The results in the Premier League this afternoon generally went our way.
Stoke lost 2-1 at home to Everton and West Brom lost again this afternoon – this time 2-1 at Bournemouth.
West Brom have 21 points to play for (7 games), and they are still 12 points behind Newcastle so not much chance they can catch us now – and we must beat them at home on 28th April.
So two of the sides below Newcastle in the league lost their games.
But Crystal Palace had a very good 2-0 win at Huddersfield, who Newcastle play at home in two weeks time.
Newcastle stay in 13th place in the league table on 32 points, but we are now 4 points above the drop zone.
Rafa Benitez – looks happy at the results
Here’s how Newcastle stand after today’s games.
[table “68” not found /]It’s going to be even more important that we can get all 3 points against the Terriers in two weeks time.
In the Championship, Sunderland lost 2-0 at home to Preston and Fulham could only draw 2-2 at home to QPR after being 2-0 up – Mitro didn’t score today.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
112 comments so far
bettyswallocks
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:25 PM
Comment #81http://www.nufcblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/alan-pardew-steven-taylor.jpg
Pardew’s had clear the air talks with the WBA Hierarchy and has been checking out Tenerife as the next destination for the club knees up.
Munster Mag
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:28 PM
Comment #82Jail I’m buying u another virtual pint for the geraniums post. Hats off fella.
Tsunki
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:37 PM
Comment #83Music brings people together? You can’t have listened to country and western then. Drives people to murder.
I told you there would be a struggle to keep the blog going.
Now you may not know it but the yew tree is not really a “tree” at all. Taxus Baccata, the eternity tree, has symbolised eternal existence from ancient times, in fact when Christianity arrived on these shores churches were built on the sites of old druid places of worship which were themselves stationed there because of the tree of everlasting existence, and that’s why so many appear in church graveyards. Why not a tree? It’s a tightly knit self-seeder that regrows new stems ad infinitum thats why it appears to live forever. To add to its mystique, in recent years it’s clippings are harvested to extract valuable anti-cancer drugs that prolong many lives. Strange but true.
I make you laugh i make you think. And if you bring up any more non-nufc general tosh that belongs on an alternative forum, I’ll do it again. That’s a threat and a promise. Btw unlike jail I didn’t rip this from a wiki page.
🙂
Tsunki
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:38 PM
Comment #84Betty i think they might consider sending pards on his own. One of those £30 Jet2 one way jobs.
bettyswallocks
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:46 PM
Comment #85Tsunki……… On MOTD tonight they announced that he has had clear the air talks. What are we to make of that?
RobLeenio
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:57 PM
Comment #86betty, they can have as many clear the air talks as they like – Pardew will still take them down….
Sad thing is, there are many parallels between West Brom and NUFC, which I’ve outlined before. Would prefer to see Palace, West Ham, Swansea, Southampton, Stoke and many others go down ahead of them. May be worth it to see the back of Pardew in the Prem for ever – who would take him on after this debacle?
bettyswallocks
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:57 PM
Comment #87Maybe they were referring to his flatulence problem.
bettyswallocks
Mar 17, 2018 at 11:59 PM
Comment #88Rob…… Looks like they are going to keep him on and are preparing for life in the Championship.
RobLeenio
Mar 18, 2018 at 12:16 AM
Comment #89Well, it worked for us with Rafa, but we are a very different club, Rafa is a very different manager. I wonder if they can generate some decent funds with player sales to remodel their squad the way we did and if Pardew is the right person to do that? Will be interesting to watch. I think Rafa has drawn the blueprint for Champo promotion for newly relegated teams, but like all blueprints it requires a skilled engineer to fabricate
RobLeenio
Mar 18, 2018 at 12:34 AM
Comment #90They do have some decent players – Jay Rodriguez could be a decent player for us, for eg
Essex Geordie Bill
Mar 18, 2018 at 12:35 AM
Comment #91From the football I’ve watched tonight in the various leagues, I think they may have been better playing on skis, glad our lads are out in the sunshine playing games on those pitches would have been a right lottery.
