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« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2007, 06:17:08 PM » |
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I'd have Berb and King in our team from Tottenham, thats it - but I think thats because I don't see much between the 16's. If I see a Tottenham team sheet with Jenas in it against Newcastle I am pleased.
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« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2007, 08:02:46 PM » |
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I'd have Berb and King in our team from Tottenham, thats it - but I think thats because I don't see much between the 16's. If I see a Tottenham team sheet with Jenas in it against Newcastle I am pleased.
LOL Well. Looks like the Spurs v Newcastle fixtures should be tasty this year. :-) To me Spurs look far stronger and will probably finish at least fourth ( maybe higher) The odds are not the best though so I'm with Tighty here. Portsmouth. I've just noticed that Sky are offering E/W at 1/4 the odds . So by my reckoning ( and it may be wrong) that's them giving me 5/1 on Pompey finishing in the top 7!! Seems good value to me considering the players they have brought in.   |
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« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2007, 09:51:49 PM » |
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"spurs are annual underachievers"
Absoloutely right. they only finished fifth for the last two seasons!
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« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2007, 10:18:26 PM » |
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"spurs are annual underachievers"
Absoloutely right. they only finished fifth for the last two seasons!
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« Reply #34 on: July 25, 2007, 10:18:45 PM » |
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If you'd have asked a Tottenham fan if they though they had a stronger team than newcastle at the start of the season for XX (a lot!) years they would probably have said yes...but (with the W or L's being orientated to Newcastle)
2006/07
Home - W 3-1
Away - W 3-2
2005/06
Home - W 3-1
Away - L 2-0
2004/05
FA cup - W 1-0
H - L 1-0
A - L 1-0
2003/04
H - W 4-0
A - L 1-0
2002/03
H - W 2-1
A - W 1-0
2001/02
H - L 2-0
A - W 3-1
2000/01
H - W 2-0
A - L 2-4
Total - Played 15. Won 9, Lost 6. For 26, Against 16.
I won't go back to our 7-1 hammering of them that caused Kegan to resign!!!
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« Reply #35 on: July 25, 2007, 10:19:22 PM » |
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The draw doesnt really look like a good bet, thats for sure!!!!
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« Reply #36 on: July 26, 2007, 12:11:29 AM » |
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The draw doesnt really look like a good bet, thats for sure!!!!
Rooky, I think you are being rather short sighted BRINGING UP RECENT HISTORY!!!!!!!1111111 17 years ago you were getting 15k< at homes games you haven't won a MAJOR trophy in APPROXIMATELY 409 YEARS!!!!!!!!!11 Love you really  |
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« Reply #37 on: July 26, 2007, 05:53:25 AM » |
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both teams are bottle merchants, of that there is no doubt.
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« Reply #38 on: July 26, 2007, 07:59:06 AM » |
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The draw doesnt really look like a good bet, thats for sure!!!!
Rooky, I think you are being rather short sighted BRINGING UP RECENT HISTORY!!!!!!!1111111 17 years ago you were getting 15k< at homes games you haven't won a MAJOR trophy in APPROXIMATELY 409 YEARS!!!!!!!!!11 Love you really We can go back to when records began, and show that Newcastle actually do have one of the best records in football in terms of honours, there are only a handful of teams that of won the FA cup more times than us! And lets face it, if you haven't won anything in the last couple of seasons then what does it matter when it was won - its all about when the next one you win is! 17 years ago we may have been getting smaller crowds, but why stop at 17 years ago? Lets go 40 - and see 60,000 crowds!!! Not sure why attendance dropped - may have been something to do with half the male population being unemployed when coal and ship building died on its arse!! We've had three million more people than Tottenham through our gates since records began, 5 million more than Chelseas - that'll do for me! Love you too |
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« Reply #39 on: July 26, 2007, 01:59:52 PM » |
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there are only a handful of teams that of won the FA cup more times than us!
And Spurs are one of those.
Newcastle are a moderate side and will certainly struggle under the less than moderate Allardyce. He will find managing an "in the spotlight" club a lot tougher than his previous job where expectations were zero.
Statistics can be massaged to prove almost any theory. The league table doesnt lie, except in the case of West Ham, and teams finish where they deserve.
Write to me next May please.
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« Reply #40 on: July 26, 2007, 05:44:56 PM » |
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I never once claimed that Newcastle had won it more times than Spurs - just dispelling the usually theories.
If you let me know what I'm writing to you about net May I'll be more than happy to do so.
Your middle paragraph is off the mark. I'm not a massive Big Sam fan but you can see the level of detail in his management alone shows him to be one of the best around, only time (and it may take a couple of years) will show what he is like at 'a club in the spot light'.
A fully fit midfield and attack matches pretty much anything in the league.
Teams can very easily finish above or below where there relative ability would put them. A season is only 38 games - variance, luck, injury doesnt alway even over a season. Having said that I'm pretty happy to accept that its the best method to judge that there is.
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« Reply #41 on: July 26, 2007, 10:07:45 PM » |
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"spurs are annual underachievers"
Absoloutely right. they only finished fifth for the last two seasons!
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« Reply #42 on: July 27, 2007, 01:29:48 AM » |
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"spurs are annual underachievers"
Absoloutely right. they only finished fifth for the last two seasons!
In my book, achievement = trophies!! Yeah and we have won 10 since Newcastle last won their Fairs cup which was an invite only cup, itself a mickey mouse trophy. |
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« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2007, 02:11:41 PM » |
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Spurs cup team, Newcastle not even that.
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« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2007, 06:18:22 PM » |
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I'll officially withdraw my post about 5th if we dont get hold of at least one quality centre back and a left back. The lad playing left back is a league one standard centre back and we'll get battered every game he plays sadly. Having said that the pre season goals (and results) have been encouraging, with 40million worth of starting line up missing too.
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