It’s not been a bad start to 2012 has it? As Shamrock pointed out in his fantastic match preview, we’ve won all of our fixtures, including that one against some second class (well, we made them look second class on the night) outfit from Manchester, and signed one of the most sought after strikers in Europe. To add to that, we’ve still not seen any of our key players leave the club and are actively trying to retain the services of Captain Coloccini, who may have a new impressive defensive buddy if rumours are to be believed!
All of that pales into insignificance this afternoon though as the focus shifts towards what happens in 90 minutes of football in West London. Thing is, as our resident statto pointed out in another one of his expertly composed “Stat Attack’s”, we don’t exactly have the best record against Fulham. They are yet another one of our bogey teams.
However Newcastle have become quite adept at ending these hoodoo’s in recent times. I mean we recently beat Manchester United for the first time in a decade, we beat Blackburn earlier in the season after about eight years of failing to do so, we won at Stoke away and Bolton away – both grounds where we traditionally do pretty badly. You get my point.
We’ll see what happens today but no doubt the lads will have been boosted by the arrival of Papiss Demba Cisse. The level of competition, especially for our strikers, has been ramped up a few notches and now they must show their worth or risk being left behind in terms of the first team. Plus they have the bonus of knowing that if they can keep in touch with the top five or six whilst Cheik Tiote, Demba Ba and Cisse are away at ACoN then we will be in a cracking position when they come back and can challenge those European spaces.
Anyway, that’s enough waffle. Both Shamrock and NUFC_stats have provided more than enough background on the match without me going into more so I’ll leave you to have a gander of their articles instead of me going on and on and on…
The match is being broadcast overseas so there is a good chance of picking up a stream although, as ever, the quality will be hit and miss. If you do manage to stumble across a good stream though why not share it with your fellow Mags and leave a link to it in the comments section below? It would be most appreciated I’m sure.
Right now though it’s Game On, and with NUFC knowing that a win would guarantee 5th place ahead of the Arsenal v Manchester United match tomorrow the carrot is already on the stick and the lads know what is on offer.
Howay the lads!
Fulham: David Stockdale; Stephen Kelly, Brede Hangeland, Philippe Senderos, John Arne Riise; Steve Sidwell, Danny Murphy (c), Clint Dempsey; Damien Duff, Bobby Zamora, Bryan Ruiz
Subs: Neil Etheridge, Matthew Briggs, Chris Baird, Aaron Hughes, Kerim Frei, Marcel Gecov, Andrew Johnson
Newcastle: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Davide Santon; Hatem Ben Arfa, Danny Guthrie, Yohan Cabaye, Jonas Gutierrez; Leon Best, Shola Ameobi
Subs: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, James Perch, Ryan Taylor, Dan Gosling, Gabriel Obertan, Peter Lovenkrands.
Shamrock…aye true but I don’t think anyone seriously expects it(hope/dream maybe), but you have to aim for the teams above you and not look at the teams below, if you look behind, you’ll trip yersel up. Anyhoo, gonna have some bait, crack open another bottle, then watch the Demba’s. have a gud un lads. 😀
richietoon(Quote)
600 comments 😯
Whumpie(Quote)
Rodzilla will get this thread up to 1,000 by the end of the night! 😆
Shamrock(Quote)
Shamrock @ 597 spot on mate it could have been a lot worse, but it’s as it was before today 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
cisse on the bench 😕
batty(Quote)
BB at 599 after the second half more like a trip to Bewick Drift on Lynemouth Shore in Northumberland.
Kate Halka, for the Environment Agency, said: “Over recent months Bewick Drift has become a notorious fly-tipping hotspot, with double the number of incidents reported so far this year. The area is an eyesore.”
So they will feel right at home after that second half display 👿
Tommy Gibb(Quote)
Need a new cb with a bit of pace because tbh Williamson is shown up against a player with even the slightest bit of pace and when williamson plays we have to play with a deep line because he’s so slow I don’t know what pardew was doing playing a high line today
nufc4life(Quote)
Reet, just about calmed down now. Lets make a fist of a match report 👿
toonsy(Quote)
Kenny Dalglish: “Some of those players won’t be in Red shirts much longer if they carry on playing that way. It was disrespectful.” 😆 😆 😆
batty(Quote)
🙄 😆
batty(Quote)
Shamrock, I agree with you 100% but saying that just has a load of quo songs going through my head now.
Simon(Quote)
King Kenny has spent 100 million on that gash.
Poor old Roy Hodgson rubbed his face off and spent a lot less than that. Some people can do no wrong. King Kenny……aye….muppet, anybody can hoy money around….
I love it 👿 👿 👿
Munich Mag(Quote)
I wonder who dogleash could possibly mean.
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
In saying that Torres has been mighty gash too.
