Newcastle post match thread

[sir baconface]

Pitiful effort though Newcastle displayed for 80 minutes, nevertheless I cannot blame them.

The evidence this season shows opposing teams that whatever they do, they are likely to lose. However, it also shows them, that if they sit back and soak it up for 90 minutes, there's just a prayer that they will manage to keep us from scoring, and also a prayer that they may manage to nick a goal off a counter attack or more likely a corner or other set piece. Being 0-0 or even 1-0 down after 80 minutes keeps them in with a chance of a point.

If they have a go, they are much more likely to get beaten or even thrashed. It's understandable why they park the supertanker.

Indeed. And Newcastle will have encouraged them by giving us a mildly shaky last 10 minutes. Shit as it is, you can’t really blame “smaller” teams for a safety first mentality.

 

[caseball]

You only have to think back to 2012 to remember the importance of goal difference and the consequences one hammering can have. Newcastle are in a relegation battle and they don't want to get 5 or 6 put past them because that would take away the slight advantage they have over most of the other strugglers in GD. Other teams perhaps a different story.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Still aint got my breath back after walking up those 14 sets of stairs!

They should provide Oxygen every 4 flights.

 

[bluetoby]

Walking back into town in pubs in town and next day heard loads of toon fans and they were convinced that they were the first team to give us a game in ages just goes to show what a 1 nil score does they felt alright about their performance ??

 

[its grim up north]

Indeed. And Newcastle will have encouraged them by giving us a mildly shaky last 10 minutes. Shit as it is, you can’t really blame “smaller” teams for a safety first mentality.

Thats fair enough, if a team shuts up shop and denies us shooting/scoring chances albeit, good on them. But for the media and fans to get excited they shouldn't because we have had 20 odd shots, 6 on target and granted only scored once but that is down to us to not the way opposing teams set up to stop us. It really ought to have been 3 or 4 before HT

 

[lazza]

Walking back into town in pubs in town and next day heard loads of toon fans and they were convinced that they were the first team to give us a game in ages just goes to show what a 1 nil score does they felt alright about their performance ??

Tell me about it. Caught the Metro afterwards, and was amazed how deluded the Newcastle fans were. So many varietions of “We deserved to get something from the game” or “we were unlucky”. I wouldn’t argue that they nearly did get something, but to think they deserved anything from those tactics is mental!

 

[Eaglechief]

We are facing teams doing this every game now. It’s difficult and painful to watch, but as long as we come out with 3 points and no injuries, does it really matter. It just shows that teams are so scared to try and play against us that they would rather just try and stop us scoring.

Agreed. The really sad part is that those same teams won't park the bus when our main rivals face them though. It's almost like all the clubs are just jealous of us and would be happy to prevent only us from winning the league.
It's just an anti-City / anti-Arab thing with these small time clubs and their mentality.
But we're strong enough to overcome them.

 

[ono]

Then don't say shite because it deflects from some very good points that you made.



We dominated because we are so good. We won the ball back brilliantly for most of the game and would have dominated them regardless of their overly negative tactics. Even when they had their final flurry, they actually created very little.

City did what they needed to in the middle of a heavy fixture load. The only significant issue yesterday was the finishing. Your criticism of some of the passing was accurate but I don't think it was of much consequence because we still created enough to have won by more.

To be honest I would have thought the positive points of my post would have taken care of the context of the negatives...

 

[el blue]

Agreed. The really sad part is that those same teams won't park the bus when our main rivals face them though. It's almost like all the clubs are just jealous of us and would be happy to prevent only us from winning the league.
It's just an anti-City / anti-Arab thing with these small time clubs and their mentality.
But we're strong enough to overcome them.

I think its more likely they just dont want to get hammered than that they are anti City.