Everton the visitors to SJP.
Cast your minds back to September and you will no doubt remember that Newcastle managed to outplay Everton in their own back yard. The score was only 1-0 that day thanks to a truly stunning strike from Hatem Ben Arfa, but it could have been more had the referee not missed a blatant elbow by Screech Fellaini and a blatant foul on Kevin Nolan by Seamus Coleman that would have seen the young Everton defender see red for bringing down the last man and would have resulted in the Toffee’s conceding a penalty that would have put the game beyond doubt.
It’s all in the past now, but it was a fantastic result won by a fantastic individual goal which was backed up by a fantastic team performance. Unfortunately, it counts for nothing tomorrow though.
Joey Barton is fighting to be fit enough to resume first-team duties, as is our very own man in the mask, Shola Ameobi, who has trained all week and is apparently becoming more accustomed to his new headgear.
Stephen Ireland was close to making a comeback this weekend but unfortunately suffered a knock to his thigh in training which will mean that he won’t be risked. Hatem Ben Arfa is back in light training although won’t feature for the first team for some time yet whilst Danny Guthrie is probably just too short on match fitness to return to action. Dan Gosling and Alan Smith are out with injury whilst Ryan Taylor, thankfully, starts his three game suspension as punishment for his wild lunge at Johan Elmander against Bolton last week.
The big dilemma regarding trying to name a team is just who we are going to play on the right wing if Barton isn’t fit enough to play. We could try Jonas on the right with Lovenkrands on the left, or we could play as we did against Bolton when we went down to ten men and play three at the back with Simpson and Enrique operating as wing-backs. For the puposes of my selection though, I am going to assume that Barton is fit enough to feature. That will leave us with a team that looks a bit like this:
Newcastle: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Joey Barton, Cheik Tiote, Kevin Nolan, Jonas Gutierrez, Peter Lovenkrands, Leon Best.
As for the away side, Everton will be without Tim Cahill and Marouane Fellaini for the trip to Tyneside. Both players will be a miss for them as they are both important players to Everton. Mind you, they will still be a danger and will offer a threat against us even without those two players.
There is no doubt that they will be smarting at being dumped out of the FA Cup to Reading during the week, so Newcastle will need to be wary of a backlash from the blue bindippers as they seek to put things right for their fans. FA Cup exit aside, their last league match was a 2-0 victory over the “massive” unwashed in which one time Toon target Jermaine Beckford grabbed both goals. Their team for that day was named as follows.
Everton: Tim Howard, Phil Neville, Phil Jagielka, Sylvain Distin, Leighton Baines, Seamus Coleman, Mikel Arteta, Marouane Fellaini, Leon Osman, Jermaine Beckford, Louis Saha.
This is the 160th meeting between the two sides, and it’s currently Newcastle who hold the upper hand with 63 wins compared to Everton’s 62. It’s been 51 games since Everton last lost back to back matches, although they haven’t won at St James’ Park since the year 2000.
Newcastle have lost just one game out of the last nine matches and haven’t won a home game since the 5-0 victory over West Ham just over two months ago. The record of not winning a 3pm Premier League home game now stands at two years and six months.
Newcastle have acquired the most yellow cards in the league this year (59) whilst Everton have yet to be awarded a penalty this season. I don’t like stats like that, especially with Howard Webb taking control of the game tomorrow afternoon!
I believe that this will be another tight game. The lack of crucial players for Everton should hopefully tip the balance of power in our favour, but unfortunately these little facts tend to kick Newcastle in the balls and we ultimately end up not taking advantage of the situation. This is why I’m not predicting anything!
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Personally, I’d take a draw here, even with no Cahill or Fellaini. This 3pm jinx concerns me and this is the sort of game we don’t win at home anyway.
I wouldn’t be happy losing though. Draw or a win for me.
Think we should be going for the win , they should be fairly toothless going forward tho saha seems to have found his scoring boots
3 Point would be a massive step towards our main aim this season which is to stay up and hopefully give us a platform to challenge for a top 10 spot and maybe the europa league
I think it’s a game we should be winning, so it will probably turn out to be a draw or a loss.
