AZ Alkmaar vs Newcastle United - Pre match thread

[ElDiablo]

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"As things stand before the game, we do not have to score - and hopefully in the course of the game, we will not have to."

 

Quote from Glenn on BBC site.  *shudders*

[Nobody]

  On 15/03/2007 at 08:18, Northern Monkey said:

This may just be a 'me' thing, but i'm finding myself more nervous about Fridays draw than i am about tonights game. Odd, but true.

if we go through, we HAVE to start at home! Really!

[BottledDog]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:02, ElDiablo said:

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"As things stand before the game, we do not have to score - and hopefully in the course of the game, we will not have to."

 

Quote from Glenn on BBC site.  *shudders*

 

 

Keep the faith my boy. I don't see that there is anything to fear. It's a useless emotion - I don't see why human beings suffer from it.

 

 

 

[Dave]

Not useless at all. Maybe in relation to a football match though.

[Nate]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:02, ElDiablo said:

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"As things stand before the game, we do not have to score - and hopefully in the course of the game, we will not have to."

 

Quote from Glenn on BBC site.  *shudders*

 

Depressing, AZ will have no trouble scoring two. I think we'll need two to progress, nevermind one.

 

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This may just be a 'me' thing, but i'm finding myself more nervous about Fridays draw than i am about tonights game. Odd, but true.

if we go through, we HAVE to start at home! Really!

 

Surely it would be an advantage to play the 2nd leg at home?

[Dave]

Away first is always preferable.

[Nobody]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:18, Nate said:

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"As things stand before the game, we do not have to score - and hopefully in the course of the game, we will not have to."

 

Quote from Glenn on BBC site.  *shudders*

 

Depressing, AZ will have no trouble scoring two. I think we'll need two to progress, nevermind one.

 

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This may just be a 'me' thing, but i'm finding myself more nervous about Fridays draw than i am about tonights game. Odd, but true.

if we go through, we HAVE to start at home! Really!

 

Surely it would be an advantage to play the 2nd leg at home?

Yeees, but I'm in Newcastle when the home-leg is.

[Guest]

Still can't help but think we've over-rated AZ far too much, like Olympiakos 2 years ago. Yes they're doing great in Holland, but Ajax & Feyenoord probably have their worst teams in history. We'll score at least once tonight, and I don't think we'll concede three so all should be good.

[Rich]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:40, Optimistic Nut said:

Still can't help but think we've over-rated AZ far too much, like Olympiakos 2 years ago. Yes they're doing great in Holland, but Ajax & Feyenoord probably have their worst teams in history. We'll score at least once tonight, and I don't think we'll concede three so all should be good.

 

I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly fucking terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

[Guest]

If we lose tonight, the players and manager want f*cking shot put it that way.

[Guest MaartenTheMagicianMartens]

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I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

^^ We played like our worst match of the season versus Newcastle.

 

I just saw some Newcastle supporters in the city, I hope they will still be nice after we beat you tonight.

[Guest smoggeordie]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:49, MaartenTheMagicianMartens said:

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I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

^^ We played like our worst match of the season versus Newcastle.

 

I just saw some Newcastle supporters in the city, I hope they will still be nice after we beat you tonight.

 

They'll be lovely if you beat us 1-0.

[Skirge]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:52, NSG said:

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I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

^^ We played like our worst match of the season versus Newcastle.

 

I just saw some Newcastle supporters in the city, I hope they will still be nice after we beat you tonight.

 

They'll be lovely if you beat us 1-0.

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[CaliMag]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:47, The Janitor said:

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Still can't help but think we've over-rated AZ far too much, like Olympiakos 2 years ago. Yes they're doing great in Holland, but Ajax & Feyenoord probably have their worst teams in history. We'll score at least once tonight, and I don't think we'll concede three so all should be good.

 

I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

Op Nut & The Janitor:

 

Just think about the Birmingham game and try rewritting that.

[Nate]

  On 15/03/2007 at 15:40, CaliMag said:

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Still can't help but think we've over-rated AZ far too much, like Olympiakos 2 years ago. Yes they're doing great in Holland, but Ajax & Feyenoord probably have their worst teams in history. We'll score at least once tonight, and I don't think we'll concede three so all should be good.

 

I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

Op Nut & The Janitor:

 

Just think about the Birmingham game and try rewritting that.

 

Think about the fact that they scored two goals against us, away from home, during what was probaly our best (and their worst) performance of the season too.

[tmonkey]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:47, The Janitor said:

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Still can't help but think we've over-rated AZ far too much, like Olympiakos 2 years ago. Yes they're doing great in Holland, but Ajax & Feyenoord probably have their worst teams in history. We'll score at least once tonight, and I don't think we'll concede three so all should be good.

 

I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

They still managed to pass through us with ease when they did push forward, dominated the game, and had superior movement and linkup play compared to us.

 

Both teams' defences were utter shiite, we had the better individual attacking players and it showed on the night.

 

They certainly are overrated, which is no suprise given that most of their players probably wouldnt be wanted by relegation candidate Premiership sides, but they work well as a team and are able to pass and move, which is more than we can do.

 

Hope its a cracking game tonight, this past month the football has been immense, so many high scoring games with open, attacking football.

[Willow]

Can't wait for the match, we're going to utterly DESTROY THEM

[Mr. Snrub]

I think we'll lose by one goal.

[Parky]

I think they will get two goals, it will come down to us scoring.

[Nobody]

I'm very nervous about this game. Make or break for this season. Hope we can win it, keep us undefeated in Europe this season.

[Beren]

Comfy 2-0 victory for NUFC.

[biggs]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:48, Optimistic Nut said:

If we lose tonight, the players and manager want f*cking shot put it that way.

could not agree more .should hang there head in shame if they do

[shido]

  On 15/03/2007 at 18:31, Parky said:

I think they will get two goals, it will come down to us scoring.

 

I concur

[Guest TheOrder]

  On 15/03/2007 at 14:49, MaartenTheMagicianMartens said:

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I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them.

 

Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus.

 

^^ We played like our worst match of the season versus Newcastle.

 

I just saw some Newcastle supporters in the city, I hope they will still be nice after we beat you tonight.

 

Na, ya ganna gets cutz, aiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[chicago_shearer]

I'd love to think this team were capable of keeping it 0-0 or winning 1-0, but that would be making life easy and that just doesn't happen with Newcaste.