Crisis? What crisis! Yet another Jamaal Lascelles header handed us a third successive win in a battling performance against Stoke City at a packed out St.James’ .
Stoke started brightly and saw a lot of the ball in the early stages, but it was yet another spirited performance from the lads. We were organised, pressed well and created several chances – it could and should have been more comfortable than the scoreline suggested.
Atsu’s opener came out the blue, with the brilliant Matt Ritchie putting an enticing across on a plate for the Ghanaian, who couldn’t miss after arriving late at the back post.
The game should have been done and dusted before Shaqiri’s almost inevitable equaliser. Joselu spurned two big openings, whilst the Gallowgate were left perplexed by the referee’s failure to hand us a penalty after a goal-bound Christian Atsu was pretty blatantly bundled over.
Shaqiri’s strike was a bitter pill to swallow after the missed chances, but the captain soon put things right. He latched onto a Matt Ritchie corner and cannoned the ball in off the bar. The Gallowgate erupted and we hung on for yet another well earned win.
Merino was magnificent again in midfield, whilst Clark and Lascelles held the fort at the back with two strong displays. Yedlin and Mbemba did a good job to contain the tricky Jese and Shaqiri whilst Ritchie outstanding. Busy as ever and played a big part in both goals.
Joselu held the ball well on occasion but missed a few too many big chances. He could have had a hat-trick! Atsu offered us an out ball on the break and looked lively yet again, whilst Perez had one of his better afternoons with some good work on and off the ball.
Player ratings
Elliot (8) – Yedlin (7.5), Lascelles (8.5), Clark (7), Mbemba (7) – Ritchie (9*), Hayden (7), Merino (8), Atsu (7.5) – Perez (7) – Joselu (6).
SCENES at St. James' after Jamaal Lascelles' winner!! ???⚫️⚪️⚫️ #NUFC@Lascelles16 pic.twitter.com/3VQ46C0E0F
— Black&WhiteBarmy (@BlackWhiteBarmy) September 16, 2017
A great shift from the lads. Another big win and sign that we have more than enough to compete at this level. Get in!
Yep, table looks good tonight 😎 😛
Only saw first half then my link died .
KIMTOON(Quote)
Ice: thanks for the advice but I was able to fix the virus.
Kimtoon: I ran a full scan on windows defender that took about an hour and a half. It found the virus and I deleted it. Then after about 5 minutes it let me close the virus and my PC is now back to normal.
There are a bunch of these scams out there. It happened to me about a year ago and I tried to contact Microsoft. Instead I got linked to some Microsoft certified bullshit artist who wanted to charge me $250 a year as a service fee to fix it. The PC I am using only cost $160 and I told them to f-off as they wanted my credit card. It is a complete scam. It took me about 3 hours to fix but even getting in touch with Microsoft certified people there are a lot of cowboys out there.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Spurs are making hard work of Swansea. Maybe we at not as bad as people thought 🙂 Not so much on here but on Ed’s the sky was falling !!!!
Eric Sykes(Quote)
It is so good to have Rafa in charge. Remember the Schteve BS when we were losing he said – judge me after 10 games. Then after 10 games he said judge me at Christmas 🙂
Eric Sykes(Quote)
From last thread,you will not regret getting that fix me stick it clears everything I promise you,stick it in once a month takes about a hour,if you forget they email you to remind you,Eric says it took him hour and half,what happens if he cannot fix it ? I know my local repair shop can charge you up to £100 to remove nasty things but all they do is stick the fix me stick in
Icedog(Quote)
I watched Bein sports,and closely followed that Shaqiri what a pain in the *** he is he twistead and complained to the ref all game
Icedog(Quote)
What an ugly game that Spurs game was ?.
So I read an article the other day that it was Lascelles that spoke with Ashley & negotiated the players bonuses for this season.
The lad is proving to be a real captain on and off the pitch.
I have rated the lad from day one and predicted he would develop into a top CB who would one day be an England regular. I know he’s yet to be called up – but it’s only a matter of time I reckon.
With a lack of top CBs around at the mo and the likes of Van **** carrying a fee in excess of £60m – our Jamaal could be a real diamond.
Can anyone remember the days of Colo and Williamson ?
