Alan Pardew talked to nufcTV after the game, and he seemed delighted to take all 3 points against Norwich City.
Alan Pardew – on the touchline this afternoon
Having been on a bit of a barren spell with only two home points out of our last four games, it was great to get back to our winning ways.
But it was hardly an easy game against a very good Norwich side, who play some very good football, and they were the better side in that tough second half.
But Newcastle hung on well, when it was obvious the lads were nowhere near their best form, and to get 3 points was a a terrific achievement for Newcastle.
This is what Alan Pardew told nufcTV after the game:
“It was a strange game because Norwich had a good grip on it, especially in possession, but we always looked like we were going to get goals.”
“But we couldn’t do what we did against Wolves and give them a way back. In the second half we made sure that they didn’t come back – we sacrificed a couple of flair players, which is something I don’t really like to do.”
“We are a bit nervous at the minute, confidence isn’t high, we are not operating on all cylinders – I think that was evident. But the job for that squad was to win, and we managed to do it.”
Pardew’s team selection was a little strange to say the least, with Jonas Gutierrez at left back, although he did play at full back for Argentina in the last World Cup in South Africa.
James Perch was in defensive midfield, and Yohan Cabaye was wide on the left wing, and the only one that really worked in our opinion was James Perch, who had another solid game in defensive midfield.
And James looks to be walking away with our Man of the Match Award with 41% of the vote on our home page.
Alan Pardew believes his weird selection turned out to be fully justified:
“I felt the way Norwich play, our full-backs would get a lot of possession and Jonas’ left-foot coming from deeper might be valuable.”
“It created the goal, so that’s a good thing.” “Perchy was brilliant, and that’s what he’s all about. That tackle he did in the first four minutes set the tone.”
“But my man of the match today was Cabaye. He played left-midfield, right-midfield, sitting midfield player, attacking midfield player and did them all very, very well.”
“It’s brilliant to have a player like that.” “This was a game for the squad, with eight senior players missing. It was almost a crisis for us, so a win for the squad.”
It’s true that Yohan played all over the place this afternoon, and he was always in the game.
But we have to hope the week’s rest before our next game at West Brom next Sunday afternoon, can at least get Cheick Tiote back and ready to go, and give some our players a good rest.
Even if Newcastle had played at their very best this afternoon, we would have captured no more points than we ended up with this afternoon, so it’s always good to get all 3 points when you are not at your best.
Howay The Lads!!
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1 JTOONJ // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:06 PM
I think the atmos at games at moment is attortious, we need to get back to how it was. HWTL
2 Dannyo // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Gosling was strangely quiet. He usually grabs a yellow or two
And he was on for 15 minutes aswell.
Usually he’s all over the pitch.
Did Guthrie go off with an injury btw?
3 RobertNufc25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:14 PM
West Brom Next week now.
They have been are bogey team for the last few seasons.
4 JTOONJ // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Gosling actually looked quite sharp
5 Dannyo // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM
@Robert
Aye, i dunno what to guess on that outcome tbh.
I can’t say i’m expecting us to lose, cause on paper we shouldn’t. But what it says on paper rarely helps in a match.
I’m gunning for a win, i’m ok with a draw, but i’ll be dissapointed if we lose.
6 toonking // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:20 PM
when we play west brom i think that perch should be given the chance to start as a fullback esspecially if he went LB and santon moved RB because it could help HBA loads and jonas can give perch that extra help when needed also guthrie deserves to start in the 5 man midfield the puzzle i have is who should we have upfront cisse or ba
7 alex84 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:22 PM
toonking, simmo wont be dropped.
8 RobertNufc25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:25 PM
People forget (Including me) that last season was the first time Perch had played at this level.
Massive Improvement like,didn’t put a foot wrong all day.
9 GeordieToon89 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Dannyo – Yeah Guthrie went off with an injury
10 RobertNufc25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Dont no what to expect at West Brom next week.
If we play like today we’ll probably get beat.
11 sammydolan // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
I cannot wait for WBA game now, got loads of baggies mates so cant wait to head down there!
