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Newcastle United 1 - 1 Aston Villa - 02/09/12 - post-match reaction from page 39


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Pardew will get his wish of Ba and Cisse playing poorly for Senegal... they are playing fucking turd for us so it won't be a surprise! - They will come good but it's so strange to see them both playing like they have never met. Both going for same balls and both fairly poor when on the ball.

 

Our lack of ability from full back and winger to stick a decent cross in is killing us as well, regardless of how hard they work or what space they create.

 

Pretty turd game to watch, glad a moment of Ben Arfa magic saved us from a defeat. Always got to pick up points at home but against a Villa side, you'd hope to get see your team get all three. Just feel with the players we have that we should have done better today.

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If there is a single positive, it would be that this result will hopefully lower some of the fans expectations a bit.

tbh we have high expectations due to last season pity the board or manager dont want to build on it
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Actually a fantastic result considering how we played for the majority. Can't remember us ever being so utterly wasteful on set pieces and in crossing positions. Ridiculously bad.

 

I hope that gives the players a massive kick up the arse, because we're nowhere near as good as we clearly think we are at present.

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Thank fuck we got away with a point from that. We are fucking diabolical, man. That was absolutely atrocious stuff. Our luck with those sort of performances will run out pretty soon.

 

We just seemed to be so overrun in midfield, Villa always had an extra man- it was like that against Spurs and Chelsea, too.

 

Our passing (or lack of it) is painful, horrendous. I'm not knee-jerking here but it was the same against Spurs and it seriously hindered us last season. We have technically brilliant players in our team, plus two of the best strikers in the league- with the ball at their feet- yet we just persist in launching it aimlessly up to our front men and give possession away time after time after time. Not good.

 

Ah well, early doors yet.

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Pardew will get his wish of Ba and Cisse playing poorly for Senegal... they are playing f***ing turd for us so it won't be a surprise! - They will come good but it's so strange to see them both playing like they have never met. Both going for same balls and both fairly poor when on the ball.

 

Our lack of ability from full back and winger to stick a decent cross in is killing us as well, regardless of how hard they work or what space they create.

 

Pretty turd game to watch, glad a moment of Ben Arfa magic saved us from a defeat. Always got to pick up points at home but against a Villa side, you'd hope to get see your team get all three. Just feel with the players we have that we should have done better today.

 

from what i seen of them both at ACON last they were appalling, they both started in a 4-4-2

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The 4-3-3 argument has been done to death but I'm really not sure how anyone can dispute its necessity. It's easy saying "it's not that simple blah blah blah" but once again we looked a lot better once we made the switch. 

 

We're setting up to not lose games then switching to 4-3-3 as a response if and when it goes tits up. That mentality's not acceptable to me with the players we have, especially at home.

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Thank f*** we got away with a point from that. We are f***ing diabolical, man. That was absolutely atrocious stuff. Our luck with those sort of performances will run out pretty soon.

 

We just seemed to be so overrun in midfield, Villa always had an extra man- it was like that against Spurs and Chelsea, too.

 

Our passing (or lack of it) is painful, horrendous. I'm not knee-jerking here but it was the same against Spurs and it seriously hindered us last season. We have technically brilliant players in our team, plus two of the best strikers in the league- with the ball at their feet- yet we just persist in launching it aimlessly up to our front men and give possession away time after time after time. Not good.

 

Ah well, early doors yet.

 

Exactly. It isn´t like we have had a whole pre-season to work with, or the previous season. so we just have to stay calm.

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Two poor teams, one great goal, rubbish match. With the exception of Bigirimana, Anita (once he had gone to fullback) and Ben Arfa - but only in flashes - we look like we're still in preseason, everyone else is woefully off the pace. Other than Ba's goal, him and Cisse have contributed the some total of jack shit so far this season and the rest of our so-called better players are equally bad as well, Cabaye was shit today. Villa are a shit team and we're playing like a shit team.

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Whilst he's a good striker, Demba Ba represents a problem.

 

I think the 433 might have got an airing if Ba had been prepared to play wide instead of sulking. As soon as he started making noises about it not being his favourite position, we should have perhaps looked at a more flexible attacker to compliment Cisse because whilst they are great induviduals, the two Dembas are a bloody awful partnership. You would never guess they played for the same national team.

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1 point against that shite just isn't on.  made it way too easy for them.  can't wait to hear pard's excuses. 

 

Bad points:

Ba/Cisse shouldn't be on the same pitch if we're playing 4-4-2. 

The real Cabaye showed up on the 95 minute. 

Would have liked to have seen Obertan have another 5 mins running at their left back but that's what happens when you make subs so fucking late.

Losing our '1st choice' right back

Not one corner/set piece worked

5 games played so far this season and can't say we've played particularly well for any length of time.

 

Good points:

Thought Brigi and Anita had decent games

 

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All sides have off days, but let's be honest Spurs were the better side and we could have easily lost that game.  We were ok second half against Chelsea, but poor first half and today apart for about 10 minutes after we scored we were pathetic.

 

1) Krul stop fucking lumping it all the time, try playing the ball out from the back for a change!

2) Cabaye your playing in the centre, stop chasing down lost causes all over the place causing us to lose shape and get overan in the middle.

3) Cisse, put some effort in!  He doesn't look bothered at the moment and why did we let Best and Lovenkrands go and not bring in any other striker??  Ok, so Lovenkrands didn't play much but at least he was an option.  And if Best was still here, he'd be starting for me for definate next week.  We all know Shola is injury prone and we are clearly short of options if Ba and Cisse are off form.

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