Ghost and Pboro

[HughieG]

NO!! This is not a wind-up attempt or a "told you so" thread. This is a football forum and I want to discuss football with other people interested in doing so. I'm not here to start a fight.

So here it goes...

There's no question that the crowd was entertained today - if anyone's in doubt, watch the game again and listen to 90 mins of loud spectator noise. We challenged Man United by actually playing football, not defending and only counter-attacking. There's no question that trying to defend the lead became the obvious thing to do at a certain point during the match. We had some luck, sure, but we deserved the victory today (and the ref was an opponent just as much as the Man Utd players today unfortunately).

Were you two satisfied with the game today (I know you're probably happy with the win) in the sense of the way it was won? Battling, challenging one of the most expensive sides in the world, attacking, team-working fighting, etc...

Or do you still think we were too defensively set up and that it was ''dire footy'' (quote pboro)?

HWTL!

[HughieG]

Of course, everyone is welcome to join in on the discussion

[Cannylad]

Nothing to add to that, you said it all man !!

[TheOtherTerryMac]

Pboro is a decent poster so would expect a positive post from him.

I discount Wilf who lives off pboros back anyway and as far as I know has never been to a Toon game

A great performance from the players on the field today and the crowd. The most positive thing fir me was the way the keeper controlled his defenders. You could even hear him shouting at them above the crowd noise. A master stroke from Rafa getting this lad between the sticks.

[ex_pat_magpie]

Pboro is a decent poster so would expect a positive post from him.

I discount Wilf who lives off pboros back anyway and as far as I know has never been to a Toon game

A great performance from the players on the field today and the crowd. The most positive thing fir me was the way the keeper controlled his defenders. You could even hear him shouting at them above the crowd noise. A master stroke from Rafa getting this lad between the sticks.

And hopefully a few more masterstrokes to come from him. Provided of course that they are permitted.

[tinostongue]

They are probably sat in a dark room somewhere,(together) desperately trying to come up with a post designed to dampen the optimism swilling around at the moment. lets wait and see eh!

[ghostrider]

They are probably sat in a dark room somewhere,(together) desperately trying to come up with a post designed to dampen the optimism swilling around at the moment. lets wait and see eh!

I'm a Newcastle united fan of over 45 years mate. I love the club as much as anyone does.
I want all the best things from it.
I love these games where we take a team to task and give them a bloody nose.
I want it to continue.
I made my last 12 games prediction good and bad pertaining to how Rafa wills et us up and my first 3 points was this game...so there's no mindset to dampen any optimism when there's none needed at this time.

I'd rather sing the praises of everyone at the club if I can. Yesterday gave us all something to shout about and little to moan about, except for a few bad ref decisions which matter not, now.

[pboromag]

Pboro is a decent poster so would expect a positive post from him.

I discount Wilf who lives off pboros back anyway and as far as I know has never been to a Toon game

A great performance from the players on the field today and the crowd. The most positive thing fir me was the way the keeper controlled his defenders. You could even hear him shouting at them above the crowd noise. A master stroke from Rafa getting this lad between the sticks.

terry wjhilst i agree ith your coments regards him talking to the back 4
i will say this

in most cases the save was easy to make
the one on one wasntt a save as such more a poor finish

the scramble at the end
he couldnt not save it

where i think he is a massive plus is his handling of crosses

[toonlegend]

terry wjhilst i agree ith your coments regards him talking to the back 4
i will say this

in most cases the save was easy to make
the one on one wasntt a save as such more a poor finish

the scramble at the end
he couldnt not save it

where i think he is a massive plus is his handling of crosses

it wasn't just the saves he made, or the crosses he collected - he was so calm all the way through the match.

i don't think we would have kept a clean sheet with darlow in goal.

i hope the goalie can keep that up and command his area / martial his troops.

i also think kenedy makes a hige difference to the side. he makes some mistakes sure - but he brings an awful lot of flair too

unfortunately i was too ill to go and have been told by people around us in the gallowgate to stop away !! i wasn't too ill to watch most of it on tele though

[toptoon]

Just got back into internet range and well pumped after seeing the result and watching the highlights on the website.

When the camera zoomed in on Ritchie after he scored (a minute or so later) you could see him gesturing to his team mates and shouting "High" to get them to push up. Everyone is finally starting to realise that we can´t sit back to defend a one goal lead.