12 jamesnufc86 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:28 PM
West Brom away is a completely different proposition and much harder , they are really good especially at home. I thought perch was exceptional today , he’s really starting to grow on me. I’ve never rated Williamson and today he just looked so uncomfortable on the ball and looks to heavy and slow in everything he does. Not even sure if I’d like him as our 3rd choice after Saylor is back
13 Sgt. Heagerty // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:29 PM
3 points with a cripple squad. Ill take it. All you folks calling for simmos head after today’s game are daft. He wasn’t at his best but I would argue besides krill, perch, and gutti none were. He still played hard and we kept a clean sheet. His solid performances and goal line saves have out weighed his few below par performances. Sign him up he is still learning and getting better. Only his 2nd season in the premiership ans hes only 24. We played hard with a cripple squad and grinder 3 points. Ill take it anyday. Especially when you look at how close papisto is to linking with demba properly. We are gonna be lethal down the stretch. Hwtl
14 RobertNufc25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:29 PM
GeordieToon89 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
You’ve became addicted to that twatter mate lol
Im watching!!!!!
15 Beattie25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:32 PM
West Brom (A) – Shane Long/Peter Odemwinge -
Liverpool (H) – Craig Bellamy/Luis Suarez
Swansea (A) – Scott Sinclair/Nathan Dyer/Wayne Routledge
Bolton (H) – Ryo Myachi/Chung Le/’N'Gog
Chelsea (A) – Torres/Mata/Sturridge
Stoke (H) – Crouch/Walters
Wigan (A) – Moses/Rodeglla
Man City (H) – Aguero/Tevez/Silva/Nasri
Everton (A) – Peinaar/Jelavic/Osman
These are the teams yet to play and their probable attacking choices against us. It is a fair assesment but we will get our arses handed to us if we play like today (or any game since the Man U match).
We are not in for a pretty run in at all.
16 stuart no9 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:33 PM
pardew ” we had 8 players missing” who are the eight? . sounds to me like pards trying to justify the poor shows for fear of losing his job.
17 RobertNufc25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:33 PM
Williamson just looks like a lower league player playing in the premiership.
He gets it & hoofs It 99 times out of 100.
I remember when Bramble used to get the ball passed to him at the back & I used to crap myself.
Its the same with Willamson. lol
18 Beattie25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM
After Guti’s performance today at LB surely there could be justification in saying that Simmo has got competition at RB?
I’d go for it if was Pards. We haven’t got anything to loose but everything to win.
19 GeordieToon89 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:39 PM
Stuart – All a can come up with is: Taylor, Taylor, Lovenkrands, Tiote, Obertan, Best, then maybe you could include Marveaux and Sammy to make the 8
20 TimKrulFan // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:39 PM
I think Jonas at Rb with santon at left toite for perch even though he had a fantastic game first half I thought we played well but seconed half we were poor but defened well everyone seems to forget Norwich are a good team and basically played 6 in midfield at one point Ben arfa was ok I like him at RM but it will be to predictable eventurly so switch it up
21 Dannyo // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:40 PM
@stuart09
I’ll count them for u since u’re so bad at it.
Saylor, Marveux, Tiote, Raylor, Loven, Best, Sammy, and possibly Obertan, or else i doubt Donaldson would be in the squad. Maybe Fergy too?
22 Beattie25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Against WBA:
———————–Krul————————-
Santon—–Willo——–Colo————Guti
———————–Tiote———————–
—————-Cabaye–Guthrie—————
HBA—————————————–Ober
————————Ba————————-
23 Marty-Toon // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:42 PM
8 players missing?but they ain all starters
Great to win again
AP says we weren’t at our best today but we haven’t been since the game against Man u.
Actually we have played poorly for a team so high up and loads of teams are showing us up with their quality passing game.
Without Krul this season we woulda lost lots of games.
Hint:buy some decent defenders.
Hba is quality,loses the ball a bit but has got better and why AP took him off?He runs scared with his tactics.
Shoulda put an extra man in midfield.
We really have to learn to kill off teams by putting away our chances and holding the ball while playing at home.
Too much this year we haven’t even looked like the home team.