I do have doubts about our ability to score goals as we do tend to create a fair few chances but jiust don’t take them.
think were gonna break that jinks tomoz ,they havent won at our place since 2000.
It’s the penalty stat that worries me
We will win tomorrow cant believe so many have so little faith in us
Batty whats your prediction for the game ? if you dont mind sharing it with us on here
Toonsy-
Yeah, that penalty stat worries me too. I’m still hopeful of a Toon win. Think this will be a game like Brum. Scrappy, but I think we’ll nick it.
2-1, the Toon.
Davey Boy…
…the pipes, the pipes are callin’
IME going with my mate DAVE a win,batty has gone with a win too
Let’s remember though- when Toonsy predicts a win for us, the opposite has been known to happen. Frequently. lol
So, yeah. Glad he predicted nowt haha
Dog- how ya doin’ man?
Ice hows you young fella
OHurley nice to see you have faith in us aswell
OHurley – That’s why I stopped predicting marra
DAVE photo
i’m going for us to f’kin thump the bastards!
4-0, two goals in the first 10 mins, flying start!
COOOOMMMMEEEEE OOOOONNNNN!
Toonsy thank god for that as you were shocking
Ice just fancied a change for a bit and after seeing KK on Batty’s I thought I would put up one of my fav’s from the entertainers
ILM thats the spirit lad
thought TOONSY was the entertainer on here
what with his forcasts ect
Ice – I’ll give up being the entertainer for positive Newcastle results
just been sent this from son,
Malta FootballNews
Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho escapes knife attack at La Coruna airport
actually my avatar isn’t the best pic of Albert it looks like a cross between Albert and Owen the rat
Toonsy you should just predict defeats see how that goes
Dave – Tried that. Didn’t work. No predictions suits me fine
its now reported on bbc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12651240
Good Lad
HWTL. Great chance to get another double. Cahill, Fellani and Saha are their 3 main players and ALL of them are out apparently. I think we will win tomorow, great chance to go 2 points above the mackems with them away down the gunners.
TOONSY you banned anyone lately on blog?
DJG – Seen nowt official on Saha so left it out of preview.
Reet, work calls. Catch you all in a bit
Ice – Nobody has been banned from here since this place started
How come?
Ice I guess we just need to get used to shit like that with the way the world is now
Ice
just read something somewhere else thats all
Ice I was going to say something but just thought a fuk it
DAVE does he comment on here with diff nick?
Well, here is another stat waiting to even itself up. NUFC have not benefited from an Own Goal this season.
Once again, if NUFC can keep the door closed for the first 10 minutes, Everton will struggle to get a result. Right now, they are as thin on the roster as the Toon, but I think NUFC have just a little more quality available.
Ice I dont think so mate, I think it was just that Toonsy had a go at him yesterday
DAVE oh i see,think it will really bother him like
DAVE seems they are haveing sneaky digs at him tonight,dont get why like
Anybody gonna give me a lift, don’t fancy the £92.70 for the train
Lovenkrands worries me. Doesn’t threaten enough. Strangely although Ranger has never scored a premier league goal I would be happier with him starting.
Three nil tomorrow, Best, Nolan and Ranger
Happy days
Ice yeah mate and im busting to put them straight
JAY JAY not into that train surfing i take it mate
DAVE dont worry mate toonsy will sort it if he thinks its worth his breath,and we have enough bother with richie
Jay fuk is that for a gold carriage
Aye your right Richie is enough bother
No dave. Cattle class, where I belong
in with toonsy then jay,shame
Jay dont put yersel down lad there is enough of us to do that
Ice I thought your mate was better than that, I didn’t mind the shit that I got of him but I dont think Toonsy deserves any of his cheap digs
Heartless fecker dave, if I had £200 I’d pay it.
DAVE strange do!s,bannned then best of buds dont get it
Well I had to say something
aye i saw it
Ice what I found was while your views are simular Worky will be ok with you, But when your views differ then its back to the sad little man that likes to try and threating people with banning when you wont back down. But then the internet can do that to people that dont normally have balls to threaten you face to face.
As I said all along I have never said anything to him on the Blog that I wouldn’t say to his Face, But I would be pretty sure that he wouldn’t have came of with half the shit he came of with to my face as he did on the blog.
