Newcastle United 1 - 2 Reading - 19/01/13 - post-disaster reaction from page 53

[High Five o]

Starting Ameobi at the wing should result in instasack.

My brain can just not comprehend what Pardew was thinking, its just so unbelievably stupid.

 

That was kind of the last straw for me, i have given him the benefit of the doubt several times, yesterday i had enough.

 

[Smal]

We started Shola Ameobi against Ian Harte. He played the 90mins.

 

Hard to fathom.

 

I think we could've played someone from the reserves there and they'd have had more of an effect than Shola did.

[henke]

We started Shola Ameobi against Ian Harte.

 

Hard to fathom.

 

I said pretty much that at five past three yesterday. Shola was hopeless on the right when Souness shoe horned him in there, and now he's 8 years older / slower. Clueless doesn't even come close.

[Wullie]

.com:

 

In time to come, we may look back on this match as something of a watershed moment in the SJP career of Pardew, who received - and acknowledged - strong support from the crowd in the first hour of the game.

 

However, reserves of patience with him and his failing side began to run out when they were still 1-0 ahead when Marveaux was replaced by James Perch - an apparent admission that after the team showed no signs of grabbing a second goal, we were shutting up shop.

 

Inevitably, that brought the first round of booing - general frustration at our negativity/complacency, in the face of what was by then a genuine Royals revival.

 

Cabaye's departure was more understandable given his recent injury layoff (although he'd just put a bicycle kick wide and we don't play again for ten days), but prompted more booing and a chorus of "you don't know what you're doing." Why was Marveaux sacrificed first though?

 

The manager's post-match comments seemed to suggest that the withdrawal of Cabaye was the source of the discontent, but the waiting figure of Gael Bigirimana was hardly cause for optimism that we'd look for a winner.

 

Seeing their chances of what would have been only a third win in fourteen Premier League games evaporating before their eyes when Reading scored again, many left their seats while those who remained booed the side off at full time.

 

While hardly helpful, that's a completely understandable reaction to what was presented to them in return for their time, money and perseverance in making it here n the first place - telling fans who travelled from far and wide despite the conditions to see this tripe to keep their opinions to themselves is a very dangerous policy.

 

Quite what the owner made of it all from his seat in the Directors Box remains to be seen, but whatever brave face the manager puts on it, the team lost another game that he termed "must win" and as a result, will come increasingly to rely on the failings of others relegation rivals - none of whom share our current dreadful form.   

 

If history is to repeat itself, defeat at the hands of Reading and the consequent reaction of Newcastle fans proved to be the point of no return for Sam Allardyce here, when his negatively-minded side were deservedly beaten 1-2 at the Madejski in October 2007 - although he limped on for another dozen games after that. 

 

[NG32]

.com:

 

In time to come, we may look back on this match as something of a watershed moment in the SJP career of Pardew, who received - and acknowledged - strong support from the crowd in the first hour of the game.

 

However, reserves of patience with him and his failing side began to run out when they were still 1-0 ahead when Marveaux was replaced by James Perch - an apparent admission that after the team showed no signs of grabbing a second goal, we were shutting up shop.

 

Inevitably, that brought the first round of booing - general frustration at our negativity/complacency, in the face of what was by then a genuine Royals revival.

 

Cabaye's departure was more understandable given his recent injury layoff (although he'd just put a bicycle kick wide and we don't play again for ten days), but prompted more booing and a chorus of "you don't know what you're doing." Why was Marveaux sacrificed first though?

 

The manager's post-match comments seemed to suggest that the withdrawal of Cabaye was the source of the discontent, but the waiting figure of Gael Bigirimana was hardly cause for optimism that we'd look for a winner.

 

Seeing their chances of what would have been only a third win in fourteen Premier League games evaporating before their eyes when Reading scored again, many left their seats while those who remained booed the side off at full time.

 

While hardly helpful, that's a completely understandable reaction to what was presented to them in return for their time, money and perseverance in making it here n the first place - telling fans who travelled from far and wide despite the conditions to see this tripe to keep their opinions to themselves is a very dangerous policy.

 

Quite what the owner made of it all from his seat in the Directors Box remains to be seen, but whatever brave face the manager puts on it, the team lost another game that he termed "must win" and as a result, will come increasingly to rely on the failings of others relegation rivals - none of whom share our current dreadful form.   

 

If history is to repeat itself, defeat at the hands of Reading and the consequent reaction of Newcastle fans proved to be the point of no return for Sam Allardyce here, when his negatively-minded side were deservedly beaten 1-2 at the Madejski in October 2007 - although he limped on for another dozen games after that. 

 

 

[kevin doyle]

"When you're down at the bottom sometimes things don't go your way..."

When he's done here I actually see Pardew ending up as one of the talking heads on MOTD or Sky, he's already spouting all their usual clichés. His chatter is indicative of him as a manager. A total lack of footballing ideas.

Not after the"touch of a rapist"comment on MOTD2

[Wullie]

He was on MOTD 2 last season.

[Pata]

Watched the game at night and didn't bother reading anything here after it. We dominated the first half and Anita-Cabaye-Marveaux looked superb. Fast forward to 90th minute and we're chasing the game with Shola, Jonas, Bigi, Perch and Obertan on the pitch. I can understand that Cabaye wasn't ready for full 90 minutes but that makes the Marveaux sub criminal. I wasn't even mad, just shocked that how can this happen again after the first half performance.

