posted Sep 23, 2007

We lost today because Lucas Neill was very very poor. He had two chances to clear before N's first and was completely out of position for their second and third.
SJP is a hard enough place to come to anyway without your captain fannying around as Neill did today.

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posted Sep 23, 2007

Can you see what you did there, mate?

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posted 2 Hours Ago

Mark Noble should have got a straight red

That's blatant unsporting behaviour even if Butt did use his studs.

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posted Sep 23, 2007

No excuses from this Hammer. I thought we were abysmal in the second half, passing was pathetic, defending was embarassing, and there was no penetration whatsoever. Personally apart from a good shot in the first half, Noble was awful.
Newcastle deserved the win.

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posted Sep 23, 2007

As a hammer, 'The Toon' deserved the win. They took their chances and the result reflected their effort. Viduka played the part and it was an entertaining game all round. We played well, the football looked good, the effort was there and we should not make excuses that we missed a player or two. We had a problem with dealing with low crosses from the left and Newcastle took advantage. That's a fact. Bellamy being there would have made no difference, so get over it. All credit to Newcastle, they found a weakness and pounded it. I think that's an area Curbs needs to work on.

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posted Sep 23, 2007

why does everyone think that viduka only 'plays' when he feels like it? How many goals did he score last season for a poor boro side? mmmm i think it was 19. He's not fat either...

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posted Sep 23, 2007

Ahead of Chelsea in the league with a game in hand...if we're still ahead of them at the end of the season this will be one happy Newcastle fan!

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posted Sep 23, 2007

how come they were clapping at the beginning of the match cos i missed it?

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There was a minute's applause for a 15-yr old lad from the Academy who died last week after a long illness. His parents were guests of honour at the game, and the rest of the Academy boys joined the starting XI at the centre circle for the applause.

Very sad, and, like the commentator said, puts things in perspective.

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posted Sep 24, 2007

Yes if Dean Ashton carry's on playing like that it will be a Owen / Ashton front row, both wearing black and white stripes.
Every time Ashton got the ball passed to him he either gave it to a Newcastle player or gave away a free kick.
In fact me thinks both Cole and Ashton should have put black and white shirts on.

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posted Sep 24, 2007

The only decent thing Ashton done that game was score the goal. Carlton Cole was a waste of space. I know we havent got any strikers fit but we needed Bellars there. If he was there maybe the score line was a bit more fair. We didnt play like total headless chickens but we just couldnt find the net. Lee Bowyer had a good few chances, But yet again they paniced infront of goal and it went wide. At least with Bellars and Zamora they run until the ball in out of play. Just like Ehterington and Bowyer.

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posted Sep 25, 2007

Gotta question Anton's commitment in this game, couldn't believe how he just jogged over to try and block the pass which led to their 3rd goal, he should be bustting a gut. Poor defensive performance all round though, and 2nd half just poor team performance. 1st half was ok and didn't deserve to be 2-1 down, just the blinkin defence strolling around and not getting any challenges in.

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