There’s no sign of Papiss Cisse today, even on the bench, in the team that Alan Pardew has announced will play at Blackpool this afternoon, in a 3:00 pm kick off, and maybe that means we will see him at St. Mirren on Tuesday night in the new Wonga strip.
But the team is quite a strong one, and Mike Williamson will partner Steven Taylor, in Fab Coloccini’s absence, and Shola Ameobi and Yoan Gouffran will be up front in a 4-4-2 formation this afternoon at Bloomfield Road.
And it’s interesting that big Moussa Sissoko will be in the middle of the Park with Yohan Cabaye, and maybe that’s Newcastle best central midfield pairing in the coming season.
18 year-old Adam Campbell is again on the bench and we hope we see Adam get a decent run-out in the second half this afternoon, and Mathieu Debuchy and Davide Santon are the full-backs, and the two Internationals look like the starters for this coming season too.
Jak Alnwick, Sammy Ameobi, Haris Vuckic and Paul Dummett are other youngsters on the bench this afternoon.
For Blackpool Tom Ince starts, and we’ve been linked with the 21 year-old winger this summer in the transfer market, and former Gosforth-born Newcastle striker Michael Chopra starts up front for the Tangerines.
We want to see a good performance from the team today, including in the first half, and hopefully a decent win.
Teams:
Blackpool (4-3-3): Matt Gilks; Kirk Broadfoot, Gary MacKenzie, Craig Cathcart, Bob Harris; Barry Ferguson (c), Angel Martinez, Thomas Ince; Bobby Grant, Michael Chopra, Steven Davies
Substitutes: Mark Halstead, Massire Kante, Neil Bishop, Chris Basham, Isaiah Osbourne. Nathan Eccleston, Daylon Claasen, Tom Barkhuizen, Anderson Banvo, Jake Caprice
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Rob Elliot; Mathieu Debuchy, Mike Williamson, Steven Taylor, Davide Santon; Sylvain Marveaux, Yohan Cabaye (c), Moussa Sissoko, Jonas Gutierrez; Yoan Gouffran, Shola Ameobi
Substitutes: Jak Alnwick, Paul Dummett, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Haris Vuckic, Sammy Ameobi, Adam Campbell
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307 comments so far
shearermania
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Comment #1no hba…would actually have liked to see vuckic in the hole today…but it looks like sissoko has that role
mattnufc
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Comment #2Very poor bench. Needs to be much stronger for next season.
expatmag
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Comment #3EDD
Apparently, some players being held back for extra fitness training including Cisse, Tiote, Anita, Haidara etc and they will probably feature at St.Mirren on Tuesday night along with our new signings Gomis, Remy, Bardsley and Zoet……………..LOL
PhillNUFC
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:14 PM
Comment #4is this game televised or on the radio, cant find anywhere that has it. Not even text updates
check the toastie
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:15 PM
Comment #5Ameobi = Hoofball
Pardews only idea on how to progress the ball up the pitch. The lad should have left the club years ago. A total and utter shambles that he is still being selected, only at the Toon. Can you imagine any other PL team persevering with Shola, my god give young Campbell a go or anyone, Pardew is lost without a target man.
JackButler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Comment #6check
Nice to see you in a positive mood as always
Spuggy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Comment #7Calm down lads, it’s just a preseason all the players need match practice, no point fielding the best side every match when we may have to call on the b team.
Jail for Ashley
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Comment #8I very rarely post team formations andvas Pieters has gone to Stoke it makes this one even more pointless.
Krul
Debuchy Collo Mbwia Pieters
Sissoko
Anita Cabaye
HBA Cisse Remy
Subs.Elliott Santon Tiote Marveaux Gomis.This line up would unfortunately involve us signing players and one which should have been signe two years ago.
welshgeordie9
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Comment #9Are we after both gomis and remy or is it one or the other
MonkseatonMag
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Comment #10Any links for the game?
AaranD
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Comment #11Back to the conventional 4-4-2, Cabs and Sissoko ‘should’ dominate the middle of park. With Sissokos power and Cabs precision should be to much for the Seasiders.
Hopefully Ince has a stormer and and we take him back to St James’s :D.
Edd Case
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Comment #12FFS.
I don’t understand why some of our better players, HBA, Tiote, Hiadara and so on are being ‘held back’ for fitness – what better way to get fitter than to actually play a game?!
And where’s Cisse? Surely he needs minutes on a pitch?
Can’t help but feel wound up with AP yet a-bloody-gain.
Feel sorry for the no doubt large away support too, they’ll be subjected to the usual sh**e with that team (please prove me wrong).
JackButler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Comment #13welsh
Reports have us in advanced talks with Lyon for Gomis and Remy talks are said to be ongoing over a loan deal so it looks like both are realistic targets for us
Tommyy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Comment #14Classic, boring and bland Pardew team. Guaranteed to offer no inventiveness, no speed, no fluidity and very little idea.
