Newcastle Banter Archive February 07 2012

07 Feb 2012 20:57:33
Pardew saying Ben Arfa still isnt used to the Prem - what does he expect? HBA played 1 game before getting injured, and after his goal at Everton everyone just assumed he was settled.
The only way he is going to settle in though is game time - and i think Pardew needs to give him that.
He isnt going to get up to speed with the Prem watching from the bench

He doesnt work hard enough. Newcastle cant afford to carry players especially against the top teams.

Oh yes , he has talent just has to play within a structure for the good of the team , end of story , team work and work ethic has got us this far , personally would like to see benny play off a striker in a 44 11 away from home , pace in wide areas with 2 holding c mid . {Ed003's Note - You wont be allowed to play 55 players ;) }

Certainly not at the moment they can't - when they are going so well.

Ben Arfa might get more time next season if pardew decides to build a team involving him, ba and cisse.
Ben Arfa always says he wants to play off a striker but I wouldn't drop Ba or Cisse for him (they both work harder, Cisse showed that on debut).

If we play him behind them then cabaye misses out.

He doesn't want to play out wide.

And if we play with him in the middle and no wide players then the supply to front two can only come throught he middle which makes us predictable.

It seems he just doesn't fit in the side unless he is willing to change his game to work harder and play a wide role. If we tighten up the defence for next year and don't need our wingers to track back as much he might take Jonas' spot on the left but for now i think impact sub is best.

ToonFan

The only way Benny starts in the side (barring injury or suspension) is if we play a 433 or if he is willing to play out wide. Failing that he will have to be okay with coming off the bench. If however he started out on the right with licence to come inside in front of Cabaye and Tiote I believe it could work as well. Cabaye perfers to come from a deeper position to pace the ball about anyway, and Benny could be deadly from just outside the box. the only issue is it leave Simpson isolated, which isn't ideal. I think he will still make a big impact this year, the reason he didnt come on last game was we had to use 2 subs due to injury and we were up 2-1 in the second half. If we had been behind i think the plan would have seen him make an appearance at some point.

07 Feb 2012 11:57:34
Whenever we say about Europe,people come and say we are deluded,now we sit a point behind champions league position and the next team is 2 points behind us . . . so we say Europe is possible only by fact,not like some team 9 points behind us say they are gonna beat us . . .iToon

They would have to win the leauge to be better than us.

Win league? what stupidity. so you are going to finish 2nd then mad max

No not at all mad lad or max or what ever! its just if we say we got a chance of europe you lot say we deluded yet at the moment we are in european place and champions league places are only 1 point off us! so you lot say we cant make up them 2 points cos its unfeasable and at the same time you say you can make up the 9 points between us! its called double standards! if its feasable for you lot to make up the 9 points between us then its also feasable for us to make up the same gap on other teams and qualify for champions league! is it or isnt it? come on max answer that!!

The post says "they would have to win the league to be better than us" doesnt that say you are going to finish second place.i mentioned nothing about 2 points or 9 points read my post and answer that thick lad

And like i answered "no" now which part of that lost you? i went on to explain what i meant but you still try to pick the bones out of it with an insult like "thick lad" yet i dont decree to name myself "mad" so who is the thick lad?

You are the post said win the league to beat you that is what my reply was about nothing else you cannot bring other subjects into debate unless you want to start fresh debate