[Albion] Newcastle United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Triggaaar]

Full strength side against Southampton and win, rest against Man City and accept defeat, full strength against Villa and win, job done

Where do I sign?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Move on, and shove the positives . . .

we're currrently playing youth/U23 players against a toxic oil states cash pumped wankers. What exactly do you expect?

There's some fickle fvckers on here tonight

 

[rool]

f*** me the crowing turd of the night, massive equalise with the last kick of the game, and ref has just played loads of fergie time above the 6 mins injury time.

Anti Fergie time tonight

 

[peterward]

Overall I didn’t think he had a bad game, it’s a steep but valuable learning curve. One for the future imo

Who lost the ball on half way line for their 4th? Was it Caicedo or Offiah? if it was Offiah, it might be a blessing in disguise as the game was already done at 3-1, learn more from adversity and all that.......

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

your avatar Mitoma has gone off the boil a little recently, a slight dip in form thats having a bigger effect on our cutting edge.

I genuinely think he is knackered.

 

[Triggaaar]

Everton and Newcastle have shown how to play against us.

Newcastle have shown the rest of the league that all you have to do is play against an injury hit side, whose remaining players are all knackered.

Can't believe no one else thought of it.

 

[brighton_tom]

Newcastle have shown the rest of the league that all you have to do is play against an injury hit side, whose remaining players are all knackered.

Can't believe no one else thought of it.

& invest a load of money into your own squad. Pretty simple really.

 

[rool]

Who lost the ball on half way line for their 4th? Was it Caicedo or Offiah? if it was Offiah, it might be a blessing in disguise as the game was already done at 3-1, learn more from adversity and all that.......

I thought it was Caicedo who also fell over for the third in the same way he did for Everton's fifth.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I genuinely think he is knackered.

Wonder how much is mental as well? He was suddenly the poster boy of the PL for a while as he was unplayable.

 

[portslade seagull]

Tonight showed where we need reinforcements. CB, RB, midfield if both Mac and Caciedo leave in the summer and that still leaves us short due to Mwepu's enforced retirement. I think Europe could pose all sorts of issues if the squad stays wafer thin

 

[Durlston]

There's some fickle fvckers on here tonight

It's ALWAYS horrible after a defeat.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Terrible first 20 set the tone. Annoying but we need the team ready for a huge game Sunday

 

[slimes]

To summarise.. Newcastle are 3rd in the league, we are playing away, we've a depleted and tired team, they bullied and harassed us from the strart. That's what Newcastle do.
I've already moved on .. onwards and upwards!

 

[Hamilton]

The result flattered them a bit but was fair. We lost. Move on.

 

[zefarelly]

But between full time now and kick off then, we've only got 60 hours to save the squad.

I bought Michael Jacksons Oxygen tent, and donated it to the club, everything's going to be fine.

 

[Eric the meek]

Is that a sort of a oxymoron that you are happier that you feel better at losing more than me.we lost.

You must interpret it as you see fit. All I'm doing is trying to impart the bigger picture.

I am sorry that I failed to make you feel just a little better about tonight's result.

 

[peterward]

I genuinely think he is knackered.

We started 1 game recently with Welbeck on left cutting in and it worked quite well, not sure why we dont give him a night on the bench to see if he can affect fromt here if needed?

Also noticed, we dont often switch the wingers, wings played on during game so much.....maybe personnel reasons? Mitoma is always down left

 

[Invicta]

Odd how often in 2nd half Van Hecke had possession rather than Dunk. Way less confident so the passing didn't flow as well

 

[Greenbag50]

To be fair deserved nothing more tonight. The team looked poor from the moment that the line up was annouced. We scored with our only real attempt. Chalk and cheese from Sunday. Proves that if we did make Europe and Thursday night football than we need to strengthen considerably. Some of the team today are probably not quite ready for first team action and some maybe not quite good enough.
We missed Colwill or Webster tonight and the team ran out of legs against a fired up home side!

They also had pretty much full 1st team squad to pick from and have all season.
Plus spending loads of money on re-enforcement’s, which we haven’t had the luxury to do.

 

[Zeberdi]

RDZ - ‘we deserved to loose the game’ - ‘We suffer the physicality of Newcastle… we have to forget this day …Welbeck, Gilmour and Mac Allister can’t play 90mins today and 90mins Sunday’

RDZ clearly planning starting line ups with all four final games in mind as a few of us have said above. It would have worked if we hadnt taken so many risks - change the game plan and play over the top of the press when we start a weak back line (Ie without Veltman, Webster and Lamptey against an aggressively attacking team))

At home at the weekend - it’s ours to loose well or win beautifully