Newport County V City (Saturday 22/2/2020)

Not watching on ifollow and not even listening on the radio and I can sense we are playing shite.

 

If this carries on next season ticket sales are going to be pure comedy Stuart or not, I can't see it getting over 10k even with flexi card numbers to paper over cracks.

 

The first goal for them was so bad, I expected it to be disallowed - no one reacted and I assumed they'd taken it before the whistle went.

All week, McCall has been in the press talking about the need to be prepared for a grind this aft. None of them have listened. They've been far too soft without the ball, getting all the basics wrong.

Piss poor. Possibly Wood, but other than him I'm not arsed about keeping a single one of these players.

 

Can't manage much when collectively we lack footballing intelligence as much as ability What a mess, what a shambles of a squad.No cohesion, little aggression and absolutely no resolve or knowhow throughout the team. As someone mentioned earlier, with the wind behind us in the 2nd half we may just do better ...but we bloody well need commitment!

 

Just put a tenner on City to score 3 goals or more at 6 to 1. In God we trust.

 

I genuinely would rather see kids like Reece Staunton given a chance than selecting most of these spineless players again. I hope McCall is giving them hell in the dressing room right now

 

Are you Mad?

 

I believe with the wind behind us if we can get a bit of quality into the box it could still work with the two big lads getting amongst their defenders, but at the moment I've seen nothing from our widemen to suggest that will happen.

 

The wind behind them
They need someone’s boot behind them

 

Crying out for a Cooke, Devitt or preferably both...

 

My therapist says I am.

 

Very important 45 mins coming up. If we don’t turn this match round we can write this season off. We’re getting out muscled and outfought and outfoxed and out footballed again. First goal we conceded is about worst I can remember from a corner. A player totally unmarked in the area.

 

Reeves and Akpan don't offer anything in a two man midfield surely Stuart can see this, he has to bring one of the widemen off and put another man in the middle be it Pritchard or McCartan

 

Why do folk think Devitt is the messiah, it’s not like we’ve dropped Aguero, he is just another lower league journeyman.

 

Completely agree. Its exposed all of our frailties, and their are plenty. It's a food job we're safe, because I expect poor results over the next few weeks.

Massive rebuild in the summer and for me, the run up to May is now about being ready for next season.

 

Wish I'd a £5 for every time we've said that this season..................but your correct it cant get worse..........can it .

 

This is just awful. Not a spine between them. No pattern to our play. Our lack of midfield once again is causing us all kind of problems. Defence is so weak and O’Donnell is so bad.
Worse than anything is the sheer lack of urgency, we have literally fallen to bits running around like headless chickens.
I honestly have no idea what Stuart can say to them

 

Is the wind going to blow some quality players into the ground from other areas of the UK? Because I’m very sorry, that’s the only way you’ll see quality in this team.
Absolutely NO game plan at all. Absolutely NO ONE prepared to grab the game by the scruff of the neck to make things happen.
In that first half, can you think of one move, one passage of play that looks like we know what we’re doing? NO? Me neither.

 

no changes at half time then.