The Footie Thread

[Deleted member 15344]

Looks like Arteta needs a hearing aid - apparently didn’t hear the boos of the crowd


I still don’t understand how he is in the job , just like OGS - zero track record at any top level job.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1429463015745785865

Quality from Fred

 

[AmandaJR]

His ball into the box is sublime, everything after that is on a par with me. Including pace

Sublime - sometimes...he's shocking.

How impressive was Jesus out wide though?? Had a brilliant game.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Watching the Roma game and Abraham goes through but goes wide , GK comes out tries to slide tackle - the very slightest of touches and he goes down outside the box and the red gives a red card ??? two players got back as well

 

[4LEX]

What a poor game.
One deflected goal and one miss-hit goal, that just about sums it up.

Gotta win those games, too much hype from the Leeds game which was a suicide mission from Leeds. Literally attacked with numbers and left huge gaps for Pogba to exploit. Park the bus and you can see how badly managed Utd are. Still early days but worrying signs Ole has learnt nothing.

 

[SaintHacker]

It looks like it's going to be a long season for Southampton, .

Really? 2 games in, one at Goodison where we haven't won since dinosaurs were still roaming, and a point at home against a Utd side who are unbeaten in the last 27 away games. A couple of exciting signings already this sumer with one or two more mooted, I think we're going to be just fine this season.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Gotta win those games, too much hype from the Leeds game which was a suicide mission from Leeds. Literally attacked with numbers and left huge gaps for Pogba to exploit. Park the bus and you can see how badly managed Utd are. Still early days but worrying signs Ole has learnt nothing.

Did anyone really expect him too ? Until Man Utd get a proven top class manager then the inconsistency will stay - its like having a learner driver in an F1 car - all the tools maybe top class but a waste if you can’t get them working together.

It also doesn’t help spending £80mil on a winger when the centre mids are nowhere near good enough

 

[Cherry13]

Really? 2 games in, one at Goodison where we haven't won since dinosaurs were still roaming, and a point at home against a Utd side who are unbeaten in the last 27 away games. A couple of exciting signings already this sumer with one or two more mooted, I think we're going to be just fine this season.

As a Newcastle fan, our next game against your lot already feels huge. If we don’t get anything from it, we’ll be lucky to be on 6 points by November, and Bruce will still be there.
Hopefully we can get a CB and proper defensive midfielder in, but it’s not looking good

 

[nickjdavis]

As a Newcastle fan, our next game against your lot already feels huge. If we don’t get anything from it, we’ll be lucky to be on 6 points by November, and Bruce will still be there.
Hopefully we can get a CB and proper defensive midfielder in, but it’s not looking good

We would be better off with a Polish bricklayer.

Nailed on for Adam Armstrong to score against us next week. I'll give the forum that "top tip" for free...everybody can thank me on Saturday evening.

 

[Tashyboy]

Sublime - sometimes...he's shocking.

How impressive was Jesus out wide though?? Had a brilliant game.

Was reading piece where Jesus plays out wide for Brazil. One reason why, Neymar. If its good enough for Brazil its good enough for City.
That said, interesting to hear oles thoughts on fouls this season, he feels the new Interpretation has gone to far. As do I..watch this space as I think it will be this years VAR

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Really? 2 games in, one at Goodison where we haven't won since dinosaurs were still roaming, and a point at home against a Utd side who are unbeaten in the last 27 away games. A couple of exciting signings already this sumer with one or two more mooted, I think we're going to be just fine this season.

You're right, it's early days, a point against utd after their rampage last week is a good point. I just don't see a spark in the team and you don't have the goals of Ings this year. Saying that, get 3 points at St James Park next week, sit on 4 points and alls well. Points not performance, performance can come?

 

[fundy]

wow, horrid scenes in France. A bottle got thrown from the crowd and hit Payet, Payet threw the bottle back into the crowd and then some of the fans stormed the pitch and started to fight with the players

 

[Deleted member 15344]

wow, horrid scenes in France. A bottle got thrown from the crowd and hit Payet, Payet threw the bottle back into the crowd and then some of the fans stormed the pitch and started to fight with the players

https://twitter.com/x/status/1429541569523298307

???

