Swansea v Newcastle

February 13, 2010

Final Score : 1 – 1

An 87th minute equaliser from Andy Caroll sees Newcastle go back to the top of the Championship.  Another poor performance with Swansea dominating much of the game and certainly having the vast majority of possession.  Newcastle had another lucky escape at South Wales escaping home with a point.  To be honest we should be thoroughly embarrassed with the draw and deserved to get beat.  The players appeared to lack enthusiasm, lack drive and certainly a few questions needs to be asked.  We were outplayed and looked tactically inept.

Chris Houghton and the feckless board at St. James better have a long hard look – albeit we’ve had a long unbeaten run prior to last weeks mauling at Derby, save for the home performance against Cardiff we’ve looked pretty poor in recent times.  I dread to think how we’ll fare next season in the hopeful event that we get promoted back to the Premiership.  Swap Derby or Swansea for Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal and what chance have we got, but what is more worrying, is swap these teams for the Wigans, Boltons, West Hams or Wolves who we may be fighting against for survival – that is a bigger worry as at the minute I seriously don’t think we would cut the mustard.

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Newcastle United manager Chris Hughton has maade three changes to the team that got thumped for free against  Derby County during the week.  This will be a difficult away trip to Swansea City today.  A bit surprising that Mike Williamson is not in the starting line up.  Jonas Gutierrez and Leon Best are also not starting, and Fabricio Coloccini, Alan Smith and Peter Lovenkrands all start.

Team News :

NUFC: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Fitz Hall, Fabricio Coloccini, Patrick van Aanholt, Danny Guthrie, Alan Smith (c), Kevin Nolan, Wayne Routledge, Andy Carroll, Peter Lovenkrands

Subs: Mike Williamson, Ryan Taylor, Leon Best, Fabrice Pancrate, Tamas Kadar, Tim Krul, Nile Ranger

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2 Responses to “Swansea v Newcastle”

  1. Robert Trent said:

    Feb 13, 10 at 6:13 pm

    Bloody poor show. We need to give ourselves a damn good shake. From what was a decent lead at the top of the table, we now let this slip. Saving grace that the Baggies and Nottingham Forest have dropped a couple of points recently, but on the whole these teams are in better form than us.

  2. Michael Day said:

    Feb 13, 10 at 6:18 pm

    At least Forest got beat today by Doncaster – the draw is looking like a valuable point now!

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