PAUL M wrote:It was plainly obvious to see that Newcastle were poor all over the pitch. The strikers did not get enough chances but still misfired most of them time apart from the odd wonder strike from Oba. The midfield lacked any real creativity and pace and also did not seem to able to protect the back four all that well. The defence was very poor at times, lots of individual mistakes from most of the defence including Taylor. Taylor seems to have potential but then will go and have a 'Bramble' type moment.
A lot of the problems stem from having no leadership on the management front, lets face it JK was a joke and spent more time whinging and swearing at reporters than he did coaching.
It will be really interesting to see what happens to them this season, they have a number of players who I would imagine would be leaving but there has been little movement as yet, unless I have missed any. Bassong, Beye, Lovenkrands, Viduka, Oba, Owen, Barton, Nolan and Guiterrez would all be leaving I expect? As yet only Owen has gone and they don't seem to have signed any players, found a buyer or have a manager. I honestly think they could go down again, hope not but it would not surprise me.
Can't really argue with any of that to be honest.
Owen and Oba didn't seem to find the net when they were presented with a few presents , and at other times the service to them was crap so you cant blame them for that.
Oba has gone by the way mate, he has signed for Wolfsburg.
I would imagine Bassong and Beye will be next to leave, both players are good players too who we need, but Bassong wants to move, and was fined the maximum fine possible for not meeting the team to go to Dundee last week.
It doesn't suprise me that we were relegated and still end up in the mess we are at the moment, with Ashley at the helm. The guy is a complete idiot and is inept at running a football club, you know how bad it is when Sir Bobby Robson was quoted as saying that Dennis Wise helped to wreck the club and that he can forgive many people in his life, but wasn't sure if he could forgive Wise for doing what he did to his club.
Still, all Ashley's apologists will still surface, somehow, i dont know. Llambias is a clueless pr*ck and hasn't a clue either and continually tries to make positive soundings from the club, more so recently at how confident he is about a sale going through. Absolute nutcase.
