Magic Lamps

tactically the performance was shit. The commentator went on as "whatever Rafa has told his players at halftime it surely worked" WTF??????????????? our goals were individual efforts, we were running on like headless chickens, completely lost it, no subs, Rafa had no tactical impact at all, the game just passed him by. That is not a coach, every twat can stand there and watchl. Every fan would have been a better coach in that situation. He just has not the clue of a clue. No one can say now "the players bla bla" the players put in all their effort, they were running the pitch up and down, but they did not knew what they were doing, the entire match was nuts, our play was like chaos. We left acres of space in the middle and only knocked the ball out and up the pitch.

10 vs 12

once again should have got a penalty

I mean we should have had a penalty and two of their players sent off. the ref only has to make enough effort and we are never gonna win a match.

always going to happen...

a proper ref would have sent coloccini, perch and cisse off in this match

Was there even a transfer thread about him here? I remember having demanded his signing in my german forum years ago.

With this open eye approach we are surely gonna lose. I've always loathed Nucastle cos they are a bunch of uncivilized, dirty, nasty bastards without respect for their opponents.

what a fenzy game. We should give ourselves a breather, a slower game more likely to benefit us with our empty engines.

The downfall of Italian football began with outrageous refereeing, it's been the same in england since years now...

as always we have to win over them, the ref, the crowd and our own inability to hold a lead.

but nothing to expect from a ref. wow game has kickstarted, what an amazing encounter this has become. need to "finish them off"

this should be red for cisse

and Mata with another stunner. we simply got quality

epic how lamps outsprinted the 10 years younger cabaye there to win the fk. decent delivery too.

Lamps is god

we got Mossad-Yossi

this is harsh on us. penalty declined, only striker injured, 1-0 down and torres, not our day, nor season.

Isn't that a penalty? Coloccini was nowhere near the ball, only hit bas face, of course it was not intentional but still a nasty foul.

oh BA

N'castle really get at us but tactically we are allright so far and let them run behind the ball. as long as we make the tempo we are fine

But long term an injury to Mata would aggravate the situation even more. Mata is brilliant but as exhausted as he is right now, he is not half as effective as when fresh that is why he is always so much brighter in the earlier part of the season. Truth is we do not know exactly how our play would change in case we rest him and hand the playmaking duty to Oscar, we have more than one player able to create. We have been succesfull before Mata arrived and can also do without him. to some extent there always is s.o. to step up. We shall not waste his abilities by overusing him.

what do you think of Nucastle French revolution? IMO the French league has proven to be the EPLs most reliable feeder league esp with the influx of physical, African-based mids and strikers and if I were in Newcastle's situation I'd probably also turn to Ligue 1 to grab some cheap quality players. Whether they can make a direct impact or not remains to be seen. I do not know all of their new signings, but Sissoko is a beast, very much like Yaya Toure or the Bison.

I always tried not to judge Benitez by his public image and attempted to distinguish that from his ability as coach, but his lineup once again shows that he got neither clue nor the nuts for the job. I mean Bertrand and Mata???? Mata's tired as fuck and the more he plays gets more likely to pick up an injury, Bertrand was abysmal last game as was Oscar. One sometimes has to change a system that is not running. Alter the formation, put faith in Marin or whatever but try something that is not out of the text book which has won us nothing so far.

does the transfer window close in 10 mins or 1 hour and 10 mins?