Stand up and be counted, Milner shows it to the Toon Army

Posted by: shearyadi · August 9, 2008 · Comment

Newcastle United pre-season frendliests have been in plus-minus shows us of what our new season would be. We started with a 4-1 win and end it with another win, with series of defeats and one draw in between.

Mike Ashley was seen wearing the new purple away shirt with Coloccini’s name on the back, with the player himself, a £9.5m switch to St James’s Park, also present in the directors’ box.

United in silver, our …

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Newcastle United 2008-2009 season preview

Posted by: vainzine · August 7, 2008 · Comment

I went to my first home game of the new season last night at St James Park. Newcastle played with in their new away Purple strip against an all in white PSV team.This was very much the typical pre season warm up, with neither team really looking to put in 100%, probably due to a lack of match fitness.

Newcastle started well going 2-0 up within 8 minutes. Steven Taylor scored a brilliant headed goal …

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Slightly better performance earn Newcastle a draw

Posted by: shearyadi · August 6, 2008 · Comment

Believe it or not, we finally can score goals when there’s no Smudge on the field. Although Keegan still insists that he will not be sold to Everton, the reason why he’s not been included in Toon match against PSV Eindhoven last night was because Smith is having a sore ankle.

“We will probably get two or three more players in and settle down with a quality squad.” Keegan added, “Alan is very popular and …

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Newcastle vs PSV Eindhoven friendly match preview

Posted by: heednhands · August 5, 2008 · Comment

Harper or Krul? I really like Krul, I’ve seen a couple of times for the reserves and he did well in Scotland, yet he hasn’t been without criticism in pre-season and a rumour was doing the rounds that NUFC might sell him. I really hope Krul steps up to the plate this season It’ll be great to have a goalie who can kick the ball. I like Harper but with him we’ll never be control …

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