GOT AWAY WITH IT! Why Martin Dubravka saved Newcastle United’s season
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2024
- The Daily Mail’s Craig Hope reflects on Newcastle United’s penalty-shootout victory at Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup fifth round - but he argues why this was a good result yet not so good performance.
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That was probably the first time you saw Eddie knowing his time is turning. He truly looked stressed out in the second half .
dubravka deserves massive credit not just the pens. thank u martin
Disjointed - It's looked like 10 lads who've never played together. It's not a question of passion, or effort, or energy, they just couldn't string a pass or see a player offering an alternative play, so it was over-heavy passes, missed passes or back passes. It's the first time in awhile I've gotten to watch a full match and I was shocked. Thank god for Dubravka, he saved us from embarrassment, but we really need to get that spirit back, get some of those linkups going again and take the blinkers off so the players see whats going on around them rather than panic.
Craig is very biased when it comes to the reason we play like school boys.. it's management and training but Craig never gets to the basics.
@@manakara9821 Everyone's biased in some way tbf, and whilst I agree that as the manager Eddie deserves a share of the blame, this isn't a new squad, they've played week in week out and they've proved they can play to a much higher standard so a lot of this is on the players as well.
Eddie got them firing on all cylinders last season, is he entirely to blame for them forgetting what they learnt?
Unfortunately, the majority of the away matches have been like that. They seem to lose all ability to pass when away from SJP. This has been happening all through the season.
I completely agree. In recent games, our biggest problem has been moving the ball from the defense to the midfielders.
I was saying the same. The effort is there but they just are not clicking in every department as they did last season. We do need some new faces in the squad come the summer
If the fans expected a response from the Arsenal game, that was most certainly not it. 75% of the team looked like they couldn't even be bothered. Isak looked weak, Murphy meek, Willock looked exhausted after 5 minutes, Longstaff constantly whinging, Barnes not interested in getting stuck in etc. etc.
Agreed although I was happier with willock than the others mentioned he does seem to want to move the ball forward.
Liveramento played the way that I’d expect our midfield to play- taking on opponents and pushing the ball up the field.
Isak looked very nervous to engage in tackles or take players on. V disappointing- I think he is still not back to fitness.
Spot on 👌
Craig I do not usually watch the pre match show in its entirety but I enjoyed hearing Alan Shearer talking about his time at Blackburn and the story of Jack Walker's Blackburn, but I found that interesting how he emphasised one ambitious British man getting his local Football Club a Premier League Title, and the contrast to the current era is very stark at the upper echelon of the game, this could be worth a story one day if you have nothing else to inform your readers about.
Thanks for all of your excellent updates, the 15min mark is a great length for this type of youtube content.
If Hall can’t get a chance tonight when can he????
Feel for the lad.
It is absolutely criminal what Howe has done with Lewis Hall. Howe is delusional, quicker he is gone the better
@@caseball-uk386hall is useless, slow and weak, needs a season in the championship
@@philip244 Slow?? Cannot be slower than any of our midfielders!! Hall is a quality player ..
@@philip244That’s a strange opinion.
@@philip244I think hall could start right now
I think you really have to give a lot of credit to Blackburn. Yes we should have substantially more quality, but Blackburn were so organised, disciplined and worked so hard. We dodged a bullet here…and kudos to Blackburn for making a real game of it.
The players we have in midfield don't match the system we play currently.
Without joelinton setting the tone, carrying the ball, winning headers and duels, Pressing every player and commiting them. Without this we have absolutely no intensity from midfield in this system, the system needs to change as it just doesn't fit these players anymore.
Once again, a couple of passes from the opposition gets around or through our midfield who are so static and don't have the pace or ability to get back in and win the ball back. It's so painful knowing that weakness is there for everyone to see and yet we do nothing about it.
Then when we have the ball, we rely on schar to be our playmaker and hope for a pinpoint long pass to create any sort of attacking threat otherwise it goes sideways to Dan burn more than not or lascelles or Trippier.
And 90% of the time, they pass sideways and backwards since the midfield isn't capable enough of receiving the ball and turning, or breaking through the lines to create space (Bruno can do this, but he is man marked and can't do it by himself)
Wolves will smash newcastle if we do not change something. They have pace and ball carrying ability throughout their midfield and front line.
