Eddie Howe will be forced into at least one change for Sunday’s clash against Wolves at St. James’ Park with the integral Joelinton facing a two-match ban. There could be other changes on the horizon after Howe made three in last weekend’s defeat at Manchester City.
Fabian Schar is back in contention after being sidelined through the concussion protocol. He faces a fight to return with captain Jamaal Lascelles’s solid showing against the defending champions.
I suspect Schar will keep his place though would not be completely surprised to see Jamaal take the armband tomorrow. However, I do see one other potential change at the back with Matt Targett making his return for Dan Burn at left-back.
All that being said, this is the team I suspect Howe will name. It has three changes from the Citizens with Schar returning, Joe Willock in for Joelinton, and Targett getting a chance on the left.
During his press conference on Friday, Howe stated Alexander Isak was not ready for a full 90 minutes. While that doesn’t rule out a start, he may continue as an impact sub until he is fully fit.
That may also be the role for Allan Saint-Maximin despite impressing in a run of starts. Anthony Gordon made his full debut last weekend and now he may get his first start in front of the home faithful.
There are plenty of options with only Emil Krafth and Harrison Ashby out injured that we know of. Howe can chop and change to try and get the performance needed to spur the Magpies back to victory.
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641 comments so far
cleveleysbob
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Comment #241Bloody hell, Spurs and Brighton! ffs.
Hoping for a Leeds comeback, but Forest are buried.
magicmac54
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Comment #242Sparky55
Hi Sparky mate, sorry for the delay in getting back to you but i`ve been busy all day, in answer to your question Ruddy and myself are coming over to the Toon on friday the 28th of April and returning on Sunday the 30th, we usually meet up with the rest of the lads from the blog in the dog and parrot Sparky, supermac is always there both pre match and post match. Sparky when will you be arriving mate? Very much looking forward to meeting you fella HWTL
Munster Mag
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Comment #243Whats wrong with Scotland Jane?
Imagine surviving those seas and ending up in Clacton? Eeek.
CLINT FLICK
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:25 PM
Comment #244The important thing is: that we don’t share, anything, ever, with others…hey Jane?
Samsara forfend!
Ir is that too foreign?
😀
CLINT FLICK
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM
Comment #245Munster
On a general level, mate…aimed at ‘no one in particular’… You can probably just end at ‘imagine’!
Asking a bit much there, like!
😀
CLINT FLICK
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Comment #246Cbob
There ya go…lufc score
cleveleysbob
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Comment #247Kuol got on pitch today @ 81mins after Celtic had just gone 0-3 up.
Not much point in that.
AnyToon in Indiana
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Comment #248Harrison scoring all around 🙂 Goal, assist, own goal…
cleveleysbob
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Comment #249Get in!
It feels like the old MA days when we wanted favours from other teams! 😀
Really, we just need to win our games in hand and bugger the rest. 😆
jane
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Comment #250“The important thing is: that we don’t share, anything, ever, with others…hey Jane?”
we could build a wall
cleveleysbob
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:42 PM
Comment #251Haha, Forest score, the come backs on! 😉
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Comment #252Results have pretty much gone in our favour today bar Spurs but I don’t think we expected much more than that from Forest on the road. So glad the relegation days are over, it’s absolutely brutal at the bottom of the table, all of them from bottom to Palace in 12th could go down, none of them can breathe easy from now until May.
CLINT FLICK
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:56 PM
Comment #253Jane
Maybe we could call it after someone…?
carltoon
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Comment #254Wow! I’ve only been away a week, and the sky has fallen in.
Well done all the sports journalist backing freedom of speech.
I never thought I would live to see the BBC take away the one thing it has been renowned for throughout the world, it’s a bad day for this country when we are being told what to think and what to say. By a horrendous biased controlled media.
Our freedom of speech should sacred.
I maybe vote left, but I believe in democracy first and foremost
I like Bob’s post re getting this imm agration under control.
As for the football watched the ManC match on the plane, going to try and find if the match is on anywhere tomorrow.
magicmac54
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Comment #255I`m not a big fan of Gary Lineker to be honest, but the last i checked we are supposed to be living in a democracy where free speech is aloud!!! Just ask yourself who manufactured all this outrage against Lineker and pressurised the BBC to take action, the truth is out there if you really want to find it, the perfect distraction policy while the rest of country are struggling and on it`s knees to buy food and heat their homes. Does it always have to be divide and conquer to rule the roost.
jane
Mar 11, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Comment #256Samsara forfend wall
carltoon
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Comment #257The weather here is very hot. Been sitting in the shade for days now.
carltoon
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Comment #258Magic well said. I wonder what most on here would feel if their freedom of speech was censored.
They would be better off tackling their gov. To stop the boats coming over they’ve had fourteen years to do it, the reason the got into power on the back of it.
They’ve got more food in the Tesco’s in this third world country than my Tesco’s in North Shields.
Fenham to Chalfont
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:11 PM
Comment #259The bottom line is Lineker is a hypocrite. He waffled on about our TO being wrong on every level for so long, more out of clear and obvious jealousy. However when it came to Qatar not a peep out his mouth why?. That’s hugely hypocritical and doesn’t show a fair balanced opinion does it?
