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The Knee Jerk

31 October 2010 1535 comments

Paul

The first Tyne-Wear derby for a couple of years proved to be one Steve Bruce will want to forget in a hurry as Kevin Nolan, subject of our Watchlist article early last week, bagged a hat-trick as Newcastle ran out 5-1 winners to record their best Premier League win over North East rivals Sunderland.

Despite conceding only 7 league goals in their opening 9 games and coming into the game on a seven-match unbeaten run, Sunderland were overwhelmed by wave after wave of Magpies attacks and were simply blown away.

With a 4-4-2 formation working favourably for Newcastle in last weekend’s win at West Ham, Chris Hughton chose to keep with a winning system, meaning Shola Ameobi retained his place up front alongside Andy Carroll. Ameobi repaid Hughton’s faith in him with Newcastle’s other two goals in the rout though Carroll, with two assists, played a huge part with a performance that terrorised Sunderland’s back four throughout.

Bruce, a born Geordie, added fuel to the fire of today’s game by admitting he‘d rejected the chance to be Newcastle boss before:

I turned it down because it was not right. There was compensation and it wasn’t right. I turned it down twice.

Rather than celebrate the historic win of his childhood club, Bruce will now, instead, be trying to pick up the morale of their near neighbours after a display that also saw Titus Bramble sent off with Sunderland already 3-0 down.

In contrast, Kevin Nolan, now up to third highest-scoring midfielder in Fantasy Premier League (FPL), was overjoyed with a result that saw Newcastle leap to seventh in the table, saying:

Obviously it’s fantastic. We knew it would be tough – and I think it was. I think we got lucky with a couple of the goals. We’re delighted, we’ve worked so hard this week and it’s paid off today. I made my debut against these (Sunderland) and to score a hat-trick will live with me forever. It’s unbelievable. I’m delighted for the fans.

Newcastle’s recent St James’ Park form has been something of a source of frustration for the Geordie faithful but, with their first home win since August, they couldn’t have picked a better game to reinforce their credentials in front of an overjoyed Toon Army.

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Twelve years a slave
15 years, 1 month ago
And while im about it why is everyone so fixated on Simpson? Its like someone latches onto a name and suddenly hes a must buy. Just like perch and williamson were a few week ago , and what have they done? Didly squat thats what

Why not look further afield to villa or even wham who look ready for a few clean sheets against eaier opposition
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1. ManofKent
  15 years, 1 month ago
  It's the sub 4mil price tag...
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bobwils
15 years, 1 month ago
Or even Knight, Robinson or Cahill of Bolton. Their defence didn't look too bad yesterday until that fateful 88th minute.
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Gaz Downright
15 years, 1 month ago
Nolan is 1 goal for equaling his complete goal tally for all the previous seasons of FPL... do we blame Big Sam or is it rather a big fluke?
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1. bobwils
  15 years, 1 month ago
  Certainly deserved his tally yesterday, played with maturity imo
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Katie
15 years, 1 month ago
Nice early morning chat - we'll have to do it again some time.

Gotta go now. Long drive to Paris(bloody work)
Laters everyone.....esp Inalise/Swiss/TM
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1. bobwils
  15 years, 1 month ago
  Come on down south, SofF lovely morning this morning, I'll buy you a coffee
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  1. Katie
    15 years, 1 month ago
    Love to, but gotta pay the bills.
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    1. bobwils
      15 years, 1 month ago
      Sigh.....
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    2. Christina.
      15 years, 1 month ago
      Cheers Katie, Have a good trip & enjoy Paris.
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Admiral Stark
15 years, 1 month ago
A four point cut to have:

Bramble > Ridgewell
Nzogbia > Arteta
Fabregas > Walcott

Worth it?
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1. bobwils
  15 years, 1 month ago
  No imo, why get rid of Fabs, he's just starting
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  1. Admiral Stark
    15 years, 1 month ago
    I'm a bit concerned about his likely injury, Walcott offers more pace and shots on goal
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    1. Gaz Downright
      15 years, 1 month ago
      he also offers rotation risk though
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    2. bobwils
      15 years, 1 month ago
      As Gazza says, look at Walcott game style, run, run run . Fabs plays slower and should manage 2 games a week. He is no more prone to injury than Walcott.
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    3. Admiral Stark
      15 years, 1 month ago
      well cheers for your thoughts, will surely consider that 🙂 but the other transfers are good yeah?
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      1. Mourinho factor
        15 years, 1 month ago
        they look fair but are not worth a Fabregas out transfer
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        bobwils
        15 years, 1 month ago
        +1
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Mr Smith
15 years, 1 month ago
Thinking of ditching O'Shea, any decent defenders worth switching to up to 5.5m? Currently have jara, Bosingwa, Coleman, Elmohamady.
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1. bobwils
  15 years, 1 month ago
  What about Knight or Robinson of Bolton. Bolton have some nice fixtures coming up although their defence has been a bit shakey of late.
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2. Lucky_2010
  15 years, 1 month ago
  ridgewell or distin ...
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  1. Gaz Downright
    15 years, 1 month ago
    if you are thinking along the lines of Ridgewell, you might as well grab Dann, who is just a random goal behind his 0.7 more costly colleague
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3. hunkydory
  15 years, 1 month ago
  Gotta be Salcido.
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Johnny Unitas
15 years, 1 month ago
What a miserable weekend,had Krul and Simpson with clean sheets at 87 minutes on Sunday, nice one, and an assist for Simpson at one point (what happened that?) only have 3 and 2 in the end, heartbreaking, may have saved my week, Fabregas (C) fail!
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1. Azfad
  15 years, 1 month ago
  the assist went to Carroll who crashed his header from simpsons cross against the crossbar. efforts on goal that rebound and lead to a goal are awarded assist points
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Zidane
15 years, 1 month ago
thinking of transferring malouda to walcott.....any thoughts?
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