It’s an early start so well done for getting out of your pit, but there is good reason to be doing so as fans of NUFC get the chance to pay their respect to a modern great of Newcastle United, Gary Speed, who tragically passed away last weekend.
As you will all be aware of, a day of tribute was planned by the club including the singing of the famous Welsh hymn ‘Bread of Heaven’ and the holding up of cards in the East Stand that will depict the number 11 followed by a minute of applause in recognition of a player who represented the Black and White cause a total of 284 times. The full tribute will now not go ahead at the request of Speed’s wife as she would like to be in attendance although the minute of applause will still be observed.
Moving back onto the game, it won’t be easy, but it’s a game that we could win, if that makes sense? Basically I’ve read the views of some who seem to think that three points against Chelsea is a given. I don’t happen to follow that train of thought and think some are vastly underrating Chelsea on the basis of, by their standards, a poor run of form.
I don’t expect a win, but I do think we are capable of pulling off a victory. However I’m also mindful that Chelsea have quality that can hurt us all over the pitch and that it’s only a matter of time before they click and get a result. We must guard against any complacency and ensure that it doesn’t happen against us today!
In terms of match previews, once again Shamrock has provided another excellent, detailed preview which you can read by clicking here and whilst your at it why not take a gander at Ben’s take on the match by clicking here.
With the match being on Sky there are sure to be plenty of internet streams although I always urge caution when predicting the availability of them, even when technically there should be plenty knocking about. Luckily I’m at the match today along with Marktoon and Jay Jay so I don’t need one, but the rest of you guys do so if anyone happens to stumble across a decent one then why not hoy a link to it in the ‘comments’ section below and share it with your fellow NUFC fans?
That just about sums this particular article up now and it’s over to you guys to get the banter flowing. Keep your eyes peeled for my match report which I’ll get on as soon as I get back as it’ll be written from being at the game first hand, again. Hopefully I can write about us getting three points in the bag, again.
Howay the lads!
Newcastle: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Ryan Taylor; Gabriel Obertan, Yohan Cabaye, Danny Guthrie, Peter Lovenkrands; Hatem Ben Arfa; Demba Ba
Subs: Steve Harper, Davide Santon, James Perch, Dan Gosling, Sammy Ameobi, Leon Best, Shola Ameobi
Chelsea: Petr Cech; Branislav Ivanovic, David Luiz, John Terry (c), Ashley Cole; Ramires, Oriol Romeu, Frank Lampard; Daniel Sturridge, Didier Drogba, Juan Mata
Subs: Ross Turnbull, Jose Bosingwa, Ryan Bertrand, Raul Meireles, Florent Malouda, Salomon Kalou, Fernando Torres
I think we need to score soon to try to knock the stuffing outta chelski
Big Dave(Quote)
BTW seriously admire Pardew for not just going for the draw like most managers would.
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
SHOLA IS ON FIRE
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
well…doesn’t look like it’s gonna be our day… 🙁
Missed the first half, but what I’ve seen so far, compared to Chelseawe are a top four club…
Munich Mag(Quote)
Ameobi should off ran with it a little longer befor shooting then .
kimtoon(Quote)
@147 The usual suspects who think they know everything
Arfa chance(Quote)
Man what a real pity we cannot take on Chelsea with a full side 👿
Lampard is absolute gash….
Munich Mag(Quote)
All i can say is we better give Norwich a good spanking next week cause i don’t think it’s gonna be our day lads.
kimtoon(Quote)
MM thats the thing mate we are giving them a good game without our full team
Arfa I think Raylor is doing ok in a position thats not his own, but I worry that we don’t have someone better than him for LB
Big Dave(Quote)
kimtoon….think you’re being a bit disrespective towards Norwich mate…
They’ll give us a much tougher game than Chelsea are giving us, that’s for sure…
Munich Mag(Quote)
I can feel a toon penalty in me watter….. 😉
Munich Mag(Quote)
No disrespect intended MM ,i know theyr’e good but we still need to spank em.
kimtoon(Quote)
Sammi to score 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Yeh Sammy on now let’s see some early xmas sparkle lads.
kimtoon(Quote)
Big Dave he’s **** mate I’ve said before it’s Gutierrez who makes him look good when there’s no Jonas he looks as good as he is which is just poor. I don’t want to be horrible to the kid but he’s paid alot of money to do a lucky job along with the rest of them and that includes Pardew who shouldn’t have bought Santon if he isn’t good enough.
Arfa chance(Quote)
God damit
kimtoon(Quote)
Kimtoon…we aint gonna spank anyone with the reserve team we’re being forced into fielding… 🙄
Munich Mag(Quote)
fuk that was near there for Sammi
Big Dave(Quote)
unlucky Sammy….just aint gonna be our day today…
Munich Mag(Quote)
Good interception by krul
kimtoon(Quote)
I dont like Kalou 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
you gotta laugh at these commentators…everyone coming off is being “saved for Tuesday”….not that they have been gash, or ran out of stamina… 😆 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
Dont get downhearted lads. We have created more than enough chances against all 3 of the top established sides and have not been embarrased at all. The lads have had a tough run of fixtures and not let themselves down. Looking ahead there are some points to be won. We are in a great position coming into Christmas.
😀
Shamrock(Quote)
Nice touch with the Alan Pardew’s black and white army by some of the crowd, the rest of the plastic fans have been abysmal today
Arfa chance(Quote)
I say our 1st choice 11 would have took these today.
