Game on! Newcastle v Birmingham.

St James' Park.

St James' Park.
Newcastle host Birmingham City.
It’s game on against Birmingham City as the Magpies welcome the Blues to St James’ Park for what is the final Saturday 3pm kick-off of the campaign.

Hopefully our lads can put a bit more effort into this game after the Anfield debacle last weekend. Now don’t get me wrong, I never expected to win that game, but I did expect our team to put up a bit more fight rather than looking they were on their summer jollies already. A win today will go some way to erasing that performance from my mind!

That’s the selfish view though. The more important thing that can be achieved today is Premier League safety. What would need to happen is for us to beat Birmingham and for Wigan to fail to beat Aston Villa at Villa Park. Alternatively a draw would do us if Wigan lose. I’ve personally thought that we’ve been safe for the last few weeks, but for those who are still concerned about it that is what needs to happen.

The match, much like any Saturday 3pm kick-off, is not scheduled for live TV coverage here in the UK, but it is bring broadcast in quite a few places overseas. With that in mind I would hope that there are a couple of decent streams available so once again, if you stumble across one then please feel free to share it with the rest of us.

I really can’t see this game being a goal fest as neither team seem to be able to score at the moment. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 0-0 in all honesty.

Team news is as follows…

Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simspon, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Peter Lovenkrands, Shola Ameobi.

Subs: Steve Harper, James Tavernier, Shane Ferguson, Ryan Taylor, Ryan Donaldson, Nile Ranger, Shefki Kuqi.

Birmingham: Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Martin Jiranek, Liam Ridgewell, Sebastian Larsson, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson, Jean Beausejour, Keith Fahey, Cameron Jerome.

Subs: Colin Doyle, Stuart Parnaby, Curtis Davies, David Bentley, Alexander Hleb, Matt Derbyshire, Kevin Phillips.

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203 thoughts on “Game on! Newcastle v Birmingham.

  1. Guys,my stream just went dead…any good streams please.. ❓

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  2. Shola’s penalies are the only thing I can’t criticise him for. They are all inch perfect

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  3. ill see it propably on MOTD. Must just be this streams, its not really that clear

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  4. Ill let Colo off, that was a rare mistake from him. If it was Saylor, ide be chopping his …. off 😆

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  5. What did I say last week about Krul and deflected goals???? Doesn’t matter how well we play, the ball will find it’s way in!!!!!!

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  6. That puts us 10th at the minute. 10 shots on target? Never thought it was that many?

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  7. Spencer- can’t you count yourself? you get 3 for a win, and the bottom 3 go down, that helped you at all?

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  8. There all diffrent questions though sy 😉
    But if BLP who are on 35 points beat spurs they go to 38 with 6 points still to play for. and if we win we will be on 44 meaning BLP can still catch us and they occupy 18th place… 😕

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  9. Krul never fills me with much confidence. Think too many of us remember that Palermo performance and live in hope.

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  10. lovenkrands really is total rubbish, cannot for the life of me see anything he offers! as frustrating and lazy as ameobi is, he can sure crack a good peno

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  11. whats ed gonna do now? larsson has been the average players that he is! will ed’s delusion be shattered??

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  12. loven isn’t actually that bad as everyone makes him out to be.. hard worker, fast/quick, most shots are on target…. problem is that he never gets them past the keeper

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  13. BigD@20….that wasn’t me on .org it was someone else posting as MM… 😆 😆 😳 😈

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  14. any good links lads ? I’ve just finished the ironing and wor lass said I could watch the match… 🙄

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  15. Has Larsson been that bad? Haven’t been able to see more than a few minutes due to streams going out. Thought he had an idea or two early on, but no one else did for them

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  16. bloody hell.. watching the match, suddenly it switches to the masaters… second time tonight

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  17. pay for a bloody channel to watch the football, and end up watching the Masters… 😯

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