Good morning.
First up, good to see Gazza on the road to Wellville. He’s been there before, but I understand he’s making great progress and the more daft characters football has, the better.
The game itself was tough viewing at times as our formation creaked uneasily as many new players and an unedifying injury list took it’s toll. Add to this the Bar Codes aren’t where they are in the table by luck. They might not quite be ‘The Entertainers’ again, but Pardew has them organised and their desire was impressive enough.
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Highlight of the game was his attempt to smuggle the ball back over the line after their equalizer. If I had to describe that move in word, that word would be ambitious.
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It was all a bit of a struggle. In his defense Toon were at him and this is hardly a settled, cohesive back four, so no calls for his retirement just yet.
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Many are called, some fail to turn up, a few say in a thick French accent, ‘let’s ave it my old son.’ He was well and truly put to the test and by golly I think he just about passed.
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The poor old girl’s legs went and so back to the Guvnor’s swimming pool with our best wishes.
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A hectic day at the office. Considering his last two run outs were worse I’m taking this as gradual improvement and again not calling for him to be chased out the borough by an angry mob with lit torches.
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What I would do is play him in the middle and fit everyone else around him. This is on the basis that he’s apparently worth loads more than any of the others and is really good at playing football.
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Looking every bit like a decent first team player. I particularly liked his show of grit when having a barney with one of their lot. We need more chaps like this who are ‘up for it’ and Jake certainly is that.
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Probably his toughest shift with us yet. What I particularly like is watching him win a ball, tap it forward, look up, forward again and pass. A fantastic signing and without him we’d be in schtuck.
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Another distinctly average performance. I’m bored with this whole crazy right wing business. It’s like the Amstrad vertical record player. I understand it, I just don’t want it.
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So let me just check I have this right. Our most consistent goalscorer and one of our most talented players is a nuisance to accommodate when drawing up the team sheet. Arry, grow a brain and get back to me when you have.
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He’s rock and roll. They were three up on him at stage. Whoever plays with him will score goals and whoever plays against him will have their hands full. Classy, smiley, destroyer.
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A lethal strike followed by an infuriatingly selfish botch job.
Why does Newcastle players run a lot more miles than Spurs is Modric right too question our training. Why did Tiote run a marathon on one of the biggest pitches i have seen along with Colocini Oberton and the rest of Newcastle players. If you learn the reason please inform UKAD then the FA ill hide it. Just like i did three seasons ago and now i can watch a team for five mins and if i see the sines of abuse shit myself and pray we hang on. This is why i wont mark our players against these top up tempo teams. We have bean here before West Brom top three 2-2 at old Trafford Sunderland 3-0 at Chelsea Blackpool 3-1 against Spurs the common denominator is they all plummeted like a stone thrown in a pond i wait for the plop.What you need too do Harry watch the game again and you will see the staggering work rate no training method can develop player you have watched running allover the pitch look at Tiote Oberton Taylor chasing Bale like ther lives depended on it and the manager barking out instruction to keep chasingand thee baying crowd cheering every lung busting run. This is why Newcastle overacheivers are playing like Liverpool did when they finished second and i first learned why so Harry mark our team but when yo have watched the game and you think there miles are all legal then by all means blame Bondy Joe and Harry for our fitness because we where there for the taking with Internationals sapping our midfield’s energy and lazy Vans. I rest my tired mind trying too stop a tide of energy abuse rising by the desperate week from teams desperate too avoid the long relegation battle of top up tempo its going too be hard without our King on is thrown.
Davspurs you clearly are as mad as a box of frogs or the only sane one on here (I haven’t quite figured it out yet), but to finish your weekly drugs warning with “without our King on is thrown” is pure class….I salute you :daumen:
I just want to know where to get the damned stuff?
For your own use or do you plan on standing outside the players entrance and distributing them? They could have done with them on Sunday, Bale looked like he had taken a sedative… :sleeping:
He, He, No, I tried snorting the old mustard, but that just makes you mental and delusional and thinking players would accept playing for a grand a week, you just couldn’t make it up.
Are you perhaps having a dig at someone from the eastern regions of our beautiful isle, possibly an Anglican, maybe even a Spur?
Hartley, are you suggesting that I am religious? What a terrible thing to say I’m much too nice to be religious. :-D
And don’t worry about Numpty76 he couldn’t dig the compost out of flower pot. :lol:
Heaven forbid and perish the thought, (sniff)
Sorry east, predictive text my man. Anglian! Anglian…..Anglian is what I meant….damn this iPad :shifty:
He’s wonderfully consistent is Dav, one day I’ll understand the point but I’m worried that perhaps if I do,it may mean that I too have slipped over the edge?
