Newcastle post game

[Craig_H]

Can someone explain the offside rule to me? Their second goal to me was offside, what's with all the second phase of play, sky are talking about. Surely that was the same phase of play. The ball is clearly intended as a pass to him and he was in an offside position, no one else touches the ball, how can he not be given offside? Sky are suggesting that that's the right decision under the rules

Nah sorry, it doesnt matter that they benefitted from the rules not being enforced. It's our fault, not the ref or linesman's.....

They could have kicked our players in the head & got away with it - and it still wouldnt have mattered.

Etc...

[Gibbo]

Andy's dive...

Terrible dive, should have just pulled the trigger, if he misses he misses.

[Exiled_red]

More I see it the more I think he just falls over. Not sure if he appealed. No desire to watch back really.

I was thinking the same, does he actually appeal for a pen? - as that's the only thing that would make it a dive rather than a fall.

[CJ]

Group hug everyone?

[Mostar]

Inexplicable. Needs to have a serious ****ing word with himself. Could have been a very different game he'd put that in. Why didn't he just put it in, the ****ing clown

And that is exactly what I don't get.

Why look for the penalty first.

Why not try to score.

That is his ****ing job..

Very disappointed by that dive.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Right, so Steven Gerrard, in your opinion, would've most likely missed the penalty? Yeah?

Christ...

It was a poor decision, but we need to take responsibility for our own performance which, to a man wasn't good enough to win today.

Its hard to swallow when we have straws to clutch at but, we're so poor it hurts.

[RichC]

Right, so Steven Gerrard, in your opinion, would've most likely missed the penalty? Yeah?

Christ...

If's and buts though Craig - the pen wasn't given wrongly obviously, but we need to be winning games without relying on the officials getting things right like that.

We're just simply not getting the results and the whole sorry lot of them need to get their heads down and work at changing things around

[Craig_H]

And, like... so with our one goal we'd beat their two goals... ummm

**** me!

Do you think, with us in the ascendency, 1-0 up and an extra player, the rest of the game would've still turned out the same???

Seriously mate, it's 1st April but you're pushing it somewhat

[Rocky Sullivan]

There are some managers that I wouldn't mind considering if Kenny is not an answer like Bielsa, Klop, Van Gaal etc but not Mourinho.

I really don't want that cunt near our club.

your feelings are not important mate, sorry no disrespect, but the future success of our club far out weighs your personal feelings towards certain managers.

[Buzzo]

No guarantees Buzzo, but our problems stem from when something goes wrong - eg, we go behind and heads drop. When we're ahead, we're a different kettle of fish. So taking into account going 1-0 up, the boost in confidence AND the fact that we'd have been playing against 10, it's fair to say we'd have been far more likely to win the game than not.

I do agree with that.

It just seems our problems are pretty deep routed right now. The run we are on is appalling, and any manager of any team with any standing legend or no has to defend it. I feel for Kenny, this is the worst possible scenario after he took charge. And I don't know what the answer is, but change seems inevitable as we are losing to everyone.

[The_weatherman]

Well, on the plus side I roughly doubled my money

[cream]

And, like... so with our one goal we'd beat their two goals... ummm

Yeah, but if they hadn't scored the two goals and if we scored one, we would've won the game. It's all about ifs, ifs, ifs...can't you see it?

[kingfunk]

Newcastle have played a better 11 players than our 11 players. They won, so what. We have a mid table team. Wake the **** up.

[Craig_H]

jeez craig the decisions were poor but we were far worse. the players'/kenny's ineptitude was far more result defining than anything the officials did today.

Quite possibly. My point is, had the decisions been made properly, we'd have most likely not been in the same situation that we ended up in.

Our heads dropped, confidence sapped away and people lost hope. None of which would've likely happened, had we gone 1-0 up against 10 men.

What part of that is so complicated to understand? Circumstances dictate, goals make a difference, sending-offs impact on how the game goes etc.

If Atkinson had done his job, we would have been ahead, a man up and in control - and none of the head-dropping ****e would've happened.

[ChesterDave]

I was thinking the same, does he actually appeal for a pen? - as that's the only thing that would make it a dive rather than a fall.

He's definitely looking at the ball and there is a possible floor kick with the right foot too. The other angle would be good to see it from. Not that it particularly matters in the grand scheme of it all.