By Tyne-Talk
March 16 2010

Newcastle United host Scunthorpe United tomorrow night in the evening's only Championship game. Newcastle play on the back of two draws and four wins in their last six games, whilst Scunthorpe travel on the back of three defeats, two draws and one win in their last six.

Chris Hughton will be hoping that Fabricio Coloccini will have recovered from a dead leg in time for kick off tomorrow evening, but will make a late decision on the defender. Both Wayne Routledge (calf) and Jose Enrique are pushing for a starting place having recovered from injuries, whilst Danny Simpson is also set to return having recovered from a knock at the weekend.

Alan Smith remains sidelined with an ankle injury as does Steven Taylor (knee), Shola Ameobi (hamstring) and Joey Barton who continues to build his strength in the reserve team.

Scunthorpe could be without Gary Hooper, their leading goal scorer who is suffering with a groin injury, whilst Captain Cliff Bryne begins a five match ban having received his 3^rd red card of the season.

Rob Jones and Andrew Wright who both started on the bench at the weekend will be pushing for a start and midfielder Michael O'Connor is available having served a three match ban.

Scunthorpe's only long term absentee is Ian Morris who has a knee injury.

Newcastle were defeated by Scunthorpe at the beginning of the season in the corresponding fixture but have won their last five home games (a 6^th would be their longest consecutive run since 2004) and are unbeaten in their last six games.

Fact: Newcastle have lost just 1 of their last 22 league games.

Fact: Scunthorpe are just 1 of 3 teams who could still complete the doubt over Newcastle this season.

Match Preview/Stats/Thread: Newcastle Utd v Scunthorpe Utd

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16/03/2010 18:58

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Biffins Bridge
16/03/2010 19:47

Before our match I will be keeping an eye on the matches tonight.

Barnsley v Forest and Swansea v West Brom. Fingers crossed for the home teams. Barnsley are no mugs at home and Forest have lost their way a little. They have also a few players out tonight.

Swansea have the best defence and West Brom are the top scorers.

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lostmekeys
16/03/2010 20:11

didnt take barnsely long. one up after 16min

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Biffins Bridge
16/03/2010 21:45

Forest lost 2-1, but West Brom won 2-0, another f00king penalty for them. They get more than their fair share.

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Biffins Bridge
16/03/2010 22:17

Obviously want to go up as Champions but this, again, is a huge result.

Just doing a bit of working out,

We dont catch up with our game in hand on Forest until 13th April so thats almost like a back up against them. Big If but if we take full points from our next three then beat Forest at home that will put us 15 clear of them. Thats is if they take full points from their next two games but they are both at home.

That would leave Forest with 6 games left so obviously a maximum of 18 points.

I can almost taste the Premier

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waffles
17/03/2010 02:26

Who said Forest was due for a bad run a few weeks back? Was it TTID, LMK, or Tunyc? I hate admitting that any of those three are right, but kudos to whoever called it.

Forest has three tough games left: At SJP, hosting Cardiff, at Blackpool. With 18 points from the other six and 4 points out of those 3 fixtures, they'd finish with 86 points.

If Forest drop any points at Bristol (distinct possibility), we could potentially lock up promotion on March 29th.

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dexter_22
17/03/2010 18:48

Any links to the game lads?

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 18:57

What's happening out there?

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 19:03

I've got a link from BBC Newcastle: [news.bbc.co.uk]

click the "Listen live" on the right side.

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wasim4nufc
17/03/2010 19:14

TEAMS

NUFC: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Fitz Hall, Fabricio Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Wayne Routledge, Kevin Nolan (c), Danny Guthrie, Jonas Gutierrez, Andy Carroll, Peter Lovenkrands
Subs: Tim Krul, Ryan Taylor, Leon Best, Fabrice Pancrate, Nicky Butt, Tamas Kadar, Nile Ranger

SUFC: Joe Murphy, Rob Jones (c), Michael Raynes, Andrew Wright, Marcus Williams, Grant McCann, Paul Hayes, Michael O'Connor, Josh Wright, Jonathan Forte, Garry Thompson
Subs: Josh Lillis, Kenny Milne, Sam Togwell, Matt Sparrow, Martyn Woolford, Donal McDermott, Niall Canavan

Referee: Phil Crossley

Great to see Colo, Enrique and Routledge starting while I look forward to hearing how Guthrie plays in the centre again. Howay the lads!



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annie
17/03/2010 19:29

2-0 to us

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annie
17/03/2010 19:34

If anyone finds a link, let us know about it please.

