Ant & Dec, Jimmy Nail, Cardinal Basil Hume, Carole Malone, Viz, the voiceover bloke from Big Brother, 'Sting' and my (cheating) ex-girlfriend - your boys took one hell of a beating tonight. But how did the rest of the city react to an unexpected home defeat? Read on, happy Hammers...
"A proper curate’s egg of a game. Failing to beat West Ham at home with Fabianski in goal and no Kudus feels like a big missed opportunity. West Ham were what they have been for ages now - loads of good, clever players going forward and right horrors in defence. They just rely on numbers at the back and 10 behind the ball for the most part to keep teams at bay, but they’re not good enough to do so for long. West Ham (Todibo in particular) are never more than a few minutes away from a big defensive rick. You just couldn’t exploit it. Bowen was incredible. There are games where I think he flatters to deceive at the top level but he was absolutely everywhere and barely put a foot wrong. Kelly dealt with Antonio about as well as anyone could hope for."
- leffe186
"Ahhh rats cocks. What a shit way to spend a Monday night. We're doing fuck all in the league if we lose our home form. I'm pinning all my hopes on the League Cup."
- Renton
"Cack. Absolutely cack. Although I did enjoy my first 'safe standing' experience."
- Jill
"I think on reflection it’s Howe’s worst managerial performance. We controlled the first half and there were goals in it for us, despite being a goal down, but his arse fell out second half after their second went in and he threw on everything he had on the bench like he was playing a game of fifa. We ended up looking so ragged and disjointed. So unlike Howe. Credit to West Ham. I thought they defended really well and grew into the game, pretty much bossed it after the second went in instead of sitting back and protecting what they had. Wan-Bissaka looked like prime Steven Gerrard at times, stepping into midfield. "
- Dr Gloom
"Really frustrating. We created enough to win the game but we just didn't take our chances. We get into great positions but final ball isn't good enough. I thought West Ham defended well. They were snide and niggly but managed the game well after their second goal. Inconsistent Toon."
- samptime29
"Fucking Pathetic."
- Dougle
"That was absolute fucking dogshit. How did the second half manage to be even worse than the first? With the exception of Pope, why did the non-internationals feel miles off it compared to the others? What have they been doing all week? Ryan Taylor in the Barracks reckons it wouldn't be a surprise if we turned the Scousers over next week. Pint of what you're on please mate, fucking hell. Long time since I've been so disheartened by us."
- Kilcline
"Reminiscent of the Ashley days in the last 10. Early leavers, half empty ground, half arsed singing in the freezing cold and losing to an average-decent team after a tragic second half. How I've missed it. :lol: (I haven't.)"
- HaydnNUFC
"Five goals conceded at home to West Ham is some going this calendar year."
- Sibierski
"Last night was weird, that we didn't have composure at all. That wasn't just in front of goal, but it was all over the pitch. After they scored we shit our pants. Yet we still look threatening more than them. They were happy to soak up the pressure and go for us on the break. If we had just calmed down and not started throwing aimless crosses in, I am sure we would have got the goal. We need a refresh, we have too many players that aren't able to make the step up now and it's starting to stink the place out a bit."
- wykikitoon
"We're at home against a side who started the season poorly and whose manager is under pressure. They made us look bang average man, it's woeful. Dropping points to Fulham, West Ham, Bournemouth and Everton is just unforgivable. We look mid-table at best but really shouldn't with the squad we have. Not sure why we keep going back to performances like these. We're going backwards never mind standing still."
- KennyUtd
"I think the pen shout was one of those that may have been given pre-VAR, seems like a lot of refs are cautious with some fouls because they know VAR will bail them out if they are totally wrong. I'd imagine had it been given on field then it wouldn't have been overturned and in VAR's eyes not a clear and obvious error."
- Tisd09
"Very disappointing and fuck that non-pen call. If you opened an encyclopedia and looked up Penalty it would have a picture of that."
- McDog
"Sigh, really painful watch. Thought we were really good in the first half, just let down by a dire goal to concede. Five minutes into the second half and it still felt like a matter of time before we scored and potentially turned it around. Second goal killed us dead. The wind was totally knocked out of the players' sails, at which point they're looking to the manager for impetus. Sadly he got every single tweak wrong and by the end we looked extremely desperate. Should've had a penalty, mind."
- Yorkie
"Looking at this shit West Ham team, I have to wonder how this has happened - then I remember, we like to fuck up against shit teams, plus we've had a pointless international break to disrupt the momentum we'd built up previously... fucking tedious bollocks."
- Armchair Pundit
"West Ham played us perfectly, humiliating last 20 minutes. Couldn't lay a glove on them."
- Aiston
"We've hit a glass ceiling, momentum completely gone because of the new rules. You can want to replace Howe and scream at and about the players, but its not changing. Need to either try and enjoy it for what it is, wrap in or be melancholic as fuck about it (where I'm at) because shit as it may be, this is it unless things change in the courts. We're upper midtable, West Ham are mid-midtable and this is a standard result and game that reflects that as will the final table."
- Jonas
"If I was Eddie Howe's wife, I'd immediately start cheating on him."
- thomas
"I am not saying we weren’t the better team, but think that we just looked ok'ish at best. We certainly got enough chances to score and I don’t think West Ham would have won then. But the mentality and the focus were already all wrong in the first half. There was hardly any structure in our attacking movement and a lot of the passing was wayward. That’s why West Ham got into the game despite looking very ordinary at best in the first half."
- Isegrim
"Who the fuck is Andy Irving?"
- Fak
"West Ham have been shocking this season and yet we didn't have a shot on target. The players on that pitch were good enough to win this game, but we could barely string a few passes together. It was crying out for more balls over their back line- much like for Isak's offside goal but it just never came."
- duo
"How the fuck is Lucas Paqueta still playing football, is it just Newcastle players that get lengthy bans?"
- pubteam
"Watching Paqueta, he’s exactly what Man City are missing this season."
- black_n_white
"West Ham clearly absolutely shite but we fucked it to an unreal degree. Second half especially we were shit and got worse with every change to the point they were taking the piss, absolutely awful. Wan-Bissaka joining Lazaridis and Rowland in the utter dross goalscoring stakes against us."
- Disco
"Bowen was a different class. it'd be nice having someone like him in our team."
- Big River
"Bowen has the shoulders of a pigeon, mind."
- Holloway
"I missed the first half in fairness, but West Ham didn't look awful in the second. They were trying to pass their way through us with some aggressive intent, reminded me a bit of Fulham. Bowen was definitely causing us some problems, and as soon as I saw Soucek in the line up I was nervous he'd score. One of those pain in the arse players a bit like Antonio."
- TRon
"I thought Soler and Paqueta just completely ran the midfield second half."
- joeyt
"West Ham brilliant, the better team won, move on."
- black_n_white
"They spent £133million this summer. More than we've spent in two years (this January). About £150m net more than us this year. It entitles them to competitiveness I'd say. When we spent more, we finished ahead of them and thrashed them. Now that's not that case, that's not the case."
- Jonas
"Apparently there were two West Ham podcasters/influencers/YouTubers/wankers whatever they're called filming for their channel at the front of the Leazes stand, giving it large (in exaggerated influencer style) after their goals and then turning around to glower at people for ruining their shots when they kept getting pinged on the back of the head with the rubber bands from the ISAK display flags or called names. Not sure if anyone's seen anything about that or knows what channel it was, I'm sure it'll be very selectively edited though to make them look less wet."
- BlueStar
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