Newcastle Banter Archive September 12 2011

12 Sep 2011 23:23:58
im am totally surprised that everybody on here is totally surprised that shola was awful again tonight. the bloke is awful full stop. we should play ba from now on as he is starting to look sharper. Ryan taylor is a liability in defence, santon should have started. tiote was below par tonight and didnt look fit at all. overall delighted to have somehow come away with a point but expected all 3 before kick off. Our luck from the opening 4 games will run out at somepoint. we play long balls from the back and bypass cabaye who will be our most creative player.

Lets have a review after 4 games
Both CH are in great form
Tiote is not at last years level
Jonas has been spending to much time covering the LB.
We have not had an offensive approach in any game so strikers are not going to have many chances
Looking forward bring in Santon results Jonas or Marvaux take up a attacking role.Cabeye & Tiote get greater understanding and we drive from the CM.
HBA returns Ba gets more chances
Only need 32 points more for safety

Ba's looking better now he's not fasting for Ramadan any more, but that ruins loads of Muslim players' pre-season - witness Emre's slow starts for us. The problem with Santon is that, to my knowledge, he only speaks Italian, and there are no Italian speakers in the squad, so his communication will be, for a month or so, pretty dreadful. That's why he's being eased in. As for Ameobi, he can be useful, but not when we're playing that kind of football. He can hold up play reasonably but those massive kicks up to him with only Best any where near him were pointless. He's best from crosses - hopefully Obertan will be able to supply him better. Also, has anybody noticed now Best doesn't feel the need to shoot at literally every opportunity he is a much better player? When we were in the Championship he shot whenever the ball came near him, he was so desperate to score...

Disagree with the ameobi statement, he is truly awful in every aspect of play, id rather have heskey. we need HBA back asap for some creativity and pace. hopefully he wont be constantly injured

Both Colo and Jonas are of Italian descent and Colo spent a good amount of time in Italy so he should definitely know something.

Also Vuckic is Slovenian and they all tend to speak Italian which is why many of their players are currently in Serie A and excelling.

We also have Zamblera in the reserves somewhere. He was last spotted challenging Samuel Adjei to a game of Jumanji.

12 Sep 2011 22:52:04
Well i said i would be happy with a draw and in the end we was lucky to get it. Ashley will see the folly of not getting a fwd in after watching that tonight. Great defending again saves the day but other clubs like man u ,city and chelsea would bury those chances. Cant help worrying we are on borrowed time. Shola was awful and i like him but he was awful tonight. Ba looked better but cant figure out how he got so many goals in such a poor W.Ham team yet cant get near with us. LUCKY 2NITE.

12 Sep 2011 22:37:14
a point playing rubbish is a good point. overview Jonal is awful give Marveax or Sammyammy a run out Denba Ba looked good when he came on so drop Shola from the squad (he was abyismal??) RTaylor out Santon in Obertan (whats he meant to do) out Gosling in next game Kru....l simpson taylor Collo santon......gosling tiote cabaye SamAmiobe.... Ba Best

Disagree here - I think Obertan was one of our best players. Tiote and Cabye were non existent tonight and the defence had to work much harder than it should of!

I think our best starting 11 is a 4231 - Krul
Raylor, Saylor Collo Santon
Cabaye, Tiote
Obertan, Ben Arfa, Jonas
Ba

Then with Sammy, Best & Marveaux as attacking options from the bench that doesnt look to bad?

12 Sep 2011 22:07:37
Gutiérrez should be left to the bench in future, what a waste of space. Only remotely good players tonight were Best and S.Taylor the rest of the team looked very poor. Happy for the point, but need to be better. Again thanks to S.Taylor for saving us a point.

Jonas had a off night ,got wacked bad couple of times too, thought he was gonna come off at one point.

Got to say, I personally thought Cabaye was our best player. Didn't creat any chances but broke things down in QPR' s midfield and barely misplaced a pass. Great signing.

Tiote was poor needs to get his act together and Ba impressed when he came on. R.Taylor, no comment.

Geo

12 Sep 2011 20:53:24
squeaky bum time at loftus rd
QPR are all over us

12 Sep 2011 17:08:38
Does anyone else think 4th place is up for grabs this season? I mean I know it sounds ridiculous but if you think about it, man u/city have 1st/2nd place wrapped up, Chelsea is trundling behind in 3rd. That leaves 4th for either: Liverpool (overrated and Sunderland held them of so we should), tottenham (overrated and weakened dispite what most think), Arsenal (significantly weakened most likely will underperform) and then they're is a wild card which could with a good run of form be us. I know it's ridiculous but even if we don't get 4th theres always a chance (increased with a striker bought in jan) that we could make Europa. Scottoon.

WE havent played anyone yet, Poor Arsenal side,Scumderland,Fulham and QPR? Give your head a shake 4th spot. With current strikeforce i would be happy with 4th bottom in may and no matter what anyone thinks, Fat Boy will NOT buy a top striker in Jan unless we get him for 4m and 20k a week!!!!!!!

We wont get 4th ,be lucky not to go down after watching 2nite. What we gonna do defend for dear life all season , cause we don't look like ever scoring . Simply have to get a proven striker in in jan even if its just a loan.

Ha i want some of what you're on mate, we'll repeat last season, higher bottom half, never really threaten europe and never be in trouble of relegation, and i for one will be ecstatic with that! so no, 4th isn't up for grabs, at least not with regards to us

4Th my ar** we have a worse team now than the one that went down, our season has be lucky up to now, who is going to score for us against the bigger teams? A few injuries to our paper thin squad will show every one outside the club how the Fat Controllers penny pinching has been. There are more cuts going on here than Cameron's Tory/lib coalition!