Game on at St James' Park
After playing patiently and diligently in our 2-0 win away Swansea on Good Friday, Alan Pardew will know that this time around the onus will most definitely be on us as the home side to ask the questions.
Bolton are teetering above the drop zone at the moment with just a single point separating them from 19th placed Wigan. Coming to St James’ Park on the back of a 3-0 home defeat to Fulham a mere 48 hours ago, Owen Coyle will be keen to see his side recapture the kind of form which, previous to the Fulham game, had seen him side win three games in a row.
As we’re getting towards the “business end” of the season and now we know where we are aiming for, I thought I’d add a little look at who our rivals have today. For the sake of clarity I’m discounting anything above third and below sixth! In short, Tottenham host Norwich City at White Hart Lane in another 3pm kick-off, whilst Chelsea travel to Craven Cottage to take on Fulham this evening with kick-off at 8pm.
If we better Chelsea’s result we’ll go fifth today and if both sides win we’ll stay sixth by virtue of goal difference. That kind of needs addressing as it effectively gives the teams above us an extra point such is the difference between our goal difference and the rest. A good hammering of Bolton today would help that a treat of course, but it’s also games like Tottenham and Fulham away which have hampered that particular stat.
For a more in depth look at the fixture you can peruse my match preview by clicking the blue text. Basically it discusses team news, injury news, form and previous meetings, with a few fun stats thrown in there for good measure.
That’s just about it really. Oh yeah, for a change we’re not being broadcast live here in the UK so if you happen to find a useful link where people can watch the match, and are willing to share it with your fellow NUFC fans, then please feel fee to paste the link for it below.
Team news will be featured below…
Howay the lads!
Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon, Yohan Cabaye, James Perch, Jonas Gutierrez, Hatem Ben Arfa, Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba
Subs: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, James Tavernier, Ryan Taylor, Mehdi Abeid, Dan Gosling, Shola Ameobi
Bolton: Adam Bogdan, Gretar Steinsson, David Wheater, Tim Ream, Sam Ricketts, Chris Eagles, Mark Davies, Darren Pratley, Nigel Reo-Coker, Martin Petrov, Kevin Davies
Subs: Jussi Jaaskelainen, Mikel Alonso, Zat Knight, Ivan Klasnic, David Ngog, Marvin Sordell, Ryo Miyachi
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Confident after seen the team, Esp now Colo is back
an early goal and i think we will win comfortably,not an easy game for chelsea,hopefully fulham can do us a favour,i think spurs will beat norwich,but all we can do is win our games and see what happens.
I reckon Fulham could do us a favour today and take care of Chelski. It’s in our own hands now.
attack attack attack attack – toon 3-1
wow, Colo and Cabaye made it. Mint!
Both the toon and Chelsea will win today….
Could be a banana skin this. They will come and try to frustrate us and nick a goal. It’s up to us to break them down.
An early goal will be perfect and it could be carnage.
Chelsea won’t win!
as i said before as long go into this game the way we did against wolves 2 points throw away there
Other than Tiote & Saylor our strongest team. Bench looks a bit young though, but with Shola the ave age is
going for 4-0
good team choice today
http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/index.html
Should be a good game, any LINKS??
think the first 20min will show us how the game could span out imo
Richie what streams do ye have mate
watch cisse be our top goal scorer by the end of the season! imagine how amazing that would be beating ba’s goals and joining in jan
Batty what stream is working mate you don’t really want me to try them all do ye ?
I see mancini says Balobag won’t be playing any of the remaining games
dave i normaly watch vip, ven, or media or 1st row or coolsports
Dave…just the ones on Batty’s link, or this one might work http://www.sportlemon.tv/v-2/18/134/v-393538.html
Batts gentleman as ever
Richie thank you me old bean
Big D isn’t Balotelli on something like 200K a week ?……not bad for a bench warmer….
Dave, he’s a fkin disgrace. Hope he fks off back to Italy.
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/arsenal/118537/football-gif-mario-balotellis-moronic-studs-up-tackle-on-alex-song.html
…I’m with Richie on the Chelsea result like. I reckon it’ll be a draw.
I can’t help but think that Bolton will only go through the motions today. They have had all season to get out of relegation trouble. So why would the nessesarily start today?
