Article: Newcastle United v Southampton - Matchday Thread | Newcastle United FC, Football

Other games going well for us so far. Vile, QPR, Norwich (sorry Dave), Mackems and Reading all losing.

 

Where's that,, Annfield Plain ???






I'll get my coat aswell

 

Any tickets left for tomorrow? Newcastle undefeated everytime I've seen them live, so could do with you beating or at worst drawing with Saints.

 

To be honest it's very unlikely you're going to catch Saints so the result tomorrow doesn't really matter to you.

 

Spot on Tom. It's very unlikely they are going to catch anyone

 

It's a very early start for me tomorrow - 5.30 to be precise.

 

Long (and hopefully very miserable) day for you! No offence.

 

None taken. To be honest the only way it will be a miserable day is if we get hammered, which is unlikely. The SJP experience will be fantastic.

 

Is Benni fit? Gouffran? Be great to add them in.

Krul
Debuchy
Santon
Colo
Saylor
Tiote
Cabaye
Sissoko
Benni
Gouffran
Cisse

That would be my preference!

 

reports say yes, but not fit enough

Gouffran is reported to be ok

 

Just play this -

----------Cisse-----------

----------Sissoko-------
Gouff----------------Jonas

------Tiote-----Cabaye----

Santon--Colo--Saylor--Debuchy

------------Krul-------------

 

This if Benni is not ready. I can't wait for him to be added to our current options.

 

Krul's out

 

Not sure why everyone has Tiote over Anita - to me Anita has been the better performer and adapted well to the league. On top of being able to play similar to Tiote (admittedly not as good in that aspect - I would put him around 85% of Tiote's quality) what he can contribute to the team as a whole in terms of passing and terrier like performances far outweighs that missing 15% in positional quality and with Sissoko and Cabaye both able to put a tackle in then even that small differential would be negligible.

 

Just what has happened to the Tiote we knew from the 3-0 win over Man U last season? they arent the same player, I find it hard to remember a player that gives away posession as cheaply as Tiote has on occasions this season

 

Personally I think a combination of being found out and head turning! Or maybe having to play a role similar to Anita and he just can't cut the mustard

 

Head turned maybe but I cant attribute some of the terrible slack passes that cede posession to him being found out

 

I think with the passing it's down to him not being a good passer of the ball - saw someone else mention that he should settle for the 5 yard passes to Cabaye and that's it. Hence why we should have Anita in the side instead

 

Suppose, but with Anita's stature im always afraid it could go either way and he could be completely muscled out of a game

 

True about his stature but I think he has been shown to hold his own and Anita should be first choice for 90% of games - just certain games like Stoke maybe have Tiote