Sorry to mention football on the botany/blues music blog, I’ll try not to say too much about it.
Essex Geordie Bill
Mar 18, 2018 at 12:41 AM
Comment #92Oh and tough on The Heed today, suffered from the “I don’t like NE clubs referee syndrome” with a non penalty awarded against them.
Still as Steve Watson said they’re going into the second leg only 1 goal down with it all to play for in the home leg.
Score was 3-2 to Bromley.
Howay The Heed, lets see one Tyneside club at Wembley this season!!
RobLeenio
Mar 18, 2018 at 12:57 AM
Comment #93EGB, hear hear – on the Tyneside clubs at Wembley, not the skis lol.
We have a proud history at Wembley recently, let’s hope Gateshead can continue it. No reason why not.
Essex Geordie Bill
Mar 18, 2018 at 1:48 AM
Comment #94Rob
Aye in my early supporting days I used to walk to Redcheuge (can’t that spelling right although it might be and the dictshunary doesn’t recognise it) from Dunston to watch the Heed whilst they were still a football league team, until the first time of asking and the Southern Bastids voted them oot.
Sorry whiskey talking.
Essex Geordie Bill
Mar 18, 2018 at 1:58 AM
Comment #95Clicked on a link to a virtual tour of Saltwell Park, boy did it bring back memories, used to love going to the museum there, don’t know if it is still, they had a jaw bone of a sperm whale outside and of course the boating lake.
Although I had to go to Bensham Cemetery for my brothers funeral 3 years back so some not so nice memories.
Essex Geordie Bill
Mar 18, 2018 at 2:04 AM
Comment #96And I think I’m talking to myself, as everyone must have gone to bed, so I had better do likewise, goodnight all.
Jib
Mar 18, 2018 at 7:26 AM
Comment #97Cenk Tosun is doing the biz for the Toffees
So clearly not all Turkish players are crap
Ron Knee
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:05 AM
Comment #98lesh
Brent Mason has an occasional band called The Players. Here with Vince Gill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJHnkUKg_M
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:23 AM
Comment #99Delphinium is a genus of about 300 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa.[1]
Delphinium
Delphinium officinale – Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-052.jpg
Delphinium staphisagria
Scientific classification e
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Order:
Ranunculales
Family:
Ranunculaceae
Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
Tribe:
Delphinieae
Genus:
Delphinium
L.
Species
See text
All members of the Delphinium genus are toxic to humans and livestock.[2] The common name “larkspur” is shared between perennial Delphinium species and annual species of the genus Consolida.[3] Molecular data show that Consolida, as well as another segregate genus, Aconitella, are both embedded in Delphinium.[4]
The genus name Delphinium derives from the ancient greek word ????????? (delphínion), meaning “larkspur”.[5][6] The name “delphinium” also derives from the Latin for “dolphin”, referring to the shape of the nectary.
Description Edit
Flowers of most species have five spreading sepals and four petals (e.g. Delphinium nuttallianum).
In high mountain habitat, central Utah rangelands
The leaves are deeply lobed with three to seven toothed, pointed lobes in a palmate shape. The main flowering stem is erect, and varies greatly in size between the species, from 10 centimetres in some alpine species, up to 2 m tall in the larger meadowland species.
