Around 4,500 Newcastle fans will be present at the DW Stadium this afternoon, and it would have been more had we had a larger allocation of seats.
Unfortunately the request for extra seats was turned down down, which I don’t really have an issue with. I mean why should Wigan hand any advantage to us when they have their own agenda to worry about? So 4,500 it is then, which is still not shabby at all and I can vouch from personal experience that those travelling will have an excellent day regardless of the result!
I’m expecting a tough game today. Wigan may have lost last weekend but they’ve been in great form these past few weeks and have given themselves a real chance of staying up when it looked as though they were certs for relegation. Wins at Arsenal and Liverpool along with a home victory over Manchester United have helped their cause no end.
In contrast Newcastle are looking to strengthen their hold on fourth place and know that a win would see them go six points clear of fifth placed Tottenham and seven points clear of sixth placed Chelsea, both of whom play tomorrow.
For more in depth analysis and preview of the match, why not try reading statto’s Stat Attack or my match preview. Both provide statistical analysis ahead of the game, with news of any injuries, potential team news and landmarks that can be achieved through the game.
Team news will be added below as and when it becomes available so keep your eyes peeled. Also keep your eyes peeled for any decent streams of the match and share them with your fellow NUFC fans if you like. Unfortunately it’s not on the box anywhere other than overseas so share the love people.
Howay the lads!
Wigan: Ali Al Habsi, Antolin Alcaraz, Emmerson Boyce, Gary Caldwell, Maynor Figueroa, Shaun Maloney, James McCarthy, James McArthur, Victor Moses, Jean Beausejour, Franco Di Santo
Subs: Mike Pollitt, Albert Crusat, Jordi Gomez, Connor Sammon, David Jones, Hugo Rodallega, Mohamed Diame
Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Yohan Cabaye, Hatem Ben Arfa, Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba
Subs: Rob Elliot, James Perch, Shane Ferguson, Ryan Taylor, Dan Gosling, Shola Ameobi, Leon Best
WTF is wrong with NCL? Too much lunch?
Jill(Quote)
Fking *****! I can’t believe this! We don’t deserve Europe with this kind of performance.
King Arfa(Quote)
Johno
We need to nick four goals mate, and pray they score none.
Goal difference is ******. And we’ve blown any hopes of Champions League football in 30 minutes.
JJ(Quote)
we are terrible today……
kirkyman(Quote)
Nice to see some of our loyal fans deserting the action early. Tossers 👿
Thought Krul could have done better for the first and third goals in truth
toonsy(Quote)
Any time we go forward we get hacked
Newkie(Quote)
Dirty feckin get
kimtoon(Quote)
simmo big mouth
just shut the **** up **** 👿
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Fuk that was a bad tackle 👿 Cabaye is lucky there
Big Dave(Quote)
Why the **** has Pardew changed the formation?
EvilFranky(Quote)
poor
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
TOONSY been saying all wk this was our hardest game of 4,never thought it would be as easy for wigan 👿 👿
icedog(Quote)
Simmo is an overrated piece of hig *****
King Arfa(Quote)
Midfield are playing soo deep. No one is in the middle of the park between the strikers and the defence. The players too are complacent. With Chelsea and Man city to come we needed this game.
Michael12(Quote)
JJ says:
April 28, 2012 at 15:38
Johno
We need to nick four goals mate, and pray they score none.
Goal difference is ******. And we’ve blown any hopes of Champions League football in 30 minutes.
That was pure bad timing on my part! Was 2-0 when I posted 😥
Johno Toon(Quote)
@toonsy
no one deserting.. just reality 😀 we play like **** 😥
DanishToon(Quote)
said it before, but Sian Massey is a jinx for us.
She ran the line against spurts too
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
that was a red both feet off the deck wtf
icedog(Quote)
That was better
lacedaemonian(Quote)
****…almost
richietoon(Quote)
oooh demba….
kirkyman(Quote)
Danish – I was on about the ones in the ground mate 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
And Ba gets our first chance all game and misses ❗
kimtoon(Quote)
This is what happens we the players start to believe they are a Champions League team already.
Playing as individuals. And the individuals are playoff poorly.
JJ(Quote)
Another rotten foul ,christ theyr’e dirty.
kimtoon(Quote)
Got to half time with the score as it is and regroup is these placca twats can score 3 in a half than we certainly can…
CC(Quote)
Get one back before HT and we’ve got half a chance of making a fight of this.
toonsy(Quote)
aaaarrgghhh ❗
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
well maybe this is the reality check we ALL needed ❓ all good things come to an end.
Big Dave(Quote)
They are snapping at wor heels and we cant cope.
