After two weeks off it’s back to Premier League action for The Magpies as they take on The Potters of Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium this afternoon.
A brief 90 minutes of football today will take is into yet another two week break, which is why it’s important to try and get a positive result this afternoon at what is one of the leagues toughest grounds to visit. Both teams could very easily get sucked into the relegation mire, but I would suggest that Stoke have the greater need for a win whereas Newcastle could probably just about settle for a point that will keep us ticking over until the Wolves game at the start of April.
It isn’t looking pretty with regard to injury news either although there was no official confirmation that any one of Joey Barton, Jose Enrique or Jonas Gutierrez have been ruled out in the build up to the match. It’s looks as though at least one, if not all, of them will miss the match as I speculated in my match match preview.
Being a Saturday 3pm game means that the game will not be live on TV, well not in the UK anyway. This will mean that many people are relying on streaming the game if they are to watch it. Reliability of streams has been **** on the whole recently, but if you do manage to find a decent one then please feel free to throw a link to it in the comments section below.
I guess all that is left for me to say is that I hope we all enjoy the game and get the result at the end of it. I’ve pre-written this as I’m at the match myself, so the team news has today been supplied by Moreno.
Howay the lads!
Team news….
Stoke: Begovic; Wilson, Shawcross, Huth, Higginbotham; Pennant, Delap, Whelan, Etherington; Jones, Walters
Subs: Sorensen, Collins, Fuller, Pugh, Diao, Whitehead, Wilkinson.
Newcastle: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Sol Campbell, Fabricio Coloccini, Jose Enrique. Joey Barton, Cheik Tiote, Kevin Nolan. Shola Ameobi, Peter Lovenkrands.
Subs: Tim Krul, Steven Taylor, Danny Guthrie, Shane Ferguson, Jonas Gutierrez, Shefki Kuqi, Nile Ranger.
Newcastle go to a 3-5-2 formation. Sol Campbell comes in to replace Steven Taylor who drops to the bench. Jose Enrique and Joey Barton pass late fitness tests to give the starting 11 a much needed boost as Leon Best is absent due to an injury he picked up in training on Thursday.
HOWAY THE LADS !
Just a quick break to run down to the shop…be right back
Moreno(Quote)
GC always a slow on match days mate
icedog(Quote)
double bollox 👿
richietoon(Quote)
Right Ice, ta, server issues I presume… Anyone got any Vshare links? All streams are ***** today like, only vshare ever seems to be any good for me. I suppose that’s what I get for living on a volcanic rock in the middle of nowhere (Gran Canaria!).
Gutted about Tiote’s card, especially as it sounded a bit daft. Need Nolan to stay away from one now. Wolves is a BIG game.
GeordioCubano(Quote)
Brilliant all round. Under 12’s defending
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Taxi for Harper 👿
richietoon(Quote)
What da fuk was Harper doing ther 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
Well that was good defending
CC(Quote)
kinel wtf was that
4411(Quote)
What was that for
CC(Quote)
great, gan to the shop, come back and we are 2-0 down. what the hell happened?
Moreno(Quote)
**** 3 nowt
richietoon(Quote)
Awful
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
game over 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
bye bye prem
4411(Quote)
Oh my god
CC(Quote)
from bad to worse
phil(Quote)
what a strike 😯
Moreno(Quote)
Sorry but Harps is finished, he’s far to static
4411(Quote)
Base on the fact that Stoke are thumping us we dont really deserve to be in the premier league do we? 😕
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
Pretty much as expected really.
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
ganning off in the bloody huff 😥
icedog(Quote)
Maybe toonsy should never go watch any match from now on. 😈
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Stoke playing football now. Surely we are at the end of the world here folks ❓
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
has partridge got the selection wrong again. pundits are saying sol is a passenger
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Lovenkrands just wants too much time
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
If Lovenkrands wants to much time Sol is waiting for a bus!
4411(Quote)
is Danny Simpson still on the field?
Nothing coming from the wings. People have a pop at Jonas from time to time but we are really missing him today.
Moreno(Quote)
Just said on the radio if the team was as good as the support. What a season we would have
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Get Ranger on and Loven off man.
Howay our fans are at least doing us proud.
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
seven of the ten teams below us picking up points as it stands
phil(Quote)
Toby @ 99 yeah Sol is a passanger but Pards would have got slaughtered even more if he played Taylor, and Taylor would have got slaughtered if he had of been to blame for the 1st one instead of Sol
Big Dave(Quote)
WBA winning 2-0 against Arsenal.
As things look, we are in trouble!
