by bodacious benny » Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:35 pm
The Northcote wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:58 pm
Lifelong Leeds United fan with a soft spot for Newcastle United on account of spending my early years in Hodgkin Park Road, Benwell.
Leeds of course fully deserved the win this evening but what genuinely surprised me was Newcastle's lacklustre performance. You have some very good players and magnificient support though so its surely only a matter of time before you turn things around.
Everything considered 13th in the table after 13 matches is pretty good for my team due to this being our 1st season back in the top division. NUFC are clearly underperforming at the moment but things will turn around for you guys i'm sure because as previously mentioned you really do have some quality players.
Being around 13th - 14th is all we can hope for (again) under Ashley and Bruce. Football is a funny old business, you played us off the park and deserved to win by 3 goals (if not more) as yet again regardless of whether we play Palace, WBA, Leeds or Man C we just let the opposition control the ball and dictate play, but we're both on the same points (and we have a game in hand) with one lauded by the media and one often ridiculed. I guess that although our football is dire to watch there is more than one way to skin a cat in the PL.
It was only a matter of time until someone battered us, I'm expecting some heavy defeats over Xmas against City, Leicester and Liverpool.
Both Leeds and Newcastle will stay up this season and probably finish around where we are now in the league. We won't score enough to threaten the top half, and Leeds concede too many to have realistic aspirations of challenging for the top half. If you can sort your defence you'd be looking at top 8.
I do enjoy watching Leeds as you just go for it. You win some games, you lose heavily some games, but you're generally in the game and giving the opposition problems and going at them. That's all any fan can ask for, especially at clubs around our level as I'd say we're both very similar in terms of size, stature and where we'll be finishing in the league.
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Lifelong Leeds United fan with a soft spot for Newcastle United on account of spending my early years in Hodgkin Park Road, Benwell.
Leeds of course fully deserved the win this evening but what genuinely surprised me was Newcastle's lacklustre performance. You have some very good players and magnificient support though so its surely only a matter of time before you turn things around.
Everything considered 13th in the table after 13 matches is pretty good for my team due to this being our 1st season back in the top division. NUFC are clearly underperforming at the moment but things will turn around for you guys i'm sure because as previously mentioned you really do have some quality players.
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Being around 13th - 14th is all we can hope for (again) under Ashley and Bruce. Football is a funny old business, you played us off the park and deserved to win by 3 goals (if not more) as yet again regardless of whether we play Palace, WBA, Leeds or Man C we just let the opposition control the ball and dictate play, but we're both on the same points (and we have a game in hand) with one lauded by the media and one often ridiculed. I guess that although our football is dire to watch there is more than one way to skin a cat in the PL.
It was only a matter of time until someone battered us, I'm expecting some heavy defeats over Xmas against City, Leicester and Liverpool.
Both Leeds and Newcastle will stay up this season and probably finish around where we are now in the league. We won't score enough to threaten the top half, and Leeds concede too many to have realistic aspirations of challenging for the top half. If you can sort your defence you'd be looking at top 8.
I do enjoy watching Leeds as you just go for it. You win some games, you lose heavily some games, but you're generally in the game and giving the opposition problems and going at them. That's all any fan can ask for, especially at clubs around our level as I'd say we're both very similar in terms of size, stature and where we'll be finishing in the league.