Guest ElCid Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I'd go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Wijnaldum Thauvin de Jong Perez Mitrovic I think SMc will go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Colback Sissoko Wijnaldum Thauvin Mitrovic Agree and until McCLaren stops playing both Anita and Colback in midfield then I will continue to say he is not the right man for the job because it is so obvious to see there is no excuse for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 The way we were under pressure against Man Utd for long spells, sadly Arsenal will muller us. It doesn't mean we're not on the up, but it might be a severe beating. Provided we start with the three man midfield and just Anita sitting deep, and obertan is replaced by Thauvin, I think we will be 100 times better. It will be a very good game from us if we do that and we have Mitrovic upfront also. The difference will actually be alarming. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 The way we were under pressure against Man Utd for long spells, sadly Arsenal will muller us. It doesn't mean we're not on the up, but it might be a severe beating. Provided we start with the three man midfield and just Anita sitting deep, and obertan is replaced by Thauvin, I think we will be 100 times better. It will be a very good game from us if we do that and we have Mitrovic upfront also. The difference will actually be alarming. You could be right, at least it's possible. Either way, we're becoming a better team gradually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbo Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I'd go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Wijnaldum Thauvin de Jong Perez Mitrovic I think SMc will go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Colback Sissoko Wijnaldum Thauvin Mitrovic Agree and until McCLaren stops playing both Anita and Colback in midfield then I will continue to say he is not the right man for the job because it is so obvious to see there is no excuse for it. You'll never have a manager that does everything the way you want. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy84 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 just received a lovely email from Steve Black We're evolving things together Dear Andrew, I’m very pleased to be writing to you this week as we look to take the momentum of two positive results into the game with Arsenal this Saturday. As part of Steve McClaren’s new backroom team, I firstly want to say it’s wonderful to be back in the North East, to be home. I’m biased but there is incredible passion for sports here and especially football. It’s in the blood. As a coaching team, we are evolving things within the club together. Steve and I have a great relationship and have known each other for a number of years. He has a good mind but first of all, he’s a good person and that means a lot to me. He’s a very good football coach and importantly, he wants to get better. That drives standards. My role is simply to help people to become better at what they do – to act as a supporter, a catalyst, a mentor, a coach, an advisor. On a day-by-day basis, I work with the players, Steve, the coaches and the medical staff to create a winning environment; an environment of excellence. When I first arrived, I saw a team that had a lot more talent than results suggested. That was my first impression. Another was that if we could get them organised, find out what was driving them and get them motivated – which doesn’t happen overnight, we could move towards creating a probability of success rather than just a possibility. To achieve that, we have been talking to players about their personal quality control and team quality control. We ask what they want to achieve and we talk about how they can go about doing that. We want to create good habits. If you use your time wisely and have quality control that ensures you meet your expectations and ambitions, you can’t go far wrong. You need to do the right things and to do them effectively and efficiently. In my career, I have been fortunate to work across lots of sports and with lots of different athletes. The common theme is that it’s about coaching people. I have an obsessive love of sport but a lot of the messages I want to to convey and questions I ask could be applied in sports, in business, across all sorts. ‘How hard have I worked? How high have my standards been? How eagerly have I interacted? Have I enhanced my standing in the group? Have I enjoyed my work?’ You need to glean from sports science how to treat individual players in a bespoke way and gel that to produce team performances. Ultimately, ‘well done’ is better than ‘well said’. We have to walk the walk and so far, our physical statistics are excellent. We’ve seen a group of people who have awoken their desire. Invariably, great teams show incredible ambition when they’re attacking and unbelievable spirit when they’re defending. Against Manchester United last weekend, when we had the counter attack at the end, it showed incredible ambition at that stage in the game and I was delighted we really went for it. That’s a sign of team ambition manifesting itself. We were sharp, bright, alert, we saw things first and we got there first. We smelled opportunity and threat. We did a lot of things well and over time, that will get better. On Tuesday evening, we wanted to give Northampton the utmost respect in our cup game against them and the best way to show that was to go out there and do a really good, professional job. To show ambition and spirit. As the fans who were there with us on Tuesday will testify, we did that. It’s important that we don’t get carried away in victory or defeat. Our professionalism should transcend that, so straight after the game, our focus turned to Arsenal. We have a general strategy of how we want to play but that has to adjust and adapt to each opponent. We obviously want to accentuate our strengths and our opponents’ weaknesses and we’re now working hard on that ahead of Saturday’s game at wonderful St. James’ Park. I hope to see you there. Steve Black Newcastle United Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 just received a lovely email from Steve Black We're evolving things together Dear Andrew, I’m very pleased to be writing to you this week as we look to take the momentum of two positive results into the game with Arsenal this Saturday. As part of Steve McClaren’s new backroom team, I firstly want to say it’s wonderful to be back in the North East, to be home. I’m biased but there is incredible passion for sports here and especially football. It’s in the blood. As a coaching team, we are evolving things within the club together. Steve and I have a great relationship and have known each other for a number of years. He has a good mind but first of all, he’s a good person and that means a lot to me. He’s a very good football coach and importantly, he wants to get better. That drives standards. My role is simply to help people to become better at what they do – to act as a supporter, a catalyst, a mentor, a coach, an advisor. On a day-by-day basis, I work with the players, Steve, the coaches and the medical staff to create a winning environment; an environment of excellence. When I first arrived, I saw a team that had a lot more talent than results suggested. That was my first impression. Another was that if we could get them organised, find out what was driving them and get them motivated – which doesn’t happen overnight, we could move towards creating a probability of success rather than just a possibility. To achieve that, we have been talking to players about their personal quality control and team quality control. We ask what they want to achieve and we talk about how they can go about doing that. We want to create good habits. If you use your time wisely and have quality control that ensures you meet your expectations and ambitions, you can’t go far wrong. You need to do the right things and to do them effectively and efficiently. In my career, I have been fortunate to work across lots of sports and with lots of different athletes. The common theme is that it’s about coaching people. I have an obsessive love of sport but a lot of the messages I want to to convey and questions I ask could be applied in sports, in business, across all sorts. ‘How hard have I worked? How high have my standards been? How eagerly have I interacted? Have I enhanced my standing in the group? Have I enjoyed my work?’ You need to glean from sports science how to treat individual players in a bespoke way and gel that to produce team performances. Ultimately, ‘well done’ is better than ‘well said’. We have to walk the walk and so far, our physical statistics are excellent. We’ve seen a group of people who have awoken their desire. Invariably, great teams show incredible ambition when they’re attacking and unbelievable spirit when they’re defending. Against Manchester United last weekend, when we had the counter attack at the end, it showed incredible ambition at that stage in the game and I was delighted we really went for it. That’s a sign of team ambition manifesting itself. We were sharp, bright, alert, we saw things first and we got there first. We smelled opportunity and threat. We did a lot of things well and over time, that will get better. On Tuesday evening, we wanted to give Northampton the utmost respect in our cup game against them and the best way to show that was to go out there and do a really good, professional job. To show ambition and spirit. As the fans who were there with us on Tuesday will testify, we did that. It’s important that we don’t get carried away in victory or defeat. Our professionalism should transcend that, so straight after the game, our focus turned to Arsenal. We have a general strategy of how we want to play but that has to adjust and adapt to each opponent. We obviously want to accentuate our strengths and our opponents’ weaknesses and we’re now working hard on that ahead of Saturday’s game at wonderful St. James’ Park. I hope to see you there. Steve Black Newcastle United 'Kin hell. Shakespearean. Authentic knowledge of people dripping off every line. He's lived a bit as well; top bloke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andymc1 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 His son is the landlord of the building I work in. Steve Black has an office in our building and although I've never spoke to him, my manager has and reckons he is spot on. Brought in some signed gear for my gaffers kids etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ElCid Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I'd go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Wijnaldum Thauvin de Jong Perez Mitrovic I think SMc will go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Colback Sissoko Wijnaldum Thauvin Mitrovic Agree and until McCLaren stops playing both Anita and Colback in midfield then I will continue to say he is not the right man for the job because it is so obvious to see there is no excuse for it. You'll never have a manager that does everything the way you want. No a good manager will see totally obvious errors in playing two players who do noting but pass a ball 10 - 15 yards - it's not about what I want it's about totally obvious inefficiencies which standout a mile and are to the detriment of the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 This outfit is light years ahead of Pardew's pack of vaginas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 This outfit is light years ahead of Pardew's pack of vaginas. Depends what one, because Pardew did have better teams on various occasions and if this coaching staff was in charge of them i believe they would have showed it a lot more often. Alas that's the past and i'm quite excited by this group regardless. Edit: Just realised you're on about the coaching staff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I'm usually massively cynical about these emails from the club, but really like that one from Black. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 This outfit is light years ahead of Pardew's pack of vaginas. I wonder what Steve Stone's philosophy was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Steve Black's email there was fucking fantastic. I've posted about him a few times, but his role intrigues me, I bet he absolutely LOVED Wijnaldum's goal (everyone did) but I bet he was praised to no end and shown as an example of desire, passion, and belief. All the stuff he's saying is top-notch, it's all the right stuff I've been taught in various management & leadership courses I've done over the past year for work, I'm chuffed to fucking bits that we finally have that at this club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Great words from Mr Black. Not a single 'bit of magic' in sight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Love it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 He's a good'un is Blackie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 He's the very top level in terms of motivational coaches really, bet he makes the players believe they can run through walls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbo Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 He's the very top level in terms of motivational coaches really, bet he makes the players believe they can run through walls. Taylor probably already believed that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Steve Black @B1ackie 5m5 minutes ago Planning...Plan...Perform...Review...Upgrade Planning...Better Plan...Better Performance...Review etc. leading to better results over time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Neither Mertesaker nor Koscielny trained today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Fucking massively David Brent, that Steve Black stuff IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Neither Mertesaker nor Koscielny trained today If Mitrovic is against this fucking nugget. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozy Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I'd go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Wijnaldum Thauvin de Jong Perez Mitrovic I think SMc will go: Krul Janmaat Mbemba Coloccini Haidara Anita Colback Sissoko Wijnaldum Thauvin Mitrovic Agree and until McCLaren stops playing both Anita and Colback in midfield then I will continue to say he is not the right man for the job because it is so obvious to see there is no excuse for it. You'll never have a manager that does everything the way you want. No a good manager will see totally obvious errors in playing two players who do noting but pass a ball 10 - 15 yards - it's not about what I want it's about totally obvious inefficiencies which standout a mile and are to the detriment of the team. I think you'll find the number 1 thing McClaren wants from his central midfielders is sharp, accurate passing. The way some of these posts bang on they think replacing Colback with Sissoko is going to promote us from 17th to 4th. Get a grip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 f***ing massively David Brent, that Steve Black stuff IMO. Black is whack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Neither Mertesaker nor Koscielny trained today If Mitrovic is against this fucking nugget. Is it a necessity to come through Southampton's academy that you have to look like a smug cunt? http://assets2.lfcimages.com/uploads/0100__3819__a_lallana_10_800X480.jpg http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BlYEEKGCAIU/maxresdefault.jpg http://images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/58/photos/344000/82344.jpg I prefer Liverpool's approach http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/67/285x214/261598_1.jpg http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02396/Gerrard16_2396532b.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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