Comments on: Sam Must Change Things at Newcastle United

By: stk

stk — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:36:26 +0000

i want the nufc job, id kill for that job!

i can’t believe people are saying the players are rubbish, surely you play to your squads strengths, and 433 aint in our strengths!

yes lets stay united, but for gods sake, if we can’t have opinions, not even, if you can’t see that bartons losing the ball continuously, martins aint a winger, smith just isn’t the player we all think and wish he was, then, bottom line, if you think playing a three man midfield with noone tracking their markers, putting in effort to regain possesion (especially at home) and owen/martins playing as a winger then im sorry you’re just plain confused, like sam.

we, as a team, just look either confused or unmotivated, and that is a crime in these parts, especially with something that the locals see as their representitives to the region, nation and globe!

the fans have every right to voice there opinion, its their manager that now needs to stand up for himself, stop singling out those that perform badly, and try something new, coz what he’s trying to do just isn’t working and if you can’t see that, you’ve had too many brown ales!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:48:37 +0000

The bloke above makes a good point – no one wants the NUFC job. Why would they? They only have to play a few bad games before supposed fans get on their back and force the chairman to sack him. It’s got to be the hardest job in football!

Like I said earlier, I’d rather play bad football and be in 9th than good football and be 19th. Would anyone on here honestly be happier if we were 19th but playing cracking football. Bollocks you would! You’d all be on here moaning that we weren’t winning games!

Someone said they were quite happy to let Sir Bobby Robson mess up his first two seasons in charge coz he was playing good football. I call bullshit on that and say hinesight is a wonderful thing. Bet at the time they was calling for Bobby’s head but since he brought success to the club has been banging on about how great he is.

Bottom line, this season is gonna be a big pile of shit and best we can hope for is a scrappy 10th place finish. But I bet from then on Sam cracks on with it and starts dragging our sorry arses up the table next season.

Just a sidenote, wonder how many people will still be whinging like little girls if Sam gets us to the FA Cup final this season?

Fickle? Nah, just NUFC fans!

By: Rishi Arora

Rishi Arora — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:39:23 +0000

I find it completely shocking that people want Sam out! They even link Houlierr- who played terrible footy at Liverpool to replace him!

At the end of the day here are afew facts, Newcastle go through managers far to quickly- we need stability- and Sam if given time can provide that!

The players we have JUST ARENT GOOD ENOUGH!- here is an example..JAMES MILNER. – He works his butt off… but can you honestly say he was better than Nobby 4 years ago? Nobby throughout his toon career could always pinpoint a cross, score goals regularly…. James Milner cant… Milner cant cross a ball… that goes with N’Zog too…

To many of our players take 1 to many touches, and that goes with Smith too…. – who is the first striker i have ever seen scared to hit the ball!

No one wants the Newcastle job, and Robson took 3 years to get us into Europe… Sam deserves that time… but i doubt that he will recieve it! SUPPORT THE TOON, SUPPORT SAM!

By: sam

sam — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:17:11 +0000

sam just has to stop tryin to make newcastle play bolton type football, the players are clearly confused and dont knw their roles, if he doesnt change this he’s definately gonna get the sack

By: Rob Kirton

Rob Kirton — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:43:29 +0000

Adrian Swall: Sam’s excuse for not facing the MOTD Cameras is strange. He said he was going to sue the BBC, but for one reason or another has decided not to.

I suspect it is because he hasn’t got a leg to stand on, when it comes to the allegations made against him.

By: Adrian Swall

Adrian Swall — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:24:09 +0000

He’s even got an excuse for not facing the MOTD cameras.

All he can do properly is chew huge chunks of gum.

In five years time we will be looking back at the worst time of our lives.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:00:58 +0000

Pi55 off sam – Raw talent? Tell you what mate, if raw talent is smashing the ball high and wide everytime you touch it, f**k me, no wonder he is a footballer.

Last week at fulham, milner laid the ball up to him, Milner had 2 or 3 fulham players in the immediate surroundings of him – the easy thing for zog to do is cross the ball, but – no. he decides its time for head down, and run at these 3 players, where he is promptly tackled. and they clear. waste.

