Sheff Wed v Newcastle – match banter!
Posted on December 26th, 2009 | 76 Comments |
So if anyone can find radio, video links etc to the game for people who don’t have it, I’m sure that would be appreciated. As ever, this can be the place to come together during the match and p*ss and moan, as we usually do. Squad news is on the preview article but hopefully we’ll get line-ups on here before the start.
As already mentioned in the preview, Boxing Day is notoriously bad if you’re a Toon fan, and we last won away from home on Boxing Day in 1988, ironically down at Hillsborough. The form guide points to a fairly straightforward three points for the Mags, but of course in front of the Sky cameras and an inflated Boxing Day crowd, we’re just as likely to trip ourselves up. At least, I don’t need to worry about the difficulty of getting to the game with the bad weather today. Just gotta keep that path to the fridge clear! Two nowt to us and no injuries for the game on Monday, is my prediction. How’s that for optimistic?
Howay the lads!
Team news –
One change to the smogs game. Butt comes in for the injured Alan Smith. Smudger has been a big player for us this season and will be a miss. Let’s hope Nicky Butt takes up where he left and not from his first few touches in the smogs game…
Us –
Harper, Simpson, S Taylor, Coloccini, Enrique, Guthrie, Butt, Nolan, Gutierrez, Ameobi, Harewood
Subs – Lovenkrands, R Taylor, Carroll, Krul, Kadar, Ranger, Pancrate
Sheff Wed –
Grant, Spurr, Purse, Tudgay, Potter, Beevers, O’Connor, Varney, Simek, Johnson, Soares
Subs – O’Donell, Buxton, Hinds, Jeffers, Esajas, Clarke, Gray
I think it will be a scrappy game today, but we will nick it 0-1