24 TimKrulFan // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Beattie you want to drop cisse u mad and away from home it should be 5 man midfield BA CF as cisse looks so deadly
25 North Atlantic Magpie // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:45 PM
I hate Pardews tactics. He is way too defensive and too much hoofball and that is why we don’t get enough out of Ben Arfa. Being dominated by Norwich at home is just poor.
26 toonking // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:47 PM
stuart even though we have only 2 maybe 3 missing from 1st team if you listen to what you PE teacher he will explain that subs and squad depth are just as important as starting 11 so therefore aswell as saylor tiote and possibly raylor missing we had sammy loven best and marv out plus tavier on loan so that makes it 8. why else did gosling start today
27 toonking // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:47 PM
*subbed
28 Beattie25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:47 PM
To say that we played poorly because of injuries is admitting that the players coming in aren’t good enough.
Surely the whole point of having a squad is so that when injuries happen a player can slot in and do an equal job.
For me it was tactics that failed. We suprised Norwich for the first 15, Lambert changed it around, and then Pardew neglected to alter anything.
Then when he did he invited Norwich onto us by taking Benny off when we needed to bring on a player who could retain and play alongside Benny. For me at that point Guthrie off for Vuckic wouldv’e been the best call to alieviate the pressure.
I don’t know if Pardew has the tactical ability. I’m not asking for Barca just a little pass and move and retaining of the ball. I do however reserve complete judgement until next season and we will see in the Summer.
Got a sneaky feeling we will keep Perch, Simmo and Willo and sell HBA, Tiote and BA.
Ha ha only joking
Or am I?
29 gorgonzola // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:48 PM
““But my man of the match today was Cabaye. He played left-midfield, right-midfield, sitting midfield player, attacking midfield player and did them all very, very well.””
Sorry to say BUT WHO was he watching cause Cabaye was getting bossed entire match he put plenty passes wrong, he lost plenty of possession, he failed to make tackles, he was just tired…
30 alip123 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM
A win is a win. Thought we weren’t playing too well but Jonas was great as was Perch. Colo kept things at the back, Willo was shambolic again. Cisse scored a good goal and looked quite sharp; once he has fully adapted then the rest of the prem will fear him.
31 davybtoon // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Most improved player this season is close between perch and rtaylor for me both been brilliant whenever called up on
32 Beattie25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Timkrulfan
I am mad.
But I think 4-4-2 would be lost at WBA and speed is needed to worry their CB’s.
Impact sub, remember he is still settling in.
33 davybtoon // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:51 PM
Cisse goal is a hell of a finish probably harder chance than the 2 one on ones he had
34 gorgonzola // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:52 PM
West Brom (A) – Shane Long/Peter Odemwinge -
Liverpool (H) – Craig Bellamy/Luis Suarez
Swansea (A) – Scott Sinclair/Nathan Dyer/Wayne Routledge
Bolton (H) – Ryo Myachi/Chung Le/’N’Gog
Chelsea (A) – Torres/Mata/Sturridge
Stoke (H) – Crouch/Walters
Wigan (A) – Moses/Rodeglla
Man City (H) – Aguero/Tevez/Silva/Nasri
Everton (A) – Peinaar/Jelavic/Osman
hell there are no easy games there at all…
I think games that will surprise us are Everton, Chelsea and Swansea…
I am personally not looking forward to them…..we seem to pick up form for the big boys…. Swansea I am scared to hell they are playing amazing football, strange that I envy a team that is newly promoted…
35 hattambenarfa // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Does anyone else get the feeling that Ba was just a coincidentally in form stop gap solution, before we got cisse. I fully expect to see him leave in the summer and dont mind since i dont believe he will ever get back to the form he has been in. i can see us playing a 4 33 variation next year and neither of ba or cisse will want to be full time on bench, so unless ba plays lw, which we will have jonas and marveaux fighting for, he wont really be in the team
36 hattambenarfa // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Krul
Santon Taylor Colo Raylor
Perch Tiote
HBA Cabaye Marveaux
Cisse
My team from our players with everybody fit
37 stuart no9 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:56 PM
geordietoon89-dannyo– scraping the barrel their lads- how many of them are starters? there is probably more than 8 if you count the reserves and the kids. saying your so good at maths dannyo how many is that. – loven marveau- donaldson haha com on lads have a night off
38 alex84 // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Perch only plays well against lower teams, gets found out agains teams with real quality im afraid.