I predict the same crap football we’ve been subject to the majority of the time under Pardew’s stewardship.
Oh and get some players in, noone is laughing anymore, joke’s well and truly over.
Finnbad The Sailor
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Comment #15NUFC.com has no tv coverage down for this game.
The cb pairing along with Jonas and the Ameobis I hope to not have to see at all in the final games in the run up to seasons opener.
It makes me sad any time I see an Ameobi on the team sheet.
Spuggy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Comment #16HWTL.
One supporter here.
JackButler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Comment #17No coverage of the game 🙁
Tommyy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Comment #18Where are Ben Arfa and Cisse? Really wish Williamson had joined Cardiff.
JackButler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Comment #19Get French Football ?@GFN_France 26s
Lyon boss Remi Garde has confirmed that Bafetimbi Gomis will be leaving the club shortly (@mohammedali_93) #NUFC #OL
pawl250
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Comment #20Where is Cisse?
He must be short of match fitness.
Does anyone else see this resolution involving him leaving the club?
Very odd, he isn’t injured, lacks match fitness and Blackpool is less than 3 hours away, he should be playing today!
Should have been Gouffran and Cisse on the pitch!
shearermania
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Comment #21if we sign bardsley there will be riots in town
expatmag
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Comment #22JFA
My team
Krul
Santon Colo Mbiwa Haidara
Obertan Sissoko Anita Ben Arfa
Cisse Gouffran
Subs: Elliott, Taylor, Mrveaux, Debuchy, Tiote,
I would sell Cabaye and buy McCarthy and Rhodes and put them on the bench
I know what uoi are going to say……………..Obertan
But I have my reasons
Mister Tuff
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Comment #23expatmag – afternnoon/evening – could not get back to you yesterday as the ISP was having technical problems – got back online after 10 pm or thereabouts.
You mentioned the other day that you did not go croc hunting as you preferred swimming with great white sharks.
Yeh right – the only possible water based activities you will get involved in with “animals” is playing with a plastic duck in the bath.
Jail for Ashley
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Comment #24Check,
For clarity who would you have played up top given business genius and best ever owner Mike Ashley has in his six years here sold or released 10 strikers while signing five in which only two remain at the club.
Disclaimer.
I have not googled this information so please point out in mistakes.
Spuggy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Comment #25How are debuchy, saylor, santon, Cabaye, sissoko, marv and Gouffran bland?
Not bad shout to try shola and gouffy with Cisse doing other work. Shola is top scorer so far. Give him a break until reinforcements arrive.
MonkseatonMag
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Comment #26Ameobi playing….OMG he passed his ‘sell-by’ date10 years ago. Surely this is the ideal opportunity to get young Campbell some playing time?
JackButler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:24 PM
Comment #27Why is everything that happens at NUFC a conspiracy theory?
Tommyy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:24 PM
Comment #28Possible good news on Gomis then, we need a striker like him who can bring others in to play and score himself. Should help our currently non existent link up between attack and midfield.
woodsee
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Comment #29You never know,maybe we may come back with ince from Blackpool
welshgeordie9
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Comment #30JackButler
Do you think that we will sign them this week.
Clematis
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Comment #31Getting sick of the Bardsley reports from the Mail, Express, Sky, etc. We don’t sign 28 year olds. We especially don’t sign f@cking sh!t mackem 28 year olds.
AaranD
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Comment #32Don’t mind them holding some players back, as long as its for the right reasons. If they aren’t fit enough or have a slight niggle then wouldn’t risk them as knowing our luck they’d get injured and be out for god knows how long.
Though I think we should be trying to win every match, especially after last season, it is only pre-season and really shouldn’t be to worried.
Indian Magpie
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Comment #33I hope Pardew Picks this front 6 in one or more of our Friendlies
Anita Cabs Sissoko
HBA Cisse Marveaux
shearermania
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Comment #34why dosnt newcastle tour australia like man u and liverfool…there seem to be so many aussies following the toon???
Tommyy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Comment #35Spuggy – Watch them play and you will witness bland, boring football.
Jail for Ashley
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Comment #36Pawl
That is the only sensible post I have ever read of yours.
JackButler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Comment #37welsh
Your guess is as good as mine mate, we need them in asap but they way we are being run wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t get anyone over the line
expatmag
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Comment #38TUFF
Well, mate, I have actually been almost face to face with a 6 meter white pointer a few years ago and survived
Spuggy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Comment #39Campbell is no where near PL quality yet. Howay man. Shola is ahead of Campbell atm.
He scores two goals and all people can say is sell him. Some fans are a disgrace. Could we have better – yes. Do we have gomis yet – no.
Support the players that pass the white line.
Tommyy
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Comment #40As individuals they are not bland players as such, but in Pardew’s system they look awfully bland.