Rod yeah mate that was a bad one but hat of to mancini when asked about that tackle going unseen he said he should be banned for it
Dave – That is because Mancini can’t control him so he wants the FA to lend a hand
Aussie I think Mancini has give up on him now, he has went out of his way for him but has been made to look stupid for it
Mancini’s done all he can with him I think. TBH, Mancini’s grown on me, a bit like Mourinho who I couldn’t stand for the first season.
I’m off noo anyway, enjoy the match ladies and jennelmen…….
…exactly Dave.
Think Mancini will get a stay of execution this season, but only because the billionaire clubs are running out of “top managers” to manage them !
Rodz be good
I wonder if Mancini would be calling for him to be banned if the were level on points with Man U?
Rodzilla, if you’re off to the match, have a good ‘un mate
Wow we might make it through a season with the same manager … when was the last time that happened?
Aussie – hoots
Dub
not that long ago then.. I was thinking of the PL… Forgot about that..
http://www.sportlemon.tv/v-2/18/134/v-393538.html
http://tykestv.eu/channel2.php
Any streams yet?
Dont like hearing everton have rested players for the fa cup game…..
Right on cue Dave
Howay the lads.
reet lads lets hand out a good thumping today as it’s long overdue
Aye aussie i know. You could always say he only became full time manager 6 (or so) games into the season anyway
Glory 3 – Roar 1 Vegas
Toonsy I don’t think they’re english
Howaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy
Lets get it on
Howay the Lads
I think theres plenty worse than mankini , Listening to brucie the other day commentating on 5live having 2 minute intervals between his bitter pops at the mackems for sacking him
I can easily stomach mancini over overgrown charvas like pulis and o’ spiel and twunts like hughes, kenneth and fucking ‘arry….
williamson + simpson = ball in touch
Why did Simpson just let the ball roll half a yard in front of him and out of play
http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/118049/1/watch-newcastle-united-vs-bolton-wanderers.html
http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/118049/1/watch-newcastle-united-vs-bolton-wanderers.html
It’s ok Dave. When the commentary is foreign I make up my own to go along with it
Is it me or are we playing hoof and hope 4-4-2 again…
willo did well to get between krul and davies there
Spurs 0-1 Norwich
this ref is giving everything that even vaguely looks like a foul
No pen for willo then
Yay Norwich
See big nosed Wheater hugging Williamson then?
Absolutely no attempt to play the ball.
You know you’re a shit football team when you’re time-wasting after 15 mins.
That’s about four free kicks we didn’t get there
Norwich 1.0 up
Having to listen to radio commentary as having probs with all these links .When I do actually get one up and running i am plagued by ads
Great take by Santon
well we’re putting them under a bit of pressure
Ba’s playing like it’s Ramadan
Ba has had some poor touches…come on lad, get yourself a goal!
Can we have wor 4-3-3 back please…
Got it now ,are we playing 442 then?
Bolton on top
no, it’s 4-3-3
Need benny on the ball
I get so tired of the constant backward passes. HWTL
Our front three just seem a yard slower than normal today. Jonas and Ba look very jaded and understandably I guess.
Cabaye and Santon both looking great.
Booting are crowding the centre and controlling things a bit too much for my liking… I think Ba is just a bit out of confidence at the moment.
If anything we should be the fresher team.
I can see the first goal being a deflection or Boltons keeper being insured with all those brutes in front of him.
I’ve got my money on a Cabaye goal.
Kept the ball like Swansea there
I hope those who said we got dominated on Friday masturbate over it
We’re playing like Swansea…
According to Fox Sports Chanel it is a 442
Keep cool boys and girls, it’s just a matter of time…
this is crap
fck off advantage that was a well good place for a free kick
COME ON LADS
We seem to have difficutly to play as in the game against Norwich.
We just hold the ball for the moment.
Come on we need a goal
Santon needs to get closer to Eagles, he’s allowed to cross far too easily.
Krull don’t hold the ball so long use counter attack when we can
Spurs got one back
C’mon lads
I don’t think our front three are working Bolton hard enough…
Spurs equalised
wow great free kick HBA !
Nick a goal somewhere and the game changes. Patience
lucky punch..
we really need to work on our corners like
Yeah I think if we get one their heads will drop
Can see Ba being replaced and frustrated again, he has been a weak link in the front three today… Just seems short on confidence.
why we change to 4-4-2 today?