We néed to get a grip of the ball and actually commit players going forward rather than passing along our back line in hope that a space will open up.
Be very interesting if Joelinton stays and what happens when he comes back…
100% agree with this. It's the midfield where it's all going pair shaped and that effects every other part of the team.
We look absolutely awful at the minute.
We are to predictable
Sad but true
Shame to say it but it’s just like under Bruce, plan A doesn’t work and there’s no plan B
Anthony Gordon is absolutely useless
So Hall's just never gonna play then.
Our lads played as if they'd never played together before. As in previous matches it was far too easy to bypass our midfield and get at our defence.
Dubravka played fantastic - he's a great shot stopper when he's on form. Respect to Martin. The in-form Wolves will possibly test him even more on Saturday.
Unfortunately we will have to improve substantially to go any further in this competition - no matter who we get in the quarter final.
Always passing to feet, hesitating, misplacing the pass or cross, not moving to space or missing the man who is, losing fluidity, slow in defence, slow in attack, predictable, looking for fouls and not getting them, not putting away championship level sides and being brushed aside by PL clubs of all descriptions. We’re a big mess.
You've hit the nail on the head. Second best all over the field and no vision or ability to create in or around their box. Shooting straight at the goalkeeper at point blank range etc etc.
We're not in a total mess just yet - but we might be heading there if we don't halt the slide.
There's an old Change Management/ Project Management saying: "a bad system will beat a good person every time"
At the moment we don't even have the "good person" - i.e the right players - to drop into the system which is massively amplifying its flaws.
Stubborn manager that won’t alter the formation as it will affect him playing his mates
Sean Longstaff looked like a Sunday league player throughout the 120 minutes, too slow in possession and mental game, not sure what's wrong with him
He looks like he's running in mud off recent , he is better than that
Been overplayed hasn't he. Run himself into the ground. Hopefully with Willock and Anderson returning he can get some rest because right now he's a ghost.
With everyone fully fit Longstaff shouldn’t be anywhere near the match day squad. He plays like he’s still on the team bus - passenger.
I don't know if you watch him he's like that every game, he's so bad how he's a professional footballer I'll never know. He's unbelievably slow mentally & physically. Why he throws himself to the ground when there's no reason for it makes me think does he want to be there?
Too busy chucking himself to ground every 5 mins. He needs taken out the team
Lacalles was awful, some players are being found out now, this team needs a complete overhaul if I'm honest.
FA cup is always full of games like this, every team that wins it generally has some struggles, but you’re spot on Craig we are consistently inconsistent at the moment. Great pod 👏
Not sure about that, we've been consistently bad for the last few matches.
“Alexander Isak was isolated” an all too common story
Howe will not change his setup. Teams have totally figured us out yet Howe is the only one that cannot see it!
Problem we have is if we push up to support him we get caught on the counter. But if we sit back then the opposition sit in and we haven't got the quality to break them down. Midfield is a big issue as the players we have available aren't quick or athletic enough to get up & down the pitch as quickly. Longstaff in particular looks absolutely knackered physically and mentally
I feel like I’ve lost a bit of faith in Howe with that game. Yeah, we might have gone through, but everything I loved about this squad seems to have faded and died. Where is the intensity that was apparently our identity? Where is the drive, the dynamism, the passion?
Intensity isn’t our identity anymore. Instead, our identity is being ponderous on the ball and porous off it. Bad results I can accept, the loss of that intensity I can't.
Sounds like you are the same as me. You don't want to doubt Eddie, you really, really want him to succeed. But as each game goes by and the issues persist your confidence ebbs away.
The players can't do what they're being asked to do, pretty clear to see, few players being found out now
Out of interest what could Eddie do about the Gordon, Longstaff, Bruno, Barnes and Lascelles misses? Surely that’s on the players as you’d expect even Sunday league players to finish from those positions? On another day they go in and we’re talking about a 4-1 win (4-0 if it wasn’t for the Lascelles error - again interested in what Eddie could do about that)
If we didn’t create those chances that resulted sitters being missed then I’d be questioning Eddie too.
