Wimpering Wolves! Newcastle 4-1 Wolves.

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Jonas makes it four.
Newcastle finally managed to end a couple of dismal runs this afternoon as they put Mick McCarthy’s Wolves side to sword.

In a match where I think most fans would have taken a nervy 1-0 win, it was Newcastle who pretty much dominated the game and got the reward they deserved as they ran out 4-1 victors at St James’ Park – the first Saturday, 3pm win at home since August 2008.

It also signals the end of a run of form which had seen us being dragged perilously close to the drop zone after not having won a match since the start of January and leaves us sitting in the top half of the table, above Sunderland who go to Manchester City tomorrow.

With injuries stacking up and a lack of form the mood amongst the fans was pensive to say the least. It’s a completely different mood now though and whilst the relegation concerns aren’t over yet this result signifies a huge leap towards Premier League safety.

it was a day for those who have their fair amount of knockers ( 😆 ) to step forward and ram some of those words of criticism back down the throats (or keyboards) from whence they came. Danny Guthrie played well and had a solid game in the middle of the park and even James Perch had his uses when he replaced an injured Shane Ferguson. The praise shouldn’t stop there though.

The whole team started brightly to be fair and didn’t look like a side that was going through such a poor run of form. Newcastle zipped the ball about smartly without really creating too much but also without giving Wolves a sniff of Steve Harper’s goal.

All the neat play didn’t really matter though as the home side took the lead on on 23 minutes through the often criticised Kevin Nolan. No cleverness was needed as Shola Ameobi flicked on Mike Williamson’s long punt up field for Nolan who charged through an indecisive Wolves defence to slot past Wayne Hennessey for his 12th goal of the season.

That goal settled any nerves that the Newcastle players had as they took the game by the scruff of the neck. Wolves were so awful that they were forced into a tactical reshuffle in the hope of trying to change their fortunes. Sylan Ebanks-Blake forced a fine save from Harper but that was about the extent of the visitors attacking play in the first half.

That wasn’t the case for Newcastle though who made it 2-0 on the stroke of half time through Shola Ameobi. Peter Lovenkrands crossed the ball to the far post for the masked, and again often criticised, Ameobi to head home. A fine way to end the half indeed.

Newcastle came flying out of the block at the start of the second half and could have extended their lead through Joey Barton and Peter Lovenkrands had the Wolves goalkeeper and the woodwork not had something to say about it. It wasn’t long before the ball was in the back of the net though, but the credit for that goal must go to Fabricio Coloccini.

Coloccini skilfully took the ball past two Wolves midfielders before sliding the ball through to Joey Barton on the right. Barton then delivered an inch perfect square ball for an unmarked, and much criticised, Peter Lovenkrands giving him the simplest task of knocking the ball past Wayne Hennessey. It was Colo who received the praise and adulation from his colleagues, and rightly so. Game over.

Or was it? Wolves did try and get back into the game and even got a goal back through Sylan Ebanks-Blake before applying some more pressure to try and reduce the 3-1 deficit, but despite them having the bulk of the play for fifteen or so minutes and going close, really close, to making it 3-2 through Stephen Fletcher they were unable to capitalise on a rare spell of dominance.

Newcastle put the icing on the cake with a fourth goal in injury time as Steven Taylor ran the ball out of defence and passed to the much criticised Jonas Gutierrez who ran in on goal and unleashed a 20-yard angled drive past Wayne Hennessey to round off the victory in style.

It’s been a tough time for Newcastle United and the fans, but we need to stick together. We can bemoan the standard of player that we have at our disposal until we’re blue in the face, but it won’t change anything. Eleven world beaters won’t suddenly emerge from the tunnel.

That can change in the summer of course, but first we need to get to the summer and ensure that we are a Premier League team. We’re not there yet, but today was a massive step towards it. The questions were starting to mount up, and today they were answered.

They aren’t the most gifted team that we’ve ever seen, but they are good enough to get us those final few points that we need to take us over the line. Then, in the summer, we can regroup and improve the team.

That’s getting ahead of ourselves though. Today should be about the performance and the result against Wolves. It was billed to be our biggest test of the season, and those lads, from manager downwards, passed it with flying colours.

Howay the lads!

Newcastle: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Fabricio Coloccini, Mike Williamson, Shane Ferguson, Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Danny Guthrie, Jonas Gutierrez, Peter Lovenkrands, Shola Ameobi.

Subs: Tim Krul, James Tavernier, James Perch, Sol Campbell, Steven Taylor, Nile Ranger, Shefki Kuqi.

Wolves: Wayne Hennessey, Kevin Foley, Richard Stearman, Christophe Berra, George Elokobi, Adam Hammill, Nenad Milijas, Karl Henry, Jamie O’Hara, Matt Jarvis, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.

Subs: Marcus Hahnemann, Jody Craddock, Michael Mancienne, David Jones, Michael Kightly, Stephen Ward, Steven Fletcher.

Referee: Mike Dean.

Attendance: 49,939.

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131 thoughts on “Wimpering Wolves! Newcastle 4-1 Wolves.”

