Disappointment today after conceding West Brom winner
Here are the video highlights and West Brom’s winning goal today at The Hawthorns that plunged Newcastle deeper into relegation trouble.
We are now 5 points worse off than we were in our relegation season after 19 games played.
171 comments so far
Blackley and Brownlie
Dec 29, 2015 at 12:29 AM
Comment #161Charnley and Carr can’t even bolt a horse to a cart. This pair are like a rabbit in headlights. Bleedin Stan and Ollie. Rank incompetents. Their record over the last 12 months is disastrous. And Ashley is going to give them more money? He needs to get his bumps felt.
manxpie
Dec 29, 2015 at 12:54 AM
Comment #162Lilo sorry to make it clear i meant mcclaren is exempt from blame for recruitment and how the club has been run but still gets all the blame I’ve said it before there’s pprobably no managers that would do much better with this squad and Ashley chat when ya next on
Blofal
Dec 29, 2015 at 4:05 AM
Comment #163Our defence has been the subject of criticism for a while.. but all along what has been understated is our midfield not being up to scratch and being able to protect our defenders. That is coming home to roost now.
Even the lowest teams in the league are not afraid of attacking us because we offer very little threat if they over commit.
Blofal
Dec 29, 2015 at 4:21 AM
Comment #164If we had a half decent threat going forward we wouldn’t be getting pinned in our own half 90% of every game. Team would be sitting off us and showing us respect.
At the moment teams just easily press us until we give up the ball then walk it down and have a shot. Our back 4 today were brilliant and blocked so many shots I lost count.
Coloccini was right in his post match interview when he said “…you cannot defend for 95 minutes, the opposition are always going to have a chance that way.”
And it’s our midfield that is the problem. Our midfield can’t setup or break down an attack.
Anita and Colback pester opponents but rarely win the ball back and do not setup attacks.
Sissoko goes missing in the midfield and has thus become a winger.
Wijnaldum is a number 10 or RAM but is currently stuck out on the left doing mainly defensive work.
De Jong is a number 10 / second striker and out of form due to lack of matches and premier league experience.
Gouffran was bought as a winger/striker and is/was a grafter at best.
Tiote hasn’t been the same since he got injured and is a shadow of his former self.
We need a complete rebuild of our midfield. So many things wrong with our club but if you want to concede less goals and score more goals it starts with the midfield.
If I was McClaren I would go 5-4-1. At least that was Lascelles can get some experience in a back 3. There is no point in having 2 strikers up top if they rarely get the ball.
The overrated Frenchman
Dec 29, 2015 at 4:53 AM
Comment #165Roosta, B&B, Blofal – agree with all of that. Basically nobody in a position of power at the club who is capable at this level. We’ll be shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic for the rest of the season till we sink into the Championship. The only glimmer of pleasure I can see ahead as a Newcastle fan is to rejoice in the financial pain that relegation will cause Ashley. Sad, pathetic, but true. Howay the lads.
ilovetoon8788
Dec 29, 2015 at 4:53 AM
Comment #166We can go on and talk about things on hindsight, unlucky here unlucky there. Today it was a great defensive game as usual. As colo put it, we can be defending all game. This counter attacking mclaren tactic is utter thrash.
Our counters barely work, but we are pinned in our half almost every game. We don’t have a clue on how to attack and we can’t put away the minimal chances we create anyway.
THIS squad, unless a drastic change is made in January, is going down to championship and we won’t come back up for a long time. For a very long time we have been the worse team in the league by miles and are so lucky to have not been relegated.
I say this is the season we finally deserve what we have been sowing. Relegation.
ilovetoon8788
Dec 29, 2015 at 4:56 AM
Comment #167@blofal
Agree with u. West Bromwich, who average one of the worst possession in the league can outplay our midfield. Colback is like James perch. A very good utility player, a back up. Him starting in our midfield says it all really.
Our entire midfield is completely rubbish with sissoko and Gini wide players which is not their position.
The overrated Frenchman
Dec 29, 2015 at 5:46 AM
Comment #168McClaren is in the “denial” phase of his tenure, which signals the end usually. “It’s not that we are not good enough, or trying hard enough, we just can’t get a break. We’ll get there, we just need a bit more time.” Well guess what Steve, time’s up. No more soup for you . Next!!!
Lilongwe Geordie
Dec 29, 2015 at 6:43 AM
Comment #169Overrated,
But who replaces him? What faith can we have that anyone at the club will make a good and positive decision? So far during Ashley’s tenure we have had Keegan – while relationships were good, then Kinnear, Shearer, Hughton, Pardew and now McClaren.
Keegan was one for the fans, Kinnear was a bloke he knew from the pub, Shearer was completely ill equipped to manage, Hughton fell into the job because they failed to appoint anyone else, Pardew was a sacked League 1 manager, and McClaren was a sacked Championship manager.
Based on that record can we have any confidence in them bringing a good manager in? Can we have any confidence in a good manager wanting to join anyway?
McClaren needs to wakeup and try to change things. He talks of consistency consistently. We are consistently outplayed, teams consistently create more against us, shoot more, have more possession etc.
Ron Knee
Dec 29, 2015 at 6:51 AM
Comment #170Lilongwe
I think you’ve answered your own questions! McClaren’s job is quite safe – for as long as he wants it.
On past form we should have no confidence that they’ll appoint a good manager. So it’s going to be up to McClaren to find a way to get the best out of his dysfunctional squad.
The overrated Frenchman
Dec 29, 2015 at 7:00 AM
Comment #171Don’t know who replaces him if I’m honest, but something needs to change to even give us a chance of staying up. Too late to make significant changes to the squad at this stage of the season. OK, maybe we’ll sign a couple of players in January, but they will have to be world-beaters to change this mess around. With us sat firmly in the relegation zone and likely to stay there it must be time to roll the dice. You have to make your own luck sometimes.