If You Have to Pick One, Duff or N’ Zogbia?

Posted by: Mungo · February 25, 2008 · 3 Comments

Apologies for PROBABLY starting an uneccessary post, anyway, I digress. Just had an argument with a mate of mine and I reckon it could apply to a few on here as well?

We play Duff at outside left and we play Zog at left back. The reason is obvious, our current and previous managers feel that they MUST find a place in the team for both players.

Result of not playing both would result in …

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What Can Be Done With Current Newcastle Squad

Posted by: Clarky · February 24, 2008 · 2 Comments

Kevin Keegan has largely utilised the same players that BSA selected, despite their continuing failure to perform.

I’ve posted on two consecutive ‘verdict’ posts something to the effect that continuing to play 4-4-2 with Butt and Barton in central midfield is simply not going to bring about the improvement we need. So, what alternatives does he have?

Well, for a start he could tell Steve Harper he is his first choice for the rest of …

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Newcastle Utd vs Manchester Utd Postmortem

Posted by: Clarky · February 23, 2008 · Comment

What can really be said that hasn’t been said a hundred times in a thousand different ways? Only six words are really needed – this team is not good enough.

While we all really know we aren’t on the same planet as ManU nowadays, to be fair, they tried – surely the very minimum we should expect?

Until the final 15-20 minutes, we actually gave them a game, but shot ourselves in the foot at …

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It’s All About Attitude and Our Approach of the Game

Posted by: shearyadi · February 23, 2008 · Comment

For some of the oldest Toon Army, a memory of Howay 5-0h! will still remains fresh but as time goes by and the class of 90′s now become an adults and more wiser, the visit of Manchester United today was something that we can only hope King Kev’s current boys would doing it well.

The Guardian call the next meeting between the two United as an epic battles between what was seemed England’s two principal …

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