 

This loss is totally on Pardew and this is the first time I've thought about sacking him. I've been thinking that we shouldn't sack him as there is no quality replacement available mid season but he was f***ing clueless yesterday.

[Ashley17]

"When you're down at the bottom sometimes things don't go your way..."

When he's done here I actually see Pardew ending up as one of the talking heads on MOTD or Sky, he's already spouting all their usual clichés. His chatter is indicative of him as a manager. A total lack of footballing ideas.

Not after the"touch of a rapist"comment on MOTD2

 

That isn't what he said. There was a bad tackle and he said "he's absolutely raped (raked?) him."

[ScottishMagpie]

I thought I'd sleep on that performance before coming in and making sweeping judgements or making knee jerk comments, but if anything I'm more frustrated now I've had time to think about it.

 

For a start Reading hadn't won away from home all season, they're hardly going to come here going all gung-ho playing attacking football.  Their game plan would more than likely be to get as many behind the ball and try and nick a goal on the break.  As the club have staff that watch our opponents previous games and work on strategy its something that you'd expect them to pick up on and set the team up to counter these tactics, which leads me to our team selection.....

 

For a team thats going to get men behind the ball you need to make the pitch as wide as possible and take opponents into positions that break with their plan, creating space to exploit; our "wingers" were Jonas and Shola.  Neither are capable of doing anything from wide areas that can endanger the opposition.  In the last 5 minutes when we went for the equaliser it was no coincidence that the chances came about when the likes of Debuchy, Santon and Obertan hit the by-line and tried getting balls into the box.  For all his faults Obertan has pace and a trick which against teams like Reading he could use to good effect, counter this with Shola who will amble around, give a free kicks away when he loses the ball and then just runs into someone and his trademark attempted shot that flies wide to which his response is to stand on the spot for an age, staring at the sky with a big grin.  Cisse seems to be suffering through a lack of defined role.  He had a couple of good chances which were promising but at times I wasnt sure if we were using him as a a target man, was he meant to be playing on the shoulder or dropping deep? It doesnt look like he has a defined role, or if he does he's having to do all of the extra work because the team is not setup or has the personell to get the best of him in the role he plays.

 

Our distribution not only from goal kicks but free kicks inside our half is dreadful.  The number of times I sat there and each defender ran up the pitch in preparation for a Krul hoof was excruciating.  All it takes is for one of the full backs to drop off and then you can start again.  I can garuntee that Reading would be overjoyed if all they had to deal with were long balls from Krul.  If we played it short from the back it would mean the opposition have to come up the pitch to close the ball down which then leads to more space elsewhere and it's no coincidence that the times we done this in the first half we created chances and looked a decent team.  As I fan I don't get paid to watch our games and assess our strengths or where we go wrong but I've watched the majority of our games this season, be it on TV or at the ground and I can see that the distribution from the back isnt good enough, it just invites pressure back onto us.  If there's an arial battle in midfield the likes of Cabaye and Anita aren't going to win and it's no fault of their own.  When Debuchy arrived Pardew said he hoped that would improve our distribution from defence as he noticed that was a weak point, but where has the progress been on this?  We've had a full week to prepare for the Norwich and Reading games and I havent seen any change.  If we cant, or are not willing to do this against two teams in similar form to ourselves when are we going to start doing this?

 

As mentioned the substitutes were baffling, as much as I can accept Cabaye was injured the other changes sacraficed the shape of the team as well as causing a negative reaction from the fans.  We ended the match with a midfield of Jonas, Perch, Bigi, Obertan, Cisse/Ameobi (swapping on the right).  I'd be surprised if any of those regularly play together in such a formation in training and I doubt any had any instruction of what role they were playing other than "keep it tight" or "get stuck in and disrupt them".  I found it to be poor management to throw Bigi on when he did as the crowd were agitated and for a 19/20 year old it's not going to help him being thrown in and expected to make a difference. 

 

I just don't know what Pardew and the rest of the backroom staff see as we seem to be making the same mistakes every week which is inexcusable.  The excuses are running out, we havent had midweek Europa games recently, players are coming back from injury and we've had an "easy" run of fixtures.  What are the next excuses? "Missing the spark HBA gives us" didnt Pards say something along the lines of "we're not a one man team" during the summer? I'm fed up.

 

Cracking post!

[David Icke - Son of God]

"When you're down at the bottom sometimes things don't go your way..."

When he's done here I actually see Pardew ending up as one of the talking heads on MOTD or Sky, he's already spouting all their usual clichés. His chatter is indicative of him as a manager. A total lack of footballing ideas.

Not after the"touch of a rapist"comment on MOTD2

 

That isn't what he said. There was a bad tackle and he said "he's absolutely raped (raked?) him."

 

Essien disposed someone in a rather comical fashion and Pardew shouted "HE'S ABSOLUTELY RAPED HIM!"

[Sean]

Decided not to bother watching this, was in ASDA yesterday with the girlfriend when the scores were coming through on the TV's for sale, wasn't even slightly surprised to see we lost, just fucking gutted. Been telling anyone who'll listen for weeks to put money on us going down.

[S.S.R.]

I'm repeating myself, but rape doesn't always mean a sexual assault. But people are generally divvies.

 

"Reading beat Newcastle..." OH NOES THEY'VE BEEN STRUCK VIOLENTLY!