Mid Week Results

Tuesday 8th December

• Doncaster 1-0 Sheff Wed
• Ipswich 0-0 Peterborough
• Leicester 1-3 Bristol City
• Middlesbrough 0-3 Blackpool
• Preston 0-0 Derby
• Reading 2-4 Crystal Palace
• Sheff Utd 0-0 Nottm Forest
• Swansea 1-0 Plymouth
• West Brom 0-2 Cardiff

Wednesday 10th December

• Barnsley 1-1 Scunthorpe
• Coventry 0-2 Newcastle

 

A great set of scores for Newcastle, top by seven points and now with seven straight wins.

 

Reserves Reverse

Grimsby Town Reserves 1 Newcastle Reserves 0

Totesport.com Central League East

Blundell Park Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Kick-off 2pm

A sunny but fruitless return for Alan Thompson's reserves against Grimsby when they were sunk by a 32nd minute strike.

NUFC: Jak Alnwick, Dan Leadbitter, Ben Tozer, Callum Morris, Darren Lough, Frank Danquah, Patrick McLaughlin, Brad Inman, Shane Ferguson, Kazenga LuaLua, Ryan Donaldson (c) Subs: Conor Newton, James Taylor, Matthew Grieve, Ben Robinson, Greg McDermott

 

Match Report

Coventry City 0 Newcastle 2

Rioch Arena

Wednesday 9th December Kick-off 7:45pm

20th Championship Game of the season

Strikes from Shola Ameobi and Nile Ranger settled the game for the Toon.

 

Match Preview

Barnsley Away

Oakwell

Saturday 12th December Kick-off 3pm

21st Championship Game of the season

Eight would Great! Seven wins on the trot and Newcastle goto to Oakwell with a near 7,000 following, amazing.

 

Fans Guide to Barnsley

Extracted from www.footballgroundgudie.com

How to get there:

By Car: Leave the M1 at Junction 37 and take the A628 towards Barnsley. Stay on this road (the ground is well signposted) and you will eventually see the ground on your right. There are a couple of car parks located at the ground, but they are mainly for permit holders only. Inbetween the ground and the MetroDome is a car park for visiting supporters, called Queens Ground, which costs £3 Cars, £6 Mini Buses and £10 Coaches. Otherwise you can try parking at the MetroDome itself or street parking.

By Train: Barnsley railway station is about a ten minute walk away. This station is served by trains running between Sheffield & Leeds. From the train station turn left away from the town centre and head towards the bridge that the dual-carriageway runs over. Go under the bridge and turn left up the slip road and then take the first road on the right and head towards the Metro Dome leisure complex at the top of the hill. Oakwell is now clearly visible. Thanks to Ian Ambler & Bryn Williams for providing the directions.

View:

Away fans are housed in the new North Stand, where the facilities are good. The normal allocation for away supporters is 2,000 tickets although, if demand requires it, then the whole of this stand can be allocated (6,000).

Away Supporter friendly?

This club I found to be particularly friendly from the car park attendant to the programme seller. However, there have been reports of fans getting hassle at Barnsley (especially in the town centre) and stewards acting a little heavy handed.It is advisable to keep colours covered especially around the town centre.

Drinks?

Paul Sammon, a lifelong Tyke, recommends the Outpost on Sheffield Road. The pub is a ten minute walk from the ground. Gary Holding a visiting Blackburn supporter adds; 'A few minutes walk from the away end is the Metro Dome - an all in one leisure centre, which has a bar inside which serves good food and ale'. Drinking in the town centre is generally not recommended, especially near the Bus & Train Stations, although on my last visit I had a hassle free pint (or two) in the Joseph Bramah (Lloyds No.1) Wetherpoons in the centre of town, but I should point out that I wasn't wearing colours. Alcohol is available in the away end, when the whole of the stand is allocated to away supporters. Unfortunately if the stand is split between home and away fans, then the only bar on the concourse sits on the home side.

Again thanks to the wonderful footballgroundguide.com for this extract.

 

Squad:

Newcastle Squad:

Steve Harper, Tim Krul, Nicky Butt (c), Jose Enrique, Steven Taylor, Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith, Tamas Kadar, Nile Ranger, Danny Guthrie, Andy Carroll, Zurab Khizanishvili, Marlon Harewood, Ryan Taylor, Geremi, Danny Simpson, Fabrice Pancrate, Peter Lovenkrands, Jonas Gutierrez, Shola Amebi.

 

Injuries:

Joey Barton (Foot)

 

Referee:

Graham Salisbury (Lancashire)

 

Chris Hughton Comments

"It's wonderful, to be where we are at this moment speaks volumes for this team.

We hope it gives us the confidence and strength to keep getting good results.

We can do all the talking, clean sheets and winning runs but only one thing matters: the end of the season."

 

Tickets

Newcastle's travelling support on Saturday at Oakwell is set to be near to the 7,000 mark, with a further 500 seats now on sale from SJP.

Fun Newcastle Match Facts

Eight would be great!

Live Match Day Twitter

Barnsley Away in the Coca-Cola Championship

On the basis that the mobile signal holds up, on match days I will be twittering direct to my website. If you see a black rectangle then wait a minute, if it stays black then close the tab and re-open the site.

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Mag On Sale

The fourth Mag issue of the season - number 241. Priced @ £2.50 it's available from local news vendors, street sellers on the approaches to SJP and The Back Page on St.Andrews Street. 

"The Mag was born in 1988, just after we’d sold Gazza and the first game was when he actually came back with Spurs and he was pelted with Mars Bars!" Mark Jensen Editor

 

The campaign for fan ownership of Newcastle United.

 

The appealing idea of supporter-ownership has been nurtured by fans at many British clubs since football's commercialisation in the 1990s, borne partly out of the realisation that a few businessmen were making fortunes for themselves out of owning the shares in clubs. British fans became more knowledgeable about the game's finance and structure, and awareness grew of great clubs elsewhere which are not pure businesses, but supporter-owned sporting co-operatives: true clubs. In their passionate, well-produced campaign literature, NUST make predictable, valid references to Real Madrid and Barcelona, owned by member-fans who elect a president, and to the Bundesliga, where all clubs except two are majority owned by supporters.

Visit the NUST Trust Site for more details here