COG = Flobs 2.0
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Hereās hoping EndÅ-san has something to say about not letting Everton get anywhere near our defence to begin withā¦
(In case anyone is wondering, itās also because Iād rather not risk Gravenberch)
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Especially like how Arne points out the mistakes made. Whether its the forest game or Virg making the mistake yesterday. No room for complacency.
Iāve just been reading the comments from Newcastle fans on their recent games. āMediocreā, āstrugglingā, āhonkingā, āwretchedā all get mentioned. From that, I think you can tell that they havenāt won recently.
I lived in Newcastle in the early 90s and was often mistaken for Pavel SrnĆÄek, their Czech goalkeeper who actually lived fairly close to me. On more than one occasion I got whinged at for their crap performances. Football fans can be very fickle and obsessed with the last game.
Come to think of it, I should have been quite pleased that I could have been mistaken for a professional athlete. Iād be more likely to be mistaken for a walrus these days.
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Tricky game is very relative these days, itās also a crazy league.
Some tricky games on paper might turn out to be easier than some who arenāt.
Look at the calibre of teams weāve beaten in last weeks, some of them pretty comfortably (more by performanes than big goal margins), and then look at our win at Southampton.
But yeah, itās a tricky week with the Sunday-Wednesday-early Saturday tempo.
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Slot doesnāt rotate too much, but I expect Jones and Darwin to come back in the team for this one. Jones maybe for Macca who is one yellow away from a suspension. Darwin for Gapko or Lucho.
They havenāt looked great lately and their fans are expecting a reaction, but if we play as well as we have lately we should win this oneš
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Iām sure that Arne and his team will know the personnel, formation and tactics to see us through this game. COYR YNWA 
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Iām not sure that will have too much of a bearing on it.
The FA rules are:
Players who receive a total of five yellow cards in their first 19 matches will be given a one-match suspension.
Should a player be booked 10 times across their first 32 Premier League matches, they will be suspended for two games. Yellow cards are not carried over to the EFL Cup or FA Cup.
We have played 13 games, so either you are going to drop him for the next 6 games to avoid a potential one game ban, or you take the risk that he picks a card up somewhere and misses Everton/Fulham/Spurs/Leicester/West Ham depending where the next yellow occurs.
He may be rotated, of course, to allow for rest time in a busy period.
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Few changes definitely needed but the number of injuries does tie Arneās hands in the number he can make, as you say Darwin and Jones seem the most obvious to make. Chiesa and Jota being out this long is really starting to grate on my balls.
Last 2 games wouldāve taken a lot out of the team and now a long trip to the N-E for a cold, wet, windy Wednesday in a cesspool like Newcastle.
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Last two games have been incredible performances and emotional highs. Impossible to keep that going but will need to reach those heights again at different points this season. Will take an ugly win in this one
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Sometimes we as fans are more afraid than the team is actually able to hit incredible runs of consistency, if not performance wise (very hard to play brilliantly for 90 minutes, let alone multiple times per week), then results wise.
Tricky this, tricky that, how are we going to do itā¦ and then we do it. Not often, but weāve showed some great periods of consistency and we might have to do it again, in order to win something important this season.
We still have some key players from an era when we did that and hopefully itās translated all the time to new guys. Like always, we go game by game with the best we have with the aim to win, knowing realistically that we wonāt have to win literally every game to win the thing.
Okay, the Liverpool and City thing really put pressure on how much points you can drop over a season, but Iām proud of our defence being solid again and not conceding many (12 goals in 20 games). Arsenal are certainly not out of it, and theyāve hit some heights in the past two seasons.
Last time we won the title, a big part of it was a high quality defence. Itās funny because in that season, Salah had his least good season so far goals wise, Bobbyās numbers started to drop in successive seasons from his previous peak, etc.
There is something similar building here now with us so far being great in all competitions, but some offensive players (and frequent starters) not really contriburing as much numbers wise, like Szobo and Nunez. Hopefully they can also raise their games soon.
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I had been mocking the āif you play like that against the better teams we will get beat ā cliche.
Itās about not being dragged to the level of the opposition.
When we have especially against Everton in recent years weāve struggled.
When weāve not weāve won tight games but also destroyed them.
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Play well , we cream them.
Play normal levels , we beat them
Play shit , we draw.
Play dreadful, we lose.
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I guess he can just play all matches he can as it is a question of time when he picks that fifth yellow. Which is inevitable until the end of the year.
The āproblemā with Mac Allister though is that he already IS suspended for the UCL Girona game so he WILL be rested next Tuesday anyway.
I guess it would still not be very beneficial for the team if he is suspended for two games in a row in such a busy period. But if he is left out on Wednesday and then picks a yellow on Saturday, he would still miss two consecutive games. So maybe just keep playing him and see when he gets suspended.
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Weāve got bodies to cover for Mac even if he gets himself suspended for a game.
It will be good for the team and manager to have the opportunity to flex their abilities against a proper team. Enough with the cannon fodder, time for a decent challenge. Fat semi naked drunk fans (and thatās the women) are a sterner test than anything weāve had recently.
0-3. Job done.
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10 Newcastle ladies were asked if they would have sex on the first date. Nine of them said yesā¦the 10th was too drunk to answer.
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That video just confuses me as to what the deal with Tsimikas is.