Third away trip in a row.Venue: City Ground, Nottingham Date: Tuesday, Sept 20th, 2011 Kick-off: 7:45pm Referee: Lee Mason
Hello, good evening and welcome to NUFC Blog’s match banter feature for this evening’s League Cup encounter with Nottingham Forest at their place.
Forest have been struggling of late under former England manager and Dutch accent specialist, Steve “Wally with the brolly” McClaren, with the former double European cup winners languishing in the bottom three of the Championship table. However, before we get arrogant, it should not be forgotten that League One relegation candidates, Scunthorpe, really gave we Magpies a run for our money in the last round of this competition, with only an extra time goal separating the the sides in what was a very close contest. Don’t forget that for a more in depth look at the upcoming game, you can always check out Jimbob’s excellent match preview.
Santon: latest target?Alan Pardew remains determined to bring in “two or three” players before the transfer window closes with an Inter Milan fullback being the latest alleged target.
It’s going to be a tense few days as the transfer window heads to a close and, personally, I’ll be glad when it does. At least we’ll know where we stand. It’s the continual hope that’s the killer!
So where do we stand at the moment?
Last week, Alan Pardew said that he hopes to add two or three players to the squad before the transfer window closes, with the obvious requirements being a new left-back and a striker. And, speaking yesterday, Pardew stands by his aims. Pardew said:
“There will only be a sense of relief when the window closes if we get these two players in, otherwise I will be disappointed
“We’ve had a great start and I think the players have proved they are committed to Newcastle.
“The club is everything. It’s not about the owner, the manager, the players, it’s about the club and the fans.(more…)
You have to be in it to win it!Don’t miss this year’s NUFC Blog Score Prediction Competition, with big cash prizes and more up for grabs!
In the Prediction League, there will be TWO chances a season to win:
First Prize: £100
Second Prize: £50
Third Prize: £25
Also, if we managed to get them designed and made on time, we will also be offering splendid NUFC Blog T-shirts to the top three prizewiners.
How it works
There will be two ‘leagues’ a season with one running from August until December and one running from January until May and there will be prizes for those that come first, second and third at the end of each league.
Each week you have to predict the scores in the Saturday, Sunday & Monday Premier League games and you will get 3 points if you get the right result and exact score, and you will get 1 point if you just predict the right result (ie. home win, draw, away win). (more…)
Win real money!NUFC Blog’s score prediction competition is back with a vengeance. Cash prizes on offer to aspiring pundits who can successfully predict Premier League scores.
All you have to do to enter is be a signed up member of this ‘blog and cash prizes are available:
First Place: £100
Second Place: £50
Third Place: £25
The first week’s games are already up there, so you can start making predictions now if you like, although you might want to wait until we’ve bought an expensive striker before you predict Newcastle United’s score against Arsenal for the first game!
Scores can be made and changed up until midday on the Saturday before the games take place.
Can’t you just taste the excitement? No? Well please yourselves, but have a crack at it anyway.
Are you Mark Lawrensen? (If so, beat yourself up with a brick).
3rd kitNewcastle United’s third strip for the 2011-2012 season is quite stylish in my opinion.
I think the Toon’s third kit looks quite nice (left, modelled by Shola), but then again I’m a fan of black (and black is the new black, as they say).
It’s much nicer than the second kit in my opinion.
I will admit that fashion isn’t my bag though. I’ve been a jeans and t-shirt (plain t-shirts, obviously) man for most of my life and that’s unlikely to change. I will admit to brief periods of the New Romantic and Miami Vice looks in the early 80’s and of course the 70’s were just ludicrous, but I’ve always gravitated back to a pair of jeans and a plain t-shirt.
Although I do have a fondness for hats.
Just a bit of ‘blog maintenance news too. We will be offline for about 20 minutes at some point between 10PM and midnight tonight to replace a dodgy memory stick that’s caused a few problems over the last few days. I’m also taking this opportunity to add some more memory into the box, so the ‘blog should be even faster in future.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
I hope you all have a great weekend. It’s looking like barbecue weather down here in sunny Somerset.
