Ben Arfa in action yesterday
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Ben Arfa in action yesterday
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Name | League | Cups | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Isak | 10 | 4 | 14 |
Wilson | 8 | 1 | 9 |
Gordon | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Longstaff | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Almiron | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Schar | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Joelinton | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Barnes | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Guimaraes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Burn | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Botman | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Murphy | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Miley | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lascelles | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Trippier | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Tonali | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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And there was no evidence the treatment was having any positive effect in stopping the prostate cancer from spreading in the bones.
There are no treatments left for me to go on.I will go into home hospice care now and will have a hospice nurse visit me at home regularly to ensure I am as comfortable as possible and we will treat the side effects of the treatments I have had.
It's down the final stretch now, and I have run out of treatments, and nature will now take its course.
I hope Newcastle can get many wins this season from now on, and I am at peace with all of this.
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190 comments so far
John Tudor
Jan 5, 2014 at 1:58 PM
Comment #161we should have employed billy davis
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 1:58 PM
Comment #162Bills
Which is why I am delighted t hear the money they are spending on the academy, got to look to the long term when operating on a tight budget, but also can’t forget the short term.
JP...from The Rock
Jan 5, 2014 at 1:59 PM
Comment #163TS – If Poyet were as good as he’s made out to be he would have sorted the players attitudes and mistakes by now. I am not impressed by him at all.
About our players not moving forward I agree and disagree. We sometimes move the ball really well and often in confined space, w should spread the ball around more and be more creative with it but that is down to our players I feel. Gouffran has made a huge improvement over Gutierrez and is chipping in with the goals. Remy is playing out of position as I feel he should be on the left of a front 3 or playing with a proper strike partner that supplies knock on AND is a goal-threat, something that neither Strolla or Cisse are.
We lack those two or three players to take us that final step I feel. When we had Ba he could hold the ball up brilliantly and bring others into the oppositions half with and feed it to them. The problem then was we didn’t have Debuchy, Remy and Gouffran.
We’ve always been a couple of key players short from assembling an amazing team. We have more quality now but we lost our key striker in Demba and that is devastating to any club. Imagine Liverpool without Suarez for example. We never recovered from that and Remy is not an out an out Striker that can hold up the ball. He is more of a Bellamy type player that can cut in at pace and score some great goals.
We keep shooting ourselves in the foot as we do good business to strengthen in a couple of positions only to do bad business just round the corner by weakening other areas of our first eleven.
Ron Knee
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:02 PM
Comment #164Has Poyet stopped the rot to an extent, getting a few draws rather than defeats?
jazzyp
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:03 PM
Comment #165I know its not been the most attractive football but up until the arsenal match that I thought we deserved to at least draw it was all positive.And because we have lost 3 on the bounce…….probably 4 after next weekend nufc has all of a sudden gone to pot has it ????????
bills-son
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:04 PM
Comment #166TS,
I said earlier today that Martinez has done an excellent job at Everton but. … Lukaku, Deulofou and Barry are loan signings and Barkley is an outstanding talent that he inherited.
Everton won’t win the Prem and they are an injury to Lukaku away from being in the same situation as us if Remy gets injured. I doubt their squad is big enough or good enough to get a top four finish.
That leaves them playing for the EL and a cup. Same as us really and every team outside of the top four.
Rotonda heights
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:04 PM
Comment #167“For the last three years I don’t know, it’s science against me.” Is the absolute zenith of Pardish .
jazzyp
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:05 PM
Comment #168Sweendog
And how much do you seriously think we will make from the sale of gutti………..2-3-4 mill ??
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:06 PM
Comment #169JP
they were rock bottom of the league on 1 point when he came in after 5 games….they are now still bottom but have picked up 13 points from his 15 games…not great but a lot better.
Di canio had frozen people out, signed poor quality and demotivated the lot of them.
poyet can only do so much, if the players are poor/lazy he can’t change them overnight, there is steady improvement in how they play they just lack a goal threat and have a lot of players who are wreckless.
Ron Knee
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM
Comment #170Sorry, typo
Hasn’t Poyet …
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:08 PM
Comment #171bills
That’s true but lets see how martinez deals with an injury to a key man, we won’t know until it happens.
I think the loan moves are something we really need to look at. I’d say you look at the team, if it’s good enough with no gaps fine, if you want to improve look to kids, if they are ready use them, if not buy a player, if a player is out of budget go for a loan.
We did this with remy, we ideally should have looked around for other positions we are short and tried to make a loan.
I’m against loans for the sake of it, especially if it hampers kids in your team from playing, but if the kids aren’t good enough no point missing out on a loan to play them when they will be no good.
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:11 PM
Comment #172jazzy
Guti is meant to be on 50k a week. Thats 2.6 mil a year.
So even if we get a couple million, having him gone frees up a good amount of money.
Got to remember every 20k a week wage works out at just over a million pound a year. So shipping out the likes of obertan, marv, taylor, guti can really help us to bring others in.
