Zog - Comments

Lewa, Gomez, Mandzukic - a third choice forward from that group.

Baffling.

It's hard to say how negative we set out to be with Newcastle conceding the early goal, but the side wasn't actually that negative. Cabaye was pushed high up and Perch was about in the normal CM position. It wasn't any more negative than when Newcastle went on that great run last year with Jonas, Tiote and Cabaye as a trio. And more attacking than when we went on a good run early last year when we barely conceded any goals.

The main problem at Newcastle at the moment is an inbalanced squad. if we do go with a variation of a 4-3-3 we either need incisive wingers who can score/get in the final third, or CM's to get in the box to support Cisse and at the moment we are doing neither.

We've lost HBA and Demba Ba from the wings since last season. Gouffran and Marveaux are good players and tidy in possession but neither of them are particularly dangerous in the final third, nor is Jonas. And none of our central midfielders are comfortable getting into the box, meaning our main attack is balls in from the wing with Cisse up against four or so defenders in the box.

-I'm annoyed at the crowd because I reckon if they would relax, the performances might actually come and we would be a good 5 or 6 points better off.

- Booing someone after their first bad cross/shot/through ball is counter-productive, when it normally leads to players then being reluctant to put in another cross/shot/through ball.

What team would you select vs West Ham next weekend?

------------------------Cisse
Marveaux-Cabaye-Perch-Jonas-Gouffran

Or could return to a 4-4-2 with Perch and Cabaye deep.

----------Cisse-Gouffran
Jonas-Cabaye-Perch-Obertan

Well Pardew did put on two wingers at half time and Newcastle conceded four. And Newcastle had more possession than Liverpool. My point is the crowd are against the double pivot as a matter of principle. I can see why Pardew did it, to try and free Yohan Cabaye.

Because the fans start negative and it seeps to the players.
Today the negativity started before kick off when it was announced Newcastle would play two holding midfielders. At home. The shock, the horror. Heresy. In a week when Bayern and Dortmund both played the double pivot and both won with big margins.

as a first time author you have very little influence on the title of the book anyway. If they dont like it they change it. Its not that it is your decision.

Hoofing the ball aimlessly at a target man has not worked for the past 60 years, why should it work now? And we're not going to beat Spain and Italy hoofing it either.

Carroll was crap in the second half as he was the first, his 'unlucky' shot was easily covered by De Gea, he was dominated in the air by Vidic and if Probert had anything about him he would have been off well before that. His defensive clearance was decent, but he shouldn't have been on the pitch at that point.

He won one key header, against Evra on the back post, is English football still so far in the stone ages that the fact he's close to 20cm taller than someone makes him a good player?

Nah, he's a huge international liability. He never will get away with the stray elbows, thuggery and 'getting himself involved' that he does in the Premier League. A European ref would have had him off before the incident which he was actually booked for (which ironically, was the softest one of the lot), that's ignoring the fact that unless you play to the specific style that West Ham do he's a gigantic waste of space.

Do you really want players like Jack Wilshere hoofing the ball up the pitch for a caveman to win knockdowns? We've better players than that, we can play better football than that.

If we have to have a target man I'd much rather Lambert, not only because he's scored a ton more goals than Carroll but because he's actually showed under Pochettino that he has some technical ability.

They will when he's back in the England team on the back of it.

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They have been done to death as well tbh.

JCash3000 is the ultimate faggot.

they all look the same, has become one of the more boring genres. Id rather play Rambo 1st blood part 2 on the Commodore 64.