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playing better, passes actually making contact now. Putting brum under some pressure even though we're not shooting. Still about a half-dozen cards short of a full deck though.

we're pretty good when we can get the ball into the opposition area. It's just that we have no fucking clue how to get there.

GOAL ATTEMPT!! OWEN!

Barton to be declared legally blind. Damn.

Well they ARE playing at home. We'll have our chances. At the moment, more Newcastle passes have gone to Brum players than passes from their own team. Shocking.

agh, passing IS absolutely horrendous. Would love to see a passes completed % stat for us like you have on FM. matter of time till we concede at this rate

we're closing them down pretty hard it's the bad passing that's letting us down again. Attacks never amount to anything because we're just giving away the ball. Fuck, free kick. Odds 1-2 that we concede :/

closed my eyes when that deflection hit Beye because I was sure it was drifting in. Thank God.

COME ON!!!!!! ...please

actually feel like I'm going to throw up now. God the tension is literally unbearable. Up there with World Cup games. Random aside: Martins has a new haircut

They generally default to a 4-4-2 to be fair. I think it will be 4-3-3

I will cry tears of blood.

not bad. If we can't score with that we might as well start buying up those Championship patches now.

Jesus, I'm in serious brown pants mode here just waiting for the lineup. Feel like I've just gone all-in pre-flop and I'm waiting for the cards to fall.

that's not a bad lineup is it? I mean, assuming that it's true. EDIT: you could have added the "predicted" to the main post

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck sweating bullets here. Can't we just get this over with already?

I think I dread seeing the team selection even more than the actual match.

My Lord, the "our players get massively bigged up when they haven't played for a while" effect must be fucking gigantic if it's even working for Ramage.

Ramage is back I know he's nowhere near fit but we could do with him at the minute. He's not the best defender in the world but he doesnt make many errors and I'd prefer him over Taylor at the moment. Him and faye would be unspectacular but solid and reliable. In fairness to you its being a long time since we have seen him play so we will let you off with that!I dont think I have ever watched a match that he played in where he didnt make a complete mug of himself! You're right, Ramage is consistent in that he won't have any complete shockers. All he'll do is deliver reliable preformances that range between poor and average.

Sports scientists and psychologists eh? too bad we don't have those anymore

He's called Bentley Bentley isn't that fast. Excellent player but not because he's got blinding pace. And Lennon really isn't an appreciably better player than Milner at the moment. Certainly has more potential though.

surely expecting people with jobs to make the trip on a monday night is just a bit impracitcal.

at least he didn't write it in the realistic summer targets thread

Maybe it coincides with newcastles worst season in the premiership. Sorry for speaking out against a club I have supported since 1970 But Im afraid our future in the top flight of football is ending this season. Mate, I'm as f****** scared as you are but if you're actually 40~50 years old you shouldn't be posting s*** like this that reflects upon you poorly. You've been through times far worse than this, so you should be one of the people showing some maturity in this situation. Instead, I think you've been ranting on about how we're a lock to "go down and never come back up" since the Arsenal matches if I recall correctly.

microbar's been working towards next year's "worst poster" award for about a month now.