Comments on: Bassong Pushing For Left Back Starting Position

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:21:33 +0000

Cooper
How can you say Bassong is a CD as apposed to a LB.
Have we watched him enough playing both roles to make that decission ?
I feel his future is as an attacking wing back, due to his pace and strength on the ball combined with decent defensive capabilities.
Yeah I will concede his crossing and picking out the open man leaves something to be desired,
but through practice and experience that can be
rectified.
Think the guy has a future with the right coaching.
Not to say he could`nt also develope into a decent CD.

By: sweendog

sweendog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:48:22 +0000

ToonRich .. yep its got me worried he’s concentrating on praising duff and getting Ameobi and Xisco to sit in the box .. looks like he’s trying to get some high balls in early into the box .. hopefully this is when our wingers are at the by line instead of route one .. but sure I think by trying this he is actually playing to our strengths .. good wing play and getting the strikers in the mix .. ‘Mon the Toon

By: ToonRich

ToonRich — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:38:49 +0000

Yeah, I hope he doesnt install a longball way of playing over the coming month…could that be his thought about geting Shola playing again?

If their right about JK getting flair players to perform then we should be in for some good entertaining football, what with the likes of Zog, Jonas & Duff all playing when fit

By: sweendog

sweendog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:33:44 +0000

ToonRich .. agreed .. but I read some comments on bbc from Forest supporters .. now I’m all for giving Kinnear a chance .. but they slated him for the reason that after 1 season he got them playing long ball football .. on a plus note he supposedly got Andy reid etc (flair players) playing well again .. fingers crossed we get a few good results .. Man City and West Brom home wins will go a long way to keeping Newcastle in the Premiership.

By: ToonRich

ToonRich — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:25:39 +0000

Elfer, Jonas is predominantly a rightsided player. So why would we waste him on the left when we have Zog and Duff to fill that position?
IMO, Jose hasnt shown his potential yet, and I’d be happy for Bassong to keep that position.

Sweendog, but come on compare Wimbledons football with Newcastles keegan brand of football .. no contest. I agree with what you are saying, but JK hasnt got us playing the Crazygang style has he…we looked like a good passing team on sunday, not many long balls played at all.

By: sweendog

sweendog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:31:57 +0000

Anybody saying kinnear is better than Keegan must be mad ..
Fair play to Kinnear for doing well for us at Everton (who are cr*p at the moment)
but come on compare Wimbledons football with Newcastles keegan brand of football .. no contest.

By: sweendog

sweendog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:29:51 +0000

Worst 10 prem players ..
I think we’ve had our fair share of them.

Titus shambles,Marcelino, Boumsong – 3 in one go
Ian Dowie (worse scoring record than alan smith)
Alan Smith – to be fair this is only going on current form
Thomas Brolin – Leeds (he got so fat he couldn’t run, class act before going to leeds)
Taibi – man U’s worst ever keeper(even the away fans were cheering him)
Stephane Guivarch Newcastle- man that guy could not score any goals
Sergei Rebrov – class player with Shevchenko but cr*p for spurs (couldn’t happen to a worse team)
Akinbiyi (leicester)- only been outdone by Ian Dowie in the can’t score for sh*t league

By: samthecat

samthecat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:20:41 +0000

Lets not rewrite history-it was Keegan who had the tactical idea to play Owen in a withdrawn role behind 2 strikers-it worked and saved last season.
I t was Keegan who was quite prepared to have a look at Bassong in training and realise he was a good player and give the ok on the signing.

By: ELFER

ELFER — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:08:54 +0000

I think jose could build a fantastic partnership on the left side with gutièrez!

As well as beye with geremi! I’m excited to see this setup and in front again duff with owen! Howay the lads!

By: Sav

Sav — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:14:10 +0000

Doesn’t say a whole lot about 6.5million Enrique that a centreback kid we got for next to nowt is going to keep him out of the side. Which I think he will.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:39:24 +0000

Get Taylor out of the heart of defence…He sucks…Replace him with Bassong.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:07:30 +0000

Bassonf is a CB and shouldnt be played at LB

Especially if we use attacking wingbacks (which we did under king kev anyway)

By: PapaToon

PapaToon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:54:19 +0000

Bassong isnt that good yet in the final third, his crossing needs work.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:41:07 +0000

Sometimes players take a while under Wenger to settle… Pires, Flamini, Hleb, Henry, … all these players took a while to come right…
I know Eboue has been there a while he has always played RB. Give him time to settle as an AM andhe’ll be excellent… watch…

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:38:48 +0000

Well when he played AM against us… he tore us to shreds…