Now this article is mainly spawned from the fact that the bulk of the players we have been linked with are technical players, flair players if you like, with an eye for a pass and the ability to do that something that little bit special. Time will tell if we can get those players to replicate it in the Premier League, or indeed if we sign them at all, but if we do I would say that it’s a pretty safe bet that the style of football at St James’ Park will improve.
This summer should signal the next level of our Premier League evolution. Last season was all about survival whereas the upcoming season the aim, quite rightly, will be that little bit higher both in terms of results and league position, although the two generally tend to go hand in hand.
There is more to it than that though. Us NUFC fans are a special breed when it comes to football. We tend to want to see football played in the right way with a bit of technique and ability as opposed to a more direct style of play such as what Sam Allardyce tried to instill on Tyneside. He didn’t last long…
I think, results aside, that the type of football that we play will be the making or breaking of Alan Pardew. Obviously results are the most important thing, but it’s also important to get those results by playing in the right way, especially at home. I’m not saying we should be cavalier in every home game, but I feel that under Chris Hughton we paid the price for not being positive enough at home sometimes.
Of course as a manager you can only work with what you have at your disposal, and lets face it, our current lot are hardly flair players are they? Hard working? Yes. Willing to put in a shift? Yes. Known for their tricks and flicks? No, not really.
Mind you, I do think that the arrival of Pardew has seen us improve the type of football we play, although perhaps some of that is down to the fact that we no longer had the option of lumping it up to Carroll as an outlet. I also think Pardew has generally been more positive at home, which is why we’ve lost only twice at St James’ Park under him. There is still room for improvement though.
That is where this summer comes in, and where this transfer window becomes vitally important for the success of next season. It sounds simple doesn’t it? In actual fact it’s a delicate balance of building on what we already have available to us and complimenting it with the ‘X-Factor’ that these flair players can bring.
That is what we are all waiting to see. It’s all well and good being linked with the Cabaye’s, the Gameiro’s, the Gervinho’s and N’Zogbia’s of the footballing world, but it’s another thing getting them through the door and signed and sealed as Newcastle United players.
That is what I’m waiting to see – whether or not it happens.
P.S – As mentioned yesterday when I was rattling on about dates for your diary, the official release date for the Premier League fixture list has been tracked down. They will be released exactly two weeks today on Friday 17th June at 9am.
Yes, we do.
Simple enough really, more entertaining to watch, as you say Hoots wasn’t the most positive and seemed to lack a plan B.
I go to matches / watch football to be entertained, Pardew and the lads did that very well. Arsenal game for instance..
Daverism(Quote)
I think that we do. We are a lot more attacking since he has come in. I’ve noticed he’s encouraged players to go forward and to not be afraid of taking someone on.
Pardew was know at Southampton for having an attacking team which really helped them get great results. The type of players that we seem to be going for in this transfer window do seem like we will become a more attacking side with pace
Goose(Quote)
Anyone notice anything different about the site?
toonsy(Quote)
No, have you changed something toonsy?
Goose(Quote)
No mate, I’m on my phone though, mobile version looks the same.
What you been changing like?
Daverism(Quote)
Goose – No. Not really. But something fairly important has not loing happened. I’ll leave it cryptic until some gets it.
Clue: You can tell what it is just by looking around the site 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Dave re comment 6 😉
toonsy(Quote)
NUFC blog as featured on News Now
Josh-NUFC(Quote)
Josh wins it 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
I cant see aynthing , not surprising as most of the sites adds are blocked from work 🙄 i cant even read the articles 🙁
Johno Toon(Quote)
Nice touch toonsy
Josh-NUFC(Quote)
Johno – We’re on Newsnow basically mate 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
NEWNOWs LOGO appears? 😆 😳
Any prize?
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Very good!
Congrats toonsy!
Johno Toon(Quote)
good job batty had a word in there ear 😀
icedog(Quote)
Aye. Sent the boys round 😆
Back on topic, I’d like to think Pardew can get us playing some decent stuff. As I said in the article, I think he started it with us last season, but with better players hopefully he can take it up a level 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
wonder what another certain site says aboot that 😀 ,how gives a **** anyway 😆 😆 😆
icedog(Quote)
That Qatar group have brought a Spanish team aswell. Malaga. They’re getting everywhere these days 😆
toonsy(Quote)
I don’t really think its so much about positive/negative playstyles really. Hoots could get the lads worked up for the big matches, Emirates, Goodison, Stamford bridge, we showed ability going forward but also kept our composure and ability to defend our lead.
