ruthers1

You left the word "again" off the end of your thread title

Statistically and with hindsight you''re right, realistically you''re wrong I''m afraid.

Gutted actually. But proven right again, said we were the perennial sequence busters, said I couldn''t see us scoring the 3 goals needed to win a game (even though it was 7 needed in the end!) I''ve said from the word go we''d need to score 3 goals to win ANY game this season because of our shambolic defending. We''re a quarter of the way through now and it''s bang on accurate I''m afraid. Only two wins because we''ve only scored 3 goals twice. Gutted though even so.

Sorry, should''ve read ''Season''s first six pounding''

When will f**k off and die ruthers When you can string a proper sentence together spaz darks

To the fact our defence are a complete joke at premier league level?! I''ve been saying all season we''ll need to score 3 goals to win ANY game because of our keystone cop defending but needing to score how many to beat the bottom team today?!! Embarrassing, no other word for it. Unless we spend £20 million on defenders in January we''re doomed, and even then it may be too late on this evidence.

An utter, utter, utter joke today. Runs around the ''D'' like a headless chicken for their first. Leaves Whittaker isolated for another - leaves the player in twenty yards of space for the fourth - disgusting.

Can''t believe (well I can) that some of you fail to ''get'' what is meant by a ''six-pointer'' - beggars belief on a football forum. In actual fact after the wally with the brolly''s latest assessment that Newcastle''s first 8 games have been nothing more than a pre-season and their season starts for real against us you could argue it''s even bigger than a six-pointer now. Anyway, can''t see us scoring the 3 goals we''ll need to win - as usual hope I''m wrong!!

Newcastle without a win host City - the perennial sequence busters! Despite the fact we always break another team''s run (good or bad) this is still a massive chance for us to win a six-pointer, so early in the season. If we win we''ll be fine this season, draw and we''ll be none the wiser still, but lose it and we''ll be 4 games without a win and smack bang in a relegation fight. Newcastle meanwhile will be cock-a-hoop and rejuvenated. If Carlsberg did 6-pointers...

What a load of p*ss and wind merchants you lot are!! One early goal means nothing (just ask RvW) and I stand by my original assessment that he will NOT be the answer to our striking department''s woefully short goal ratio return. 2 goals from 8 games is nowhere near a good enough return to keep us in this division. That''s what you happy clapping cnuts should be concentrating on tonight. Talk about clutching at straws!

"I''ve seen very little wrong with our defending this year as a team or as individuals" And you''re calling me mentally handicapped?!!!! Nurse! If you need a quick recap watch last Saturday''s MotD on catch up. After our match highlights the experts ran a feature on the terrible goals we''ve given away this season. Mind you Jonathan Pearce wasn''t on the panel ;)

"we have another respected football figure who disagrees with you...now Jonathan Pearce disagrees with you" Lol - Isn''t that what''s known as an oxymoron?! I won''t be wrong until we win a game without needing to score 3 goals. Cry and whinge all you want but that IS a fact.

"You''re a waste of space. Go away." Talking of a waste of space - I wonder how our zonal marking will fare tomorrow?!

"Therefore your ''point'' is totally disproved" Thanks for that but the words strangle and shut up spring to mind: No, the FACT as you put it, is that it isn''t disproved and won''t be unless we manage to win a game 1-0 or 2-1. Not likely.

"Having won two games 3-1, it appears your argument doesn''t hold water" You absolute numbskull. Do you think I can''t count FFS?! For the umpteenth time...when a team are 2 or 3 goals clear opponents tend to give up which has happened in both our wins and proves my point. If we''d have been 3-1 up last week (as we should''ve been) I''d wager West Ham wouldn''t have busted a gut and got their last minute goal and we''d have won - again by courtesy of scoring 3 goals. And before any other equally ''bright'' spark comes on here talking about a 2-0 win also being 2 goals clear - don''t. You''ll be forgetting we give at least one bad goal away every game.

"Well done however for managing to get your home town club,Russell Martin and our strikers into the post.....three of your pet subjects." Leicester''s a City you moronic medler

My pre-season prediction (still on track) of Norwich needing to score a minimum of 3 goals to win ANY premier league game this season will not come under any sort of threat tomorrow afternoon. In fact, with Leicester''s keystone cop defending and our inability to defend dead ball situations I can quite easily see us scoring 3 goals tomorrow and getting beat! With neither team able to defend for toffee I can see this one coming down to who''s got the best strike force. One goal in seven games does not fill me with any confidence I''m afraid. My prediction is 3-4 with Russell Martin scoring at both ends.

"No duds. so far" And no poor goals conceded from set pieces yet" Next.

You still here? No need to take it out on chicken FFS

Does it actually matter if I am the artist formerly known as Smudger? I don''t see how it can. My views are my views are they not? I love the manager and the midfield - I''m just being honest in saying that our attack is Championship standard at best and the defence is weak - containing a muppet for a captain, as nice a guy as he undoubtedly is etc.

"As you have dragged me into this ''original'' meeting it is such a shame that i was not there Smudger." That explains why I''m not in the picture then. It couldn''t have been the inaugural meeting that I attended - it must''ve been a later one that you were at too.

"This must be the forth or fifth time ive looked at this thread thinking ''lets see what people think of M''bokani''.....no such luck. Gonna go cut firewood now. " I don''t blame you. I didn''t take it off topic - I''m just responding to the usual suspects. My whole point on this was that after seeing Mbokani Wednesday night I saw enough to know he isn''t the right acquisition to be solving our goal scoring problems: Now after seeing him again yesterday at the Boleyn in what was obviously a much more competitive contest I have to admit he is a good player - strong, direct and a handful for defences BUT we didn''t acquire him to be any of those things or to be an ''assister'' to lay on goals for others. WE GOT HIM TO SCORE GOALS! And he won''t IMO. Mbo-can''t for me still.

Which one is you? I''m not on either, I would imagine though the M&B social club photo was taken later in the evening after I (and a couple of others by the look of it) had left.

"I''d say the team passed the ''acid test''" "5 games in and at least one sloppy and totally avoidable goal has been conceded in each match" That''s how I opened with this post 2 games ago - Tonight it should read: "7 games in and at least one sloppy and totally avoidable goal has been conceded in each match." So whilst on the face of it a draw at Anfield and at Upton Park look respectable our major Achilles heel is still there. A few weeks ago on here I predicted we would need to score 3 goals in order to win a game in the premier league this season due to our benevolent defending and today John Ruddy has duly obliged to keep that prediction firmly on track. Nothing''s changed I''m afraid.

"Ghost, you''re assuming an intellect that is in fact beyond Ruthers" Lol, let me get this right - you lot are challenging MY intellect?!!! I did go to the original May & Baker social club meet up on Sweetbriar Rd. When I saw for my own eyes the ''intellect'' of my fellow posters at that meeting I was flabbergasted. Jez the Barclay ''King'' or whatever warrior like name he called himself at the time was knee high to a grasshopper and had the handshake of a wet fish! Don''t get me wrong - I knew Tilson was tiresome as dull as dishwater but as for the rest of them...I don''t want to even go there again! Thank goodness in the years that have followed we''ve actually gained some intellect on this forum. The likes of Ricardo, Making Plans even Jimmy Smith at a push have made me persevere in spite of Lappinitup and all the other happy clapping retards.