Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

I think we've won there twice. The Taylor game when Shearer was sent off and the Dyer/Bowyer game when they had 3 sent off.

[Chris Jameson]

Really enjoyed the second half, along with Veretout and Ayew I thought Okore had a good game and didn't think Gueye was anywhere as near as bad as others seem to think. No idea what Westwood or Sinclair contributed though.

Something I love about Ayew is he really looks like he cares and looks genuinely upset at the final whistle that once again we haven't won. Shame our club captain hasn't shown the same commitment.

[Deano's Mullet]

Lescott much better second half, he was poor in first

[four fornicholl]

I think we've won there twice. The Taylor game when Shearer was sent off and the Dyer/Bowyer game when they had 3 sent off.

yeah but im sick of this "premiership shite" weve beat em loads of fkn times

[onje_villa]

I really like M. Garde. He knows how weak we are and is, I believe, slowly building confidence. It may well be too late but he's the man for me and you never know ....

I agree, I think he's intelligent and he's slowly trying to turn things around.

I for one also do think it makes a difference how we play for the rest of this season, even if we go down. If we start to see the summer signings building confidence (I think we've already seen that with Ayew and Veretout who were both very good today) then at least we can see that the club has a future, we may drop a division but it doesn't mean we have to fade away and die.

Some really bright points in the second half, although sadly I have to agree with others on Sanchez, he was hopeless today. Ayew and Veretout played really well and as another poster pointed out, in other circumstances it's a pretty decent point.

[exigo]

I've missed the feeling that we could actually win a game. Today, the longer it went on, the more convinced I was that we could do it.
Let's hope we take that spirit into our next few games. It's where Leicester started their incredible run last season.

[Kingthing]

Can somebody turn the sprinklers on for the West Ham game?

[Kingthing]

we can not be relegated
we are aston villa

We can because we're shit.

[class-of-82]

For me
That 2nd half performance can only bode well for the future no way did we look relegation bound.
Sooner or later those moments are going to fall In our favour and we are going to take this to the wire
That fat lady ain't gonna sing just yet

Utv

[eric woolban woolban]

THREE CONSECUTIVE LEAGUE WINS IS NOW PARAMOUNT!

(Caps lock needed)

[The Charmer]

Certainly happier at full-time than I was at half-time.

Jordan Ayew is developing into an excellent striker and will be such an asset to the club if we're going to have any chance of turning this around. Fantastic goal - the cutting-in from the left on to his right foot is proving to be his signature move. To have any hope we've got to get at least one other striker playing with a similar level of commitment.

Unfortunately, the opposite is true of Sanchez.
I can't remember the last time I felt moved to shout at a player (pointless, I know) as often as I did with him this evening.
The slowness of thought, the dallying on the ball and all-round lack of urgency really screams-out that this is not the league for him. A shame because I think we all had high hopes.

Actually looking forward to Boxing Day.
Something tells me that our long-awaited second win lurks there and young Adama Traore will play a part.

[Marton]

THREE CONSECUTIVE LEAGUE WINS IS NOW PARAMOUNT!

(Caps lock needed)

Ehh...no...10 wins are now paramount. We take them in any bloody order....as long as we get them.

[FranzBiberkopf]

Must win game that we didn't win basically. Newcastle are as close to the top 7 as they are to us. That's how bad it is. And they are shite.

We're down.

[Tayls_7]

I enjoyed watching us today. We play decent football and regardless of our fate this season I feel the shoots of recovery are finally showing. I believe we have finally found a credible manager. I love his approach to the wasters at our club. Finally someone who realises you have to cut the cancer out before you can get well again. We might go down and I hate that but I don't think this is our death knell or anything like.

[Villa in Denmark]

For me
That 2nd half performance can only bode well for the future no way did we look relegation bound.
Sooner or later those moments are going to fall In our favour and we are going to take this to the wire
That fat lady ain't gonna sing just yet

Utv

That second half is the first time since Leicester that I've seen a team that looked like it gave a f##k and had half a clue what they were supposed to be doing.