Newport County (H) FA cup replay - Wed Feb 5th, 19:45

[Finchbee]

It was absolutely fucking freezing, the highlight apart from Lamela, Toby and Foyth was the 4 loyalty points for going.

Bring on the Scum

Not sure if i lose mine as i couldn’t go

 

[Style And Glory]

It would have been at least 5 or 6 but I failed to factor in Llorente's poor finishing (2) & the effect of Dele's sex tape leak on his play (shot a little high & hit the crossbar just like he was aiming for that girls mouth & hit her forehead). Could there be a correlation or parallelism there?

 

[Chavhater01]

Foyth looks so composed and at ease with what he’s doing, could be a real find. If Sissoko’s still with us next season, then i’ll...well, I won’t really do anything, just be disappointed!

 

[J.spurs]

Foyth looks so composed and at ease with what he’s doing, could be a real find. If Sissoko’s still with us next season, then i’ll...well, I won’t really do anything, just be disappointed!

Foyth very much looks the part, excited about him. It can't hurt that he's got some good CBs around him to learn from, including the manager. Other than that, and being very happy that we advanced, there's not much to say about this one. It was fun to watch Eriksen play in his brief spell, he had a lot of space to operate in, and created some golden opportunities for us to add to the lead.

 

[Dorset]

There's nothing like a good old fashioned, great FA Cup tie, maybe we'll get one of them against Rochdale.

That's a bit unfair, there were some triffic aspects to last night's game - how good is Foyth? Because of his youthful looks he seems too itsy-bitsy to be a defender but apparently he is 6'3". Opposing forwards look at him and think he should be at home doing his homework and underestimate the fuck out of him. I think loads of us thought he would be shipped out on loan and gradually brought into the side of he proved himself, but he is good to go know.

Lamella looked fucking luvverly last night, it is so good to have him back, better than before, I still think he has the potential to be a star. Sonny looked good as well I reckon.

Having Toby back is a fantastic boost to our squad, he didn't have too much to do last night but we can all sleep easier on the nights before matches knowing he will be looking over us and protecting us from goon attacks.

There were some flashes of class from the Surge, some folks say he wasn't that good last night but maybe it's hard to stand out playing against a 4th division side? I thought he did OK.

Christian really changed the game when he came on, if he had started then we would have won 6-0, but why risk him playing when he will be needed on Saturday?

Positives: Foyth, Lamella, Toby, Son, Eriksen and Foyth again, possibly Aurier - yeah I really think he is good enough to be mentioned twice. The only negatives for me were Sissoko (who assisted for the first goal so maybe that's harsh) and Llorente who doesn't look arsed to me.

 

[Don Diaz]

I rarely 'knock' our players, used to hate it when the crowd did all those years ago with John Pratt and more recently Palacios but I don't know what it is with Sissoko, he just can't seem to do the basics very well, like pass to another teammate. There were several examples last night, where he would make a poor pass or receive the ball and the momentum of an attack would break down, choose the wrong option and so it goes on. He's a big bloke, and a huge presence on the pitch, as well as having played in the Euro 2016 final and been the player with the largest number of appearances for us this season, so I don't understand why he doesn't appear good enough. But at present he simply isn't. Same goes for Llorente, a striker has to bag a couple of goals against opposition like that last night. I know he doesn't play that often but he couldn't link up with Lamela or Son and when he did get chances he couldn't convert. Poor signing I think.

 

[Don Diaz]

The new Dele chant (by Newport fans)

Newport County fans en route to Wembley...

“You’ve got Ali, Dele Alli, I just don’t think you understand..
He’s got more pubic hair, than you’ve got silverware, you’ve got Dele Alli”

 

[J.spurs]

The new Dele chant (by Newport fans)

Newport County fans en route to Wembley...

“You’ve got Ali, Dele Alli, I just don’t think you understand..
He’s got more pubic hair, than you’ve got silverware, you’ve got Dele Alli”

Haha, not bad on short notice. Can you imagine how much abuse he's been taking in the dressing room?