39 davybtoon // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:59 PM
You know if ppl aren’t happy with us being 6th when most thought we wud struggle this season they shud really maybe start thinking about supporting another team
40 tooninspain // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:02 PM
I can’t believe there are people on here who are saying that Jonas had a great game. For crying out loud………if he’d been up against a speedy winger like Lennon for example, we would have been murdered. He was out of position countless times. Some of you only seem to notice what he does when he has the ball. What’s as important is what he does when he hasn’t got it, and invariably he’s out of position. How many times did you see Colo, Perch, Guthrie and Cabaye having to come over and cover for him. Take the bloody blinkers off!
41 toonking // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:10 PM
@BEATTIE25 and some others who complain about our squad depth
some info you should learn with squad depth
players like simmo and willo can leave.
but players like perch is much better than you think. you’re just too focused with his one game against norwich away.
fans like you should learn that one game does not determine how good a player is.
Another thing you don’t understand is squad depth any team can have the best starting 11 but if they lack squad depth then they are doomed when injuries and suspension kick in and the trouble with squad depth is it is harder to find the players.
the fact is quality players want to get in the starting team but very few are likely to join if they will be on the bench. so this is leaves you with about 5 choices
1.players like tevez who will do anything to start even if it means loosing his temple during the game. You might then say well we won’t be able to buy a player that price, well the reason i used tevez is he was a good example of these type of players and thinking back not long ago we had bellemy who cause a big upset for this reason.
2. players like smith who were good at there former club but have now lost it all.
3.players like perch who give as much effort for the team as possible when he has the chance so he can try getting a regular starting place.
4. players such as obatan who when ever he has the chance, just runs around without showing much effort for the team and making an attempt to keep his place.
5.rushing young players who have just been brought through and don’t know the league, so will get a lot more pressure trying to prove that they can fit in the team in the future, a good example of the pressure for these young players is FA cup games which we play weakened teams and then give them abuse after getting knocked out off a lower league team so think most them are rubbish
42 stuart no9 // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:11 PM
toonking @ 26 thats stretttttttttttching it a bit mate, but pardew made it sound like that was the problem ,even though HAD they been fit they still wouldnt have featured except for raylor T and maybe sammy
43 Oleg G // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:11 PM
davybtoon // Mar 18, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Who do you think isn’t happy about that? That is rubbish. People here are loving the fact we are up there with the best. Just some (me as well) are afraid that the bad performances will come and bite us against other teams (like we saw more than once this season).
Each team has ups and downs, but after the game against Man C we never recovered.
The most points we got in a row was 6 points since then. Man U + QPR and Blackburn + A. Villa.
From Man C until the Bolton game, we got 2 points out of 6 games and in general we didn’t had a good run of games so we are very much on and off and that doesn’t look good.
Also, from our first 11 games we got more than what we got out of our next 18 games. People are frustrated that instead of going stronger and becoming more United towards the end of the season, we look less like a team.
44 GeordieToon89 // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Stuart – A was trying to agree with you that he cant use that as an excuse because barring Tiote and Obertan then no one matters because they all missed the last game aswell.. and the rest have been injured a while
45 TheToonKing // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:17 PM
@toonking gimme back my name mate >:)
46 geordiejamie89 // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:23 PM
I think Newcastle have done great this season. It would be nice if we could finish the season with a better goal difference than zero. We’ve been hammered a few times this season. I think our best win was against Man Utd, is that right? It would be nice to finish the season on a high. This is a happy season for fans.
47 toonking // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:31 PM
the toonking
sorry didn’t know there was another toonking
but if you are that desperate common why do i rarely see you i don’t think we will be both on at once much plus you are blue
48 beefman13 // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Pardew has lost a lot of my respect pardew is totally covering himself, tiote is the only one who would have made a difference today we knew about the rest, fergie i dont know if he is injured we have had no info, weird tactics weird formation no need for it dont like watching it they dont know what they are going to do when they get the ball, we are punching so much above our weight you wouldnt believe, havnt enjoyed a game since man utd ,, we could make it easier and watch better football. pardew ahs to much of a click with the average seniors for that.
