Welcome one and all to the fantabulous, majestic ‘Game on’ article which will take you through every twist and turn of the match against Swansea today.
Of course today gives us another chance to pay our respects to Gary Speed as the memorial planned originally for the Chelsea game will go ahead with Gary Speed’s wife, Louise, in attendance at St James’ Park. Welsh hymn ‘Bread of Heaven’ will be sung and black and white cards depicting the number 11 will be held aloft by fans in the East Stand. It’s also fitting that the visitors today are from Speed’s homeland of Wales and I’m sure both sets of fans will combine to make it a fitting tribute to the man.
Moving on to the match itself… Team news will be supplied at the bottom of this article as and when it becomes available. However in the meantime why not take a look at Shamrock’s most excellent match preview here or for a look at a compendium of stats with regard to Swansea courtesy of nufc_stats then why not look here.
That just about sums it up from me and it really is ‘Game on’ time. Newcastle will be looking to pick up their first win in four whilst Swansea will be looking for their first away win of the season (I hate stats like that!) and with both sides capable of producing good football we could be in for a pre-Christmas cracker at St James’ Park.
Howay the lads!
Newcastle: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, James Perch, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Davide Santon; Gabriel Obertan, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez; Leon Best, Demba Ba.
Subs: Steve Harper, Mike Williamson, Mehdi Abeid, Haris Vuckic, Hatem Ben Arfa, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi
Swansea: Vorm, Richards, Williams, Caulker, Taylor, Routledge, Gower, Britton, Sinclair, Allen, Graham
Subs: Tremmel, Monk, Dyer, Augustien, Lita, Dobbie, Moore
Get in
Billy Bullsh!t(Quote)
I fancy a win.
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Welcome back tiote,Mike Williamson,after such long break.
And also Fabricio Coloccini. Glad to see Best being back to starting line up. And the bench is surprisedly back to much stronger position.
oh,welcome back Vuckic 😕
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Interested to hear what all the divs who said Tiote would never play for the Toon have to say? 🙄
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Abeid & Vuckic both on bench, no Smith! Whoop! 😎
Susan(Quote)
Never play for the toon again – that was meant to say
Toon Chicken(Quote)
TC 😆 😆 😆
Off work today on a match day…doesn’t happy often like! Woop!
Moreno(Quote)
strong team and bench that like
2-0 COME OOOOOOOOON!
oh and lol
cwarr07 Colin
Colo starts Abeid starts Tiote on bench #nufc
4 hours ago
Doesn’t give up does he
I Love Mike(Quote)
Good team for us today. Solid. Im going for 2-1 win.
Should win today, last few games have been hard but today is the winnable game,
The 59 sound(Quote)
Glad to see them back, but worried Colo & Tiote are being rushed.
Also glad to see Best & Ba back.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Right running down the off license quickly…and when I say run I mean ‘walk slightly faster than normal’
Moreno(Quote)
Howay the lads, let’s get back on track and put on a display and bag that 3 points. 😀
wolfie(Quote)
Anyone got a link for the game?
Zoë Vicarage(Quote)
that cwarr07 is a complete tool! does he constantly just talk *****??? tiote on bench and abeid starts 😆
Army69(Quote)
zoe al get you one hun
Army69(Quote)
would of liked to see benny on the right and obertoon on the bench,but hey ho..
2-1 to the toon
hitman(Quote)
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/98318/1/watch-newcastle-united-vs-swansea-city-fc.html
there you go
Army69(Quote)
Cheers Army, much appreciated 😉
Zoë Vicarage(Quote)
ilm and army , agree full of ***** that fella is. I follow him just to see what he comes out with next. Apparently we are still signing Maigba……
Johno toon(Quote)
good team today put me at ease, with regards to tiote goin to chelski. I dont see the fuss he has a long contract with us, got a feeling owl head wil play hardball. If u want to tiote we want sturridge and alex plus 10 mil or sod off haha thats wat id say. Cmon the toon!
alex(Quote)
Anyone got a radio link? And a UK proxy in case it’s the bbc link.
hydeous(Quote)
We got a strong team out today. 2-1 Win.
Dont need a link, going to watch soccer saturday. Put £20 worth of bets and accys on today. Newcastle to win is in a few of them
The 59 sound(Quote)
Abeid and Vuckic??? Outstanding!
HWTL!!!
MDS(Quote)
RIP Speedo 😥
Big Dave(Quote)
http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/98318/1/watch-newcastle-united-vs-swansea-city-fc.html
Moreno(Quote)
LETS DO IT FOR SPEEDO
hitman(Quote)
This probably won’t work in UK, but just in case–
http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/319865/
superb quality…
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
RAYLOR not even on the bench? Is he injured?
