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Post by boothenendboy on Jan 6, 2008 21:54:55 GMT
how the mighty have fallen eh?shocking today.i thaught their best player was given.
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Post by JetBlack on Jan 6, 2008 21:56:16 GMT
Who....!!!
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 6, 2008 21:57:39 GMT
Whatever happened to that young waif against Argentina?
Hasn't really been the same player for 6-7 years, has he?
I thought Duff looked good for the first half hour.
Butt got his foot in well, but lost his shooting boots.
N'Zogbia gave us a few nervous moments in the second half.
Viduka was anonymous.
Overall, you can see why they're struggling.
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Post by boothenendboy on Jan 6, 2008 21:58:06 GMT
actually no,thaught that faye did well on fuller.
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Post by jarhead on Jan 6, 2008 21:58:40 GMT
Owen with a REAL midfield is quality,you know this and i do.
Should of scored 1st half though!
But he had ONE chance in the game so great credit to us on that.
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Post by Vodkab1ock on Jan 6, 2008 21:59:24 GMT
Cort and Shawcross played like they were Ferdinand and Terry i think most strikers would of struggled against them giants today. And when they started to lump the long balls up to Viduka and Owen i was very pleased as they won nearly all of the headers if not all of them.
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Post by boothenendboy on Jan 6, 2008 22:13:51 GMT
no jarhead,owens got no pace anymore,no strength and cant win a header.
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Post by BoothenenderGaz on Jan 6, 2008 23:04:08 GMT
Best players for them today were Duff and N'Zogbia I thought
Newcastle's distribution of the ball across the line was woeful. How many times did they put it out of play? How many unforced errors did they make?
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Post by kkkkken on Jan 6, 2008 23:14:21 GMT
Nothing like the player he was but like the commentator said when he goes anonoymous in the game thats when he's the deadliest , proved that time and again for England
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Post by Trouserdog on Jan 6, 2008 23:14:22 GMT
Owen is just a penalty box predator these days, since he lost his pace.
Apart from the moment where he lost concentration in the first half, Shawcross had him in his back pocket.
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Jan 6, 2008 23:35:32 GMT
It's quite sad really. I didn't want him to knock in a hat-trick to send us out but when you see he's only 28 and you see how stale his career has gone, it's sad.
Hopefully, for him, he's just having a bad season and he'll be back to his best soon.
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Post by skip on Jan 6, 2008 23:39:21 GMT
his legs look shot.
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Jan 6, 2008 23:51:12 GMT
Come to think of it, has anybody got a decent pair of hamstrings that they can donate to him considering his are bollocksed?
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 7, 2008 0:45:15 GMT
He's well out of sorts at the moment. The Michael Owen of a few years ago would have scored a hat trick against us. The plethora of injuuries seems to be taking its toll.
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Jan 7, 2008 1:15:34 GMT
Michael Owen is Michael Owen and if you give him ten chances he'll score nine of them.
The days where he created his own goals were gone after about 2000 but then he had a (fairly) successful Liverpool team to create chances which he- more often than not- buried.
Even though he is not the player he was when he was 23/24 he'll still get 18-25 goals in a season where he stays fully fit.
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 7, 2008 1:33:49 GMT
I thought he was generally very poor tonight, and he should have buried that chance. Certainly needs to get a lot sharper if he's going to get his England place back. Hopefully it will take him more than a fortnight to get his sharpness back i.e. after the replay. Then after we've knocked them out of the cup, I really hope he comes good again.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 7, 2008 1:35:49 GMT
In hope he comes good in September when the World Cup qualifiers start.  My own little personal dream of him beating Bobby Charltons record is looking increasing unlikely though.  |
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Post by mumf14 on Jan 7, 2008 1:36:57 GMT
He's all washed up.
He's not happy and it shows.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 7, 2008 1:39:13 GMT
Hmmmm, perhaps a transfer would rejuvenate him.
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Post by tsm on Jan 7, 2008 2:56:25 GMT
I said to my missus at the start of the game that this year of injury seems to have put 5 years on him. Apart from that one lapse by Shawcross and Cort, he was kept quiet - I didn't think he looked anything like scoring. We need keep it that way one more time!
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Post by sokrates on Jan 7, 2008 4:39:18 GMT
Michael Owen was "anonoymous" all right, whatever that is. Don't write him off just yet.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 7, 2008 6:31:26 GMT
Apart from that one lapse by Shawcross and Cort, he was kept quiet
That was a shocking bit of forward play. He should have buried that chance. That moment demonstrates his decline. Hopefully he can get back to his best but it'll take a spell of being injury free and an entire pre season.
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