Yes just need patience if we score 1 after its good.
Someone has a good link? Because my link to much lagg
fuck sakes
Ba is officially out of form
http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/118049/1/watch-newcastle-united-vs-bolton-wanderers.html
HBA try that one
we need Pards to rip into them a bit and tell them to up their game as we’re very flat
thanks Newkie
Dave….he will do nae worries
We’re not looking great today, although Bolton have spent most of that half hiding with 10/11 men behind the ball constantly. Very dull to watch. We’re struggling to make the quick break as theres a full squad to try and run it through, benny, ba and cisse all look a bit out of sorts to me today.
Shola the makkem slayer will come to the rescue second half…
Newkie-I got that link but it’s like 10 seconds behind
Big Dave-agreed, time for one of Pardy’s half time talks, been a while since we needed one this badly
what i feared another wolves game,rip into the gits pardew
The most entertaining thing so far is the Newcastle Brown Ale ad at half time
Also don’t understand the 4-4-2 formation.
Ben Arfa is far less effective… And if it was done to shift Ba more into the centre then he really hasn’t proves himself because he was the weakest player this half.
Also Jonas is far better in the 4-3-3 formation than playing 4-4-2 as an outright winger… Because he cannot cross. We look completely in effective down either flank unless Santon is overlapping.
Can’t understand changing a winning formation especially against a shore side…
You wanna know the best thing about this half I phoned up this girl to ask her out and she said yes! that’s the only decent things that’s happened ( plus she’s friggin’ hot! )
lets hope the footie gets better soon!
Everything just looks flat today and not much is coming off. Even our shots are bouncing off our own players out of play
This game needs a goal badly.. Very dull.
Mind it’s not easy trying to go through a whole team. Guess that is how Swansea felt on Friday
Sorry all- I’m at work and trying to follow along with the live text. there seems to be confusion over the formation- are we playing 4-4-2? If so, why would pards dothat after our recent successes? To placate Ba, perhaps?
Dan…..can ya stop bothering wor lass when the footballs on please
Why change something that has worked as well as the 4-3-3 has in recent weeks ??
Stick demba on the left and Jonas in the middle why should the team suffer because Ba’s bitch moaning…
Typical Toon really ,just as you start getting excited ,wet fish in the smacker like.
Mind it’s not easy trying to go through a whole team. Guess that is how Swansea felt on Friday
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It’s good we don’t play Swansea (aka The Welsh Barca) every week. We might end up top of the table but we’d lose the possession battle in a shameful manner
I think both sides are waiting for something to happen… and the fans too..
I think it is going to take a moment of magic to break the deadlock..
I think I am I am thinking too much…
we seem in difficulty for the moment, maybe we will come back to ours 4-3-3 because for the moment Ba is ineffective playing in support of CIsse and Jonas is ineffective and Benny must stay too much in the right and is ineffective to. Game very boring, we need a fucking goal because we need this 3 points.
MDS – Indeed. Being top of the table wouldn’t matter one bit unless our possession was at an acceptable level
Fergie coming on
young Fergie on for Perch
Fergie on…interesting. Probably means Cabby holding though, when necessary..
Perch off, Fergie on
Harsh unless it’s injury based? Players worse than Perch on that pitch!
FS come on lads
fuck me but thank god for tim krul
Jesus someone get a grip on Eagles ,Well done Krull
ohhh Magnificient Krul what a shitty clearance by BA
Toonsy-I think its just to give us some more attacking threat rather than who’s played badly, in the hope that more attacking play will bring out the best in our strikers…
well in Santon
Our strikers all seem stuck on their heels. Like they wearing lead boots…
Game opening up…should help us
our team seems weak today…
A goal will give us a lift
Krul WTF
The best and the worst of tim krul in 5 mins there
Not one player attacking the ball from the corner. Poor.
Everton 1-0 Sunderland
huking fell
Okay so the game opening up isn’t good for us. We’ll probably be grateful for a point
Come on lads!!!
this is poor!
I think Benny has learned the English word “bastard”
I can see Bolton getting one here ,wake up lads
wtf??? was that a corner or
Make one of these fucking corners count now please…
if we got a goal I’d be so happy
Bolton the better side today. Why we get outplayed by shit like Bolton is beyond me.
