Beat Ipswich and it'll be looking OK, but not counting my chickens after seeing that with Brighton and arsenal away still to come.
I'm not saying we were great, but I maintain the two yellows had a huge impact on the game and perhaps the changes needed to come earlier into the 2nd half.. Moving Barnes out right wasn't the answer but its all just how I saw the game.
Every team in the league has played 33 games so far this season yet this ref has only managed to get 12 middles this season says it all really if he was any good he would have done a lot more he has reffed us 3 times, 25% of his games we always seem to get the ****e of officials more than others Referee: Jarred Gillett ****E ALL GAME edit :- they're all ****e
Yeah maybe. I think we were simply outplayed today. The poor refereeing early on fed into that a bit, but overall we just weren't at the level we can be and needed to be. The cards certainly would have impacted, but I think we were losing today regardless, due to performance levels.
Yeah we got our wings clipped. It's going to be tough but we've got a chance. 3 wins will probably be enough.
He’s a continually awful ref. That said we were utterly predictable, you can get away with basic tactics and positive mentality against **** like palace and Manure, but Emery is different gravy. Typical Newcastle - if we win, UCL is almost guaranteed. Lose, and it’s a huge fight yet again, one we typically lose.
Oh and a special shout out for the management team for bringing on the ****ing useless, worthless, pointless **** that is Callum Wilson. I am ****ing tired to ****ing death of seeing this **** get minutes, what the **** is Howe and Tindalls point here? For all the good the management have done, the Wilson debacle is ****ing disgusting.
It was always going to be a difficult game, so the last thing they needed was the ref giving them absolutely **** all, but perhaps swapping full back for 5 or 10 might have been worth a look or park the bus rather than get rolled over. I don't want to be too critical because things are going very well, but there's definitely never any chance of any proactive changes taking place on days like today. Beat Ipswich and we might be ok... I dunno it's so tight and we have the hardest run in.
We'll get nothing at Brighton or at Arsenal, so it's about winning the 3 home games I think. Personally I don't think we're going to make top 5, but we won something anyway.
We can win against both if we play well. We've beaten Arsenal three times already this season, without conceding a goal, so no call for defeatism.
Although he scored against Palace, Isak’s form is quite worrying lately. Seems to have misplaced his “ooomph”.
He going through a poorer patch of form. Nice that his poor patch has still yielded an excellent assist vs Man Utd and a very good goal against Crystal Palace.
