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

[Yorkie]

Just now, Shearergol said:

Stood still for a year in the transfer market. Team desperately needed a refresh. Can only blame Howe if the lack of targets was his fault.

 

Why would it be?

[mighty__mag]

Just now, Armchair Pundit said:

[54]

Well that was shit, utter shit. 

 

I won't be thinking about it again. 

[plenum]

1 minute ago, Armchair Pundit said:

Cuban? 😎

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, RodneyCisse said:

When did we last play as badly as that second half?

Earlier in the season ?

[Shearergol]

Just now, Yorkie said:

 

Why would it be?

Well quite. I was kinda meaning that

[Bimpy474]

Well that was utter turd, so poor compared to Forest away. We're so inconsistent.

[Skeletor]

Just now, black_n_white said:

Watching Paqueta, he’s exactly what Man City are missing this season.

 

A cheat who should be banned yet is somehow inexplicably still playing?

[black_n_white]

1 minute ago, Smal said:

the thing is they were absolutely shit.

Were they really? You must have been watching a different game to me.

[Vaj]

Howe got that wrong in my opinion. We were playing well in the first half and didn’t need major changes. Moving Joelinton (possibly our best player in the first half) to centre mid where he’s struggled was stupid. If he really wanted Barnes on then Gordon had to come off and then he seemed to mess with the formation constantly all half and we had no rhythm. Really disappointing! 

[The Bonk]

1 minute ago, Armchair Pundit said:

 

Spoiler this turd, man!   

[andycap]

After the forest game why change a front three that had been effective previously just because Joe played okay second half on the right flank. 

Uses osula on the bench and drops miley off it even though he rarely uses osula. 

[OoOGazOoO]

Genuinely one of the worst performances I have seen from us in a long time.

 

Aimless balls just hoofed forward, no idea in attack and a fairly anonymous midfield.

 

Crap all round!

[midds]

Ended the game looking utterly defeated, disorganised, deflated and disinterested. That was a fucking shambles, I'll give credit when it's due but that was shit tonight. Sloppy and had zero focus or intensity. We got exactly what we deserved, that was wank

[Jonas]

All it is is we've hit a glass ceiling, momentum completely gone because of the new rules. Can want to replace Howe and scream at and about the players but its not changing.

Need to either try and enjoy it for what it is, wrap in or be melancholic as fuck about it (where I'm at) because shit as it may be this is it unless things change in the courts. Certainly there's nothing we can do about it. We've already had a manager punch us above our level and if we get another that too will inevitably level out like this has.

Were upper midtable, West Ham are mid-midtable and this is a standard result and game that reflects that as will the final table.

[TK-421]

[Aiston]

West Ham played us perfectly, humiliating last 20 minutes. Couldn't lay a glove on them.

[Karjala]

If you don't score, you won't win - Gordon and Isak once again failing to be the difference makers. Terrible defending too.

Mediocre season ahead.

 

 

Edited November 25, 2024 by Karjala

[Adam]

Shows how shit that was. Game finished 5 mins ago and I have perfect signal in the ground. 

 

Atmosphere was shocking, performance even worse. 

[Sean]

It's as if we believed all we had to do to win tonight was turn up. Didn't look like we bothered with a plan or anything. 

[Holmesy]

Special mention for Lewis Hall - the one shining light in an otherwise abject performance.

[Andy]

4 minutes ago, The Bonk said:

 

Fulham was pretty shit, probably worse than this as a game, but this half is turbo shit. 

 

Fulham was bad, just as loads of away games have been, but at home you'd expect some kind of fight back from us. I'm absolutely baffled at how little we did to change the result in the second half. 

 

This was definitely Howe's worst game IMO. It almost sounds like a hyperbolic criticism but that second half was Bruce-esque, in the sense that the only strategy seemed to be to throw on more attackers and hope something changes. 

[ikri]

Pretty dismal display and yet another reminder that if you don't score, you don't win.  We had enough chances in that game to win two games but couldn't finish.

 

Too many players had an off game and the lineup that's worked for us in the last few games with Willock & Joe on the left with Gordon on the right was abandoned for no good reason with predictable results.  No idea what the thinking was in bringing Murphy on unless Howe wanted to switch to wingbacks.

[Jackie Broon]

2 minutes ago, RodneyCisse said:

When did we last play as badly as that second half?

Two months ago.

[Yorkie]

Sigh, really painful watch. Thought we were really good in the first half tbh, just let down by a dire goal to concede. Five minutes into the second half and it still felt like a matter of time before we scored and potentially turned it around...

 

Second goal killed us dead. The wind was totally knocked out of the players' sails, at which point they're looking to the manager for impetus. Sadly he got every single tweak wrong and by the end we looked extremely desperate.

 

Should've had a penalty mind.