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

[LamieRobertson]

Erm it's your use of your instead of you're that I was referring to. Retard

Retard? Ok well just f*** off little boy

 

[Mike Small]

That was a tough watch.

 

[Mancgull]

We are down to the bare bones and they are right up for it and fresh. Let’s not be too hard on them tonight. Players being kept back for Sunday.... that’s a huge game for us now.

 

[razer]

It's blindingly obvious that our fixture congestion is the sole reason why our squad selection and results have been hit and miss lately.

Why do people pipe up and make themselves appear thick by appearing to not understand this?

Because they are thick.

 

[A1X]

Villa will do exactly the same to us on the last day, if we still need something then we’re in trouble

 

[Weststander]

It’s the EPL, money talks. Eddie bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was able to play his favourite 11 costing £100m’s, including.

(Don’t be too hard amongst yourselves over the next few days. Bloom/RDZ are operating on relative buttons).

 

[Mustafa II]

Jesus Christ this forum is depressing when we lose. Football fans are morons. Sorry, yes, a lot of you are morons. No offence, like.

Is it not obvious that we have a half-strength, absolutely knackered side playing in over-congested fixtures, to the extent that we are having to play teenagers, including debuts tonight, against a top 4 team away?

Well, I thought it was obvious, anyway.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Didn’t you see how Newcastle were playing him?

I have seen your view …just don’t agree….perhaps though rewind to the original post that you referred to….”bllx” ….that seems a lot different to what you were saying …

 

[portlock seagull]

9 goals shipped in 3 games. FFS lads, please don’t let Villa once again take our glory with the last kick of the season. You are not, I repeat, not on the beach yet!

 

[Bodian]

Villa will do exactly the same to us on the last day, if we still need something then we’re in trouble

No - we'll be fine. That's in the right side of the good game / bad game rotation.

 

[The Fits]

Villa will do exactly the same to us on the last day, if we still need something then we’re in trouble

We've got no chance at Villa. I actually give us more chance against City.

 

[pb21]

Basically you can thank the world cup for this. We've really drawn the short straw with the fixture congestion but that, Forest and Everton were really f***ing poor. Like dog piss poor.

Thing is if you're going to blame fixture congestion for bad performances (which seems reasonable) you have to also think the opposite was true, i.e. when we had fewer games we benefited compared to others. The season is 38 games after all.

 

[BBassic]

Jesus Christ this forum is depressing when we lose. Football fans are morons. Sorry, yes, a lot of you are morons. No offence, like.

Is it not obvious that we have a half-strength, absolutely knackered side playing in over-congested fixtures, to the extent that we are having to play teenagers, including debuts tonight, against a top 4 team away?

Well, I thought it was obvious, anyway.

It is obvious but we're an emotional bunch, especially when we lose.

 

[Jeremiah]

Hmm difficult enough game without an injury ravaged squad. What have Newcastle spent on players this season compared to us ?

 

[Farehamseagull]

Really- he’s run about like a headless chicken- giving the ball away

Hey?! He was our best attacker by a distance and was only on 30 minutes!

 

[The Oldman]

One day we will overcome smug Eddie and his henchman but not today.

 

[kuzushi]

When was the last time Mitoma had a good game for us? Feels,like it’s been a while.

He's good at what he does, which is dribbling and creating chances for others, but he's pants at finishing. I know he's scored with one or two good strikes, but usually he misses or hits it at the goalie, and I've noticed that recently he seems to have become more selfish than he used to be. I don't know whether this is his own decision or the result of instructions from the coaching team, but IMHO he either needs to learn how to finish properly, or else stick to laying it off for a team-mate.

 

[elwheelio]

Newcastle away is a tough game at the best of times. When you're missing half your first team, it's almost impossible.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

It’s not, it’s true. He was awful today like he was away to Leicester too. Didn’t you see how Newcastle let him have the ball with no pressure at all? It was so obvious, they knew. At Leicester, it was plain to see our own players didn’t pass to him.

Not his fault, he’s quite clearly not a PL defender at the moment and needs a move in the summer.

Just got in from watching elsewhere.

Van Hecke is very poor, similar at Leicester.

Their third goal was rank bad defending.

Still can’t be easy when you aren’t match fit. Was Gilmour injured?

 

[Icy Gull]

How very Brighton, I am not despondent. We were lucky to only be 2-0 down at HT, Shitehousing by Newcastle after our goal and going for shit or bust. It ended up as bust, oh well I can take it, we’ve been through so much worse

Onwards and upwards. As an aside I thought Van Hecke really grew into that game having looked like a rabbit in the headlights to me early in the game. Good experience for him, we need to give him time.