Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Goldie.7]

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.

No. I reckon Clark would do a better job there than all of them.

[Matt C]

Ayew starting to look rather useful. He needs some help though.

[andyh]

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

Incompetent is the perfect word.

It sums up Sanchez, and, for me Gana.

I have never seen midfielders give the ball away as much as those 2 or make such bad decisions, even in relatively easy situations.

They are both a liability.

[eric woolban woolban]

Short term a good point, long term absolutely terrible. Whatever way we look at the situation, we're doomed.
At least today I thought we showed a bit if fight.

[manic-road]

Poor from Garde. Needed to take game to Geordie's from the off.  The run continues, nearly half a season without a win.  Fuck you Villa and all involved.

Going at the Toon from the off would have played right into their hands, they prefer counter attacking.

[kippaxvilla2]

I really like Mr Ayew, just interviewed really well and won man of the match.

[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.

No. I reckon Clark would do a better job there than all of them.

we tried that allready and it did not work

[Exeter 77]

The confidence seemed to visibly come back into attacking players as soon as the equaliser went but the defence remained as brittle as ever.

[berneboy]

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.

I agree PW.

[Malandro]

... One point - worthless.

Errr, no it's worth one point, actually.

Ah ok.

[CT]

Sanchez was woeful, Gana wasn't much better.

Sinclair was just gutless. Another one to add to Gabby and Nzog.

[Goldie.7]

Sinclair coming off and clapping the bench like he just put in a real shift made me laugh.

[citizenDJ]

Listening to Ray Wilkins on the post match stuff and he really is struggling to give Ayew any credit. Quite funny.

[kippaxvilla2]

They need to start with the 11 they finished with on Boxing Day and do what they did in the 2nd half.  It is a fair point being made about Gestede in that they very rarely get enough into him to really play to his strengths.

[Billy Walker]

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.

I'm not sure those wet conditions would have suited Traore as the ball was getting held up by the waterlogged pitch.