Geordie fans can be a confident bunch, and they think there’s an extremely good chance of our lads reaching the quesrter finals of the Europa League tonight.
Le famous Geordie fans
In fact a whopping 92% think we’ll get through the tie in our poll, and be in the hat for the quarter-final draw to take place in Nyon tomorrow at 12:00 CET, which is 11:00 Newcastle time, and 7:00 am eastern US time, with our clocks going forward an hour last Sunday.
There’s still a chance to vote in the poll if you haven’t already done so.
Now it’s hard to think of a time when the Newcastle fans were wrong – so does that means we’ll definitely go though tonight?
The answer is a very firm – probably. ๐
Howay The Lads!!
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128 comments so far
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Comment #81toonincheek
I see the difference but think they are both as bad.
You know what you are doing with a dive, tying to win a foul (usually a pen) but I still think a professional foul, bringing a guy down who’s clean through on the edge of the box is just as bad.
You are trying to gain an advantage by doing something against the rules.
I know what you mean though, diving is more sneaky and underhanded, as in you might get away with it where if you bring somebody down you wont get away with it 99% of the time.
I just think both are terrible things to see in the game.
AussieNUFC
Mar 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Comment #82Thanks for the help ill be up early to see us get the win tonight ๐
lesh
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Comment #83Pardew’s responsible for such high fan expectations. Time to get rid of him!
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Comment #84has anyone seen catchy on here for a while?
I’d be genuinely interested to know his view on the club this past month. Whether he still holds the same opinion or if pardew has done enough to change it.
toonincheek
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Comment #85Sage –
In golf, you are allowed to break the rules as long as you accept the (in golf, prescribed) penalty.
It’s only trying to deceive (by signing for the wrong score) that leads to instant DQ.
I tend to look at football the same way, and think it’s up to refs to punish professional fouls in the same way.
I know that leads to inconsistencies between refs but that’s up to the refs controlling body to sort out.
Joe Blog
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Comment #86Please don’t play Tiote, Mr Pardew. How one player can go through a season with such a catalogue of errors, actually a catalogue for each match, and still be held in esteem by some, belies belief.
Awful footballer and a feckless, reckless liability, doing his best to outdo good ol’ Titus in the rick count, although Titus was the last line of defence, so paid for it almost every time he made a whoopsie….
Shot Bru
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Comment #87Aussie…..see if the outdoor cinema is showing the game ๐
Jamiemac
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Comment #88Absolutely buzzing for tonight! Wish i was at st James! Shame the last train home is 20 13..
lesh
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Comment #89Is the match on live tv? If not, why not? Oh, I’ be just realised why – chelski at home and sperz away!
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Comment #90toonincheek…. Can’t or wont ๐
Lesh…It’s outrageous. How dare he get us excited.
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Comment #91toonincheek
Yeh I know what you mean, trying to deceive is worse than an obvious foul as you are trying to hide it. I just find both equally annoying.
The new big gripe of mine is gareth bale. The commentators saying he is running so fast a slight touch sends him to ground. Well thats nonsense…..he isn’t running that significantly faster than other players that he should hit the deck that much more than average.
also the guy has excellent control and ballance so should be able to stay on his feet more than the average player I think.
toonincheek
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Comment #92Ibiza – don’t know how.
toonincheek
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:16 PM
Comment #93lesh –
It’s on ESPN.
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Comment #94Would you like to? It gives me an enormous feeling of self worth, but I don’t have a lot going on so that may just be me.
: ) with no space in between or text touching either end (oo er) gives you ๐
; ) with no spaces in between or text touching either end gives you ๐
toonLYF
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Comment #95Wow, I feel like its my birthday or something, I’m so excited for tonight. I hope, like Pardew says, we play to the crowd and just get at Anzhi. Get the crowd roaring and think they will find it very tough.
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Comment #96Dodgeball ruined ESPN for me. “The Ocho”.
Rotonda heights
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:20 PM
Comment #97Sage
Looking at it objectively it would be easy to say the team has done better because of the 5 players brought in, not necessarily because of Pardew, but then I guess that argument works both ways.
If you can’t make it work with the likes of Cabs, Socks , M’Biwa et al you shouldn’t be in the job basically.
Pardew obviously gets out of his depth at times, is over cautious, makes daft decisions and has an arrogant, egotistical streak without the CV to back it up. As he says after 13 years he’s still looking for his first meaningful trophy.
However, we aren’t going to get a Laudrup any time soon, so I just hope for the best with this great squad we now have. As the song goes if you can’t have the one you want, love the one you’re with.
