29 Nov 2025 20:29:44
An all round bad day. On to the next one.
A lot of people, including myself, calling for Alcaraz over Tim. Hopefully Moyes has seen that now. I thought Tim was awful. He's good off bench and should be used that way until he's got some more experience imo.
Also, I am not sure the Barry experiment is working. And before everyone gives me grief, I am not saying Beto is the answer, he is just the best of what we have. I know Barry won a lot of stuff in the air but its just a touch, no control doesn't go to anyone. Dom could get flick ons, take it on his chest, win free kicks Barry just can't do that. I was never a Dom fan but he was good at that.
29 Nov 2025 19:56:38
He did it against Utd and he did ok today. The quandry is who do we get in Jan, another sides cast off?
29 Nov 2025 22:31:10
Barry’s young in a new country and team but is starting to show promise, I’m aware we need a goal scorer as Beto is useless too, but we haven’t and won’t have till possibly jan, you can lay blame anywhere you want but fact is Newcastle outplayed us.
30 Nov 2025 00:43:35
I turned the TV off at half-time I was so disgusted. Teams can see how vulnerable from corners and Newcastle exploited it in the first minute. Tim whatever his name is was terrible. Second to the ball and pushed off it easily. After the great display last week I was afraid that this was coming. Not the end of the world but it has shown how bad we can be, if we are going to be anywhere near European places we have to be much more consistent.
Was happy when Moyes came back but he has shown that he is incapable of changing his tactics based on the oppositions strengths and weaknesses. What is the use of a larger squad when the same favorites are used over and over again.
Yers and get Barry boots with studs.
30 Nov 2025 10:33:29
Baffling how we have some of the tallest players in the league and we can’t deal with corners.
Moyes got it wrong with his team selection and not for the first time. At one point at 3-0 down we had all eleven players in our own half .
30 Nov 2025 10:45:52
That’s the trouble Mike we only have one way of playing and once they double up on our wide players we have nothing.
30 Nov 2025 11:36:16
It’s a shame because he got it right on Monday at Old Trafford.
We started poorly and were defensively all over the place at times. Tim should have dealt with second and third goal but didn’t. The corner and fourth goal didn’t challenge the header (admittedly Charlie was much shorter and at a disadvantage so why was he marking a player who had already shown they were decent in the air? ) .
We move on but I worry about how we’ll play away at Bournemouth where we haven’t had much luck in the last few years. Couple of defeats away from a relegation scrap.