Snake 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I always knew we'd win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 (edited) last night was such a crucial result and performance. could be the turning point in our season. great to see a convincing win - when was the last time we had one of those? and now with two wins under our belt, the trip to fulham and the home game against wigan are looking more than winnable! two more wins ahead of chelsea and we'll be looking up the table instead of down for once. i was genuinely worried this season after all the off field shite but reckon we could have turned the corner after last night. and fair play joe fucking kinnear. he was no one's choice but he's got us lookign compact and playing some decent stuff. in fact we've looked in pretty much every game he's been in charge of. great night! only sour note of the night for me was barton - he obviously is the same old twat and hasn't changed at all. he must know refs are out to get him so why raise your hand, even for a silly flick on the nose? and why make a stamp challenge with your studs showing? he puts in a good performance but could have easily been sent off. shame. Edited November 4, 2008 by Dr Gloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Good result for the team. Fantastic to get a clean sheet under their belts. Flair play to Shola for showing he has something to offer us and I could tell Martins was really up for as he tried to go for goal ever opportunity he got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? it didn't look like bottom of the league against top 4 material at all. they were dire. and goes to show how much of a gulf there still is between the top 4 and the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? it didn't look like bottom of the league against top 4 material at all. they were dire. and goes to show how much of a gulf there still is between the top 4 and the rest. TBH they we very poor last night by there own standards, but i think that is big part down to the way we played! I honestly think we have turned the corner now, onwards and upwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 ...and how there's not a lot between the rest either. a whole slew of sides could easily find themselves either fighting for europe or in sucked into a relegation battle. there's nowt in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'd love it if the Mackems went down after their recent smugness like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 The league is mental. We were bottom yesterday and now only 3 points off 7th. Crazy shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 The league is mental. We were bottom yesterday and now only 3 points off 7th. Crazy shit. Tbf that's always more possible at the start of the season as the points tally is less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? it didn't look like bottom of the league against top 4 material at all. they were dire. and goes to show how much of a gulf there still is between the top 4 and the rest. We should have been up there (or there abouts) with them this season, a few more players in over the summer and we maybe could have stayed in contention for 5-6th all season. The league is mental. We were bottom yesterday and now only 3 points off 7th. Crazy shit. We're lucky it is, and until things are settled here, long may it continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? They are quite limited if plan A doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stevie Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? They are quite limited if plan A doesn't work. Shit fans, shit side, shit club. MON's teams strengths are nornally to kick fuck out the opposition and play long ball football. They didn't even do that last night. Take Ashley Young away and they're a ridiculously mediocre side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Anyone else still buzzing off this? I simply didn't expect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stevie Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Anyone else still buzzing off this? I simply didn't expect it. We should expect it though, we're Newcastle United and they're Aston Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Anyone else still buzzing off this? I simply didn't expect it. We should expect it though, we're Newcastle United and they're Aston Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Anyone else still buzzing off this? I simply didn't expect it. We should expect it though, we're Newcastle United and they're Aston Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Villa would have gone third if they'd won as well. Can you believe that on last night's show? They are quite limited if plan A doesn't work. Shit fans, shit side, shit club. MON's teams strengths are nornally to kick fuck out the opposition and play long ball football. They didn't even do that last night. Take Ashley Young away and they're a ridiculously mediocre side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bombadil 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 If anyone thought about reading the Guardian's match report BTW, don't do it. Louise Taylor wrote it and it's so predictable it's unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douggy B 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 If anyone thought about reading the Guardian, don't do it. The rest was unnecessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 If anyone thought about reading the Guardian's match report BTW, don't do