Matt Ritchie (now playing for Portsmouth)

[Guest]

Used to always be the angriest man on the pitch pre-takeover. Just looks like he's loving life with getting a few minutes now.  

 

 

[54]

Howe praised (Along with Tripps and Lascelles) him in his post match for his leadership and for "setting the tone of the group".

[nemtizz]

Stealing a living.

[Newcastle Fan]

How the fuck was the decision to keep him as an option made? 

[WideopenMag]

Just now, Newcastle Fan said:

How the fuck was the decision to keep him as an option made? 

How's he even getting on the pitch? Hall or someone from the academy should be getting on ahead of him.

[Aiston]

Didn't play bad and his penalty was not that bad.

 

 

[Shak]

It was a better penalty than I expected him to take, to be honest.

[Ronaldo]

Fitting. 40 minutes of him with Hall - who can actually run and contribute - sitting doing nothing as per. Pathetic decision. We’re effectively down to 10 men with zero pace on the break all half.

[Guest reefatoon]

Hall must be turbo shit if he can’t get a game ahead of him like. Ritchie is absolutely finished as a footballer, offers the sum of fuck all. Looking forward to us getting players back where we don’t have to look to him as an option. This season has been utterly insane with injuries like, it’s crazy.

[Jordan]

No pace, offers nothing on the ball and can no longer strike a dead ball from 12 yards out. If he was a racehorse you’d be getting the shotgun out. Pisstake he’s getting minutes ahead of Hall. 

[Begbie]

I saw a granny with a walking chair going faster than he runs. He looks slower than John Barnes did for us.

[Amir_9]

I cannot recall a single contribution from him or even remember his name being called much

 

It is quite insane he is still here never mind playing games.

[Kid Icarus]

Crazy player to be scapegoating 

[Ronaldo]

At his very best he had no business being anywhere a team with our ambitions. To be getting minutes every game 7 years later is a disgrace. And yes, it does set a tone.

[Ronaldo]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Crazy player to be scapegoating 

No one is saying it’s his fault that he’s shit. Or that he was chiefly to blame. The decision to give him a full half of football is indefensible thought. He literally can’t contribute.

[Aiston]

1 minute ago, Ronaldo said:

No one is saying it’s his fault that he’s shit. Or that he was chiefly to blame. The decision to give him a full half of football is indefensible thought. He literally can’t contribute.

 

Contributed about as much as anyone else still.

[HaydnNUFC]

Like much of the promotion team should've been shipped out in 2018. Indictment on the previous regime but giving him an extension was odd.

 

Even more bizarre is the persistence of bringing him on with Hall sitting on the bench every week. Do not understand it at all.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by HaydnNUFC

[gbandit]

Nothing against Ritchie at all but seeing him come on is a dispiriting feeling 

[Kid Icarus]

5 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

No one is saying it’s his fault that he’s shit. Or that he was chiefly to blame. The decision to give him a full half of football is indefensible thought. He literally can’t contribute.

 

It's not that it's not his fault that he's shit, it's that he wasn't in any way uniquely shit, or even really shit at all. He did what he was supposed to do as part of our park the bus approach and had a fine pen well saved.

 

The approach, Trippier's mistake and pen miss, Wilson's shit forward play, and every forward player misplacing passes that should have broken their lines, all come way before any finger pointing at Ritchie.

 

It's clear that defensively Howe doesn't trust Hall yet, even as much as Ritchie. Why that is, who knows.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by Kid Icarus

[Jordan]

3 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Nothing against Ritchie at all but seeing him come on is a dispiriting feeling 

Especially ahead of a £30m signing who rots on bench

[Mikky]

2 minutes ago, gbandit said:

Nothing against Ritchie at all but seeing him come on is a dispiriting feeling 

The fact he’s still here - can barely run AND gets in ahead of Hall who is supposedly our future is truly shocking 

 

Howe should never be bringing him on 

[Aiston]

5 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Like much of the promotion team should've been shipped out in 2018. Indictment on the previous regime but giving him an extension was odd.

 

Even more bizarre is the persistence of bringing him on with Hall sitting on the bench every week. Do not understand it at all.

 

 

 

 

Don't think it's odd. We cannot replace everyone of our squad players that leaves without it hurting our starting 11. He's an excellent influence in the squad as well, seems ideal to have someone like that.

 

We won't know about Hall...surely has to do with us not wanting him any more so trying not to hit the parameters of the deal that make it happen.

 

Ritchie wouldn't be near so many minutes if we didn't hit such an insane injury crisis either.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by Aiston

[HaydnNUFC]

8 minutes ago, Aiston said:

 

Don't think it's odd. We cannot replace everyone of our squad players that leaves without it hurting our starting 11. He's an excellent influence in the squad as well, seems ideal to have someone like that.

 

We won't know about Hall...surely has to do with us not wanting him any more so trying not to hit the parameters of the deal that make it happen.

 

Ritchie wouldn't be near so many minutes if we didn't hit such an insane injury crisis either.

 

 

 

[alexf]

Needs putting down. 

 

The decision to give him a new deal when it was suggested he's essentially backroom staff now was hard enough. 

 

But to see him getting substantial minutes this season in crucial games for us is too much. 

 

Without even mentioning Hall, there has to be someone in the academy that can atleast run who we should be promoting instead. What happened to that Diallo that was on the bench a few times?

 

We played with 10 men against Man U when he played there and I won't here any different. He got no where near a player or the ball in that game and it was the same thing tonight. 

 

To those saying he "did his job". Just rewatch the few minutes leading up to the goal again. Yes it's Trippiers fault ultimately. But Ritchie is no where near closing down the crosses from that side at any point. 

 

It reminds me of that famous Ali dia video where he is running around like a competition winner never getting close to  the ball or the opposition.  

[PauloGeordio]

11 minutes ago, alexf said:

Needs putting down. 

 

The decision to give him a new deal when it was suggested he's essentially backroom staff now was hard enough. 

 

But to see him getting substantial minutes this season in crucial games for us is too much. 

 

Without even mentioning Hall, there has to be someone in the academy that can atleast run who we should be promoting instead. What happened to that Diallo that was on the bench a few times?

 

We played with 10 men against Man U when he played there and I won't here any different. He got no where near a player or the ball in that game and it was the same thing tonight. 

 

To those saying he "did his job". Just rewatch the few minutes leading up to the goal again. Yes it's Trippiers fault ultimately. But Ritchie is no where near closing down the crosses from that side at any point. 

 

It reminds me of that famous Ali dia video where he is running around like a competition winner never getting close to  the ball or the opposition.  

Does a lot of pointing to imaginary farm animals too