Ratings v Toon

[jonathanhotspur]

Good post, Teesside1. I'd have to agree with virtually everything you said there.

 

[Mr Pink]

Good post, Teesside1. I'd have to agree with virtually everything you said there.

Nah it wasn't, describing Pienaar as horse shit is ridiculous.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

I said "virtually everything". I didn't think Pienaar was horseshit. I thought he was painfully average.

But I certainly felt they had the better chances.

 

[StockSpur]

i though pienaar showed some neat passing and link up play but he got screwed when bale went off, i also think its unfair to compare crouch with jenas he was probably worse!
saddest thing for me was that without crouch playing dawson didnt know what to do with the ball, he took so much time to make up his mind not to try along ball that newcastle already had 11 men and the ref behind the ball waiting for a sideways pass and norrowing the pitch.

 

[Mr Pink]

I said "virtually everything". I didn't think Pienaar was horseshit. I thought he was painfully average.

But I certainly felt they had the better chances.

It was his first game with a CB playing behind him at a tough place like Newcastle. Some nice touches with good awareness regarding his passing.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

It was his first game with a CB playing behind him at a tough place like Newcastle. Some nice touches with good awareness regarding his passing.

I thought he gave the ball away very cheaply at times and provided very little in the way of incision.

 

[Mr Pink]

I thought he gave the ball away very cheaply at times and provided very little in the way of incision.

Good ball into Lennon which was certainly incisive, exchanged well with VDv and Modric and generally worked quite hard.

All about opinions, but he certainly wasn't horse shit as somebody above describes, beggers belief it really is.

 

[Legend10]

And apparently VDV was a disgrace, Modric got shoved off the ball tooeasily, we never counter attacked and our wide stood on our FB's toes, yeah really good post. Not easy to counter attack when you have nearly 65% of the ball! Oh but when we did we scored and it was from a winger who was always stood on his FB's toes.

Something doesn't add up from that really good post.

 

[freeeki]

I've just watched the highlights of this game, admittedly only about 4 minutes of it, but it looks to me as though Carlo played a blinder and really saved our arses..?

 

[guiltyparty]

Hmm all the clear cut chances went to Newcastle from what I saw. Defoe should have scored from VDV's back heel tho, bad miss

 

[guiltyparty]

And apparently VDV was a disgrace, Modric got shoved off the ball tooeasily, we never counter attacked and our wide stood on our FB's toes, yeah really good post. Not easy to counter attack when you have nearly 65% of the ball! Oh but when we did we scored and it was from a winger who was always stood on his FB's toes.

Something doesn't add up from that really good post.

BBC said Newcastle had 61% possession, have they ballsed that up?

 

[gibbs131]

What I saw on Sky, showed me that we were by far the superior team and with a cutting edge in the first half, we could have been out of sight.

Too be honest, they didn't create a huge amount. Their goal was an error, or a combination of errors, firstly Hutton and then Cudicini's weak flap at a ball fired straight at him.

I thought Lennon and Modric were excellent. What I saw of Defoe suggested that he was involved a lot more than some previous games. I still think he is currently our best option as a striker.


I was at the game and we were shite.

We were lucky to get a draw, if they could finish, we'd of been 3 -1 down at half time.

Ameobi spooned two good chances over the bar and Best? hit the bar. Defoe had his usual effort straight at the gk.

Yes, Modric hit the bar and Lennon got the equaliser but not before Ranger and Lovenkrands ballsed up good chances and Newcastle's ineptness to finish 3 on 1 counter attacks.

We were clueless all game. Every time we got out wide, we didn't cross because there was only midget Defoe in the box. We hardly counter attacked because Lennon and Pienaar were always stood a few yards from our full backs.

Van der Vaart was a disgrace, spent most of his time on the floor and complaining to the ref.

Modric tried, some nice passes and a good effort but again, also got shoved off the ball to easy.

Jenas, don't want to talk about him, grrr.

Lennon ... good goal and other than Modric, the only one of our attacking players that looked partially interested.