it. Louise Taylor wrote it and it's so predictable it's unbelievable. Damn you! Just a few days ago Joe Kinnear claimed Obafemi Martins is "not a team player" but last night the Nigerian striker's two goals lifted his Newcastle United team off the bottom of the league table. On an evening when Joey Barton was arguably lucky not be sent off, United's second successive win was enough to shoot Kinnear's side up to the dizzy heights of 14th position in a division so tight that only six points separate seventh-placed Everton from Tottenham at the bottom. Aston Villa stay fifth but departed Tyneside rueing their failure to make the most of a dominant first-half performance. "We missed a number of early chances," lamented the manager, Martin O'Neill. "We could have won but, while we played brilliantly on the counter-attack before half-time, we just didn't take our chances. Newcastle then conjured something more in the second half when they were very sturdy. This will be a major confidence boost for them." Barton's critics claimed he had enjoyed a significant escape after becoming embroiled in a minor contretemps with Gabriel Agbonlahor. Shortly after being bundled over by the Villa forward as they challenged for the ball, the Newcastle midfielder raised a hand, flicked his wrist and gently swiped Agbonlahor on the nose with a stroke of his palm. The contact was minimal, fleeting and was surely intended as a joke but Middlesbrough's Jérémie Aliadière was sent off for doing something very similar last season. Moreover, Barton currently has a suspended six-game Football Association ban hanging over him and, with his considerable previous, he cannot afford to be on anything but his best behaviour. Amid all the excitement Kinnear had lost his voice, so Chris Hughton conducted the post-match duties. "We haven't discussed it," said Newcastle's first-team coach. "But we are aware that any incident with Joey is going to be blown up out of all proportion." While raising hands on a football pitch is never wise, it is also true that had any other player done something similar it would barely have merited a mention. That said the former referee Graham Poll, now a TV pundit, claimed Barton struck an opponent and consequently should have been dismissed. Moreover Poll was convinced that, had the referee seen the incident properly, he would have given Barton his marching orders. If he did not spot anything untoward and explains this in his report, however, the FA could, in theory, act retrospectively on video evidence. Perhaps Agbonlahor can cite "post-Barton trauma'"as an excuse when he is asked to explain the sitter he missed shortly afterwards following James Milner's dodging of Fabricio Coloccini and subsequent fine cross. By then Martin Laursen had headed against a post from a Gareth Barry centre and a meaty tackle from Steven Taylor had denied Milner as Newcastle struggled to cope with Villa's speed on the break. Agbonlahor was displaying the sort of turn of pace once synonymous with the young Michael Owen and one such sortie concluded with the Villa man playing in Ashley Young, who turned Taylor before his shot was bravely blocked by Shay Given. Taylor then failed to make the most of a fine cross by Habib Beye, the centre- half hesitating for a milli-second for the chance to evaporate in front of him. The tide was turning in the defensively tighter Newcastle's favour but Barton's timing was even worse than Taylor's nine minutes into the second half, when he was rightly booked for a late tackle on Luke Young. Now Newcastle's No7 really needed to watch his step. Equally Martins needed to mind his language after being stupidly booked for dissent in the wake of Carlos Cuéllar's clattering challenge near a corner flag. Yet if the Nigerian has been picking up some bad linguistic habits from Kinnear, he made amends on the hour. Fastening on to a fine through-ball from Barton - the midfielder really can play - Martins turned Nicky Shorey before unleashing an unstoppable shot with his left foot from the edge of the area that had beaten Brad Friedel almost before it left his boot. Suitably inspired, Martins turned in a second from close range after Jonas Gutierrez switched from the right wing to the left and, having sashayed past Nigel Reo-Coker, sped past a couple more Villa markers before crossing. All that remained was for the newly fit Owen to step off the bench in injury time, presumably to collect his win bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7169 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Taylor then failed to make the most of a fine cross by Habib Beye, the centre- half hesitating for a milli-second for the chance to evaporate in front of him. Did she watch the game cos form where I was sitting he sprinted from the centre circle into the box and was unlucky not to connect with the cross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douggy B 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 (edited) Taylor then failed to make the most of a fine cross by Habib Beye, the centre- half hesitating for a milli-second for the chance to evaporate in front of him. Did she watch the game cos form where I was sitting he sprinted from the centre circle into the box and was unlucky not to connect with the cross Should have dived for it TBH. Why are there hardly any diving headers these days? Edited November 4, 2008 by Danny B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Does Poll ever shut the fuck up? What a twat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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