Generally speaking we rarely turn up these days when we travel to the Hawthorns, but with the incentive of cementing 6th place and catching up with 5th place should we finally put in a performance that we know we are capable of.
Speaking of putting in performances, West Brom have become rather adept at doing such a thing against us. We used to strike fear into them and pick up points at home and away, but times change and so have our fortunes against the Baggies in recent years.
No more background or build up is needed for this match. It’s been done in the previous couple of days and you can read it by clicking here or here. The first one is our now regular stat-attack while the second one is my match preview. Cast your eyes over both if you have the time.
Team news is below but now it’s up to the boys of NUFC to do the talking where it counts – on the pitch. Hopefully they’ll give us something to cheer today.
Howay the lads!
West Brom: Ben Foster, Billy Jones, Gareth McAuley, Jonas Olsson, Liam Ridgewell, Peter Odemwingie, Youssuf Mulumbu, James Morrison, Keith Andrews, Jerome Thomas, Marc-Antoine Fortuné
Subs: Luke Daniels, Paul Scharner, Simon Cox, Shane Long, Chris Brunt, Craig Dawson, Nickey Shorey
Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, James Perch, Hatem Ben Arfa, Danny Guthrie, Yohan Cabaye, Jonas Gutierrez, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse.
Subs: Rob Elliot, Davide Santon, Mehdi Abeid, Dan Gosling, Haris Vuckic, Shane Ferguson, Shola Ameobi
some horrible defending there
M(Quote)
Yes, yes, yes. Keep that **** ball. Don’t care if you go effing nowhere with it, just keep the effing ball.
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That was an important block by Willo there. just thought I’d mention it as nobody else will 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Such a great dribbler, but he should have picked out Ba there. Look at him throw his hands up in reaction.
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Ben arfa is playiny a simply magnificent match
MDS(Quote)
and that’s the difference with the front 3, we can now hit teams on the break when we are under the cosh….we will score again this game I reckon 😉
richietoon(Quote)
We’ve just got to keep the ball and try and play as much as possible in their half, they still look dodgy at the back.
Stuart79(Quote)
Benny like anyone makes mistakes but he is pure class.
Kimtoon yeah we do look more jittery without Colo
Big Dave(Quote)
Toonsy…it was just luck, he turned his back on the ball 😉 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Jonas playing int he middle here? Is it 4-2-1-3 now with Guthrie behind the forwards?
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we MUST get rid of him this summer
M(Quote)
bloody hell
Newkie(Quote)
Williamson is a f ucking nitemare
TOONPIPES(Quote)
The longer we can keep it 1.3 the more they will lose heart, got to hold on to the ball .
kimtoon(Quote)
Tell you what if it was Simmo made that daft challenge he would have got dogs abuse just thought i’d mention that 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
There is defo still goals in it for us. West Brom were always going to come back at us, but we’ve still had three guilt edged chances to add to our lead.
toonsy(Quote)
Come on lads – keep it going.
I’ll take the **** out of Willo later, but lets get another in the mean time
Archie Brand(Quote)
They should ban wba from wearing them stripes 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
need shola to hold up the ball
crappypunk(Quote)
Yeah I can see more goals coming
Big Dave(Quote)
C’MON CABS
kimtoon(Quote)
Good thinking, crappy!
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All my streams are out. geez. 👿 😥
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Paul Scharner 👿
toonsy(Quote)
can’t see a twatting thing at that end of the pitch
M(Quote)
All these mistakes are down to Obertan I reckon 😉
richietoon(Quote)
AOD–this is working well for me:
http://coolsportz.de/stream2.php
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Shola for the last 10 mins i reckon
kimtoon(Quote)
AoD http://nutjob.eu/
richietoon(Quote)
What was with Scharner all rubbing up on the linesman?
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If Shola comes on and scores I wont say anything negative about him – for at least a week
Archie Brand(Quote)
Richie talking of Oba is he injuried ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
oops http://www.nutjob.eu/
richietoon(Quote)
Benny? It should have been Ba…or Cisse imo if he wasn’t on for a hatty…
Newkie(Quote)
Here comes the Mackem slayer
kimtoon(Quote)
Guthrie is a right fanny in the tackle 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
Eh – thought he should have replaced ba who looks knackered
Stevep(Quote)
And now an injury? Said it should have been Cisse 🙁
Newkie(Quote)
Dave…just his pride…..and confidence 😉 don’t know to be honest
richietoon(Quote)
Is he acting again or really hurt?
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Fergie coming on. Looks like a bad one for Cisse
toonsy(Quote)
fucking hell man
M(Quote)
Dropping like flies now!
Stuart79(Quote)
least we’re getting 15 mins of Fergie tho
M(Quote)
fuk that doesn’t look good for Cisse 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
Fergie should help tighten us up
CC(Quote)
Oh fucking great . First Colo now Cisse
Archie Brand(Quote)
Cisse on the stretcher 😥 😥
kimtoon(Quote)
is it my imagination or is his ankle pointing the wrong way???
Archie Brand(Quote)
I hope Morrison isn’t too bad 😆 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Where’s Fergie going then, LM?
Ba’s taken an almighty beating today but somehow Morrison came out of that the worse for wear.
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Fucking hell there’s going to be about 20 minutes added time.
Cisse has severe cramp. Nothing serious.
toonsy(Quote)
‘cramp in both calves’ – thank **** for that
M(Quote)
Thank fuk they say Cisse is just bad cramps 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
The commentators here just said it’s a case of cramps in both calves for Cisse, so not so serious. Acting, dare I say?
Morrison, on the other hand, seems in a bad way.
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We’ve done a decent job of shutting up shop so far. Considering we conceded so early.
SJP14(Quote)
bit of a war this one
Archie Brand(Quote)
If Morrison comes off West Brom only have ten men on the pitch and they’ve used their subs
toonsy(Quote)
no subs left for Brom, haha 👿
M(Quote)
Had this one down for a draw and a win v the dippers .May have to rethink it now maybe a draw v the dippers in view of our injuries.
kimtoon(Quote)
😯 I hate playing 10 men 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
WBA down to 10men. 😐
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Go on Woy, claw ya face, you know you want too 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Anyone else think Hodgson does a bloody good impression of a ventriloquist’s dummy?
Archie Brand(Quote)
Good news. Ridgewell’s face is intact.
I was expecting him to look like he’d just been shot at at gunpoint 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
well still be playing past 6 at this rate
CC(Quote)
They may just forget about much extra time on, my dinner will be ready 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Jeez there’s gonna be about 10 mins stoppage time here
Stevep(Quote)
Simpson, u ****
M(Quote)
Simpson man FFS
toonsy(Quote)
I like Hodgson. But eff him & his team today.
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Archie @ 289 😆 😆 yeah 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave…them Potnoodles are a bugga to reheat too 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Hopefully Colo wont be too bad ,reckon he would of been off straight away if it was really serious .
kimtoon(Quote)
YOung fergie gets a corner!
Looks like their RB is really cramped too. Let young fergie run at him!
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