Newcastle (A) | Wed 27th Sept | EFL Cup | Post Match Thread

[pauls]

Sky has been going down the nick for the last 3 years, full of absolute balloons.

They knew but doesn't suit the agenda.One question to ANYBODY moaning on this forum, League or Carabao ? all the team will be in Saudi w/c 18Dec we cannot be in two places at once and the League won't move it, same applied to Liverpool in 2019

 

[john blue]

Are you on the wind up?

got the touch of a blacksmith.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

I would have turned to him and quietly said “No, I wasn't a supporter in the 70s. I was a supporter in the 60s.”
In any case, is he suggesting that there are no new Newcastle fans in the last ten years? Or since the takeover? And would he not therefore welcome them?
I should bloody well hope City has got new fans over the last fifteen years or so. When I look around me in the SS, I see too many grey heads (like mine!). Worries me…
And I should hope, for the sake of his club, that it has acquired new and young fans too.

In the seventies we were a regular top four/six club with 35-40,000 crowds only a handful of clubs had bigger gates.
Even in the 80's Newcastle regularly played in front of sub 20.000 crowds whilst we were struggling in the old 2nd division and in the same period and attracting nearer 30,000 crowds , its just the myth about Geordies and their passionate fan base , its a load of bollocks. But if you tell a lie often enough some daft tw*ts will believe it.

Newcastle is a big City with ONE football club , we have to compete with the self proclaimed biggest club in the world in our city when the Rags were winning everything ,so credit where credit is due it would have been far easier for our fans going to go and support a succesful Rag team and desert our club but we didnt , where as Newcastle have a captive audience unless you class South Shields as an alternative !!!

 

[TheBlueCat]

Your point was to jump on my post and call it bollocks without any resemblance of a counter argument other than we where weak as piss, I wasn’t expecting university challenge, but by the Christ that was basic….You saw the line up, no Dias Stones Walker Rodri Haaland, all physical specimens that won’t be knocked about, this team had Bobb Lewis & Gomez in it, hardly players you’d go to war with, Newcastle realised they couldn’t win a football match & turned it into something else for ten minutes, and fair doos got a result, You won’t hear me calling our young lads out for not being able to mix it with some of those Newcastle thugs, but if you can back your argument with something other than weak as piss I’ll listen ?

Good point

 

[Revolver]

If we win at Wolves this game should be a footnote. Hate City losing and I like the Carabao Cup but if we had to lose a game this was the one to do so. We had our leaders and main striker on the bench. Is that as team desperate to win? We cannot win every game.

So to Saturday. Now that is a game that matters.

 

[SheeshKebab]

Don't really like moaning at games when we lose as it's that rare but god, that refereeing performance was one of the worst I've seen for a while. Called so many wrong challenges and looked like he wanted to avoid carding any Newcastle player. Seen some stat on Sky Sports as well when Doku had literally just stepped foot on the pitch and they put 'Fewest touches' stat on there and obviously he was leading it after a minute on the pitch. You'd think they would try harder to hide that deep hatred of us wouldn't you.

 

[bernard o'silver]

Hats off to every blue who travelled. That turnip Newcastle fan who butted in at the start saying where were the City fans in the 70s? Cheap, pathetic jibe. I recall a few jaunts up North to watch some very tight games across that decade and, just maybe a minor match at Wemberley in 1976 slipped his fuddled memory.

Turnip is being kind , it didn't take long but a quick search on t'interweb shows City had a better average crowd than Newcastle in the seventies for 8 of the 10 seasons . I know because I was one of them ! City att. First
70/71 32720 , 29785.
71/72 38573 , 32664
72/73 32351 , 27989
73/74 30756 , 32861
74/75 32898 , 34614
75/76 34280 , 33060
76/77 40058 , 33599
77/78 41687 , 24729
78/79 36203 , 20494
79/80 35272 , 23345
This in a time when the capacity of Maine Road and St.James was over 50K so the figures are not affected by this . As always , the myth is portrayed in the media that the Geordies are fantastic fans and always have been (some of their average attendances slipped below 20K in the 80's) and we have no fans , the turnip then regurgitates . I appreciate there were circumstances that led to lower attendance in the 80s such as high unemployment in the north of england and rampant hooliganism being amongst them . I'm not advocating that the Geordie support is rubbish at all . I just wish that the facts were presented instead of the usual bullshit.

Im sure Gary James will correct me if the figures are incorrect !

 

[ballbag]

Sky has been going down the nick for the last 3 years, full of absolute balloons.

Just before half time the commentators mentioned that Newcastle had just had their first touch in the city area in half an hour. They said you could have watched Emmerdale and tuned back in and you wouldn't have missed anything. Not like we were dominating the game and having chances throughout that first half.

Again, why would anyone pay these cunts their money?

 

[Norbert D]

Don't really like moaning at games when we lose as it's that rare but god, that refereeing performance was one of the worst I've seen for a while. Called so many wrong challenges and looked like he wanted to avoid carding any Newcastle player. Seen some stat on Sky Sports as well when Doku had literally just stepped foot on the pitch and they put 'Fewest touches' stat on there and obviously he was leading it after a minute on the pitch. You'd think they would try harder to hide that deep hatred of us wouldn't you.

The coverage and agenda last night was pathetic. Sky seemed to have doubled down on their anti City propaganda. The referee played his part, a complete twat, he’s from Ashton so will be a rag or one of these small club supporting bitter bastards. He started refereeing at 13, so this his or his fathers chosen career and probably knows helping to fuck City will do his career no harm. Bet he got a text of that Newcastle cheat Michael Oliver with smiley faces etc.

