Newcastle in JPT

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Another dive from May?

[Dare to dream!]

3-1

[Scooter]

3-1. Newcastle player sped past Anderson, marko seemed to hesitate instead of rushing out giving the chance for the shot. Rovers don’t look like scoring

[goalkick]

Oh dear, don't know what to say.speechless.

[drfchound]

Coppinger still makes such a difference to us when he plays.

[sf9944]

Mental team selection tonight. Kane injured now

[Scooter]

Newcastle have played ok. Young fast lads against Anderson and Butler were always going to have a chance

[drfchound]

We are just about out of it now so we should put our juniors out for the final two games.
Too many players getting crocked.

[Scooter]

Wins against Notts county and Grimsby should see us through surely ?

[sedwardsdrfc]

think the lads must of underestimated this game with it been an u21 team. Thats the only way i can explain what's happened!

[DonnyOsmond]

Embarrassing result.

[IDM]

Why is it embarrassing??

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I wouldn't go that far and I'm not going to lose any sleep about a result in this competition.

More concerned about the welfare of the players. I"m sure most teams will feel it's a game too far at this time of year.

[PDX_Rover]

Bugger the result. More concerned about injuries that this competition. League has to be the priority.

[BigH]

We're still on a learning curve. GM will have learn't quite a bit about a number of squad players tonight in a relatively low level game. Better here than in a league fixture.

Injury worries are the only real concern IMHO.

[Peebles Rover]

15 shots to 5 😳

[bpoolrover]

That was as poor as it gets, the next 2 games in this comp just play reserves as it's not worth the risk of injuries and unless he plays the 1st 11 we won't win as the back up players just are not good enough, you can't fault there effort but that's it

[bpoolrover]

Can't really remember there keeper having much to do,the young lad who came on did ok thou didn't catch his name thou

[steve@dcfd]

Tonight we saw that our team relies on all first team players playing at their best and available.

Malik Wilks was poor all game.
Ben Khemis, Blair and Beestin not up to the level required.
The young lad Horton came on and his performance was better than the four above.

Now for Saturday we have injuries so it shows the depth of the squad if we are going to compete. Don’t want to be negative but we should have scored more and we allowed them to break through our midfield with the same players trying to beat players losing the ball then can’t get it back.

By the way Newcastle U23 where as good as any league one side. So GM did nothing wrong playing first team players but you are only as  good has the weakest link and those players were found wanting tonight.