Sharpy17(Quote)
What planet does the Stoke manager live on? Apart from the first fifteen min we played them off the park they offered nothing in the final third,he says they should have got at least a point as they had two good chances and should have scored ffs,how many chances did he think we had,arsehole
Icedog(Quote)
The Mag says that Stoke had a total of 10 shots and that 13 were on target. I thought football was a simple game but these stats leave me perplexed. Great result though.
Groucho(Quote)
Richie was MOTM by a country mile,the graft he does is unreal,his crosses from dead balls would be a asset to any top four club
Icedog(Quote)
ARRY gets the sack at Brum
Icedog(Quote)
Eric, My Avast anti virus got rid of the virus . I do a clean up twice a week and run smart scan once a week.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Hughes has always been a bad loser so his comments are no real surprise.
KIMTOON(Quote)
I never rated him as a manager mate,funny but I doubt he could handle the ccc
Icedog(Quote)
That’s why I never watch streams for games or play games easy for viruses to get into your computer,but we live and learn
Icedog(Quote)
His chums at the Red Tops and Sky will still defend him. He’s blaming injuries anybody but himself. He may have a point but he brought in 14 players and they cannot all be injured. Top, top traffic decision.
Remember the tabloids were touting him for the England job before Mr. Roy got it.
Ashley also wanted him but he didn’t want to move so far North.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Ice – didn’t he have a run in with Jose last weekend coz he was being a bellend then as well.
Personally I can’t stand the bloke. Didn’t like him as a player and like him less as a manager.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I think Gobshite Redknapp still has a column at one of the papers. They will not criticize him. They never do. Martin Samuel at The Daily hateMail ghost wrote his auto biography so expect a defense from him. He has a mixed bag of a career, doing well at Spurs, relegating Southampton, probably leaving Pompey in financial ruin but winning the FA Cup, deserting QPR saying he had a bad knee.
He will not go away though. You just know he will be on the pundits couch soon. Maybe next to Jamie. Definitely at the Russia World Cup, probably next to Peytar Reid and Alan Pardew.
They just never go away. It doesn’t matter what they do and how much verbal diarrhea he spouts.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Just read Luke Edwards’ report in The Telegraph. He said that today was a typical Joselu performance and that he has always snatched at his chances and loses confidence. He also quoted Rafa who wasn’t exactly fulsome in his defense of Joselu.
I expect him to start the next game but to be on a short leash. Rafa doesn’t suffer failure for long.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Is Darlow injured? Woodman was on the bench again.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Oh God, 6 million people are expected at Oktoberfest. I lived in Munich for 6 months twice and then again during college summer holidays. I only went to Oktoberfest once. It is total madness. I had like 4 or 5 steins and a couple of schnapps and decided it would be a good idea to go on the roller coaster. I didn’t barf but was queasy for about 2 hours. If you want to see a bunch of drunken Yanks and Aussies and locals in lederhosen hitting you up for free beer it is the place to go 🙂
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Pardew on sky sports today telling us all about what he used to do and what he would do… Me me me.
Owen on bt sport was awful at describing something that he was watching in a replay. Left me sitting there thinking ‘so what happened then?’
Meanwhile Sutton and Savage just arguing with eachother about the same point over and over again.
shamrock(Quote)
Eric – Luke Edwards is a *****. Nobody was expecting a complete striker for £5m. He’s 27 now so has a record that shows he’s not a 20 plus goals a season forward – you generally don’t get those for £5m.
But he does a job for the team and today he got in some great positions. He’s a striker where on a good day at least one goes in – on another day nowt goes in. But he still created those problems and got in those positions – the lad never went missing.
Top quality players get a brace or a hat trick today – but those top players have off days as well.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Eric – I have a mate who’s a Brum fan and he was worried when they brought Arry in like. He said it would either be genius or a disaster – and the club couldn’t afford it to be a disaster.
He’s spent money on buying Harlee Dean, Craig Gardner and big money (for them) on Jota. They’ve also spent money on loaning PL players like Carl Jenkinson & Sam Gallagher – plus a good chunk on hiring Arry himself. It’s money the club really haven’t got, so Arrys very short tenure has probably set that club back – unless they can bring a decent coach in to get those players going this season.
