Oh I do like to be beside the seaside….

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James Perch on tour!
It’s Bank Holiday weekend, and what better way to enjoy the current sunshine than to head to the seaside for a few days?

Fortunately fans of NUFC can head to the seaside, well Blackpool’s seaside anyway, and take in a match whilst they are there. Hopefully Bloomfield Road will prove to be a much happier hunting ground than the last time we were there when a cold, dank, midweek fixture resulted in a 2-1 defeat for a Newcastle side that were still reeling from relegation to the Championship.

Not to worry though, we got our own back later on in that season when we heat them 4-1 at St James’ Park towards the end of last season, but the momentum swung back in their favour at the start of this season when we suffered a 2-0 home defeat. Put simply, we owe them one!

Blackpool may well be involved in a relegation scrap, but that isn’t our concern. We still have points that we need to get for ourselves, whether that be with the aim of getting those final few points to effectively guarantee survival or so we can push on and try to finish in the top half of the table. Balls to Blackpool.

With Kevin Nolan back in the side, and with Stephen Ireland looking that bit fitter, we will have options at Bloomfield Road. It’s been a while since we could say that! Add to that the fact that Blackpool’s star man, Charlie Adam, is only rated as 50-50 to make Saturday’s game and the omens start to look a little better for the 2,100 strong Toon Army who have tickets for the match.

So will it be a happy trip to the seaside for those in black and white? We’ll see, but if it is to be an Easter eggs-travaganza (see what I did there? 😉 ) the we’ll have to make sure we win the game fairly and squarely as we won’t get any help from referee Martin Atkinson.

To those who don’t know, he is the one who conned us out of a result against Manchester City earlier on in the season and failed to even award a free-kick for the challenge that left Hatem Ben Arfa with his leg broken in two places.

If we go there and play our own game then we have enough about ourselves to grab a win. I’m not going to get cocky as we could just as easily lose, but it won’t be through a lock of motivation on our part. We’ll be up for it, the fans will be up for it and I’m sure the players will be up for it.

Hopefully that will be enough to get the three points on offer!

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104 thoughts on “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside….”

  1. Wish I was going! No doubt a couple thousand will turn up without tickets and that, we really should beat them. If Wigan can play them off the park we can do better!

    I might put a bet on Ireland getting his first like with Guthrie not playing he should start.

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  7. We’re getting stronger as the season ends like, Ireland and Nolan are back now, Benny will feature in the final three games, Gosling is back in training. Just a shame Guthrie now misses Blackpool, must be gutted.

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  8. I travel everywhere by train and I’m always pissed, give me a break 😆 you should have mail toonsy.

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  10. I hope Blackpool do survive – but only via a freak set of results in their last four games having lost to us lots-nil. 😀

    Apart from anything else, I’d miss Holloway’s interviews. Quality bloke.

    With Nolan and Ireland available, we should be fine for a few goals. I think Jonas is in a purple patch right now, so he could nick one too.

    Gutted for Guthrie, mind. Get well soon, fella.

    I think we’ll have ’em 3-1. Shame it’s not on telly, though – not even Nova Sports at my local, dammit.

    Those going: make some noise!

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  14. Good game that dan.

    Toonsy we all have a gamble and were not old enough 😆

    I hope we turn these over and give them a right **** whiping. 😆

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  15. Oh, were on this thread.

    Spencer I don’t know about you but there was certainly no Xbox getting thrown out of my window 😉

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  16. With the weather like this it’s sure to be a top afternoon in Blackpool.

    Might pop down meself and just get pissed.

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  17. I had a few decent bits of play, if that modric shot would of gone it the tide might have turned 😆

    as for your first goal i was smashing the B button to make him clear it. 😆

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  18. Think we were the far better team the first time. Their two goals came off counters as we were the only team pushing. Think with them being home, they’ll go for it and we’ll get the better of them this time. Just don’t know where the goals will cone from 😕
    Been a while since we’ve seen a fat-trick 😯 💡

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  19. Yeah I got a bit lucky there :mrgreen:

    The formation you use with Spurs is good like, should try Crouch down the middle and cross it in as much as you can 😉

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  20. I was once driving back from Newcastle to Cumbria at 2am, listening to some daft radio play comedy thing to stay awake. There was a character in it called Chlamydia Roofrack. Priceless.