49 DONYWIRL // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:48 PM
What are peoples thoughts on Joe Bennett as left back. Youg, skillfull and British. If Boro don’t come up…
50 LGFUAD21 // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:48 PM
I think the Simmo bashing got to him. The traitors can only blame themselves in part for his poor performance.
Support your team!
We can all sit around saying he’s not what we need to compete at the top but he seldom lets the team down.
Newcastle fans on the whole are getting ridiculous, maybe we need a slump like this as a reality check. Sickens me how our fans have become.
Could hear a pin drop today. Players seem to love playing for Newcastle, They wont if people carry on like this.
Players were off, but the tactics were good. I think if Pardew keeps working on todays tactics the team will get them sharp.
I thought cabaye was quite good actually, There were some sloppy passes from many players but the formation involved a lot of roaming, you cant expect them all to get it right first time.
Cabaye was roaming, Ba was roaming, Guthrie was roaming, Santon was when he came on.
It was frustrating to watch but I also saw some small portions of nice play.
On standard attacks we looked more dangerous, we did break down their defence quite well at times.
Our counter attack is far too slow.
I feel if we had kept Benny on a second goal would have come.
Simmo- quiet, head didnt seem in the game, i reckon he has been affected by his twitter abuse, head was down all game.
TALKING POINT FOR ALL THOSE CALLING FOR THE LADS HEAD. I CAN ALMOST GARUANTEE THAT SANTON WOULD ERFORM NO BETTER ON THE RIGHT SIDE WITH A PLAYER LIKE HBA OR OBERTAN IN FRONT OF HIM, IN FACT I THINK OUR R SIDE WOULD BE VERY VULNERABLE.
Willo- Yes he appeared the weak link and at times I had no idea what he thought he was doing, If he keeps things simple then he’d look more solid. That said he did hold it together in the second half.
Collo- Solid as usual, commands his back 4, our defense would be lost without him (on another note, at least Simmo doesnt need babysitting like Willo and Santon do by Colo)
Jonas- My MOTM. He was one player that looked almost fired up. Think it was easier for him to have control over the left side (defending and attacking). A good decision by Pards.
Perch- Need I say anything. We all know this lad did great today.
Cabaye- I thought was a lot more involved. He was better placed to use his attacking abilities. Good work rate, probably one of our best tacklers as well.
Guthrie- Ive said it before, needs to play more. He actually as brilliant control over the ball when he has it. Does give it away a bit but he is a great passer of the ball, almost always makes the right pass.
Benny- Quieter than usual because Jonas was hogging all the attacks. Good at closing players down off the ball and even if he isnt winning the ball he is still pressuring them. It can be annoying seeing him try to take on players and fail but its worth it for every time it is successful. Players find it difficult to get the ball off him. I personally would have kept him on the pitch longer. The thing is with Benny is that it looks like he is doing nothing when we are on the back foot.
Cisse- Scored the goal, will only get better when he assimilates. He is an instinctive scorer though. Did fall over or slip a fair bit though. Maybe needs a new pair of boots. Needs to work on his off the ball movement.
Ba- Very good work rate. I feel people will think he has slumped more than he has when Cisse is on because he has a completely different role.
Santon- Didnt really bring much to the game. I would have swapped him for Benny and had him on the wing, he is good on the attack.
Shola- I thought he put in a decent cameo personally. Whenever we did attack in the second half it was pretty much because of Shola. Perhaps should have played longer. I hope he will carry on doing this. Definitely best when used as an impact sub this season though.
Gosling- Touched the ball about once, Nothing to say about him. Probably wouldve put abeid on instead because we knew we just had to maintain the scoreline at that point in the match.
IN summary, not really a particular player im criticising. It was more the way the whole team worked, or didnt work, together. We looked tired and i think it was a mental thing. Norwich had good tactics against us, they quickly realised that we could dominate them if we kept shape and benefitted from the expansive tactics so they backed us into tight spots quite a bit and kept us at the sidelines. That is why we needed Benny to create space. I feel he was probably a bit underused in the game as it was very much Jonas’ day today.
