We're playing a different fucking team every week out there. I know all our defenders are shit but let's let a defensive partnership develop. O'Brien and Bramble have actually kept clean sheets before. Taylor is being played at right back. He may only be 18 but he's already captained England under-21s at centre back and has impressed on the right, I'd say he looks safer than any other of our centre backs so we should move him in the centre and play Hughes out right until Carr comes back. Same goes with midfield, it's changed every week. He put Bowyer out wide and Dyer in the middle, can anyone explain that one?

We have the most serious injury crisis in the Premiership which obviously hasn't helped. We couldn't even fill our substitute bench against Liverpool or Lisbon. But whose fault is that? Nufc.com put it the best:

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It's time some serious questions are asked about those responsible for the fitness of the players at the club. The spate of muscle injuries is now beyond a joke and the time it's taking for them to heal is incredible. Even then, players are seemingly put in before they are ready only to be injured again, Stephen Carr being a classic case in point. Why did Shearer's injury flare up again in training this week? Why was Bellamy injured in a warm-up and will Nicky Butt, Patrick Kluivert or Kieron Dyer ever be fully fit?

Even when we had a near-full squad Souness was changing the side around every week. Is there a single area of the whole Newcastle team where two players have had 4 consecutive games alongside each other in a row? It's a shambles.

The January transfer window will be the make or break of our season. We need a defence.

We're shit, but we'll always sing.

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Looks like Souness has driven out one of our most talented players. No doubt we'll get a price which nowhere near reflects his value.

Laurent Robert:

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"If nothing changes, I seriously think to talk about my case with the officials. I want to talk with them to take a true decision. I want to know if they still rely on me. "Indeed, I have contacts. The clubs are not stupid! They can see I don't play a lot but, when I play, I am good. "People talked about Valencia, but there are other clubs that follow me in that country. "In England, I also have contact with top clubs. I still favour England. I feel at ease in that league. "A comeback to Le Championnat is not impossible even if it is not my priority. My wages are not a problem. "I can also be loaned out, at least until the end of the season. "The manager has no confidence in me. He doesn't talk to me. There's nothing. He just doesn't like me. "He says I am lazy in training and tells people I am no good. All the time I am just supposed to sit on the bench. "It looks like I am not going to play for Newcastle any more. I feel I have proved myself during three years in the Premiership but the manager keeps putting me on the bench. "I want to stay with United, I really do. But if I am not going to play then I will move. "Normally Newcastle are challenging for a top-three place but now the club is nowhere near that level. "That hurts me and it's very hard for everybody. Every fixture we face these days there is a question mark hanging over us. I don't know why this is happening, but I find it very frustrating. In my four years at the club we have never gone so long without a win. "Liverpool was a game I wanted to play and when Olivier was told he would start at left back I thought I had a chance. But I didn't play from the start and I don't know why. "Even when I do come on I don't know where I am supposed to play or what I am supposed to do. "It is difficult for me, but even more difficult for the fans. You can't look at what went wrong against Liverpool - Newcastle have been in this position for a long time now."

Btw incase anyone missed the Kluivert goal against Palace from weeks back, here it is:



And his goal against Liverpool:



More injury news: Shearer now looks unlikely to return for the Blackburn game. Dyer is also a doubt again with a knee problem. Bellamy will hopefully be back though and hopefully Kluivert is near full fitness.

Last edited by evil_bastard on Dec-21-2004 at 16:22

Just been confirmed today Alan Shearer is out for another month. He has missed the last 7 games.

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this thread is boring unlike the inter milan one

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Originally posted by fastmp3 this thread is boring unlike the inter milan one

The reason behind that is because your posting in it.

So keep out.

oh come on

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Originally posted by fastmp3 oh come on

Post if you must

We could be missing 8 players for the Arsenal game. Ambrose, Butt, Carr, Johnsen, Kluivert, Shearer all injured, Dyer and Ameobi doubtful.

Arsenal are missing Cygan, Reyes and Gilberto.

Could be painful. Are we ever going to be able to put the same team out two weeks in a row? And what is Souness playing at dropping Bernard for Elliott and playing Taylor and Hughes in their opposite positions?! We may have to play Robert up front for this one, but then if Milner plays left, who plays right if Dyer is injured? We may have to give N'Zogbia his first ever start.

Arsene Wenger admitted Souness was in a difficult position ahead of this game:

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"That's why I was always against the transfer window becomes it gives an impossibility to the guy who comes in to make changes straight away because he has to wait. "There is no real impact on the policy inside the club. Then you have to make rush buys in one month. "The transfer window is near the end of the season because we play something like 24 games before the end of the year and 14 after the end of January. If you are bottom of the league in November, you have to wait until January to do something. "Then you risk going down and spending money. On top of that, prices get inflated because when it gets close to the window the prices go up. Many clubs buy new players in the last five or six days because they know they have to do something." "At the beginning of the season you would expect them to be fighting for the top four. I don't know how they got to be where they are. It looks to me from the outside that they have many injuries which have continued throughout the season." "He (Laurent Robert) came very young to England from PSG and had a good spell at Newcastle. I read a statement from Shearer once where he said that he's a great player but not consistent. Why, I don't know." -- Arsene Wenger

hate to say it but I can see this being a 3-1 / 4-1 scoreline (to arsenal)

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On top of the 8 players who will probably miss tonight's game (including birthday boy Dyer) Bramble and Elliott are also new doubts. We could be without ten players for this. Fuck it, might as well hoy out the reserves.

I might be getting someone's ticket for this game, gonna find out soon.

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Originally posted by evil_bastard On top of the 8 players who will probably miss tonight's game (including birthday boy Dyer) Bramble and Elliott are also new doubts. We could be without ten players for this. Fuck it, might as well hoy out the reserves. I might be getting someone's ticket for this game, gonna find out soon.

shit! :S

oh well, at least Bramble wont be up against Henry

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