Post-match thread - Newcastle v Aston Villa

[TaxDodger]

Fuck off John Carew. Fuck off Stillian Petrov. Fuck off Aston Villa.

[Dan England]

Gutless. The only player to come out of that with any credit is Young (A). That penalty miss was the absolute key moment. I said after that we would lose just didn't think we would get stuffed. Too many bad performances from usually strong performers. Brad at fault for at least two goals, Dunne very poor, Petrov anonymous, Carew missed the pen then got worse, Ireland in the wrong position and downing abysmal.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I don't actually believe it. I suspect this is going to be our season - brilliant one week, ridiculously poor the next.

I hope it's that good.

Not sure if Kevin Mac was nieve but we lined up as if we were playing at home, rather than ready for a battle away against a very physically strong team. We have plenty of flair but as Man Utd and Chelsea demonstrate, week in week out, you have to win the midfield battle first. As I said when the team selection was announced, we should have started with NRC and left Ireland on the bench. Also away from home, I'm not sure we can have the luxury of playing both Downing and Alrighton.

[citizenDJ]

I really thought we might struggle as soon as I saw the team - replacing Milner with Ireland, in a like-for-like way, was asking for trouble, and I felt it was a bit naive by MacDonald to be honest.
Albrighton struggled noticeably against the first decent full-back he's faced. He'll learn from that, I'm sure, but he'll need to as there are much better defenders than Enrique out there!
Luke Young had, in my opinion, an absolute stinker of a game, and the way they went for him after half time suggested that they noticed that too. I'm not his biggest fan, but I am sure that he is better than we saw today.
Carew......I really think he's 'gone'. And that penalty was abysmal.

I think we should really, really strive to get the new manager in as quickly as possible. The players look like they need direction and organisation, and leadership. I'm not sure that MacDonald can provide that, good coach as he may be. I think the relationship between manager and players needs to be different from that of coach/reserve team manager.

[BannedUserIAT]

Iv'e seen more exciting stuff coming out of a slurry spreader.

That made me laugh.

Right, back to being pissed off.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

A bit of an overeaction on here at the moment considering if Carew had scored the penalty it could've been us winning comfortably. From one kick of the ball, it didn't go our way. Yes, it turned out to be extremely embarrassing, especially the way they played at 3-0, but it could've quite easily been different.

Kev Mac should still be given the opportunity when the likes of fucking Bob Bradley is being mentioned.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I don't actually believe it. I suspect this is going to be our season - brilliant one week, ridiculously poor the next.

I hope it's that good.

Not sure if Kevin Mac was nieve but we lined up as if we were playing at home, rather than ready for a battle away against a very physically strong team. We have plenty of flair but as Man Utd and Chelsea demonstrate, week in week out, you have to win the midfield battle first. As I said when the team selection was announced, we should have started with NRC and left Ireland on the bench. Also away from home, I'm not sure we can have the luxury of playing both Downing and Alrighton.

It's a luxury playing Downing???

[Toronto Villa]

The midfield was cut open far too easily. The last goal was just another example. We made Newcastle look like Barcelona today. Kevin Mac took much of the praise last week, but as much as he'll be gutted today, he and his staff were blown apart tactically today.

[friz]

Oh well, you're on a hiding to nothing playing newly promoted teams away first game a la Stoke when they came up. The silver lining may be that it illustrates to the board that we definitely need a permanent manager and a striker at the very least.
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Totally agree, for some reason Carew has had a shocking start to the season and with Gabby injured we are in trouble. Heskey could'nt hit a barn door so a new manager and ROBBIE KEANE is a must in my book. UTV!

[BannedUserIAT]

I'm convinced Carew was on something during that game. I have never seen anyone so switched off in my life.

[Percy McCarthy]

Kev Mac should still be given the opportunity when the likes of fucking Bob Bradley is being mentioned.

You've got a point there.

[pauliewalnuts]

I know football is all about opinions etc etc, but I don't see how anyone can expect a central two of Ireland and Petrov to work.

[taylorsworkrate]

A bit of an overeaction on here at the moment considering if Carew had scored the penalty it could've been us winning comfortably. From one kick of the ball, it didn't go our way. Yes, it turned out to be extremely embarrassing, especially the way they played at 3-0, but it could've quite easily been different.

Kev Mac should still be given the opportunity when the likes of fucking Bob Bradley is being mentioned.

Overreaction? 

To be honest, i think the fact that the players heads aren't on spikes after that shows how calm we all are.

[CheeriOneill]

Got that just lost 6-0 feeling but what makes it worse is those thinking its KM fault and not MON!!

He bought all that shite!!

He should hang his little receding curly bonce in Fucking shame this afternoon! Oh yes thats right he doesn't give a shit!!

[sfx412]

For the first 20-30 minutes, we dominated, then they attacked and we didn't have a defence, especially in midfield.
We lacked our big defenders, and had no defensive midfield players. We looked set up for a home game, and when the crunch came, they were not man enough to take it on. That's down to the manager, I doubt a Mon team would have capitulated so easily.
I think we have to cope with these sort of results until the players know who will be the permanent manager, and whilst the reserve team coach learns his PL trade.
Desperate stuff defensively at times, really was.