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    Euro 24

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Diego21 said:

    I'm curious to see your opinions. Which England XI would you put in the round of 16 match seeing the level of the players in the tournament?

     

                     Pickford
    TAA - Guehi - Stones - Walker
    Saka - Rice - Wharton - Gordon
              Foden - Bellingham

     

    Plenty of legs and runners in that line up.

    Obviously thats going to be far away from what Southgate picks.

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    Euro 24

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    1 hour ago, PaddockLad said:

    I think after the relative success of WC 2018 the England squad/team largely picked itself. Southgate has never had to deal with “generational” talents emerging and upsetting his cosy wee set up. Now for the first time he’s got to properly think about team selection he’s fucked. Which was very likely always on the cards.

     

    Tbf he had Foden and Bellingham at the WC in Qatar but neither of them at that point had come off the back of what might prove to be the best seasons in their club careers’ which makes them completely different propositions in terms of how they’re perceived by the general public and more significantly for Southgate personally the English football media. He knew he’d be fuckin crucified if he didn’t pick them both.
     

    He probably knew without a proper left back the logical pick on the left was Gordon with his Kenyan marathon runners’ stamina combined with a sprinter’s electric pace he would’ve been able to patrol the entire left hand side single handed and interact with the attacking midfielders as he’d done very effectively in the recent firiendly games, rather than relying on an an overlapping full back to provide support more often than not. Looks the same the other side re Saka/Palmer.

     

    Southgate has got it half right, he picked the PL’s form players in the squad. Then he went with loyalty to those in his pecking order and has shown signs this week that he’s willing to ditch them if it’s not going right. Has he got the balls to start Gordon, Palmer and Mainoo on Sunday?… for me he needs to drop one of the two that have caused all this bother for him this summer too..  two of the best half dozen attacking players in Europe… thing is, his coach at Euro 96 Terry Venables has shown him the way him. No fuckin way would virtually any other manager have stick with Shearer before the tournament started. The strikers ignored by Venables in favour of Shearer and the 30 year old Sheringham is fuckin jaw dropping. Venables told him not to listen to the press and he was his no.9.  He told STEVE FUCKIN HOWEY in the winter of 1996 that he was in the squad, not only that but he was starting 2 out of the 3 group games (Howey said all this in a podcast) That’s the sort of single mindedness required but I don’t think nice guy Gareth has ever been remotely equipped to think along those lines. He wants to make everyone happy including the media. Venables knew he knew more about football than the craven tabloid wankers that followed the England team around in the mid 90s . More importantly he made damn sure that they all knew he knew more than them too. That’s a rare gift. We’ll see if Gareth has learned anything on Sunday…


    He will probably go with palmer and Mainoo as they got the most positive comments from his media mates last night, despite the fact that nothing really changed in the 2nd half when they came on. 
     

    The real issue is his incessant, inherent cautiousness which isn’t going away in the next 5 days. 

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    New Strips?

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    29 minutes ago, The Fish said:

    Got the kids' kit delivered today. Badge looks cheap and likely to come away after a few washes, for what it's worth.

     

    Got my training shorts yesterday.
    Adidas badge and NUFC badge will be off in no time I reckon.
    Definitely not the quality of the other Adidas shorts I have in my possession

    New Strips?

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    16 minutes ago, ackas said:

     

    Looks like they spent 2 mins on the design of the shorts and then fucking forgot to add three white stripes...

     

    The training shorts do however have the 3 white stripes

    Ordered.

    New Strips?

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    Posted

    1 minute ago, Kid Dynamite said:

    Store's now live. There's only the home top, some white training gear and red training gear for sale atm. None of the adidas originals stuff or half the stuff in last nights video is on there yet 

     

    Looks like they spent 2 mins on the design of the shorts and then fucking forgot to add three white stripes...

    Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted · Edited by ackas
    typo

    3 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

    left back is one glaring weakness in an otherwise good-looking squad. i'm pleased he's finally picked players in form instead of old favourites such as henderson and rashford. 

     

    bowen, gordon and palmer all deserve to be in. 

     

    lewis hall looks a better option at left back than an undercooked shaw or half-fit trippier playing out of position 

     

    Trips really shouldn't be anywhere near that squad.
    He's got more in common with Henderson and Rashford.
     

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    Eddie Howe

    in Newcastle Forum

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    None of us know what conversations are going on behind the scenes about what the target is for the rest of the season.

    We may be happy with 8th-10th and no Euro football next season to give us a chance to have a realistic shot at qualifying for the Champs League again.

    Or we may be pushing for 7th to get us into the conference and give us further experience of playing European football and getting the club used to that idea.

     

    With that in mind I think Howe is experimenting a little bit with tactics and personnel.

    I think the obvious tactic last night was to sit deep and hit them on the break, but long term thats probably not a tactic that we want to be using regularly.

    So we used a high press and told Gordon to stay further up the pitch.

    It didnt work particularly well, but the more we get used to that style, the better in the long term.

     

    Hopefully we're going to give him 2-3 years to get it right before we think about making a change, but these days you never know.

     

    2025/26 - Generic NUFC Chat. Cunts ☑️

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    Not sure why we always seem to think the only chance we have of winning a trophy is to get the most favourable draw possible?

    So the narrative is we need to get Coventry at home in this round, Wolves in the semi and then Leicester in the final?

     

    Man City away isnt ideal but bring it on. Lets get stuck into them.

     

     

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    2025/26 - Generic NUFC Chat. Cunts ☑️

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    Posted

    22 minutes ago, Andrew said:

    They really are in their own little "we're man united" ego fuelled bubble aren't they? Ratcliffes statement made no fucking sense, that comparison to pep was actual nonsense :lol: like anyone in football just lets their players wander off for free when they don't want to be at the club anymore. 

     

    His very own Man United wouldn't even sack Mason Greenwood because they thought they could get a fee for him somewhere down the line the cunts.

     

    "We had a very grown-up conversation with Manchester City about Omar"

    Why didn't you do that with us then you dickhead? Instead you contacted Ashworth and fluttered your eyelashes at him through your media mates and now want to act all precious when we turn around and tell you that thats actually not acceptable and we'll either have our fee or you can wait.

     

    Their fans keep going on about this being "small time" which makes no sense either, surely the small time thing would be for us to bend over "oh yes mr man united please, please take the technical director we hired less than two years ago, would you like anything else sir"

     

    Its either that or "This is exactly what they did to brighton". No, we approached Brighton first, who gave us permission to talk to Ashworth then placed him on gardening leave until a deal was made. Which is how this should have been done. 

     

    I'd started hating Man U less over the last few years, they were more of a laughing stock than anything else, but the sheer ENTITLEMENT of everyone on their side over this, pure brexit-style british exceptionalism has reminded me how much I despise that club.

     

    I think our best move would be to just leave him on gardening leave until 2026.

    Fuck Ratcliffe, Fuck Ashworth and Fuck their fucking awful fans

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    2025/26 - Generic NUFC Chat. Cunts ☑️

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    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

    Lots of talk from Caulkin of anger from within the club at Man United's behaviour and the way Ashworth has handled himself.

     

    I hope they come in to negotiations with a similar "We're Man United, guys" attitude.

     

    Does any money we get for Ashworth help with FFP?

    If, so squeeze as much out of them as possible.

    If not, he can do the full 20 months horticultural experience.

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