Jail for Ashley
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM
Comment #173People saying we missed out on Martinez, we didn’t, by all accounts he had a great relationship with Dave Whelan and we know what he thinks of our toadlike owner, he wouldn’t come within a country mile of us, nor would any other manager come to think of it, that’s why the silver tongued lothario is perfect for the job of delivering mediocrity while kidding himself he’s not.
JP...from The Rock
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM
Comment #174TS – Yeah?..really?… and what do you think about us always being that 2 or 3 players short then? No comment? I bet you must hate to agree with me on something lol
I feel we get Demba back, somehow keep Remy and sign another CAM that can actually dribble past players with the ball and do all the things Cabaye also does and we are laughing all the way to a top 6 finish every season.
Before we needed a LW to replace Gutierrez, that’s done with Gouff now, we needed an upgrade on Simpson as he was too defensive, we now have that with Debuchy. We needed an upgrade on Willo, we now have that with M’biwa (fair to Willo he’s in the form of his life), and we needed a bit more steel in midfield and we also got Sissoko.
Where we lack now is up front and that is the most crucial part to any side. If you don’t shoot you don’t score and with Strolla for example we will never get anywhere.
Remy alone can’t do it and he’s not the out and out striker that Demba was for us. Cisse is way too inconsistent and not as good as Demba Ba in my opinion.
A ST, CAM and if we’re lucky another young striker that can also play in midfield and we are flying. BUT we have to move quickly in the transfer market as not to disrupt our slow and steady progress.
We are really close to a brilliant team, don’t you agree?
Rotonda heights
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:17 PM
Comment #175bills son
Sorry but in between some occasionally valid comments you do make some very questionable ones too.
Martinez has Everton on another planet to us. Do you not remember being 3-0 down at half time to them and being completely destroyed .
Who cares if they’re loan signings, they’re very inventive and creative ones. If only we had some.
More importantly they play an expansive passing attacking game which is great to watch ( a bit like Forest just now) Unlike our ” containing’ and hope to nick 1 mentality.
Martinez won the FA cup with the weakest squad in PL history last season so I would say the way they play and the position they are in, they have a fair greater chance of finishing 5th or winning a cup, not least because they are still in one!.
We have no cohesion or fluency whatsoever and have averaged only 3 shots on goal for part of the season.
I would be truly amazed if we can get back to top 5/6 now after such rank management over the festive period
Novocastrian66
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:17 PM
Comment #176We’ve lost 3 games in a row and we could have won them all. We’re lacking up front. We do not have enough quality to change things if we need a spark. Giving Shola a jersey is a waste of laundry and Cisse is out of sorts. This is where our transfer focus should be.
Disappointed with the lack of ITK’s in this window.
jazzyp
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:17 PM
Comment #177TS
Good point bud and yes as stated before would sooner move on fringe players that contribute nothing and bring in a player that would make a significant difference to our squad
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:18 PM
Comment #178Jail
I really disagree we couldn’t get a good manager in. There are tons of managers who work under far worse conditions than pardew. Look around europe.
I’m sure we could get a good manager in if we wanted to.
Rotonda heights
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:19 PM
Comment #179jail
that’s why the silver tongued lothario is perfect for the job of delivering mediocrity while kidding himself he’s not.
Very good summation.
stuart no9
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:19 PM
Comment #180I still can’t believe some people blame the players for yesterday’s performance . For 6 years now we have seen what a waste of time we have for an owner . For 3 years we have witnessed what a clueless , inept excuse we have for a manager , and yet you still try to work out where the problems are be how we could rectify them . Simple , get rid of both of them , it dosnt need a full length debate to work that little poser out . Last week he was god because he won a couple of games , even by his own admission he “knew ” he was a good manager and that this was now ” his ” team – well he is right , this is his team – a team who have crumbled like a pack of cards have got his stamp all over it . Let’s be honest , he’s a loser who would blame his granny for a defeat if he had to . Let him blame who he likes but one thing he shouldn’t forget , this is ” his ” team . 3 long years and that is what he comes up with O.G.S. At Cardiff 5 minutes and gives him a lesson on how to manage hahahaha. What a plonker .
Rotonda heights
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:23 PM
Comment #181Bit hard on Poyet. they were 8 points adrift. if they had won last week they would have moved out of the bottom 3.
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:25 PM
Comment #182JP
I agree we always seem to be short by a few but I guess every set of fans say the same really, even chelsea and arsenal are short of top forwards. But yeh I agree we always leave a gap in the squad, at least this time it’s a gap in the squad though and not a gap in the starting 11 as some previous years.
I still think, even with additions, we will not progress as far as the squad is capable due to the overly cautious approach of the manager. The players and manager do not suit each other, Pardew gets about 70% out of the team, i’d like a guy who could get 85-95% out of them consistently.
I think marv showed when he was in the centre that he was the man who could skip past a player and find a killer pass but he’s totally disappeared this season.
I think we are close to a very good and exciting team, a brilliant team requires a general higher quality and at least one key/big player like a suarez, aguero, messi, ronaldo, van persie, etc.
But yeh, agree on the general sentiment of your post, just think under pardew we will always have good runs but never reach our full potential.
