Newcastle Thread - 2022/23

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Mick_ said:
Bruno has been carrying an ankle injury since the middle of January and he's having to take pain killers to even play for us. I think he deserves massive praise for playing when many others wouldn't have. Joelinton wasn't at his best yesterday and I put that down to Howe for keep moving him around from position to position. Joelinton really needs to be allowed to settle in one position or at least not be moved from game to game.

Burn is shit as a left-back, he has no pace and no positional sense. For the Arsenal first goal he was in the middle of defence where he can hide, that forced Bruno and I think it was Wilson trying to cover at left-back. Bruno would have charged the ball down before Odergaard could shoot, instead, he was covering for the big plank who was marking nobody in the middle.

Burn even turns up on our right wing at times and leaves our left side wide open, Targett isn’t great because he also has no pace but at least he knowns how to play left-back.

Our defence has done so well thins season because the midfield have protected them and Pope has saved them most of the time when we’ve been breached. To have a good defence we’ll have to sign a left-back with pace who can defend and we need to replace Schar in the middle with somebody who can defend and has a good turn of pace. Schar does some good stuff but he can and does drop howlers and some of his distribution is really poor and turns the ball over. His own goal yesterday was pathetic, it was lazy and desperation from him as Pope probably had it covered.

I wasn’t one of those calling for Isak to start with Wilson, I think we’re much more effective when we have one of them fresh coming off the bench to keep the pressure on the opposition. Isak was tidy but I prefer him to do his work centrally where he can get a sniff at goal. Starting him on the left unsettled the way that we’ve been playing lately and I think Howe got that one wrong but he’s got very little wrong this season. Usually I disagree with what he’s done but it works, this time it didn’t. Howe also got the substitutes wrong, I couldn’t work out what he was trying to do and it was as if he was throwing in the towel and protecting some players for the Leeds game.

We’re also weak in midfield when we have one injury and that’s probably one of the reasons why Bruno is still playing while not 100% fit, he’s putting the team before himself and should be applauded for that, not criticised.

Yesterday was a bad result, to be where we are after being so close to relegation for a lot of last season shows how far we’ve come and I’m not going to get too despondent after one result towards the end of a long season when so much has gone right for us.

Hopefully we’ll still finish in the top 4 and qualify for the Champions League, if we don’t, that’s life. We already have the Europa Conference and even that was beyond our wildest dreams at the start of the season.

In the Summer we’ll need to bring in at least 3 quality players, a left-back, a right centre-back and a quality central midfielder. If we can bring in a quality wide forward that can cover both sides then we’ll be capable of improving.

People need to remember, we’re only 19 months plus one day and 3 transfer windows into this project. We’re ahead of schedule and have had a bit of luck this season because Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea have struggled but we’ve still taken advantage of that, so far.

The club is miles away from the club that we were in October 2021 on every level and we’re only going to improve, the problem for us is that so are other clubs, clubs who are currently years ahead of us, clubs who are financially much better off than we are.

Back to the present, we’re one win from the Europa League, two wins from Champions League, bring on Leeds away next weekend.
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Stay in 3rd and please help keep either of the red shirted twats from Europe.
 
crazyg said:
Great summary of your strengths and weaknesses, but the emboldened bit made me chuckle.
I take it your owners have a couple quid they could find at the back of the settee, just like ours.
But then again, you will be hamstrung by FFP, unlike Chelsea, who have American owners.
I hope you can get into the top 4 above our near neighbours and Livarpool, So that you get into the Champions League.
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We'll do our best, hopefully that's good enough so we can get to the Summer and have something of a reset.
 
On a side note, our lasses team were promoted from the 4th tier yesterday.

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Mick_ said:
Bruno has been carrying an ankle injury since the middle of January and he's having to take pain killers to even play for us. I think he deserves massive praise for playing when many others wouldn't have. Joelinton wasn't at his best yesterday and I put that down to Howe for keep moving him around from position to position. Joelinton really needs to be allowed to settle in one position or at least not be moved from game to game.

