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Newcastle haven’t won at home since December 21st – in the second half of the season, they have gained 9 points from 16 games – they have no win in their last 10 games and have scored just five goals in that time.
But on Monday evening, they are even money to win at home to Middlesborough.
This is either the lay of the season (they can be laid at 2.04 on BF at the time of writing), or a damning comment on the ability of their opponents.
Remarkably, despite their appalling recent record, if they win, their relegation price will go odds against. The ‘best league in the world’ – or four good teams, half a dozen ordinary teams and ten outclassed strugglers?
For me, the price compels a lay of Newcastle on Monday.
The bookies won’t be getting a penny of my money at evens. Can see it being a petty awful draw myself.
I’m hoping tonight will see a great big six incher of a nail in newcastle’s premier league coffin, it would be nice to switch on sky sports news one day where they are’nt doing an outside broadcast at sid james’ park where there’s an un-veiling of a new tea lady in front of 30,000 deluded geordie fans who think they are a big club.
Stayed on the tele’ – you should have sayed on the tele’
Re: Alan Shearer – will he stay or will he go… back to the beeb ?
Well, I am not one of those who often utters the words, I heard from a good source etc, but …
I have heard from a very, very good source ( top notch in fact
) that Shearer said categorically that if Newcastle avoid relegation, he will definitely stay with the club next season.My only disclaimer is that I don’t care either way.
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Newcastle are as boring as the English hype machine who ram the EPL down our throats and have us believe English football is the only league in the planet that has good games. I’d have a good laugh if some of these billionaire owners pissed some big clubs against the wall.
Yes it would be hilarious if Newcastle United, a club of well over a century’s standing and an institution that carries real meaning and significance for the city and it’s fans, was pissed up the wall by a flash Johnny-come-lately cretin. I don’t know how people could contain their laughter.
Sky sports cliches and narrow stereotypes do not define the game of football, nor its followers for the most part.
The trouble is Graeme those clubs are only likely to fold if and when their playboy owners tire of their plaything, remove their money and leave them with unsustainable debts/exes. The ordinary fan is powerless to do anything about these things, and these are, after all, traditional old clubs in which people have huge emotional investment.
It really doesn’t matter if a club is ‘big’, ‘small’ or whatever, when they go to the wall a lot of people get hurt through no fault of their own. The top end of PL football is a cesspit, there’s no denying it. Many ordinary fans deplore what’s going on. But your team’s your team and I could no more give mine up than chop off my arm.
Shearer seems to be getting the hang of this management lark – his post defeat interview today made it clear that Newcastle were robbed by poor decisions from the referee – nothing to do with the players or the tactics.
At first glance, Villa should be too good for them next Sunday, with the pace of their forwards likely to be too much for a Newcastle defence certain to be without Bassong (suspended) and presumably Enrique (injury). But Villa have done very little in the last two months themselves, and I’m a bit surprised that Newcastle are as short as 1.6 now on BF.
I was there. Their goal was offside, ours should have stood. But that’s football and when you need the breaks the chances are you don’t get them. There was nothing wrong with Shearer/Dowie’s tactics yesterday, but you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear – our players aren’t good enough and Shearer is well aware of it. No useful purpose would be served by him slagging them off publicly though. We were slightly unlucky on the day but we’re where we deserve to be after a shambles of a season. We’ve been shyte.
I don’t see us getting anything at Villa as there’s very little quality in this side and even less fight. We’re gone, and Ashley deserves it. We’ve had some bad boards down the decades but this bloke has made an art form out of incompetence. I don’t bet against my own team but if I did I’d say Villa to win to nil is a good bet, despite their iffy recent form. O’Neil is a Sunderland fan and he’ll do us no favours at all.
I feel bad for poor old Alan Shearer. Just when it looks like there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it turns out to be a train
. Still, it’s still possible for him to turn it around with the final game. Seems a bit unlikely to me though, and I’d quite like Hull to stay up to be honest.I was there. Their goal was offside, ours should have stood.
Wrong and right.
The Fulham player was at least a yard onside ( as MOTD conclusively proved ) and the Newcastle goal should definitely have stood.
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The ‘keeper Harper was on the ground behind the scoring player was he not? Which means Taylor on the line was the only player ahead of him when he received the ball (which is offside).
That’s based on watching it in real time mind – not seen a replay, so I don’t argue it strongly.
Edit: just seen a replay, not offside as you say.
Still that might be a very expensive point come next Sunday.
I feel bad for poor old Alan Shearer. Just when it looks like there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it turns out to be a train
. Still, it’s still possible for him to turn it around with the final game. Seems a bit unlikely to me though, and I’d quite like Hull to stay up to be honest.There is anger up here about Ashley’s running of the club, but I doubt you’d find a single Newcastle fan who wouldn’t accept we deserve to be relegated based on the football we’ve played. It would almost be an injustice if we avoided relegation. We’ve played well twice: at Old Trafford first game, and at Portsmouth, but they were awful under Adams. The rest of the time we’ve been mediocre or worse.
We’ve been here before – twenty years ago we were on the very brink of division 3 and close to folding. As a fan I just hope Mike Ashley accepts that he hasn’t got what it takes to run a football club, cuts his losses and sells to someone with a clue. Newcastle remains a club with a lot of potential. I wouldn’t bet on us finding an owner with the wherewithal to realise it but we live in hope.
Living in Newcastle its surprising how resigned to going down most fans have been for a long time. The season ticket holders I know aren’t happy obviously but look to relegation as the chance to clear out the deadwood and start agan WITH A PLAN, something conspicuously absent for 40 years at St James’
It would do newcastle alot of good to get relegated, find their level and start building from that. I do however, think they will get the point that keeps them up next week, Aston Villa are a shadow of the side from the first half of the season, and tbh i thought they were a bit overrated then aswell.
Its all well and good saying Ashley should go, but did’nt he pay off alot of their debt ?. Bringing in Dennis Wise, who was sat laughing at stamford bridge yesterday, though was awful.
*Hopes the fickle whore Dame Fortune smiles on us today*
*Doesn’t expect her too though, the cow*
. Still, it’s still possible for him to turn it around with the final game. Seems a bit unlikely to me though, and I’d quite like Hull to stay up to be honest.
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