Its only one loss away from home three days after beating cardiff more of a reminder they need a bigger squad than anything.
What hype? I think all Newcastle fans have been pretty realistic, even with the run of wins we had. We knew if we won a few confidence would take us so far, now I think it'll be a pretty rough season with us hopefully finishing near the top.
we've only lost one game and we are sitting pretty in 3rd with Plymouth at home on saturday, its not as if there are major problems on the pitch at present. we'll be a premiership club again within 9 months - less time then it takes a scabby mackum lass to bring another dole walling ugly scumbag of a child into the world
I love it how loads of Newcastle fans seem to be completely sure of getting promoted this year to the point of being cocky about it, just over 10% of the way into the season... There is so long to go and anything can happen down there, as Wednesday night should have taught you. Take the story of Leeds, when they went down they didnt go straight into the bottom 3 in the championship. Blackwell finished in the play offs in their first season back in the championship, though they lost the final at Wembley by a single goal. Then in the second season, with the parachute payments drying up, players leaving and crippling debts ruining the club that was when started to struggle, something that could very well still happen to Newcastle as you are currently in a play off place in the championship, no better, and still are crippled off the pitch financially and that situation will only get worse as the season goes on as Ashley tries to pay the weekly wage bill on a pittance compared to last year's income. I'd walk before you can run lads, as you are still in no real position to be handing out grief at the moment
Not to mention it's the championship. Anyone can beat anyone in the league and where a team may run away with it for some seasons you ALWAYS have a team or two teams that start off totally class then falter as the season takes it's toll. Remember you have a thread bare squad so playing 38 Premier League games would be a problem only thing is, your in a tougher league to get out of and instead of 38 games in the season you have 46 league games. See where you are come the end of January when the transfer window is closing how your squad looks and you've had a few away games in the winter in miserable conditions in a shitty ground and had to travel for miles. If you are still in the top 3 miles clear of 4th place or sitting pretty at the top it's then i'd start to gloat.
HaHa it was our 1st defeat in the Championship you knackers? A defeat was on the cards theres no 2 ways about it, were not Arsenal. I always said it would be the little niggly mid-week games that tripped us up, HOWEVER were joint 2nd & 1 point from being back at top of the table. Not bad going in the scheme of things, when you consider the state of the club & how we've been written off by just about every News paper, Football Pundit & even ex-players since being relegated. Yes were in very early stages of whats looking to be a very long season, but fuck me man I dont think we've ever opened a Season as well for about 10 years now? why shouldn't we be that little bit excited? The games are slowly but surely becoming a pleasure to watch & the frustration with watching these high earning players that were doing nothing more than filling a Team sheet seems to be lifted. We've opened very well, I doubt any fan could ask for anything more at this stage, moral between the players seems to on the up & for the 1st time in nearly 2 seasons I can visibly see the fight in us. Saying we can do the League obviously speculation, but if the opening start to the campaign is anything to go by id say we have a god damn good chance.
Leeds also had points deducted for going into adminstration a chairman in Risdale who makes ashley look sane in financial matters. We were still paying robbie fowler untill i think last season. Newcastle are in much better shape then leeds are when they went down and i am saying this as leeds fan, some newcastle fans do need to wake up to how many games that have to play and hard it is in Championship.Aways to blackpool are these teams cup finals and in tiny grounds its easy to come unstuck. They miss smith getting stuck in and putting the other team on the back foot (When can we have him back). If like leeds,Newcastle keep producing decent young players there is a way out. Hopefully they get promoted the same as us as we both sit at the top of home and away attendance figures for our leagues and offer more atmosphere to the prem than wigan,hull and burnely combined to be honest.
I think the manner of most of the wins so far this season shows that the Blackpool game was on the cards. Apart from the Reading game which we totally dominated, the other games we allowed the opposition to have chance after chance. If Sheff Wed, Cardiff or Crystal Palace had anyone decent up front we would have been looking at a far worse league table than we are at the minute Its good we have been beat, stops the players coming out in the papers saying we want to play Man Utd because we wont let a goal in & we can beat anyone. Nice big bump back down to Earth shows that there is a hell of a long way to go & the players arent gonna get it easy every week
This league is shite, we wont lose many games & if we do it will be by the odd goal. We need a injection of pace on the right flank or play AC & Nile up front together & let Nile attack the goal & AC play as the target man. Us, Boro & West Brom will be 3 that go up.
Good result for us today. I was beginning to think that even though we have been winning games that we weren't really capable of securing them convincingly with enough goals, i'll settle for 3-1 today. Now 3 points clear with W/Brom sitting at 4 points clear, gives us a bit of breathing space for future mishaps like Wednesday I guess.
I dunno, I think there's gonna be more mishaps like blackpool than breathing space like now. Didn't see the match, but from the brief bit I've read on the net it sounds like it wasn't a walkover. Bearing in mind they're bottom of the league etc I reckon it's way too soon for posts like Spence's.
By the way, the main difference I've noticed is this season is how little coverage the championshi gets. Match reports on bbc are half the length of prem ones, news/transfer gosssip is few and far between. If we weren't recently relegated and about (?) to be bought out, we wouldn't be in the press at all. Such a difference compared to normally being the most written about club in the country (maybe outside the big 4). Dunno if it's the same in England, but this is what I think from an ex-at POV.
Aye it was the same when we were in that league. It's a massive drop down as far as press etc is concerned. Newcastle are doing well at the min considering the shit theyve had. But anything can happen, Just like i wouldnt say were gonna be in europe even though were almost in european position now. It's early dooors. I think Newcastle should get into the play offs atleast. A trip to wembley is class for a club even though it would be better to gfet automatic promotion it's something you can say youve done and seen.
