JH Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Win the three home games and we'll stay up IMO. Easier said than done mind... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmk Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Next week Hull have Liverpool and Boro have Arsenal. We have Pompey at home. Realistically we should be only 1 point behind Hull and 2 ahead of Boro next Monday night. I would be confident then, but its assuming we beat Pompey. Its our most important game in decades. What makes you think we can beat Portsmouth? Its wishful thinking, they are a really tough team to beat nowadays. I think it will be very very tightly contested. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Next week Hull have Liverpool and Boro have Arsenal. We have Pompey at home. Realistically we should be only 1 point behind Hull and 2 ahead of Boro next Monday night. I would be confident then, but its assuming we beat Pompey. Its our most important game in decades. What makes you think we can beat Portsmouth? Its wishful thinking, they are a really tough team to beat nowadays. I think it will be very very tightly contested. yep, they're not a soft touch anymore and have gotten draws away at stoke, hull and boro recently, all higher in the table than us. they'll be very organised and disciplined and i can see us struggling to break them down and conceding on the break. if shearer learns from his errors picks the right team then the quality of martins, viduka and owen should do it but it'll be tough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Next week Hull have Liverpool and Boro have Arsenal. We have Pompey at home. Realistically we should be only 1 point behind Hull and 2 ahead of Boro next Monday night. I would be confident then, but its assuming we beat Pompey. Its our most important game in decades. Fucking hell! The Pompey game is ridiculously important, the fact it has come down to this is mental... if I was a player I would be shitting bricks at the prospect of this game. The way Glen Johnson and Pompey attacked this week we will struggle as well. Not sure I can even watch this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Pompey game is our waterloo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Pompey game is our waterloo. Whats the name of the game,.....does it mean anything to you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 9.8 for me now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 That's us done and dusted, anyone who thinks we'll win 3 home games is off their fucking head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 That's us done and dusted, anyone who thinks we'll win 3 home games is off their fucking head. this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Jerusalem Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 That's us done and dusted, anyone who thinks we'll win 3 home games is off their fucking head. A rare short and to the point post from HTT. Completely agree. I don't think this lot have one win in them, never mind three. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Far more likely to not win any of the games than we are to win 3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 We play boro ffs! If we beat them, then they dont win that weekend, has no one even considered this? 9 and 10s are insane considering the form Hull are in, and their upcoming fictures. We're more likely than them to pick up points from Boro, Pompey and Fulham at home, than they are from Liverpool, Stoke and Man United. There's every chance we could win 1, draw 1 and still stay up. We wouldnt deserve it, buts not 9/10 or 10/10 unlikely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I've been wanting to move off a 10 for a while now, but just cant. Having said that. Looking at the fixture lists, beat boro and get a point some place else and we could still stay up. Hull and Boro have such difficult run ins, hard to see them picking up too many more points. Two wins out of the five remaining matches could actually be tough to beat, three and we are safe probably but this is all tempered with reality and the way we are playing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 i think 5 points may keep us up, i think 7 points definatly will. whether we get them or not is another matter like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 i think 5 points may keep us up, i think 7 points definatly will. whether we get them or not is another matter like. im not even sure 9 is enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 i think 5 points may keep us up, i think 7 points definatly will. whether we get them or not is another matter like. im not even sure 9 is enough. have you seen boro and hulls run ins? 9 will be enough imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/-newcastle-fans-to-pretend-championship-is-premier-league-200904201712/ NEWCASTLE FANS TO PRETEND CHAMPIONSHIP IS PREMIER LEAGUE NEWCASTLE United fans brushed off yesterday's defeat by Spurs insisting they have a fool-proof scheme to guarantee the club a place in next season's top flight. With Sir Alan Shearer's team now firmly in the relegation zone, United fans have drawn-up plans to pretend the Championship is now the Premier League. Shearer has backed the idea stressing that even if the club was to plummet to mid-table in the Conference North, the supporters would still be making travel arrangements for a lengthy Uefa Cup run. Bill McKay, assistant secretary of the Toon Army supporters club, said: "Ipswich play in blue so they can be Chelsea or Everton. "We'll have at least one of the Sheffields and no-one's ever entirely sure what league they're in, Derby can be Fulham and we could even pretend Coventry are still a proper football team "Meanwhile Bristol City will from now on be known as Arsenal, Barnsley can pass for Man Utd if you squint hard enough and Notts Forest should make a perfectly decent Liverpool. "And just like the old days we won't have to play small teams like Wigan, Stoke, Bolton, Portsmouth