Your Shout: Toon 0-0 Charlton - Have Your Say - Write In
By N.O On Sat 28 Oct 2006 |
After a very good win in midweek to advance in the League Cup it was back to our “bread & butter” today with a tea-time match at home to fellow strugglers Charlton Athletic in the Premiership.
After a decent first-half where we created numerous chances but failed to convert any, the second 45 promised a lot but produced a nothing kind of match and once again we failed to pick up 3 points, leaving us with only 8 from 10 played and dangerously close to the bottom 3.
Were you at the match? Where did we go wrong? What could have been done to win a match where we enjoyed most of the possession? Were the match sponsors right to award Butt man of the match? Who was the star man?
We want to know YOUR views on the match so write in and HAVE YOUR SAY using the below form. N.O - giving Toon fans a voice - USE IT!
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Luque is an amazing player, he must be given some games! I feel very sorry for Albert because he’s a good player but in his time at Newcastle he has never been given a proper run in the team. Sack Roeder!!!!!!!
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Boy, are we in trouble. If playing badly and winning is the mark of a good team, what does playing not bad and scraping a draw or losing tell you about a team?
I’m not one to blame Roeder. The current situation is the result of a long, slow slide caused by a blatant lack of creative or strategic thinking at a higher level. A club doesn’t become this mediocre without some ‘help’ from the boardroom. It’s all very well saying Freddy Shepherd’s always backed his manager with money, but what’s the good in giving multi millions to a buffoon like Souness? Where’s the strategy, the footballing nous? Andy Johnson at eight million quid isn’t good enough for the Toon, but Martins and Luque (a snip at nineteen million for the pair) are? And to be going into this season with the defence entirely unchanged is criminal - and I don’t care who we were “in for,” that sort of smokescreen doesn’t wash: if they’re not in the black and white it doesn’t matter, does it. “Too big to go down,” yes? I’d rather be too good to go down. Right now, we’re just bloody not.
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
We are in a dogfight because we are being managed by a clown and being run by a bufoon. Clueless, Roeder lacks the ability to change a game through the use of subs, formations or tactics . We were reduced to long ball football towards the end and Charlton looked just as likely to score. Roeder has to go NOW and we have to make sure Shepherd joins him. SHEPHERD OUT!
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
The one thing thats killing me about Roeder is that he is trying as hard as he can NOT to play Alberto Luque in any game, in the game vs Pompey the side was comfortably winning and giving a player that is lacking match practice a chance was the best thing to do, but Roeder didn’t, in the Charlton game all we needed was a finisher, Luque was there to warm up and watch the game from the bench, and I am starting to think that we will do to Luque exactly what we did to Hugo Viana before him. Also another poor second half peformence from the team, and honestly I think that Roeder’s decsion to make only 1 change was the reason we couldn’t end the game with all 3 points.
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
8pts from 10 games say’s it all, we are going down.
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Another cracking performance in the first half, with failure once again to find the back of the net. The future is looking bleak at the moment, mid-table mediocrity lingers again if were lucky! The main reason I’m writing is to ask the question… What does Albert Luque have to do to get a game at this club? The vast majority of Newcastle fans don’t really want to give him a chance, and Glenn Roeder certainly doesn’t. I think there is a personality clash or something. I know for a fact the club will be looking to move him on in January for a considerable loss. So why not play him and try and increase the price on his head? We could do far worse… Antoine Sibierski! I rest my case.
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
How come all these injuries at Newcastle? It cannot just be bad luck, there must be something wrong with the training methods. Has any other Premier League team got the same problems? I don’t think so, but maybe someone could check. Thank goodness we beat Portsmouth, that’ll keep my son in law quiet for a while, it’s really hard being a Toon supporter here in the Midlands.
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Why does Roeder wait till 80 mins before he brought on just one sub? He said that Rossi is tired for the last 15 minutes and I think Luque can be the person to fill his job! But he decided not to. And when Charlton put an extra man up in the midfield and things were changing towards Charlton’s advantage, he prefers to hesitate. Just when will the Newcastle I’ve been proud of come back? What’s the real problem?
