Newcastle United 0-2 West Ham United (25/11/24)

[Superior Acuña]

Bit disappointed with the atmosphere too, even given my realistic expectations. I naively felt like with a night game and good feeling going in we'd be up for it, but felt flat before even kicked off. Obviously going down early's going to be a hit. But at 0-1 in first half I'd shout come on for an attack or corner whatever expecting to be part of a crowd surge and there'd just be a smattering across the stadium.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Superior Acuña

[plenum]

16 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

Wat

Hides, and when on the ball play it sideways or backwards. Seen it loads of games. 😨

[HaydnNUFC]

1 minute ago, Superior Acuña said:

Bit disappointed with the atmosphere too, even given my realistic expectations. I naively felt like with a night game and good feeling going in we'd be up for it, but felt flat before even kicked off. Obviously going down early's going to be a hit. But at 0-1 in first HT I'd shout come on for an attack or corner whatever expecting to be part of a crowd surge and there'd just be a smattering across the stadium.

 

Reminiscent of the Ashley days in the last 10. Early leavers, half empty ground, half arsed singing in the freezing cold and losing to an average-decent team after a tragic second half. How I've missed it. (I haven't)

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by HaydnNUFC

[Sima]

It’s weird how a load of people just fuck off downstairs when there is a significant break in play.  21 minutes tonight.

 

It’s like half the ground have got ADHD.

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Sima

[Dr Venkman]

We could have been 2-1 up at HT with a bit of luck and some better finishing. Thought we did enough to at least be level but it just wouldn’t drop for us. First 5 mins of the second half were promising. Both goals were piss poor on our part, just lack of fundamentals, really disappointing. The less said about the final half an hour, the better, it was desperate. Absolutely no idea what the plan was, and I don’t think the players knew either.

[Holloway]

On the tv it sounded like a decent attempt to lift the team from the crowd 

[Kilcline]

7 minutes ago, magorific said:

Pope should have saved the second goal.

Yeah, if he's set properly then he probably kicks it away with his right peg or just falls on it. If any one of 4 players before that does their job properly he doesn't have a save to make.

[Lush Vlad]

19 minutes ago, Pilko said:

 

Can see his point. We tend to really up it for the bigger sides and then play like a bunch of limp dicks against the rest of the league when we're favourites.

Same. Genuinely wouldn’t surprise me if we lost on Saturday and beat Liverpool after a great performance. 

[The College Dropout]

1 hour ago, bigfella said:

 

It wouldn't be Schar/Guehi though, Schar is finished, it'd be Botman/whoever.

It would for most of this season.  

[toontownman]

5 minutes ago, Dr Venkman said:

We could have been 2-1 up at HT with a bit of luck and some better finishing. Thought we did enough to at least be level but it just wouldn’t drop for us. First 5 mins of the second half were promising. Both goals were piss poor on our part, just lack of fundamentals, really disappointing. The less said about the final half an hour, the better, it was desperate. Absolutely no idea what the plan was, and I don’t think the players knew either.

 

How many times can we say this though? I mean I still think it's true hahaha. 

 

Poor finishing has costs us for nearly two years. Definitely the most frustrating game. First half we were the better team and should have been winning. Second half we had more chances but gave up a little. I'm going to have nightmares about the amount of time we turned and passed back to the defence. 

 

Just one of those days but another missed chance to get closer to where we want to be, instead looking like a team closer to missing out on Europe again.

[duo]

After the 1st goal we just lost our way. Could have played another 3hrs and we wouldn't have scored. Thought we missed Burn, Lewis kept heading the ball away giving possession to West Ham when he had time to take a touch. 

[hakka]

56 minutes ago, Hudson said:

Hard to call, the sheer fact that players like Murphy, Kelly and Almiron are any where near the squad along with all the other dross that fills the bench. Tells me he needs more reliable players and with that time. 

Then the Elephant in the room, Tonali sitting on the bench all the while Longstaff gets tackled and falls flat on his face for the 1000 time, all while look to the ref for a foul.

 

So fuck knows, but this squad is so unbalanced.
Maybe Isak or Bruno need to be sold. 

 

I was joking

 

But it's just a frustrating performance after a decent turn around. Sort of makes Arsenal win redundant losing to West Ham.

 

[Mazzy]

That's worse than the Fulham and Brighton loses for sure. All the good will, confidence and momentum form before the international break has been erased.

[duo]

30 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

Couldn't agree more and I really wish this was the first thing everyone would jump to on nights like this. It doesn't absolve anyone of an isolated poor performance, but the bigger picture is that this season looks every bit like the institutional anti-competitiveness finally striking. We were still riding a post-takeover wave even last season; this summer we were always going to need a boost, but it wasn't forthcoming. Criticise the Guehi chase if you like but there's no way we only sign Kelly/Osula if PSR isn't so stringent. 

I agree but West Ham have been shocking this season and yet we didn't have a shot on target.  The players on that pitch were good enough to win this game. But we could barely string a few passes together.  It was crying out for more balls over their back line- much like for Isaks off side goal but it just never came.

[Big Geordie]

27 minutes ago, Sima said:

It’s weird how a load of people just fuck off downstairs when there is a significant break in play.  21 minutes tonight.

 

It’s like half the ground have got ADHD.

 

 

 

 

Was the same 20-25 years ago. Nouts changed!

[Jonas]

52 minutes ago, Jonas said:

Relative to West Ham there's nothing in it

Just to add to that, they spent 133million this summer

more than we've spent in 2years this January

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Jonas

[Gallowgate Toon]

Also, fuck these stupid international breaks. I'm deluded/sure we smash that if it's the week after Forest.

[Andy84]

Just now, Jonas said:

Just to add to that, they spent 133million this summer

more than we've spent in 2years this January

 

 

 

They sold a player for £100 million 

[Danh1]

That second half was a disgrace. First half we were unlucky, some nice stuff played at times 

 

Game could still be going on and we wouldn’t have scored.

 

Jacob Murphy being a progressional footballer is astounding, let alone part of the “leadership group” (which seems to have more members than this forum at this point) 

[McDog]

Just now, Andy84 said:

They sold a player for £100 million 

 

 

Solid point.

[Myleftboot]

5 minutes ago, Andy84 said:

They sold a player for £100 million 

Booooooom.💥💥

[duo]

5 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

That second half was a disgrace. First half we were unlucky, some nice stuff played at times 

 

Game could still be going on and we wouldn’t have scored.

 

Jacob Murphy being a progressional footballer is astounding, let alone part of the “leadership group” (which seems to have more members than this forum at this point) 

Other than 1st 15 mins we were poor in the 1st half. Just took the wind out of us after they scored. 2nd half was just awful.

[Holloway]

Multiple guilt edge chances is a stretch, mind 

[Jonas]

13 minutes ago, Andy84 said:

They sold a player for £100 million 

Didn't say they hadn't.

And in case were being pedantic they've spent £133m more than us this year and about £150m net more than us this year. It entitles them to competitiveness I'd say. As per the point. When we spent more we finished ahead of them and thrashed them. Now that's not that case that's not the case.

 

[Jonas]

19 minutes ago, Myleftboot said:

Booooooom.💥💥

Only because of an overreach to "2 years this January" for dramatic purposes

We've sold two players for £65m this summer if it comes to that

 

boom

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Jonas