Six points required!

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Fabricio Coloccini

Fabricio Coloccini
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Fabricio Coloccini has been talking of the impending relegation doom surrounding NUFC at the minute, and has said that he believes that six points will be enough to avoid the dreaded drop.

Newcastle United are currently sitting on 36 points and are flying a bit too close to the relegation zone after seeing the gap between themselves and 18th place cut to just four points. In the interests of balance, and for the benefit of those who wish to look up, it’s also worth pointing out that we are only four points away from seventh place at the same time as being threatened with becoming involved in the relegation scrap.

The nerves are starting to jangle a bit to be fair, which is understandable given that the memory of two years ago is still fresh in the minds of many. At the moment though, everything is in our own hands and we control our own destiny so to speak.

A win against Wolves would go some way to removing the fears of us getting dragged into the relegation mix, but Fabricio Coloccini believes that the team have enough to get the points required and has even set a target of fiver or six points needed for survival.

“The table has become very close and the Wolves game is a very important game for us now,” Coloccini told The Journal. “I think we need two more wins to make sure we are safe. Looking at the table, five or six more points will probably do it, so we still need two wins.”

“There are plenty of games to get them from but it would be a massive help if we could get one of those wins against Wolves. If we could get the points quickly it would calm everybody’s nerves. Our only job is to make sure we keep ourselves safe.”

Those are some wise words from Colo to be honest, especially the ‘our only job is to make sure we keep ourselves safe’ bit. That was the goal at the start of the season, and whilst we have done better than expected on occasion the goal should never really have changed.

It was easy to talk of a cheeky place in Europe whilst we were up there in the league, but in reality the number one aim always has been assuring Premier League survival. Yes we are in a run of poor from at the moment, but did anyone ever expect us to not go through a bad patch of results upon our return to the Premier League? It doesn’t make it any less frustrating of course, but it was always going to happen at some point.

The key is to somehow get through this run of form and get the win on the board as soon as possible. We are fortunate to have players that have been here before so that experience will hopefully stand the squad in good stead and we won’t see the impotent collapse that we witnessed when we had the megastar players like Michael Owen ‘fighting’ for our Premier League life.

Six points would just about do it in my opinion. That would give us 42 points which would make us the joint most unfortunate Premier League team in history, along with West Ham, if we were to be relegated on that points total.

Do you think 42 points will be enough?

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124 thoughts on “Six points required!”

  2. I still reckon anything other than a loss would be decent enough for us. It isn’t us who needs to win although it would help a lot of course!

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  3. I agree to a degree, toonsy, it is a must not lose game for us. But also looking at the bigger picture we surely cannot afford another dropped 3 points at home?

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  4. Agree toonsy but think it would help the fans nerves if we get the 3 points against wolves 🙂

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  5. toonsy i reckon it will be our worse result of the season if we dont beat these. 8 points away from home 😕

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  6. 1 win and a couple of draws with our goal difference would see us safe.

    I still cant see Blackburn/Blackpool/Wigan/West Brom with their form and fixtures hitting forty.

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  8. CC – I’m going to do a piece on that over weekend. Fixtures of other teams and that.

    The question is, where do I draw the line? It’s anywhere from ninth for a full picture IMO 😕

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  9. Newcastle defender James Perch has had his three-match ban reduced to one after a successful appeal.
    <<<< 😆 😆

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  11. think the players themselves will have doubts if they lose this one,words in the rags mean nowt 😐

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  15. one drops down from the pack every year,whos its going to be this year its a tight pack this year 😕

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  16. batty
    Posted March 25, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    “Newcastle defender James Perch has had his three-match ban reduced to one after a successful appeal.”

    Phew, that’s a relief 😆

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  22. I thought I saw an article that said Gateshead had until Saturday to find a replacement for Tavernier

    I don’t understand the loan window to be honest.

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  24. Still plenty of teams worse off than us…would still like two wins ideally, would certainly see us safe, but we might be able to cope with less.

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  25. Here is a gloomy prediction: Ireland starts vs, Wolves and gets red card while conceding a spot kick after 5 minutes.

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  26. Hello all,

    Who exactly do we have available at the minute?

    I’m a little confused with all the injuries and suspensions, seems like most of the squad is unavailable or nearly available.

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  27. agree with Stuart…Wolves is a must not lose game, but we should be expecting, and to be honest getting all three points. After all, Wolves have a **** away record…please NUFC …do the biz ! 😆 😆

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  29. Munich – You know full well that away form mean nowt when they come to Newcastle. The hard way is the NUFC way 😕

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  30. My worry is when we played Wolves on their heap their only game plan was to provoke Joey Barton.Yellow cards where sprayed about like confetti and we only managed a draw.Their performances have been 100% better of late and dare I say it ours have’nt 😐

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  34. I worry where the goals are coming from. We might need to start scoring more from set-pieces again. Strolla has looked **** since coming back in that mask and Lovenkrands well….enough said. Best hopefully will be back but he isn’t really one you could hang your hat on either. Nolan needs to get one, it’s been a bit of a drought by his high standards.

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  39. I think we are lacking creativity and some decent movement in the side. Hopefully Ireland can unlock a few defenses. His form this season is a bit of a worry though, lets hope he plays better he than he did at Villa.

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  41. cannot see much comeing from ireland,hasnt played for good while and wolves graft like hell,wrong team to come back against imo

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  57. Ice hows your good self mate 😉 I think I might take a leaf out of Richie book as I am pissed of with work might retire soon 😆

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  59. DAVE nee bodys telt richie yet that manul labour isnt a spanish drink,but hes bought a hot- dog stand off batty the ones on wheels so should be al-reet

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  62. Jesus christ. Put Sky Sports 1 on. The Northern Ireland-Serbia game is on.

    There is literally 1 fan in the stadium. I am not joking. I have never seen that in my life.

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  66. Am at me mates watching the Northern Ireland game. It must be hard for the players to get pumped up and play to their normal intensity.

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  67. Havent Serbian fans ben banned cos they went radge at a game a few weeks ago..? 🙄 🙄

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  68. One of the commentators just said it’s a behind closed doors game – despite being on TV and seemingly a half dozen Irish fans being there.

    I guess there is a ban – it looks and sounds awful though. Shows how much an atmosphere affects your enjoyment.

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  69. according to sportinglife.com the attendance for the Serbia N Ireland game is 265… 😯 probably 150

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  71. funkyjesus…the Serbs seem to get totally radged when it comes to sport. A country which doesn’t quite seem happy under the cosy “european umbrella”…

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  73. Big D…to be honest it’s a pity that Norn Iron should suffer by having THERE fans banned for the game cos the Serbs went radge… Way out of order if you ask me…

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  74. Big D…then the pubs will be full in ….er…where’s the game being played…! 🙄

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