ohhh_yeah 2991 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 (edited) OUT Cashley Cole - (red card vs. villa) Ricardo Carvalho - (red card vs. villa) John Terry - (injured) Frank Lampard - (injured) Didier Drogba - (injured) Claude Makelele - (injured) Florent Malouda - (injured) Joey Barton - (behind bars) Peter Ramage - (injured) United @ Stamford Bridge - Premiership Years 2006/07 : 0-1 2005/06 : 0-1 2005/06 : 0-3 2004/05 : 0-4 2003/04 : 0-5 2002/03 : 0-3 2001/02 : 0-1 2001/02 : 1-1 2000/01 : 1-3 1999/00 : 0-1 1998/99 : 1-1 1997/98 : 0-1 1996/97 : 1-1 1995/96 : 1-1 1995/96 : 0-1 1994/95 : 1-1 1993/94 : 0-1 My Formation ( kidding of course ) Given Harper Beye Cacapa Faye Taylor Rozy N'Zogbia Smith Geremi Martins Edited December 28, 2007 by MattM4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 (edited) We'll be raped, even if we play their youth team. Heard a rumour Sam is going to play two keepers and the other nine players lined up in an army like formation around the outside of the box. Edited December 28, 2007 by Wacky Jnr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 It's at Stamford Bridge 4-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vimalraja 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 We'll be raped, even if we play their youth team. Heard a rumour Sam is going to plat two keepers and the other nine players lined up in an army like formation around the outside of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam_cann 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I've just seen Essien picked up his 5th booking of the season on Boxing Day, why isn't he suspended against us tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7320 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 We'll be raped, even if we play their youth team. Heard a rumour Sam is going to plat two keepers and the other nine players lined up in an army like formation around the outside of the box. With viduka up front on his own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2991 Posted December 28, 2007 Author Share Posted December 28, 2007 I am hoping for a 2-1 win for the Toon but would settle for a 1-1 draw... Martins w/ a brace and one for Shev... Hopefully Fat Sam has figured out how to tell his players to take shots... The shot totals of late are abysmal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I am hoping for a 2-1 win for the Toon but would settle for a 1-1 draw... Martins w/ a brace and one for Shev... Hopefully Fat Sam has figured out how to tell his players to take shots... The shot totals of late are abysmal... You should be on stage mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Even if we get a good result at the Bridge tomorrow I still wouldnt be happy,just like the Arsenal game you know it will be back to square one against shite!And keep on wondering why they don't perform like they did against the shite! Hopefully Santa will be there with his massive sack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Even if we get a good result at the Bridge tomorrow I still wouldnt be happy,just like the Arsenal game you know it will be back to square one against shite!And keep on wondering why they don't perform like they did against the shite! Exactly... pretty pointless picking up points against teams like Chelsea just to not win after that against teams at the bottom of the league. Would much rather the opposite. We'd have more point at the end of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I am hoping for a 2-1 win for the Toon but would settle for a 1-1 draw... Martins w/ a brace and one for Shev... Hopefully Fat Sam has figured out how to tell his players to take shots... The shot totals of late are abysmal... you've more chance getting a cow to shit gold. 3-0 and a sending off for one of ours. oh and yet more calls for Sam's head as if this result is unexpected, even under Robson or Keegan, this team of ours against that team of theirs... I'd expect us to be bent double with pants in our mouth, clutching our ankles as we're roughly and thoroughly buggered by the Blues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I am hoping for a 2-1 win for the Toon but would settle for a 1-1 draw... Martins w/ a brace and one for Shev... Hopefully Fat Sam has figured out how to tell his players to take shots... The shot totals of late are abysmal... you've more chance getting a cow to shit gold. 3-0 and a sending off for one of ours. oh and yet more calls for Sam's head as if this result is unexpected, even under Robson or Keegan, this team of ours against that team of theirs... I'd expect us to be bent double with pants in our mouth, clutching our ankles as we're roughly and thoroughly buggered by the Blues. Stop sulking ffs man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2991 Posted December 28, 2007 Author Share Posted December 28, 2007 you've more chance getting a cow to shit gold. oh and by the way i forgot to mention cech and cudichini is also out for the match... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7320 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 We could have done with cech playing in his current form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2815 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I am hoping for a 2-1 win for the Toon but would settle for a 1-1 draw... Martins w/ a brace and one for Shev... Hopefully Fat Sam has figured out how to tell his players to take shots... The shot totals of late are abysmal... you've more chance getting a cow to shit gold. 3-0 and a sending off for one of ours. oh and yet more calls for Sam's head as if this result is unexpected, even under Robson or Keegan, this team of ours against that team of theirs... I'd expect us to be bent double with pants in our mouth, clutching our ankles as we're roughly and thoroughly buggered by the Blues. Give it a rest Dave. As people have said time and time again, it's not so much the result, it's the performance (or lack of). If Sam played people in their correct positions and we could see a battling performance on the pitch then there'd be far less people calling for Mahoosive Sams overly large head. That said, I see a 4-0 to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 I expect us to get beat, what I dont want to see (or expect) is us just to roll over. There in lies the general problem and not something Id expect from a team of Sams. That said, thats a small club mentality. Raising your game to play "big clubs". They should be fighting to win every game if thats his style. 