ChrisJbarnes

Nah. Same team with Guthrie in the middle, Taylor on the right and Ranger upfront with Carroll. 1-2 United... We did though. 7-1 Watford is that the half time score or the full time score?

theye got cleverley suspended (one of their best players). Should be able to get at least a draw.

What brings a Barca fan to a Newcastle forum anyway?

It would be better to see fourth and fifth playing for the last champions league place. Although, that would render the fourth-fifth place battle over the whole season pretty meaningless. Id personally love to see some of the lesser teams in the CL. Would be much more interesting seeing Birmingham or Fulham taking on Barcelona than watching Chelsea or Man United, again in my opinion.

put it this way. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but seeing a team like Fulham or Everton playing Barcelona would excite me much more than watching Chelsea or Man United. I normally find myself rooting for the other team than the British team. Having a smaller british team as the underdogs would really excite support from the country

Look at some of the teams in the group stages of the champions league. debrecen, besiktas, etc. etc. Surely if they are good enough, teams like Fulham or Everton would stand a chance. I'm not saying they'd go on and win it by any means but they'd probably give it a go, and perhaps go past group stage.

If I remember right, towards the end of last season it was Birmingham, Wolves and Sheff Utd as the 3 teams realistically fighting for the 2 automatic promotion spots. All 3 were pretty poor for the latter part of the season and all dropped lots of points. However, it was birmingham and Wolves who as the teams who took the top 2 for most of the season went up. Could be a similar situation here- us certainly in a lower gear than at the start, and Forest dropping lots of points at the moment. Cant see WBA being poor but it may well be them going up as champions, and us second on the basis that we drop less points than Forest and no-one else gets enough to close the gap.

any luck and it stays like that so they have to replay it.

I've given up trying to predict the outcomes of our games in the championship, I really have. I geneuinely have no idea whether we will thrash derby or end up losing. anyone that thinks they do is deluding themselves

That's ridiculous. I can only assume 'drunk in charge' implies that the car was in some way operational. happened to someone down here. he fell asleep in his car because he was drunk and didnt want to drive home. however, he left the key in in order to use the heater. Coppers nicked him for it because if the key is in the ignition, you are committing a crime.

Where are people drinking for this one?

To be fair, most of our players have been charged with assault, which makes it alright.

doesnt link to an article by the way

What a dick. Applies to all footballers though unfortunately. If he wants to make it here he needs to sort out his act sharpish because he hasnt shown enough that he can go out on the town and smash people up and be a long term solution.

Gareth Barry

Very glad to hear about this. Footballers have gone around acting like arrogant arseholes who reckon they can do claim their 100k a week and do whatever they want. how refreshing to actually see one of them made an example of and actually punished. maybe this will act as a kick up the arse for other footballers who might not have it all their way. hope terry's wife divorces him and gets a massive settlement now.

Geremi leaving will be like a new signing

cool.

He is a cocker-ney he parted the red sea.. MOSES good chant surely

You literally put it in before I had a chance to go back and add it myself!

Very simple poll. Just wanted to see what the opinion seems to be seeing as in the match thread people seem to be very unconfident.

Who isn't calm? If we played poorly (and by the accounts on the radio and from those at the game we did) then what's wrong with being disappointed about it? I'm delighted with the win, we really needed it. But at some point we need to start performing to our abilities, even if it's just in preparation for next season should we win promotion. I'd like to see some signs that we're actually a decent team rather than just grinding out results against poor sides. The signs aren't forthcoming. I entirely agree in that we are not performing to our 100% best. but this is a very scrappy league and even west brom who have a reputation as the "barcelona of the championship" are pretty scrappy as we saw last week. We lost a couple of players to injury but I still think West Brom and Forest would definately want to be in our position right now. 6 points clear if we win our game in hand (scrappily or otherwise).

If we get an average of 2 points per game, thats less than what weve average so far this season. that would take us to 95. west brom would then need 16 wins and 4 losses, or equivalent to equal 95. Even then it would need forest to keep going at the same pace for us to not go up. People need to calm down. I know we havent set the world alight but we kept another clean sheet with a makeshift defence and scored 2 goals.

20 more games this season in the league. thats a maximum of 60 points we can take. west brom now 8 points behind. regardless of forest, can anyone see west brom gaining 8 points more than us?

ground out another difficult win. we were poor but bear in mind we were playing with a back four of kadar colo williamson pancrate for much of the game. sounds like a good debut a centre back (a difficult position) and anotherr clean sheet without simpson taylor and enrique. lets just hope we can start playing more convincingly and that these injuries arent serious.