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  21. Aye it is canny, I also find with the big lads on fifa they come out wide and try to hold it up, really pisses me off.

    I dont normally use huddlestone but I thought he’d do a decent job of holding the middle but he did’nt 😆

    Normally use pienaar there.

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  26. not feckn sunny here 😆
    My first (and last) trip to Blackpool was last season for the match, what a feckn dump, the whole place………nae offence if ya from there tho 😉 😀

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  29. Ice….no sun breakin thru but forecast for rain all weekend, still 20c tho……car needs the dust washin off it anyway 😀

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  33. Richie- Hows sunny Spain treating you? You just spending your days drinking cold beer? 😆

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  34. Richie – you out Alicante way? I was there last week – noticed that the good weather ended the day I left.

    The Spanish tourist board should pay me to stay out there. :mrgreen:

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  35. Richie – just remember that here being nicer than there is a rare occurrence! (Won’t stop us taking the miss, of course, but it’s rare)

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  36. Aye dan I like pace so I can just play people in, im starting to master the step-over aswell so I can take it inside easier.

    I love lennon on it, just play him in and hes away 😛

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  39. Spencer, yeah I thought you might do that a lot so a kept on showing you down the line 😉

    Something Simpson didn’t do 😆

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  40. Richie- It’ll be worth it.

    Take it easy though, don’t wanna strain yourself at your age 😉

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  41. dan I noticed that, your good a reading when I was gunna turn aswell and just kept nicking it off me.

    Most people online are just shyte and dont do that so I either pull it back to VDV in the box or shoot.

    Anyway I bet I played better than Jobey made out I would 😆

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  42. I spent a whole day of my hols hammeriting the bleedin’ steps up the back of the house. Not great use of time off.

    Fantastic time to be out there, though – not too crowded or noisy, warm but not daft hot, usually sunny, everyone chilled. Love it.

    So why do the fekkin’ Brits wait until it’s hot, sweaty, dusty, noisy, crowded and expensive to head out there? Just when it’s nicest here??

    Odd lot Brits. Our place booked solid every summer, sometimes over Easter, but empty when it’s ***** in England and nice there. Boils me Sangria-heavy ****, it does.

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  43. Stu @ 16 – I was thinking the same. I’ll buy you a beer if I see you? I’ll stuff it full of laxatives and rim the glass with my **** free of charge 😉

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  47. Toonsy- Dont no if you saw the other day but i dont need your membership, I’m just going to sit in the SE corner and just get my own 12th man next year as im going to try and make some away games.

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  50. Its too much like hard work 😆

    And I dont trust you 😉 😆

    Only joshing with the second comment 😆

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  51. Spencer 😆

    I’ve just played JerseyGeordie and he’s a sly one, played the whole game with his virtual pro 😉 :mrgreen:

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  53. hahah, I dont use my, its cheating 😆

    Anyone now where I can get clips of matchs by the way? cos I want to start making some video’s, and I dont just meen newcastle ones I mean like all match’s.

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  55. I don’t think my 82 rated vp+the rest of the toon squad vs barca is cheating 😎
    But I’ll give him a rematch with some more even teams 😉
    Toonsy don’t make me dust off the old ps3 😈

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  58. JG – If you;re gonna dust it off then you need to be quick. The chance to play me doesn’t come along very often 😉

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  60. Toonsy no I meant seriously don’t make me dust it off because it’ll be a waste of time as the Bly-ray laser is bolloxed… 😆 :mrgreen:

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  62. Cos no-ones got one toonsy 😆

    Get your self on amazon and buy me a copy for ps3 😉 😆

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  65. Ill go out one day and get my self a second hand copy for about a tenner and ill show you how to play 😉

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  68. dan4toon
    Posted April 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    “PS3 is for winners”

    Fixed that spelling there for ya Dan 😉

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  70. Just remember, I think you need to pay an extra fiver to get it reactivated for online play 😉

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  72. My record vs people off here so far;

    beat Jobey 3-0 and 3-1

    beat Spencer 2-0

    beat Jersey 3-1 😉

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  73. **** you do aswell, Ill just buy a new one.

    I scored a class goal with tiote, it was dipping and i hit it on volley and it went over the keeper.

    Dan, Who played the shytest? Be honest 😆

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  74. Ive got enough money to buy it new but i was gunna invest in the DVD’s agains arsenal and sunderland

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