We still have the individual skill to get through though…
I fear Pardew changed to 4-4-2 to please Ba and I think it was a mistake.
we are beginning to play football..
We need to take some corners short. This looping balls are way too easy for Boltons giants…
Use your brains lads.
the game is more exciting
Wheater holding Williamson there.
That is what pisses me off. That was a penalty against Sunderland, but not now?
Ba is spending far too much time on his fecking arse lately…
this formation is not working at all..
if Ba is unhappy with winning, he should not be a part of Newcastle
Ba has been terrible today, have to say it.
Ba seems today with 2 seconds late reaction all the time
Yep, Ba has to come off…
Don’t like this at all we all over the shot
heres Shhhhholaaaaa
Get Shola on if we’re going to persist with hoofball. Hell, gethim on anyway
Mackem slayer on now
Oh there we go
He plays without confidence(Ba)
Ba pissy again
KRUL!!!
We won’t score now.Not with Ameobi on
*Crosses fingers and hopes jinx works*
We actually dont even deserve a point here, christ. Luck that davies/eagles haven’t finished well at all
Im really too stressed
if we get a point here we can be grateful
i just love the way Cisse chases everything!!!!
Bolton look far more likely to score… How we can outplay the likes of Man U and Liverpool and get outplayed at home to Bolton and Wolves.
we need to wake up and start to play
maybe the players thought they just had to turn up for the win
Norwich 2.0 up
lucky us
People need to shut up on Ba now. He’s experiencing a loss of form, that’s it. Do you really think if Ba went to Pardew and asked him to change a winning formation for him he would? Don’t be daft. Stop trying to create dressing room dramas.
Embarrassing bloody fickle football fans.
good free kick, for Cabaye or Benny
I hope Ba is angry because he has caused this shite performance and totally needless formation change…
norwich winning
Fine Ba for that like
Why hoofball?? we played champagne football a week ago!! FFS
close but not close enough
I have defended Ba up to now ,but he was disrespectfull to pards then
shittt
KimT it’s 1-2
Sorry, but public displays of petulance like that need dealing with. You don;t just fob your manager off like that in public
least norwich scored again eh
Ba vs pards
Balotelli vs Mancini
Toonsy do you not listen to ST @ 173 your creating dressing room drama
ST Ba is out of order simple
Richie @182 don’t split hairs i’m speed typin er
CC
His substitution reaction was rubbish, but STOP WITCH HUNTING OUR PLAYERS.
We literally are just speculating on why we have changed the formation, maybe it is because Bolton play with 5 mids?
Solano, you were saying?
Sell Ba
@Dave, I agree with you on the sub reaction.
But everyone moaning that Ba has caused the poor performance because he asked to change formation need to get a grip.
Solano,
I have no doubt in my mind that Ba’s attitude has has some influence in this formation change…
Does that mean I don’t support him? Does that mean I’m a fickle fan? No… It’s my personal opinion…
He has been petulant publically twice now and its not good for the club. If you don’t believe me ask Man City.
Dave – I understand ST’s point about changing formation. A bit far fetched that one in my opinion but each to their own.
However you simply can’t defend what Ba just done. Who the fuck does he think he is? Does he not realise he has been SHITE today?
KimT
@KIMTOON
Nice
GET IN
Benny
Bennyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes
Fekn get in there benny lad
FUCK YES BEENNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
INCREDIBLE HBA
GENISUUUSSSSSSSSSSS
YEEESSSSSSSS
You little beauty!!!!!!!!!!!
UNFUCKINGBELIVABLE
BEEEEWNNNYYYY!!!!!!
What a fucking goal Benny lad
What a fuking talent we have
Oh, what a great goal… My word Harem “Beardsley” Arfa. Brilliantly done…
I said we have the individual skill to get through this performance, and there it is!!
So much more effective in a centre role.
GET IN BEN ARFA
Hoofball now?
Now see this one out….sneak perch back on?
When did we sign messi?
Let’s see how long Bogdan takes on the goalkicks now…..
THAT WAS SICK
Not bad!
reet lads keep it tight for 5 mins then hit them again.
What a fuking cracker even skipped pass Davies that tried to bring him down
Walk/dribble through from own half.
scum 2 nowt down
Everton Reserves 2-0 Sunderland
Everton Reserves 3-0 Sunderland
@Big Dave
Lets not condescend now.