The reality is Ewood Park is a tough place to go on a Tuesday night in those conditions - against a team that was playing 5 at the back in the biggest game of their careers
Not sure why top professional football players make so many mistakes and now look disjointed as a team more than halfway through the season.
A lucky win really, Blackburn will be wondering how they didn’t win.
And they didn't look like a championship team either; more Prem
@@rogercookcouk can’t understand how they are 16 th in the championship, but that was their cup final game at home. Doesn’t excuse poor ish performance by players on far bigger wages because they are meant to be far better than championship players. We’ve had the tired line a few times, as someone said the shearer team in champions league season never quoted that.
did you ask howe why hall didnt get a kick and burn stayed on for 125 mins??
Because it was our biggest game of the season and not the time to be giving untried players a run out. Other than Man United away he hasn’t looked great. Let him develop.
Also as much as people criticise burn he’s 6ft7 and experienced. You don’t take him off against a team relying on a set piece/cross to score.
What if Eddie took Burn off and Blackburn/halls man scored a late header at the back post - you’d all be saying why take burn off in that situation
Burn was great. Probably the best player. Hall is not reliable, he needs training. Burn totally dominated with his experience and hight.
In the end I had a respect for Blackburn and wish them well, they did not roll over and let the superior team annihilate them, so they come out of the tie with nothing to be ashamed of.
Big joe understands and fits intensity and pressing better than anyone. I believe players feed off him.
Now he's gone, no one can set the tone and Howe is still asking for this standard despite change of personel and a few players back but not match fit. He's ability to adapt to what we have is what is killing us
Agreed,Joelinton is an essential ingredient for his contribution to the spirit of the team. Almiron brought a real injection of intensity that I was very pleased to see but doesn’t have the same influence in the team as big Joe
I think the fact we have two players in our midfield longstaff, miley who with a fully fit squad are 4/5th choice at best. And neither should be in the starting 11 regularly.
Our midfield is weak with them you put big joe, willock, tonali , Anderson back in it’s a different ball game. (I do think miley has a big future in front of him but too early for him at the moment)
@tbatz6574 hate Danny Murphy, but he made a great point l. Our midfield right now in today's game lacks atletism. Miley and longstaff don't get up and down the pitch like Big joe and Willock. LONGSTAFF last season played out of his skin for his future. This year I think he's got complacent and we got the Steve Bruce version again. He doesn't run half as much now.
Serious question,have I missed something regarding Hall?Granted he hasn’t played much but when I have seen him he doesn’t exactly pull up any trees,Or is it once again Your a much better player when you’re not playing?
Spot on
very fortunate to get through...
for that we can thank anthony gordon & bruno in the outfield, & dubravka in the goals...
gordon closing down for 120mins was a credit to his application & fitness...
bruno desperate for someone to win the ball & feed him to make that killer pass, which he so often does...
blackburn will feel hard done to, but a premiership gk at the top of his game kept them out...
not sure what lascelles was thinking for the equaliser? only he will know what or why?
despite a disjointed & still under strength newcastle performance, we are in the hat...
but not for much longer if we play like that again.
That was a hard watch. Look a shadow of last seasons team. Pleased we won for eddies sake we have big problems atm.
Where has the "league best press", that was talked about so much last season, gone?
I guess they’re just knackered
@@LEDC5000 While I don't pretend that for some of the season we had a congested schedule that would account for fatigue, we don't even press when we've had a break. It's like that tactic has been removed from our game.
Craig, Willock was never gonna give the back 4 protection...he wanders everywhere and can't tackle ..his strength is going forward .
Hall not used again. He deleted his social media goodbyes to Chelsea months ago; come on either Ashworth had a howler in the deal when it comes to appearance fees or he's being sent back.
Hasn't it been obvious for weeks or months that he's being sent back?
He’s not though is he? He signed on a permanent deal / loan with OBLIGATION not option. Hes been brought as a left back and has played as a left back for 6 months of his career. He needs time to train and learn the position before throwing him in the deep end - which when Eddie has, he hasn’t looked great if we’re honest.