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thecorner
17/03/2010 19:50

BBC thread not available in Manchester just been chucked out anybody got anymore please.

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annie
17/03/2010 19:51

I'm still looking, ustream usually works but can't get it yet.

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 19:51

[www.realradionortheast.co.uk]

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 19:53

This one is working for me:

[www.ustream.tv]

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annie
17/03/2010 19:54

Thank you





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010:03:17:19:55:36 by annie.

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 19:55

www.ustream.tv/newcastle-utd-verses-scunthorpe

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wasim4nufc
17/03/2010 19:57

thanks for the links. Lovenkrands just had a good shot after a full length of the field move.



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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 19:59

Carroll header!

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wasim4nufc
17/03/2010 19:59

Carroll 1-0!



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annie
17/03/2010 19:59

Carroll 1-0

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lostmekeys
17/03/2010 19:59

carroll again, eh? fantastic form from the lad

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 20:00

1-0

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wasim4nufc
17/03/2010 20:01

Nolan almost grabbed a second. Disallowed though!



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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 20:01

Nolan scores, but called offside.

Love this link, you can hear the guy cheering in his living room.

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annie
17/03/2010 20:01

Disallowed goal Nolan - doubtful offside

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 20:06

Sounds like Lovenkrands is scaring the hell out of the goal. Now to just get one in!

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annie
17/03/2010 20:11

Lovehandles 2-0

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 20:15

He was looking to score for sometime now. Good for him. He's been solid for us all season and got us through a time when no one else was scoring.

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annie
17/03/2010 20:19

Poor Scunthorpe, it sounds like they are being humiliated.

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 20:20

Enjoy it now, Annie, could be us next season...

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annie
17/03/2010 20:23

Too true. lol

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annie
17/03/2010 21:04

Carroll 3-0

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MissC
17/03/2010 21:07

Carroll & Guthrie what a team

(How annoying is it that when something happens my computer throws a tantrum!)

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senyabtoon
17/03/2010 21:07

fans finally singing for the manager

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MissC
17/03/2010 21:09

I'm not sure about the commentary......anyone else getting some guy randomly singing lol

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annie
17/03/2010 21:14

Yeah! He's quite funy when someone gets a goal.

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MissC
17/03/2010 21:23

Best for Carroll.

No hatrick today then!

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 21:40

C'mon, let's keep it clean...

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ColoradoMagpie
17/03/2010 21:43

Full time! Nice performance, could have--possibly should have--scored more. We needed the win to stay up on w brom.

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annie
17/03/2010 21:43

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Biffins Bridge
17/03/2010 23:29

Just in from the match. Scunny are prob the worst team I've seen this season at SJP but we didnt sit back too much.

First half we really passed the ball well and it could have been 6 or 7.

Harper had next to nothing to do.

Simpson did a couple of daft mistakes late on but was canny. Colo and Jose business as usual and 'one size' was huge and won everything that came his way in the air.

Jonas was full of running and Im unsure if his goal was offside. Nolan was full of running and Routledge was again class setting Loven's goal up.
Wasim you would not have been disappointed, Guthrie was again class, driving us forward. He really has taken his chance to shine in the middle.

Loven was again making those runs that create so much space for others and his finish was top draw. He went off injured so hope its not long term.
Carroll was an absolute beast and never stopped running. His header was a bullet from a fair distance out and his second was a cheeky chip.

Top three players were 3/Rout 2/Guthrie 1/Carroll.

Carroll has really impressed me lately and not just for his goals. He has taken his chance with both hands and since being locked up looks like he has knuckled down. Dont want too much pressure on the lad but he could be massive for us in the Premier next season IF we get promoted. He could give CB's in the premier a hard time and his heading ability is top draw at both attacking and defending.

Professional performance. Clever subs from Hughton as well with protecting Jose and Carroll.
Well done lads.

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waffles
18/03/2010 01:20

Quote:

Biffins Bridge
Loven was again making those runs that create so much space for others and his finish was top draw. He went off injured so hope its not long term.

Some lads on another site were saying that Lovenkrands was limping after the Boro game as well. I think he's been playing with a knock for a while now, but it's crunch time for our promotion campaign as well as his World Cup chances.

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TOONTILLIDIE
18/03/2010 08:23

If people have got slight niggles then we can rest them Forest are going to drop points, and having them fully fit for the Forest game is important. Another great game and great to know we out classed Scunny.

Well done to the lads we are nearly there

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