We always seem to have a game plan that focuses on only attacking from one side. We need to balance that a bit more because a smarter and stronger defense wouldve quickly locked Jonas out of the game.
But honestly, I feel a formation like today, with a few wins and time to iron it out would prove very effective for us. I say this because on those moments when we did attack today we did seem to have more conviction. There was a greater sense that we might gain a goal from it.
The 3 man midfield made Perch, Guthrie and Cabaye work harder because they were charged with more space to control.
I’d like to see Cabaye on the right in this formation and see if he can be encouraged to do a bit of Joey Barton for us, because in Cisse and Ba we will have targets in the box.
Our biggest faults are the slow tempo we stick to, we dont move the ball around fast enough, we allow too much time for the opposition to restructure, when we should be punishing them with our pace. Our second major fault is the apparently lack of communication and understanding between players, too many misplaced passes etc.
51 Tom4Nufc // Mar 18, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Just watched MOTD, can anyone explain to me why Lawro is always such a tw@t about us? He never gives us the credit we deserve!
3 points is 3 points, to win when you’re not playing well is always something I would take so happy days!
52 Brutooon // Mar 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM
1) happy with 3 points but i am concern about our strategy – he HARDLY keep the ball
2) the best and ONLY player who keep the ball is Shola Ameobi
3) Williamson is a championship player but i said before, we cant do anything about it until SUMMER
4) we played long ball, which didnt succeed inwhich norwich easily get possesion
5) we should play simple SHORT passing football. that will fully utilized the skills of Guthrie,Cabaye and even HBA
6) we can put MESSI or C.RONALDO in our team but they will also struggle if we continue playing long BORING balls
53 howway geordies // Mar 18, 2012 at 11:12 PM
@12 jamesnufc86
WBA have an awful home record this season. That’s not to say it will be an easy game!
54 bettyswallocks // Mar 18, 2012 at 11:17 PM
My view on our style of play today.
After a great build up and superb ball we fell into the same static unadventurous negative system we have witnessed for months.
After scoring at home to Norwich we should have been able to relax and enjoy some posession based creative football leading to a comfortable win.
Instead we see a couple of square passes then no more forward ideas.
Back to willo or Krull then a hoof back to the opposition.
This is frustrating and not plasant to watch.
Something has to change.
We want to be entertained.
This is becoming too boring for all of us.
55 check the toastie // Mar 18, 2012 at 11:23 PM
Toonking- telling beattie what he actually thinks now as well as myself, i judeg perch on everygame and actually wouldnt judge him at norwich as he was playing next to simpson against 2 big lads unfair.
He has played OK at CB this year, he was gud against swansea and against Brighton, but he is no CM and that is the main reason why we dont keep the ball and play decent football, Cabaye and Guthrie should have played in CM, if we need a defensive midfielder against Norwich at home then pardew really is as negative as i think.
Before you start lecturing people about how uninformed their opinion is and how it should match yours, try and form a decent thought out football argument, i attend games to make up my opinion rather than read papers and take pardews deluded crack as gospel.
56 check the toastie // Mar 18, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Agree with you Brutoon love Shola as a supersub, always makes a gud impact.
57 Beattie25 // Mar 18, 2012 at 11:37 PM
toonking
I didn’t think you were worth the effort it would take to respond but seen as check is getting stuck in I’m here to join him.
How can you give Tevez as an example of a player that wants to start every game? a man who ran of to Argentina for 3 months after refusing to play for City. At the same time a man named Billy Sharp had just lost his bay and played on, so your logic is worth fcuk all after that statement you silly shit.
Go back to sleeping in your Chelsea bed sheets, kissing your signed one direction poster and falling asleep and dreaming of collecting that one rare pokemon you retarded keyboard warrior.
58 Spuggy // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:08 AM
So brutooon is a shola fan now – hypocritcal me thinks.
Check the toastie – what are you on about. I was at the game and Perch was one of the best players on the pitch. He hardly put a foot wrong.
