Ashley17

2nd.

Hughton needs to ask himself which players we'd be f***ed without, and leave them in Newcastle. I'd expect the likes of Krul, Kadar, Kazenga, Pancrate, Butt, Geremi and Ranger to all play if fit. The loan lads probably won't be allowed to play (I'm not sure any of them will even still be here then, even Simpson's deal expires January 1st) and then a mix of youth and the less valued players to make up the rest of the team - probably Guthrie, R Taylor, and probably whichever of Lovenkrands, Shola and Carroll has been missing out for the first team over the festive period. I doubt it'll be a full strength team anyway, but I think it needs to be more competitive than the team we sent to Peterborough.

Short and spikey definitely dykey

"Daft Bint"

No, officially announced on Wednesday.

What do people consider the "group of death" for England? England, Portugal, Ivory Coast, Japan? Or Paraguay, they did well in qualifying

If that's true it's terrible of course, but I seriously don't know how Bent gets away with having a Twitter account and posting the stuff he does. It's potentially very damaging. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuEmR1T95B4

This. As long as the team is closer to the one that started against Huddersfield and not Peterborough (Carling Cup game) then I'll be satisfed.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I love the FA cup, but this year it's going to be weird. With us not a top flight club, we could be drawn at home to say Wolves and if we win it's a shock However, I fear Hughton and co. will play the kids in the cup, which I know is probably for the greater good but I don't like seeing this cup being played down. What does everybody else think? Do you give a shit about the cup? Would you even give a shit if we were in the Prem and, for example, midtable? The draw for the third round is tomorrow (Sunday) after the Kettering/Leeds game on ITV. We're ball number 25.

Ronaldo picking motm today

Very stale second half, make some subs man.

Krul on for Harper

WBA winning Harper struggling with a back injury

Jonas cross Lovenkrands header. The world is going to end

Well I never.

Right fuckers, here's the team from Radio Newcastle: Harper, Simpson, Enrique, S Taylor, Coloccini, Nolan, Smith, Guthrie, Jonas, Lovenkrands, Harewood. Carroll out with illness

Wonder who'll be the first to ask "really?"

Knowing the way Hughton works, anyone with a minor doubt won't play. So I'd expect the team to be minus Carroll, R Taylor, Shola and probably Simpson.

Koumas has a long standing hip injury, when you see he has 33 caps* and is 29, well it speaks for itself. Short term loan if necessary. *As of the date the below article was written http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_of_wales/7978228.stm

£5m!! Isn't his contract up in 6 months?

I fear this will be similar to QPR game, their young quick team passing the ball around our old cripples with ease - and we still arguably should have won that game. Although we did have Nolan, Butt, Smith and Guthrie in the narrowest midfield of all time that night, so as long as our team selection is sensible we should win. Narrowly.

In what way is Danny Wellbeck on the cusp of an England squad place?

CL goes on head to head, not GD

Once the seedings and the draw have been made it'll be easier to pick some shocks, everybody backed Ivory Coast to go far in 06 then they got drawn with Argentina and Holland, which was a shame. Considering South Africa will be one of the top seeds, that should make at least 1 group a bit random, especially as they are toss.