and Hull, so we can pretend they're still in the old second division." United fan Tom Logan added: "Newcastle have the best fans in the Premier League, as anybody who watches Sky Sports knows. So we can't be relegated, otherwise we can't be the best fans in the Premier League. Right? Right? Please say that's right." I usually laugh at the Daily Mash. Bit too near the knuckle to be funny though, isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Jerusalem Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/-newcastle-fans-to-pretend-championship-is-premier-league-200904201712/ NEWCASTLE FANS TO PRETEND CHAMPIONSHIP IS PREMIER LEAGUE NEWCASTLE United fans brushed off yesterday's defeat by Spurs insisting they have a fool-proof scheme to guarantee the club a place in next season's top flight. With Sir Alan Shearer's team now firmly in the relegation zone, United fans have drawn-up plans to pretend the Championship is now the Premier League. Shearer has backed the idea stressing that even if the club was to plummet to mid-table in the Conference North, the supporters would still be making travel arrangements for a lengthy Uefa Cup run. Bill McKay, assistant secretary of the Toon Army supporters club, said: "Ipswich play in blue so they can be Chelsea or Everton. "We'll have at least one of the Sheffields and no-one's ever entirely sure what league they're in, Derby can be Fulham and we could even pretend Coventry are still a proper football team "Meanwhile Bristol City will from now on be known as Arsenal, Barnsley can pass for Man Utd if you squint hard enough and Notts Forest should make a perfectly decent Liverpool. "And just like the old days we won't have to play small teams like Wigan, Stoke, Bolton, Portsmouth and Hull, so we can pretend they're still in the old second division." United fan Tom Logan added: "Newcastle have the best fans in the Premier League, as anybody who watches Sky Sports knows. So we can't be relegated, otherwise we can't be the best fans in the Premier League. Right? Right? Please say that's right." I usually laugh at the Daily Mash. Bit too near the knuckle to be funny though, isn't it? That sites about as funny as puppies and kittens with AIDS tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Mongo Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 The one minor thing that people forget, though, is that our own form is actually just as bad as Hull's. Yet the optimists expect them to get nothing from Villa, and us to grab a point. Them to lose to Stoke, and us to beat Middlesbrough. Us to beat Fulham, and them to get trounced by Bolton. Their run-in is nearly as easy as ours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 The one minor thing that people forget, though, is that our own form is actually just as bad as Hull's. Yet the optimists expect them to get nothing from Villa, and us to grab a point. Them to lose to Stoke, and us to beat Middlesbrough. Us to beat Fulham, and them to get trounced by Bolton. Their run-in is nearly as easy as ours. I've been saying this for ages now, but do not rule out Hull AND Newcastle getting at least a point at our place. Our players have quite clearly switched off and are mentally already on the beach. We know we're going to finish fifth or sixth, which one it is quite obviously makes no odds to them. We're also shit at home and incapable of keeping a clean sheet. The only thing against you rather than Hull is that we play Hull on a Monday night, when we're going to struggle to lift our game, while we play you on what should be the sunniest, warmest afternoon of the season, in front of a full house, and in the last game, where we should at least play like were enjoying ourselves. Looking at the remaining fixture, I'd say your match against Boro could quite easily decide which goes down. You are in my prayers. Well, not literally, as I'm an atheist, but hey ho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 The one minor thing that people forget, though, is that our own form is actually just as bad as Hull's. Yet the optimists expect them to get nothing from Villa, and us to grab a point. Them to lose to Stoke, and us to beat Middlesbrough. Us to beat Fulham, and them to get trounced by Bolton. Their run-in is nearly as easy as ours. Have a word with yourself man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I assumed he meant 'easy'. His point about the relative form of both teams is spot on IMO. We're just hoping Hull will carry on being shit but we'll have some complete turnaround. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Mongo Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 The one minor thing that people forget, though, is that our own form is actually just as bad as Hull's. Yet the optimists expect them to get nothing from Villa, and us to grab a point. Them to lose to Stoke, and us to beat Middlesbrough. Us to beat Fulham, and them to get trounced by Bolton. Their run-in is nearly as easy as ours. Have a word with yourself man. Sure, they have Manure the last day. That's most likely a loss, unless they've already won the league and field a bunch of youngsters. They have Liverpool at home. We've got Liverpool away. The main difference is that they're 4 points ahead of us, and we'll be lucky to get 4 points from the rest of our games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I assumed he meant 'easy'. His point about the relative form of both teams is spot on IMO. We're just hoping Hull will carry on being shit but we'll have some complete turnaround. We can't rely on other results at the end of the season, by the last couple of games plenty of teams will be playing reserves and juniors if they've got nothing to play for. Just win the three home games and the rest will take care of itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ebolarama Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Definitely dusted now. Oh well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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