Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Witton Warrior]

Just listening to Pardew on 5Live and he commented that he thought we should have been leading at half-time.
Now that may his usual self-promotion to boost the hype that he is a master tactician but it has brought something to mind for me.

We are continually slating the defence and (parts of) the midfield but what about the strike force?
They are playing well but not converting chances when they are presented.
How many games have we drawn/lost when just one clinical finish was required?

I find that really worrying.

[Pete3206]

There was nothing between the sides at half time. Then, we reverted to type and back peddled in the 2nd half and one bizarre substitution later, it's all over. For all Sky's fawning over Cisse's goal, I thought two defenders should have dealt with it better. Alas, too slow, no points, game over.

Question for you.. Who do you feel is responsible for setting the pace of the squad? Petrov, Keane, McLeish..? I agree that it's too slow, but where is it lacking and how can it be changed?

trying to be purely constructive here..

I just thought that the 2 defenders between Cisse had the reactions of a sloth. I think it was Dunne and Warnock.

[Jimmy Smash]

Outrageous abuse of the position of Moderator. There's nothing offensive about these posts. On a little power trip Paulie?

Thanks, but read the first paragraph of the rules, then think about how that sits with telling telling people theyre "talking out of their arse" because they disagree.

If youre not happy with that, take it up with another moderator by pm.

Have done so. Ive reported your comment to a mod. If it comes to you, please forward my comment to another Mod.

Paulie is a very aggressive Mod, that's for sure.

Ha ha ha. Oh, please.

Aggressive Mods are like aggressive policemen. Generally not considered to be a good thing.

Thanks for your advice, Jimmy.

Just as police who can't take criticism are not considered to be a good thing.

[KRS]

Didnt get to watch or listen to much of the game this afternoon, and there seems to be a mixed reaction on here.

I didnt expect anything other than a loss, so were we as bad as some ppl are saying or were we unlucky not to get the win as per AM comments on SSN?

[Legion]

Please get back to debating the match. Thank you.

[villadelph]

Outrageous abuse of the position of Moderator. There's nothing offensive about these posts. On a little power trip Paulie?

Thanks, but read the first paragraph of the rules, then think about how that sits with telling telling people theyre "talking out of their arse" because they disagree.

If youre not happy with that, take it up with another moderator by pm.

Have done so. Ive reported your comment to a mod. If it comes to you, please forward my comment to another Mod.

Paulie is a very aggressive Mod, that's for sure.

Ha ha ha. Oh, please.

Aggressive Mods are like aggressive policemen. Generally not considered to be a good thing.

Thanks for your advice, Jimmy.

Just as police who can't take criticism are not considered to be a good thing.

Enough.

[Jimmy Smash]

Please get back to debating the match. Thank you.

Just me?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Just listening to Pardew on 5Live and he commented that he thought we should have been leading at half-time.
Now that may his usual self-promotion to boost the hype that he is a master tactician but it has brought something to mind for me.

We are continually slating the defence and (parts of) the midfield but what about the strike force?
They are playing well but not converting chances when they are presented.
How many games have we drawn/lost when just one clinical finish was required?

I find that really worrying.

We've just scored 3 away to Wolves, 2 away at Arsenal and 2 at home to QPR and another goal today. I hardly think scoring goals is an issue at the moment.

[Legion]

No. All involved.

[villadelph]

Didnt get to watch or listen to much of the game this afternoon, and there seems to be a mixed reaction on here.

I didnt expect anything other than a loss, so were we as bad as some ppl are saying or were we unlucky not to get the win as per AM comments on SSN?

We were okay. Shifty back line and wasted chances in the offensive end. We could really benefit by trying to hold on to the ball but that seems to be a bit of a task right now. It was going to be a tough game to get anything out of seeing how we don't usually play Newcastle (A) very well. Hopefully, we can scrap something against Citeh and string three wins in a row shortly thereafter.

[pauliewalnuts]

Last season, I thought ninth flattered us, and didn't tell he true story of the season. However, the points were there, on the board, so that was all that mattered.

Thus far this season, we are looking good for great stretches of matches, but not getting points, and have been like this for a fair while now.

The defence is so feeble that we put ourselves on the back foot by conceding poor goals, and even when we score goals, we are rendering it insufficient by conceding so many of them.

I just hope we can get to the end of the season more or less mid table and then perform the major surgery we need at the back, because going forward we can be very good.

Warnock, Collins, Dunne, Cuellar (if the manager doesn't trust him), Hutton (which I know won't happen), I would honestly get shot of all of them.

[Jimmy Smash]

No. All involved.

Okay

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Didnt get to watch or listen to much of the game this afternoon, and there seems to be a mixed reaction on here.

I didnt expect anything other than a loss, so were we as bad as some ppl are saying or were we unlucky not to get the win as per AM comments on SSN?

Unlucky to lose, maybe not win. Their GK made some good saves. They're certainly not anywhere near 14 points better than us. They just have competent (not good) defenders.

[AV82EC]

On the train on the way back to Manc. Quite bizarre substitutions which probably cost us the match and the defending was as ever poor at times.  Geordies were amazed we took off Ireland and N'zogbia and from the looks on their faces they new they'd got away with it.  Looks like Redknapp was right about Darren Bent, just how many chances does he need!  I honestly believe we should have won that game.  Annoyed and what this nonsense Collymore has tweeted about Villa players giving backchat to McLeish during the match?

[pauliewalnuts]

Didnt get to watch or listen to much of the game this afternoon, and there seems to be a mixed reaction on here.

I didnt expect anything other than a loss, so were we as bad as some ppl are saying or were we unlucky not to get the win as per AM comments on SSN?

Unlucky to lose, maybe not win. Their GK made some good saves. They're certainly not anywhere near 14 points better than us. They just have competent (not good) defenders.

Coloccini has been very good this season, I think.