It takes guts for a manager, or a head coach even, to admit that his tactics are rubbish and not working, but the stats show that we are quite simply ... NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Steve Bruce saying that the big problem has been Newcastle playing far too much on the ‘front foot’, going on the attack too much, is absolute BOLLOX!
We sat through the most one-sided 45 minutes this season, because Newcastle defended so deep, the midfield was sitting right back on toes of the defence.
Newcastle United are trying to be too attacking, he says, when we never even looked like getting out of our own half.
The possession stats this season for Newcastle are:
Arsenal (H) 38% possession
Norwich (A) 37% possession
Tottenham (A) 20% possession
Leicester (H) 32% possession
Watford (H) 49% possession
Liverpool (A) 25% possession
Brighton (H) 29% possession
An average of 32% and if you wanted to drill down into just the games against the relegation rivals (Watford, Norwich and Brighton), two of which were at home, then it was 38% on average in that trio of games.