This narrative of Hall going back / us not wanting to pay the money is laughable and has been talked into reality by our fanbase - despite the manager saying the complete opposite.
@@Cory-lh3yp it's been widely reported that there's no obligation to buy. If you continually choose to ignore that then there's not much else we can do for you mate.
@@listey lol what are you talking about? Widely reported where? Sky Sports, NUFC website, Chelsea website and every other news outlet are saying it’s an obligation. Send me 1 link where it says there’s no obligation?
Eddie Howe also confirmed just last month he’s here for the long term… but if you choose to ignore that and believe your made up sources that’s on you
Wolves on the weekend is gonna be tough, we’ve got zero confidence at the minute it’s like we’re mentally just burnt out for this season.
Still, least we’ve got the fa cup shootout monkey off our backs now!
Wolves will slice though that defence unless we shift something.
I’d be playing a 5-2-3 to really get the sides opened up or free schar to get up the middle more, and resist the high back line. The midfield 3 of Bruno longstaff Miley just isn’t working well.
We always struggle to get through a low block and are very vulnerable with a high back line and being caught on the break. Maybe wolves will come at us given our poor showing lately
Play like we did yesterday and against Wolves and we will get thumped.
totally agree craig just got back....thank u
Fair play to you for trying to do a positive report after that absolutely dire display. Dubravka was the only shining light.
For Anthony Gordon’s goal Miggy did something he rarely does, he actually looked up rather than concentrating on his boot laces. Why can’t he do that more for goodness sake.
Anthony Gordon did miss 2 gettable chances but late in the game he tracked back from outside the TV picture to right MF & stifled a Blackburn attack which was very threatening. His work rate is brilliant. I also noticed Isak moved to the left wing, probably for a rest, and AG dutifully moved into the CF position from where he got his goal.
Almiron is our best player. Gordon is a Championship player
Absolutely horrendous every player looked like they’d barely kicked a ball or just got off a stag weekend dawdling about aimlessly with a couple of exceptions
Howe is beginning to lose me. Not just the poor games which are a complete struggle to watch but the interviews are becoming deluded and not accurate.
Not bruce bad but heading that way. Shame we've lost our identity...the intensity
He said we dominated Arsenal in the second half. Blackburn deserved to win yesterday. Had more chances overall
Not sure what everybody is twisting about. It was a typical cup tie & we won it! We're in the quarter finals for the first time in how long? Some of our fans are developing frustratingly short memories about where we were just 2 years ago. *WE ARE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.* Arsenal putting 4 goals past us is happening to EVERYONE who plays Arsenal at the minute. Few good results & we're top 6/7 again. Calm down folks.
Dubvaka was magnificent nevertheless his performance against Liverpool was even better
Yar should've lost 11-0 that game
1:06 been like that for years. We big them up when at times they don't deserve it. But a rousing song can rile up everyone needing riled up in the right way.
First half was really poor but we had plenty chances after that, just didn't take them. Totally agree that Almiron made a difference when he came on.
Newcastle looked like a pub team and thats being generous, absolutely horrendous performance.
Give me ya ticket mate there shit 😅
Thought everybody was sub-par yesterday with the exception of Dubz & BDB who were both solid for 120 mins. It's clear that confidence is low & I put it down to a combination of the Ashworth Saga, the transfer speculation & the injury crisis... We have players returning from injury which is great but it will still take time for them to get up to full speed & for the team to settle around all of the changes & find form.
I think we need to address this at some point, the football lately have been really bad. It's not bad in the sense that you could argue that the players are just not doing what they are told - I think they are. It's just not working and it's clear that Howe and Co have a problem coming up with a plan B or even a plan A that works.
Maybe we just have to write off this season and prepare for next season. The important thing is what are Howe and Co taking with them going forward. Something have to change.
Wolves will destroy us
Yeah not looking good is it 🤔
Neto v Dan Burn
Hi, can you ask Eddie if the players might be holding on to baggage against each other (or even against Eddie) from some of the bad defeats this season? It doesn’t look like they’re playing for each other relative to last season. Cheers.
I agree Craig that was Martin's best game. Thank you Dubs for saving our arse!
Hi Craig,
What's happened to the pre match report on Wolves?