Sorry for the rant Ice
but it just winds me up
Shut up dave you fat slag
Jay fuking stand up when your talking to me
Dave, saw your little rant at worky there like fella.
DAVE nee worries mate,you let it go,its your right,and we havent got many of them left either
I was standing up, I’m just short you prick
Jay
if I want your opinion i’ll give you it 1st 
you slag
Big Dave..if you’re big everyones small to you….or what ?!
or maybe jay jay is short anyway…
Jay have to say I have missed your banter mate
DJG it just annoys me after the work that Toonsy put into there
That fat lad Kolo Toure took his wifes diet pills and now he’s gonna be banned for a year…you gotta laugh though but !..should lay off the pizzas if you ask me…
MM im only 6ft 2 mate
Sorry. Had to leave a comment after that. No doubt it will get deleted so I managed to grab a screenshot of it before it gets “eaten by the spam filter”
Nice to know that they are rattled
I’m not surprised by Craig as he was only having a laugh. Chuck has commented on here before. Check about us at the top, then site history…….
As for Worky, if after near on 700 articles that is all I end with then fair enough. It says more about him that it does about me
It will make it even more satisfying when this place takes off
aaah Big D…now I understand…that’s big where I come from…!….
The other blogs are just envious of toonsy cos he gets loads of hits, even on a bad night….
toonsy it’s still there mate…
Dave…I used to comment on both blogs but now can’t be arsed with the other because of the kind of crap there tonight, 90% 0f the time there was only one person keeping that blog going and all he gets as thanks are sly digs…..confirms the stamp of the man for me like
toonsy…that last comment of yours was a bit of an exocet matey….
I’m only 5’8″ but I’d kick big daves arse up and down the waterworks
jay jay my moneys on you bud…..
go on there Toonsy
Munich – I can back it up as well as I still have the e-mails regarding the server switch. End of the day, they can’t expect to poke the bear and not get a reaction. They could have left it alone and there would have been no problem, but they had to ingratiate each other by slagging me off.
Like I said, after nearly 700 blogs that is apparently what you get.
Munich – As well, here are the comments forever more. It doesn’t matter if they go missing now;
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Clever man Munich, big dave is a chutney ferret
Its all kicking off and the strange thing is Batty isn’t on
Richie your not often right but on this occasion your spot on mate
Jay make sure you bring the other 6 Dwarfs with you and a few sets of step ladders
Dave – It’s not kiicking off. To clarify, I actually like all three of them to be fair.
The reason it’s not kicking off is because I have work to do. It may be not the best work, but at least I don’t have to beg and scrounge off other people for things
Toonsy don’t rise to it, the number of people who switched to your blog speaks volumes mate, just because you’re a fat cock smoker doesn’t make you a bad person
Toonsy…I understand mate, I visit worky’s blog occasionaly, and now and then the crack is good, but I take umbrage to anyone being shot at behind there backs which is just bad crack in my opinion…
alot of bleeding politics goes on with these blogs dont they?
Johno Toon…this is peanuts mate…
Jay @ 80
Lads whats your predictions for tomorrow
2 nil
think 2-0 myself , best n nolan to score
dave hes worky has just called you a brainless paddy ,then he deleted it
2-0 thats the spirit lads
Batty are you trying to say he would edit or delete comments
A 2-0 win would be a tremendous result, hope we can manage it, should be possible.
BATTY aye i saw that too
New thread in preparation of a Best hat-trick the morra lads!
Ice what were you going for ? oh and I believe Batty as we know Batty dosn’t tell porkies, not like that old git that is turning his back on the N/E
dog iam glad some 1 else saw it m8
3.1 the morra,that richie aboot 30kelm now, guy at tea-van said he had to lift him back into motor and give him a bump -start
new thread up
batty….dunno why he deleted that one, he was actually correct there
Ice…. Toon win by min of 2 clear goals
Oh dear, see it’s another ‘night of the long knives’.
Moreno-
There’s nowt I’d like more than a Best hat trick on the morra! Except for maybe another “fat trick” hehe. Although, I think Kev saves those for the unwashed. Heck, even the bindippers can hate those monkeys
DJG-
Ha! Night of the long knives. LMAO
new thread
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