[Football] Who'd be a Geordie

Geestar said:

Rafa hasn't really got them fired up all season. Is he really doing a good job? Still gets a lot of praise/credit.



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lawros left foot said:

According to5live,Rafa is a top six manager with a Championship budget.

Hmmmm, not sure about that myself.

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Gazwag said:

In my eyes the sign of a great manager is to achieve with (on paper) a poor set of players - I think most of us could win the league if we were manager of Man CIty

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drew said:

61 minutes gone and, fair enough, only 1-0 but the possession stats on BBC were 83% Man City and 17% for the home team!!!

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AmexRuislip said:

What's to worry about.
We did let them take the limelight, in taking the Championship title, so we could sneak into PL under the radar.
They'll be anxious about playing us as we are about scoring goals.
It's a game that we can win.

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Mo Gosfield said:

I assume this is tongue in cheek....." We are about scoring goals "....thats one thing we are not about. In 17 PL games we have scored one goal or less. 10 blank games. 15 scored in 20 games ( most seasons around 40 is needed to stay up ) Failed to score in seven out of ten away games. Six games so far against the big six. No points and one goal ( a dodgy pen ). Hardly smacks of a team about to start scoring for fun.

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Mo Gosfield said:

I assume this is tongue in cheek....." We are about scoring goals "....thats one thing we are not about. In 17 PL games we have scored one goal or less. 10 blank games. 15 scored in 20 games ( most seasons around 40 is needed to stay up ) Failed to score in seven out of ten away games. Six games so far against the big six. No points and one goal ( a dodgy pen ). Hardly smacks of a team about to start scoring for fun.

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Bakero said:

I think there's an 'as' missing from AmexRuislip's sentence.

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LamieRobertson said:

Its interesting that Burnley have only scored just three more than us and look where they are ...theyve mastered the art of keeping it tight and hitting on there break..scoring more away from home and having some marvellous results against the 'top' teams

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neilbard said:

We were so much better?

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Mo Gosfield said:

They are limiting the amount of mistakes they make and also have better ball retention than us. We defend poorly at set pieces, losing concentration. They don't. An opening day win at Chelsea has given them the confidence to go to the bigger boys and show no fear. We are still playing the top six like a cup minnow waiting for the inevitable and getting picked off.
We give the ball away far too freely at this level and the pressure that follows eventually sees us cracking.

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Coldeanseagull said:

Dwight 'Wifred' Gayle.....when will these players learn you can't just fall over if you get in to the penalty area

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