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  7. Posted

    4 hours ago, Mengo said:

    Anything is possible 🙃 

    Newcastle suffer major survival blow as in-form Kieran Trippier set to undergo surgery. Kieran Trippier is out for at least six weeks with a broken bone in his foot. In a huge blow to Newcastle 's hopes of avoiding relegation, the England full back has snapped his fifth metatarsal in his left foot.

    His fifth! That's a lot of metatarsals to break. And all in his left foot too. He must have delicate ones.  😉

  8. Posted

    On 22/12/2021 at 11:22, The Great Mass Debater said:

     

    You could argue Newcastle would be strengthening us if they gave us £30m for a right back we then used to buy x3 £10m players in vital areas

    Haven't we already tried buying x3 £10m players in vital areas and the evidence so far is that this doesn't help? 

  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, ged in the onion bag said:

    In 2019-2020 the squad that started with so much promise was gradually wittled down to about 10-11 pickable players by the restart!  That number included McLean and Tettey who weren't good enough then, it was all we had.   Our inability (complete failure) to address the central midfield issue since is biting us on the backside again.        Sorry to say we are headed for the same fate again,

    Not enough players of the required quality to compete at the necessary level over 38 games… typically, McLean will play well in perhaps 10 of them, it's not enough, but it means there's ten games at least where he will retain his place and under-perform. Otherwise the only reason he's picked is because there aren't alternatives.

    Rupp looks the better player but isn't much of an upgrade.

    Too many players still young, learning and naturally inconsistent… going to be a struggle, we can but hope….  

    Team for Sunday... 4-4-2

    Krul

    Aaron's, Hanley, Gibson, Williams

    Tzolis /Cantwell, Gilmore, Rupp, Giannoulis

    Idah, Pukki

    ... assumes no Normann or Rashica.    need to be pragmatic, defend well in numbers and look to Idah for balls over the top.

     

    .   

    Pedant alert, but why does Aarons warrant an apostophe but Williams, Tzolis and Giannoulis don't?  😉

  13. Posted

    55 minutes ago, Satriales said:

    It was tough to watch, not enjoyable at all. I was well happy when they got a red card but you have to wonder how we would have played if it was 11v11 the whole game, I actually feel their red card bamboozled our players. 

    Aye; playing ten men doesn't really make it any easier to score, it mainly makes it harder for the other team to. Packed defence, siege mentality, and we couldn't just pile more men forward with gay abandon because Newcastle still had dangerous pacey players on the break. 

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  18. Posted

    All my own thoughts have been expressed already. Like several above, I have had some hope rekindled but ultimately I fear it is a little too late. We've already lost too many of the games we would have aimed to get points from, we've lost too much ground on our relegation rivals and I just don't think there are enough goals in the side. I have no doubt we will score more goals over the next 13 games than we did over the previous 13 and I am sure we will win more than two of them too, but over the piece I don't see it being quite enough. However, I no longer fear we will go down with the lowest ever points tally and I do think we can take it close to the end of the season to maintain excitement throughout the campaign when last time around we all just willed for the misery to end early. 

    However, I am really enjoying watching my team again. I no longer fear every opposition counter attack is going to result in a goal and it's great to see so much more of the play in the opposition's half. If we do go down it is clearly going to be fighting and it feels like we have some pride back. It's still really early days and we could still just be witnessing the fabled New Manager Bounce that can be punctured at any time. If we can keep on improving and if we can find some goals from midfield after the defence has been stabilised and the fighting spirit restored, we could well make it. My fear about the ultimate conclusion is more of a gut feeling and a cautious personality than anything and two or three more decent performances and results could yet convince me that survival is on.

  20. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Petriix said:

    It's not true though. No German started VS Brentford. I can't be bothered to look further back than that, but I'd imagine there were plenty of games with no Germans.

    It states "first 133 games", not every game of his 208-game tenure. I guess 133 games is about three seasons, including cup games. I think Stiepermann, Zimmerman and Trybull were regulars for much of that period. Not sure who our other German nationals were that featured in our first EPL season under Farke? 

    I couldn't say whether the 'fact' is accurate either way. 

  21. Posted

    Do any clubs loan their promising players to other clubs simply because it is a nice thing to do? Surely it is nearly always so they can benefit in some way, shape or form. I don't see how Chelsea doing it is more abhorrent than other clubs. 

  24. Posted

    On 09/09/2021 at 12:02, cornish sam said:

    @OTBC06with the telegraph if you do the cookie selection then refresh the page you can actually stop it once the article is loaded but before the paywall has. It can take a couple of tries but definitely works on Chrome on my phone ..

     

    This is a really useful tip! I never new this and, without this prompt, wouldn't have even entertained the idea it might work.

    Thank you.

  25. Posted

    Like several others, my heart will always tell me we have a chance but my head doesn't quite share the optimism. This is partly because we have too small a sample to draw on. We won't have any real idea until we see how each of the new players fares against established Premier League performers. I am excited by some of our signings but I've rarely actually seen them play. Are they really better than their counterparts in our team from two years ago or do they just look good in highlights reels and in leagues people like me don't watch so much? I'm hopeless at telling how 'good' a player is in isolation so I have no idea how our new lads are likely to perform. 

    I'm excited that we have spent a lot, but remember we took two steps back (Buendia and Skipp) before we could even start to move forwards. Only time will tell whether our new boys function as well or better than those two. 

    I'm one who doesn't get too upbeat nor disheartened. It is all out of my control and my only influence is whatever I can occasionally contribute to crowd noise. I just love to watch it all unfold. To end on a more positive note; I am really excited to see how Tzolis performs this season, regardless of whether we stay up or go down. And if we do go down, I reckon we'll bloody a few more noses along than way than we did last time.

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