Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[ez]

It clearly isn't working. Three games to turn it around?

[Smirker]

Anyone going to continue to defend our idiot of a manager?

Not anymore. Don't like slagging us off but I am at my wit's end now. I hope we stay up (we will) and we show some ambition in the summer (we won't) and Lambert can turn this around ()

[Goldie.7]

If we do get relegated no one can say it hasn't been coming for years now.

[Fergal]

I really wanted Lambert to be a good manager for us and bring in good players and stability.  I have really tried to support him and blame it all on Randy but enough is enough.  Something has to change.
We cant change the players.
We can't change the owner.
The only thing left is the manager.

As I was typing that I remembered that i made a similar comment last year.

[onje_villa]

After watching the enthralling rugby yesterday, this shit just reaffirms how mediocre and boring football is these days, especially for a Villa fan.

I mean, if ever a team were there for the taking it was Newcastle, they were absolutely dire for the most part and our front three couldn't muster anything.

That has to be one of the worst performances from a striker by Benteke I've ever seen. His movement is terrible, touch likewise and then just throwing his hands in the air, well I've had enough of it.

I'll reserve praise for Baker and Guzan who I thought were excellent and Westwood who played well but the others, oh my word... And I'm sorry but Bertrand is almost as bad as Luna and Bennett and that IS saying something.

Still, let's keep rewarding mediocrity and be content that our beloved club may escape relegation, whoop-de-do!

[Tom_Mc9?]

Good: Guzan, Westwood
Okay: Vlaar, Baker, Bertrand (although lucky to stay on the field), Gabby, Delph, El Ahmadi
Bad: Benteke, Weimann, Bacuna

It's a shame we lost - I thought a draw was just about fair. I do worry when teams have long runs of defeats, in the same way when teams keep winning I think we might have a chance (like Southampton earlier in the season) as runs don't last forever. I think in the first half we showed that we are improving slightly with our ball retention, but it's far from good enough at the moment.

I don't think we're playing well enough, but I'm not getting suicidal just yet. Plenty more games to play, and we can't stay off form forever. There'll be a good run between now and May.

[CJ]

Could understand Sylla on for Westwood as Westwood had picked up a knock. But Bennett for just Bertrand beggars belief, and I still don't know why he didn't bring Albrighton on - width, pace, and decent crosses could have finished them off. We'd had 2 lucky escapes - one at the end of the first half and another just before they scored - and they were there for the taking.

Lambert doesn't have a clue and he can just fuck right off as far as I'm concerned now. We've got a Championship squad and a Championship manager. We're just scraping by every year, with an ambition to just stay in the Prem and get some place on the Deloitte money ladder. What has happened to my club?

[Fergal]

Dear Randy,

Please sack this management team now and get a football person to help you get somebody in who will galvanize us short term.

Long-term, start the process of either finding a buyer or a manager who genuinely can take us forward with limited resources. We are heading for relegation within a season or two if you do not shake yourself and the club our of the paralysis that has been choking it for the past three years. If we do drop, your investment to this point is for nothing and you will have presided over one of the biggest cock-ups in British football.

PS get some advice from SGT...

[PeterWithesShin]

Norwich has become a massive match now. Which is shit.

[Five Villa Tattoos]

Anyone  else see Wiemann piss himself laughing when he screwed a shot wide. I want to see anger and passion not smirking.
Drop him for the rest of the season and see if he still finds it funny. We won't miss him.

[JUAN PABLO]

Any other team in the league would have won there today.

Our so called attacking threat was non-existent or not interested.

We have no real quality & are again intent on committing suicide week after week.

We deserve to get relegated but we will probably scape through, again.

Lambert's new contract why?

I thought this against Cardiff too

[TopDeck113]

I've said this too many times over the last few years, both on here and to friends: losing I can take.  It's part of the game and over the years I've easily witnessed as many defeats as victories.  What is draining is watching a multimillionaire manager and players - overseen by a billionaire owner - go through the same motions seemingly week-in, week out.  Same shit, same excuses.  We don't even do false dawns any more, just the same-old, same-old.

[martin o`who??]

I really have no love left for football. It's just so draining and miserable.

Oh come on!, surely the news that the delightful Wayne Rooney, that colossus of international football is now reputedly to be paid £300K a week has lightened your mood somewhat.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Westwood must have been injured - he went straight to the dressing room - if he wasn't then that should be enough evidence to show how clueless lambert is . It was his best game this season by a mile.

He sets teams out not to lose - doesn't try to win games .

[onje_villa]

I really have no love left for football. It's just so draining and miserable.

Exactly this.