Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:27 pm 0

By Christ, but we're shit. I honestly can't believe we scored in that half, either.

Fair play to Liverpool, who have clearly outdone us in the tactics department, but our complete ineptitude hasn't helped.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:55 pm 0

A-ha. Ahahaha.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:38 pm 0

goatboy wrote: /me wanders off singing 'we hate Yorkshire'

Hats off to yer, mate

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:29 pm 0

That'll do it, but we look knackered. End of a looong season. We should still have enough in reserve to shore up that third place, though...

Cisse celebration was funny. I'm happy for the bloke and everything, but it seems odd to stomp around, crowing about the health of your sperm to 50,000 strangers.

Although I loved his playground spaz face to the taunting fans.

Dunno what's happening with the Toon, Dio/Moz. They look utterly clueless and toothless. I fear for you in the Chelsea cup tie...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:40 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:Dunno what's happening with the Toon, Dio/Moz. They look utterly clueless and toothless. I fear for you in the Chelsea cup tie...

Don't fear for us too much. I've been resigned to going out horribly from the moment the draw was made.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:57 pm 0

Also, we're shit.

We look toothless because we are, basically. We're effectively playing with no strikers, again. Shearer's finished, and Ameobi is, well.... not a Premiership quality striker, let's say. So the midfield have nobody to look for, Solano keeps drifting inside anyway, and once N'Zogbia went off, we were totally knackered. Hard times in Toontown.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:01 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote: We're effectively playing with no strikers, again. Shearer's finished, and Ameobi is, well.... not a Premiership quality striker, let's say.

You can have Cisse

Didn't have access to the televisuals. What was Cisse doing winding up the Geordies?? Had they been giving him stick or something?

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:07 pm 0

I'd just like to say: 'Get in Fulham!!'

It won't last, of course. But it's got to be said...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:08 pm 0

KevG wrote:

I'd just like to say: 'Get in Fulham!!'

It won't last, of course. But it's got to be said...

It might. Mourinho took two off after 25 minutes, such was his disgust.

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:04 pm 0

Wow. What a match. 12 points ahead with a game more played, Man U to still visit Stamford Bridge... dare we hope it's not all over yet after all?

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:09 pm 0

Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote:Wow. What a match. 12 points ahead with a game more played, Man U to still visit Stamford Bridge... dare we hope it's not all over yet after all?

Great game. And what you've just pointed out has a depressingly familiar ring to us Toon fans, but I wouldn't be too upset if it happened with the teams in question this year.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:18 pm 0

Shame about the pitch invasions, very narrowly averted a major ruck there (at least according to radio 5 anyway).

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:19 pm 0

Yeah, looked pretty hairy - there were hundreds and hundreds on the pitch, and a fair few dragged away by the cops. I wonder if Gallas will be in even more trouble for gesturing to the crowd all the way down the touchline as he walked to the dressing room after his red card two minutes from time for an utterly disgraceful assault on Helgerson.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:37 pm 0

Well, I guess it looked different on TV. To me in the ground it seemed we played OK, to be sabotaged by a ref who's historically the Premiership's worst.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think we'd have necessarily won under a proper ref - I mean, Boumsong deserved to go off and all - but there was no way Cisse should have stayed on the pitch either after the second crowd taunt, and Riley's only consistency was his inconsistency. I just wish the game would have been played on a level field.

To be honest, I was almost surprised there wasn't a pitch invasion at Newcastle. Fortunately the fans have more sense, but I've never, ever felt an uglier atmosphere in the stadium than today.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:52 pm 0

Dio wrote:- but there was no way Cisse should have stayed on the pitch either after the second crowd taunt, and Riley's only consistency was his inconsistency. I just wish the game would have been played on a level field.

To be honest, I was almost surprised there wasn't a pitch invasion at Newcastle. Fortunately the fans have more sense, but I've never, ever felt an uglier atmosphere in the stadium than today.

What did he do, mate? Didn't see the game at all. I've only just seen the goals on the box, now. Cisse put the penalty away and appeared to reveal something written on a t-shirt under his kit? What was all that about. He was a bit smug, yeah. The telly hasn't (yet) shown anything else? What was going on???