Newcastle United v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Villafirst]

What the Christ does Albrighton have to do to get in the side?

Agree, why oh why has Lambert picked KEA? ....HE'S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

[JUAN PABLO]

no Albrighton ??  best player in recent weeks

[pooligan]

Albrighton dropped in favour of KEA ,what a surprise !

[Chris Smith]

What the Christ does Albrighton have to do to get in the side?

Turn himself from a player that looks better as an impact sub than when he plays from the start.

He just played better than Weimann in the last match, no matter when he was on the pitch. He may well be better as an impact sub, but he just played better last time, and deserves to start.

I'm not Weimann's biggest fan but I think he works harder and is less prone to giving the ball away in silly areas. I also think as an option to bring on against a tiring defence, Albrighton is the better bet. In an ideal world, for me, both would be on the bench and we would have better in front of them.

[JUAN PABLO]

I said before Lambert is not into Marc


Bloody idiot

[eastie]

Lambert says teams have always got to start games decently - lets hope he can tell the players that then as we have been lethargic so many times .

[JUAN PABLO]

That magpies team looks pretty good to me

[eastie]

That magpies team looks pretty good to me

Not so sure about the back four though.

[peter w]

Pardew's a smug twat, Newcastle have a home run worse than ours, we need the points...we know the rest.

[Irish villain]

We will need to show we are up for a fight today. They are on such a bad run we can't make it easy for them to re-kindle their season. Have to get on the front foot from the off.

[CJ]

What does Albrighton have to do to get picked, and what does KEA have to do to be dropped. Prove me wrong Lambert

[Monty]

What the Christ does Albrighton have to do to get in the side?

Turn himself from a player that looks better as an impact sub than when he plays from the start.

He just played better than Weimann in the last match, no matter when he was on the pitch. He may well be better as an impact sub, but he just played better last time, and deserves to start.

I'm not Weimann's biggest fan but I think he works harder and is less prone to giving the ball away in silly areas. I also think as an option to bring on against a tiring defence, Albrighton is the better bet. In an ideal world, for me, both would be on the bench and we would have better in front of them.

Amen to that.

[Mazrim]

Don't understand Bacuna at right back, Baker rather than Clark or Albrighton on the bench and I see I'm not alone. Hope it works out.

Our strong suit. Fast attacking football, seems set up to hurt their defence. Their midfield is quite powerful though and they have Remy back. Hmmmm.... Still, come on Villa.

[Villafirst]

The problem today is "even the blind squirrel" saying applies. They have had such a crap run that it's bound to end very soon either by luck or method.

Pity Remy has just finished a 3 game ban - these players always seem to return against us! Still, good to see Ben Arfa is out and I think they'll miss Cabaye - both were very good at Villa Park against us last September.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Is Albrighton on the bench? Nobody's commented on it. For what it's worth, I think he should have started, but I like the 4-3-3 when it works for us. Here's hoping it does today.