Newcastle v Man United Preview

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We play host to Man utd on Wednesday 4th of March at 7.45pm, And after a very lacklustre 1-0 win over Aston Villa at home on Saturday John Carver will be demanding a more incisive display up front.
He said after the Villa win: “I was brave going with two wingers and two strikers – there are not many head coaches or managers in the Premier League go that way, but I did it because I felt it was important to get the three points.
“We talked about getting the ball in the wide areas and putting the ball in the box because it’s no good Papiss [Cisse] being the lone striker and trying to play into his feet.
“But what was disappointing was that in the first half, we didn’t put the ball in the box enough, and it just shows you, the ratio: you put it in the box and he will score a goal for you, and thankfully he did.”
Daryl Janmaat has also been speaking again “We know Manchester United are a big team and they play well so we will really have to try hard to come away with maximum points,.
“I think though, that the pressure will be more on them than us. We got the three points out of our last game which was crucial for us.
“Those points will build our positivity as a team and we can now be more confident to play Manchester United.
“They are a good team and they win games but they are expected to win more. It will be a massive game for us and the fans, and a superb game to play in and be a part of.
“We want the win, we want the three points and we will do everything that we can to get them.”
Jack Colback will miss the game as he serves out the remainder of his two-match ban, while Massadio Haidara is also a doubt after picking up an injury against Villa, with Ryan Taylor on standby to fill in at left-back also winger Jonas Gutierrez is back in contention after featuring on the bench against Villa for the first time since recovering from cancer so should make the bench again, however Siem de Jong and Remy Cabella are still injured, and Paul Dummett, Cheick Tiote, and Steven Taylor longterm injuries.

Louis van Gaal’s men travel to Tyneside sitting fourth in the Barclays Premier League following a 2-0 win over 10-man Sun5er1and at the weekend.
However, the Old Trafford club’s performances have remained largely unconvincing and will need to improve during what Mata – who netted twice in a 4-0 win at Newcastle last season – labels a crucial month in their quest for UEFA Champions League football.
“We will need to give everything in the next games to get our goals; for a start, against Newcastle in the Premier League, and next Monday against Arsenal in the FA Cup,” Mata wrote on his official blog. “We will also play Tottenham and Liverpool in March, so it’s not an exaggeration to describe this month as one of the most demanding ones this season.
“We remain in the Champions League spots, but you just need to have a look at the table to realise how close this race is going to be until the end of the season.
“We are ready for that, although all we think about is trying to win all the games left. Starting this coming Wednesday in St. James’ Park, a stadium that brings back some good memories because I scored several goals there.”
Hopefully Mata wont have any good memories of this game

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  2. Are we really building a good core? We keep selling anyone who we can build a good team around. I also don’t think we have a particularly good core of player once you take out Krul, Sissoko, Janmaat and Cisse. the rest are either unproven with potential or just average players. I would be really happy if we were slowly building a good squad and a good team but we aren’t in reality and that’s why we are always short and every summer seems like a huge rebuild.

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  3. If Haidara is out then we have Raylor or Anita to play there. Not a disaster. Raylor has mostly played at full back for us anyway.

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  4. JC press conference. Also says we could sign an out of contract player if we get more injuries. More short term *****. Sure they’ll be good too won’t they…

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  5. STUART

    You don’t think we have a good core when you take out the core? Ok…

    BUILDING a good core means we have the likes of Krul, Colo, Sissoko and Cisse with the likes of Janmaat, Colback, Perez, Cabella and Sammy hopefully being added to that in the near future.

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  6. STUART

    Arsenal have fielded players out of position to cover in defence, Man Utd. have done too so it’s not a thing specific to NUFC. Not fair to beat the club up over it. Dummett covers LB and CB, Raylor covers RB and LB, Satka is 4th choice CB, Anita can cover LB and Jonas can cover RB too.

    JC is talking out of his **** with signing an out of contract player though. Why would any player fit for the PL be out of contract??

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  7. I don’t think Colo is a good core player. He has become a liability and is now 32 so it ain’t going to get any better. When was the last time we offered a senior player (core) a contract extension?

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  8. Stuart: The only thing I saw was that the results announcement would be this week. I thought you had said it would be at the fans forum last night?

    The results matter, but what we would all like to see is a statement of intent that at least a large portion of the money will be used to add to and improve the playing squad. Without that, we are no further forward.

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  9. Unfortunately I believe it’s that make do attitude that stops the club progressing. If that’s the case why don’t we just have 4 defenders in the squad full stop?

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  10. Bad news on Haidara but I have faith in Raylor to slot in, just hope he doesn’t break down or we are royally ******

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  11. Kim – We are relying on someone who has played about 100 mins of football in the last 2 years to be our left back. I have very little faith in him. He was an average Left back anyway but being out for that long too?

