By Tyne-Talk
February 8 2010

Newcastle United travel to Pride Park tomorrow night where 18th place Derby County host the leaders; Both sides go into the game having won three, drawn two and lost one in their last six competitive games. Whilst Derby managed a draw at the weekend, Newcastle thrashed Cardiff City by five goals to one and will be looking to increase their lead over title rivals West Brom and Nottingham Forest.

Chris Hughton will recall Alan Smith (thigh) to the side after he failed to be fit for the team that faced Cardiff on Friday night. Nicky Butt remains sidelined with a thigh problem and Fabricio Coloccini is unlikely to be available due to a hamstring injury. Long term injuries to Jose Enrique (hamstring) and Steven Taylor (medial ligament strain) mean they will both be absent and whilst Joey Barton is due to return to training this week he is unavailable for tomorrow night.

Derby who will be looking to extend the gap between them and the drop zone are without Dean Lealock (knee) and Lee Hendrie (hamstring), however they could welcome David Martin to make his debut should his emergency loan signing be completed in time. New signing Javan Vidal will also be pushing for his debut. Lee Croft could play some part after returning to training this week having recovered from a hamstring injury.

Fact: Newcastle will be looking for their first win over Derby County in nearly 8 years.

Fact: Derby have failed to score in 12 league games this season.

Match Preview/Stats/Thread: Derby County v Newcastle Utd

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08/02/2010 20:28

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tunyc
08/02/2010 21:13

Grudge match this one...for us supporters, who remember our atrocious displays vs. Derby in the PL a couple seasons back.

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faheemusa
09/02/2010 03:21

tunyc you're right, i remember us winning five on the trot earlier this season and thinking, i bet we draw vs. derby. i really do hate them from their last year in the epl.

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annie
09/02/2010 12:33

Pay back time, let's thrash em.

We must not slip with Forrest and W.B.A. snapping at our heels.

C'mon lads put a shift in.

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senyabtoon
09/02/2010 12:59

It is about time we put them in there place as we have not done well against what is and has been a lesser side on the last three occasions we have played them time to set the record straight i think. Howay the lads

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rogeybear
09/02/2010 13:11

Is it on anywhere? Radio TV?

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annie
09/02/2010 15:09

Not on tv or radio 5 or radio 5 live extra

Ustream is usually reliable.

Please post link anyone who finds a good stream.

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wasim4nufc
09/02/2010 19:25

TEAMS

DCFC: Stephen Bywater, Jay McEveley, Paul Green, Robbie Savage (c), Rob Hulse, Kris Commons, Shaun Barker, Stephen Pearson, Jake Buxton, Michael Tonge, Nicky Hunt
Subs: Gary Teale, Chris Porter, Saul Deeney, Dean Moxey, David Martin, Russell Anderson, Javan Vidal

NUFC: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Fitz Hall, Mike Williamson, Patrick van Aanholt, Wayne Routledge, Kevin Nolan (c), Danny Guthrie, Jonas Gutierrez, Andy Carroll, Leon Best
Subs: Tim Krul, Tamas Kadar, Fabrice Pancrate, Peter Lovenkrands, Shola Ameobi, Ryan Donaldson, Alan Smith

Referee: Anthony Taylor



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MissC
09/02/2010 19:25

TEAM LINE UPS HERE

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MissC
09/02/2010 19:28

Wasim lol don't even give me time to get a link up

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annie
09/02/2010 19:29

Newcastle:

Harper, Simpson, Williamson, Hall, Van Aanholt
Routledge, Nolan, Guthrie, Gutierrez
Carroll, Best

Subs: Krul, Lovenkrandts, Smith, Pancrate, Ameobi, Kadar, Donaldson


Derby:

Bywater, Hunt, Barker, Buxton, McEverley, Green, Savage, Pearson, Tonge, Hulse
Commons

Subs: Deeney, Teale, Porter, Moxey, Martin, Anderson, Vidal

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senyabtoon
09/02/2010 19:29

like @#$%& off a shovel that lad

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annie
09/02/2010 19:31

I probably started typing the same time as you wasim, I'm just not very fast.

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waffles
09/02/2010 19:39

Identical starting XI as Friday night. Playing it safe with Smith and Colocinni's injuries is the right move. Having depth is a luxury we haven't had in the last few years.

