Simply not good enough...

[Sheikh_of_Araby]

Rather than start a new thread, this one had the correct title for how i'm feeling.

I'm delighted that Rafa Benitez has taken over until the end of the season and it certainly gives us the best chance possible.

After watching the derby, it made me realise that Newcastle United simply don't have enough good players to stay up.

Defensive mistakes / frailties are being reduced but it's all come a bit too late.

The game at Norwich is now more important than the derby but I honestly think we'll lose.

Rafa is a supreme tactician but he is working with poor quality players and has nowhere near enough time to get his ideas across properly.

Mike Ashley has acted too late in employing Rafa and I think we all recognise that we face another Ashley-era relegation.

It seems he (and we) will never learn.

The first thing we need to do in summer is get rid of Graham Carr. His signings have got us into this predicament. Moussa Sissoko is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with Carr; a lazy, overpaid, overrated French mercenary that has ideas well above his station. If anything, Carr should be sacked for Cabella and Thauvin alone. That's nearly £30 million wasted. With proper scouting we could have had three, four or even 5 quality players with that money that would have improved us considerably. Absolute madness.

 

[Consett Mag]

Cabella proved inadequate in all areas of his game and I think Thauvin came before he was ready, though he wasn't given much chance when he was brought into a poor team for a few cameos.

Sometimes you need an experienced head, and Ashley / Charnley just don't rate that kind of player.

We're not a worse team than when we beat Liverpool or Bournemouth away. There's hope that we'll pull off a win at Norwich.

 

[Hugh Briss]

Cabella proved inadequate in all areas of his game and I think Thauvin came before he was ready, though he wasn't given much chance when he was brought into a poor team for a few cameos.

Sometimes you need an experienced head, and Ashley / Charnley just don't rate that kind of player.

We're not a worse team than when we beat Liverpool or Bournemouth away. There's hope that we'll pull off a win at Norwich.

Did you see the away game at Bournemouth?

To call it a 'smash and grab' does little justice to Bournemouth - they played us off the park!

 

[Joelinton's Right Foot]

Did you see the away game at Bournemouth?

To call it a 'smash and grab' does little justice to Bournemouth - they played us off the park!

Suspect he must have meant the Spurs game away where we actually looked ok. Bournemouth was atrocious - summed up by Perez getting the winning goal after one of his worst performances in a Newcastle shirt.

 

[Warmir Pouchov]

You know what I noticed on Sunday, how slow our team is. The regression from SAF calling Sir Bobby's team the quickest in the league to what we see now is startling. We struggle to create because we never really stretch teams. Perez is quick in thought but doesn't have explosive pace. Gini is pretty quick. After that I just don't see it. Townsend looks like he is carry a hammy to me. He is quicker than he is showing, but looks reluctant to open his legs. Perhaps he is playing because he feels he needs to help the cause? Its ok having a Shelvey or Mitrovic as long as you are surrounding them with genuine Dyer or Bellamy type pace to do their running.