Sharpy17(Quote)
They cost 60 million as well! I was passing on what Luke Edwards said. I read his stuff and he doesn’t seem to have an agenda against NUFC, unlike a lot of journalists/pundits. The interesting bit to me was that Rafa didn’t really defend Joselu. I only saw the 1st half because the internet locked up and I got a virus from the stream.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
4th in the lge jabba will be thinking he spent owr much in the window
Icedog(Quote)
Yes he is mate,just slight they say
Icedog(Quote)
I don’t really have that much against Redknapp. He is not vindictive or anything just a gobshite spiv. In fact, I would rather see him than Roy Keane who is a vindictive c@nt even if he makes a bit more sense than ‘Arry.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Eric – I wasn’t having a go at you mate. I see it as an agenda towards NUFC when we have just won our third game in a row, with another very good performance but he’s writing negatively in my opinion.
You might not have seen it over there mate, but Lineker spoke to Rafa and said Shearer was getting excited watching Newcastle. Rafa joked he wished we had Shearer coz he would have defo scored some of Joselus chances today. Don’t know if that’s what Edwards is referring to or if Rafa said something in a different interview.
Either way, to be fair, Rafa couldn’t really defend some of those misses – im certainly not – the kid had a bad day. But he kept going & I praise him for that. Make up for it next week lad.
Rafa has his man management ways though doesn’t he. I remember Stevie G saying that Rafa rarely praised him – but that made him try harder looking for that praise. Maybe by not defending Joselu, he knows that the player will try harder to score next weekend to prove people wrong.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy: I never thought you were having a go. I usually give our players a chance until there is just no hope like with Amdy Faye. I hope Joselu can knock a couple in as confidence does wonders. Anyway, he has competition from Gayle and Mitro will be back after next week.
I am feeling comfortable that we will not be relegated and I do think Fatman will allow Rafa to spend any money the club makes. That is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow next year and I would trust Rafa to do more with the TV money than say Shaun Dyche or Ronald Koeman. He will find some good players. They may not all work out but that is never the case. Even Bobby Robson didn’t hit a home run every time, although he was close.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
I always find it strange that some people judge managers more on their failures than their successes. I mean, as an example 1 Christiano Ronaldo makes up for 5 Bebes or 1 Xabi Alonso makes up for 3 Ryan Babels. It may seem like I am quick to judge but I am not. It is the internet, you (I) say some things and they are not always fully thought through.
I think we can get a bit of perspective from other sports. Over here you are a super star if you can get a hit in baseball a third of the time. That means you fail 2/3rds of the time. The greatest hitter in the history of baseball, Ted Williams, only got a hit 4 times out of 10.
Joe Root just broke a record by getting 50s in 12 consecutive tests.
Football management is hard and finding the best players on a budget is hard.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Here’s a thought, maybe Joselu was trying too hard to score against his former club, he has a point to prove after all. Or maybe he just had a mare yesterday, he has looked useful prior to yesterday’s game , he is far more mobile than Gayle is. Let’s give the lad a chance, if he’s still fluffing chances in 4 or 5 games time then fair enough.
KIMTOON(Quote)
I think the same mate he was trying to hard,imo had Stoke on his mind instead the goals each time it got worse,let’s give a bit chance for now
Icedog(Quote)
Joselu was getting into scoring positions and that is half the battle.. the goals will come..
Really pleased with the energy levels on the park. We are playing as a team with no real reliance on individuals. Haven’t seen this in a Newcastle team for some time now. The way we pressed and shut down space was excellent. Just good ole fashioned graft.
Happy days.
Aussie(Quote)
Probably stating the obvious but I am liking Ritchie’s set pieces. Even if Shelvey comes back in we should have Ritchie take the corners and maybe they share the free kicks. Also, isn’t Mereno left footed, so there would be times where he might have a go. It is always good to have options.
Remember when we went like 2 years without scoring from a corner.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/902428912?-11058:809:3
This clown and his moron mates had us relegated a few weeks ago. We weren’t good enough, Rafa was walking and it was told doom & gloom. Must have stuck in the throat for Thommo this like.