Moreno(Quote)
I can take defeat but it is how you lose. make their keeper earn his wages FFS
West Brom winning two nowt against the ****. their season (****) is imploding as fast as ours. We are fighting for survival if we wasn’t before
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Freguson awesome run!
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
Fergie is a real positive 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Goddamnit. Injuries suck. We’re a mess. Howay God, give us a couple wins, mate!
OHurley(Quote)
Ferguson is looking absolutely class with that skill, shame he didn’t pass it but fair play to him, he made the chance
Moreno(Quote)
Harper rolling it out again with Jones on his shoulder 🙄
Big Dave(Quote)
See Mason is having a go at Collocini as Fabrizio has a lovely full head of hair
Moreno(Quote)
Take more than 35 million to make us a proper top ten side
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Big Dave-
Is that an L98 in your profile pic?
OHurley(Quote)
We all said we would be happy with a draw, most of us thought we wouldn’t get a result….and I really don’t reckon we deserve to be 3-0 down.
Moreno(Quote)
this is depressing – we look *****
4411(Quote)
Why do we keep playing high balls in their box? They are better than us in the air. We all saw what Ferguson did to them when he kept it on the ground and ran them ragged.
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
**** comeback started trailing by one. we need them to claw west brom back
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
OH the fore runner sa80 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave-
Gotcha. I’m really not a fan of either of those, mesel, but what do I know? 😆
OHurley(Quote)
Ballicks oh Tiote was lucky there I thought he was off 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
Bartons final ball has been very poor and our defending non existent
4411(Quote)
Oh I wasn’t a big fan mesel I prefered a GPMG 😆 the widow maker
Big Dave(Quote)
We are not getting anything past Begovic today. What a save
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
He is good like Begovic.
Moreno(Quote)
We need Villa, Blackburn and **** all to equalise in the last ten minutes
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
3-0 to Stoke is really bad
4411(Quote)
**** have done the business come on the other two
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
youngh Fergies prob the only one to come out this game with any credit
4411(Quote)
arsenal drawing 😀
richietoon(Quote)
Just watching the last goal from free kick and Nolan turns his back on it if he had of stood tall he would have stopped it so that is 3 goals we helped them with 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
4411 I have been real impressed with Fergie he has done himself proud today 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Definitely our man of the match: Ferguson
Moreno(Quote)
Rangers never gonna make it
4411(Quote)
fvcking joke
4411(Quote)
our GD is taking a hammering 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
This is to painfull. I am going watching college basket instead.
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
Just not our day today, lads. F’n Stoke. Eyesore to watch but yet they always seem to get results against us….
Dave-
Yeah that was a much better choice. I still prefer the AK to all of them though. **** Ruskies knew what they were doin’.
OHurley(Quote)
Alan Pardew is now statistically the third worst Newcastle manager of all time (not counting managers who have been in charge for less than 10 games).
Chris Hughton, statistically, is Newcastle’s best ever manager with a 59.38% win ratio.
Just food for thought.
From United for Newcastle
Moreno(Quote)
The afternoon completed never mind losing the goal difference has taken a hammering.
A stat just announced in in the 15 away games we have scored 12 goals. Surprisingly we have won 5 away games
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
1 win in 10 now – it isn’t looking good for us
4411(Quote)
Well weve got to dust ourselves down, We have enough matches we can win left
onwards and upwards
CC(Quote)
I guess Pards may get the helmet on and batten down the hatch’s as im sure he will be getting hammered 🙁
Big Dave(Quote)
ferguson the stand out performer. we should play more youngsters instead of players who have an opinion they are better than they really are. could we really have done any worse
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Will Toonsy make a thread about that stat that Moreno just posted?
We certainly don’t look harder to beat today.
funkyjesus(Quote)
**** it wolves have won and wigan have won. Next two games are wolves and villa teams with us in the mix. we need points **** how ugly it is
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
to be honest I still maintain faith in Pards. I don’t feel like he’s been our 3rd worst manager at all and the notion that we’re gonna go down is fairly ridiculous, there are definitely three teams worse than us. Worst outcome of the day (apart from the result) is Tiote getting banned for a very, very soft yellow. Hope Ireland’s back for Wolves at home, which has now become and absolute must-win. Ferguson looks class, Ranger as ever looks dangerous and to be fair we lost because of silly mistakes (sol- gone in the summer, and harps- usually reliable) and dodgy decisions (never a free-kick for their third). We will of course be spending in the summer and as long as we maintain a mid table finish, which I suspect we will, we will be absolutely fine. Feeling very positive about the summer and next season, reckon we’ll get about 8 more points before the end. Things could be a lot worse lads…
DevonMag(Quote)