Crystal Palace vs. Newcastle match thread

[AndyPlymouth]

Wharton is poor at the moment.

 

[JHB]

vAR may save Sage’s job here

 

[DenTyler]

Thank f*** for that. Somebody needs to sort this out. They now realise they can get at us so easily

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Canvot got out of jail there. Offside.

 

[edskan]

Lucky there. Mind you we were denied on Thursday

 

[TheBigToePunt]

Very lucky.

 

[maddog]

Phew! A let off. We need to wake up. COYP!

 

[Eaglecoops]

Well, struggling to score and can’t defend. Not the best combo for a PL team.

 

[Spindle]

Away 5 minutes and it's nearly 2 nil. Sage ain't gonna survive this

 

[JHB]

We’ve started the half asleep and infuriatingly with the wing backs pushed up again. Like we have learned nothing about what works tactically

 

[park the bus]

Calamity Canvot and Disaster Disasi what a winning combo. We're f***ed until the situation at the back is fixed.

 

[G O Eagle]

Sages ability to demotivate and confuse his players at half time is even more imopressive than the same before games.

 

[Tlsestu]

Defenders are too far apart again

 

[johnny the eagle]

Clueless, I said before today, IMHO, that he wasn't the man for the job.

 

[JHB]

Calamity Canvot and Disaster Disasi what a winning combo. We're f***ed until the situation at the back is fixed.

Unfortunately Canvot has gone from a raw defender with promise to just a bad defender. We cannot keep starting him. It’s asking for trouble

 

[DenTyler]

Need an extra body in midfield. Get Hughes on ffs

 

[G O Eagle]

To make a horrible Newcastle side look like Real Madrid is impressive.

 

[Plaistow Eagle]

Away 5 minutes and it's nearly 2 nil. Sage ain't gonna survive this

He has the rest of this half or his gone..!!

 

[Nutmegyeti]

We’ve started the half asleep and infuriatingly with the wing backs pushed up again. Like we have learned nothing about what works tactically

This is exactly it. It reminds me of my time as a five-a-side goalkeeper, playing for a team called the Jehovah Rovers. I should point out that I wasn’t a Witness myself.

Their tactical philosophy was beautifully simple. Everyone else stood on the halfway line, and if I happened to save a shot, we’d have a four-on-one break and would undoubtedly score.

The minor flaw in this tactical masterplan was that I was expected to stop absolutely everything.

After our third consecutive double-figure hammering, I packed it in. Not because I didn’t enjoy playing, but because it was abundantly clear they weren’t going to change.

Sage appears to operate on precisely the same principle. Keep pushing the wing-backs forward, regardless of the fact that the three centre-backs simply aren’t good enough to cover the space left behind.

Surely, at some point, you have to recognise that the system isn’t working and try something different? Adapt to the players you’ve actually got rather than the ones you wish you had.


They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.


Rather like expecting the French not to surrender in a war.

 

[edskan]

We are s***