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  12. Stu- some better coaching wouldn’t go amiss either! I think a lot of players find it hard to work with Cisse assuming both are expected to score – as Remy and Ba showed. Perez has often seemed better when he has played without Cisse, but still think there’s plenty of time for them to work out a partnership, or get him in a wide three opposite Cabella maybe?

    He has bags of talent though, and an ability to run with the ball that other than Remy we haven’t had up top in so many years.

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  14. STUART

    It’s not just a “make do” attitude. It’s that we can’t have 8 quality international defenders in our squad. We don’t have the money or the games to do that, unlike the likes of Chelsea and Man City who have both. So we have our current best 4 of (IMI) Haidara, Colo, Saylor, Janmaat and then we have Dummett, Willo, Satka, Raylor, Anita and Jonas who can play there too. I’d like to see us get better players always but it’s not exactly a big deal when you consider the likes of Roy Keane, Carrick and Flamini have played in central defence for their clubs.

    And I do class Colo as a core player, in the same way as Terry is still a core player for Chelsea. We need these experienced players in the squad, not just up and coming players and 32 is not that old for a centre back.

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  15. Newks, I don’t get this hard to work with Cisse stuff. We just need players capable of delivering a decent ball into the box for him, something we seem incapable of doing at present.

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  16. Stu – it is worrying, and personally I agree I thought he’d be finished as a footballer, he never had any pace beforehand and two years out wasn’t going to help. Still, when he came in against Man City where he played in midfield, he gave a great showing. Assuming his winger is willing to do the hard yards, I think he can do a decent job.

    Silver lining is, at least there is now one person in our side capable of registering a decent shot at goal from a free kick. How long has it been since we’ve scored one – homework assignment for someone.

    Ba and Cabaye used to give us an opportunity and every single free kick to get a goal, usually worth 3-4 wins a season like 😕

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  17. Tough spot for tomorrow. Part of me says go for it as Man U are there for taking, but the times I’ve seen them this year they look most dangerous on the break. Tough call.

    Just no Anita or Gouffron please

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  18. TDS – Nobody is saying we should have 8 defenders. What I am saying is that it was totally irresponsible of the club to leave only 4 defenders in the whole squad after they had let Mbiwa and Santon leave. It was just typical of the club and their money over the team attitude.

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  19. Oh and as for thinking Colo is still a core player… Have you seen him this season? He’s been abysmal and he has been sadly lacking in leadership skills when we need them. For me he will only get worse – God help us!

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  20. TDS: Coloccini’s contract is up next summer and he will be released. Not least because he is ***** whipped anyway and has been angling for a move back to Argentina for 2 years. The only thing that stopped him was his own naivety in thinking that they could afford PL wages in Argentina and that Fatty would let him out of his contract for nowt.

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  21. Kim – I’m not saying we shouldn’t get service to him – and it isn’t that hard because I’ve always said he likes crosses or knock downs from target men – his goals from Freiburg show that he likes to hit a reactionary strike rather than run through the defence and have too much time to think about the shot.

    What I am saying is that he is a difficult player to link up with for other strikers – no shame in that, it’s just his game. His passing and hold up play has been a lot better this season than the previous two, but he can’t play back to goal and he does seem to struggle if he is playing with other goalscoring strikers – like Ba and Remy. Is it a coincidence his poor periods of form have come about when they were banging them in? I don’t think so.

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  22. Stuart: I watched Roma v Juve yesterday. MBiwa had a very good game partly because he was paired with another very good centre back. I don’t know why we gave up on him so easily if he can play that well against the best team in Italy?

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  24. We gave up on Mbiwa because someone offered us money for him. That tends to be the way at NUFC.

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  25. Newks, your right about the passing and hold up play improvement, it’s much better now. I am hoping when De Jong returns he will be a good foil for him.

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  28. TBF aside from being a clear racist and constantly spouting drivel week in week out and lavishing praise on a charlatan of a manager , Wheelan did a good job for Wigan. They did do well on fairly meagre resources – and the players they brought in went to better sides in the league, even if most didn’t replicate the same kind of form.

    I suppose he’s happy enough to have seen them lift a trophy, about time he went though.

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  32. Newkie: Whelan did a pretty good job until now you mean! They are pretty much odds on to get relegated to League 1 (3rd Division as I remember it).

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  33. I wouldn’t be too smug if I was Dave King. He doesn’t have the money to really put Rangers back on their feet and Ashley is used to playing the long game. Whatever we think of Ashley, he has the resources to smash King should he choose. My guess is he wants to see how the legal issues play out and also what he wants to do with NUFC.

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  34. Eric – The one thing we know about Ashley is that he doesn’t make decisions with his heart and it’s only about money. He won’t ‘smash’ King as it would mean him paying over the odds and he won’t do that. King on the other hand is a Rangers fan, a successful businessman who i think has enough money of his own to own the club and see it through to the CL. He also has ‘Three Bears behind him which makes him the main man at Rangers. Does Ashley even want the hassle?

