accadacca 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 brigade. This notion that Newcastle have a desperately small squad and will be in trouble if injuries abound is, on looking at the facts, a load of bollocks. The size of the United first team squad is 26 - yes, some have little or no experience, but that is exactly the same as the other squads. Barnsley, Leicester and Reading have 27 listed, Palace 28, Plymouth and Cardiff 29, Watford and QPR 30, Swansea, Ipswich and Coventry 31 {nee the wonder they are in financial difficulty}. 6 clubs have less than 26 - Sheff Utd 21 {!!}, Sheff Wed 22, Preston 23 Forest and Derby 24 and Peterboro 25. Boro, Scunthorpe, Bristol City and Blackpool have 26 listed - same as Newcastle. The difference is that Newcastle have genuine premiership quality players in the squad, backed up by players who are of CCC quality. The ''TOP'' CCC teams have virtually no Prem' quality players between them and the ''back up'' are mainly players of dubious CCC quality and many of whom are really Div 1 quality players. This is why I am opitmistic, and as we shall see on Sunday at a supposed promotion rival, we are just too strong - despite a couple of injuries to key players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 4847 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Maybe he is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38737 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Maybe he is right. Maybe he is on day release. Tbf at least there is some reasoning behind his argument this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2765 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 load of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 ...and how do the other teams injury record fair against ours? not to mention ticket prices...! Ashley has stripped the club well past balancing the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 You do know Cardiff are classed as also having a small squad right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6434 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 If we are going to debate this, and why the hell not, can we please have ALL the squad sizes in league table format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26283 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Where is HF when you need him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19811 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 it's a fair point. our first eleven is probably one of the best in the league. the worry is our complete lack od depth. but we'd all still be more comfortable if we'd signed one or two more players - even a few loan signings. defence and up front is the big worry. if taylor, enrique and shola say were all out injured at the same time, we wouldn't be looking too clever all of a sudden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Lucky more like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19811 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 everything's ine. no worries. we'll hammer cardiff on sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Lucky more like Therefore by implication, the team has been lucky to get the results. Which is patently bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Lucky more like Therefore by implication, the team has been lucky to get the results. Which is patently bollocks. Hardly, the guy's said we're going to walk the league with the squad we have, the squad is obviously too thin without luck having a hand in not getting injuries - it's got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed. Therefore the guy's been lucky that the first team haven't really had injuries, if they had it's doubtful we'd have got the same results during this start to the season and it's even more doubtful that they'd continue any further in to the season. It's easy to say that with our 'first team' we'd win the league, but with our 'squad' it's a different matter altogether. ... which isn't bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14580 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Lucky more like Therefore by implication, the team has been lucky to get the results. Which is patently bollocks. Hardly, the guy's said we're going to walk the league with the squad we have, the squad is obviously too thin without luck having a hand in not getting injuries - it's got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed. Therefore the guy's been lucky that the first team haven't really had injuries, if they had it's doubtful we'd have got the same results during this start to the season and it's even more doubtful that they'd continue any further in to the season. It's easy to say that with our 'first team' we'd win the league, but with our 'squad' it's a different matter altogether. ... which isn't bollocks. Thats easy for you to say.....wtf are you going on about? whats " got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed"? Do you mean what the lad has actually said would happen?....he said we'd piss it, we have so far and thats wihout Shola in the last game, Guthrie for a couple of games etc....I do happen to agree the squad is probably too thin to sustain it, but no one else has said from the outset it would be this comparatively easy in this divison with the players we have at the club, so some credit is due surely? But if you mean the results we've had are nothing to do with how we've played (which is how I'm reading what you've posted) then maybe you need a lie down mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Lucky more like Therefore by implication, the team has been lucky to get the results. Which is patently bollocks. Hardly, the guy's said we're going to walk the league with the squad we have, the squad is obviously too thin without luck having a hand in not getting injuries - it's got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed. Therefore the guy's been lucky that the first team haven't really had injuries, if they had it's doubtful we'd have got the same results during this start to the season and it's even more doubtful that they'd continue any further in to the season. It's easy to say that with our 'first team' we'd win the league, but with our 'squad' it's a different matter altogether. ... which isn't bollocks. He's been right 'so far' as in we've beaten teams through our superior quality and not through luck. Again, the 'team'/'club' has been lucky that we havent had any injuries, not accadacca. They've not been lucky to win those games though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Wtf am i on about? Shola and Jonas out with injury, Barton coming back from one. 3 out of our top 4/5 players in this league. We could have been luckier tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 He's been right so far tbf. Lucky more like Therefore by implication, the team has been lucky to get the results. Which is patently bollocks. Hardly, the guy's said we're going to walk the league with the squad we have, the squad is obviously too thin without luck having a hand in not getting injuries - it's got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed. Therefore the guy's been lucky that the first team haven't really had injuries, if they had it's doubtful we'd have got the same results during this start to the season and it's even more doubtful that they'd continue any further in to the season. It's easy to say that with our 'first team' we'd win the league, but with our 'squad' it's a different matter altogether. ... which isn't bollocks. He's been right 'so far' as in we've beaten teams through our superior quality and not through luck. Again, the 'team'/'club' has been lucky that we havent had any injuries, not accadacca. They've not been lucky to win those games though. Aye, that's what I was trying to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 absolute proof that this league is not so good as it used to be is borne out by the fact that Ameobi and Chopra are leading goascorers. And absolute proof of our own decline is that Ameobi has became so important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14580 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 absolute proof that this league is not so good as it used to be is borne out by the fact that Ameobi and Chopra are leading goascorers. And absolute proof of our own decline is that Ameobi has became so important. too right...I blame Shepherd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 absolute proof that this league is not so good as it used to be is borne out by the fact that Ameobi and Chopra are leading goascorers. And absolute proof of our own decline is that Ameobi has became so important. too right...I blame Shepherd canny few people around who still refuse to accept the obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug 0 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 absolute proof that this league is not so good as it used to be is borne out by the fact that Ameobi and Chopra are leading goascorers. And absolute proof of our own decline is that Ameobi has became so important. What? Chopra was a decent premiership player, scored something like 8 goals in 27 games for Sunderland, including sub appearences, and half of those games he started on the wing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accadacca 0 Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 please stop this mackem gimp making topics it's beyond a joke now your lack of debating skills are truly evident instead of posting a pointless one liner, why not try and point out the flaws in my argument - or is that too strenuous for the 3 brain cells you have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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