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for this match i'd like to see

harper
raylor colo williamson kadar
routledge smith nolan jonas
carroll lovenkrands

i do want to see guthrie in the middle, but lets not change to much at once, given the new back four and routledge.
subs include guthrie ranger and aanholt all getting onto the pitch, barring injuries

I agree with your team lmk. Was also thinking of playing Guthrie in place of Lovenkrands but you make a good point about their being too many changes too soon. Plus Lovenkrands has pace so along with Routeledge and Jonas we could use that to our advantage on the break. All in all its just great to have some options again.



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I'm going to the match so there won't be a seperate line up thread tomorrow.

Keep your posts here

Strong team but would like to see Guthrie get a run out but I think he will start the new lad from Chelsea instead of Kadar

I here you about not changing too much with a newish back line but maybe for that reason I would go with Guthrie in the middle with Nolan just off Carroll. This would allow the added protection of Guthrie and a five man midfield when needed.

Either way I have a good feeling about tomorrow. Williamson should give us the aerial edge should Howard play as he can out himself about.

The same team for me other than that. Think Kadar should start as he has canny and could do with the games. Will be good for his confidence if he keeps his place.

I like the lineup, lmk...but I'd start Guthrie over Nolan, especially if we are going 4-4-2. Wouldn't slot in Van Aanholt directly...

it seems as if we usually go 4-4-1-1 with nolan just behind the striker when playing away. perhaps with 2 real wingers in the squad tomorrow we can cause real damage.

I am looking forward to the game especially with it being on TV. I reckon we will do them by 2 or 3 goals. I think it will be a 4-4-2 line up and defo worth attacking them

I don't think we should change too much either.
lmk's line up looks good. Guthrie coming off the bench with fresh legs would be a good option imo.

I'm really looking forward to watching this game and seeing how well the new guys fit in.

Good luck new'uns.

I think its important that Kadar gets the nod at left back. He has been good when called upon and it would be a confidence booster if he starts. Plus the Chelsea lad is only expected to stay for a month so it would do Kadar more harm than good, if Van Aanholt gets a start after just signing a day ago. Van Aanholt for now should just be back up especially away from home in my opinion.



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great start to the day as derby beat forest 1-0

Great news!

It's up to us to make the most of that result.

C'mon lads.

Some people have said that we're too good for the Championship and should never have been relegated.

Based on last seasons performance, we deserved relegation, but now we have the chance to prove to them we deserve Premier League football - let's storm this league!

TEAMS

LCFC: Chris Weale, Michael Morrison, Wayne Brown, Matt Oakley (c), Andy King, Matty Fryatt, Bruno Berner, Martyn Waghorn, Richie Wellens, Paul Gallagher, Jack Hobbs
Subs: Robbie Nielson, Ryan McGivern, Nobby Solano, Steve Howard, Lloyd Dyer, Conrad Logan, Danny N'Guessan

NUFC: Steve Harper, Ryan Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini, Mike Williamson, Patrick van Aanholt, Wayne Routledge, Nicky Butt (c), Alan Smith, Danny Guthrie, Kevin Nolan, Andy Carroll
Subs: Tim Krul, Tamas Kadar, Jonas Gutierrez, Peter Lovenkrands, Nile Ranger, Fitz Hall, Fabrice Pancrate

Must admit I'm disappointed with the team. I feel we'll lack creativity with Butt and Smith in the centre. Leicester are currently said to be out of form and this was the ideal opportunity to start with two proper wingers in Jonas and Routledge. Time will tell whether its the right or wrong team for today.



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Thanks for the line ups wasim.

my link just said all 4 new guys are to start





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010:01:30:17:17:42 by senyabtoon.

3 to start Hall on the bench...

ok miss read line ups no jonas is a real suprise

That yellow strip's really growing on me, I might have to get a shirt.

Guthrie can't play the left side of midfield... we are too wide open on that side.

is it somethinng to do with jonas getting hurt the other night? he's too good to drop i say

We need someone wide left, take Butt off and put Guthrie in the middle.

Red card for Leicester!

the way we are playing,,, this might not be good for us!

what a dumb move with 1 yellow on you. I'll take it!

well, we are playing with ten and a half men ourselves, using butt and smith in the middle

not sure if I would count R Taylor as a full person either!

wow. how did they miss that?

anyone thinking what i'm thinking about this left back? not shy, is he?