  1. Such a relief man, I feel we are safe now.

    Shola, Barton and Colo I thought we just class. Simpson won’t get any of the headlines or mentiones but considering he was up against Jarvis he had a great game.

    Sitting above Sunderland, 7 points clear – it’s been a good day!

    And we won on a saturday at 3 😆

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  2. good write up aboot reet imo.
    putting new thread up knacked the boat for 500,said before someone was catching up,had 45 😀

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  4. Referee Mike Dean had a busy afternoon, booking a total of eight players, including Nolan who will now miss our next two games after reaching ten yellows for the season.

    😥 😥

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  7. try again – todays goals

    eurorivals.net/newcastle-united:wolves-highlights-goals-video_20110402.html

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  8. MOURINHO 9years Home Unbeaten Record is officially gone!!!~~

    NUUUUUUUUUUUU~~~ 👿 😥

    FT’.

    RM 0-1 Sporting.

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  9. I know we have the Villa game but personally I can’t wait for the Man Utd game, looking like a midfield of;

    Barton Ireland Tiote Jonas :mrgreen:

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  10. BREAKING: Jose Mourinho loses first home match in nine years as Real Madrid beaten 1-0 by Sporting Gijon. His run ends at 150 games.

    😥 😥

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  11. Jonas is a ****, I said Manure would win 4-2 and we’d win 3-1, the selfish fecker 😆 😆

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  13. BREAKING: FA to examine Rooney’s f-word “We will look at it,” a spokesman said. “We obviously don’t condone foul and abusive language.”

    Oh good,pls FA ban Him for next 3 matches.

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  15. I mentioned that incident about 2 threads ago. He scored, ran to the camera and just started effing and blinding into it. Barton gets banned for scoring goals – Rooney needs to be forced into retirement.

    Anyone heard McCarthy’s interview on the BBC website? He is honest at least, you can’t fault him over that.

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  16. The good thing about when we play Man Utd, they’ve got Champions League and the FA Cup semi vs City 2 days before 🙂

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  20. DAVE dont know where they are,thick c@nts.

    nearly got caught there another blog had 48 😀

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  23. Ice nearly got caught but not near enough 😆
    I see Richie dosn’t know if he’s coming or going but that is maybe an age thing 😉

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  30. Andy and dan know eachother, i’ve just spoken to them on here and i’ve got them on Xbox.

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  31. Dave, the ones I know personally on here are AndrewNUFC, LiamTheMag, Davidtoon4life and Josh-NUFC

    Went to school with them etc 🙂

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  33. Ice the only time we get any praise on it is if Wor Al is on otherwise its not that we played decent they normally try to say the other team were ****.
    But im a believer in the winning team can make the other team **** because they stop them playing their game 😉

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  36. RICHIE i would be up for it but got to gan just now pick 5 horses up from bingo,if i dont catch you all the best for your move your deeing the right thing imo,all the best 😉

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  37. Richie 😆 😆 sure you will still get on wont ye ❓
    Dan know I see so Jobey is the odd one out 😆 he is just someone you’s use to beat on xbox 😉

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  38. Jobe…..I knew that would be the reply 😉 …but funnily enough me,Dave and batty are Ice’s team of carers at Durham Dreams Carehome for the elderly and Infirm 😆

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  42. Dave, well I thought I might as well get my mates on here because I was the only young one… I think 🙄

    I haven’t played Jobey yet but it’s only a matter of time before he gets a good beating 😉

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  49. Sorry lads.. no offense meant :mrgreen:

    So from that I think the youngest person on this blog is Davidtoon4life… the picture and video boy!, he’s 16 same as Liam. Me, Andrew and Josh are 17 😀

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  56. Toonsy, Herr Webmeister. My first post on this site. Great summarry of a big, big match – I was on the edge of me seat just reading it! A question though: Who’s this ‘much critisised’ guy? Have we brought somebody in on the quiet? He seemed to feature a lot! Did Jonas don his mask for his very important
    goal – as it may prove to be at the end of the season. Great result and again Toonsy, great report.

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  57. Dave, yeah that was when I wasn’t allowed an opinion because I was too young 🙄

    Also I’m not ranked in the top 30,000 in the world for nothing 😉 😆

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  61. Aye I heard Dan’s miles better than jobe like, not even in the same league.

    Lesh…no he didn’t put the mask on 🙁

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  68. richie knows all aboot masks,still got the one his mother put on him when he was born poor git 😀

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  69. Dave, I remember I’d say something like Viduka shouldn’t be allowed to play for us after he walked off the pitch vs WIgan and the money he got a week but I was just wrong…

    …and these will be the same people that believed Ed’s sidesplitting April fool I’m guessing 😯

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  70. Dave 😆
    Reet I’m off to get pissed, it’s the only way I can put up wi you lot, later lads 😀

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  73. Jobey, that’s the way I like it to be with FIFA, number one!

    Mind you I’m terrible on COD 😳

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  75. I play Andrew all the time but my favorite team to be is Blackpool and he was Chelsea the last time we played and it finished 1-1 and he ended it as a draw :mrgreen:

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