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Emile Mpenza’s 80th minute strike settled a relatively unspectacular affair at SJP after both sides had created and spurned opportunities to take the game by the scruff of the neck. Ultimately, it was another loss at home that sees us perturbingly closer to the bottom three than the upper echelons of the league.
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posted by A.K. Dholakia
April 4, 2007 @ 9:54 am
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7 points from relegation zone , Sheffield Utd away and Arsenal at home over Easter , if results don’t go our way we could be 1 point from relegation Monday evening.
I hate to say it but we are going down , on current form for sure.
Comment by Tim Claridge April 4, 2007 @ 10:16 am
I don’t know where our next three points are coming from.
Tactics, work ethic of some, poor form of others, lack of ambition from the top of the club have seen us stoop to worse than Middlesbrough- thankfully the mackems aren’t playing us right now!
And they announce an increase in gate size. What timing!
Comment by Fred Leazes End April 4, 2007 @ 10:27 am
No! No! No!
As a Die hard Manchester City fan, you guys have got to understand that your form at the moment is garbage. But Newcastle are far too big to go down. You guys will beat Sheffield United and i’m 100% convinced that you will not end up in the bottom 3.
The game was a smash and grab for us, but at the moment we’ve actually got a little bit of luck going for us which is very unusual.
Dont worry guys!
Comment by Pete April 4, 2007 @ 10:27 am
Roeder was an awful appointment (for all you smug gits, this is what I’ve been saying from day one). He hasn’t got a clue.
Sadly hes merely a symptom of the mind numbing stupidity that is Fat Fred.
We must revolt now, or we’re dead. Protests, boycotts, the works.
We must do WHATEVER it takes to get Shephered out, and I mean WHATEVER.
This club is nearly dead.
Comment by Matthew April 4, 2007 @ 10:28 am
this team is so poor i can see us getting relegated because if we cant beat the likes of fulham,wigan,man city,boro etc there is no hope in the remaining fixtures plus glenn roedent is way out of his depth.
Comment by mark April 4, 2007 @ 11:04 am
Does anyone know where we can get 6 points from? because Carr, Babayaro, Martins, Dyer, Parker, Gooch, Bramble and Roeder seem to have stopped looking!
Comment by Bonn Scott April 4, 2007 @ 11:16 am
I agree with what alot of fans are saying. Where are our next points coming from? I fear for our premiership status. After easters games we could be right in the sticky stuff. Need to win at least one of the games this weekend.
Comment by Alan Rogers April 4, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
Relegation isn’t going to happen. Charlton have 4 away games (City, Everton Blackburn Liverpool) and 3 at home (Reading Shef. Utd Spurs). They have the potential to lose the majority of these.
Wigan’s run in looks even more desperate, and Shef. Utd’s looks pretty grim too. Even Fulham’s run in looks a bit nasty. I can’t believe all of these teams will overtake us.
I also think we raise our game against the top half sides. We’ve done very poorly against bottom half sides this season, probably worse than anyone else. But we’ve beaten Liverpool, drawn with Man Utd, and pushed Chelsea hard already. It’ll be harder for us to get relegated now. But it is hard to guess who will go down. My money’s on Watford Charlton and Wigan.
Comment by Nick April 4, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
1/2 the problem is playing butt and parker in the same team it cant work it has to be butt OR parker and a creative midfilder like emre you cpuld even play the zog in the middle
Comment by andy April 4, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Sell Parker, and build the team around Butt…pick up a young tall def. mid that covers the ground well and alow him to learn from Butt…and use Dyer/Emre/Zogy to play alnongside Butt…..and for heavens sake use the young guys now that we have nothing to play for…Sib has been great but i would rather see our young strikers gettin a chance…
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Comment by Yaphet April 5, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
We ‘were’ going down earlier in the season according to some people anyway, and then we had a good run. Look at it this way we should have beaten Man City, Middlesbrough at home and Wigan and Charlton away but we didn’t. We shouldn’t however, given the games, have beaten Spurs away, Liverpool at home or drawn with United at home. So I don’t think Arsenal at home or Sheffield United away are six points down the drain necessarily. We just have a really really irritating knack for losing games we should by all accounts win, and win games (not so irritating we shouldn’t really win given who and how we play them).
On Roeder: The guys, for me has got the right idea off the pitch, he’s been patient with transfers and hasn’t watsed any of the money he been given. He was too apprehensive with Woodgate and Campbell, but given their injury record and age respestively it is almost understandable. I beleive he has the right idea for the long term progression of the club, what with the youth blooding and the defense clear out imminent. However, I think most Newcastle fans have recognised thats this needs to be done in order for any success or progress to be made, so in this respect i think he is neither uniqe nor particularly succesful. He needs time to be succesful on this front, but for that time he needs results to go his way on the pitch. That isn’t happening. For me leaving Milner on the bench against Alkmaar and Man City was ridiculous, If Carr is indeed going to go then don’t play him at all, and If Solano truly is first choice rb, then play him there. Milner has been this season’s revelation for me and I’d be raging if I was sat on the bench for those two games. Butt and Parker in the middle isn’t working, and Sibierski shouldn’t be playing as many games as he is at the expense of midfielders who would balance the team better than the Butt/Parker partnership, eg Emre.
I’d like the man to be given more time (see the summer signings he makes); as long as we don’t get in serious trouble of being relegated, (I don’t think we are at the moment). We do need a manager who can get it right on and off the pitch for the club, but While Shepherd is at the helm I don’t think one will ever put pen to paper. Rant over.
Comment by chuck harris April 5, 2007 @ 9:40 pm