A team performance that can only be described at best as ordinary.
Phew, a huge sigh of relief after that one. As we all know cup games are all about the result so i'm obviously happy to have got through to the next round. However, in a season as disjointed as this where we as fans are looking for any opportunity for games to reignite our best form this feels like another one that passed us by. It's another lacklustre performance that aside from dubravka lacked any real quality & it's hard to take many positives out of tonight other than the result. We go into the game against wolves on saturday with hope more than expectation & i think that says it all about newcastle this season. Cheers as always criag. P.S: Didn't hear you get a question at the press conference? Are you on the naughty list? Ha haaa.
Blackburn played the better football last night. Why are Newcastle so insistent on slowly knocking it around the back 4 and then one of the centre halves playing long balls into channels? We really struggle to string a sequence of good passes together in midfield, they get bypassed. Really odd - especially as it looks like it's a deliberate ploy?
Not sure where to begin with all that, i suppose i will start with great video Craig, summed up nicely. But yeah they seemed to play a mid block and were very disciplined and we didn't really have any answers to that. I think when we were riding high lastv season the likes of murphy and longstaff got their level pulled up so to speak. However with the team playing poorly they just look bottom half prem players at best. Missing our better midfield players something chronic, tonali and joelington. Without an effective midfield everything else falls to bits and Bruno needs the legs of the better midfielders to be more effective. I do wonder about Barnes as a player. Yes he has an eye for goal but that's about it. I hope we get a decent draw but can't help feel the fa campaign eventually will crash upon the rocks that is man city of Liverpool.
Hopefully Barnes will get his eye in with game time, bit of a mare last night for him
Craig - I've asked many times what Dubravka has to do to get a positive mention in your summing up of the matches.
I guess we now know. Whereas Gordon can run around booting the ball at the keeper and falling over and get a rave review, our keeper has make 4 or 5 critical saves and stop 2 penalties to get a mention.
This is blatant anti-keeperism!
British favouritism. Anthony Gordon had a poor game. Had on direct run in the second half and scored a tap in, but that was it. Almiron did more when he came on. He is evidently a better player
Thanks Rob, noted!
Can't really say anymore than well said Craig.
They looked more of a Prem team than us on too many occasions.
I almost feel sorry for Bruno.
Dubravka and Almiron our best players
Haha, Eddie Howe looked like he was going to cry last night.
I’m willing to give Howe a long leash based on what he’s accomplished but boy their play is starting to look predictable and defense has holes. Players just don’t look as fit and energetic as before too. C’mon magpies turn up the performances
Unfortunately i do think Eddy is damaged from that game. He needed a big response after the battering at the weekend and he didn't get one. If a Steve Bruce side delivered a performance like that they would have been rightly criticised. I want Eddy to succeed but he seems reluctant to change things that aren't working. Unless the league performances improve (which they probably won't) then i think he needs to get us to Wembley this season, otherwise it's been a pretty underwhelming season. I think he deserves another season since this one has been plagued with misfortune, but I won't be surprised if the Saudis are thinking about replacing him if things don't improve between now and the summer.
Amoron is on the verge of being appointed as new manager
Agreed, great comment 👍
How on earth can you analyse that game, like Melbournes weather I experienced every single emotion available to a human twice over in 120 mins. Dubs was immense 🔥🍺🍻🔥🇦🇺
Obviously it wasn’t a “great” performance but if I’m not wrong Newcastle missed 5 clear goal scoring chances which isn’t Eddie Howes fault - the harder they tried the more the composure disappeared and it’s an age old problem of almost trying too hard. Confidence is a huge thing in football and is very fragile. Even more reason now to get behind the team as the next game against an in form wolves team will be hard particularly their right winger who is one of the best players in the league.