Rainrix
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Comment #98Ibiza… Theres a blonde bird on it now who does pre and post match interviews with the players and such. Im sure she can “unruin” it for you ๐
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Comment #99Ranger has been arrested for assault….If anyone cares here
Good riddance
Rotonda heights
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Comment #100sage
nice it’s not our problem any more.
that word former made good reading.
Graeme
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Comment #101Ibiza, I have similar problems to you, being in Nigeria. People just dont seem to understand how difficult it can be sitting outside in 24C, watching the footy.
They don’t have to contend with the mozzies, beer getting warm far too quickly, nubile ladies bringing you more beer. The power going off just as we are about to score.
Its dam tough out here!!
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Comment #102Rainrix..Ruin was probably not the right word, but it set some comically good high standards…that only a blonde interviewer could put right ๐
TS…Really? How out of character. Wait, who is Ranger?
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Comment #103Graeme…I suppose the only consolation is that we know we’re not the only people to suffer like this. If we stick together we may just pull through this plight.
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Comment #104Rotonda
Yeh I think it has a lot to do with signings…but then again the same can be said for most things in football.
Whats the difference at the top of the league this year? Van Persie….if he had gone to city no doubt in my mind they would be the ones clear at the top of the league.
You can only work with what you have so I think, although there were definitely mistakes early season as we were not as bad a team as that runs suggests it was not solely pardew’s fault.
I think we agreed on a continental styled coach to work with pardew to introduce him to other styles of football and how to implement them, it’s not as easy as saying pass and move as a few sometimes think….managers are quite technical now and set teams up much more thoroughly than 15/20 years ago.
I think not winning a major trophy isn’t an issue…..there isn’t a team he has managed where you would say he should have won one and he did well getting west ham to the FA cup final.
Graeme
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Comment #105Ibiza, its only the thought that there are others in a similar situation that keeps me going mate. Nothing at all to do with the dusky maidens and cold beer!!
I’m prepared to make the sacrifice, as long as the TOOON are on the box – it makes it survivable!!
Rainrix
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Comment #106Ibiza…. Theres quite a good story about dodgeball don’t know if you’ve heard it or not.
Originally the writers wanted ben stillers team to win. However during the test screens it got slammed by the viewers for letting him win so they changed it so vince vaughn won. The scene right at the end with ben stiller in the fat suit at the end of the credits is essentially a giant Fcuk you to cinema goers from the writers.
Always though that was a fun story, puts the last scene into a bit of context as well. ๐
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Comment #107Graeme….Well we wont be getting any sympathy of anyone on here….cold hearted bunch this lot ๐
Rainrix…I’ve always felt that last scene needed some context ๐ Interesting story and no, have never heard that.
ToonDownSouth
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Comment #108Sage
Unfortunately I can’t see coaches being brought in – the staff setup at the moment feels like a bit of a boys club, and Pardew is the most senior ‘footballing man’ at the club, which is a perfect recipe for a club to growing stale and refusing to change.
Imo the director of football role is a necessity in a club with ambitions, unless you have a manager who is adaptable and willing to change.
Tinman
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Comment #109Look out for a cow and a giraffe wearing toon tops at the game tonight…
IITianToon
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Comment #110So I see none of you have mentioned this, but who will be our spot kickers if it ends 0-0 after 120?
Cabaye
Marv
Sissoko
Cisse
Shola
Graeme
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Comment #111Ibiza – Sympathy is in dictionary. Somewhere between sh1t and Syphilis I believe!!
Can survive without any of them lol
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Comment #112Tinman…Please let that be the beginning of a joke?
Rainrix
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Comment #113Tinman…Are the geordie shore lasses at the game tonight like? ๐
Tinman
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Comment #114Deadly serious!
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Comment #115Graeme…Thanks for that, I finally have a title for my autobiography
“Sh*t, Syphilis & Sympathy: Memoirs of a toon fan”
Rainrix
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Comment #116Tian…. Keep cisse the funk away from spot kicks ๐
Ibizatoon - Back by popular demand
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Comment #117Tinman…I shall keep an eye out ๐
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Comment #118TDS
I just remember ferguson saying that he rotates his assistant every few years as he they can only give advice for so long before they run out of new things to tell you.
Best thing to do is have a coach/assistant who is replaced every 2/3years, learn what you can from them then get somebody with a different philosophy.
If you look to keep your manager a long time, as we seem to have planned, then you need to make sure this is done…how else will he learn new things? He hasn’t got time to learn away from the club so he needs somebody to come in.
Tinman
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Comment #119I’d wager they will make it onto tv
Transfer Sage
Mar 14, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Comment #120tian
Shola
Cabaye
Sissoko
Anita
Marv
Thats what I’d go for…but depends on the players and they feel about pens. Shola is a must though….he never misses.