Newcastle United second strings found the net six times just before the senior got six goals on their net last Saturday. United Juniors kept up their 100% start to the New Year with second win over Barnsley in an emphatic 6-0 wins.

United goals all came in the first-half through James Marwood, Frank Wiafe Danquah and Jonny Godsmark who grabbed two goals a piece to make the double over the bottom-placed Tykes this season.

United reserve winger Marwood starting the festive after just 24 seconds. He converted Godsmark’s perfect delivery inside the area from close range. Godsmark got a goal of his own in fourth minutes with a shot from a narrow angle. He took the advantage of Shane Ferguson’s deflected shot that had fallen to his feet.

On the 17th minutes, Jonny got his second as his strike found its way into the net via Barnsley keeper Danny Free.

United’s Dutch starlet, Danquah lashed home Toon number fourth of the day from 18 yards. Later on, Jonny Godsmark cut play through the Tykes defence and teed the ball up to Marwood for a fantastic chipped finish for the fifth. Danquah ended the first-half action with his second.

Next Saturday, Magpies junior will fly to Forest’s nest. Kick-Off 1PM.

NUFC:
Dan Mullen, Alex Paterson, Darren Lough, James Taylor, Callum Morris, Patrick McLaughlin (Stewart Bath 77m), James Marwood, Shane Ferguson (Dan Neary 66m), Frank Wiafe Danquah, Alex Francis, Jonny Godsmark (Campbell Bell 77)
Subs n/u: Michael McCrudden, Kieran Wrightson

January in the north east of England can throw up vicious weather and that’s what we had last night. The wind was blowing a paddy and it pissed down in the last ten minutes.

The pitch has a rugby team and a non-league football team playing games on it together with the reserves. The pitch is no better than a bog, well maybe slightly better because the mackems coped.

Therefore two teams tried to play against each other and they both had to battle against the conditions.

I think this was the starting formation? We started okay for ten minutes. Carr put in a cross from a free kick that Carroll made a mess of.

Godsmark had the beating of his man and hoyed in a smashing cross that Carroll got to and a goal line scramble resulted.

Then it turned ugly. I was behind the goal - the only place the crowd can stand now. NUFC attacked our end into the face of the wind.

The ball was down the other end a massive percentage of the time. During this time I was trying to figure out the positions and tactics.

This was really difficult to do. Edgar was in midfield about three meters in front of the rookie centre backs. LuaLua was behind Carroll, we were a mess.

Morris, Francis and Lough are not up to it. Doninger is not up to it. Edgar is not a midfield player. LuaLua needs instruction and coaching. Godsmark is a box player on the wing. The new lad didn’t get a kick.

While I was figuring this out with my black n white specs on I failed to realise that the mackems were playing us off the park. They scored a well grafted goal; hit a post; had a header against a post; flashed crosses across the box; had pot shots.

There was a change Baheng went up front with LuaLua playing wide, a more 442 look was the result.

Second half we had the wind at our back I thought it would be more even – it wasn’t, second half we were given a football lesson.

The mackems were really good considering the conditions. They scored a lovely worked goal and could/should have scored several more.

We are as bad at reserve team level at this moment in time as I can ever remember. Playing at Kingston Park is stupid.

The lack of importance placed on reserve team football has resulted in a meltdown shambles and there are no players developing at NUFC. Carroll is a good target man, I’ll watch his raw boned progress with interest.

Newcastle latest signing Wesley Ngo Baheng who is going straight into a derby match with United reserves ended up with unhappy result.

In a match return for Stephen Carr who is just recover from his injury and playing through the 90 minutes, and a return to reserve team action for Andy Carroll following his loan spell at Preston, United second string having their own nightmare by losing 1-3 tonight against the macKems reserves at Kingston Park.

Carroll has two good opportunities go begging from Carr’s deep delivery and the 22nd minute, Jonny Godsmark supplies at the far post.

The visitors took the lead two minutes later through former Arsenal’s youngster Anthony Stokes after United Callum Morris had given away possession just inside the area. Stokes doubled the visitors advantage just after the hour, before substitute Jamie Chandler cracked a low strike past Forster with just seven minutes left on the clock.

The home team got one goal back through an own goal by Peter Hartley after the Black Cats goalkeeper Carson unable to handle Carr’s whipped set-piece.

Newcastle United Reserves:
Fraser Forster, Stephen Carr, Darren Lough, David Edgar, Callum Morris, Alex Francis, Wesley Ngo Baheng (James Marwood, 68m), Mark Doninger (Frank Wiafe Danquah, 90m), Andy Carroll, Kazenga LuaLua, Jonny Godsmark (Ryan Donaldson, 84m)
Subs not used: Alex Patterson, Patrick McLaughlin

Sunderland Reserves:
Trevor Carson, Robbie Weir (Jamie Chandler, 46m), Ian Harte, Greg Halford, Russell Anderson, Peter Hartley (Gavin Donoghue, 75m), Jake Richardson (David Dowson, 46m), Liam Miller, Anthony Stokes, David Connolly, Ross Wallace
Subs not used: Jamie Chandler, Jordan Henderson

Referee: Craig Pawson
Attendance: 971