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Yet at the same time they're all over the Scousers of Everton, proclaiming them as their second club and saying there's some sort of everlasting friendship there now. They're so thick it's beyond explanation. i thought they had that with Norwich? They have. And Feyenoord, and Aston Villa. It's a sign of insecurity really. "Everyone loves us and everyone hates the mags" when in reality they are such a footballing irrelevance nobody is really bothered about them either way.

Yet at the same time they're all over the Scousers of Everton, proclaiming them as their second club and saying there's some sort of everlasting friendship there now. They're so thick it's beyond explanation.

Booked our train for Birmingham so it's a knocking bet it gets moved. I'm banking on the fact that Derby v Forest and Leeds v Brighton are on the same weekend and take preference over our match if there's anymore tv changes. Hopefully the dire spectacle at St Andrews last weekend comes into consideration as well.

Wow

Are there more fixtures to be announced? Seems strange us only being on once until.the end of March and we're wanting to book the train for Birmingham away.

RIP Graham Taylor. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/graham-taylor-rip-read-secret-12443733

And players.

I prefer his random attacks on opposition fans. The online spat with the Turks was f***ing hilarious.....and very brave. I heard he'd had to delete his account and come off twitter a couple of months back after receiving death threats from Villa fans. I've noticed he's back on now but only has 1/3rd of the followers he used to have.

Just imagining this being televised and a camper van with a dozen Geordies sat on the roof coming into view every time the ball goes down that end of the pitch.

They reduced their season ticket prices to £175 and sold over 16k which is a record for them. They'll sell out against us so fair enough if they only give us 2k tickets. It's the stance that the likes of Forest and Hull took which annoys people.

Bernard and Robert down the left hand side were excellent. That moment they had down at Leicester remains one of my fondest memories of watching NUFC.

Huddersfield only allocate away teams half the stand now which is just over 2,000 tickets.

You're right. Other than the odd groan I've never heard a player get really bad stick at Newcastle in years. I think back to when I first started going to the match regularly and poor Wayne Fereday would get absolute pelters if the ball went anywhere near him and he would only have been on a few hundred quid a week for his troubles.

Any of Wycombe, Wimbledon/Sutton or Accrington Stanley at home would be my preference.

Is this official? Currently not showing as available on .co.uk It's on the Birmingham website.

Adult tickets £10 for the replay. £3 for bairns and over 65's.

FA announce match to be replayed.

He did but he also showed flashes of absolute brilliance at times to suggest there was something there to work with. Sels has shown none of that and just about everything that gets hit at him goes past him and the less said about his attempts to claim crosses the better.

New signings needed urgently. We barely resemble a football team without Shelvey.

Haven't for a clue who'll be playing where other than the forwards and the goalie

Might as well close this thread now then. Pointless if we can't comment on his team selection/tactics etc because he knows more than us.

One thing Benitez won't tolerate is players who he doesn't think he can trust. Mitrovic has barely featured since his stupid red card v Spurs and I think Colback will go the same way after yesterday.

He's OK. Pretty good at breaking up the play and playing a short pass to a more creative player than he is. Playing alongside Colback does him no favours.

A lad from work who rarely goes to games but went to the Forest match over Xmas noticed that he needs 3 touches just to get the ball under control.

All credit to the other Champ sides that won...they are showing the necessary character to come from behind in a pressurised situation and that is a quality this Newcastle team clearly lack. They managed it against Norwich by humping the ball long in injury time and getting lucky bounces(something they attempted in the last few minutes of this match and never looked like succeeding). I have said for a while that this team is FAR from certain to be promoted because they lack character, have become predictable and have been sussed out by other teams ; do not rule out a consistent challenge from Leeds either and Derby cannot be ruled out. Colback should never play again but will because we have Africans heading away for weeks. Rafa will have a tough task getting new players because other clubs can see our situation and hold him to ransom...we also do not look the certainties for promotion that we did a month ago. You cannot pull other teams apart if you lack pace...and we do, in a big way especially with Colback in m/f. If Rafa cannot get the players he wants - and the team clearly needs - we will struggle to avoid the Play-offs and heaven help us if THAT happens.. I think that's where our lack of creativity comes in, Shelvey aside. Its difficult to come from behind if you don't have players in a team who can create chances, and we only have Shelvey. I've seen nothing from any of our other midfielders that suggests they should be playing in the premiership. We're easy to defend against. When we go a goal down we're even easier to defend against. That's with or without Shelvey as well.