Newcastle United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[CorkVilla]

I was unfortunate enough to be at the game, in with home fans. I never want to see Newcastle ever again.

[PaulTheVillan]

Always hated this fixture.

Lets move on.

[passport1]

3-1, because their second and third shouldn't have stood but KSS have clearly bought the league.

I mean really, yes it's a reality check, yes they were better, but I feel like I'm being fucking gaslit here. Is nobody going to talk about how that offside wasn't given? Really? He was a whole leg offside! But you don't give decisions against the Crown Prince and you certainly don't talk about that.

Honestly, I hate it. The rich psycopaths who run everything else have now come for your hobbies, your loves, the things that give you meaning. And they've devoured them and left not a crumb.

Football is over. Fuck it, fuck everything.

I love this post. I’m not actually sure I agree it was the case today, but by God ain’t it the truth as a general comment on the world.

Bravo Monty, the best and most accurate post I have read. Puts into words all of my anger and frustration at the absolute state the world has got itself into and how spineless the institutions have been.

He should love the latest Paddy Power TV ad.

[ChicagoLion]

Now my sarcasm meter has returned to normal... the most worrying thing from the day is Tyrone Mings' injury. I doubt we would have been so chaotic at the back in the last half hour if he had still been on the pitch. His organisational skills are possibly mire important to the team than his defensive abilities.

we were not too clever before his injury.

[Billy Walker]

Credit to Newcastle, they looked up for it from the word go, capitalised on our huge injury misfortunes and deserved the win.  We all have to dig deep and stick together.

[Proposition Joe]

It was all there

Elite manager
Top coaching team
Off the field setup looking good
Good players brought in to complement a good squad that got us 7th
Very good pre-season

But on the badge is says "Aston Villa", so we get the shit we got today. All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

[PaulWinch again]

Credit to Newcastle, they looked up for it from the word go, capitalised on our huge injury misfortunes and deserved the win.  We all have to dig deep and stick together.

Caveated with - they’re only where they are due to being owned by a state with a abhorrent human rights record and pretty much anyone employed by them should be embarrassed.

[Olneythelonely]

Not surprised we lost there. We always do.

I am shocked at how badly it went, how wrong Emery got it and the lack of effort.

Hopefully an outlier come the end of the season.

[RamboandBruno]

That had disturbing undertones of Fulham away, the way the players gave up and folded.

Different context though. Gerard was on his last legs and the players and in particular the influential
Ones (Mings, Luiz et al) seemed to down tools. Today was a car crash for all sorts of reasons, but its not the same as players losing faith with the management.
Saying that i dont know what it was, shambolic 2nd half.

Optimism burst.,
But you know what, if i was Everton id be shitting it.

[brontebilly]

I'm struggling to think of a worse performance under Emery. So much was wrong.

Emery needs to take responsibility for that mess of a starting lineup and team shape. His faith in Leon Bailey, particularly away from home, is badly misplaced.

[kippaxvilla2]

All the villa stereotypes were out in force today.

An opening day mauling.
Hope turns to shit.
A major injury.
Wilson scoring.
Barnes scoring.

[pablo_picasso]

Newcastle were hungrier than we were.

They wanted it more than we did.

And the ref let them have it more then he did us.

They were allowed to leave a foot in.

They were allowed to push us off balance.

They were allowed to pull us off balance.

As soon as we entered their safe space, they tripped themselves over & the ref blew the whistle before they hit the deck.

Thats not why we lost, but it contributed to why we lost so badly.

How that second was allowed for the block on Cash, I will never know.

What the actual fuck is VAR useful for?

As for our players, they were all shit, except for a few bright spots from Diaby & Pau Torres.

My only hope about our defence parting like the red sea every time they attacked us is that Konsa & Torres haven't played much together, if at all & once they do, they will become stronger as a unit.

When Mings & Konsa first started playing together in Emerys system, they also conceded quite a few for a short while.

But as soon as they got used to it all, our defence became very tight.

So hopefully, Torres & Konsa/Carlos will be the same...

[Malandro]

That had disturbing undertones of Fulham away, the way the players gave up and folded.

Different context though. Gerard was on his last legs and the players and in particular the influential
Ones (Mings, Luiz et al) seemed to down tools. Today was a car crash for all sorts of reasons, but its not the same as players losing faith with the management.
Saying that i dont know what it was, shambolic 2nd half.

Optimism burst.,
But you know what, if i was Everton id be shitting it.

I was thinking that. It wouldn’t surprise me if we hit them for six.

[rougegorge]

Credit to Newcastle, they looked up for it from the word go, capitalised on our huge injury misfortunes and deserved the win.  We all have to dig deep and stick together.

Yes they definitely did. Psychologically, the injury to Mings won't have helped either.

In many ways, they did to us what we did to them in April

We were ok in the first half, and I never saw the capitulation of the 2nd half coming.

It became very ragged and I did something I would very rarely do and left early.

[PaulWinch again]

I’m going early with positivity - we’ll be above them within 3 games.