Ashley17

Andy Johnson must be gutted, when he was on form he got a half an hour run out on the right wing or didn't get in the squad. Now that he's not scored for 8 games, he starts. Good idea.

What the hell has happened to Henry? Mind in Barcelona?

What annoyed me most about Shola and Sibierski being the front 2 was other than the fact Shola can't move, our best chance was to use pace against Dunne, putting 2 big men up top when we have 2 wingers with quite possibly the worst ratio of crosses being converted to goals with 2 midfielders scared of the 18 yard box and you have a very toothless team. Inject some pace and they're quite dangerous. Fully expect 4-5-1 next week, I just hope sense prevails and Dyer is played off Sibierski, or if we fancy being daring and keeping it on the deck, Martins.

Who would your central 2 be HTL? I am also of the opinion that Parker and Emre together offer very little, but can't see a better alternative

Ah, fair enough then.

Well Leeds are also in for him, I'm a tad surprised the m*ckems aren't in for him, thought Keane would get first refusal on any Manc loanee's

I thought every Prem club only got offered 3,000 tickets for away games, and then offered more if it wasn't sold out or likely to be sold out? Or has that ship sailed a while ago, or is it different because it's Old Trafford?

Well at least if he joins we might get him on a 6 month loan to bed him in to the Premiership blueconfused.gif

Spelling Police tbh

Taylor at fault on the second goal - he gave away a needless freekick and then from the resulting kick he let his man go free. That's according to Mick Lowes, who was hilarious tonight - "Doyley on the far side HITS THE POST....................Damien Duff has hit the inside of the post."

His knee locked up in the warm-up, Pav had to run and get medical help from the dressing room and then Krul got stretchered away. If it just locked up a la Martins then he should be ok.

Where is Sibierski!!! I can't believe I've just asked that

Well he has just equalised, and Jeff Stelling claims we're rueing letting him go. Are we?

If it happened last Friday, and he's out for 2 weeks, he's already missed one week, how the hell does he miss another 4 games? By that theory he should miss Watford on Tuesday and probably Man City. Or do we just double the amount of games he'll miss because it's nearer the truth?

Newcastle (from): Harper, Krul, Taylor, Moore, Bramble, Carr, Bernard, Ramage, Parker, Solano, Milner, Emre, N'Zogbia, Duff, Pattison, Rossi, Sibierski, Luque, Carroll. - From the BBC match preview No Butt

Aye that's right, less pressure on him to score in half an hour in front of 48,000 people most of whom need no further reason to hate him. More pressure in front of 2 or 3 thousand of our lot in Italy in a game we probably go into as underdogs tbh.

Harper Taylor Moore Bramble Ramage Solano Emre Butt N'Zogbia Sibierski Milner If Emre, Butt and Sibi all make it. Roeder will pull out all the stops to make sure Luque doesn't start, Olly Bernard will probably play left midfield with Zog moving inside etc. just to make sure Luque isn't needed.

We're taking FIVE goalkeepers!? Obviously Pav can't play and Shay won't but still, Rossi can't play either and he's travelled and Emre, Butt, Taylor and Sibierski are doubtful according to .com so basically some of the kids will play. Is that good or bad?

Fuckin hell forgot all about this, see I've gone out the cup with a measly 17 points and languishing down in 133rd

To be fair to us, we're usually quite good at that in Europe. Even under Souness we never exactly shipped goals, and we haven't done that bad in Europe thus far. Much better opposition yes but I'm a lot less worried about our defence at European pace than Premiership pace.

Nearly as infuriating as Duff being unable to stay onside

Well Villa have got 1 back. Happy days eh

Dangerously reminiscent of Wigan away at same stage last season.

I hate weekends when we don't play, especially as now Chelsea have no reason to rest anybody for midweek Champions League. Still, we'd lose whenever it was played and at least Frankfurt will get all of our attention.

I reckon we tried to sgin Danny Mills as a full back option but picked the wrong guy out of the identity parade