ponsaelius Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Every team has 4 centre backs. That is not covering for a freak run. It's having a squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Every team has 4 centre backs. That is not covering for a freak run. It's having a squad. I wouldn't be sure they do, some may have 6 but short elsewhere, some will have 4 but ones a kid, some will have a Janmaat/Dummet style player who can play across the back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Janmaat was never a comfortable centre half in a million years. Neither was Perch when he assumed that role. We have been massively short at CB in years, both in terms of quality and certainly in terms of depth. Brighton, our closest rivals in this league, have 4 - Dunk, Duffy, Hunemeier, Goldson. You'd struggle to find many teams anywhere who don't have 4 competent and natural centre halves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Janmaat was never a comfortable centre half in a million years. Neither was Perch when he assumed that role. We have been massively short at CB in years, both in terms of quality and certainly in terms of depth. Brighton, our closest rivals in this league, have 4 - Dunk, Duffy, Hunemeier, Goldson. You'd struggle to find many teams anywhere who don't have 4 competent and natural centre halves. But we have that everywhere, All I 'm getting at is that at this level we could maybe have done without Hanley, Murphy and Gamez and got more developers, Lascelles types that are more likely to serve us as much now AND the future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Perhaps, yes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Baffles me how anyone can think Murphy is a pointless signing like. Gayle gets injured and we had Mitrovic and Perez, one of them who isn't even a natural striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Can't quibble with signing a couple of experienced heads though, we couldn't have known that everything was going to go this well. Even Clark was probably meant to be backup. I'd rather have signings we don't end up needing than a threadbare squad like every other season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Can't quibble with signing a couple of experienced heads though, we couldn't have known that everything was going to go this well. Even Clark was probably meant to be backup. I'd rather have signings we don't end up needing than a threadbare squad like every other season. I love making pointless posts to simply agree with something a poster has said. Spot on, and thanks for giving me the opportunity How's your day Ian mate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Every team has 4 centre backs. That is not covering for a freak run. It's having a squad. We officially had 4 last year tbf. (Coloccini, Mbemba, Taylor, Lascelles). Two of them should never have been anywhere near us by this point though as they a) weren't good enough anymore and b) we knew about their injury records by that point. Still don't think Dummett is a CB but he could at least do a job there in an emergency. I think in terms of next season, Clark is a good replacement for Taylor, we need a new senior CB to replace Coloccini though. I wouldn't be surprised though if Mbemba gets itchy feet if he's not first choice and leaves and Hanley stays on as 4th choice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I can't see Mbemba staying, I have it on fairly good authority that he wanted away at the end of last season. Not sure Benitez rates him anyway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 https://www.nufc.co.uk/nufc-tv/latest-videos/benitezs-pre-sheff-wed-h-media-briefing-16-17 Smiling throughout the entire press conference That bit about the kick off times in Spain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Walnuts Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 This bloke Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
louistoon Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Baffles me how anyone can think Murphy is a pointless signing like. Gayle gets injured and we had Mitrovic and Perez, one of them who isn't even a natural striker. Perez scored 20 goals in the spanish second division. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 NUFCTV free now? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 NUFCTV free now? It is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Baffles me how anyone can think Murphy is a pointless signing like. Gayle gets injured and we had Mitrovic and Perez, one of them who isn't even a natural striker. Perez scored 20 goals in the spanish second division. Spanish 2nd division is completely different to the championship though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
louistoon Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Baffles me how anyone can think Murphy is a pointless signing like. Gayle gets injured and we had Mitrovic and Perez, one of them who isn't even a natural striker. Perez scored 20 goals in the spanish second division. Spanish 2nd division is completely different to the championship though. Even so if he scored 20 in a season I wouldn't say that he isn't a natural striker. Maybe not suited to this country but he can clearly score goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Problem with Perez playing as a striker is any CB worth their salt in this league or higher will mark him out of the game with ease. Rafa knows he isn't a no.9, anyway, so we won't be seeing him there anytime soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 That's the problem with him really. He isn't a no. 9, isn't really creative enough to be a no. 10 and isn't a wide man so what do you do with him? He's kind of become one of those players that, while talented, doesn't really fit in any role you'd want to play him in. Jack of all trades if you will. It's a shame because when he first arrived you thought he was gonna be a star. Full of tricks and turns, beating his man and squeezing out of trouble. He's got a good finish too but it's looked for a while now like he's just going through the motions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 He scored 16 goals that year like not 20 (according to wiki), and won an award for the Segunda's 'best Attacking Midfielder', not sure he even played right up top for Tenerife but I'm just going off the limmited info we have. In any case I think his finishing is one of the best in the squad, hence him being able to do a job up there, but he's never looked like a striker for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 He shows a brief piece of talent every so often, but for the remaining time he is pretty useless. Really thought he was great for the first half of the first season we had him, but over the course of his NUFC career he has been pretty dire other than those very infrequent pieces of magic. Wouldn't be shocked to see him sold because he doesn't really offer us anything now and we could easily replace him with someone better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Wonder if we'll see a spate of babies named Rafa if we win the league, like the Kevins and Keegans in their early twenties who are dotted around Tyneside? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Awful at home yet again. He can stick his 4-2-3-1 at home up his arse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Awful at home yet again. He can stick his 4-2-3-1 at home up his arse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Why isn't Yedlin starting every home game? Anita is absolutely shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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