Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Grande Pablo]

Did Sanchez ever pass to a Villa shirt?  Good point, needed 3.

[Deano's Mullet]

45 mins of good football no good in isolation in our situation but was pleasing to see us competing for once. Need to attack west ham though, especially with all their injuries

[TheWarlock]

As others have said a point just simply not enough noe buy 2nd half performance was encouraging, passing the ball around well in tough conditions and fighting for it for once, even Gestede looked useful.

We wont stay up but at least its a platform to build on to get some pride back points wise, Ayew was class today and a great goal to cap it off.

[Dave]

Not bad, but not enough to change anything.

[oldham_villa]

Yes, I'd have chanced Adama for Westwood. There was a lot of ground to be exploited on that right hand side.

Bit too safe for me from Monsieur Garde

[kippaxvilla2]

I actually enjoyed watching us in the 2nd half.  We really should have gone on and won it.  I think we are fecked but that gave me a bit of hope.

[pauliewalnuts]

A point.

This morning we had six of them. Now we have seven.

It isn't enough, but it is better than being stuck on six. And it may have an impact on confidence.

[jwarry]

I agree Veretout and Ayew are really coming good.  Rudy wasnt bad today either

[Brend'Watkins]

If Garde really wanted to win this game then Traore should have at least have got 20 minutes.  That Newcastle defense is every bit as bad as ours and was there for the taking.

[Legion]

Sanchez needs to wear a Colombia shirt under his Villa one.

[ChicagoLion]

I've normally defended Sanchez on here,
but that was a perfect 90 minutes of incompetent rubbish

How Garde can watch that and do nothing is mind blowing

The problem is the alternative is Westwood, I think the Richards in that role might be a decent if desperate shout.

[john e]

The conditions suited Gestede, his best 45 mins for us so far

[pauliewalnuts]

Yes, I'd have chanced Adama for Westwood. There was a lot of ground to be exploited on that right hand side.

Bit too safe for me from Monsieur Garde

I know what you mean, and I kind of agree, but at the same time, the only way we have a cat's chance in hell of improving for the long term is if we start to build a bit of confidence.

They'll feel more confident having got something from a tricky away fixture in awful weather. You're right, 3 points would have made the table look a bit better, but I don't know at this stage if the difference from those extra two points would have been worth risking the confidence shattering effect of coming away with nothing.

This way, we conceded, we raised our game, we took a point.

[brian green]

As SGT said you have to stop going backwards before you can go forwards.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Yes, I'd have chanced Adama for Westwood. There was a lot of ground to be exploited on that right hand side.

Bit too safe for me from Monsieur Garde

I know what you mean, and I kind of agree, but at the same time, the only way we have a cat's chance in hell of improving for the long term is if we start to build a bit of confidence.

They'll feel more confident having got something from a tricky away fixture in awful weather. You're right, 3 points would have made the table look a bit better, but I don't know at this stage if the difference from those extra two points would have been worth risking the confidence shattering effect of coming away with nothing.

This way, we conceded, we raised our game, we took a point.

Hmm good point about the confidence thing.