If his beloved Leicester were taken over by the PIF he’d probably turn a Qatar blind eye 100%. What came out of Linekers mouth levelled towards our government was totally wrong and disrespectful towards the whole Jewish community. Now he is acting the wounded soldier and now is some sort of WOKE martyr. Gary Lineker is a fraud IMO and all this free speech milarky doesn’t wash with me and is a smoke screen to why he was suspended in the first place. It’s the words he chose to utilise that was wrong and why he must be banned from our screens. Not what message he was trying to get over, more the controversial words he chose. He gets zero sympathy from me.
Munster Mag
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Comment #260Freedom of speech is all well and good until it doesnt suit a shit government a right wing press and a misguided public.
Munster Mag
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:14 PM
Comment #261He doesnt need your sympathy Fenham. He is winning this issue, supported 100% by his colleagues.
What he said has nothing to do with nufc so thats irrelevant to the big picture.
Fenham to Chalfont
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:15 PM
Comment #262Munster don’t talk about Ireland like that. I thought you were a staunch republican wannabe 😳
carltoon
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Comment #263He a decent human being, and he has the right to his views even if others don’t agree, all the Sports Journalist are backing him and good for them standing up for free speech is a fundamental right and what we fought for.
It’s pity we haven’t a few more like him around.
Ap
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Comment #264Linekar wakes up every morning praying some bloke who wears blue thongs and stilettos has sympathy for him. Yeah right
carltoon
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Comment #265Anyway I’m on me holidays, and I’ll probably not get to see the match, so will be just reading the blog and hoping we can get a win.
I thought we played ok last match but as usual couldn’t get that ball in the net.
We need someone to try from outside the box, as we’re trying to walk it in.
I agree Wilson is definitely below par, I hope Isaac starts too.
magicmac54
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:34 PM
Comment #266Carltoon
Never make any apology about who you vote for Carltoon, most intelligent people are very aware of what`s going on and who were the big instigators in trying to remove Lineker, while his choice of words could have been better, he was basically getting to the truth and hitting a few raw nerves, and your 100% correct Carltoon as free speech should never ever be suppressed in any true democracy whether we agree with the message or not!!! ( Power to the People }
The Ledge
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Comment #267https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1634512410902970368?t=XrElF5XTjmw3V9rUGyvHLg&s=19
I’m all on for freedom of speech and for Lineker to be allowed on his own platform to say what he wants.
I’m not on for a hypocrite multi millionaire to be mouthing about illegal immigrants who from what we have seen are 90%men of fighting age to be allowed into a country where the taxpayers have to fit the bill.
I’m not on for an idiot to lecture me on the climate while driving around in a vehicle that has the same fuel consumption as an artic truck which is used for moving goods all over the place.
That’s what Lineker is a hypocrite.
The Ledge
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Comment #268https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1634512410902970368?t=XrElF5XTjmw3V9rUGyvHLg&s=19
The tweet above, Lineker didn’t like it when someone else used there freedom of speech strange that.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Comment #269“Never make any apology about who you vote for”
As you all know, as I’ve stated my disinterest in politics many times, they’re not my thing. I did not want a debate about politics at all when I asked the question this morning, just genuinely interested in why voting Labour is used as an insult on here by a handful of posters. That’s not me being hypocritical as it’s not putting over a political view and I’ve no wish to debate why, it doesn’t seem like people are comfortable explaining why they use it as an insult though.
Ap
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:49 PM
Comment #270The year is 3023 and Raj from Hailsley is still wondering
why voting Labour is used as an insult on here by a handful of posters?
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Comment #271You off the naughty step Mort.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Comment #272There’s not even any commentary on MotD tonight, a twenty minute show with highlights and no commentary, they can’t even use the PL’s standard commentary because they don’t have the rights.
Munster Mag
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:54 PM
Comment #273He’s not a hypocrite on this issue though. How many BBC senior execs or Tory ministers have accomodated a migrant?
lochinvar
Mar 11, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Comment #274If you’d just come back from the moon or Alcatraz you’d be forgiven for thinking wtf’s going on, headlines everywhere as if some National crisis.
Wrong, just an opinionated twerp facing disciplinary warning at work for misbehaving.
There really is more important news out there.
Regan
Mar 11, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Comment #275Outside the BBC in London is a statue of George Orwell.. and the words inscribed next to it..
“If liberty means anything at all..
It means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
Really.. 😆
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Comment #276I’d much prefer MotD on for an hour on the Monday night showing decent highlights from all the games (Monday night games, obviously not) no analysis just pure highlights for an hour.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Comment #277He wrote some canny books mind, Burmese days was probably my favourite.
Raj of Hailsley
Mar 11, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Comment #278In fact they should ask licence payers which they’d prefer and put it to the vote.
geordie157
Mar 11, 2023 at 6:07 PM
Comment #279Isak has to start this one
Regan
Mar 11, 2023 at 6:09 PM
Comment #280I’m not into this politix bollix but thought I’d share that..
As you were..