Dav is consistent if nothing else wish our players were as consistent.He may be on to something and should not be dismissed so lightly by you unbelievers.Ferdinand missed a drugs test because he forgot ….yeah i.m sure he did like he would forget to pick up his pay cheque one year.If you ever go up to the frozen wastelands of the north,you would see such drug abuse as a means of dealing with the stresses of everyday life in the planet of the apes.I have seen Geordie birds snorting a line,drinking red bull and vodka and sucking on a throat lozenge before strutting on the dance floor in their night clubs so maybe their footballers do take substances,i mean look at the greasy haired pisshead Carroll he was monged most of his time off the pitch but could play a fair game for the Geordies even if he is a knob now.
I’m from up north and typing from deepest, darkest Yorkshire at this moment completely drug free…oh I get it davspurs you’re using your “other name” to back your argument up….clever, but isn’t that cheating?
I agree Hartley, I think you could be right about davspurs doing that backing his own argument up thing, how low can you go?
Wow, this mustard is gooood shit, I’m like seeing double treble and it’s like ballistico, Sorry gotta go, there’s a turkey that needs ‘seeing to’, arf! arf!
We weren’t great but a pass, instead of a shot, from Defoe and we win the game.
Lots of positives to be taken: Unbeaten in 5 (3 away) and we have played all of our rivals apart from Chelski. All 3 points are up for grabs in our next run of games too.
Keep the faith. COYS!!
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Taking of Adebayor for Pav was a stupid move. Either leave him on as he put in some good defensive work as well as an outlet or if you take him off surely put in Rose to help out on the wing with a bit of pace and delivery to get a 3rd back and provide defensive cover and putting Bale on the right to Help Walker and thus allowing Modric back in the middle to keep hold of the ball and do what he does best.
Harry is tactically braindead. Bale on the right? Pav for Ade? Modirc on the left? Lviermore on the pitch?
scary (see what I did there?)
Harry cant compare to you mate; you clearly know it all and have managed/coached at the highest level?
You’ll get all the Harry Haters worked up
Harry Haters? Bit emotional that don’t you think old boy? ;-)
Maybe eas but anyone reading this blog would have thought we’d lost.
Did we lose? Did I miss a late toon winner?
Just gonna watch MOTD. Be right back
Three more minutes of injury time and most likely we would have. Toddspur you have to face the reality that we’re not that convincing. It’s a game we should have won – anything else is a failure and it’s two points lost and we’re sixth instead of being fifth.
Eh no i dont have to face it. My glass is always somewhat fuller than most on here. And glad of it.
The weird thing about Bale on the right was how Sky seemed to know he’d be playing there before kick off. (Harry’s big fucking gob?). He’s half the player on the right
Poor walker was clearly struggling and didn’t get tight for the equaliser – Harry should have subbed him really
Once again we see Harry’s limitations – despite lack of personel we still play 442 – no creativity in the centre. Modric should be the first name on the teamsheet and team based around him.
Bale playing on the right wasn’t the problem. Bale having a shocker was.
Wouldn’t ‘Bale playing on the right’ explain why he was ‘having a shocker’?
He started on the right then moved across to the left … where he continued to have a shocker. So the simple answer to your question is ‘no’.
Didn’t see the game as I was out all day Sunday, but thanks for explaining he was displaying the usual Spurs disease i.e. not showing up to play – just how contagious is that disease? :whistle:
‘infuriating’. That’s precisely the word I used yesterday for Defoe, but some berk misread it and called me bigoted.
That was me, and I’ve absolutely no problem with the reply, read your own posts back, and then tell me afterwards from start to finish that you’re not completely bias toward Defoe? Infuriating-Irritating, semantic’s, the reasoning is the same. In fact you actually repeated my view about selfishness and strikers, just ask a certain Mr Greaves or any striker about ‘that’ chance and the answer would be exactly the same, but that’s football.
But Defoe isn’t good enough to be as selfish as he is. Yet another point that’s passed you by.
And it’s not me who is pulling Defoe’s strings. If it were, I’d be pulling the one tagged ‘simple lay off’ a lot more frequently than the one marked ‘belt it as hard as possible’.
So just to recap, before Defoe’s introduction we looked sharp,and were creating chances with Rafa running the show?, well, no we we’re not. Yet almost in an instant, the moment Rafa departed (same v the Goons), the TEAM became far more mobile and creative, or did I invent that? Ade and Defoe work better and are better balanced, selfish or not-Defoe is looking for Ade and vice versa, and you have to make chances to miss them, look again and tell me otherwise
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With hindsight Defoe should have passed and if he had it was probably a goal but he did,nt.In his defence i do think he has looked fitter/sharper this season than in the recent past and i thought he was a bit unlucky not to have scored.In the past i have been a big critic and in my opinion i am still not convinced he will be a regular 20 goals a season but he seems to be trying and has looked dangerous and i think he is out to prove a point and this could cause problems until he settles down.It will be good if he could think quickly and pass or shoot in the correct order most of the time but that seperates great players from good ones.
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Everyone’s a bigot who disagrees with Numpty76. :-D