FOOTBALL: Season 2006/07 Discussion Thread

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:43 pm 0

cor. Newcastle are horrible tonight.

i really feel for you chaps - its really disheartening when your team has a great result and then royally fucks it up the very next match.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:49 pm 0

rockwaldo wrote:cor. Newcastle are horrible tonight.

i really feel for you chaps - its really disheartening when your team has a great result and then royally fucks it up the very next match.

Yeah, and I know you can empathise coz your lot can be pretty similar.

I know we've got Academy kids playing, but really.

And as I type, it's 5. Fuuuuuuuck.

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:50 pm 0

Shouldn't the ref be stopping the fight by now?

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:54 pm 0

Fuck me . . . and to think I let my flatmate turn the main living room telly to Big Brother cause she wanted to see some comedy . . .

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:07 pm 0

What was I saying about Birmingham?

But honestly, both times Ipswich have played them they were bang on average. Newcastle must have had a stinker. A proper one.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:08 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:What was I saying about Birmingham? But honestly, both times Ipswich have played them they were bang on average. Newcastle must have had a stinker. A proper one.

It was much worse than that.

But when you consider we're down to playing Academy kids, and then our "best" defender got himself sent off, well, we were bound to get a hiding eventually.

Didn't expect us to be quite that shit, though. Deary me.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:15 pm 0

Ouch.

There was only about 25 Newcastle fans left at the final whistle and Freddy Shepherd looked right grumpy.

Ah, well. We've all been there. I remember when Hull put 6 past Tranmere, although we had a creative midfield in goal for much of the game.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:00 am 0

Naah, not that many had left. Not that many were in in the first place mind. I thought we played OK in the second half, particularly after Taylor was sent off, until we got knackered and gave up. But we were awful in the first.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:01 am 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Given his two goals this season, why the hell doesn't Milner hit the ball more often?

He does but he misses a lot. He's wasteful of his chances on a Bowyer level - it's the big thing I think is missing from his game.

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:43 am 0

Dio wrote:
PaulEMoz wrote:Given his two goals this season, why the hell doesn't Milner hit the ball more often?
He does but he misses a lot. He's wasteful of his chances on a Bowyer level - it's the big thing I think is missing from his game.

True but for all this talk of having to play accademy kids, people forget that Milner is still a kid himself. At least as he also showed the season Leeds went down, even when things aren't going well he's got a bit of fight in him.

But we were due a good beating off someone. The spirit we showed against Spurs was superb but we should have been 4 goals down inside 10 minutes. The end result only hid the fact that we were shocking in defense.

I'm getting very concerned about our lack of activity in the transfer market too. Hopefully that performance last night will convince Fat Freddy to bring in a couple of experienced defenders.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:44 am 0

Well, Upson's the rumoured target. He certainly played pretty well last night, although he is about three feet taller than Martins.

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:36 pm 0

Dio wrote:Well, Upson's the rumoured target. He certainly played pretty well last night, although he is about three feet taller than Martins.

I rate Upson but he is quite injury prone and that's the last thing we need. Plus the price being mentioned in some of the papers is far too high.

Forget the big 4 clashing over the weekend. Our clash with West Ham is arguably more vital for both teams.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:14 pm 0

Not sure about that. Watford are gone for sure and I can't see any chance of Charlton pulling it back either, so West Ham only have to overhaul one of the two above 'em. Everyone from Villa up should be OK - I always find the goal difference is a really good indication of teams that drift out of their deserved place mid-season, and while there's only a small gap to those bottom five in the points, the GD is huge.

Losing another home game would be bad form though - at least the atmosphere should be better than last night. Then again it couldn't be worse.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:35 pm 0

Have received a text from a lass at work, turn out ours was not the only shit performance on Tyneside - she had a ticket for Steven Seagal

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:22 pm 0

Fillyourboots wrote:Have received a text from a lass at work, turn out ours was not the only shit performance on Tyneside - she had a ticket for Steven Seagal

Bloke at work went to see him. He said it was a good show, but I could tell from his voice it really wasn't. Plus he was angry that Seagal wouldn't sign autographs or pose for pictures. This kid likes that kind of thing.