I haven’t stuck up for Ba’s reaction to being subbed at all, i didn’t even mention it in my initial post!
I am just saying you cannot create rumours out of thin air, none of us have any idea why we changed formation, so lets not vilify a player because we think it’s because of him.
make that 3 doon
that was like laudrup!!!!
Bolton are going for this.
Toonsy
oh Cisse
Waheey ref
Benny is HOT right now
Come on lads, lets bang in a few now
You can see the pressure has been lifted from the players now. That goal was all it took. Now it looks like we’re enjoying it!
Level on points with 4th place Tottenham now
Raylor coming on
Raylor coming on now
Tied for fourth at the moment
Solano -I love Ba and everything he has done for Toon and I was desperate for him to get a goal today I really was .The fact is he’s been poor today ,that’s o.k he’s been a star and you can forgive the dip in form ,what you can’t forgive is a show of disrespect to Pards like that.I’m actually quite shocked at what he did as I thought better of him than that.
Too many men upfield, chill lads chill.
maybe Cabaye coming off to save him
Ah Toonsy you bastard…
What did he do?
Everton Reserves 4-0 Sunderland
4-0
game over wor Cisse
Cisseeeeeeeeeeeeee
Great play Shola, on a plate for Cisse…
Game over. Get in Cisse
Yes get in
Come on cisse!
Beautiful, great work Shola
2-0!
Fuckin get in! He scores when he wants!
Cisse you the man
CISSE!!!
fucking class from Shola.. just throws the defender away
What did Ba do?
Shola done well there
I said all along a goal will change this game and give us the lift we needed
My tactical rinsing of Shola worked
Bit worrying this Everton form like
sell ba!
buy a defender
Win the league
Yeah, f*** off Everton.
If Fulham get a point tonight against Chelsea…
We stay fifth
Sunderland drop into the bottom half
Officially Sunderland can’t catch us!
Ahhh HBA looks so happy!
@Kim, I think Ba’s reaction to being subbed was disgusting for the record. Fine sitting moody on the bench, but you have to acknowledge the manager when you come off.
Spuds losing, we’re clear 4th
Toonsy 5unde1and have 3 hopes of catching us
I guess we can now officially admit we have a problem with Ba?
Also, play Shola with 30 mins left and he is a destroyer. SUPER SUB.
Have to say I feel good for Pards that the fans are singing his name and he looks well pleased
@JJ: We are still 5th,due to inferior GD.
JJ….naa they’re ahead on GD
Ah no we not… Dammit! Got extra excited for a second.
Toonsy…Fulham will get at least a point
Solano -I’m really really shocked by it ,I thought him more humble and respectfull than that .Gutted to be honest ,one of me fav players .
we’re winning….Scum getting demolished…..Norich winning….and……Scum getting demolished. Oh happy day!!!
Yeahh again 3 pts. I think Ameobi and Ferguson was very good subs and displayed very good performance.
Liverpool closer to the relegation zone than to us
well played lads was a bit of an ugly game until benny’s firework went off and another clean sheet
Five wins in a row
Good result, Lets hope Ba doesnt pick the team next time…
@Kim
I’m glad he’s upset at his performance. If Pardew insists there is no problem in the post match I do think we should all just drop it though.
Great turn around, I said get the ball to Benny, he’ll always make something happen, good or bad
Moment of magic, we were possibly lucky with that but feck it, another win, some decent rest for our players-hopefully we’ll come back loooking energetic again.
And hopefully Pards sorts out Ba’s attitude problem.
A strange thing we never score from Free kick, I don’t remember the last goal we don’t score from open play.
Get in norwich
Chances of finishing over 20 points ahead of the scum?
I would prefer Everton to lose the semi final as a safety net but I reckon we’ll get European footy regardless
Also anyone think we should go for Pienar from spurs if possible? They got him for 2.5 mil, maybe we could go for something similar…he’d be great and could fit in in so many places in a 4-3-3
Knowing Spurs tho they’d want 20 mil for him
Well done lads ,it was a slog untill the subs and goal but great result .
Norwich have beaten spuds 1.2
Scum sunk as well
Happy Happy Happy me.