I just worry that winning is a habit and the longer we go without a win the harder it gets
Big Dave(Quote)
Torres on ,let’s hope he’s still shootin blanks.
kimtoon(Quote)
FFS it’s just not our day
kimtoon(Quote)
Thats more like it come on lads
Big Dave(Quote)
chelsea have been so fucking jammy
Newkie(Quote)
Wow ,how good is Krul today
kimtoon(Quote)
We deserve to be level for sure 👿
Munich Mag(Quote)
Krul again 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Hell lets go for broke and all bomb forward and put the wind up em i say.
kimtoon(Quote)
Shamrock@173 spot on there mate….
Munich Mag(Quote)
Stop saying they’re jammy or we’re unlucky…you lot forget last week? Everyone hates us for that bit of luck
Arfa chance(Quote)
Sturridge’s finishing is gash…
Munich Mag(Quote)
Missing Tiote, Guthrie showing he’s not a DM
Newkie(Quote)
And goodnight 🙄 Ah well…
Shamrock(Quote)
f**k it typical
kimtoon(Quote)
What’s up with Collo ?
Munich Mag(Quote)
fucking ****
Newkie(Quote)
fuking cheap one that FFS
Big Dave(Quote)
More poor defending from Raylor. Just don’t rate him at all.
JJ(Quote)
MM – He went off in a huff when he realised Luiz’ hair do was firmer than his…
Shamrock(Quote)
MM they said it was his thigh and not his back
Big Dave(Quote)
Man……that was an absolute gash goal to concede. In my opinion Chelsea are absolute *****, I would have loved to put a nail in the trainers coffin…
Munich Mag(Quote)
Taylor injured & off now, disaster on the key player injury front now.
kimtoon(Quote)
Oh well. always a hard game. Not had the luck but its about time luck went against us
The 59 Sound(Quote)
well we showed well for ourselves. THey should have been a man down for a vast majority of the game. We hit the woodwork 3 times, while Sammy could have put better power and/or placement on his shot and it wouldn’t have gotten cleared from the line.
Proud of the lads today, despite the scoreline
AndrewT(Quote)
Maybe this is a good thing and will show Jabba that we DO need players apart from the super start we have had
Big Dave(Quote)
Looks like we lacked guile and a bit of luck today. 🙁
Munich Mag(Quote)
Worst thing of all is the scum will be proper gloating after this , sh*t we falling apart now and the scoreline flatters em too.
kimtoon(Quote)
what can you say 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
More gash defending from Raylor. And he knows it too hence the challenge
JJ(Quote)
Oh Sammy….stand up mate, you don’t need to tackle there…another gash goal for Chelsea 👿 👿 👿
Munich Mag(Quote)
OK a tad p*ss*d off now. No need to capitulate like that at the end. 👿
The Raylor argument is now over. He’s not good enough to hold the shirt in the long run, but still decent as back up.
Shamrock(Quote)
Also we need some decent centre half depth. Perch still not cutting it for me…
Shamrock(Quote)
AndrewT @ 199 – Totally agree. Proud of the lads today. We are fighting with now many key players out. We hit the woodwork many times and the ref was absolutely horrid. Any other day we might have won 3-0, but there you go.
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
Oh well, created chances, nae luck but we’ve had more than our fair share this season…….next!
richietoon(Quote)
Shamrock the thing that worries me is why isn’t Santon getting a game 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
Maybe the occasion, and the lack of strength in depth caught up with us today. The luck which we have been carrying finally ran out today. Having said that a red card to Chelsea at the beginning of the game would have helped us for sure..
Munich Mag(Quote)
F**k we missed Jonas
B1GSTEVE(Quote)
colo and saylor both off injured,just hope there fighting fit for the next game..
well we have played the 3 top teams in the country,and we can hold our heads high the lads did us proud
hitman(Quote)
1 point from the last three games, relegation form. Sack pardew. 😆 😆 😆
Premandup(Quote)
Premandup – aye get your pitchforks ooooot!! 😆
AlanPardewProject(Quote)
Feel like we should of got a point, but we gave them far to many chances.
Mind you befors this 3 match run I said I,d be happy with a point from it, after last week started to believe we could get more though.
steverd(Quote)
Dont know Dave. We spent enough money on the lad, it’s about time we saw what he can do. I understand not dropping players that are playing well, but it’s been a while since Raylor had a proper good game. He is clearly our weakest link…
Shamrock(Quote)
This is where our thin squad and lack of spending shows injuries to key players and no real cover .
keith(Quote)
undeserved…. 😥
Indian Ocean ToonArmy(Quote)
AVB’s reaction after the second goal says it all about the pressure he’s under. 🙄
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
how many times did we hit the woodwork today, 3 was it? luck running out. Lets see who’s fit for next week.
Premandup(Quote)
the plus side is that if liverpool and **** win we will go from 4th down to 6th which will hopefully make our ownder see that we are great when you have all your number 1’s out there but as soon as 2-3 go down we are a very ordinary and beatable side. It may stop him selling a big name.. but i doubt it lol lol
craig chisholm(Quote)
Didnt deserve to lose 3-0 but chelsea deserved to win the game. Always a hard game this one, chelsea will end up as a top 4 team so it was never going to be a easy game.
The 59 Sound(Quote)
🙁 we don’t deserve the scoreline. I don’t no why Lavenkranks was starting instead of Sameobi.
NUFCgt(Quote)
Shamrock maybe he wasn’t the bargain they thought he was, it just worries me that he can’t get a game 😕
As I said maybe this will show Jabba that we need players
Big Dave(Quote)