I'm trying to remember any great run of results he has engineered, anyone help with this?
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bernardbresslaw
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Part of the trip to Spain is to look at the internal issues but they aren't worried and can still turn it around according to this
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In another article that muppet Taylor reckons Chelsea "did to us what we did to West Brom". I didn't see the whole game but is that really true?
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Anyone in his position who puts on an accent on TV like he did in Holland, without a hint of humour or irony, is absolutely mental. He's a prize fool. A joke.
Vell, I sink he ees anyvay...[/QUOTE]
Can't remember them handing out a battering to the Baggies that included the Baggies playing the worst 20 minutes of PL football seen this season tbh ...
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Reiver
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Chelsea strolled through the game and missed chances through acting about ........ Newcastle clung on like grim death at the end.
Yeah I saw that
I didn't see much of the West Brom game but from what I read they did have lots of chances, problem is only one went in and WBA almost equalised at the end. Not sure it was comparable to Chelsea's battering on Saturday
CARLOS CLASS
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Apparently - according to both Tufty and Townsend, Newcastle won the game v West Brom in 10/15 mins......
The score at the time 0-0, nufc rewriting history since 1992
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Tadger
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And as a business I imagine he's doing fairly well with them, as a football club though it's a shambles.
tunstall birdman
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I wonder how long it will be before they get the bedsheets out for Desert Island Head?
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WackyJackyO
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Glad to hear you kept on the straight and narrow. To know all is to understand all, sorry to hear of the separation, obviously affected him more than you
. Hope the separation didn't make him mean any less to you. Blood's thicker than water and a footie club's only a footie club.
No offence meant.
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Tits oot?
nick5573
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and "like, ya mean"Tufty blusters, grins, praises the players to the heavens and spills out the endless clichés.
Allardyce just shrugs and says, "This is shit."
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A mate sent me this from his forum, he's a Mag but thought this was worth a read and I agree.
"But we're the victims of systemic failure here. We may well try and "do a Pulis", which won't work because copying another team can never yield success. You have to either go with a gameplan and build the team you need, or go with the players and build a system that works. We fall somewhere in the middle; a manager with no clear idea aside from copying the biggest teams in the world, and a transfer policy of buying to sell. Even when the manager then gets some input, he's trying to implement a flawed gameplan of high possession, acute attacking as seen at Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea - we aren't those clubs, we can't buy Ozil, Aguero, Toure, Matic, Costa, Willian or any players near the level required to take the game to the opposition - we're mid-table "aspirers" and should be fundamentally being hard to beat first, counter-attacking second. The time to take a game to the opposition is with years of consistency, then a sprinkling of quality youth products, which is where Spurs are today.
Our best record under Ashley was when Pardew played counter-attacking football with some competent defenders and fast attackers. It was simple, sometimes ugly, but with some consistency, some luck and some ridiculous downfalls elsehwhere at Chelsea, Everton and Liverpool we got to fifth. Then the arrogance came in. Then came the idea we should be on the front foot, with some average/poor players. Once you start to do that, the "lesser" teams will pick you off on the counter, the "better" teams will simply run rings around you. The only time we've ever looked comfortable on the "front foot" is in the Championship, when our squad was at least twice that of the nearest competition.
All of this has been obvious and known for years. The lack of investment or attempt to build a squad has hit us time and again, but with just a modicum of awareness it would have been easy to miss relegation by a mile this year. We seem terminally uninterested in the opposition - we try front foot against Leicester, picked off. Do it three times against Watford, beaten each time. 28 times in three seasons we've been beaten by 3 or more - how we're still in the division is unfathomable; how the people who have diced with death are still employed (MD, DOF, Captain) is laughable. It's all so depressingly avoidable, yet one cannot understate how stupid the people at the top simply have to be - there's no longer any explanation."
"But we're the victims of systemic failure here. We may well try and "do a Pulis", which won't work because copying another team can never yield success. You have to either go with a gameplan and build the team you need, or go with the players and build a system that works. We fall somewhere in the middle; a manager with no clear idea aside from copying the biggest teams in the world, and a transfer policy of buying to sell. Even when the manager then gets some input, he's trying to implement a flawed gameplan of high possession, acute attacking as seen at Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea - we aren't those clubs, we can't buy Ozil, Aguero, Toure, Matic, Costa, Willian or any players near the level required to take the game to the opposition - we're mid-table "aspirers" and should be fundamentally being hard to beat first, counter-attacking second. The time to take a game to the opposition is with years of consistency, then a sprinkling of quality youth products, which is where Spurs are today.
Our best record under Ashley was when Pardew played counter-attacking football with some competent defenders and fast attackers. It was simple, sometimes ugly, but with some consistency, some luck and some ridiculous downfalls elsehwhere at Chelsea, Everton and Liverpool we got to fifth. Then the arrogance came in. Then came the idea we should be on the front foot, with some average/poor players. Once you start to do that, the "lesser" teams will pick you off on the counter, the "better" teams will simply run rings around you. The only time we've ever looked comfortable on the "front foot" is in the Championship, when our squad was at least twice that of the nearest competition.
All of this has been obvious and known for years. The lack of investment or attempt to build a squad has hit us time and again, but with just a modicum of awareness it would have been easy to miss relegation by a mile this year. We seem terminally uninterested in the opposition - we try front foot against Leicester, picked off. Do it three times against Watford, beaten each time. 28 times in three seasons we've been beaten by 3 or more - how we're still in the division is unfathomable; how the people who have diced with death are still employed (MD, DOF, Captain) is laughable. It's all so depressingly avoidable, yet one cannot understate how stupid the people at the top simply have to be - there's no longer any explanation."
Father Jack Hackett
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My only prediction of the season was that he'd have a breakdown by Christmas. Only a couple of months out.
Mackem Messiah
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