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5:30 Saturday afternoon and the toon army will be either at st Jame's park or watching setanta sports. Newcastle will have Nolan, Guthrie and Habib Beye back in contention after injury and suspension. However Barton, viduka, xisco and nacho Gonzalez are still out. Arsenal beat hull 2-1 in the FA cup tie at the emirates stadium on tuesday without goalkeeper Alumina. The stopper for them in that game was Fabianski but is unknown if he was in due to injury. Lets hope we can get beye and nolan on the pitch as they are badly needed for this game. We have done well against Arsenal at st James' park in recent years and it would go a long way if we could at least get a point. Scuppering Arsenals plans for a top two finish and giving arsene whinger something to complain about would be very satisfying although the most important thing on sat is to go out with a positive attacking attitude. We could slip into 18, as the Smoggies face Stoke if either win and Portsmouth win at home to everton then we will. However a win would take us to 14 if Blackburn and the Mackems loose. So on Saturday were really looking at wins for Everton against Portsmouth, West Ham v Blackburn, Man U v Fulham, Chelsea v Spurs, Wigan v Hull, Man city v Mackems and west brom v Bolton and a draw for the Smoggies. Fingers crossed for tomorrow then that we end the day out the Relegation zone and sit on 30 points with 8 games to go. We can do it and i feel we will stay up but it's going to be very tight, you can see my prediction for the end of season table below. Howay the lads

Ashley Out

After the defeat to Bolton on Saturday, we are really in the shit. After all these years why is Shola Ameobi still playing for Newcastle United? If anyone can answer this please tell me. He tries his best but unfortunately it’s just not good enough. We had Smith on the bench itching to get on, Viduka as well, but what I would like to see is one of the young lads given a chance. How many has Shola had and how many more will he get?
Relegation is now in sight. We have difficult games to play and no manager. Mike Ashley continues at the helm of Newcastle United but for how long?
If we go down will Ashley sell up? If we stay up will he spend? Will he get a new manager or will he only spend £5m like the MD says?.
After last season I thought it could not get worse but Kevin Keegan took charge and things started to look good. A 1-1 draw at Old Trafford kicked off the season and was a good result but we now face Manchester United at home with only 11 games to go and it’s very worrying, - it could be very embarrassing.
After the Man Utd we have home games against Arsenal, Chelsea, Pompey, Borough and Fulham: 3 of the top five and two clubs fighting relegation. The away fixtures are at Hull, Stoke , Spurs, Liverpool and Villa - yes, two top four teams and the rest fighting the drop .We need a manager and quick because the two in charge now don’t look like keeping us up. Someone has to go down and I really hope it’s