LabouredSubterfuge
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Good to see Rafa bring his brand of football back to the Prem.
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Yeah he's been really good actually. I am prepared to eat a thousand pounds of crow
Fair result, encouraged by Anderson. If we can play every game with him for 65 minutes and then Scholes for the rest of the game, that would work lovely.
Rooney was poor, Hernandez was a waste of a starting spot I fear. 3 points though, sweet
It would take a January of legends for Newcastle to turn it around. Irrelevant of our injuries, the amount of injured players out that are actually still shit players is pretty impressive.
Pardew ain't gonna switch up the formation so we just gotta deal with it. Or support Middlesbrough/Heracles/move to Dortmund and fud eachothers' bums over Gotze boner pics.
Pardew ain't gonna switch up the formation so we just gotta deal with it. Or support Middlesbrough/Heracles/move to Dortmund and fud eachothers' bums over Gotze boner pics.
Vivalaraza
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Mr. Luchador
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You just keep piling the misery on!
Why did I agree to look in this thread. WHYYY! I think he should be more concerned about outgoing transfers than relegation at the moment!
AndresON777
shooting blanks
In fairness to Rafa, if you take away Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Marin, Sturridge, Moses and Torres he doesn't really have any flair players.
Good 3 points. Could've done better in the final third, we missed Kagawa, would've been ideal for him.
Anderson was great and was good to see him in a midfiled alongside Carrick and Clev. Controlled the game pretty much and defence was great too. Nice to see us not concede too.
Anderson was great and was good to see him in a midfiled alongside Carrick and Clev. Controlled the game pretty much and defence was great too. Nice to see us not concede too.
Me too.
I don't care about outgoing transfers. They deserve better than this.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Grr
Annoyingly, outside of Bale's first 20 minutes, I don't think any of your lot played particularly well.
Totally agree. Walker was good defensively but the rest were poor second half. We got very unsettled from our cheap giveaways and lost our heads. Positive signs for you IMO, Enrique and Sterling were lively but somehow we managed to deflect almost every shot or just do enough to put you off. Not many teams will have luck like we did tonight.
Ahhh you negative nancy. Carrick was pretty good, Anderson was good. We controlled midfield. Just looked shit at the final ball and set pieces. It isn't encouraging, but it certainly isn't doom mongering.
City aren't looking great either. The likelihood is they'll beat us, but you're as bad as Quiche/Kyoufu, you monster.
Frank Lampard's Christmas present from Rafa
Jesus, the way he's playing lately I wouldn't even mind.
There is no way Newcastle will be relegated Kyoufu. I'd be surprised if you finished lower than 11th.
Edit: It's like he's staring into my soul.
Vivalaraza
Member
It wasn't terrible but it wasn't exciting.
Not good enough I'm afraid. I mean I am happy we won and got the CS, but we need to be doing better than that.
He played on Saturday.
Mr. Luchador
Member
You bastard. That's the old reverse jinx!
We looked better with wide players imo, the team needs width. Rooney, RVP, Chicha were too narrow.
Yeah, but that was his first game in the league after starting the first 5 or 6... and he isn't playing in the UCL either. I think he was injured for a bit but is he worth keeping on my team?
Two points off the drop zone.
Behind Liverpool.
Less goals than Reading.
#damn
Agreed, we do, but it wasn't an utterly shit performance outside of Rooney and Hernandez (Cleverley was anonymous as fuck as well). Defense handled Nolan, Collins and Carroll well enough, there was some nice play let down by the final ball, Anderson made a few runs forward and into space which is mind boggling watching United at the moment.
And we're top.
lol, I'm sure people said the same thing in 2008!
No. He looks like he's out of a Beano comic.
Won't happen, but this would be my first choice midfield/strikers:
Anderson - Carrick
Valencia - Kagawa - Rooney
RVP
He played fine on the left in the Ronaldo years, but I just can't see him being put out there. Kagawa will play wide.
PrematureQuiche
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Copenhagen just lost at Brøndby after ET
Wooden is going to be ecstatic!
FootballFan
Member
Hahahahaha
hahahahahahahaha
bahahahahahahah
haha
hah
LOL wow.
I know right. Big team fans eh?
"OMG WE ARE 2 POINTS BEHIND THE LEADERS, MANCINI OUT"
Hey we actually do have gripes man, we're only one point ahead
if only we hadn't lost to spurs and norwich
Vivalaraza
Member
Are you still wholly convinced by what Rodgers is doing?
PrematureQuiche
Member
Would you guys be happy if your team sacked a competent manager to then have two 0-0s in a row! I hope he turns it around but I'm not confident. Also I was just stealing Kyofu's thing!
Benitez is a better manager than Di Matteo. Get that in your head.
He wasn't injured but Sagna came back which set him back a notch in the pecking order. Sagna didn't play against Aston Villa due to fatigue but I wouldn't bet on Jenkinson getting very much time to be honest.
It gets unbearable to be honest.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Exactly, Benitez has won the CL.
Yes.
Away support sung his name at the end, too, suggesting it's somewhat of a consensus.
Our problems aren't his doing (outside of pitting Downing versus Lennon tonight, admittedly), and we're playing some great football. We were undoubtedly the better team tonight at White Heart Lane, a ground we've routinely crumbled at in recent years. Sure, we lost, but that's shit finishing, and that's an issue that existed before he arrived, and one he's declared he wants to turn around.
And La Liga, twice.
Vivalaraza
Member
I wonder what formation we could play against Reading?
Let me draw one out.
DDG
Rafael Ferdinand Evans Evra
Valencia Carrick Scholes Young
Rooney RVP
That is one possibility. In about 5 minutes I will try another one.
Let me draw one out.
DDG
Rafael Ferdinand Evans Evra
Valencia Carrick Scholes Young
Rooney RVP
That is one possibility. In about 5 minutes I will try another one.
PrematureQuiche
Member
He was also the manager of the last team to win La Liga that wasn't Barcelona or Madrid.
:lol all you guys moist as fuck. Just because we're top of the table doesn't mean we can't have legitimate concerns.
As opposed to the four leaf clover that resides in one of Terry's used condom wrappers
Vivalaraza
Member
It's quite strange.
You look at Liverpool's game and you can't really think of one particular issue which is screaming out for attention...apart from just having better and more capable players really.
Must be super frustrating.
Broder Salsa
Banned
I'm about to throw up, fucking disgusting.
And now there's a huge fucking fight, fuck those piss yellow glue sniffers.
And now there's a huge fucking fight, fuck those piss yellow glue sniffers.
Lindegaard
Jones Smalling Wooton Buttner
Cleverley Fletcher Anderson
Powell
Hernandez Welbeck
This one is a good one to use against weaker opposition
FootballFan
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Pep lost his first game for us 1-0 against bloody Numancia. Then drew his second game.
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