We had plenty of attacking flair on the pitch – playing perch was hardly negative when we had Jonas, Arfa, Cabaye, Ba and Cisse in front – to say nothing of Santon. I thought pardew played a very attacking team. You need steel in CM and without Tiote we don’t have a lot.
I agree we weren’t at our best, Pards said so himself, but we were without Tiote and Raylor.
Wonder where the HBA fanclub are? Oh wait he had a poor game of course. He’s got a long way to go to be consistently good over 90 mins.
59 ilovetoon8788 // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:16 AM
Teams like Norwich, we should be easily setting the tone for the match. Just stroking the ball around and get it to our forwards.
3 points is 3 points. That goal by cisse is worthy of winning any game.
Pardew is watching a different player. Cabaye based on his reputation played mediocre today. Guthrie as usual out performed him though even he was not at his best. Perch is a very good player as well.
I still hope i will get to see our club dominate an opponent in our ground. We get whipped all the time. It’s boring.
60 Spuggy // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:18 AM
I though Cabaye had a decent game, not one of his best, but good signs going forward.
Trouble is with Tiote out he was asked to do a lot of cover. We haven’t had a settled team for ages now with the ACoN and Tiote injured again, Cisse coming in.
We need to pray that no one gets injured for next 9 games. Consistency is king.
61 ilovetoon8788 // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:23 AM
I stopped counting at 4 stray passes by cabaye. He was average at best. Which is what he has been since January. And he’s suppose to be our chief playmaker. If we want to play good football, it has to start from cabaye and he has to improve massively.
Maybe he’s just getting used to the league? Hopefully we’ll see more of him next season.
62 Marcelinho_Bramble // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Spuggy : i promise if shola scores again (which he did) i will stop whining about him
Lets move on mate
63 Marcelinho_Bramble // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:32 AM
overall the team got 2-3 passes then BOOOM LONG BALL > then Norwich easily got the ball and starts all over again
64 ilovetoon8788 // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:42 AM
I’m worried about the next game to west brom. Unlike Norwich Shane long and odemwingie won’t be too nice to us. They can put it in the net. As we can’t control a match we will be in the backfoot for long periods holding on to our dear life. Let’s hope Shane and peter odemwingie leaves their boots at home.
65 Offkey // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Brutoon – a persons word is his bond……and yours isn’t worth much.
‘Brutooon // Mar 4, 2012 at 12:45 AM
Shola Ameobi will NEVER score again beacuse he is lazy and shit
I promise if Shola Ameobi score another goal, i will quit this blog for good
66 davis_toons // Mar 19, 2012 at 1:57 AM
A very good ball by Jonas..C shld finish it.
67 geordiejamie89 // Mar 19, 2012 at 2:30 AM
Berbatov a target for Newcastle. . . . .
68 geordiejamie89 // Mar 19, 2012 at 2:34 AM
@Brutoon time to leave the blog, Shola has at least 5 more goals in him, one of which probably against Sunderland. Shola might not be consistant, but he’s scored some good goals for Newcastle over the years, including against Barcelona. He’s been a loyal player to Newcastle, he’s worth ten of Judas Carroll.
69 Brutooon // Mar 19, 2012 at 2:36 AM
i was about to leave the blog but majority want me here
hence i am here, as per requested
SHOLA KING AMEOBI !!!!!!!!
70 Marcelinho_Bramble // Mar 19, 2012 at 2:38 AM
Titus Bramble can score more goal than Shola Ameobi
Most of Shola Ameobi’s goals are PURE LUCK
71 davis_toons // Mar 19, 2012 at 2:56 AM
I always think Simo was a smart player like rtylor, guthie, but are lacking of some attb in them, to hold on a regular place.
Simo just lack of some attacking attib which modern RB needed. otherwise was very smart in reading the game and know where the ball goone be coming from.
(GoalLine clearance, always trying hard to improve)
Wilo standard (old fashion) CD which again lacking of the attacking attaib which modern CD poss. (Carrying ball out from def to att, spot a open space from the back to pass forwad, etc) but he will be ok if he keeps to his game on clearing the ball and head it out. Keep it simple like they say. (Til we got a class CD to improve at the back)
On Guthie, smart player knows alot of on midfield play (choose the right pass, change of direction and etc) but lack alttle physical present which our game needs at midfield. But we have got some real youth talent waiting to play.
