Why are we **** in injury time? We seem to **** the bed all the time, even last week against Bournemouth we nearly bottled it. It's always the opposition scoring at the end rather than ourselves, it's been a thing for a while. Weak mentally.
There’s weakness everywhere at Newcastle. Small club mentality. Plucky underdogs. After spending £600m in three years.
Because we are poor at ball retention and so are knackered after 90 mins. We have had a difficult start but can recover but Howe needs to learn how to make subs that improve the situation. His subs always seem to make things worse.
It’s the subs and the mentality. We can’t defend leads very well. He goes all super defensive and as such it invites pressure.
This isn't anything new... It's been Howes Achilles heel since he came to the club.. It's OK saying that because he's been great overall, but it's going to keep happening, and it's going to be more of an issue because he now has more options before and during matches. I think we might be seeing the beginning of the end of his reign... We've spend huge amounts, he's had full control, and they've essentially backed him to the hilt. He's got plenty credit and rightly so, but I don't think everything is rosy anymore in the background... Gone next season maybe if this continues ?
He can still learn. He is either stubborn or badly advised. In every game we seem to get worse by a mile when he makes the changes. There isn’t one game where I think we have played well this season. Maybe Liverpool. Villa possible but couldn’t hit a barn door. The writing was on the wall against Villa when we battered them but couldn’t score.
Absolutely, but it's something I questioned for the last two years and it's whether or not Howe can manage a squad. Currently it's not going well, so people are pointing it out, but there's no better option than to keep Howe as long as he'll stay. Newcastle can't spend money to get out of this now anyway and we'll probably only end up like West ham who definitely shouldn't have chased out Moyes.
We let in a goal 6 minutes into injury time yesterday, the last time was a month ago and was 10 minutes into injury time vs Liverpool after nearly winning the game in injury time ourselves. The last time we let a goal in during injury time before that was January. We're generally good at closing games out in injury time when we're ahead, this thread is completely factually incorrect.
Only if you ignore every time it's happened and look at when it hasn’t. The injury time part is irrelevant. It's happened 2 games in 6... That's kinds big percentage... Not a sign of a side being good at closing out games mate.