Ketsbaia9
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:29 PM
Comment #183If we’re selling Marveaux, we’ll need to sign Cabella, Gourcuff and N’Zogbia. I’d also sign Ba and Doumbia to replace Ameobi.
Rotonda heights
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:29 PM
Comment #184JP
Once cabella has been pardewed he’ be like cisse, benny, Marveaux etc.
People who say we can’t get a manager better than Pardew. Really?. I’ve just seen one there in Billy Davies.
The guy plays great football as does the burnley guy. I just want to enjoy watching football again and not be told ” we contained them” whoopy – do!!
Big Pappa Cissé
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:30 PM
Comment #185Am I the only one that thinks Gouffran is wasted t wide ? . Yes he is good defensively, but we must be one of the only teams in the league that have a CF playing left wing and as a second left back when defending .
If we stick with 4-4-2 I would like to see:
—————————–Krul——————————
–Debuchy——–Willo——–M’biwa——–Haidara–
—Sissoko———Cabaye——–Tiote———-HBA—
——————–Gouffran——–Remy——————
I think with two left footers on the left we would create a lot more down that side rather than relying on Debuchy . Supposedly Santon has a decent left foot yet I am yet to see it, he always cuts back on to his right and it is so easy to defend .
Transfer Sage
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:31 PM
Comment #186rotonda
exactly, for fans it’s not just about winning, it’s about being entertained for our money and being proud of the side for having a go. Of course some games we may need to play on the counter but not all.
You can accept this football when winning as thats what the manager is paid to do, but when it isn’t working and it appears the team is capable of more it’s frustrating
Rotonda heights
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:34 PM
Comment #187BPC @ 120
Spot on
bills-son
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:36 PM
Comment #188Rotunda,
I said earlier that Martinez had transformed Everton’s midfield by signing Deulofou, Barry and McCarthy and playing Barkley.
Bearing that in mind I largely agree with your post.
JP...from The Rock
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM
Comment #189TS- To an extent I agree on your Pardew assessment also. Pardew does tend to sit back on a one goal lead and that is infuriating. We can do better, but remember can do so much worse as it is Ashley who will decide what manager to bring in, and honestly his football decisions scare the hell out of me. Better the devil you know I guess. Tbf to Pardew he hasn’t had the luxury of a Shearer upfront like some of our past managers have had and we still beat Man U at Old Trafford this season with this current squad, without a proper out and out striker. We can’t compare our forward line to the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal as they have quality in abundance. We have a more than a decent squad that just needs that extra bit of tweaking to make it a huge success, if only Ashley could see that.
We need more of a goal threat and now more than ever without Demba Ba and a goal shy Cisse. I would also like to see us have a Roberto Martinez type of manager that doesn’t sit back on a one goal lead but he ain’t going anywhere soon so let’s focus on what we need and what can be improved on and that is our squad of players. All this negativity around Pardew is a bit over-dramatic I feel as only recently we were doing really well beating the top 4 and giving them a right go. We even drew level with Liverpool with 10 men on the field for an entire half, I can’t remember the last time we did something like that.
It’s easy to point the finger at Pardew because he plays it safe way too many times but you can’t hide the fact he has improved our team in general and we are slowly improving under him. If we could make bigger strides forward under another manager is open to question but until his contract is up we’ll have to put up with him I am afraid.
I dream of the day Strolla leaves and we sign a proper ST that scores and creates ffs. That will be the day. Too long has he kept us back and too long managers have been deceived and folled into thinking he is a ‘footballer’ let alone a ‘striker’ to score goals and take us up the league.
We lack the layers and never have fully recovered since the great Alan Shearer left us. Owen was supposed to be the answer and we all know how that twat sent us back years.
As I mentioned we keep shooting ourselves in the foot and it’s so frustrating to watch. Now that we have the pacey Bellamy type player we needed in Remy he’s only here on loan and we’ll probably have to look again at the end of the season. The same happened with Carroll and Demba Ba although Carroll is an exception as I would have taken that money too, it was a crazy bid from Liverpool that did us a huge favour tbh, look at the great squad we have now because of it.
STs and CAMs is what we need to take us to the next level so let’s pray that Ashley delivers this January.
PS Sorry for the very long post.
JP...from The Rock
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM
Comment #190Rotonda – Marveaux really is a mystery as he was doing the business only to be left out of the cold ala Anita. The thing with Anita is that he hasn’t stopped trying to impress Pardew and maybe Marveaux has in training. Who knows? I really do wonder what the deal is with him as I like him as a CAM. Though sometimes he does go missing in games. We can’t really blame Pardew on that one as we don’t know the full strory, maybe his attitude stinks?
What I hate about Pardew is his reliance on Strolla. Last season it was with Gutierrez, and that was obviously not our best option. This year thankfully Strolla hasn’t featured as much, but the fact is he shouldn’t be anywhere near our team. The same goes with Obertan. The guy is also useless. Makes me look like a football superstar. We need to get rid of this dead wood and there is no point risking playing them to put them in the ‘shopwindow’ if it’s going to cost us points!
The sooner we get rid of them players the sooner we’ll improve and move forward.
Just imagine if we replaced them with Carr’s recommended players.