Dubravka made some great saves throughout the match but outstanding in the penalty shootout well done .. but we still need to do some work on the field, we could of had a few goals to finish the game off
Glad Dubravka came back so many saying keep Karius ,glad Howe didn't. No cohesion with the players who last season gelled,Barnes poor, Longstaff same .The defence recently parts quicker than the Red Sea,hopefully the returnees are just rusty and it will click soon otherwise the only Europe they'll be going to is IKEA
I was one saying start Karius and good job we played Dubravka. Generally though I do think Karius needs more game time - I think he has a higher ceiling than dubs
@@mikem9309 maybe but didn't think he was very good against Arsenal
@@grahamtowler1761 nah I thought he did pretty well can’t really blame him for the goals and he stopped it being an even more embarrassing score line. I think he will never be at his best with one game thrown to him here and there. He needs a good run. He was a great keeper before that one game where he had concussion that seemed to define his career
@@mikem9309 you may be right it's not the keepers that are the problem really just the rest of the team, they're giving our keepers plenty of practice
@@grahamtowler1761 well I think you are right there
One very frustrating thing that comes up over and over (especially when the whole front line being unwilling to take a crack and just passing it around ) is trippier’s reluctance to shoot in open play. Time and again he has a open shot and goes for the set up instead. Sure he offers great assist record but the amount of times I’ve shouted shoot! When he has a gap and he doesn’t
Call me biased as a Rovers fan, both played well yet Rovers were incredible Tuesday night. It’s feels just as big as a win for us. Both keepers were class, yet you were really lucky. Where you are in the league, you probably should’ve got a 3/4-1 win over us. It’s could’ve very easily gone both ways. Proud of our squad (especially Pears) and hope Jarred Gillett likes his Newcastle shirt cause it was 1000% a handball
I’ve seen enough from
Eddie even this season (Man Ux 2, Villa away, City home, PSG, home, Arsenal home etc.) to keep the faith that he’s the man. He’s had some awful luck and he has made some errors but he still hasn’t got ‘his squad’, still too many pre-takeover players that aren’t at the quality required. Summer is huge, would be massive error to not back him.
We were slow and sluggish and out played most of the time. Barnes a complete waste of space god only knows why we got stuck with him.
He's one of those players that's poor from open play, but can put the ball in the net. He's no Laurent Robert, Ginola, Ben Arfa or Charles N'Zogbia
Can you ask Eddie about the FA’s plan if NUFC get passed City to let the 1999 Man Utd team into the semi’s or the Arsenal invincibles for the final.
Got away with one is spot on, however it’s a cup tie where anything can happen.
I love Howe & what he’s done for us in a short space of time but I feel that his choice to ignore the gap between our midfield & defence could ultimately cost him dearly, 6 times last night they had a man in the hole that just wasn’t picked up, it’s happening week in week out. I know Howe plays Burn to tuck in as that back 3 but I would love us to play Schar as a holding midfielder that just drops in which would allow whoever LB to get forward like Tripps on the right side.
That was a truly appalling performance. Bruno was only player who seemed to care for most of the game. Credit to Gordon for going all the way, and Almiron and Tino for injecting some quality in extra time.
* I've staunchly supported Trippier but I did think he was awful last night. It's hard to know if he's gone, his mental space isn't right and/or if the lack of midfield and pressing cover is exposing him slightly.
* Longstaff was terrible. Never offered a pass for the defenders when they were on the ball.
* Was Barnes alright? He looked off as soon as he was on. Did he forget to have his pre-match red bull?
My biggest concern is that we seem to have turned into Southgate's England. Slow, ponderous possession at the back. Cente-back to centre-back.
🎵 Abra abra Dubravka! 🧤
He’s gonna reach out & grab ya! 🎵
*HOWAY THE LADS!* 🖤🤍
How does Longstaff stay on the pitch ? Bruno is doing two bloody jobs because of the poor midfield around him
Longy needs to stay on his feet, he goes down way too easy & refs never seem to buy it. He's a big strong lad & doesn't need to do it. Fair play he did take a blow to the face but he had rolled around so much at that stage that everybody was sick of him and just thought it was more theatrics.
Thats as far as we get in this competition
Another horror show only thing we can say is we are in the hat. Dubs brilliant tonight! He had a good right to be shaking his head after saving the last minute deflection! Who would want to be a keeper with this lot in front of you! We dodged a bullet especially Eddie you could see it written all over his face. He may have won this battle by slimmest of margins but we are still a long long way away from winning the war! Another must win game on Saturday or pressure is going to get even greater.