Yes, he had a good start to the season, but how many games are we into it now?

Yesterday v Derby, he just smashed the ball about 3 or 4 times over the ball by a mile, he shot from a freekick right on the edge of the box when Joey Barton was just to the side of him, its damn near impossible to get the ball over a wall and down from that range for Ronaldihno, Figo or Zidane, never mind f***ing Charles bastard N’Zogbia, thank christ we never spent large on him.

If I have shite in my eyes, its because your talking it directly in my face by saying he is good.

By: ChrisL

ChrisL — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:30:53 +0000

@Steve, I have been watching, we have been shit in all but a handful of games… but I want Sam to have at least till this time next year to sort out the club that was in a terrible state only 5 months back. I think we’ve climbed from terrible to poor now

By: steve

steve — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:09:46 +0000

@Steely – we are united in wanting sam to f*ck off or sort his act out

By: steve

steve — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:07:22 +0000

@ChrisL – read my previous comment – have you been watching newcastle this season – we are sh!te and will be dropping down the table like a stone come jan when we have some tough games (although we’ve bizarrely made what were our easiest games tough!
Sam is clueless as are his paid for signings

By: Toon Barmy

Toon Barmy — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:06:55 +0000

We are in a false position birminham & the fulham results only papererd over very wide cracks, weve played terrible stuff all season, We would be behind sam if we tried to play positive football, he’s not interested tho, he’s alienating the fans, he’s looking for the push – he’s having a laugh at our exspence…. come on the players have even told him its not working. SAM ITS NOT F@CKING WORKING!

By: ChrisL

ChrisL — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:28:10 +0000

Our season can’t be that bad surely… We’re only 4 points from a European spot.

Imagine how things will be when Sam gets on top of things.

By: Steeley

Steeley — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:51:48 +0000

Some cracking comments today (particularly from stk) – it was terrible, and those who say Sam needs time to build a squad (in the Keegan/Robson vein) are wrong – they were given so much time because they started out playing exciting football and carried on doing that until something bad happened (personal stress in Keegan sake, and a shit board in Robson’s sake). The fans would have given both men all the time in the world because we appreciated their style of play. When we lost, it was forgiven, because most of the time we played a good game, and the results either side of a loss were inevitably spirited performances where we went out to attack and got goals (and sometimes wins….especially at home; fortress St James’ bla bla bla).
Sam is different. Way different. He has come and played dire football and come up with some extraordinary tactical displays…and not in a good way. What the optimists who say “give Sam 5 years to settle in” obviously dont realise that in 5 years all we will be able to do is perfect the art of the long ball and going away from home for a 0-0 bore draw. Oh, and at home it’ll be exactly the same.
Derby were not there for a draw – it was a must win (bookies had them down at 20-1 to win 1-0 yesterday)….to almost lose was not even in the brains of th Derby players, and their fans are right in wanting to play us every week. I bet every team in the Prem watched that and now thinks “Right, when playing Newcastle, just chase down their midfield (who are scared to run forward with the ball) and they will inevitably backpass to defence (who also dont like to run foward with it), who will then pass to the goalie, who will then hoof it forward….hey bingo, we have the ball back).
I wont even get started on playing players in the wrong places (Martins, Zog, Milner), but I am more worried about what’s happened to Enrique!!
On a positive note, I thought Duff bossed the game when he came on – here’s to more of him (or Zog) in on the LW, Milner RW and 2 out and out strikers up front in a standard 4-4-2.

Come on the Toon – we need to be United regardless of the manager, but crikey, there’s not much more I can take of him if we keep playing like this.

Article SPOT ON by the way Ed!

By: Pi55 Off Sam

Pi55 Off Sam — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:42:47 +0000

Mark if you can’t see Zoggy’s raw talent you have shite in your eyes, and shite on your brain!

By: Nick Dryden

Nick Dryden — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:37:55 +0000

It was crying for Smith to be taken off and get Emre on. What does Smith do apart from get yellow cards? No assists, no goals, just a total waste of a shirt, but a Fat Sam ”undroppable” favourite. Why is it that we can all see this and so many other obvious things, but the idiot who counts, on Â£3M a year, never has a plan B?