Match Day Thread Toon v Spurs

They did sit back it was very evident... They did the same thing twice

 

If VAR didn't give us a soft pen we'd have lost. Take the point gratefully I guess.

Europe? Forget it... Every week it's becoming clearer...the sooner people accept it the sooner the club can resolve things.

 

Hang on Roy, you’re saying that if I and others just give up on a League position qualification for Europe, the club will somehow be freed of the shackles of my expectations and will finally be at liberty to do something they were fearful of doing up till now? Am I that much of a bad influence?!!

 

I don’t get depressed or angry about this … we’re in a transitional season. We’ve bought a duffer in Elanga for this year, might come good in time (a lot of time), might not. But Thiaw, Woltemade, our two young full backs, our midfield choices, our Barnes/Gordon riches… Miley looking ever-more at home, Wissa not going to Afcon… it’s not all bad news.

It’s football. Our progress will be evolutionary due to PSR, we’ve a very good man-manager. We’re where we can expect to be.

January and the summer will see more departures as players with relatively short working lives look to maximise their promotions, cups and earnings - other players will come in and we’ll love them even more… until we have to hate some of them.

Being NUFC is never easy. But it’s always worth it.

 

The defence just watched that Romeo overhead go in. Absolurely criminal

We cannot defend leads and you would think that the thick bastards would learn.

 

I get depressed and angry. I also get happy and ecstatic. We may be in transition but I dont see what we are transitioning to? What is our style we are going for?

 

It's our complete tactical naivety that irks me, we are telegraphing our moves to the other teams. There is not a team in Europe that won't have a detailed and perfectly accurate file on how Newcastle play week in and week out, there isn't a Premier League team that won't know exactly how we attack - every single ****ing time.

We are reliant on moments of individual skill and if it doesn't come, we don't score

Today our only goal in open play was a Woltemade flick and an impressive shot from Bruno. Apart from that we are abject and barely look a threat.

Dogscock will point at Everton, but I raise you that Everton have the exact same problem as us. They don't score enough, have a tactically poor manager and don't make enough changes in games to turn things around.

We just have a significantly better 11 so we spanked them.

We are absolutely midtable until this manager makes serious changes to our play, his recruitment policy and his insistence on individuals before the team.