It is more a fundamental problem. Go through all the matches we played since the beginning of the year. Our strikers have been so isolated and starved of service. I think Isak at Liverpool was the one time he had a genuine chance in the box and he stuck it away. Callum did not have a shot on goal at Forest. Isak had one sniff against City outside the box and that is it, and that chance from Miggy against Sunderland where he scored. We are not creating chances for our strikers from open play where we advance to the opposition goal and play the ball into the box. It is very worrying. We are one good team away from being eliminated from the FA cup.
people would do well to remember how his time at bournemouth ended, we stuck 4 past them when cabbage heed was manager. i can see nothing in that team that was there last season, very poor and getting worse every week
Almiron changed the game to be be honest. Much better than Barnes and Gordon
Yep, needs to be played on the left wing instead of Anthony Gordon
Hi Craig,
I think you have been a bit hard on Dubravka over the last few weeks he is not as good as Pope. However, he has always been a great shot stopper, which we saw last night. Glad he got 3 stars at last.
Roll on your talk around Jesmond.
All the best John and Jean
I like the star ratings better. It’s just a nice quirk. There are plenty of statisticians out there to be precise.
The team is disjointed aswell as very young and inexperienced. Just cos we've got a few big players back doesn't mean it all fixes itself straight away no matter how much we'd hope for that. Saying that, I bet it's fixed sooner than they're given credit for. The arsenal game really depleted our confidence. To have a similar start of the game against Blackburn and still go and create many chances and win the game. I think that deserves some credit. A couple years ago theyd get boo'd off the pitch for not getting back into it. Context.
I thought we were very poor. Howe’s stubbornness with the formation and tactics will be his downfall. More worryingly though, many players did not seem happy with really poor body language. We are unrecognisable from last season - something seems very wrong
Shocking stuff last night, where was the urgency from Newcastle after Saturday's debacle?
Howe just keeps making the same comments along the lines of "That Wasn't Us", well you could have fooled me Eddie because that is the same side that has been poor for the majority of the season!
I cannot understand Howe escaping criticism after some of the naivety shown by him this campaign.
He has been stepped up in class and his one trick pony style of management has caught up with him exposing Howe's lack of ability at the top level.
It is shame because everyone wanted him to succeed but it does seem it is beyond his pay grade with a new direction required in the summer as I don't think another season of Howe's football will do us any good.
A lot of negatives for sure but keep the faith , I still have confidence in Eddie ..
We've been here before with Bobby Robson ...fans constantly whinging then regretting it when he left .
Eddie will sort it ,yes he's made mistakes but deserves time to sort it ...hopefully majority of fans agree.
Dear Craig,
Canny video as always 👍😎
The Dream lives on ✊👏👍😎😁
Regards,
The press is very lethargic these days Craig
You have to start asking Eddie about longstaff. It took him 70 min to get started , his performance is shocking over the last few games, and he needs to be dropped,we were lucky to get through to night it shouldn't have taken penalties for us to beat Blackburn. But hwtl
Really enjoying the WhatsApp channel Craig
People need to be realistic. Ewood Park is a tough place to go on a Tuesday night in those conditions against a team playing 5 at the back in their biggest game for years/of the season.
Yes we should still have had enough to win but how can Eddie be blamed for the Longstaff, Gordon, Barnes, Bruno and Lascelles misses? Thats on the players not the manager. What could Eddie have done to make them score in that situation? On another day those go in and we’re talking about a comfortable 4-1 win. Also not sure what Eddie can do about the Lascelles mistake so could have even been a 4-0 win.
If we didn’t create those chances then I’d be questioning Howe more.
Non the less the performance could have been better and it’s obvious we have too many players that despite Howe improving them 10 fold, are still not good enough.
Longstaff is miles off it and would struggle to get into most championship midfields. Murphy out his depth too. Big summer of recruitment ahead.