 

[Cherry13]

We would be better off with a Polish bricklayer.

Nailed on for Adam Armstrong to score against us next week. I'll give the forum that "top tip" for free...everybody can thank me on Saturday evening.

Him and Toney to have great games against us, then no doubt when longstaff leaves he’ll have a great game. We’ve always been useless at bringing through talent or selling at the right time.

Aside from a polish bricklayer, if he does get rid of Bruce, then who?? Hughes was odds on favourite last year, that’s just as much a concern. Can’t see us attracting anyone with a ‘philosophy’ like Howe, although Parker might be a viable cheap option, but un-proven.

 

[nickjdavis]

wow, horrid scenes in France. A bottle got thrown from the crowd and hit Payet, Payet threw the bottle back into the crowd and then some of the fans stormed the pitch and started to fight with the players

2nd week in a row it has happened....think it was Montpellier v. Marseilles last week.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

We’ve always been useless at bringing through talent or selling at the right time.

Considering the catchment area for Newcastle, who else they compete against for talent, it staggers me how poor the generation of talent is through the academy at Newcastle. Who has come out of there in the last 20yrs?

I know from my sons time playing junior football, 7-8 years ago, that the better players preferred to go to Sunderland as their academy had a better reputation. That is quite an indictment.

 

[Cherry13]

Considering the catchment area for Newcastle, who else they compete against for talent, it staggers me how poor the generation of talent is through the academy at Newcastle. Who has come out of there in the last 20yrs?

I know from my sons time playing junior football, 7-8 years ago, that the better players preferred to go to Sunderland as their academy had a better reputation. That is quite an indictment.

Same when I was a junior 25 years ago, Sunderland and Middlesbrough were miles ahead.
The untapped talent is huge, you just need to look at the fa vase and the number of loca teams that win it to see there’s obviously a huge amount of raw talent, it just unfortunately doesn’t get the right nurturing… the various fa’s (Northumberland/Durham) do a decent job, but you need an elite academy to get players up to PL level.

The 2 fa’s even do a decent job bringing through refs, the most recent example being Rebecca Welch

 

[Tashyboy]

I stand corrected, but going back 20 years a team called Wallsend boys came down to the Mansfield area. My lads team played them. At the time my sons team were the second best in mansfield at his age group. The Wallsend boys battered them. They were astonishing to watch, am sure they said kids from.that club eg Beardsley, waddle etc went onto play for Newcastle.

 

[Cherry13]

I stand corrected, but going back 20 years a team called Wallsend boys came down to the Mansfield area. My lads team played them. At the time my sons team were the second best in mansfield at his age group. The Wallsend boys battered them. They were astonishing to watch, am sure they said kids from.that club eg Beardsley, waddle etc went onto play for Newcastle.

You’re right wallsend are excellent, and an absolute gem in the north east football scene, there roll call of players is excellent including the current manager, Shearer, Carrick, loads of them. The problem is typically lads go elsewhere after wallsend, because they are a well known hotbed.

Liverpool have just took the current starlet (Lee Clark’s son), and Man Utd took the last gem (Shola Shoretire). Unfortunately the path from wallsend boys to premier league footballer does not often go via Newcastle.

Also, the less said about Pedro and the academy the better. Unfortunately he has set them back a good few years.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I stand corrected, but going back 20 years a team called Wallsend boys came down to the Mansfield area. My lads team played them. At the time my sons team were the second best in mansfield at his age group. The Wallsend boys battered them. They were astonishing to watch, am sure they said kids from.that club eg Beardsley, waddle etc went onto play for Newcastle.

My sons team was in a league with them for two seasons. It was an absolute pleasure to watch them school his team ?. It was one of those where as parents we just stood on the sidelines purring at their play, we didn't care about the score. They were playing Pep football, nothing over physical, nothing humped forwards, all movement and silky passing.

The ethos of the club was excellent, really good coaching, no arrogance. They do attract the best players, trials every year, but even so they do a great job with them.

One of the issues now is that academies vacuum up the best players and then restrict how and where they play. They really do have a lot of control and if that academy is not great then you are messing up a lot of talent.

 

[Slime]

I heard today that Burnley have gone 95 Premier League games without a player getting a red card!
That's awesome, well done them.