I think the new guys are doing well.

From the little I've seen; he's not played badly.

I'm optimistic; though I'd still rather we brought through young Tamas...I reckon he'll be an important player in years to come.

he must have been told to play ahead of the rest of our back four, look at him, he's playing left wing!

Get Butt off now!

My steam cut out, tell me we scored in the 2 minutes of added time!!!

If only. We really need to do better second half.

Has the 2nd started yet?

The Iraq goals stream is working..

Yes 13 minutes in

Ranger on Smith off.

Ok, back on, just in time for our yellow.

5 man middle gone, with Ranger on. Where's Jonas?

It's hard to believe we are the team with 11 men.

Why Smith off and not Butt?

jonas on bench. maybe something to do with the calf trouble he had in the last game. got a lot of matches coming up in the next few weeks

smith must be hurt. never comes off under hughton

Possession not indicating we are a man up....

If Jonas can play, why isn't he on? If he can't, what's he doing on the bench?

Hell, he could put Pancrate on for Butt...

nothing brilliant happening just yet colarado, but we do seem to be getting the upper hand....

Waghorn off Steve Howard (massive NUFC supporter) on

local radio are going big on jonas's calf, which he took a hit to on weds. i think hughton is hoping to win without his (best?) player, but keeping the option open. he should come on right now, for me

balls, its pancrate after all

Pancrate on Nolan off Butt still there.

Pancrate coming on for Nolan... move Guthrie to the middle I suppose.

Offside goal FFS

Oh young Ranger

Is that the first shot on target?

FFS!!!

come on Lovenkrands for Carroll and let's win this

Yeesh, everything but a goal!

Nobby Solano on. This is the first time I've not been pleased to see him.

We still need someone who can cross a ball!

and someone to put it in the net

up 1 man 3/4 of the game. Can't be happy with 1 point.

Carroll is really getting on my nerves. Too many silly challenges, giving Leicester the ball.

Careful Annie, he'll glass you (sorry, couldn't help it)

0-0 draw. We need a proper striker.

c.rap - we've been c.rap all season and still it continues...

Not good enough on the day, simply not good enough. Fair play to Leicester on their holding for a point.

Nothing would surprise me with Carroll, Colorado he needs to grow up.

I would have liked to seen Lovenkrands given a chance to spark us with 10-15 left. Carroll was done, could have come off.

count up the number of changes we have had to make from the team we used for the first half of the season. this is a new team, some of them perfect strangers, some of them out of position too. they will get better, and even playing like that we didnt lose, or even concede.
not great, but not as bad as all that, surely?

Good point LMK

that was utter rubbish we looked so poor ranger was poor carroll was really poor only williamson put a good perfomance in which tells u all we need to know about tonight leicester looked the better team for most of the game with 10 men without jonas and a proper goal scorer we never had any real threat

This just exposes how sloppy we've been with our possession. As soon as we face a team that work hard and are prepared to chase the ball out poor passing gets exposed.

Reminds me of The Weakest Link...you struggle to put a good combination together and some fcker always manages to screw it up.


We need to improve the final part of our attacking puzzle....we looked completely harmless today.

Remind me which team had 10 men again???

our best team includes enrique, taylor, shola, jonas, and probably lovenkrands. and all of the have been playing recently, so thats five players (simpson, six?) missing today

agree new team but did not like one that will get many goals missing a striker with composure we did get chances but 2 young center forwards playing against 10 men felt the pressure of the expectation that caused them to forget how to play and run around like head less chickens

our players need to get used to routledge, as he may be important to us in the near future. for now, they just met him. three of that back four were brand new too (raylor included, as he hasnt played behind routledge), so the midfield werent used to the lads behind them. confidence/trust comes from shared postitive experience in team situations, ie winning games together. this should come in time, the sooner the better but lets not be too critical on day one....

not being to critical of the whole team my main source of frustration tonight was carroll and ranger when he came on and butt and guthrie not new players i might add i thought the new lads all did ok and after all we can not dress up the fact we played for 1 hour against 10 men

not dressing up mate, just pointing a few factors out. i was no happier than you to see smith and butt together, but the way leicester played with ten men made a defensive formation sensible. i'd have liked to see butt and nolan out for jonas and loven after the red card, but maybe there are injuries to be protected. not sure why we saw pancrate today, surely he's behind both when all are fit.
as already said, we have a lot of games coming up close together, we may well see a few different line-ups game by game while injuries settle and new players gel

yes i get you mate but just can not help feeling we have missed a trick tonight which i hope dont come back to bite us in the bum come promotion time and the fact the young lads did'nt deal with the pressure of a expected win. What would they be like if it was squeaky bum time on the final day to ensure promotion ? it does not fill me with confidence (hope i am just being over critical tho)

i generally agree senyab. think what team we would have put out if we hadnt bought anyone this week though. we'd have lost this match

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we looked completely harmless today.

