FA CUP DRAW----TANDOORI CHICKENS @ ST JAMES' PARK!

Posted '9:50 am bells' Monday 5th December 2011

"ST JAMES PARK SINCE 1880---AND AALWAYS WILL BE!"
(PHOTO FROM OOTSIDE 'THE BLACK BULL' ON SATURDAY)

The FA CUP thord roond draw was made yesterday afternoon (eventually!---afta 20 minutes of advorts!) and The Toon have been drawn at home for the forst time in FIVE YEARS to The Tandoori Chickens of Blackborn.

SOMEWHERE IN BLACKBORN 
COMIN' TO ST JAMES' PARK SOON!

It would be envisaged that we will NOT be on live telly (az we are not playin' a non league team for the telly vultures to hover!) and a '3 bells' Saturday kick off on the 7th of January iz aalmost certain!

The full draw iz az follows!

smoggies v shrewsbury
forest v leicester
the blue moons v the cockney reds of salford
daggers v waalsaall or millwaall
craa'ley v the big bristols
donny v notts coonty
bristol rovers v villa
spors v cheltenham
sheff wed v west 'aam
mk dons v qpr
hull v the tractor boys of ipswich
coventry v soothampton
brighton v wrexham
the micheal jackson jivvers v charlton
brum v bent nose mccarthy wanderers
the canary crumbles v bornley
the arse v leeds
derby coonty v palace
fleetwood/yeovil v blackpool
swindon v the blue wigs
barnsley v the swan lakers
chelmsford/macclesfield v 'ne where near bolton', wanderers
THE TOON v the tandoori chickens of blackborn
the toffee noses v tamworth
sheff u v saalsbury/grimsby toon
the liverbirds v soothend/oldham
the gills v the pulis p*ss pots of stoke
kings road oap's v pompey
watford v bradford
the posh v the smb's
west brom v cardiff
the biscuit men of readin' v stevenage

THE TOON 0 THE KINGS ROAD O.A.P.'s 3

Updated '8:00 am bells' Monday 4th December 2011

"GARY SPEED---WE WILL REMEMBER HIM!"

OK!---OK!---OK!---Somebody said to me that 'The Geordie Times' was 'temptin fate' by sayin that we had went 273 days withoot defeat at home---anly to lose 3-0 to Chelsea today!
At the end of the day we were  gannih lose at some point coz yih cannit gan on forever withoot losin'!---can yi????

In an emotional and incident packed game we were unfortunate to gan behind just before the break when Drogba heeded past Tim Krul from a disputed throw in.
As orly as the 4th minute, Demba Ba was clean through at The Gallowgate End but was hacked doon by Chelsea's David Luiz, but the ref anly showed a yellow card instead of red!
Then a penalty to the visitors in the 13th minute, taken by Lampard was supurbly saved by Krul who tipped the shot onto the post and it rebounded oot!

The 2nd half was to and fro and we hit the woodwork three times but the baall just wouldn't gan in and then in the final minutes two more goals from Chelsea sealed the game for them and wor unbeaten home run stetchin' back to March was ower!

Worse news was to follow when it was conformed that Steven Taylor cud be oot for the rest of the season when he ruptured his achilles tendon in the last few minutes of the game! 
Attendance: 52,305 (best of season) (2,800 'Pensioners' in The Leazes End)

Double Disaster for Tyneside

THE HEED  1  TAWWORTH  2

Gatesheed aalso went doon less than 2 hours after wor game finished when they lost 2-1 to Tamworth @ The International Stadium in the FA Cup 2nd roond in front of just ower 1,100 fans.

'Geordie Times' 100 pub crawl report to follow later!

Saturday 3rd December 2011

    AT THE END OF THE DAY!
0  DAYS SINCE THE TOON LAST LOST A GAME

@ ST JAMES' PARK!

"ST JAMES' PARK SINCE 1880---AND AALWAYS WILL BE!"
(PHOTO FROM 1996)

THE TOON v THE KINGS ROAD O.A.P's

Posted '9:15 am bells' Saturday 3rd December 2011

For the second Saturday home game in a row we will kick off @ 12:45 bells for the convenience of live telly against 'The Pensioners of Chelsea'.
The Tribute to Gary Speed has been postponed by the request of his wife Louise so that she can be present when the tribute takes place.

This is because she is at Elland Road today for their tribute to Gary and she is very touched and has expressed a desire to be present at ours.
The tribute will now take place in wor forthcomin' home game against Welsh side Swansea City which seems very appropriate.

