Newcastle United FC 1-0 Watford FC - 03/11/2018

What the hell happened at half time? Second half we were pressing with one player at a time, allowing Newcastle to just pass around us and find time and space. Our decision making went to pot, picking the wrong ball or running at defenders when we're boxed in. We played them back into the game and then didn't know what to do once they'd scored. At the end we barely even pushed, yet somehow still should've equalised.

 

Now we must let the dust settle, assess, regroup and then go again.

 

The ease with which Deulofeu and Success were getting into their box in the first half...

 

I'm genuienly not taking the piss when I say this but the answer is pretty simple - two teams take part in a match. In the first half we cut them to ribbons. In the second half they shut off our supply lines by pressing higher and we didn't react. I don't think it's a matter of energy or intensity dropping. We just had no plan B and are a much weaker side when left to rely on Cathcart, Mariappa and Foster for every out ball.

 

I'm annoyed every Wednesday and Saturday morning when I check the numbers...it's almost like I expect to win.

 

Shouldn't need a plan B. The game should have been out of sight at half time. The only way to rectify this is in the transfer market. I noticed Richarlison got a brace today, cover paper over the Silva cracks again.

 

Wouldn't mind £10...my biggest win was £2.60...I'm blaming Holebas for that.

 

Games like this will happen.

If we have to lose the odd one, I'd much rather it was because we didn't score a single one of the 40 opportunities that came our way.

 

Don't like Holebas ego in the team. Sick of his dissent in almost every game. He can go in Jan as far as I'm concerned, while he's still got some potential value.

You can see why Del boy was released from Barca. Good player but consistency lets him down.

Success getting his dose of hype, but I don't think he is the future striker we could rely on, makes far too many simple mistakes & erratic passing & shooting. Championship type player.

Only good from today is Okaka has lost weight.

 

What is it about this club? We give life support to clubs on death’s door. Missed chance after chance in the first half and were ragged in the 2nd half, particularly after they scored. Okaka is simply not premier league standard. Full stop. My mother in law would have scored his missed chance near the end. Inexplicable that a striker would not score in such a position. Just one of those very frustrating days. Fantastic opportunity to move up the table badly missed. Success was far less effective in the 2nd half and should have been taken off much earlier. Holebas was not sharp from corners and consistently hit the first defender with his placed kicks.

To introduce one positive, we created so many chances. Improve our finishing and we will win many more games.

Still seething about today’s game though.

 

Yes we are Watford and yes today was a typical Watford sort of afternoon and result, but what should we expect? We are a team still trying to punch above our weight in a division where just about everybody can beat everybody else outside of the top 3.

Yes certain players had bad games today but we are still at a level where inconstancy is sadly the norm, coz if it wasn’t they’d be playing for the likes of Man City or Liverpool or Barca or Juve. Does Holebas’s good start to the season now count for nothing after a below par showing today? Or Gray’s goals that helped us win matches? Has Gracia now gone back to being an idiot after masterminding our best ever start to a PL season up until today? Can Okaka be judged on just his first ten minutes of the season today, bad miss though it was today?

We all knew we should have signed a quality striker this summer and not getting Alcacer will continue to haunt us I’m sure. We all know this remains a tough tough league and if you’re slightly off your game, you get punished. This season we’ve often taken two steps forward then one back. Just when you think we really are the business after a few consecutive wins, along comes a shocker. It’s **** but it’s the level we are at. You either accept it and hope we learn from it, or you forget the good that’s gone before and take the ‘everything is suddenly c-rap again’ approach. And it was today, but it isn’t for the whole season and it need not be again. And it won’t be. Because we are still edging forwards, but it can’t always be at the beeathneck speed some hope for.

And this post from somebody who could easily have used today to rejoin the ‘Gracia isn’t quite as good as he was made out to be’ club.

Have a good evening, and safe journey home.

 

Ffs we’re all frustrated but stop making yourself look like an idiot. We’ve had our best start to a top flight season in (????) years, if not ever. Stop crying.

 

Very similar to Fulham. Should have been out of sight first half but wasteful finishing cost us.

It happens. Need to rectify this against Southampton and reclaim that top 7 spot.

Chalobah and Masina next week please.

 

Before the match I said if we scored around 20-30 minutes they'd crumble but if it got to 60 minutes at 0-0 they'd probably nick it.

Listened on 5 live sports extra as I was moving house but it sounded like we were superb until the shot.

We aren't going down but hopefully it's a reminder to the players they have to stay focused and can't afford to waste easy chances

 

I'm going to take it out on the spinach.
Disappointed but not entirely surprised.
Odd decision to bring Holebas back.

 

Flying in to watch the Southampton game next Saturday. Newcastle are awful and we sounded poor against them. Southampton will be up to beat their fellow strugglers next week.
Tactics for Southampton:
Play it wide use your pace and movement against a slow,sloppy marking Watford defence.
Put the ball in the mixer as many times as possible as we are crap the air .
Sit back and wait for us to lose heart as we miss chance after chance.

What a disappointing afternoon listening to that shower of 5hit play. It was Newcastle and they have been clueless so far this season..

 

Very similar to the game against Fulham. The much better team, should have been out of sight by half time, only to go and drop points.

Extremely frustrating, I hate these types of results because it really was an easy game for us to be winning.

Again no blame can be on Javi. Deulofeu missing a hat trick of chances on the 1st half is his own doing. As well as all our other goal shy players today.

Newcastle know they have got away with one there but that’s football. It happens to every team, just sucks when it us.

 

Do one muppet

If I'm making myself look like an idiot your demonstrating what a terrific village fool you make

 

That’s it. If this team can’t be bothered to put the effort in then I withdraw my support for them by boycotting the Shoutbox.

I’m thoroughly pissed off with sitting at home linked to flaky stream on a dodgy website.

 

People sometimes debate on here why Watford aren't respected.

You've now got a firm answer.

 

my heart sank when i saw holebas starting, would of had him on the bench at best as still do not rate him even though he had a plucky start of season.
he is horrendous at corners and free kicks imo, just hope today does not lead to too much tinkering or changes against Southampton as think we are fairy solid overall

 

A fox in the box me thinks

 

16 attempts. 1 on target. Says it all.

 

Having said all that people, I would rather be a Watford supporter than a Geordie.

 

Another 45 minute performance

Success was awful in the 2nd half and should have been changed a lot earlier

Gracia's weakness is defiantly his use and timing of substitutions

 

definitely.

Take that however you want.

 

So pleased I chose not to go.

 

Holebas, Okaka, Gracia, Cathcart, Doucoure, Deolofeou, Gray. Mini bus outside the stadium to take you all away from our club, permanently

All useless and can **** off.

Hughes, Mariappa and Kiko can join them too.

Too much dead wood

 

Very good post. My thoughts exactly.

 

A couple of people have said no blame to be pointed at Gracia, I disagree. I thought his substitutions/tactics when we went a goal behind were atrocious. Putting three up top doesn’t increase the chances of scoring, infact it makes it easier for the opposition to defend. Our overall second half performance was shocking, we became completely complacent. What the heck was said at half time?