Told yous to have faith in MASH .. wat a belta .. benny amaaazzzzzing .. whers the bedsheet and brickwallers now eh !!!!! hahahaha Hitman, i telt you it would be sweet … hahahaah!! whooo hooo
We’ve been saying it for a while now….Ben Arfa is that rare “make something out of nothing” player that is essential for any top club to have.
I really hope the Ba thing gets explained away after the match. Hopefully he was just upset at his own performance.
ST as fans we do talk about things, do you really think Pards is going to come out in the post match and say that he thinks Ba has a bad attitude
we all seen him said like a wet kipper in the last game when his mate scored
Tim Krul on the road for golden glove this season. 13clean sheets for him.
Holy smokes. 5 wins in a row. I’m going to wake up anytime now.
vs Stoke next. Obertan for the winner.
Love Newcastle, love this season. HWTL.
HBA39 says:
April 9, 2012 at 16:53
A strange thing we never score from Free kick, I don’t remember the last goal we don’t score from open play.
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Yep, unlike the last two seasons. cabaye’s long range cracker is the only one I really remember from this year
Hey MDS what’s your avatar? I saw it tattoo’d on someone yesterday.
279- Well, Cabaye’s stupendous free kick against ManU to start with, and Ba’s unstoppable free kick against West Brom.
the dream lives on lads spurs falling apart,just worried about the mackems catching us with their great new manager
howay fulham
Cabaye against B’burn, Ba against West Brom, Raylor against the scum.
Yeah, our scoring from free kicks but particularly Corners is quite depressing. Don’t think Cabby, Benny or Raylor are actually that good at them for that matter, but the positioning of the players also has a lot to be desired imo.
Raylor against Scunthorpe too
That second bit as at corners btw-we have good free kickers, but not cornerers
I’ll get cracking on the match report, then I might write a Mackem baiting article for tomorrow
What a disciplined performance again the defence was the fulcrum upon which this game turned. Well done Pardew for your selections, defensive tactics which was disciplined all game worst result we could have got today was a draw, subs which was brave taking Ba off for Shola and it worked a treat. I said today that this is the sort of game and time we are going to need a midfield goal and yes Ben Arfa proved the man.
Our players of the moment Ben Arfa and Cisse really are doing wonders for this team We are officially fighting for a champions league place the ball is now in Chelsea’s court.
Ryan Taylor against Sunderland. That was a free kick.
Solano@277 Was he upset at his performance or at being subbed though,his reaction to Pards suggest the latter.
Pards will say everything fine regardless ,but I’m not out for a witch hunt on Ba ,like I said he’s one of me favs ,which is why Iwas so angry to see him act like that. Still we got 12 days to sort out any probs there may be ,hopefully Ba will be back fireing on all cylinders next game.
Brendan- it’s from a radiohead album. I like it because it’s strange and, of course, black and white
Have to say that Pardew got the subs perfect .. loving the energy that Fergie bringing .. we were desperate for that and yet again Shola super effective last 20 mins ..
C’mon Fulham
……..what a fooookin weekend lads n’d lasses eh? If three days ago was good Friday then today’s gotta be marvellous Monday!! The unwashed gettin turned owa and spuds gettin beat like a Delia egg!!!!!! …….On top of the world here like!!! ……..LALAS!!!!!!
5 on the bounce.
Level 4th.
Mackems thrashed.
Holy shit! What a day!
Cmon Fulham!!
Toonsy Re: Mackem baiting …ask them if if they would prefer Werthers or a sticky toffy or 4?
…….I’ll get me coat…..
Ba have been bad for more than a few games, and this has nothing to do with lack of goals, its more about bad passes, bad touches and losing almost all the high balls… It seems fickle I know, but arent players supposed to play on merit rather than early season form? On this showing and with his bad attitude today I think Shola should start instead of him next game, and I am not a Shola fan, he just did more in his 30 minutes than Ba have done in the last few games.
Should take as much buzzzz out of this as possible .. these are rare times to be enjoyed … cooooome on Fulham!!
@304-
-Toon wins 2-0 over a spirited Bolton side
-Mackems get properly drubbed by Everton
-Spurs lose to Norwich at home meaning we’re now level on points with 4th place.
Christ, all I need a beautiful blonde girl with huge knockers to just fall right into my lap today and I can’t possibly think of a better day.
HWTL.
Ba might be also frustrated that he is not the main man, the main striker for NUFC now. But that would be ironic given that he gave the no.9 to Papiss when he came to the club.