 

[wilson]

I rarely 'knock' our players, used to hate it when the crowd did all those years ago with John Pratt and more recently Palacios but I don't know what it is with Sissoko, he just can't seem to do the basics very well, like pass to another teammate. There were several examples last night, where he would make a poor pass or receive the ball and the momentum of an attack would break down, choose the wrong option and so it goes on. He's a big bloke, and a huge presence on the pitch, as well as having played in the Euro 2016 final and been the player with the largest number of appearances for us this season, so I don't understand why he doesn't appear good enough. But at present he simply isn't. Same goes for Llorente, a striker has to bag a couple of goals against opposition like that last night. I know he doesn't play that often but he couldn't link up with Lamela or Son and when he did get chances he couldn't convert. Poor signing I think.

I think that is what surprises me most about both Llorente and Sissoko - both have experience at the highest levels of football yet neither show that in their game. No drive, confidence or belief in what they are doing out on the pitch. Well at least that's how it seems from Sissokos negative passing and Llorente nonchalant mannerisms.

I still hold out a tiny bit of hope for Llorente and still maintain that he was a very good buy at the time in terms of price and a 2nd fiddle substitute striker for Kane - just wish he would have a go and work a little harder when he does get a run out. Where I frustrate with Sissoko is that it was a shit buy when we signed him so it's not really surprising what he does/doesn't do out there. Aside from one international tournament and a handful of games here and there for Newcastle, he'd shown fuck all and that Newcastle fans were happy he left should have been enough of a warning sign. I'm going to give myself a self-induced ban from talking about Sissoko for a month as I really really struggle to find any positives and am starting to hate myself for being a broken record and always being so negative about a Spurs player haha.

As for Wilson Palacios, I don't care what anyone says - the man was awesome in my biased eyes!!

 

[Dorset]

I think that is what surprises me most about both Llorente and Sissoko - both have experience at the highest levels of football yet neither show that in their game. No drive, confidence or belief in what they are doing out on the pitch. Well at least that's how it seems from Sissokos negative passing and Llorente nonchalant mannerisms.

I still hold out a tiny bit of hope for Llorente and still maintain that he was a very good buy at the time in terms of price and a 2nd fiddle substitute striker for Kane - just wish he would have a go and work a little harder when he does get a run out. Where I frustrate with Sissoko is that it was a shit buy when we signed him so it's not really surprising what he does/doesn't do out there. Aside from one international tournament and a handful of games here and there for Newcastle, he'd shown fuck all and that Newcastle fans were happy he left should have been enough of a warning sign. I'm going to give myself a self-induced ban from talking about Sissoko for a month as I really really struggle to find any positives and am starting to hate myself for being a broken record and always being so negative about a Spurs player haha.

As for Wilson Palacios, I don't care what anyone says - the man was awesome in my biased eyes!!

Who is this rascal who has been bad mouthing the Sarge? He (or she, no sexism here) deserves a real good old fashioned 'tsk tsk'. We used to have the Sarge, who you rightly say was awesome, now we have the Surge.

 

[Yid]

I think that is what surprises me most about both Llorente and Sissoko - both have experience at the highest levels of football yet neither show that in their game. No drive, confidence or belief in what they are doing out on the pitch. Well at least that's how it seems from Sissokos negative passing and Llorente nonchalant mannerisms.

I still hold out a tiny bit of hope for Llorente and still maintain that he was a very good buy at the time in terms of price and a 2nd fiddle substitute striker for Kane - just wish he would have a go and work a little harder when he does get a run out. Where I frustrate with Sissoko is that it was a shit buy when we signed him so it's not really surprising what he does/doesn't do out there. Aside from one international tournament and a handful of games here and there for Newcastle, he'd shown fuck all and that Newcastle fans were happy he left should have been enough of a warning sign. I'm going to give myself a self-induced ban from talking about Sissoko for a month as I really really struggle to find any positives and am starting to hate myself for being a broken record and always being so negative about a Spurs player haha.

As for Wilson Palacios, I don't care what anyone says - the man was awesome in my biased eyes!!

Palacious saved our fucking arses from relegation imo. He was the holding CM that protected our CBs and slowed our attacking players to operate a little further forward where they could pick us up some points.

I could be wrong and this could have been Snadro.... been veru drunk a lot of times since then.