Leeds v Newcastle

[Jimmy Bone - Superstar 2]

This match is now under way and I think what ever the outcome, it won''t be good for us:

A Leeds win or draw and they will go above us and knock us out of the top 6, a Newcastle win and they will sail off into the distance a clear 13 points ahead of us.

Don''t know what to hope for.

[Rogue Baboon 0]

If Leeds win or its a draw, at least the ''but we are still in the playoffs'' arguments is out of the window

Crazy to think we were 90 seconds away from being 7 points clear of Newcastle just 8 games ago...

[Fuzzar 1,702]

Newcastle one up. The much maligned (on here) Gayle scores again. He''ll be the Champs'' top scorer this season.

[ricardo 7,347]

Newcastle a class above so far. 1 0.

[Rogue Baboon 0]

Oh Dwight Gayle...

What could have been...

[nutty nigel 7,509]

Gayle was only much maligned when we were in for him. Since he went to Newcastle the opposite is true.

Gayle or McCormack?

[Rogue Baboon 0]

Gayle. Would have given us the perfect option last season & is scoring for fun in this league (although when we were in for him wasn''t it 6mil, Newcastle paid 10 mil?)

Of course, it always helps when the goalkeeper gives you the ball a yard out to score...

[Jimmy Bone - Superstar 2]

I think we can already forget about catching Newcastle this season, looks like they will run away with it.

Is there still a chance that if we sort ourselves out we could get the second auto promotion place?

Newcastle away two seasons on the spin looks like it may define our immediate future.

[Indy 3,283]

It is funny how we were so close to beating them, but an experienced manager with tactical awareness made changes and pulled out a victory, something AN lacks, when was the last win from a losing position?

[Crabbycanary3 994]

Ross McCormack''s eyebrows, just sayun.................

[ricardo 7,347]

Leeds much better this half.

[ricardo 7,347]

Oh dear 2 0

[Rogue Baboon 0]

13 goals in 13 games for Gayle now, this is the 13th so could go up...

[City 2nd 191]

They are a different class to NCFC. Shows exactly the lack of ambition shown by our club hierarchy and the manager when Gayle was available to us earlier in the season!

[morty 0]

Do you know, for sure, that Gayle wanted to come to Norwich?

[ec-p 90]

They have shed loads of money and Benitez as manager, more of an attractive proposition than us, alas.

[morty 0]

Why aren''t we Newcastle?

😟

[hogesar 9,618]

Probably the only difficult thing to take from watching this so far is despite Newcastle having a very, very talented squad they seem to be working harder and for each other more so than our players have done in recent games.

Although saying that it''s not realistic that we would have a manager like Benitez at our club!

[morty 0]

[quote user="hogesar"]Probably the only difficult thing to take from watching this so far is despite Newcastle having a very, very talented squad they seem to be working harder and for each other more so than our players have done in recent games.

Although saying that it''s not realistic that we would have a manager like Benitez at our club![/quote]A massive advantage for them, over us, was being able to completely refresh their team. They had the financial resources to clear out the players that got them relegated, we didn''t.

[hogesar 9,618]

Yep. Although we did have the option to make the same decisions they did - they sold players like Sissoko and Wijnaldum to fund refreshing the team.

We had the opportunity to do similar with the likes of Brady and Klose. We chose not to which at the time most fans agreed with but fans agreeing or not is irrelevant to if it was the right decision or not.

[ricardo 7,347]

Leeds have had good opportunities but the ball isn''t bouncing for them in the box.

[Capt. Pants 4,201]

We started the season with essentially a Premier League squad perfectly capable of getting 2nd place. It will take some massive changes to get anywhere near that.

[morty 0]

[quote user="hogesar"]Yep. Although we did have the option to make the same decisions they did - they sold players like Sissoko and Wijnaldum to fund refreshing the team.

We had the opportunity to do similar with the likes of Brady and Klose. We chose not to which at the time most fans agreed with but fans agreeing or not is irrelevant to if it was the right decision or not.[/quote]We''ll never know, obviously, but I thought we did try and get shot of Brady?

[? 0]

We put a £20m price tag on Brady which it seems was too much for teams to pay for him.

[City 2nd 191]

morty wrote the following post at 2016-11-20 6:37 PM:

Do you know, for sure, that Gayle wanted to come to Norwich?

Does it matter - he didn''t and he obviously made the right choice to seek first team football elsewhere.

[morty 0]

[quote user="City 2nd"]morty wrote the following post at 2016-11-20 6:37 PM:

Do you know, for sure, that Gayle wanted to come to Norwich?

Does it matter - he didn''t and he obviously made the right choice to seek first team football elsewhere.[/quote]Good for him!

[City 2nd 191]

morty wrote the following post at 2016-11-20 6:46 PM:

hogesar wrote:

Probably the only difficult thing to take from watching this so far is despite Newcastle having a very, very talented squad they seem to be working harder and for each other more so than our players have done in recent games. Although saying that it''s not realistic that we would have a manager like Benitez at our club!

A massive advantage for them, over us, was being able to completely refresh their team. They had the financial resources to clear out the players that got them relegated, we didn''t.

Didn''t we. How do you know that?

[morty 0]

[quote user="City 2nd"]morty wrote the following post at 2016-11-20 6:46 PM:

hogesar wrote:

Probably the only difficult thing to take from watching this so far is despite Newcastle having a very, very talented squad they seem to be working harder and for each other more so than our players have done in recent games. Although saying that it''s not realistic that we would have a manager like Benitez at our club!

A massive advantage for them, over us, was being able to completely refresh their team. They had the financial resources to clear out the players that got them relegated, we didn''t.

Didn''t we. How do you know that?[/quote]Well we didn''t have the clearout we should have done.And they did.....

[City 2nd 191]

morty wrote the following post at 2016-11-20 7:16 PM:

City 2nd wrote:

morty wrote the following post at 2016-11-20 6:46 PM: hogesar wrote: Probably the only difficult thing to take from watching this so far is despite Newcastle having a very, very talented squad they seem to be working harder and for each other more so than our players have done in recent games. Although saying that it''s not realistic that we would have a manager like Benitez at our club! A massive advantage for them, over us, was being able to completely refresh their team. They had the financial resources to clear out the players that got them relegated, we didn''t. Didn''t we. How do you know that?

Well we didn''t have the clearout we should have done.

And they did.....

Can''t argue with that at all, yep, we should have done, and now it''s biting us on the a**e, but why oh why doesn''t he give our home grown youngsters and the likes of Canos, Thompson who we bought for the future a chance instead of the ever present misfits.

It''s not all about spending billions.

[Jimmy Bone - Superstar 2]

Morty - what would you consider was the claret we should have had - name names