 

[johnevans]

Hats off to every blue who travelled. That turnip Newcastle fan who butted in at the start saying where were the City fans in the 70s? Cheap, pathetic jibe. I recall a few jaunts up North to watch some very tight games across that decade and, just maybe a minor match at Wemberley in 1976 slipped his fuddled memory.

As with all of the kn*bhead herberts who support other teams and who spout such claptrap, he should look at his own team's 'Istry before opening his cake hole..

1990-91 season Newcatle's average home attendance was 16879, recording the lowest historic home attendance of 10004 against Oxford United. Attendances didn't pick up until Kevin Keegan arrived as manager sometime later.

When we were in the Third Division a few years later we still averaged almost double that attendance figure.

Bunch of f**king planks these internet warriors..

 

[ballbag]

As with all of the kn*bhead herberts who support other teams and who spout such claptrap, he should look at his own team's 'Istry before opening his cake hole..

1990-91 season Newcatle's average home attendance was 16879, recording the lowest historic home attendance of 10004 against Oxford United. Attendances didn't pick up until Kevin Kegan arrived as manager sometime later.

When we were in the Third Division a few years later we still averaged almost double that attendance figure.

Bunch of f**king planks these internet warriors..

Had some Geordies working on a site near us shortly after the Shinawatra takeover. So they'd drink in our local. When they heard we were blues they came over and started suggesting we were so alike as a fanbase. To a certain extent that's true, but one of the lads had to explain that we are fuck all alike and didn't abandon the club when they needed us most.

 

[Tolmie scores]

Both different types of strikers. Kane tends to drop into midfield more so than Haaland, I wouldn't say that makes Kane a better "footballer" than Haaland.
Kane was nowhere near Haaland at his age also.

I can think of numerous occasions Haaland dropped into midfield and created goals, Arsenal game last season for example pinning Holding and playing the ball to KDB.

Kane also doesn't have the movement that Haaland does along with Haalands pace and power.

Kane never scored 36 goals in a Premier League Season either.

Each to their own anyway we'll agree to disagree.

yes but Kane wasn't playing in a City side, he dragged Spuds through seasons, a really gifted player to be honest. I just think he is naturally more talented, part of football for me is admiring sublime touch and vision, for me Kane wins that

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Had difficulty even understanding them, to be honest. Was it some sort of reference to Munich?
If so, incredible to see grown men still making capital out of that. Vile.

it was, and the child with him

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

The exit is not the issue here. The lack of chances when 1 down was embarrassing. Posters bleating on about changes ,second string etc are forgetting Newcastle made wholesale changes too. Grealish as a senior player was astonishingly bad, rubbish in fact. A few others not far behind. A few years ago we were delighted to win this trophy now like the red cunts we are acting like it's a meaningless pot. That's not City.

Newcastle were bobbins as well because, like us, they made wholesale changes. That XI has never started before and probably never will again.

 

[burning blue soul]

We would have had an away tie at the swamp if we won. I can't say I'm happy to go out, but the negative press in the run up to that game would have been excruciating. Added to the fact our u21 team would have played, and a loss to utd is never appealing.

 

[Tolmie scores]

I would have turned to him and quietly said “No, I wasn't a supporter in the 70s. I was a supporter in the 60s.”
In any case, is he suggesting that there are no new Newcastle fans in the last ten years? Or since the takeover? And would he not therefore welcome them?
I should bloody well hope City has got new fans over the last fifteen years or so. When I look around me in the SS, I see too many grey heads (like mine!). Worries me…
And I should hope, for the sake of his club, that it has acquired new and young fans too.

I think City and Everton have the oldest ave age ST and longest ST holders...im happy with that, of course we want the family tradition passed down but these Herberts who say to us where were you when....just shows that they are not very knowledgeable re football

 

[Double R]

Managed to get 3 minutes into the match before some tit mentioned our team cost £350m, were we playing Newport or someone?
5 minutes later I had a power cut so fucked off to bed, sounds like I was spared 82 minutes of nauseating commentary.

 

[Citizen1961]

From a Newcastle POV it looked very much like two second strings in the first half and then we brought on two players who arguably the most important to the way we play and you didn't. We upped our intensity, our aggression and our ambition.

It felt huge because of the team we put out in the first half (Midfield was both young and inexperienced, defence had Lascelles and Paul Dummett in it.) and that team beat 'Man City'. I know I kind of ignored the fact that it was a Man City side without De Bruyne, Haaland, Rodri, et al.

It also meant we'd knocked out the very best side in the competition which we hoped would mean an easier route to the final. Of course then we get drawn away to Man Utd (who apparently have had 12 home consecutive home draws in the League Cup? Chances of that happening randomly are 0.02%). Of the 30 possible draws, this has to be the 3rd hardest. I guess we can look forward to Liverpool or Arsenal if we do manage to put away your neighbours.

Anyway, I hope everyone who made it to Newcastle had a good time regardless of the result.

First time at SJP, had a great time.
Hope you stuff Man Utd

 

[Whether or not]

There was a fair bit of smacked arse, entitled moaning in the ground last night, and on the coach back. In some ways it shows what a winning machine we have become when we have fans who cannot stomach any defeat, regardless of circumstances. To put it in perspective, whilst I don’t like losing, and particularly to those knobheads, we would have had to toss the Carabao Cup off anyway in December, when our first team would be in Saudi, and we would have been risking further injuries just trying to get to that point. it is no disaster, possibly even a major positive.

 

[AndyP68]

I thought Kalvin did ok really. Played some good passes.