Newcastle v Villa Post Match Thread

[martyn ellis]

Just the sort of ugly game you tend to get with a struggling team managing the game in their own ugly but effective way, with the opposition (us) simply incapable of creating any flow. I'm convinced Wednesday's efforts had something to do with that; both Coutinho and Buendia very ineffective, Ramsey not able to boss the game as he did the other night; Chambers suffering from big-game nerves with some wayward passing. Rotten luck on their free kick and also on our over-ruled goal but basically got what we deserved.

[Brazilian Villain]

Disappointing.

[ez]

We were robbed.

[Brend'Watkins]

McGinn and especially Luiz very poor. Luiz needs a boot up the arse. His decision making at times is bewildering.Newcastle are on a high but are a really poor side.

[Nunkin1965]

Changes need to be made now.
There are enough midfield options and Ings gets a start for me just to change it.
The last 15 minutes were just a pathetic mess.
Stupid yellow cards from a team that lost discipline and had no clue.
Awful.

[wolfman999]

We really are the saviours for any crap team desperate for points. Watford will come next week fully believing they have a chance of completing the double over us. Every game, you never know what team will turn up and unless we can get some consistency, we will never achieve anything.

[ChicagoLion]

The intensity has gone, players seemingly too happy to make mistake after mistake. The body language was awful from players and manager.
Absolute shit show and a fucking embarrassment.

[PaulWinch again]

Not good enough. Our midfield is a problem.

[Nelly]

As bad anything Bruce served up.

[PaulTheVillan]

Embarrassing.

[Villan82]

They can all fuck off. I am sick of the sight of them. Bottlers.

We are going fucking nowhere because we recruit too many players who don't have any bottle for a scrap.  11 years and counting since Aston Villa, one of England's most successful clubs, managed a top half finish.

Not good enough.

[Stu]

No player ratings required…

That’s a blow.

[bilsim]

I expected us to lose today but that was another level of patience testing wank. No positives, no glimmers of hope. Just utter garbage from start to finish.

[steamer]

Dreadful , absolutely no idea what our game plan was
No structure, no system , clueless
Did we ever look like scoring , apart from the VAR story
The commentator said when SJM was hoiked , you could have taken anyone off, they were all that bad

[LukeJames]

I know the word shit gets thrown around in a hyperbolic way quite alot on forums but in this case its very apt.

We haven't forced there keeper into one single save all game.

It seems Gerrard has one system and one system only, all changes will be like for like to fit that one system.

They wont have an easier win all season, we couldn't have been more accomadating to them. Started slowly, gifted them a goal then proceeded to slow the game down at will which allowed them to get back into shape. Then when we shouldve been frantically at them in the last 15 minutes we gave away an insane of amount of stupid free kicks.

If Gerrard is to stick with this system, and boy does it look like he will, then you cant have a lone striker that cant hold the ball up. Literally everything came straight back at us as soon as we passed/hoofed it up to Watkins and due to this we couldnt get Coutinho/Ramsey/Buendia far enough up the putch to hurt them. Davis would be a much better fit to this system than Watkins or Ings.