Keep The Faith

Defeat to Fulham in Newcastle on Saturday left us hanging on to our premiership survival with an away trip to Villa to come. A day of bad decisions from referee Howard Webb left us licking our wounds once again and hands the initiative to Hull and Sunderland who are the only clubs that have not secured survival outside the bottom three. The decision to send Bassong off was one you could not complain about but I thought the ref blew for the trip not the grappling, was the trip accidental? Mark Viduka's goal was a cracker, Schwarzer was well beaten not fouled as suggested by Howard webb. The goal scored by Fulham was clear offside but again the ref and his assistants seeing things differently to 50,000 Geordies. So what do we do from here? An away trip to Villa Park on Sunday is no easy task, they are now one point behind Everton who sit in the 5th spot. So they will be looking for a win against us as Everton travel to Fulham. We seriously need a win against villa a draw could be enough but it all really depends on what Hull & Sunderland can achieve. West Brom have just been defeated 0-2 to Liverpool and have been relegated. Sunderland have a home tie against Chelsea and Hull have a home tie v Manchester Utd, both Man U and Chelsea have big cup games to worry about and may rest influential players for the final games, hopefully they will do us justice and play a strong team but knowing our luck who know's what will happen. One thing is sure, the Geordie nation have got to pray we win and other results go for us. Don't give up hope, keep believing as I've said before we will not go down but its not going to be pretty.

Keep us Up

Lets hope Micheal Owen can at least do one thing for Newcastle United - keep us up. To be honest we need his goals at the moment and if he can get a couple tomorrow and win the game for us he may yet be remembered kindly on Tyneside when he does leave next season. Nicky Butt could make his return and we need him badly as Smith showed he had not competed at the top level for months by losing the ball and being off the pace somewhat. Who knows what will happen tomorrow but wherever we Geordies are there is one thing that's certain, we will all be praying for a win. After the Man Utd game people may think we will win this one but we know that's not the case as I have said before we need to dig deep again and play this game like our life depends on it. It does in a manner of speaking. After the Hull match we have Arsenal then Chelsea at home before we travel to Stoke. A must win game then and at least 1 point against Arsenal, maybe nothing against Chelsea. Shit, when you start looking at the fixtures it doesn't look good. We have 28 points and these games to play...... Arsenal-h Chelsea-h Stoke -a Spurs-a Pompey-h Liverpool-a smoggies-h Fulham-h Villa-a

Playing with pride

Newcastle United never cease to amaze. Just when we think we will get a good thrashing, the depleted team put in an inspired effort and feel unlucky to come away with nothing against the league leaders. The fact that Smith has not played for a very long time, Oba out for weeks and players played out of position, says a great deal about the team and their ability. However as we have said before we need to build on this, its no good putting in a performance like that then go to Hull and roll over. We all know what that's like as it happens far to often.
Full credit goes to the caretaker and his assistant for the Manchester Utd game but we still need to get someone in before the end of the season and I believe Joe isn't the man.
Joe has done his best and obviously loves the game but he should quit football or at least take a lower pressure job. The Newcastle job comes with too much baggage but hopefully one day we will have our success.
Maybe Lee Clark will be ready for the job in a couple of years. A Geordie at the helm makes a big difference at St James' Park