Sharpy17(Quote)
To be fair the only real clean cut chance that Joselu missed yesterday was the one he put over the bar.
Butland made saves and the other chances weren’t ‘easy’ chances. No doubt he should’ve got at least one and it’s right he gets criticism by the way coz if it was a keeper not making saves he should’ve made, we’d be all over them for sure.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Well, watching Liverpool I reckon if we can keep their forwards quiet we can get something from them as they cannot defend from set pieces to save their lives. Thommo will be even more miserable then.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Sharpy: most of the pundits have it in for us and I do not know why. I don’t think I am being paranoid either. Thompson must be a bit thick, he knew we have Rafa and must have seen him first hand a lot at Liverpool. They also know he guided Valencia to La Liga when both Barca and Madrid had more talent. Liverpool under Rafa ran Man U close for the title when Man U had probably the best side since maybe Paisley’s Liverpool. with Souness, Hansen and Dalglish. You know, the one with Ronaldo, Tevez, a young Rooney, Scholes, Giggs, Ferdinand etc.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Kim – Rafa is one of the best tacticians in World football and will be well aware of how horrible Liverpool are at defending corners & set pieces. With Ritchie taking them & the ariel threat of Lascelles, Clark and Joselu or Mitrovic if he goes with him – it wouldn’t surprise me if Rafa sends them out to win freekicks & corners more than usual.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Eric – Glenn Hoddle is one of the few pundits I will listen to with any interest.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I am telling you the pundits over here are much more balanced than on British TV. They are split about 1/3 Yanks and 2/3 Brits and don’t go courting controversy or get into hyperbole. Most are not what you would have called star players. Robbie Mustoe (ex-Boro) and Robbie Earle have a show and Warren Barton is on Champions League.
I have a theory. Part of it is that these were all solid pros but mainly that they are not part of the Liverpool/Man U/Arsenal cliques that pervade British football TV. Even Robbie Savage is ex-Man U.
I just wish they would mix it up a bit more and have fewer pundits who are obviously biased towards their former teams.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Yeah Sharpy and he is a bit crazy. Remember why he was sacked by England!
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Got a full slate of live football – Chelsea, Man U, Real Madrid. The great thing about the time difference is that I can get all of my football watching out of the way early and still go out for a late lunch.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
And I don’t get accused of being a couch potato even though I am watching 5 hours of football every Saturday and Sunday. Starts at 7 and ends usually at 1 so there is no reason for girlfriends to ***** 🙂
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Eric, Can you not get her into the game ?
KIMTOON(Quote)
Joselu looks like his fee. If that had been Mitro he would have got slaughtered. I’m not sure Joselu is better than Daryl Murphy even. Mitro is our best bet until Jan.
Great win again although I hate these games near the end with a slender lead. Does my head in.
The impressive thing for me is our workrate these days. I can’t remember seeing it before in black and white! All credit to the Rafa and the coaches. It was immediately noticeable to me when Shelvey came on and started aimlessly wandering about watching the ball. 4 in a row coming up?
georgio(Quote)
I know it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks but I think Rafa will be doing a few drills with Joselu. Try to have him not snatch at the chances because his instincts seem correct. I doubt if he will ever be prolific but his hold up and link up play is good. He could be like our Kevin Davies.
BTW, Mr. Roy is screwed. Have you seen the Palace schedule 🙂
Man City away
Man U away
Chelsea home
NUFC away
Has there ever been a club with zero points after 9 games? I know that Schteve gave it a good go with us 🙂
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Eric, but that’s exactly where Palace will find their first win, you just know they’ll get an unlikely result against one of the big boys , it’s just how football is some times.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Oh and we should of had a pen yesterday imo. If Atsu was playing at a top 4 club or any other club for that matter that would of been given.
KIMTOON(Quote)
I see Stoke have their own Siko,Butland the keeper he says he is the best keeper in the PL and wants to play CL footy with M/U,bet the Stoke fans love that,I love me who do you love ffs
Icedog(Quote)
I would say Butland is top 3. He singlehandedly saved Stoke against us a couple of years ago.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
From what I have seen of Citeh they have no chance there.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Sorry to hark back to pundits but I’ve watched Sunday Supplement & goals on Sunday so far this morning to see what these people who slaughtered us a few ago had to say now – funnily enough, not much.