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 3:55 am
I hope we as fans stop moaning if we aren’t going to stand up and be counted! This club clearly has been on the fall since Keegan left and since Fred has came in. If it wasn’t for a few good years under Robson we would already be down. Under Dalglish we were mid table with an incredible team and we have been going down since then. We have to stop knee-jerk reactions and stop thinking that we will magically go up the table from nothing which was what happened under Keegan. The difference then was that we had a good chairman and a good manager. What do we have now - a Freddie and Glenn whose record speaks for themselves. We have all seen what a good chairman brings to a club e.g smoggs, and conversely Hearts. Lessons to learn are analyse things through the past and not through some trophy players which make us feel like a big club, a big club is a club that wins and that is that! Fat Fred out!!!!!
Sent in on: October 29th, 2006 at 12:40 am
The treatment of Luque is really a shame, to play a rookie on loan from a competitor instead of our own player bought for 10m, is incredible. The lad has to be given a chance before he’s written off, this can’t go on. Maybe people are right, this might be a too big job for Roeder.
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
This has been going on for the past few seasons now, and instead of sorting the mess out we are geting worse, who is to blame? Freddy or Glenn - answer both of them - so lets start at the top and work our way down - lets say good bye to Freddy first - he’s backed GS and now GR - and the signings we have made in the transfer market are just not up to the job they are required to do (with the exception of Duff and Parker) - so lets all join forces and force Freddy out as we will all agree we need a new lease of life in this club we love - and it’s plain to every one Freddy is only there to make himself more fat with all our hard spend cash - OUT FREDDY!
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
If Roeder thinks that’s football then it’s obvious he’s stupid, what is this man’s problem he knew he had to bring in Premiership quality strikers and buy defenders in the summer but did he, no he didn’t. Rubbish son get a grip, stop being fat Freddy Shepherd’s scapegoat and stand up for yourself the only outcome from today’s match stares everyone in the face, Newcastle United aren’t a big club, they never have been and I am a true Newcastle fan that’s why I’m saying it. I hope for our sake this club gets taken over and them lot chucked out of the club for good, yous have made us look a laughing stock long enough, resign, yous haven’t got a clue how to manage a club at all.
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
We did well in the first half without forcing anything but after the break, just what happened? The final 45 minutes were an abortion, no ideas, no movement, kicking long again, no penetration just an easy easy end to the game for Charlton who tactically outfought us and in the end could have won it.
Don’t let the pretty-on-the-eye football we played at times fool you, it is no good if in the final 3rd it all breaks down and that’s exactly what happened today.
Not good enough.
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Four points from our home games this is real bad, Taylor & Ramage on the bench, no subs until eighty three minutes gone, we are in trouble what the hell are these clowns in the dug out watching. Dowie makes a change, goes five in the middle, what did we do… not a bloody thing to change the game, as for Luque, what really is going on here? This is past the joke stage. Last season ended on high, who was really coaching Tommy Craig, Big Al or Roeder? It makes you wonder.
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
I’ve been a Toon fan all my life, and sadly today was just the usuall stuff for me, another poor poor peformence from the side. Why does Roeder not use Albert Luque, Luque has just the kind of finishing the team needed for this match, but sadly as long as Glenn Roeder is in charge of the team, we will never go anywhere unless it is to the Championship
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
All I want to say is that Roeder is going the way of the previous coach. What is wrong with Luque? I think he deserved to be played. He just can’t be that that bad. If we continue this way it is surely a relegation fight. And are Parker and Duff untouchables?
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Yet another poor performance, Roeder says we played attractive football and that he could not ask anymore from the players, who is he kidding? The team is full of has-beens like Carr and Babayaro. Also money grabbers like Duff and Owen. All we get from Rooder is ‘well we’ll have to go back to the training ground and get it right’. At the moment we can’t score a goal or defend which means a relegation fight. It’s time again for a mass clear-out of manager, chairman and players. How many times must this happen and who is going to want to come and manage us. We need a real manager not a puppet!
Sent in on: October 28th, 2006 at 8:55 pm