Newcastle United v AFC Bournemouth - QEII Sombre Edition

[Dr Gloom 21912]

We’ve just put wood on. Get the fucking ball in the box

[Gemmill 44805]

We look so pedestrian up front. We'll be a completely different prospect with Wilson and Maxi back in the side, but we're an absolute parcel at the minute going forward. 

[Gemmill 44805]

That cross from Willock man. 

[Gemmill 44805]

That'll be that. 

[aimaad22 4156]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

That cross from Willock man. 

 

The Nufc class midfielder. Works hard. Does fack all

[OTF 7295]

That's frustrating, but at least we've only got ourselves to blame.

[Howay 12496]

Very poor performance.

 

A lot of the players I always said weren’t good enough that performed well last season when teams were open against us last season are massively struggling now teams are sitting deeper against us. Almiron and Willock break down all of our attacks tbh. 
 

Another shit game by Targett as well. 

Edited September 17, 2022 by Howay

[Gemmill 44805]

A handful of boos. 

[Holden McGroin 6581]

sounded like boos at end. Come on man. FFS.

[Chaser 1207]

Difficult to break down a team which just sits on the edge of their box. That said, we're not making it difficult enough for them to defend against. I don't think we have enough quality to take sides apart when they do this. 

 

[aimaad22 4156]

That was rubbish. 

[Ginolaandtonic 169]

FFS can’t even beat Bournemouth at home. 🤦🏻‍♂️ 

[Chaser 1207]

Boos from the Johnny come latelys who have just bought a ticket this season proclaiming that they were always NUFC fans. 

[aimaad22 4156]

1 minute ago, Howay said:

Very poor performance.

 

A lot of the players I always said weren’t good enough that performed well last season when teams were open against us last season are massively struggling now teams are sitting deeper against us. Almiron and Willock break down all of our attacks tbh. 

 

We have half a dozen championship standard players, at best. Failed to upgrade them. Have no one else to blame. We'll be a different team with Maxi and Wilson back yet we know we cant always count on them be it due to fitness or form in Maxi's case.

 

Work in progress etc etc. But still a very frustrating day, as poor a performance as we've had under Howe. 

[Polarboy 2311]

We're never going to be a consistently good side until we have better than Championship quality on the bench. Especially so when we have a couple of injuries to our best players. Even if we replace Almiron we'll still need better than him coming off the bench. It's going to be a pretty slow process unfortunately. 

[PaddockLad 17242]

At the moment it’s 200 mill to draw games we’d have probably lost last season 😳

[Rayvin 5217]

Disconnect in final third, it's not news, it remains our primary issue. Sort it in January hopefully.

 

Disappointing result but at least it's not a shock loss.

[Howay 12496]

Mustoe and Tim Howard saying that wasn’t a pen  apparently it wasn’t a clear error from the ref, erm aside from the fact he completely missed the player hitting the ball with his hand. He clearly moved his hand and blocked the ball for fucks sake. Tim Howard is one of the thickest pundits going btw, up there with Agbonlahor. 

[Dr Gloom 21912]

Disappointing start to the season. we’ve been unlucky with injuries to key players and with referee decisions but I’m going to be critical of Howe for the first time. I like the high pressing style he’s trying to implement but he doesn’t have a plan b. Or if he does have one, we only see it when the game is already gone. It was obvious how things were going on the hour mark but he isn’t bold enough to change the system and go two up front.
 

We needed a plan b today without Wilson and ASM. We lacked the creativity to break down a stubborn Bournemouth side. It’s not Howe’s fault that we didn’t get the extra winger and midfielder to improve our squad depth but having another way of playing is something he can control. 

[aimaad22 4156]

1 minute ago, Rayvin said:

Disconnect in final third, it's not news, it remains our primary issue. Sort it in January hopefully.

 

People will know how desperately we need to upgrade so the problem of inflated prices wont go away. Unless we change our transfer policy I don't see a wildly successful Jan window. We may end up taking a bet on European prospects than the likes of Maddisson. 

[wykikitoon 20113]

Just hope the boo boys don't start calling for Howe's head FFS.

We look miles better and a whole lot better now with him at the helm.  Yes it's frustrating, especially the draws but at the end of the day the squad was wank and it's gonna take time.

[toonotl 2977]

Turgid. That constitutes the first truly bad result so far this season. You can tell by the few mackems showing up to comment.

 

Gotta agree that Wood needed to be on the field way earlier. The gameplan lacked for imagination and aggression.

 

I get Howe's idea is to simply win with Plan A. But we're not there yet. We have a squad comprised or at least a half dozen Championship players. And sometimes we need to go to Plan B to get our best 11 on the pitch and avoid using the likes of Murphy or Fraser or Almiron and hoping they'll do something other than be bang average.

 

Everyone except Trippier and Bruno was poor in attack today. That speaks to a gameplan that just didn't work because it's not as though Bournemouth played well. We were just shit.

 

Let's hope we get ASM and Wilson back next match because we need them and Howe needs them if we're going to finish around that 8th spot this season.

 

 

Edited September 17, 2022 by toonotl

[Craig 6682]

It was an abject performance today. The likes of Targett, Schar, Willock & Miggy weren't up to the standard we've come to expect from them. Isak looked isolated. The absence of delivery to the front man is something we urgently need to address. 

On a positive note, we didn't lose. That's the sort of game under Bruce that we'd have gone behind and caved in.

[Craig 6682]

3 minutes ago, Howay said:

Mustoe and Tim Howard saying that wasn’t a pen  apparently it wasn’t a clear error from the ref, erm aside from the fact he completely missed the player hitting the ball with his hand. He clearly moved his hand and blocked the ball for fucks sake. Tim Howard is one of the thickest pundits going btw, up there with Agbonlahor. 

 

Hand was in an unnatural position. Clear cut penalty.

[Rayvin 5217]

3 minutes ago, aimaad22 said:

 

People will know how desperately we need to upgrade so the problem of inflated prices wont go away. Unless we change our transfer policy I don't see a wildly successful Jan window. We may end up taking a bet on European prospects than the likes of Maddisson. 

 

Might get him on the cheap though since Leicester are doing poorly and he was apparently keen on the move in the summer. You never know..