Pardew has improved our home record, at the expense of our away record you can say. We’ve had some dire attacking performances, but maybe that’s as we didn’t have our “star striker.” Team blending takes time anyway and naturally gets better over the season…so in conclusion, i’ve jabbered on and not made much sense of an answer 😀
Newkie(Quote)
Toonsy NewsNow 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
oh yeah we play far better football under Pards
Big Dave(Quote)
Good thread. 🙂
In short, yes. There has been an improvement in the way we have been playing. Not a huge improvement mind, but thats perhaps not suprising since the new coaching staff effectively took over half way through the season. I think we are limited in our play in that almost all our creativity has been down the left channel. Pardew moved on Routledge and hasn’t really had any other options on the right so I’ll be interested to see how he addresses this during the close season. Im also interested to see if they go for another senior RB, someone like when we signed Habib Beye who can come in and improve that area. The current group isn’t good enough to take us forward next season IMO. It seems like we will get Cabaye so asuming we have Tiote holding and Cabaye free it will be interesting to see what happens to Barton and Nolan. Of course the manager can only work with the players he has at his disposal so who we bring will be crucial. But Im quietly confident in Carr, Stone, Carver and Pardew. Moreso than I was at this point last year.
DJG(Quote)
Definitely play better footie under pardew. It’ll be interesting to see how he shapes our supposed 4-5-1 and particularly who he ends up slotting in which position
AndrewT(Quote)
After hoping they would go down ect. I now finally feel sorry for West Ham fans. The nightmare has just begun! 😆
DJG(Quote)
As goose said, the Southampton fans, well the ones I know from dealing with the ports and stuff, really rated patdew and liked his style of play. Hopefully he can do it with us.
toonsy(Quote)
DJG hope your going to keep us up to date mate on french game,after you gave us duff imfo before 😕
icedog(Quote)
Pardew even. **** phone 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
2010/11 season: Newcastle 6-0 Villa, Newcastle 6-2 Sunderland (agg), Newcastle 7-1 West Ham (agg), Newcastle 5-4 Arsenal (agg), Newcastle 4-3 Chelsea, Newcastle 3-1 Liverpool, Newcastle 4-1 Wolves. All eclipsed by Tiote!
Sad goodbye for Chris Hughton, an unlikely legend. And a more disappointing one for Carroll, an unlikely ******.
Army69(Quote)
DJG – Did you say the France match was on tv? What channel? I might watch it while the wench watches Britains got talent 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
toonsy ive just checkd 4 ya its on espn at 9.30pm
Army69(Quote)
Yep better football under Pardew despite the injuries, make shift squad etc. Congrats on newsnow Toonsy, well deserved.
Geordie Deb(Quote)
Toonsy
ESPN
But it’s not on till 9.30 as a repeat. Germany vs. Austria is on live before it.
DJG(Quote)
Army im not having a pop at you, but I really dont see how the words Legend can be attached to Hooters, I think it diminishes the meaning when it’s attached to proper Toon legends like Wor Jackie, Moncur, Keegan, Shearer, Sir Bobby etc.
I know he done a good job but IMO nowhere near enough to have legendary status 😳
Big Dave(Quote)
DAVE you missed batty oot there mind 😀 😀 😀
icedog(Quote)
The only striker with a lot of caps is Benzema. All the others seem to have no or a few caps. 😕
I wonder if Gamerio will get on at some point.
DJG(Quote)
Hopefully he will…he’ll have a howler and put all potential buyers off apart from us, then we scoop him up for 10mil 😀
Newkie(Quote)
Or he’ll score a brace and a champs league team will come in for him. 🙁
DJG(Quote)
Ice some say good old Batty, others tell the truth 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Thing with PSG is that surely now they are flash with cash they’ll go a step above Gameiro and go for a proper name like a Benzema and so on? Maybe with all that money they’ll be shopping in different windows to the one Gameiro is in?
toonsy(Quote)
I disagree Big Dave , I think the job Hoots done does deserve Legendary status. I know he had the best squad and the most money that season in the championship but what he achived was remarkable. The club was on a very slipperly sloap and we really could of ended up anywhere. Fair enough he wasnt 1st choice and he got the job by default , but he worked under circumstances most managers don’t find themselves in yet created a team spirit and an envirment for us to bounce straight back and laid the foundations for the club to build on. Even though his stint was short lived Hoots is a Newcastle legend just as much as all those you named
Johno Toon(Quote)
Nice one, news now 🙂
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
‘Queens Park Rangers captain Adel Taarabt has vowed to never play for Morocco again after learning he will start among the substitutes in the country’s vital African Nations Cup qualifier with Algeria on Saturday.
He told Moroccan radio station Radio Mars: “I have decided to never play for Morocco again, with or without Eric Gerets in charge.
“I’m very angry and the national team is over for me.
“Every time I come to play for Morocco the same thing happens and I’m sick of this situation.”
