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There was that Chronicle article about him back in November, which reported that he’d engaged his own personal fitness coach as well as a analytics specialist- all on top of the coaching that the club provides. Testament to how invested he was in sorting things out for himself and his hunger to get things right. 
 

That led to that story about how his analytics guy was stumped as to how to get Big Joe to play optimally in Bruce’s system, because he could never figure out what Bruce’s system was!:mackems:

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Convinced his inability infront of goal is all confidence issues. Because for every game that goes he’s looking more and more like a player full of ability. His first games in midfield he was doing so well due to his workrate. But now he’s carrying the ball with confidence in midfield, playing it easy and always getting into positions to help his teammates. Get defensive midfielder next to him and give Bruno some freedom in midfield with Willock coming off the bench and our midfield is a top 8-10 in the league. We’ve gone from one of the worst midfields ever to a potentially top 8 due to this guy. 

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Someone needs to do a video at the end of the season showing his transformation.

 

Starting with all his missed goals, the kicks into the turf, the misplaced passes then Clarks sending off and his emergence into a ball winning midfielder.

 

 

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46 minutes ago, Lazarus said:

Someone needs to do a video at the end of the season showing his transformation.

 

Starting with all his missed goals, the kicks into the turf, the misplaced passes then Clarks sending off and his emergence into a ball winning midfielder.

 

 

I mean, some of his most comical moments in front of goal have came during his renaissance. :lol:

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2 hours ago, Emotic said:

There was that Chronicle article about him back in November, which reported that he’d engaged his own personal fitness coach as well as a analytics specialist- all on top of the coaching that the club provides. Testament to how invested he was in sorting things out for himself and his hunger to get things right. 
 

That led to that story about how his analytics guy was stumped as to how to get Big Joe to play optimally in Bruce’s system, because he could never figure out what Bruce’s system was!:mackems:

 

don’t think I mentioned this at the time (because I didn’t give a shite, tbh). but I seen him running shuttles down the quayside by himself a few months after he first signed, just on a random midweek evening.

 

he’s clearly been working his nuts off to improve and it’s brilliant to see him reaping the rewards. think he’ll score against Brighton and the roof will come off!

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The comparison with Moussa Dembele is quite a good one I think. Joelinton is slightly more on the physical enforcement side than pure technical quality on the ball but they're both players who came to England as wide attackers and struggled with goal output so instead found a niche further back.

 

Howe deserves huge credit for seeing his now very obvious qualities where previously he had seemed a hopeless case.

 

 

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22 hours ago, ponsaelius said:

The comparison with Moussa Dembele is quite a good one I think. Joelinton is slightly more on the physical enforcement side than pure technical quality on the ball but they're both players who came to England as wide attackers and struggled with goal output so instead found a niche further back.

 

Howe deserves huge credit for seeing his now very obvious qualities where previously he had seemed a hopeless case.

 

 

 

Yeah, good comparison but he's got a way to go to get to Dembele's level hasn't he. Dembele was basically impossible to dispossess at his peak, Joelinton still gets caught reasonably often. He can get better though. 

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On 27/02/2022 at 12:28, JeffJ said:


His shot hitting his own face [emoji38]

 

Makes sense now. 

 

Big Joe was setting himself up for a header just like at the weekend. 

 

 

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On 15/11/2021 at 15:08, Unbelievable said:

I'm all for optimism regarding Howe improving players, but I'd be absolutely flabbergasted if Joelinton will be considered anything more than a symbol for Newcastle's failures under Mike Ashley by the time his time runs out at this club like :lol:

 

:joelinton:

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11 hours ago, Thiago said:

Who was the last midfielder we had with his consistent drive from the middle? Moussa Sissoko?

 

Sissoko is the one I would liken him to. Definitely similar attributes and he was never great infront of goal.

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7 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

:joelinton:

 

Wahey, in a sense what I said still holds true :lol:

 

I will hold my hand up: Joelinton looks every bit the 40m Brazilian midfield enforcer any good team needs. On current form I could even see him stick around much longer than many of our other players. Fantastic turnaround of fortunes, and the lad deserves all the credit because he never stopped grafting :clap2:

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