Try telling that to the fans behind the goal. How many times did we just blast it miles over the bar? No spark at all, why wasn't Jonas put on, I wonder...


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u think he's away like?
that would be bad news

I have been impressed with the Gaffer this season as he has got us top of the table but when I saw the line up I thought what the hell, to play 2 holding midfielders and then Nolan pushing off the forward meant the midfield was to exposed. Playing Guthrie left wing was an stupid, not suited there and it wasn't Guthrie's fault. Give the lad a decent run out in the middle of the park.

Smith and Butt we both off the pace and even though they were down to ten men it felt we were with having Nicky on, it amazed me that Smith went off, not because he deserved to stay on but how Butt stayed on the pitch. Butt's legs are gone and we need to get rid. I am sick of having Carroll on the pitch, the team lack pace and we have a forward in Lovernkrands who can offer us that. Carroll may win balls but what else does he do. Everytime he plays we play the same way, long ball and hope for the best, we should be better than this in this division. Lovernkrands atleast looks like he will run at people.

Guthrie was dissapointing but I liked Van Aanholt and thought he would have done better with a left winger like Jonas as he could have done some inter link play. At times out of position but pleased what I saw and if we can afford him worth going after the lad for a decent back up for Enrique.

R.Taylor crossing was awful but at times saved us defensively, but lacks the pace. Colo wasn't amazing but it could have been worse. Ranger is a good prospect and either needs a good run out to get expereince in the team as he is still learning or needs to be loaned out to get the experience. I was optimistic before the game and even though we are still top I am sick of playing cr@p, I said it yesterday it is time to change the personal in the team and progress the club.

I thought the new lads looked ok, Williamson started off well but then went a bit gash but enough there to do a job, Van Aanholt looked decent. Routledge looked one of the players that was going to create things

Newcastle are easy to play against and unless we change the centre of midfield we will always will be, play a counter attack 4-5-1 or put pressure on us and play rough and we don't know what to do.

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u think he's away like?
that would be bad news

He was on the bench but wasn't brough on. Could be an injury, maybe a row with the gaffer, maybe he just didn't put him on, but I really think Jonas should've played some part in today's game.


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have heard jonas has a calf niggle

He had taken a bang against palace and with a lot of games coming up I dont think he wanted to risk him.

Think we mentioned when we were right out in front that we would be happy to win at home and draw away. Think we have been a bit spoilt as no one would have thought we would doing so well at the start of the season.

I am frustrated as the next person and couldnt believe it when I saw Butt and Smith in the middle. Why not Loven on left and Guthrie in the middle. That formation had draw all over it after not being convincing against Palace and the last few teams. We are not only missing a creative force from the CM but someone with genuine pace and the ability to drive us forward. Saying that those type of players dont grow on trees.

The new lads were good, Van got up well and like has been mentioned he could have done with Jonas in front. Williamson was impressive and dealt with every ball that was pumped in. Rout was a good outlet and really could/should have had two of their players sent off.

Did anyone see the interview with Pearson. I knew he had a bit of arogance about him but what a t.wat.

Agree 100% with TTD 4 posts above, I would play ranger ahead of Carroll especially in a 1 man attack more creative and has more or less the same heading ability.

New guys did good tbh our best two players were probably aarnholt and routlede they seemed pacey and created a bit.

Please no more playing Butt offer him a coaching roll r make him tea ladie or something his legs are gone.

Did anyone else thnk Nolan, Guthrie, in fact half the team looked knackered tonight ?

Poor poor preformance but look on the bright sidewe are still top with a little gap.

We don't score enough. That has to be fixed. Starting Butt and Smith was not going to achieve that. Maybe we should play Nolan as an outright forward.

As for Jonas-if CH wasn't willing to use him, he should not have been named in the squad.