Cudicini - past his sell by date.

Bassong did well at left, Dawson and Gallas looked assured too.

Hutton, other than getting skinned for the goal, he played well ... some good interceptions.

Defoe ran and ran ... no service other than long balls which he had no chance against to 2 six foot centre backs.

Pienaar was horse shit, couldn't cross, pass or shoot ... another that spent more time on his arse than his feet.

Crouch - on a par with Jenas.

Kranjcar? why the hell bring him on? We needed targets in the box .... Kaboul should've been the emergency striker.

Bale, devastated when he went off ... he was getting acre's of space ... Bassong (wouldn't expect him too) and Pienaar were completely ineffective on the left wing.

Newcastle, there a poor side but they worked really hard and made us look distinctly average.

I agree with a lot of this.

I think Kranj did OK though.

Glad someone noticed Hutton had a great game apart from that freak goal. It was an amazing bringdown and shot. I don't think anyone could have defended against that technique. It can be a cruel game, and it pretty much undid everything Hutton did via the fickle fan reactions. He did get a bit shakey in the last 10 mins, but that was because we had every attacking player on the pitch. Kinda paid off as it got the equalizer. But it could easily have backfired.

This was a record for Defoe. He's never gone so long without scoring a goal.

Modders was great. It was an every changing chaotic team around him and he played his part well.

From a team aspect we should be ashamed. This was a weakened Newcastle. I hope this drop in form does not make us do our usual panic buy in the last day of the transfer season.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Have you got any stats to back up these statements?

How's this:

Of the 11,000 people who post on SC, 9 are bright enough to know that Dawson isn't the second coming of FranzBeckenbauer.

Of the 11,000 posters on SC, 1 poster actually thinks Dawson is better than FranzBeckenbauer, and will cyber stalk anyone who thinks otherwise.

You'll know when Dawson's been below par cos the bloke writes a book about it, when he's had a good game(most weeks) last last week, he can't string three words together about him.

Best ignored to be honest.

 

[Legend10]

BBC said Newcastle had 61% possession, have they ballsed that up?

From the game I watched on greek tv and the stats they put up, yes!

If Toon had 61% possesion I'll eat my left foot.

 

[Legend10]

How's this:

Of the 11,000 people who post on SC, 9 are bright enough to know that Dawson isn't the second coming of FranzBeckenbauer.

Of the 11,000 posters on SC, 1 poster actually thinks Dawson is better than FranzBeckenbauer, and will cyber stalk anyone who thinks otherwise.

Dawson had a very poor game yesterday.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I've just watched the highlights of this game, admittedly only about 4 minutes of it, but it looks to me as though Carlo played a blinder and really saved our arses..?

The MoTD highlights are rubbish. Ok, Carlo did have to make those saves, but we really did have more possession and more chances. MOTD have an obsession with making matches look even, I reckon they'd even have tried it with the 9-1 v Wigan.

Oh, and people should really ignore Teeside and jon, they're clearly not Spurs fans and only come on this forum with the intention of saying the most ridiculous things they can think of.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

Oh, and people should really ignore Teeside and jon, they're clearly not Spurs fans and only come on this forum with the intention of saying the most ridiculous things they can think of.

:lol:

 

[TEESSIDE1]

Yeah I'll just pretend that we dominated Newcastle and were the better side .... I was sat with the Geordie fans and even they were surprised at how poor we were.

 

[TEESSIDE1]

Oh, and yes I am a spurs fan ... try watching the whole match and then justify your comments that we apparently played well. We had a lot of the ball in spells but with no penetration.

 

[Raxscallion]

I've just watched the highlights of this game, admittedly only about 4 minutes of it, but it looks to me as though Carlo played a blinder and really saved our arses..?

I think so, but I seem to be in the minority.

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Dawson is a very very good CB, who had a pants game yesterday. If anyone were to try to use a rare below-par performance as an typical example of his standard of play it would be rather desperate and pathetic...