ALL Newcastle Championship goals, in video – Part 2.
Posted on July 30th, 2010 | 21 Comments |
Hopefully you’ll have watched part one of these videos that a look at all of our Championship goals, and hopefully you have enjoyed watching them. Here is part two.
If you haven’t seen it, here is part one.
I think it ‘s pretty much universally agreed amongst fans that the second half of the season saw us add some flair to the functionality that had served us so well up until that point. January saw the arrival of Wayne Routledge who helped to give us that something different in attack, and it showed in our goals tally.
There is some cracking results in there, with the 5-1 defeat of Cardiff at St James’ Park probably being my highlight of the bunch. That was a game that was expected to be close, it wasn’t. Likewise, Barnsley’s visit to SJP was also supposed to be close as they were the in form team in the division at that time. It wasn’t, and we sent them packing back down the A1(M) on the end of a 6-1 thumping.
As for goals, my own personal favourite is the Wayne Routledge goal against Plymouth on the night we sealed the title. It wasn’t a screamer from 30-yards, Routledge didn’t trick his way past threee defenders, but what it did show is the team performing together and ripping Plymouth apart with smart, incisive play, with Joey Barton being the architect behind it all.
The reason I put these two vidoes up is to remind us of the good times we had last year. This season will be tougher, we all know that, but it’s not the impossible task that is being made out. We can survive. I just think that sometimes it is easy to forget the positives in amongst the negatives.
The facts are that we were a mile ahead of every other team last season. Perhaps not in individual games, but over the course of the season we were far superior to the rest of the teams in The Championship. This season is all about survival, which may not be exciting, but we really will be stuck without it.
Premier League: Bring it on!
Lets just hope we see a few more good goals this season. OK, won’t see any 5 or 6 – 0 in our favour, but some nice goals will do