Just watched Adam's goal back on MOTD, if you look in the bottom right of the picture you can see Rickie throw both arms up in the air and punch the air before running towards Adam with his big grin.
Well...sort of... He came from the Torquay youth system, never played for us, and Newcastle signed him from Pompey.
You're no longer cool and you do lame stuff...give 'em a few years and they'll be back in the fold (and then you will never get rid of them...I considered the foreign legion for my son, but apparently he has to volunteer ).
Hey! How do you know in no longer cool? I wasn't cool about two years ago.... "Oh Dad!" Are the words I hear more than most.
That was as good a display as I have seen this season. Good performances all over pitch. No one had had a tithing less than a top drawer showing. Most notably Boruc's kicking was good Newcastle were very ordinary because we made them look ordinary. To put that turn in so soon after a disappointing collapse at WHL shows how mentally tough this squad is.
Despite being born in England, Elliot is eligible for the Republic of Ireland through his fathers family from Cork and has represented Ireland at under-19 level.[8] On the 5th of October 2013, Elliot received his first call up to Republic of Ireland senior squad as a replacement for the injured Darren Randolph for the games against Germany and Kazakhstan.
I feel sorry for that guy because it was clearly inept tactics from Pardew. Coloccini and Santon are both better at right-back than him, and he is a solid CB to be fair to him. Combine that ridiculous defensive choice with the choice to play Ben Arfa on the right, and you're begging to have your arse handed to you by Shaw and Rodriguez. I genuinely sympathise with Yanga-Mbiwa for being asked to play that impossible role. Pardew is clearly not all that.
In the build-up to the game, one prominent Newcastle fan site posted that Pardew was better than Pochettino. Newcastle fans laughed him out the building and said Pardew doesn't have the coaching ability or tactical nous of Mauricio. Seems they were right. Obviously.
By my recollection of watching the 90 minutes late last night, not only was Cork crocked, but Chambers was caught badly on the ankle, JWP the same, and Shaw also got a very bad ankle rip, all from players who were massively late in the tackle. Tbf, all of them apologised immediately afterwards, but they were very poor challenges. Poor young Chambers was very much in the wars, as he also had a head clash with Haidara, which left both players down, but Chambers seemed to get the worst of it. When Poch said, in his press conference on Thursday, that Newcastle were a physical team, I thought he was overplaying it. But he nailed the description. AP said he was disappointed with their performance and their attitude. I think their players actually did put in a shift. It's just that Saints were better in every department for 90 minutes. We were a more coherent team. There's no shame in being beaten by a better team, and I'm sure that by next Saturday their attitude will have miraculously improved.
Pardew has good, short-term, motivational skills. This quickly wears off. Happened at all his clubs I think. I always thought he was tactically poor with us.
The reasons may have involved personalities, but Nicola didn't rate him for getting the best out of Saints and brought in Nigel, then Mauricio. Not a bad judge.
In the Times today: Saints play with an English core and a continental flair. Also added that Lambert, Lallana and JRod play so well together that there is a case for taking them all to Brazil
Everyone's going on about AL, RL and JR, Shaw has a fair chance of going, but people forget about Cork! He's better than Cleverley and is at least on par with Barry and Carrick.