In June and July (Northern Hemisphere), the plant is topped with a raceme of many flowers, varying in color from purple and blue, to red, yellow, or white. In most species each flower consists of five petal-like sepals which grow together to form a hollow pocket with a spur at the end, which gives the plant its name, usually more or less dark blue. Within the sepals are four true petals, small, inconspicuous, and commonly colored similarly to the sepals. The eponymous long spur of the upper sepal encloses the nectar-containing spurs of the two upper petals.[7]
The seeds are small and often shiny black. The plants flower from late spring to late summer, and are pollinated by butterflies and bumble bees. Despite the toxicity, Delphinium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the dot moth and small angle shades.[citation needed]
Taxonomy Edit
Delineation of Delphinium Edit
Subgenera of Delphinium and related taxa
Genetic analysis suggests that Delphinium sensu lato, as it was delineated before the 21st century, is polyphyletic. Nested within Delphinium s.l. are Aconitella, Consolida, and Aconitum. To make Delphinium monophyletic, several interventions were made. The new genus Staphisagria was erected containing Delphinium staphisagria, D. requini, and D. pictum, representing the sister group to all other Delphinieae.[8] Further genetic analysis has shown that the two large subgenera Aconitum (Aconitum) and Aconitum (Lycoctonum) are the sister group to Aconitum gymnandrum, Delphinium (Delphinium), Delphinium (Delphinastrum), Consolida and Aconitella. To make Aconitum monophyletic, A. gymnandrum has now been reassigned to a new monotypic genus, Gymnaconitum. Finally, Consolida and Aconitella are synonymized with Delphinium.[9]
Subgenera Edit
D. arthriscifolium is sister to all other species of Delphinium sensu stricto (so excluding Staphisagria). It should be placed in its own subgenus, but no proposal naming this subgenus has been made yet. The subgenera Delphinium (Delphinium) and Delphinium (Delphinastrum) are sister to the group consisting of the species of Consolida and Aconitella, which together make up the subgenus Delphinium (Consolida). Aconitella cannot be retained as a subgenus because A. barbata does not cluster with the remaining species previously assigned to that genus, without creating five further subgenera.[9]
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:28 AM
Comment #100The Man United fans whinging about Mourinho, I wonder where his next job would be. I wonder if there would be riots if he was appointed in North London due to his style of football.
Jib
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:29 AM
Comment #101I used to think I was quite good
at percussive slap style
Then
I tuned into the OGWT to watch
whispering Bob Harris and saw this
guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJvqAtLtOmA&list=RDMMOJvqAtLtOmA
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:34 AM
Comment #102Only two of our remaining opponents are above us in the form league, in which we are currently ninth.
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:37 AM
Comment #103If we’d held on against Bournemouth we’d have been fifth in the form table leaving us fearing nobody in our remaining fixtures bar that trip to Wembley.
Munster Mag
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:42 AM
Comment #104I think we are safe as houses jail. Obviously points not in bag yet but we are playing well and could get close to 10th I think
sing in the corner
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM
Comment #105JfA
I note you posted another epic flora related post.
Is it true you’ll do anything for another one of Munsters ‘virtual pints’??
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:49 AM
Comment #106I think so too Munster. That Soton win all but sealed, we’ll literally have to implode to not get 40 points now while Stoke, West Ham and Soton go on club record breaking win streaks.
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:50 AM
Comment #107sitc,
Aye, I’m a virtoholic.
sing in the corner
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:53 AM
Comment #108Exquisite timing for the lads to be away in the pleasant temperatures of Murcia. Its Baltic here in the northeast. And many of relegation rivals have been toiling away in blizzards on frozen pitches. Picking up extra fatigue,and knocks. Choupa chups Moteng at Stoke pulling his groin for example.
By the time we get back on the local training pitches the temp will be 10 degrees warmer.
Rafa planned all this,obviously 🙂
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:54 AM
Comment #109I’ve got a bet with a guy at work who said we’d be relegated. I said that’s way too generous and I changed it to we’ll finish points wise closer to tenth than 18th.
Jib
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:56 AM
Comment #110I’d really like to beat Everton at Goodison
on 21st April
1 We need the points
2 Get them back for their craven surrender
to the Mackems two seasons ago
3 A beating of an Allardyce team is never a bad thing
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 8:57 AM
Comment #111Not a happy hunting ground for us is Goodison but neither was Soton and we should have won that.
Jail for Ashley
Mar 18, 2018 at 9:00 AM
Comment #112We’re due a win against Watford as well, four times they’ve done us since they got promoted, did we play them when last in the Championship in 2009/10.