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Batts @ 609 is that what he said ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
demba starts with sow 🙂
batty(Quote)
any links for that senagal game?
icedog(Quote)
aye dave 😆
batty(Quote)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16668012.stm
Pards post match
Big Dave(Quote)
http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/ on here dog right near the bottom 😉
batty(Quote)
CHEERS my mate 😉
noo answer your f/b 😀
icedog(Quote)
dog not on fb missis is playing bejewled on mine ile check in a min 😉
batty(Quote)
Lee Ryder reporting Prior has left Newcastle. Championship sides interested in giving the lad a chance. Good luck to him
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
whos hoping for a zambia win 😆 😆
hitman(Quote)
calmed down a bit now, ****** today but these things happen, could have got within 2 points of chelsea – still joint 5th tho which we all would have taken back in sept
just gotta make sure we beat brighton, blackburn and villa then hope we have ba and co back for spurs (might be sooner, senegal 1-0 down to zambia
stevep(Quote)
I thought our defending was bad today the whole sen team were sleeping there 😯
Big Dave(Quote)
zambia 2 – senagal 0
😐 😐 😐 😐 😐
maybee we might be sein ba and cisse earlier
Army69(Quote)
only 23 mins gone but senagal look poor
Army69(Quote)
Comedy defending at Acon Senegal 2.0 down now.
kimtoon(Quote)
cisse’s on the bench
Army69(Quote)
Secretly I want Senegal to go out 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Maybe Senegal are gonna come home soon after all … 🙄
Munich Mag(Quote)
Toonsy you have just shared your secret with 100s of bloggers 🙂
batty(Quote)
Jason Prior @JasonPrior1
Thanks for all the Geordie support over the last few weeks. Much appreciated! You never know might be back in a few yrs. Great experience!
hitman(Quote)
Hitman @634- nice quote from the lad, could teach Ranger a thing or two about how to come across .
kimtoon(Quote)
Nae secret with me, I want them oot asap
richietoon(Quote)
So why didn’t we sign that Mayuka lad?
Newkie(Quote)
****** Dempsey….I hate American footballers
MDS(Quote)
woo hoo, kebabs here
richietoon(Quote)
MDS@638 -Don’t you mean soccer players 😆
kimtoon(Quote)
i want senegal to get hammered every game so demba and cisse come back angry and destroy the prem!!
its half time now , 2-0 to zambia
demba ba nearly scored in last minute of 1st half
Army69(Quote)
They need to stick to rounders and throwball 😉
MDS(Quote)
Batty ye **** 😆
Just twigged. I thought “secret, what secret” 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Looks like we dodged a bullet with that 10 million quid man Bryan Ruiz… 🙄 Fulham are welcome to him..
Munich Mag(Quote)
Papiss coming 😈 ba could’ve done better with that
Dubtoon(Quote)
cant believe cisse hit the bar with his first touch haha
Army69(Quote)
Cisse setting up good chance for ba but coming at him very fast can only hit the bar. That’s a couple of chances missed by ba though. Hopefully getting it out of his system for when he comes back
Dubtoon(Quote)
Toonsy ya numptey 😆
batty(Quote)
ooops it was ba that hit the bar haha
Army69(Quote)
Cisse looks fresh.
kimtoon(Quote)
army aye cisse crossed it
batty(Quote)
Pap performance today by the Toon.
Back to reality. 😯
Better than I ever expected so far this season though. Feet still firmly on the ground.
Are the Tigger brigade still bouncing? 🙄
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Wayhey. Two more matches and they’ll be back on Tyneside.
Jon R(Quote)
Night then?
rinton man(Quote)
I thought Pilkington had a blinder. 😯
what what
Rodzilla(Quote)
there’ll be no fighting here
Rodzilla(Quote)
Troy, Don’t believe them, don’t believe them, and if I were you I certainly wouldn’t be bitten twice, in fact I wouldn’t even attempt to be some kind of sea bird, that may or not be a bittern.
…don’t be bitten twice
You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out
Suss suspect device
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYoNYuUVk0
Rodzilla(Quote)
yeah yeah 🙄
Rodzilla(Quote)
anyway, who wants a fight, al take anyone oyees oot.
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Rodzilla(Quote)
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yeah, just done yer quarterly swear-filter check there Toons, and all appears to be in order sir 😉
(you ****)
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Rodzilla(Quote)
Rodz
Where were you mate? Waited outside for that fight the whole night…
Chicken ****…
Anybody watching the ACN and wondering why the games arnt quite as fluent its because the pitches are terribly uneven in some parts.
Upset for our guys Senegal lost but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if they came home in two games.
Someone mentioned playing Smith up front in stead of Shola. That would be genius. Or Loverpants, on left with Best in the centre. Log as I don’t have to see Shola again…
JJ(Quote)