we do need a major overhaul in midfield, where technically we are really lacking. How did you think the 3-5-2 went yesterday btw? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Should remember it isn't just the results that are being reflected in people's opinions: It's the complete negative tactics we seem to employ in most games, nick and goal and then sitback. Our utter inability to come back from behind when losing at HT. Our woeful set piece routine. Players being picked out of position and having clear grudges against players. His inability in recent weeks to motivate players. Ridiculous amount of batterings under his tenure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I had dinner at the Masters last night with Guy Roux - just me and a colleague and him and his son who works in golf. Roux is one of the most famous French Managers ever, winning the title with Auxerre. As you guys know, without being a Pardew apologist, I think a lot of the criticism of him is misplaced and that the issue is the owner, lack of investment and a team that has played the second half of the season basically without Cabaye and Remy. With both those players and the same manager, we looked a bloody good team before Christmas. If you ask football people in France and Holland for example, they will tell you that players like Tiote, Anita (yes really), Goffran and Sissoko were not true, top-drawer players when they played in those leagues. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, just trying to be balanced. Despite the above, Guy Roux said that Ben Arfa would always be on his teamsheet before Remy..he also said that Remy will always be injury-prone because of some sort of injury he suffered when he was wrong. He also talked fondly of Laurent Robert, who he managed. Good luck with that. But yes, we do need a major overhaul in midfield, where technically we are really lacking. and what about defensively where we have been terrible ever since Pardew joined, and dont give me the old bollocks about usually being ok. The goals against under Pardew is embarrassing and has been from day one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I had dinner at the Masters last night with Guy Roux - just me and a colleague and him and his son who works in golf. Roux is one of the most famous French Managers ever, winning the title with Auxerre. As you guys know, without being a Pardew apologist, I think a lot of the criticism of him is misplaced and that the issue is the owner, lack of investment and a team that has played the second half of the season basically without Cabaye and Remy. With both those players and the same manager, we looked a bloody good team before Christmas. If you ask football people in France and Holland for example, they will tell you that players like Tiote, Anita (yes really), Goffran and Sissoko were not true, top-drawer players when they played in those leagues. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, just trying to be balanced. Despite the above, Guy Roux said that Ben Arfa would always be on his teamsheet before Remy..he also said that Remy will always be injury-prone because of some sort of injury he suffered when he was wrong. He also talked fondly of Laurent Robert, who he managed. I don't know what job you have, but I'd quite like it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Generally speaking - very few significant transfers in Europe are less than £10 million I would have thought. When did anyone say significant transfer? I was pointing out we paid a decent sum for Anita which for us it was. Fair enough - All I'm getting at is that he wasn't going to be a world beater for that price. Only £700k more than Altidore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I had dinner at the Masters last night with Guy Roux - just me and a colleague and him and his son who works in golf. Roux is one of the most famous French Managers ever, winning the title with Auxerre. As you guys know, without being a Pardew apologist, I think a lot of the criticism of him is misplaced and that the issue is the owner, lack of investment and a team that has played the second half of the season basically without Cabaye and Remy. With both those players and the same manager, we looked a bloody good team before Christmas. If you ask football people in France and Holland for example, they will tell you that players like Tiote, Anita (yes really), Goffran and Sissoko were not true, top-drawer players when they played in those leagues. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, just trying to be balanced. Despite the above, Guy Roux said that Ben Arfa would always be on his teamsheet before Remy..he also said that Remy will always be injury-prone because of some sort of injury he suffered when he was wrong. He also talked fondly of Laurent Robert, who he managed. Golfy, I find it completely bizarre that you marry these opinions up knowing full well that Pardew earns his coin by reducing costs and helping Ashley sell our best players for profit. He signed the contract full in the knowledge that this was the case, and more than willing to do these things. The thing I often hear in the press is that he "has his hands tied" - he tied them himself by going into NUFC with his eyes wide open. He's not just complicit, but actively hands-on (blatantly obvious from how often his interviews are just him publicly begging for clubs to come in for our best players). You know this better than anyone, yet you're always first to claim how hard done by he is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tachikoma Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 There you have it, Tiote, Anita, Gouffran and Sissoko not top drawer players - a secret known only to the Dutch and French. On the same token, they're hardly players you'd expect to see in a team always in danger of relegation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I had dinner at the Masters last night with Guy Roux - just me and a colleague and him and his son who works in golf. Roux is one of the most famous French Managers ever, winning the title with Auxerre. As you guys know, without being a Pardew apologist, I think a lot of the criticism of him is misplaced and that the issue is the owner, lack of investment and a team that has played the second half of the season basically without Cabaye and Remy. With both those players and the same manager, we looked a bloody good team before Christmas. If you ask football people in France and Holland for example, they will tell you that players like Tiote, Anita (yes really), Goffran and Sissoko were not true, top-drawer players when they played in those leagues. Anyway, didn't mean to rant, just trying to be balanced. Despite the above, Guy Roux said that Ben Arfa would always be on his teamsheet before Remy..he also said that Remy will always be injury-prone because of some sort of injury he suffered when he was wrong. He also talked fondly of Laurent Robert, who he managed. I'm sure Roux knows his stuff about football at a high level but I doubt he's seen Newcastle play much so I'm not really sure how he could judge a Pardew team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 We all know we don't have a team full of world beaters but we shouldn't be getting tonked each game either, that's inexcusable. It also doesn't force him into starting Shola. That in itself is an offence worthy of the sack in my book. There's also the headbutt. I suppose Ashley tied his hands and caused all of that, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 There's also the headbutt. I suppose Ashley tied his hands and caused all of that, too. Local press caused science to do that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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