What they have done though is bleated on about Man City and how great they are and they are the team to beat for the title.
They have spent close to ONE BILLION on players under Pep alone – with players like Silva, Aguero and De Byrne already there.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy: is Sunday Supplement the one with the Fleet Steet hacks sitting around a table drinking coffee? Neil Ashton and Neil Custus are the biggest tossers out there. And if you ever read their columns they continually contradict what they said a couple of weeks before based on whatever happened yesterday. Total short termism and they get away with it because they assume their readers wont remember.
There is a daily piece on Football3655 called Mediawatch which calls out these hacks for their forever changing minds and contradictions. You should have a read.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Sharpy: Citeh were my tip for the title before the season started because I had seen like 3 of their pre-season games in a tournament they had over here.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Eric – that’s the one mate, and it will come as no surprise to you that they were still blowing off Arry and blaming the owners. It’s such a horrible job the Birmingham job – but then they couldn’t answer the host of the show when he asked ‘well why did Arry take it then?, he could have walked away after keeping them up’.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Eric – they should be everyone’s mate!!. They have spent ONE BILLION onto a squad that was probably already worth around that as it was. If you aren’t winning trophies & titles spending that kinda cash – I really don’t know what it would take!!.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Joselu is not going to start becoming a goal scorer all of a sudden. He’s a 1 in 4 striker. We can’t needing to creat ten chances to take 2. Although it’s much better to create the chances than not create them.
Stuart79(Quote)
Kim, Yup I thought that too but figured I misread it as I think yours is the first time I’ve seen it mentioned on the blogs.
Don’t read media reports, listen yo the southern media commentary or bother with so called experts so no idea or care what that lot thinks but surprised more wasn’t mentioned here
Good win and sounded a decent performance yesterday so all’s good right now
GlosMag(Quote)
What I find strange is Richie who is a real good player cannot get into the Scottish team what the hell is the manager thinking of,mind Ime very pleased like less chance of injury for him,it’s just they have a number of poor players
Icedog(Quote)
Ice – he’s been nothing short of outstanding so far this season for me mate. His work rate is tremendous and I think everyone else feeds off that – almost Beardsley like work rate.
But his delivery is class too – that cross over for Atsu and I noticed watching goals on Sunday this morning – when he crosses the ball from the corner he’s waiting for Lascelles to score – and heads it in with him ?.
Sharpy17(Quote)
😆 😆
Icedog(Quote)
Apparently according to Elliot and Lascelles, Ritchie and Lascelles often have spats in training but always make up afterwards. It certainly doesn’t affect their corner partnership 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
How come Everton have Angry Birds on their sleeves? see Everton 50mil or however much he cost striker just missed a open goal as bad a miss of our 5 mil striker,it it happens
Icedog(Quote)
Nearly every Everton forward move breaks down with Roony
Icedog(Quote)
Ice – in Rooneys case I think it’s reference to his missus mate
Sharpy17(Quote)
According to most pundits, Everton won the transfer window with the players they signed. Going well that like.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Would be quite funny to see Everton relegated…. ❗ 😯 😎 😆
Stuart79(Quote)
Everton spent nearly £150m but still didn’t replace Lukaku’s goals. That takes some doing that…
Stuart79(Quote)
Stu – Gylfi is a top player, but you don’t spend £45m (or whatever it was) on him when you still don’t have that goal scorer in the squad.
They are really going to struggle this season I think.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Everton were abysmal at Atalanta. Looked like amateurs. I think they are in trouble this season. Eric called it right.
I said maybe Rafa is losing touch with the modern game. I was wrong and hold my hands up. The Stoke win was a real signal of intent. Hoping we finish comfortably above relegation places now. Maybe 12th ish.
Many on here wrote Lascelles off though and I backed him. So at least I got something right haha.
shamrock(Quote)
Well Rooney definitely has an angry bird 😆
KIMTOON(Quote)
Ice, in case you missed it, I know you posted about him being missing
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KIMTOON(Quote)
I know it’s a bit early to state that palace are doomed, But it also looks like there are 7 other teams chasing the other two relegation places, and we are 4 pts above all of them. lovely.
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