Matchday thread - Magpies v Eagles

[Lammy]

FML

[originallad]

This season has been absolutely gash. Howe will be gone. Not saying it's the correct decision but he'll be gone before Summer.

[UlversToon]

Embarrassing yet again.

[seaside nipper]

Sick of our lack of intensity.
Unbelievably the inevitable happens yet again
It’s truly mind bending our ability to toss games away.

[originallad]

Gonna lose a lot of players this summer. Howe will be gone. f*** nos who we will get in; players and manager.

[bodacious benny]

Piss poor other than 5 mins in the first half, same old s***. Absolutely nothing changes. “Time on the training pitch” my arse. Not just the manager, so many players look disinterested, Tonali leading that particular charge.

Absolutely no pressure or intensity today.

[seaside nipper]

The project is a cluster fu!k
MASSIVE changes now surely inevitable

[bodacious benny]

Bournemouth next who are unbeaten in 12(?), then Arsenal then an inform Brighton for this bunch of clowns.

[Don Sholeone]

We just need time on the training pitch

[Colly]

How obvious did Botman want to make that?

[seaside nipper]

Our remaining fixtures were seen as an opportunity to push for a strong finish. It’s just not happening. Without Bruno our midfield is utterly lacking
Imo season is effectively over, now wondering about players mindset. The pipe dream of a run and strong finish is over based on that garbage today.

[Don Sholeone]

How obvious did Botman want to make that?

To be fair you'd get 20 penalties every weekend if those were given consistently.

Either way the whole performance once again was a disgrace.

[Timshorts 2]

Can we please absolve Hall from all of the above. He was running about all over the place, stopped attacks, created stuff, popped up on the right wing at one point.

[Don Sholeone]

I remember when I was a kid, I was over the moon when you got those little turtles in the kinder eggs. Who'd have though that in this day and age you can also get the Newcastle United captains armbands

[originallad]

At the end of the day. There's more to life than football.

I'm going to enjoy the rest of my Sunday by walking my dog, then after that pouring myself a large glass of red and then have a bubble bath. After that I'm going to watch a film and eat chocolate.

Oh and if anyone is thinking about watching One Battle After Another. Don't. It's s***.

[seaside nipper]

Well I’ll digest this and then have some angry beer. This season that’s 25pts tossed away from winning positions this season.
Ffs says it all.

[Slim999]

Sick of our lack of intensity.
Unbelievably the inevitable happens yet again
It’s truly mind bending our ability to toss games away.

Im not dute its lack in intensity

Its lack of ability . Ability to keep possession, ability to hold the ball, ability to see games out .

Intensity was something we showed in first half of the season. But can you maintain intensity after you've played almost 50 games like Thiaw. No you can't

We need to rethink this project . Build from the bottom up , vary tactics , improve posession game - and rotate players to keep freshness.

Not sure which coach should lead on tjis new medium term project - but I think its time for a change at the top .

Eddie did great lifting us up the league. But now it feels like we're Eddies Bournemouth mk2

[Slim999]

At the end of the day. There's more to life than football.

I'm going to enjoy the rest of my Sunday by walking my dog, then after that pouring myself a large glass of red and then have a bubble bath. After that I'm going to watch a film and eat chocolate.

Oh and if anyone is thinking about watching One Battle After Another. Don't. It's s***.

[bodacious benny]

We’re supposed to be a team looking to disrupt/challenge, Palace are a team that’s probably as comfortable at being a mid table PL club that you could find, yet half of their team would walk into ours.

Henderson > Pope and Ramsdale
Lacroix > Botman (not the same player now)
Munoz > arguably better than Tino, tho Tino could become better. Could even play RW and be miles clear of Elanga and Murphy.
Wharton and Sarr > Tonali has been average for most of the season and clearly looking for his way out.
Mateta > Wissa (and big Nick right now, but there’s a player in there hence Wissa) - why the f*** weren’t we just offering them £50m for him last summer rather than dicking about with Wissa etc.

Highlights how huge a task our summer rebuild will be.

[seaside nipper]

Sick of our lack of intensity.
Unbelievably the inevitable happens yet again
It’s truly mind bending our ability to toss games away.

Im not dute its lack in intensity

Its lack of ability . Ability to keep possession, ability to hold the ball, ability to see games out .

Intensity was something we showed in first half of the season. But can you maintain intensity after you've played almost 50 games like Thiaw. No you can't

We need to rethink this project . Build from the bottom up , vary tactics , improve posession game - and rotate players to keep freshness.

Not sure which coach should lead on tjis new medium term project - but I think its time for a change at the top .

Eddie did great lifting us up the league. But now it feels like we're Eddies Bournemouth mk2

I remember when “intensity was our identity”
Understandable that is not sustainable across 52 plus games so far this season
( Man Utd for instance played about 33 ).
We are a changed team since we were pressing Citeh, scaring Liverpool destroying Spurs, and recording significant wins on our way to Champions league.
Now, we have changed. We have tried and failed to play a possession game, we cannot do it currently.
Other mid table teams now have us well and truly sussed. They play us on the counter and with pace and good midfield interplay we get carved open.
We are neither one thing or another at the moment. We have pace up top but otherwise we look aged and brittle in defence, nothing currently working in midfield. God how BG is missed. Also Joelinton about to hit a two match ban on accrued cards.

Not a lack of effort but a lack of quality and nous in closing out games.
Twenty five points splaffed from winning positions.