Hopefully he is just frustrated that he is not given enough time on the pitch to end his barren run. Sadly, Ba’s performance today wasn’t up to scratch.
Another great result and fantsatic goal by HBA. My stream kept freezing saw BA walking off initially but missed his reaction to Pards. What went on? be very disappointed in him if he was throwing a strop – he definetley was on Friday as we all pointed out then. If this is petulance – he needs to get over it.
The Barca fans i know are getting really sick and tired of the Messi/Ben Arfa comparisons- they’re all afraid Messi will get a swelled head….
but we havent played anyone yet
What a goal by HBA but the credit has to go to Krul for some crucial stops and also Ameobi for the difference he made when he came on, for me, why did we go 4 4 2 when the previous system worked so well.
love to see Birmingham give wham a good beating …. tug boat must be well gutted hahahahahahaha f cuk you tugboat you ruined carroll career telling him to go to the bindippers ..
Hearing Pardew speak when interviewed he really impresses me. He’s humbled so much since his days at West Ham. Compare him to Kenny Dalglish who just ansers everything with a sarky little grunt.
I really can’t believe what i’m seeing from Ba though. We’ve won 5 games in a row, but just because he isn’t scoring he’s going round in a sulk. Who does he think he is?!! And all this whilst giving these open displays of his religious faith. Does that not include a bit of humility and decency?! Fucking hypocrite.
And 10 in 9 for Cisse, brilliant.
What a struggle that was … until Benny;s brilliance. What a fucking good goal.
Thought Santon was outstanding today.
And some other rather nice results as well. It’s been a really good Easter football fest. I’ve watched 12 live games since Friday night in the PL, A-league, Liga, Championship and League One. I don’t think I can stay up for the next match. Too tired. Too pissed. And I have to catch a plane to Canberra in about 8 hours. Howay the lads.
Is my arithmetic wrong cos when i look at the table the mackems can’t catch is?!? A good day
Wouldn’t worry about ba – he should be pissed off, he’s lost a bit of rom and keeps getting subbed – why would he be happy, doesn’t mean much as far as I’m concerned
Witters, they can get 18 points and we are 17 in front
sorry, im thick
Watching CH side vsing the big sam game.
Supporting CH side for the win
let’s lay off Ba for a bit. He’s shown great character until this weekend. I guess the ACON disappoinment and lack of goals is frustrating him and he’s showing it a bit too openly.
But he is human, and it must be difficult being a passionate person and footballer to keep a level head at all times.
Pards and him will talk it out and he’ll be back doing his talking on the pitch.
We fans need to stay on his side, and not alienate him as we did with Xisco. After all, he is still part of our team…
Much more shocking than Ba or HBAs goal or any of that….. Lawro predicted our score
ah well, you know what they say about blind squirrels
Dub@326 I don’t
What do they say ,I’m intrigued now 
Dubtoon the lawro prediction must be a first!
GAN ON BIURMINGHAM!! YAAHOOOOO GETS BETTER AND BETTER
Hooters boys winning
BIRMINGHAM 2 UP NOW
BIRMINGHAM GET ANOTHER!!! HAHAHAHA FAT SAM LONG WAY FROM REAL MADRID NOW ISNT IT!!???
Whoooo,Nice quick goals by Birmingham.
So happy for Hoots
Can’t wait for two captains to line up next year:
Nolan vs Barton in the fizzy pop
HAHAHAHAH 3-1 .. the hammers had just statted blowing bubbles and they all got popped!
W.H 1 .3 BHAM
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Solano don’t you know, a champions league team will come in for Joey this summer….just like Fat Sam and little fatty Nolan will tag along for the ride
Undeniably the greatest thing for us at the moment is that we have THREE players that are capable of turning a game on it’s head. Ba has been off for a few games, no one played amazingly up front today, but for us we have the contingency there, because each of them are capable of obscene moments of magic.
toonsy that must be some post match report your doing
Newkie, one more win and we’ve finished above the bin dippers!
As much as I would love to finish in the champions league anyway, part of me wants to make it just to shove it in Enriques face. Don’t know if these players care with all the money they are making, but it would be brilliant for them to regret making the mistake of leaving us.
You reckon Karen Brady will get in her mate Suralan to utter those famous words?