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  35. Stuart: Ashley has very big European ambitions for SD and Rangers is a pretty cheap way to achieve these if he can get over the legal and SFA hurdles.

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  36. Eric – well that’s what I meant with the time to go thing. He did a good job and they’ve got themselves a trophy, right now they look terrible but that can happen when you lose your manager and a core group of players at the same time. I think they’ll survive though and then bounce around mid table in the championship for a while, which is their level really.

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  37. Knowing his albeit sorted tax issues in SA, I still can’t see how the SFA can say he is a fit and proper to run a club, don’t forget there was alleged money laundering too. Ashley is a saint compared to that guy.

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  38. And Stuart: whenever I have seen these “local businessmen” make offers and talk about consortiums it always turns out they have less money and are less liquid than they said when push comes to shove. It happened at NUFC when Fatty put us up for sale.

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  39. Newkie: I hope you are not a betting man. Wigan are 9 points behind the 4th bottom team with 12 to play. Bookies have them 1/4 to get relegated.

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  40. It’s a bit different with public companies though, Eric. He can’t ride rough shod over the shareholders as he hasn’t got anywhere near a majority. King has through his own stake and that of his partners. That has been shown by all Ashley’s cronies resigning. Ashley now has no power and king has already shown proof of funds to the directors and that he can repay Ashley’s £10m.

    Anyway, I doubt Ashley will have the stomach for it as if there’s competition it will mean paying more than he believes it’s worth and we know he doesn’t do that.

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  41. Kim – Ho whale the owners get through the authorities fit and proper person test is beyond me. If you look into the past of half these owners they have a murky side…

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  44. We’ll see Stuart. I bet Ashley will be back. The only thing that has blocked him so far from purchasing more shares from block holders or on the open market is that 10% limit, I think. I haven’t looked into it a lot but I do know that it is still a cheap entry into Europe and Ashley is all for cheap as we know.

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  46. Eric – Considering the SFA have fined Ashley the huge sum of £7,500 for being breach of SFA duel ownership laws I doubt he will get control of Rangers. The sum is irrelevant, but what isnt is that they obviously have a rule in place which prevents him from owning a controlling stake in Rangers while owning NUFC.

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  47. Eric – Their situation does look hopeless, but then that was the case a fair few times in the Prem. I think they have a decent chance if they beat Rotheram. Admittedly I wouldn’t put any money on them survivng though 😆

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  48. Stuart: that is what I am saying about the long game. He may want to sell NUFC in a few years once he extracts his pound of flesh and who knows if the King Group will succeed? The others before them didn’t which is what allowed Ashley a foothold in the first place. Fatty already has the merchandising right so he ain’t going anywhere soon.

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  49. Don’t know if its been mentioned yet but the Son inlaw sent me a link that Carver might be looking to sign an out of contract player to cover for injuries 😆

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  51. I thought by now we would have a 60000 seater stadium and be competing for the title. So you can see why Ranger’s dont want the fat slug.

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  57. They’re all injured bar Vuckic (who will be injured soon judging on the past). If they have to pay any wages they should send ’em back to us and we can have them rehab in Qatar with Tiote.

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  59. Ashley won’t be happy getting fined 7,500 pounds. He will get his revenge on those jocks!

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  60. Terry – he needs to put it into perspective mate – it’s only one takeaway for him!

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  61. Sharpy: Yup, Fergie and MBabu were already injured when they went, Streete got injured in his first game and Bigi isn’t playing with the reason being unknown. Vuckic has played but he has never been able to put more than a couple of games together before limping out, fingers crossed though because we probably will end up with them all back soon.

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  63. I wish the Ranger’s fan’s would welcome Ashley with open arms.
    1. His rich.
    2. He would look good in a kilt.
    3. He wants silverware and european football
    4. He might sell us

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  64. Thanks for the new thread BD
    I’m suffering with head v heart
    Head says we gonna get another pasting
    Heart says anything can happen on the night.
    If we can beat Chelsea, then why not manure too.
    One thing about the Toon is the unpredictability.
    Howay the Lads
    For the prediction thingy, I’ll go 1-0 😛 😛
    Lets get Cisse’s stats even more unbelievable.

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  65. He is a good business that wouldn’t allow them to go into the red. I mean his an improvement on Green and can they really afford to be so fussy. Sadly it would be a full time commitment and meaning the end of his time here. King vs Ashley, I hope Ashley win’s.

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  68. Kim – I’m watching it & they look decent tonight like.

    What do you reckon to Tom Cleverley?. He’s only on loan there but I reckon he looks good now he’s getting a run of games. I wonder how much Utd would want for him?!.
    I’d love to take Benteke off them as well.

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  69. Kim – puts pressure on the scum though. And that is telling, Poyet has been sent off 😆 Need a good few results for Leicester, QPR and Burnley now to send the right ones down… :mrgreen:

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