Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Sunday evening.

[manic-road]

Shocking second half, shocking choice of substitutions. One day we might be able to play for 90 minutes not 45. Positive player was Keane, unfortunately his speed of thought and awareness is way ahead of the rest of the team.

[garyshawsknee]

You need to take the blame for that Mccleish. Taking off Nzogbia,cutting of our threat on the left.Heskey offers absolutely nothing. You can only blame yourself.

[glasses]

That throw in at the end. A disgrace.

[Fergal]

Get the feeling we chucked that away with some bizarre substitutions.  Did Heskey really offer more than Zog?

[Apyadg]

We nearly got a point, not a bad result for an Alex McLeish side.

[PaulWinch again]

Played well in the first half and moderately in the second. Taking Ireland off and N'Zog killed us. You cannot hope to get points if you consistently concede 2 goals. Bringing Heskey on was fucking ridiculous and he did nothing, and Gardner made a really positive impact and should have been on much earlier.

[Rigadon]

Unless Ireland was injured AM got that badly wrong.  Badly. 

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I don't get a number of things:

1 - we can pass the ball. We've all seen the players do it. So why do they choose not to do it so often in a match? We created loads of chances when we pass the ball and we look a good side.

2 - Heskey? Just when it looked like AM is starting to make progress, he makes that substitution. Bizarre.

3 - the defence. Fucking awful. Really fucking awful.

4 - repeat of number 1. We can pass the ball and look good when doing it. Let's do it all the time and we'll eventually get the results.

[villa_cads]

Well that shows just how limited our squad is these days. NO options, highlighted by Warnock staying on the field, and Heskey coming on. Major revamp needed.

[Fergal]

AM seems like a nice bloke but should be sacked and replaced by Ronald McDonald

[David_Nab]

Not sure if Ireland was injured he wasnt playing great but was certainly a miss when he went off.Heskey did ok to be fair but still think it was a bad sub.

8 points from Safety..let's hope it is enough

[CJ]

Weird substitutions lost us that game. What possible value does AM think Heskey has over N'Zogbia. Beggars belief.

What is Ireland supposed to have said?

[andyh]

why did we decide after 65 mins that we no longer wanted to win the game ?

[mattjpa]

Completely mcleishs fault. For the first time I have no defence. When we became overrun in mf and it was totally obvious he brings onheskey and leaves us to rot. Absolutely inexplicable