Stick with the boys we’re on the right track. HWTL
That Smodics is better than Longstaff
Don't talk sense man, of course it's Howes fault, if he'd just change the system or play Tino instead of Burn then those chances would've been put away easily. It's his fault for not getting in the players heads and making them stick it in the corner, in fact they probably missed on purpose because he's completely lost the dressing room. Get Jose in he'd have Murphy skinning full backs for fun and turn Longstaff into prime Frank Lampard
@@johnnyboy11000 Lol you’re bang on mate…. Refreshing to see we still have some fans with common sense
it felt like the days Pardew & Bruce used to put scratch teams out - I'd barely give 6 out of 10 to anyone except Gordon & Dubravka
Amazing how much we paid for some of those players! Were taken as mugs last Summer.
I feel like 5-3-2 might be worth a go and match Wolves as there's so many things wrong. Some of the players didn't seem to know where they were meant to be playing. Started to get Bruceball flashbacks.
I'm thrilled we are through but Jesus wept, that was dire. It's not the players, they are following orders and carrying out tactics formed by Eddie and the coaching staff. Not one single Blackburn player would get anywhere near our first team but they outplayed us.
Howe has either lost the dressing room or lost the plot. We are setting up like Bournemouth, expecting to get battered and hoping for a quick break. If we'd have got beat last night, which we bloody should have done, at least it would have forced the owners hand a little.
Happy daby do,great to see him back.pope aint gettin back in at this rate
This playing out from the back at all costs is really starting to annoy me as that is the cause of a lot of our issues
It sure was a disjointed effort but I think we need to remember that we have only recently been able to expand our bench with midfield and attacking options for the first time in many months. A 'squad' of around 11 players has played every match for months. They are jaded (yeah, I know, all you professional sportsmen will tell me that running several miles full pelt twice a week while controllling a football is easy). While we have Willock, Barnes and Isak back they have each played less than a game (or so) so they are not match sharp. For a good example of it taking a couple of games to get match sharp just look at Dubravka - now back to his best and saving us games. It'll take a couple of games for the returning players to get back to match sharpness. Judge us then. Arsenal - yes, we were toothless, but they have scored 4 or more in their last half dozen matches - context! We weren't firing on all cylanders last night but, except for a mistake by Lascelles, we'd have won in 90 mins. We found a way to win. Still in a cup and still in with a shout of Europe. Considering where we were 2 years ago, that's not bad. One more win in the league and we're safe from relegation 😁. We're a work in progress. HWTL
Played like we were 4-0 up from the start. Isak, still not fit? Defence using the back pass far too much, putting unnecessary pressure on the keeper, basic mistakes. Blackburn must feel hard done by, far better team. Thank f##k for Dubravka!
Rallying cry to keep the merit marks Craig. Long drive from Edinburgh and although it was a win, it was a terrible performance and we would struggle against Gateshead at the moment.
Dubravka is our all time best keeper. The board will sack Eddie Howe when we get knocked out of the cup.
Amoron is to be appointed as new manager
They looked very low on confidence, hopefully we can grind out a few more results as that will help, we need somebody who can take the game by the scruff and lead us through it, Bruno tries to but sometimes it seems like the harder he tries the worse he plays. Isak, Willock & Barnes all looked rusty so hopefully wont take too long for them & Anderson to get up to speed. But i have to give them credit as poor as the performance was at times they didnt give up and kept at it, lets hope they can gain a bit of confidence from it.
Atrocious performance. "What is wrong with them at the moment" is a simple but pertinent question . Slow, predictable and unpredictably outfought. Best team lost.
Burnt out because of too intense training sessions
@@BrianPinas9
Well, I'm struggling to believe that.
@@phoenixrisin5848 it's obvious. He trains the players too hard so they can't perform on match days
@@BrianPinas9
Give owa man.
It was a disjointed performance but away cup ties are tricky, confidence is low, pace around the middle is lacking, the squad is light, Joelinton is a big loss, he has physical power and he uses it,Bruno is spikey but Miley and Longstaff don't frighten opponents and Isak has class but he spends a fair but of time on the ground. All good teams have a solid defense as a base to work from and until that is got right Newcastle are playing catch up.
It would appear that every successive game Mr. Howe has to win or get on the next plane to Saudi Arabia.
Seeing as Burn played two hours, should be Hall start with Tino on the right for Wolves. Yeah? I wouldn’t count on it.
What a mess we are in
We were very lucky, end of