Fat Sam, YOU’RE FIRED!
Great result today, howay the lads. Pardew will deflate the B a confrontation cos he’s a great manager
Solano-Know exactly what you mean mate, Enrique and Carroll both. I know the players from last year like Willo, Krul, Simmo etc who had their fair share of games will be quite happy to see where their “superior” ex players are. If Colo and Jonas are still friends with Enrique I hope they give him shedloads of stick, hopefully they’re not still friends and they’ll give him banter anyway
Do we still own Xisco? Does this mean we can sell him in the summer?
What a game untill Bennys goal i feared they would get a late goal and nick it , but all of a sudden a flash of brilliance and then we kicked on . Cisse is a gift from god , never did i think we would get a goal machine in to match Shearer’s record , but we have got one now , i know he has not been here long but we need to tie him to the club for the rest of his playing days .Champions League is on .
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It means we can try* to sell him!
I’m sure we could sell him to a rubbish spanish side for a couple million
The problem is that he’s on big wages, so any move would probably mean him having to take a big pay cut.
No Spanish club would pay him 1/3 of what he gets here,I reckon we’re stuck with him until he runs his contract down unfortunately
Are Deportivo paying some of his wages atm do you know?
He’s on 50k a week, so yeah he’s got one more year with us I think.
I was privileged to have witnessed one of the best goals you’ll see in the European football – ever today!
His back heel to turn the midfielder at the start of the goal was out of this world. In fact he very nearly did it again five minutes after but instead of shooting he tried to play Cisse in.
We do appear to have genuine Champions League players in the squad and I think a couple of tweaks in the summer and we will have a real chance next season. Hope Ashley’s enjoying this – it may encourage him.
How much money do we have to spend in the summer. Have as in own.
Ben Arfa was fantastic today and worked hard for the team and capped it all off with one magnificent piece of skill and run on for the goal.
Shola’s perfect cross to Cisse made it look like a training game towards the end as well as Ben Arfa nearly repeating another piece of magic goal but for unselfishly playing it to Cisse who was offside.
Goal of the season for me.
ben arfa!! what can i say about him?? he is an absolute pleasure to watch!! love him! what a stunnin stunnin goal! 5 wins in a row now!! outstanding! 59 points!!! what a season!!! happpppy days!!! cisse again, what a striker!! champions league footy on its way?
If i am right,this is ben arfa first home goal of the season.
Keys? Check. Wallet? Check. Tiote? Cheick. if we keep all our top players I don’t think we need to spend that much but we do need to spend what ever the players we need cost. if we can get the right players for free thats even better but unlike some fans I don’t think the price should be the main factor.
Army he is a special player is our Benny
http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2012/04/09/newcastle-vs-bolton-2012-highlights-2-0-ben-arfa-papiss-cisse-goals-video/
Highlights for anyone that missed the goals.
AOD,
It was HBA’s first prem strike at home, he did score a crap goal against Blackburn at home in the cup though
Jon R… I doubt they’ll be paying much of his wages as they’re in the 2nd div this season.
I am watching the football program Voetball international here in holland and they have just said Newcastle have tabled a bid of 5 million euros for Douglas from FC Twente , these guys usually are 100% right .
Axel you said he’s a bit prone to mistakes? Can’t go far wrong though at 3.5/4m. I trust that he’d at least be a serviceable 3rd CB anyway and we have an OK record in the transfer market lately
Axel….what dya reckon to him?…I’ve seen very little of him but he looked decent enough.
*£4/4.5m
Well he is quick ,strong and mobile but is prone to being caught out of position because he carries the ball forward and then fails to get back . His distribution is not all that either , but that said look at the way Pardew has improved the likes of Perch . In pure defence he is better than Williamson .
Cheers Axel……just one more question, how can you be “usually” 100% right?
richie cos you cant usually be 50% right
If’s better than williamson defensively then all good cos he can’t be more awkward on the ball than him. Pards definitely has been able to drill the whole defensive unit positionally so i wouldn’t worry too much about that. Sounds like decision making is the real question mark. Thanks axel
RICHIETOON i don’t know , but i keep asking the wife that when she say’s am usually 100% wrong .
Axel…you can’t argue with that, if you do you’re “always” 100% wrong
Dubz…..I’m usually 50% right, but I am never 50% wrong
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