Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[oldtimernow]

well done...more like that please and we'll be fine

[atomicjam]

Sitting drinking ubu at the Moseley Folk Festival all I had was the h and v match thread. Cheers for the updates. Sounds promising. Pleased witha point.

[Percy McCarthy]

How was Bannan?

How bad did KEA look, injury-wise?

[nigel]

Guzan superb.
How much energy does Holman have? Brilliant

Great all round performance

[Rigadon]

How was Bannan?

How bad did KEA look, injury-wise?

Bannan improved as the game went on and cut out teh hollywood passes after the first 20.   KEA had his best game for us, looks the real deal to me.

[PeterWithesShin]

How was Bannan?

How bad did KEA look, injury-wise?

Bannan was the usual. Some good play, plenty of giving the ball away. Hard to tell with KEA. Will help having a 2 week break though.

[villadelph]

I wasn't expecting much from this game so I'm certainly happy with the point. Our midfield is neat. It's like a diamond shifter over to the left so Bannan can file in and allow Lowton to do most of the line work. I thought everyone played pretty well, too. I'm anxious to see what the team will look like with Bennett flying up and down the left. Thought Ireland and Karim played really well too, hope KEA is okay.

Also, I'm glad Gabby came back and he hit the boosters on Gutierrez so it seems like he's fit, I thought he was barely back to full training.. Guzan between the sticks for me now, too. He's done to well to just blindly concede the number one to Shay. Both good enough on their day.

Holman kind of reminds me of Villa's Dirk Kuyt. Just a non-stop work rate and all out effort, all the time. He doesn't always make the brightest decision but he's clearly taken advantage of the opportunity given to him and making a difference on the field.

Glad Lambert went with Clark today, not only because he got the goal but I don't think Baker was mean enough to play in the middle in this one.

[Lambert and Payne]

Happy with a good point away from home against a bogey side, some good passing movement, Ron Vlaar looked a little too cool at times, and we need to get in teams faces a little more. We can't afford to give Swansea a second on the ball next week
Guzan looked absolutely solid today, we been missing someone like that in goal, never looked like he was going to drop the ball or fumble it, fantastic keeping and I hope it spurs Given on!
UTV

[caster troy]

Lots of positives, the main three for me were a willingness to get the ball down and play football, the new signings (particularly Vlaar and KEH) looking solid and the second coming of Guzan.

With the new lads to come in giving us more options, and hopefully more confidence in the team as we climb the table, I think we'll do ok this season.

[PeterWithesShin]

And I got a prediction right for once. I had it as 1-1 with us taking the lead. Nostradamus is back!

[ez]

The performance was as important as the point. Happy with both.

[Risso]

I think most people would have been happy with a good performance and a decent result, and that's what we got.  It took a bit of a wonder strike to deny us all three points as well.

[Toronto Villa]

We worked ever so hard and if there is one thing Lambert has preached it is team unity and graft. We saw that in abundance today. We have 5 players to add from the next game onwards that will all bring with them the same commitment, hunger and determination.

Really great to see Gabby back too.

[Steve R]

Unlucky not to get all three. Newcastle weren't getting a sniff second half until they found a goal from nowhere. It seemed to buck them up no end. We still had the better openings after that.

We still need to have more authority in midfield. I hope El Ahmadi has a knock rather than an injury.

Good to see Gabby back. He looked like he meant it. Well played Guzan too. A Villa goalkeeper coming out beyond the 6 yard box to collect crosses. Whatever next.

Sod our league position, that was a big improvement in all respects on anything served up last year. Maybe we are a lot better than we thought we were.

[gervilla]

A well deserved point, could have had all 3.
Eric looks very uncomfortable at left back, hopefully Bennet will be ready for the Swansea game.
Holman should have made some bit of an effort closing Ben Arfa down for the goal.
Shay may not see much action for a while.Ireland should have buried that chance late on.
Well done  over all though, a vast improvement.