Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[Pete3206]

If we can't comfortably turn over cack outfits like Newcastle, then we're already on another sticky wicket IMO.

[eastie]

Sad to hear that a newcastle coach was attacked by so called villa fans after the game - pathetic cowardly act!

@dd_ann_61: “@theawayfans: Newcastle fans coach getting their window smashed by Aston Villa fans! #AwayDays #NUFC #AVFC http://t.co/p8oB9ThWIE” *

[Stu]

Sad to hear that a newcastle coach was attacked by so called villa fans after the game - pathetic cowardly act!

@dd_ann_61: “@theawayfans: Newcastle fans coach getting their window smashed by Aston Villa fans! #AwayDays #NUFC #AVFC http://t.co/p8oB9ThWIE” *

Shame.

They still like to ponce on about us taking the piss out of them getting relegated a couple of years ago. They never mention the coach full of their fans singing "You're just a town full of pakis" on the way down Witton Lane before the game.

[Mister E]

Just plucked up the energy to come on here after that game.
We were v unlucky against Chelsea and Liverpool: yesterday we were just poor.
Positives: the continued good form of Delph; the contributions and all-round play of Gabby (shame about the howling miss); Okore before the injury.
Negatives: poor form of Lowton; Weimann not quite firing on all cyclinders; KEA; Westwood not quite on form either.

Concerned that: we conceded another 2 very poor goals; have little to come off the bench, on current evidence; couldn't shake off the lethargy that seemed to have enveloped us from the start; no appetite for pressing the opposition.


Fair play to the barcodes: they came and did a job, and Ben Arfa does look very classy.

[aj2k77]

Lambert is still an average rookie manager trying to learn his trade at the top.

[richard moore]

I can't shake off this awful feeling today that the games against the likes of Sunderland/Hull/Palace/the bitters are already looking like 6 pointers. I know it's way too early to be thinking that way but then we said that last season and seemed to me to sleep walk our way through autumn onto a very sticky wicket by Christmas. I sincerely hope I'm over-reacting. In the crazy world that is the 'results here and now' nature of the premier league, a win next week will put everything right. For another week. A bad defeat and it will be meltdown on here with me probably being as bad as everyone else. Oh well, that's this season's brief honeymoon period over...

[Damo70]

I thought our performance when the opposition had the ball yesterday was a million miles away from the Arsenal and Chelsea games.

[richard moore]

Wouldn't you just die for a regulation, run of the mill 2-0 win against inferior opposition at home? I can just about remember a time when we used to be able to knock them out regularly. I listened to Spurs going 2-0 up yesterday against Norwich at home on R5 and the commentator saying 'that's the game wrapped up' and wondered enviously when was the last time you could think that about us?

[supertom]

I'm not entirely sure where this idea comes from that we're a decent, or trying to be, a decent footballing side. It's all a million miles an hour, a bit hapless in the attacking third, and when we're really running out of ideas we resort to hoof ball. Yesterday we barely strung 5 decent passes together. We had one good move in 90 minutes, which Wiemann fluffed at the end but for the rest of the time we had no one with any class in midfield to orchestrate anything.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm not entirely sure where this idea comes from that we're a decent, or trying to be, a decent footballing side. It's all a million miles an hour, a bit hapless in the attacking third, and when we're really running out of ideas we resort to hoof ball. Yesterday we barely strung 5 decent passes together. We had one good move in 90 minutes, which Wiemann fluffed at the end but for the rest of the time we had no one with any class in midfield to orchestrate anything.

I think it's because we quite frequently play some really nice passing moves. Yesterday I grant you we were desperately poor, but we do try to pass the ball. It's when we go more direct that we struggle.

[martin o`who??]

I could accept 3 points out of 9 when weve played the likes of Arsenal, Chelski and Liverpool but when that list now includes Mike Ashleys train set i begin to worry a bit. Why do we make ordinary sides (and yes the "Toon army", you are ordinary) look good, remember Barcelona - sorry Wigan at VP last season, ripping us apart and they were relegated for fucks sake!!. We just dont have enough ball winners to disrupt teams who basically have license to pass us to death. Westwood, lowton and Weimann seriously worry me, their form has collapsed, i honestly felt good about this season but now im not so sure. Oh and a cheery hello to the fucking neanderthals from Newcastle who bailed out of 2 coaches on Witton lane at about five to three yesterday, its heart warming to know that not every society has moved into the 21st Century and that some places are still stuck in the 1980s, what a bunch of fucking Dinosaurs.

[danlanza]

Depressing yesterday.

[frank]

I agree clampy, it would have been a risk but sometimes risks have to be taken - bringing tonev on with 3 minutes to go was pointless

Tonev should have been brought on for Weimann much earlier, I agree, but in fact he was waiting to come on for 7 minutes: the ball didn't go out of play for all that time. (Not that we did anything with it)

[PeterWithesShin]

Sad to hear that a newcastle coach was attacked by so called villa fans after the game - pathetic cowardly act!

@dd_ann_61: “@theawayfans: Newcastle fans coach getting their window smashed by Aston Villa fans! #AwayDays #NUFC #AVFC http://t.co/p8oB9ThWIE” *

Shame.

They still like to ponce on about us taking the piss out of them getting relegated a couple of years ago. They never mention the coach full of their fans singing "You're just a town full of pakis" on the way down Witton Lane before the game.

They gave it the big one outside and inside the ground. While I don't condone it, they provoked continually and had some payback. It happens.

[ChicagoLion]

We are beginning to look like one of those clubs that just buy a bunch of players that fill up the squad and not really strengthen the first 11, there seems not much improvement from last season and that team nearly got relegated.

Lambert needs to find an 11 that can do a job pretty quick or this will soon turn into a relegation scrap.