Newcastle vs Aston Villa utter disaster

[passport1]

Reminded me of our exploitation  of Lverpools high line in the 7-2 game. Not sure whether  it means anything in the entirety  if the season but adjustments will need to be made.

[Deano's Mullet]

We will be fine. Only one game and this manager won't let days like this happen too often. This time next week it will be normal service resumed.

[Risso]

At least we know Emery will be fucking furious and working on fixing it already

Gerrard would be out on the piss with his gangster mates having forgotten the whole thing

He better be, there’s a lot to fix. Monchi had better pull his finger out too, 3 players and £100m minimum needs spending.

[ChicagoLion]

Emery is not blameless picking that team.

We were arguably the better side in the first half. I don't think team selection was the problem.

Yeh Bailey in front of Cash was great.

[brian green]

I think, I hope, that we are about to find out what Emery is made of. Brings to mind the Toon pasting we took when our manager told the players to make their own way home.

[Matt G]

Disappointing , fitness wise and organisationally the last 30 mins we were all over the place. Don’t think you can underestimate the impact of Mings injury on them. Affected them for the rest of the game, a few scrambled minds out there  and his loss will be huge on and off the pitch.
Long season to come. We have the right manager and structure. We’ll learn from this and improve quickly as the team gels.

[Risso]

Why the fuck didn’t we go for Barnes?

“He doesn’t work hard enough”

*Leon Bailey starts*

[PeterWithesShin]

We only lost 2-1 with Bailey on. We lost 3-0 without him.

Think about it.

[ChicagoLion]

Disappointing , fitness wise and organisationally the last 30 mins we were all over the place. Don’t think you can underestimate the impact of Mings injury on them. Affected them for the rest of the game, a few scrambled minds out there  and his loss will be huge on and off the pitch.
Long season to come. We have the right manager and structure. We’ll learn from this and improve quickly as the team gels.

I hope we don’t try and pin this on the Mings injury, that would be a cop out.

[Daley’s dreads]

People having digs at Watkins who kept going, created the equaliser and was better than most of the team is interesting …
Kamara gave up, Tielemans was atrocious and the defence was even worse. I think we will bounce back though. Been a tough week and need to get behind the team at Villa Park next week.

[Paul.S]

Disappointing , fitness wise and organisationally the last 30 mins we were all over the place. Don’t think you can underestimate the impact of Mings injury on them. Affected them for the rest of the game, a few scrambled minds out there  and his loss will be huge on and off the pitch.
Long season to come. We have the right manager and structure. We’ll learn from this and improve quickly as the team gels.

I hope we don’t try and pin this on the Mings injury, that would be a cop out.

Agreed. If losing a player, however influential leads to capitulation then we are in huge trouble. This is where you expect others to step up not give in.
I hope this is a blessing in disguise and Emery takes no prisoners. We’ll be fine and Emery will
sort it but he’ll need the cash to do it.

[AV84]

Disappointing , fitness wise and organisationally the last 30 mins we were all over the place. Don’t think you can underestimate the impact of Mings injury on them. Affected them for the rest of the game, a few scrambled minds out there  and his loss will be huge on and off the pitch.
Long season to come. We have the right manager and structure. We’ll learn from this and improve quickly as the team gels.

I hope we don’t try and pin this on the Mings injury, that would be a cop out.

Agreed. If losing a player, however influential leads to capitulation then we are in huge trouble. This is where you expect others to step up not give in.
I hope this is a blessing in disguise and Emery takes no prisoners. We’ll be fine and Emery will
sort it but he’ll need the cash to do it.

To be fair though they've lost two team mates to really bad injuries in 3 days. Yes someone should have rallied them and shown some better leadership skills after Mings went off but all in all pretty awful circumstances they've found themselves in. Shouldn't be used as an excuse for a 5-1 drubbing mind, but hopefully we can just write today off and get things back on track next week.

[mallo]

In footballing circles you damage limit at a 3 goal advantage - should have been a lot better in defence but early days

[nigel]

We only lost 2-1 with Bailey on. We lost 3-0 without him.

Think about it.

I agree, Bailey isn’t the problem, so I don’t get all the angst.
I think the biggest issue today was Cash getting the run around.

[alanclare]

We haven't played well at all, but at least we're still in it.

This was at half time.