72 FatmanJoe // Mar 19, 2012 at 5:20 AM
I actually despair sometimes I really do. Some people will never be happy. No wonder some players leave our club saying ‘were the best fans in the country but also the worst’
we are now on ten clean sheets for the season, the team who put 4 past us earlier didn’t manage to score at all this game and I can count only 1 amazing krul save today (actually thought he was a little slow coming out when Morison was clean through – watch it again, stationary)
but what is going on with all the bitching and moaning. I mean Jesus Christ! Slamming our players for their performances, don’t you know it affects their game and makes them worst for it. Willo pissing about on the ball early in the first half is a direct result of everyone saying he plays hoofball.. Yet colo and krul are also exactly the same. Do they receive criticism? Shit no. They were far more guilty of that today!
Get behind the team. Other fans are laughing about how we are the worst set of fans because of the way we slam our players. Some of you are an embarassment to the club
73 NEWEXPATMAGPIE // Mar 19, 2012 at 6:31 AM
@72
I totally agree with you! I too am starting to get a bit pissed with some of the so called support on here!
We did,nt play well at all today but three points is three points!
Some of the Gits on here are never happy and continue to slag players off! Whilst the most of them are just trying to do their best for the team!
Pardew might of picked a “Weird”? starting eleven today but at least they won and got the points by the end! If it has to be Weird to get three points then i will accept Weird every week!
Perch and Simmo are fast developing into a good players! Most on here have been extremely critical of them both in the past! Williamson is going through a bad patch at the moment , and while he is having confidence problems could probably do without being shat on by some of the plonkers on here!
The home support just does,nt seem to get behind the team any more! You were all cardboard cut-outs again yesterday! t he only game i,ve watched live recently when i,ve actually heard you all was against the Scum the other week!
I missed MOTD last night so hav,nt heard what Lawro said about us! Somone asked themselves why Lawro appears to be such a Twat about us every time! ( @ 51 ) Th guy is a Twat Mon!
Shola Ameobi has come on as a sub quite a few times recently, scored the equaliser against the Mackems! And plays well and trys to give his all every time he comes on!
And their are still idiots on here slagging him off and saying he,s not pulling his weight!
What is that all about?
@72: Yes! I know exactly what your on about!
74 The Eternal Optimist // Mar 19, 2012 at 10:12 AM
i was at the emirates and watched yesterday’s game on the telly. Can only say that ALL of our problems start with poor, rushed distribution from the back. Krul, Simmo, Willo and Cabaye need to be fined the next time they hoof it long.
I’m unsure whether this is Pardews instrctions to the players, or the players lack of creativity and composure but the last two games have been allardyce-esque and it needs to change. I think all of our summer investment needs to be made on the wings and in defence. Forget forwards cos the best in the world would struggle with this kind of service.
Ba and Cisse are not target men for a long ball, give them crosses and they will get 20 goals each minimum per season imo.
75 AndyMac // Mar 19, 2012 at 12:07 PM
“It was a strange game because Norwich had a good grip on it, especially in possession, but we always looked like we were going to get goals.”
“But we couldn’t do what we did against Wolves and give them a way back. In the second half we made sure that they didn’t come back – we sacrificed a couple of flair players, which is something I don’t really like to do.”
“We are a bit nervous at the minute, confidence isn’t high, we are not operating on all cylinders – I think that was evident. But the job for that squad was to win, and we managed to do it.”
Three things straight from the horses mouth all point to one issue – Pardwho.
We cannot keep giving up possession stats to the opposition and expect to win the game – unless we morph into Stoke which is becoming likely with every game played. So its no wonder the players and fans are nervous right now.
On successful passes made and chances created we’re almost bottom of the league !
76 north east lincs toon // Mar 19, 2012 at 8:41 PM
See Mark Lawrenson on MOTD was as usual having a go at us what a bellend that bloke is cocky arse twat he don’t know f all shit player shit pundit 1-0 howay the lads!
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