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Carroll.
King Luis
Number 1
I do think Mitrovic needs time to adjust, but this was a pretty anonymous debut after his ridiculous kicking. Also wasn't convinced by Tiote or Coloccini, although neither have really had a pre-season.
Do think a new forward wouldn't be the worst idea, but Shane Long is not someone I'm always convinced by, and would probably be a club record fee. Although presumably if we signed him it would stop him fecking scoring against us. I do think we need a new defender or two, although Mbemba had an excellent debut.
Carroll.
King Luis
Carroll.
Poe
Haidara looked dodgy and we could do with improvement there/at CB and I agree the subs were very strange.
Perez and Aarons should have been the choice instead of Mitrovic and De Jong, I thought.
Team fell to bits when Anita went off, he was superb today.
Chera
Shola
Also pleased that Newcastle used width today.
K3V0
hammer9
Shola
tbh I thought Southampton would sell Long this summer, now that Rodriguez is back - Obviously they might not want to sell. But if he's available for £10m, might be a better bet than Austin.
On another note - People are still obsessed with our defence, but on the whole Newcastle probably defended better than Southampton. A side that was built on extremely solid defending last year. Admittedly missing Bertrand and Clasie.
Poe
Pelle is rather hard to mark at the best of times so letting him drift into the half space between the full back and centre back is never gonna be a good idea.
If we got a left back in with the quality of Janmaat and another CB to cover when Colo/Mbemba are injured I'd be confident of that.
K3V0
Sam
Here.
King Luis
K3V0
Cheers lad
Sam
Carroll.
K3V0
Jonas
Based Jorge
VP.
Based Jorge
Their attack is miles ahead of the rest, add KDB in the mix and it's ridiculous.
VP.
Maybe, but you're not taking into consideration the fact that WBA are playing like we did yesterday, awful.
Shola
The quality of not marking up properly?
Poe
K3V0
United and Liverpool won, but hardly convincing.
Then City looked strong all over the park, Aguero on the bench and still battered West Brom away.
Jason
It'll be much closer this season.
K3V0
EDIT: Maybe you can't read too much into it as it's the opening day of the season with a long, long way to go, but then again maybe you can. If history repeats it won't be Chelsea or Arsenal winning the Premier League this season.