2-0 to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Im thinking 4-7 -0 to them (between four and seven goals for them and none for us) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooptash 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 True that we'l hammered. But chelsea are far too much overated and it pisses me off. Arsenal are a much better team and not as much was said about us getting stuffed by them. So why we so underesimated so much this game? theyv got a lot of their players out injured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty 4 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Cause the games at Stamford Bridge and Allardyce's away tactics are absolutely shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Cause the games at Stamford Bridge and Allardyce's away tactics are absolutely shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 6 - 1 Shev to net 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2991 Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 Forget the big fish and devour the minnows, Allardyce tells his players Louise Taylor Saturday December 29, 2007 The Guardian Sam Allardyce summoned his Newcastle United players to a special meeting yesterday morning. Convened partly to explain Joey Barton's absence - the midfielder has been remanded in jail on an assault charge after a night out in Liverpool - it was also intended to remind the squad of their manager's priorities. "The quicker the players understand that the biggest games for us are not the ones against Chelsea and Manchester United, the better," explained Allardyce before catching a plane to London where, paradoxically, Newcastle face Chelsea this afternoon. It is a match several of his squad have said they are especially looking forward to but their manager is concerned that too many of them raise their games for glamour fixtures only to underachieve against more ordinary opposition. At the end of a grim week blemished not only by Barton's latest arrest but an underwhelming home draw with Derby and a defeat at Wigan, Allardyce stressed: "Games against Chelsea and Manchester United are for the fans but not for us. The quicker the players get their heads round that, the better. "The biggest games for us, the ones we should concentrate the most for, are the Derbys, the Wigans. It's about making sure we have a peak perfomance for the winnable matches. We could play out of our skins tomorrow but if Chelsea hit top form we still might not get anything." Considering that Avram Grant's team are without several injured key players today that sounds somewhat defeatist but Allardyce prides himself on gritty realism and feels his team should reserve optimal displays for run-of-the-mill fixtures. "Our focus has to be on the winnable games rather than putting all our focus on having to get a performance against the big boys, which we did against Arsenal and I think we'll do against Chelsea," he explained. "But we only drew against Arsenal and a performance like that against just about everyone else would have won us three points." Newcastle, who are thought not to have inserted a clause in Barton's contract enabling them to terminate it in the event of him becoming embroiled in serious off-field trouble, have long been erratic and Allardyce is struggling to infuse his squad with consistency. There is also the matter of winning a continuing battle for their hearts and minds. Certain players are understood to be unhappy with the former Bolton manager's cautiously pragmatic playing style and Allardyce is reputed to have asked his team after the 1-0 Boxing Day reverse at Wigan if they were trying to get him sacked. Although Mike Ashley and Chris Mort, Newcastle's owner and chairman, are believed to be in no hurry to part company with their manager, boardroom patience may run out. "The players are my challenge," admitted Allardyce. "I have to make them better and more consistent. I'm working on that 24/7. Whether results are good, bad or indifferent, it's about not changing what you know works, sticking to your guns, being consistent - and not showing any sign of weakness, because that's very easy for players to pick up on and use as an excuse. "It's about sticking together. Contrary to what everyone out there is trying to portray, we've seen more good performances than bad. But the difference, for us, between a good performance and a bad performance is far too great." In the wake of Barton's arrest, Allardyce may be regretting his decision to abandon plans to make his squad spend most of this week in a hotel and he conceded: "It's been a very tough Christmas." Newcastle perennially appear one game removed from a crisis but Allardyce insisted: "There is no crisis. People outside try to make it a crisis but we have to stay strong and not let those influences affect us." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Cause the games at Stamford Bridge and Allardyce's away tactics are absolutely shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaythesouthernmag 0 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I fear the worst and think he will go for another hair-brained formation. Zoggy still at LB, Geremi/Smith/Butt clogging their way through the midfield and use the electric pace of Viduka to spring counter attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 So basically, he's writing off expecting anything from the "good teams" and playing for draws against the shit ones...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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