Dr Gloom 22348 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) is anyone watching this match? absolutely dire. i think our current squad would hold their own against either of these two. obviously there is a massive gulf between where we are now and the top clubs in the premier league but on this evidence, i think we might be ok next year with a few new faces brought in. i haven't watched many premier league games this season but if this match is anything to go by, we should be able to mix it with most of the bottom half of the premier league next season if we are promoted. or am i being overly optimistic? Edited March 28, 2010 by Dr Gloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4941 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 is anyone watching this match? absolutely dire. i think our current squad would hold their own against either of these two. obviously there is a massive gulf between where we are now and the top clubs in the premier league but on this evidence, i think we might be ok next year with a few new faces brought in. i haven't watched many premier league games this season but if this match is anything to go by, we should be able to mix it with most of the bottom half of the premier league next season if we are promoted. or am i being overly optimistic? think so, burnley are going down and blackburn are dire away from home this season, mix together and you get that game there are one or two burnley players I'd quite like to see us go for though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1265 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Get down past Everton and the league is shite and nothing to be afraid of tbh. Obviously there is a massive gulf between those teams and the likes of Scunthorpe or Plymouth but we've showed this season that there is a massive gulf between us and them anyway. If we were to be able to spend something like £15m this summer on three £5m players or four £4m players (and keep all of our better players) we could have a team capable of staying up and moving towards mid table. With Ashely that's still a pretty big fucking if though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I agree. The bottom half of the Premiership has more in common with the top of the Championship than the top of the Premiership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Ha! Was thinking exactly the same when watching it Dr G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC_Mag 0 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Got to agree with you mate. The battle for the title and fourth spot are interesting and inhabited with good teams, some of which who play attractive football. Apart from that though, the PL is full of boring, average teams with anti-football stances often due to a lack of technical prowess. Almost the whole bottom half are suspect to relegation and with moderate improvement we will be at their level. I think with some stability next year we should be safe, even under CH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Castell 0 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Crap game, crap pitch and a tense atmosphere helped make this look bad. The problem with the Premiership is that any half decent player coming through the ranks at a club like say us or Wolves are usually gobbled up by a rich team and then end up in their reserves. Same goes for any shit-hot 15/16 year old-Arsenal, Chelsea or even Spuds poach them, so then no 'lesser' club can have a few good players to build a proper team around. Of course that leads to a lack of real quality and the need for negative tactics. The current Newcastle squad is probably good enough for anywhere around 12th-18th in the current Premiership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Couple of central midfielders who can run and a forward who can score at Premiership level and we should be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4941 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 well I was thinking I'd have eagles (who for some strange reason Laws refuses to start) and fletcher off them, maybe bikey too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano 0 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 well I was thinking I'd have eagles (who for some strange reason Laws refuses to start) and fletcher off them, maybe bikey too Eagles fo'sho but thats it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4941 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 well I was thinking I'd have eagles (who for some strange reason Laws refuses to start) and fletcher off them, maybe bikey too Eagles fo'sho but thats it. Bikey looked a good player earlier in the season under coyle when he was played in defence (laws uses him in midfield) and fletcher is just what we'd need to compliment the forwards we have IMO, intelligent, fairly quick would work well with carroll I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7711 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I made the same point earlier in the season after seeing another equally dire match. The top teams of the Premier League have gotten better (though they have dropped off a little in recent seasons) and there's more trying to fill the area just outside the top couple, but after that there is a steep drop off. So much so that I think the premier league nowadays is probably the easiest it has ever been to stay up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 (edited) Watching Sam Allardyce after gave me chills. He was over the moon to have won away from home for the second time this season, from a penalty they should never have got, against the second bottom club. Kept them up though He's like a cheap street whore, priding herself on the fact she's still on the game despoite being ridden with vd. Edited March 29, 2010 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7711 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Watching Sam Allardyce after gave me chills. He was over the moon to have won away from home for the second time this season, from a penalty they should never have got, against the second bottom club. Kept them up though He's like a cheap street whore, priding herself on the fact she's still on the game despoite being ridden with vd. Forgetting the whole debacle of being relegated I can hand on heart say that I'd rather us be in the position we are now with a manager who isn't Sam Allardyce than battling it out in our around the mid-lower part of the table with Allardyce employing his 'tactics' having never been relegated. Whether I feel the same after half a season with Hughton in charge remains to be seen. Certainly the benefit (or should that read liability) of being the Premier League is that I get to watch just about every match of the season live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I sometimes get the feeling that the club would have slowly suffocated had Allardyce remained in charge rather than the short, sudden fall from grace we had that is potentially easier to recover from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Forgetting the whole debacle of being relegated I can hand on heart say that I'd rather us be in the position we are now with a manager who isn't Sam Allardyce than battling it out in our around the mid-lower part of the table with Allardyce employing his 'tactics' having never been relegated. This. x10000000 He sucks the joy out of football. It's pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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