Burn is shit as a left-back, he has no pace and no positional sense. For the Arsenal first goal he was in the middle of defence where he can hide, that forced Bruno and I think it was Wilson trying to cover at left-back. Bruno would have charged the ball down before Odergaard could shoot, instead, he was covering for the big plank who was marking nobody in the middle.

Burn even turns up on our right wing at times and leaves our left side wide open, Targett isn’t great because he also has no pace but at least he knowns how to play left-back.

Our defence has done so well thins season because the midfield have protected them and Pope has saved them most of the time when we’ve been breached. To have a good defence we’ll have to sign a left-back with pace who can defend and we need to replace Schar in the middle with somebody who can defend and has a good turn of pace. Schar does some good stuff but he can and does drop howlers and some of his distribution is really poor and turns the ball over. His own goal yesterday was pathetic, it was lazy and desperation from him as Pope probably had it covered.

I wasn’t one of those calling for Isak to start with Wilson, I think we’re much more effective when we have one of them fresh coming off the bench to keep the pressure on the opposition. Isak was tidy but I prefer him to do his work centrally where he can get a sniff at goal. Starting him on the left unsettled the way that we’ve been playing lately and I think Howe got that one wrong but he’s got very little wrong this season. Usually I disagree with what he’s done but it works, this time it didn’t. Howe also got the substitutes wrong, I couldn’t work out what he was trying to do and it was as if he was throwing in the towel and protecting some players for the Leeds game.

We’re also weak in midfield when we have one injury and that’s probably one of the reasons why Bruno is still playing while not 100% fit, he’s putting the team before himself and should be applauded for that, not criticised.

Yesterday was a bad result, to be where we are after being so close to relegation for a lot of last season shows how far we’ve come and I’m not going to get too despondent after one result towards the end of a long season when so much has gone right for us.

Hopefully we’ll still finish in the top 4 and qualify for the Champions League, if we don’t, that’s life. We already have the Europa Conference and even that was beyond our wildest dreams at the start of the season.

In the Summer we’ll need to bring in at least 3 quality players, a left-back, a right centre-back and a quality central midfielder. If we can bring in a quality wide forward that can cover both sides then we’ll be capable of improving.

People need to remember, we’re only 19 months plus one day and 3 transfer windows into this project. We’re ahead of schedule and have had a bit of luck this season because Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea have struggled but we’ve still taken advantage of that, so far.

The club is miles away from the club that we were in October 2021 on every level and we’re only going to improve, the problem for us is that so are other clubs, clubs who are currently years ahead of us, clubs who are financially much better off than we are.

Back to the present, we’re one win from the Europa League, two wins from Champions League, bring on Leeds away next weekend.
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I hope you aren't running out of steam right at the death. That was a poor performance by your standards and your confidence was badly knocked by that 1st goal. Whilst you could have had a couple, Arsenal could have had more, so, fair play to them - the bunch of cheating cunts.
Keep hold of that 3rd place.
 
the blue panther said:
I hope you aren't running out of steam right at the death. That was a poor performance by your standards and your confidence was badly knocked by that 1st goal. Whilst you could have had a couple, Arsenal could have had more, so, fair play to them - the bunch of cheating cunts.
Keep hold of that 3rd place.
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It was a bit of a strange game but Arsenal are a quality team and I felt that Murphy hitting the post so early was really important for Arsenal, I don’t know if anybody has ever hit the woodwork as often as Murphy has, probably not. We've gone behind far too often recently, so I wasn't too worried going behind other than with the manner of the goal. Some of our defending is pathetic and lazy at times.

I'm quite confident that we'll go all out to beat Leeds next weekend. They are not that good a team and I don't think Allardyce will do much to change that in a week, especially after seeing first-hand what he's like as a manager.

Howe never normally gets too carried away by results so the players should be OK after yesterday.
 
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