I'm not going to write a report of last nights match, it was on the box and if your on another continent I'm sure you've already read reports from other sites.
I will offer some observations though. 0-1 whilst not the perfect result Roeder claims is a victory, did have a clean sheet and may have raised a couple of pointers for the season to come.
1. When Ramage switched to centre back the team looked solid, he may not possess the power or ability of Bramble but he does have a good head on his shoulders and never looked like putting a foot wrong. He was communicating with Moore and the defence looked better for it. Due to injuries we are likely to see the combo continue on Sunday which could benefit the team.
2. Duff is a capable left back in emergency situations, although he offers more going forward from the midfield.
3. Milner is a good player who we should not be offloading for pennies, although short of moving N'zogbia in one for Emre I cannot find him a stating place at this point in time.
4. Antoine Sibierski? There has been much comment on Newcastle's expensive flops up front (think Ferguson, Cort, Anderson....) and a number of complaints about a club of Newcastle’s stature taking an aging reserve from Man City.
This deal is a no lose for us. Consider, if Sibierski is useless and spends the season in the reserves it has cost us wages. All accounts from Manchester indicate his attitude is spot on and it is his ability that was questioned. What other options are there on a similar outlay? Vieri? Tristan? Let us remember these are massively talented players released by their respective clubs, if they came to toon and couldn't be bothered the wages would be greater than those offered to the Frenchman and the impact on the squad could be worse. Think Kluivert.
On the pitch Sibierski has a record played one, scored one. Okay it was against a pub team and he missed other opportunities but he was always available, he competed in the air and looked to involved others. At no point do I remember complaining about him being behind play or missing a ball 'cos he couldn’t be bothered to move for it. He isn't a world beater and he has some way to go from the 'Can't hit a barn door' tag I gave him when wearing sky blue but he appears to be an honest footballer and we could do worse than having a couple of those at the minute.
Re-reading that last paragraph reminds me, Shola's back for Sunday. Wonder why that popped into my head?
I will offer some observations though. 0-1 whilst not the perfect result Roeder claims is a victory, did have a clean sheet and may have raised a couple of pointers for the season to come.
1. When Ramage switched to centre back the team looked solid, he may not possess the power or ability of Bramble but he does have a good head on his shoulders and never looked like putting a foot wrong. He was communicating with Moore and the defence looked better for it. Due to injuries we are likely to see the combo continue on Sunday which could benefit the team.
2. Duff is a capable left back in emergency situations, although he offers more going forward from the midfield.
3. Milner is a good player who we should not be offloading for pennies, although short of moving N'zogbia in one for Emre I cannot find him a stating place at this point in time.
4. Antoine Sibierski? There has been much comment on Newcastle's expensive flops up front (think Ferguson, Cort, Anderson....) and a number of complaints about a club of Newcastle’s stature taking an aging reserve from Man City.
This deal is a no lose for us. Consider, if Sibierski is useless and spends the season in the reserves it has cost us wages. All accounts from Manchester indicate his attitude is spot on and it is his ability that was questioned. What other options are there on a similar outlay? Vieri? Tristan? Let us remember these are massively talented players released by their respective clubs, if they came to toon and couldn't be bothered the wages would be greater than those offered to the Frenchman and the impact on the squad could be worse. Think Kluivert.
On the pitch Sibierski has a record played one, scored one. Okay it was against a pub team and he missed other opportunities but he was always available, he competed in the air and looked to involved others. At no point do I remember complaining about him being behind play or missing a ball 'cos he couldn’t be bothered to move for it. He isn't a world beater and he has some way to go from the 'Can't hit a barn door' tag I gave him when wearing sky blue but he appears to be an honest footballer and we could do worse than having a couple of those at the minute.
Re-reading that last paragraph reminds me, Shola's back for Sunday. Wonder why that popped into my head?
posted by AnotherGeordie at
10:48
1 Comments:
Hiya,
hope you're well and enjoying the football season!!
Give my love to L and the kiddies.
Berlin is fabulous - it's been 27 degrees every day for a week so we're doing a lot of lazing around at the moment!
will hopefully eventually get round to sending you a postcard, but your brother hasn't given me your address yet so if you could email that would be fab!!
take care!
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