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Viduka, Butt, and Barton all look knackered. Barton's been knackered since minute 1, to be fair

no worries, Beye header in the 93rd minute, nailed on.

Is it written into Geremi's contract that he's not allowed to deliver good set pieces?

Ridgewell literally shits in his pants when the ball comes up to Oba. Let's get one.

ALMOST! Amazing Oba

"at least Newcastle look like a football team again" Setanta commentator spot on for once

players getting some confidence now. Come on lads, lets not get too adventurous. Don't want to forget that we're still shit...

Wouldn't it be nice if we weren't the team to collapse in the second half for once?

HOLY FUCK. K Michael, I'm sorry about everything I said. You're forgiven. THANK GOD

Our defense is yet to fulfill our quota of 10

Owen again somehow manages to pinpoint the keeper with his shot. ' Dress a man in a keeper's uniform and Owen could probably hit him from fifty yards out.

no changes. God help us.

The impression I get from our first half v. Brum is that if we do avoid the drop, it will be because of sheer luck (pulling of a couple robberies like Blackburn did against us) and not by our own industry. The players are lost, and Keegan is clueless. Unfortunately, a change in manager won't help anything right now. There's no way for us to drag ourselves out of this. It's down to God now.

if the gap in skill between us and Birmingham is actually as large as this match indicates so far, we're not only likely to go down, but we deserve to do so. Feels like Watford trying to have a go at Chelsea.

First corner of the match! Wonder how we'll waste it...

honestly starting to lose faith in Keegan. Yes we have a shit squad, yes brum is a better team, but why can't this lot be made to at least play in at least some remote semblance of competence?

fuck. Gun to head. now.

Barton gives away posession cheaply for the gigabillionth time.

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 :/