They will just park the bus 2nd half.
No way thru playing hoof ball like we are
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
@toonsy
😛
DanishToon(Quote)
desperate this 👿
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
We have been caught cold this game. Just praying we can salvage a point.
lacedaemonian(Quote)
4 mins to grab a goal
Big Dave(Quote)
When a referee let’s blatant fouls like that slidea red card is inevitable in this game. Players will start looking for their own justice…
JJ(Quote)
JJ nothing related that is a stupid remark.
Just some games it doesn’t go in your way.
I think we can be back in the game.
HBA39(Quote)
Christ alive how many times is this ref gonna let them hack us down. Everytime we look to get through they do it .
kimtoon(Quote)
Things are just not going our way today. It’s looking like a nice big fat 3 points… for Wigan that is! 🙁
Toon4Life(Quote)
Jesus wept!
lacedaemonian(Quote)
Ok now it is finish
HBA39(Quote)
What the **** was krul doing there
CC(Quote)
**** me 👿
later peeps
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
no tracking back
Newkie(Quote)
FKIN DISGRACE
hitman(Quote)
game set and match
we are falling apart 😈
Big Dave(Quote)
Fk this… I’m off!
Toon4Life(Quote)
DONE!
DanishToon(Quote)
Hopeless game really over now. Jesus when we capitulate we really capitulate 😯
kimtoon(Quote)
Hope the players are proud of their performance with 8000 away fans traveling to see them…
JJ(Quote)
whey if it wasn’t over before….it is now……or is it? 😕
richietoon(Quote)
What was Krul doing there?
toonsy(Quote)
Pathetic from tiote really who stayed forward for like 5minutes, allowed themall the space they needed
Newkie(Quote)
toon4life @ 196 so long
Big Dave(Quote)
Why do we implode every 8 games or so?
rossco(Quote)
Fulham game all over again
lacedaemonian(Quote)
This is a whitewash , Pards better fucking send them out second half fired up. We cant concede anymore. **** me,.
Johno Toon(Quote)
Just get home without humilitation…
defend from now
DanishToon(Quote)
Just in the middle we are completely dominated. I dont know why we change the formation. Its like the half time in Fulham. All the ball for Wigan players. Why we change this formation, I dont know.
HBA39(Quote)
**** off man, what a pile of ****!!!!
We have been fucking hopeless this first half..
Why **** about with a formation that was working so well … To keep Ba happy??
**** poor and we can wave goodbye to CL now like!!
Sharpy17(Quote)
Newkie
“No tracking back”
Exactly mate. Not even the defenders are tracking back 🙄
Colo is the only player who has done his job. The others have been useless. Perch for Williamson PLEASE.
JJ(Quote)
HBA-We were 2-0 down before we changed formation.
Its hardly the formation anyway, its the players.
Newkie(Quote)
You know I’m usually level headed and don’t get too carried away or too down, but this has been awful. Far too many players having a **** day. Tiote has been ****, Krul has been ****, the defence have been ****. In fact all of the team have been **** from top to bottom.
Fucking ridiculous
toonsy(Quote)
wake me up when its finished. **** me, when we lose, we do it in style 😥
toonitis(Quote)
ok then …..
…..more beer time 😳
LOTS more beer.
WTF is all that about ❓
looks like we playing in porridge.
Half a yard too slow to everything.
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Oh dear!
Stuart79(Quote)
Wigan should buy a lotto ticket.
brisvegas(Quote)
Tiote seems a little bit absent today. all the players seem not in their game. We are back in some of our mistake 3 months ago. Playing hoofball, Danny simpson trying long ball all the time. Too much space between our players, When our players have the ball, it seems no pass in possible, but when Wigan had the ball it seems there is 3 passes possible
HBA39(Quote)
arsenal style come back needed
hitman(Quote)
Nobody looking good for us out there. Football is a ***** thing.
lacedaemonian(Quote)
cant see us getting back into this, we look a mess today. what has happened?
kirkyman(Quote)
17 goals in six games and its only half time… 🙄
Did the defenders all go on the **** last night?
JJ(Quote)
How the **** can simple people blame the formation? I mean really? We conceded two before the change and two after the change.
You can have the best tactics in the world but they’d be undone by players playing utter **** like they are today 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
we either have to fucking gung ho!
or get home safe
DanishToon(Quote)
Everything they do turns to gold. How can you beat that? It’s got nothing to do with our game.
brisvegas(Quote)
hmm,spurs plays blackburn right? 😳
Gonna start praying for a blackburn win tmr. 😐
AngelOfDeath(Quote)