Cheers Army for the link…much appreciated.
NorCal Toonfan(Quote)
Obertan demonstrating his famous ‘touch of a rapist’ 😆
Moreno(Quote)
Classic routledge…
CC(Quote)
FSOTC- Cheers for the link…I always forget about that site
MDS(Quote)
Yeah Norcal Raylors injured
@JamieVincente(Quote)
Come on Lads
Big Dave(Quote)
FSOTC – Totally forgot about that site…excellent and no adds.
Cheers for the answer JAMIEVINCENTE
NorCal Toonfan(Quote)
oh close Colo
Big Dave(Quote)
Law of averages, one of these have to go in eventually…right?
NorCal Toonfan(Quote)
Obertans playing well and Santon looks decent
stevep(Quote)
fucking internet been playing up all day! How’ve we been doing lads?
Newkie(Quote)
oh Ba
Big Dave(Quote)
I think our defensive strategy today is simply to let Routledge have the ball…and it’s working out well
MDS(Quote)
Great strike by Obertan! 🙄
Shamrock(Quote)
Newkie imo we have been bossing the game, without pulling up any trees so far
Big Dave(Quote)
Santon looks real cool on the ball 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Newkie- dominating so far
MDS(Quote)
Is Best doing any good? And Tiote?
hydeous(Quote)
Best is playing well, him and Ba are winning everything in the air. Tiote looks a bit leggy and has been caught in possession a few times but is doing ok
M(Quote)
The ref needs to start punishing them for all their fouls 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
Good to hear then I guess…but half the time we boss the game and then concede first 😕
Newkie(Quote)
Swansea look very lightweight – if we don’t get 3 points we should be very disappointed
M(Quote)
lovely ball by Santon
Big Dave(Quote)
Santon looks good.
MDS(Quote)
great play by santon
CC(Quote)
M I think if we score soon they will drop their heads, but the longer it go’s on for the more they will get into the game
Big Dave(Quote)
Holy ****! That would’ve been a hell of a goal by Ba
MDS(Quote)
WHAT A STRIKE BY BA!!!! So unlucky not to score that!
@JamieVincente(Quote)
Ba close again god save by Vrom 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
Weve had days like this before…
CC(Quote)
oh Jonas
Big Dave(Quote)
How the **** have they got to HT level ??
CC(Quote)
great 1st half more of that in the 2nd plz 😆
hitman(Quote)
we have been all over them but we need to take our chances and make them pay
Big Dave(Quote)
So close so many times 😕 come on lads!
Newkie(Quote)
Need Shola on!
Long live the King Shola!
Moreno(Quote)
How the hell we aren’t in the lead is beyond me, we have battered them to death.
I’m impressed with every single one of our players.
wolfie(Quote)
On soccer saturday it sounds like we have dominated. It sounds like the wigan game we had earlier on in season when Cabaye scored the late goal. Same might happen today. 0-0 Nat half time aint the end of the world tho, at least we havent conceded a goal.
The 59 sound(Quote)
We’ve got to get a couple in the net in the second half! Great show so far and liking Santon.
Lots of good attacking options on the bench too!
AndrewT(Quote)
well on top, can’t complain really, just need to take our chances, Ba is a legend, they can’t deal with him at all
KeithRToon(Quote)
I know it’s only Swansea, but we look so much better with Best & Ba up top–much more danger there. They combine well.
Tiote looks a little rusty but that’s to be expected.
The defense hasn’t been tested at all. Santon had one or two loose passes, but looks pretty good going forward.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Obertan’s been frustrating again today–great dribbling, poor crosses. Wonder if he could play in the middle?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Swansea have came to frustrate and only by luck is the score 0-0.
I would expect us to put them to the sword in the early second half and we must make our superiority count early on if we can because that was Swansea have no option to come at us and we can skin the life out of them with this team.
wolfie(Quote)
If Raylor were starting on the left, Routledge would be doing a lot more than he has so far
AndrewT(Quote)
Santon looks great and we’ve already seen how much his presence has allowed Jonas to get involved..surely only a matter of time…
Newkie(Quote)
Newkie you would think its only a matter of time, but the sooner the better or it will get harder to break them
Big Dave(Quote)
right come on Lads lets get at them from the off
Big Dave(Quote)
Big Dave-exactly, and the longer it takes the more frustrated we all get which only ever makes it harder 😕
Newkie(Quote)