pedro111

Just read in the paper there will be 700 coppers plus 30 horse coppers and 30 mental police dogs out in force for this one. Scary.

They're going into the derby game at yours for the first time in a while as, what they consider to be, favourites, and a clearly better team. Personally, I think they're getting ahead of themselves - their 2 wins have been a debatable last minute penalty scuffed in by Bent, and an own goal (in a game they were by some distance 2nd best). I think they're just putting on a face of confidence just for the hell of it. Are Sunderland really a clearly better team? Man for man, I really don't see where they are clearly better. I'm not sure how many of their squad I would take to be honest. Their team for their last match was: Sunderland 22 Mignolet 02 Bardsley 04 Turner 15 Onuoha 19 Bramble 06 Cattermole 08 Malbranque 10 Henderson 27 Al-Muhammadi 11 Bent 17 Welbeck (Gyan 65) Substitutes 01 Gordon, 05 John Mensah, 14 Da Silva, 29 Ferdinand, 07 Zenden, 16 Riveros, 33 Gyan A quick trip to RTG to read one of their many "Do Newcastle have a better first XI than us?" threads will tell you that the majority believe that man for man they are better than us in almost every position. Which of course is nonesense.

Can't say I've seen much of him either but he's big and strong with decent ability and they see him as a future England player.

The way I see it is that we have this match and then three whole days of recovery until the Mackem game then after that its a full week till Arsenal again. Should put out a strong team with perhaps one or two changes if Hughtons concerned about anybodies fitness.

Sub 20k crowd for this?

League is far more important. Don't care about any cups, cannot risk a single injury to a first teamer. That's a really shocking attitude you have in my opinion tbh. Cause we've won like millions of domestic cups since '55 so we can afford to just fuck them off every year. I fear injuries just as much as you but fuck man we've got to put everything we have into winning a cup aswell as staying in the league.

The atmosphere is definitely better for the Mackem game however the 130 kick off means it won't be as good as if it had been a 4 oclock kick off.

Does anyone else feel slightly physically sick when they look up to see a couple of thousand red and white shirt cladded filthy Mackems present in our ground? I might just be a little weird like but it does it gets me quesy.

I have never, in his entire career ever been more confident of Shola scoring than I am for this game.

Its total shit that this game had to fall 4 days before the Mackem game. Really wanted us to go full tilt for the trophy.

I hope not, he really does nothing for my pre-match build up!!! He's mint man. Gives me goosebumps. Plus, he enjoys winding up the mackems during his performance I he's a laugh like but it's so slow, almost painful. On a slightly different note does anyone know why they've been cutting out of local hero and playing some repetitive gash for a minute then cutting back in at the end of local hero, it sort of kills off all the excitement and build up where I am :/ That's the premier leagues official tune or something like that which has to be played before the game.

Sold out yet?

Confident of a victory now like for some reason. We will win, I'm sure of it.

They didn't piss you off when they beat us at home this year?

Any team that prevents Man United and to a lesser extent Liverpool winning the league no matter how ill gotten their gains is fine by me.

Fulham, Arsenal and Chelsea. Which daft cunt voted the Mackems? Can't believe the amount of mentions Everton and Villa are getting and also Baba picking Spurs. Sort yourself out Baba man

Wait a minute..........Darren Bent is injured!?!?!?!?

So, we gonna break 50k for this game?

Sunderland, Man U and Man City at the moment. My dislike of Spurs is entirely down to their cretinous fanbase; they think they could sell out 60, 70, 80 thousand seats week in week out. Could they fuck.

The thing that is annoying me most about this whole thing is the fact that Man City are a club with unlimited wealth and have a squad full of stars...........We however are on the bones of our arse and have somehow managed to sign a truely class player but yet it is US who lose our one and only star for the best part of the entire season while they stride on to glory like a bunch of cunts. Its sickening and further proof that god does not exist.

I never thought I would get a SNF spoiler in the hatem ben arfa thread. Cheers like Dale Toon. Aww man thats unlucky. Sorry guy So you give me a spoiler then stick your tongue out at me?! Nice. Goddamn.

I never thought I would get a SNF spoiler in the hatem ben arfa thread. Cheers like Dale Toon.

I just think that Hughton will fight to keep him and the player will want to stay. That should be enough for Ashley to pay out.

Like I've already said, if we can take any morcel of positivity from this its that I think that this will actually strengthen our chances of buying him permanently not weaken them. Marseille's probably not going to want him back, he doesn't want to be there and I can't see many clubs willing to fork out on a player with a badly broken leg before they see him playing again and that he's fully recovered. Hughtons reaction to the injury after the game shows how much he values Ben Arfa and I think Ben Arfa will be keen to get back and show us properley what he can do.

I feel the same. We were basically forced to eat the biggest shit sandwich we've had to eat since relegation, today. The thought of six plus months without Ben Arfa is a killer.