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I posted a thread with my fears before the 5-1 and was lambasted for it. October 31 came around and i was soon proved very right. Please view it below:
.....Oh how right i was to be proven. Nolan went on to score 12 goals and Barton was one of the oustanding midfielders of the year. They both dominated us in the derby and it was totally men vs boys.
The saying i 'told you so' doesn't do make up for all the abuse i took and i expect to take the same amount with this thread.
So the question is are we really that much better?
Lets have a look at the likely starting XIs:
Newc Sund
Krul Mignolet Draw
Simpson Bardsley Draw
Collocini Ferdinand Newcastle
Taylor Brown Sunderland
R Taylor Richardson Sunderland
Barton El Mohammady Newcastle
Tiote Cattermole Newcastle
Cabaye Colback Draw (but thats being kind as ligue 1 winning french international against a young lad)
Guiterrez Larsson Draw
Ba Sessegnon (Hard to compare so i won't)
Ameobi Gyan Newcastle win but only against us
So what do we have here? 4 wins to Newcastle, 4 draws and 2 wins to Sunderland. Obviously only my opinion but i'm usually bang on the money.
Another summer and another chance to cement our status as North East top dogs sadly passed us by. I really really hope i'm wrong and we go on to stuff the horrible inbred c unts but again i just can't really see where we edge this???
What really worries is we are going to have a very young midfield against their experienced one YET AGAIN and we all know what happened last time! Bruce won't drop Elmo after his assist and we've seen him crumble in both previous derbies. He's not a big game player that lad i'm afraid.
Make no mistakes Barton will dominate and will be winding Cattermole up something rotten.
We still have a chance to do something about this. Put someone like Gardner into the mix and we suddenly have another twat in the middle with attitude and thats what you need to match Barton and co. Sorry Colback but i'd drop you for Vaughan.........very similar players but i think Vaughan's experience would help us a great deal against them.
I fear the writing was on the wall when Bruce picked his first XI for Liverpool. He doesn't learn and should always have been thinking ahead to the derby instead of firing young lads in there again when he saw how they wilted and hid in the demolition.
Haway Bruce and Quinn you still have a chance to sign a quality left winger and a decent striker. I'm sick of being second best to these twats up the road so do something about it please!