DJG(Quote)
😆 That counts as a flounce surely? 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Johno Toon I respect your opinion, but I tend to think that a few of the senior players had a lot more to do with team spirit, results, etc than Hooters did, and I think it takes a bit more than a season in the CCC with one of the best and most expensive teams ever to grace the CCC to achive that Status.
I just find it strange that some think of him in the same terms as the Legends I mentioned 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
Taarabt throwing his toys out the pram. Man the f*ck up, if you’re country meant owt to you rather than your own ego you’d get a grip. Wouldn’t want him here either. He’s fine in a winning team, but I reckon he’ll be too willing to throw the towel in in the Prem.
Also re-Gameiro not going to PSG, it does make sense, as Benzema has been fairly unsettled at Real for a while…can only see him going back to France or Arsenal..
Newkie(Quote)
I agree with Dave 🙂
richietoon(Quote)
your*
Newkie(Quote)
Toonsy have any threads made it onto the NN yet as I cant find them but I know they can be well behind at times ?
Big Dave(Quote)
JT ime ganning with big dave on this one m8,think the word legends is apply ied to easy these days anyway 😕
icedog(Quote)
Do we play better football under Pardew?
Lets not even go there shall we Ed ? Otherwise those who really know what they’re talking about will drag up Pardwho’s record and compare it (almost like for like) with JFK !!!!!
So did we play better under JFK ??????? Do me a favour.
This blog hints at being on NUFC’s payroll every now and again which makes it seem more plausible every time you post utter garbage like this !
AndyMac(Quote)
DAVE thought you guys had good eyes,about 4/5th item from top of page 😆
icedog(Quote)
Richie @ 46 I just think that you need to do far more for the Toon to be considered a legend and to throw the name about demeans what the other true legends have done for us
Big Dave(Quote)
This blog is mainly NUFC ‘supporters’. Not NUFC critics.
DJG(Quote)
Ice got it when I refreshed the page 😉
Andymac ED’s not on here his is .com not .co.uk 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
andy mac,you have your own views thats fair, let others have theres,think you better stick on org,where you few dont mind insults,this is a friendly site,put your view by all means,try without insults you might find people will answer you
icedog(Quote)
Evening lads.
Cracking news about newsnow 🙂
dan4toon(Quote)
AndyMac I take it then you think Clueless Chris was better , or is it JFK ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
evening young Dan the man 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
I think we could argue this point back n forth but to me Hughton is a Newcastle Legend. And yes legend and great are terms used too easily.
This blog is the best blog! One might argue its a legend of a blog 😆
Johno Toon(Quote)
DAN you come on hear with no good transfer news that me and dave cannot rip into,shame on you 😕
icedog(Quote)
JT you stick to your views mate,its your right.
but will agree with your blog bit 😆 😆 😆
icedog(Quote)
Of course the problem with Newsnow, and it’s happened already, is that you get some right twats coming on the site.
Hi AndyMac 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
Ice, I don’t have to say anything anymore, I already know were getting N’zogbia, Gervinho, Gameiro as well as Cabaye 😉 😎
dan4toon(Quote)
N that is why Ice this is the best blog! Right finished work going for a few pints , talk to ya all after!
Johno Toon(Quote)
some rivers run deep,drips run dry 😀
icedog(Quote)
Looks like Cabaye is on the bench.
Charlie Prince(Quote)
DAN we missed oot on getting owen back hes signed a new contract 😆 😆 😆
icedog(Quote)
We never stood a chance man Ice, were far too poor for him 🙄
dan4toon(Quote)
Dan. How confident are you that those deals are going to happen?
Goose(Quote)
Johno you stick to your guns mate 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Dan @ 68 we have enough bench warmers, and anyway it would be cheaper to install heated seats
Big Dave(Quote)
Goose, I was only messing but I think we will get Cabaye and Gervinho and ‘try’ for Zog if we let Jonas go.
Don’t think we’ll get Gameiro though.
dan4toon(Quote)
DJG posted :
“This blog is mainly NUFC ‘supporters’. Not NUFC critics”
Sorry DJG hate to think a little truth might spoil the argument on this board 🙂
Taken from .com (Premiership stats only)
Roeder Win Ratio 40.4
Allardyce Win Ratio 33.3
Hughton Win Ratio 31.3
Souness Win Ratio 28.6
Pardew Win Ration 27.3.
Keegan (2nd Time) Win Ratio26.3
Kinnear Win Ratio 25.0
but cheer up at least Clueless isnt rock bottom 🙂
AndyMac(Quote)
Dave, I’d rather have Kuqi then Owen.
At least we know Shefki will try his best….
dan4toon(Quote)
Cool. I agree with you about Gamiero as he seems set on a move to Spain. Would like n’zogbia to come back to us if we could get him
Goose(Quote)