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MissC
09/02/2010 20:05

Bedner scored for West Brom making them 1-0

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TOONTILLIDIE
09/02/2010 20:20

Good starting 11 and pleased we are playing an attacking team, but would have prefered to see Lovernkrands get a start

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annie
09/02/2010 20:22

Coventry 1 Forest 0

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senyabtoon
09/02/2010 20:23

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annie
09/02/2010 20:27

Damn and Blast

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CNDShearerFan16
09/02/2010 20:27

Well maybe that'll wake the lads up

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TOONTILLIDIE
09/02/2010 20:32

FFS we are losing

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dexter_22
09/02/2010 20:33

based on the radio dudes we are sh!te....

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senyabtoon
09/02/2010 20:40

is this really a unchanged side ? and what the hell is it with us and derby we just can not beat the stinking rams

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tunyc
09/02/2010 20:40

From what I read, once again dominating possession...and nothing to show for it.

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wasim4nufc
09/02/2010 20:41

Its not great to be losing at half time but we can still come back in the second half. Lovenkrands for Best might be a good move but unfortunately I have no idea whose playing well or not, so lets hope we score early in the second half and then keep the changes for later. Plus its the same team which thrashed Cardfiff so perhaps this will be a wake up call for them as they could have got complacent. Howay the lads! Lets have a good second half now. .



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lostmekeys
09/02/2010 20:48

what does lovenkrands need to do to get a start away from st james?

assault someone in town?

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senyabtoon
09/02/2010 21:04

ffs typical bloody peno long way back now

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annie
09/02/2010 21:04

FFS

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CNDShearerFan16
09/02/2010 21:05

What's with Linesmen calling penalties lately?

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CNDShearerFan16
09/02/2010 21:09

Why can we not beat Derby County? I don't get it.

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annie
09/02/2010 21:10

3-0

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senyabtoon
09/02/2010 21:10

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TOONTILLIDIE
09/02/2010 21:14

FFS sake what is going on, other than the Cardiff game we have been sh@t

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tunyc
09/02/2010 21:22

Officially in a dog fight for promotion.

No more "when we go up," please.

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lostmekeys
09/02/2010 21:26

who was it tunyc? who did that? shoot the get!

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lostmekeys
09/02/2010 21:27

dare not mention that forest are losing... mind, they have probably scored an equaliser while i type, havent they?

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i!
09/02/2010 21:29

Bollocks.


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tunyc
09/02/2010 21:36

Gonna do my best not to think about football for a couple days...FFS this is an awful result...

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lostmekeys
09/02/2010 21:43

we can take a hit mate. one defeat is bad news, but not the end of the world. regroup for saturday, get it out of our system and move on.
maybe losing after so long will be more useful than the load of draws we got lately, in terms of provoking a reaction from the team and the manager. three draws is 6 points dropped, lose once and come back fighting and maybe we'll win a couple again, eh?

could be worse, we could be cardiff

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i!
09/02/2010 21:53

Hopefully this will be a MASSIVE kick up the @#$%&.


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annie
10/02/2010 13:07

Quote:

tunyc
Officially in a dog fight for promotion.
No more "when we go up," please.

Unfortunately tunyc is right, we've just squandered a good lead and if we continue in the same way we'll be lucky to make the play offs.

Optimism won't work it's time to be realistic.

C'mon Newcastle, more performances like last Friday please.

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tunyc
10/02/2010 14:51

Well we haven't been on good form for some weeks now (excepting the Cardiff game) so hopefully this will cap it and motivate the lads enough to press hard IN EVERY ONE OF OUR REMAINING 17 GAMES!!!

HOWAY THE LADS!!!

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senyabtoon
10/02/2010 20:59

To be honest we aint played that well all season had loads of scrappy wins some real hard fought draws and only 2 good all round performances i can think off Ipswich and Cardiff we have gotta dig deep now and go on another good run if we can go say 5 unbeaten and win 3 of em be interesting to see how the tables looks then

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TOONTILLIDIE
11/02/2010 20:07

Take away 3 performances this year we have been crap, even though it is always cr@p dropping points this may be the best thing for us, we were drawing far to many games and gives us the kick up the @rse that was needed, the pressure is on the tean now to make sure we get back and try to get a point lead again

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