Tales from the Toon. The ups and downs of an NUFC supporter....

[mondatoo]

Some of them are absolutely insane Pads, Taylor 9/10, cmon ?? What does that make Vidic, Terry etc 40/10 ?

Marveux 8/10, what ? he's played one game against a lge 1 side and made a couple of runs, provided little, where do you get that rating from ?

And just lol at Guttierez.

[mondatoo]

I didn't actually read the descriptions, is this a level ? Williamson makes no mistakes ? I thought you used to go to the games, so blinkered mate. Taylors even worse than him for mistakes but probably better allround.

[mondatoo]

I'm pretty worried tbh, where are the goals going to come from, Ben Arfa looked good the half a dozen games he played but it will be a while before he's 100% again, Marveux is unproven, we have no goals anywhere, it's early days but Ba looks terrible, is he unfit ?

Maybe I'm overly negative but we won't improve on last season and have shown no desire to. I wouldn't be suprised if we buy nobody attack minded before the window shuts and if that's the case we could easily find ourselves in trouble, AGAIN.

[boldie]

Congrats on signing Erik Pieters...He'll be a great signing for you...Unfortunately we need the cash

[pleno1]

Saylor has been incred so far this season continuing his form at the back end of last season. Williamson is a defender that doesnt do anything flash but just wins everything in the air, hes a stopper I guess. Like against the mackems we put him inbetween Saylor and Collocini and just let him hoover everything up, it also allows us to change to 3-5-2 if we need to.

Jonas has more energy/drive/pace than almost anybody in the prem, he doesnt have a great end product, but carrying the ball and keeping pressure off away from home is super important and very undervalued. He's also great at working back, part of the reason Enrique got so much praise was down to Jonas.

Goals could be a struggle, but if we concede alot less (i think we will) we dont need to score as many as last season. Losing Nolans goals, but keeping possesion/not being overran in midfiled by athletic mdifielders is definitetly better imo.

If we end up with

 Tiote Barton
      Cabay

Marveux  Ben Arga
     10m striker

infront of a very solid back 5 then I would be super happy.

[Josedinho]

Pleno what does 10/10 mean?
Best in prem? Best it world? Best Newcastle can hope for? Best Newcastle have ever had?
Just wondered what you're comparing to.
I really rate Newcastles team and transfer activity this Summer and it's good to see a positive football fan for once so not slating it just wondered how positive you are.

[pleno1]

Congrats on signing Erik Pieters...He'll be a great signing for you...Unfortunately we need the cash

cliffs on him? what hes like etc, have heard moxed re[orts.

[redarmi]

We getting a really nice squad together now. We should sign 3 players before the window and have a really good chance of top 10 finish

Fancy a side bet on it?  Can't see you finishing top ten at all.

Price?

Was thinking something along the lines of Even money if you finish top 11 you win if you finish 12th it is a push and 13th and below I win.

[pleno1]

/10 rates their current performance, jsut because Taylor is a 9/10 atm, sdoesnt mean he wont be a 6/10 at Christmas, players change all the time and i expect us to have lots of weeks where everybody is 5-7's. but at the moment everything looks very rosy.

We are also the only team to have not conceded a goal so far this season.

im happy to sing, 1-0 to the geordie boys every week.

[pleno1]

We getting a really nice squad together now. We should sign 3 players before the window and have a really good chance of top 10 finish

Fancy a side bet on it?  Can't see you finishing top ten at all.

Price?

Was thinking something along the lines of Even money if you finish top 11 you win if you finish 12th it is a push and 13th and below I win.

top 12 i win, 13 push, 14 u win. £250? lots of people think/thought we were certaintys for relegation 10 days ago btw, and we have no left back, no striker, and arguably our best player barton is leaving and arguably out other best player ben arfa is injured, whilst enrique/nolan our 2 most important players for last 3 seasons have left. you can have optiopn to buy out for £175 at xmas.

[redarmi]

Meet you in the middle.  Top twelve you win and anything below I win.  No push.  £250 is fine.

[mondatoo]

/10 rates their current performance, jsut because Taylor is a 9/10 atm, sdoesnt mean he wont be a 6/10 at Christmas, players change all the time and i expect us to have lots of weeks where everybody is 5-7's. but at the moment everything looks very rosy.

We are also the only team to have not conceded a goal so far this season.

im happy to sing, 1-0 to the geordie boys every week.

I thought that was how good you thought they where ability wise, phew

[boldie]

Congrats on signing Erik Pieters...He'll be a great signing for you...Unfortunately we need the cash

cliffs on him? what hes like etc, have heard moxed re[orts.

I rate him, he'll be a full Dutch international for quite a while IMO. Good at Left back and can play Right back. He might take a while to settle into the EPL as the pace of the EPL is obv higher than the Dutch league. But he's pacy enough, has a good eye for positioning and likes to go forward. I wouldn't expect him to contribute many, or any, goals though. He has to work on some things (not the best defender when the ball is up in the air) but he'll get there and I would be surprised if he won't be worth a lot more when he's 25-26.

[gatso]

newcastle reported twice in a week for tapping up players. someone's been very naughty

[pleno1]

noone likes us, we dont care,