Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[mikeb1982]

Sherwood just said "we picked ourselves up" on the beeb.  Oh, fuck...

[Ads]

Better side, deserved a point. Weimann and Gabby are poor.

The Gerodies waiting for us outside shit themselves.

[mr underhill]

I wonder how many playing today will be come August, irrespective of the division? Not many, hopefully.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Better side, deserved a point. Weimann and Gabby are poor.

The Gerodies waiting for us outside shit themselves.

They only come hard on horses

[walsall villain]

Every match day is like groundhog day. It's true what they say about struggling sides, luck deserts you and you get punished for occasional defensive lapses. Son tells me we played well for 70 minutes but the ball just isn't quite dropping for us, he tells me last 20 minutes was desperate.
I don't know how we aren't already cut adrift after SEVEN straight defeats but bizarrely we still have a chance. The upcoming two games might give us the lift we need if we can get a bit of bloody luck from somewhere.

[CJ]

13 goals in 27 league games. When you pause for a minute to really take in how bad that really is, it's quite mind-blowingly breathtaking

[Drummond]

We won't lose many players in the summer, we'll have a good season next in the Championship and then do better when we come back up.

What a time to go down.

[CT Villan]

Guzan - decent enough saves but looks increasingly shaky in his own 6 yard box...and his distribution is criminal
Hutton - OK, I guess. Positioning not the best today...but at least he was trying to get into attacking positions.
Lowton - OK playing on his weaker side, lacking match sharpness,.
Okore - never been convinced by him and one of his mistakes cost us.
Clark - Excellent, one of the few that left it all on the pitch.
Cleverley - underwhelming (again). Shouldn't start the next game.
Westwood - OK, moved the ball well and played that nice pass into Sinclair...but his dead ball delivery is shocking.
Delph - Not sure what has happened to him...very poor again today and not worthy of the armband.
Sinclair - Tried, a bit...but not happening for him today.
Gabby - decided to start running the channels for about 5 minutes in the second half only. Should not be in the starting XI.
Benteke - Seems to be improving but we will run out of matches before he is back up to speed.

Subs :
N'Zog - shocking (Again)
Weimann - shocking (again)
Bacuna - should be on from the start, in his rightful position.

Sherwood - I could see some improvements, particularly in the first half, but as soon as we are pushed onto the back foot we cave. For the life of me I cannot understand why N'Zogbia is anywhere near the team, let alone getting time on the pitch. The only thing I can guess is that he wants to assess all of the players on the pitch and this was N'Zog and Lowton's turn.

Wow, I feel better for getting that off my chest.

[andyh]

This team has absolutely no idea HOW to win a game anymore.
It's been so long and so infrequent that they just don't know how to do it anymore.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What Delph, Cleverley and Westwood do as a three can be done by one decent player. Westwood passes sideways, Cleverley runs a bit and Delph from time to time puts in a tackle and moves forward.

Delph does not put in a tackle, he bloody bottles it every time. All he does is his little turn and passes it sideways, other than that he chases shadows. I can only think he's concerned he may get injured and it could complicate exercising his escape clause if/when we are relegated. He's been a fucking passenger since he signed his new and improved contract. A complete waste of space.

[CJ]

We won't lose many players in the summer, we'll have a good season next in the Championship and then do better when we come back up.

What a time to go down.

Hopefully Gabby will have a release clause in his contract if we go down and we'll enforce it whether he wants to or not. He's on such a cushy number it beggars belief

[adam#1]

It hurts from being thousands of miles away as much as it used to hurt being 20 miles away. Having watched the last two games, I thought there were encouraging signs today. We had more shots on target; Benteke for the first 60 minutes looked back; Agbonlahor seemed stronger, better running, better turning- I was disappointed he was subbed at a time he was running the channels quite well; especially for Weimann who was ineffectual to a point of destroying forward link up play. Delph looked improved, though not back to his best. Westwood was admittedly poor, but Cleverly looked half decent. Sinclair looked good to start, but faded and seem to run out of ideas. We were unlucky when they scored, Okore just not reaching the ball.

If we can get the same level of improvement incrementally match by match, get a bit of luck too, and we'll be ok. But that is a big IF.

[Rudy65]

Gil was a breath of fresh air....seems like he's succumbed like the rest. Didn't take long.....

This is the point though.

Gil looks a player, so we either stick him out wide and dont play him at all. He needs to be playing central behind Benteke. Its f in obvious. Instead we bring on Charlie

[aev]

I think our best/only chance of staying up is getting Benteke firing. There are no other goals in the team as we have seen this season.

[Billy Walker]

We're in a scrap with QPR, Burnley and Leicester.  Keep fighting and believing Villa, we can definitely do this.