US bid faltering. Carroll speaks. Hughton laments.
Posted on September 5th, 2009 | 78 Comments |
In my experience teleconferencing takes a bit of getting used to. It’s all too easy to assume the mentality one does when watching television, forgetting that with a teleconference the people on the screen can actually hear what you’re saying.
I can remember a colleague of mine coming into the teleconference room, pointing to the screen and saying (I remember the phrase exactly even though it was 20 years ago): “who’s the fat, spammed-up, centre-parter?” and a small voice came out the speakers saying “my name’s Ian actually.” I was incapacitated with laughter for most of the rest of the conference.
So for that reason alone I predict the US bid has had it, leaving Barry Moat as the only viable candidate to take over the Toon at the moment.
Various newspapers have been quoting Andy Carroll’s claims that the squad has pulled together magnificently:
“We don’t what is happening with the club, all we need to do is stay together as players and work hard
“Whether or not it’s the cup or the league, we just want to keep winning.
“We’ve got a group of lads here who just want to win football matches and take us back to the Premier League.
“We’ll just get on with the job – we know what we are working with.
“Every team we have to play this season wants to make a name for themselves. That makes it extra tough.
“We need to stick together as a squad. If we do that, we’ll keep picking up wins.
“We know that every game is likely to be physical in the Championship.
“All the games so far have been hard.
“We know that we are going to have to work hard in every game.”
Chris Hughton has been lamenting the injuries of the Fenham Eusebio, saying:
“His contributions have been excellent.
“His contribution regarding goals has been a great asset for us at the start of this season and we have to replace that.
“Shola has been a really important part of things so far this season.
“It’s not just goals.
“It’s his influence off the field.
“When a centre-forward is scoring goals, it lifts the confidence.
“For him as a person around the place he’s been on a high.
“He’s scored goals and has played well, he’ll be a big miss.
“His career here has contained highs and lows, like most players, but the most important thing has been that he’s played well.
“With him being a Newcastle lad who has a feel for this club, he will be fighting as much as anybody to be back.”
I must have missed the estimates about how long Shola will be out with this injury, although I vaguely remember a month being mentioned. We have Lovenkrands now and it looks like we’re still trying get to a Marlon of some sort on loan (either King or Harewood), so hopefully we’ll cope until Shola returns.
There’s a Marlon Michael Jackson who plays for Bristol City (currently loaned to Hereford) if Hughton fancies an off the wall punt.
That’s all there is for now. To the untrained eye that was a bit like those news roundups I used to do but a source close to NUFCBlog.org denies this is the case. “It’s nothing like a news roundup – hardly even a summary,” he said via teleconference.
NUFCBlog Author: Hugh de Payen
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Fenham Eusebio!! Brilliant
Not sure these yanks were genuine bidders anyway. So no lose imo. We are really lacking up front as we all know maybe centre back and left back as well. I think Lovenkrands will give us something different maybe get behind defences because all or strickers are big target men.
Pity about this international break would have liked to keep going on a wee run of games.
BBM really opened a can of worms yesterday although i got what he was trying to do. Keep it up folks. Worky, Debs, Hugh and BBM your doing a great job!!