A minutes applause will still take place and fans are asked to bring their black 'n' white scarves alang in support of Gary.

On the otha side of the Tyne Bridge @ '3 bells' 'The Heed Army' take on Tamworth in the 2nd roond of the FA Cup and we wish them well in their quest for a place in the 3rd roond draw, which of course will include NUFC!

It's just a pity that they couldn't have moved the kick off time or date back so that more fans could have been present. (Az wor game will finish at approx '2:40 bells', this gives anyone intendin' to de both games anly 20 minutes to get from groond to groond----a virtually impossible task, unless! yoo have a Ferrari!)

'The Geordie Times 100 pub crawl challenge' continues @ '11;00 bells @ Shearers Bar underneath The Gallowgate End and then we move on to The Black Bull on the corner of Barrack Road just ower from The Leazes End if anybody Fancy's joinin' us?

Match reports of both above games to follow much later!

GARY SPEED REMEMBERED

Posted '8:00 pm bells' Friday 2nd December 2011

Gary was part of the forst ever NUFC team to win a derby match @ 'The S.O.S.' on Sunday 24th February 2002, when we beat the SMB's 1-0

The picture shows Gary, on the left, joinin' in the   celebrations just after the 64th minute winnin' goal  which was heeded into the top corner of the net by a 'shirtless' Nicos Dabizas, in front of the delirious 3,000 Toon fans who were behind the goal!


"WE WILL REMEMBER HIM!"

MORE LIVE TELLY GAMES ANNOONCED!

Posted '2:10 pm bells' Friday 2nd December 2011

Two more Toon games have been changed for the 'couch potato brigade'---namely!--wor home game against Villa will nuw take place on Sunday 5th February 2012 with a '1:30 bells' kick off and iz live on 'Sky'

Six days later on Saturday the 11th, wor away game at Spurs haz a time change and will nuw kick off @ '5:30 bells' for live transmission on 'ESPN'

Meeenwhile!-----the away games at both Norwich and Bolton are both sold oot!

GARY SPEED---A SHOW OF SUPPORT!

Posted '10:15 am bells' Friday 2nd December 2011

"WEAR YOUR SCARF FOR GARY!"

Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones will sing the hymn 'Bread of Heaven' before the match with Chelsea tomorrow and fans are asked to wear their black 'n' white scarves in a show of support.

Fans in The East Stand will hold up black 'n' white cards depictin' the number '11' which of course was Gary's squad number when he played for us.
This will be followed by a minutes applause.
The game is a complete selloot and 'The Pensioners of Chelsea' will have the backin' of 2,800 fans in Level 7 of The Leazes End.

"R.I.P. GARY!"

SEBASTIAN SPEAKS!

Posted '6:00 pm bells' Thorsday 1st December 2011

Olympic legend Lord Sebastian Coe was on Tyneside yesterday promotin' the Olympic football tournament, of which NINE games will be played @ 'The Cathedral on the Hill' and when asked aboot the 'attempted' name change of the groond, he replied in defiant torms!
"It is St James' Park for the Olympics, and, if I'm being honest, as a football fan, IT WILL ALWAYS BE ST JAMES' PARK for as long as I am watching football!"






Well said Seb!---yiv just been added to mee Chris'mis card list! >>>

'BROKEN NOSE BRUCE' GETS THE BULLET!

Posted '8;30 pm bells' Wednesday 30th November 2011

"HELP!---AM  I  A SAD mackem B*****D!???
---OR!---A FAT GEORDIE b*****d!????
---OR!---BOTH!?????"

Poor old 'Broken Nose Bruce'!----The Toon fans caall him a 'SAD mackem B*****D!---the mackems caall him a FAT GEORDIE b*****d!----he cannit win!--can he?----He then gans on to say--
"I can't help where I was born!" (Corbridge-on Tyne, before movin' to Waallsend-on-Tyne) implyin' that he is ashamed of his Tyneside upbringin'---and then the SAD mackem B*****DS  F*****' SACK HIM!---Poor old 'Broken Nose Bruce'!!!

GARY SPEED---FANS TRIBUTE PLANNED

Posted '1:25 pm bells' Wednesday 30th November 2011

The front page of todays 'Ronny-Gill'
Quote: "Gary Speed will be remembered with stirring tributes before Newcastle United's home match this weekend.
A rendition of the moving Welsh hymn 'Bread of Heaven' will be sung before Saturday's game against Chelsea, followed by a minutes applause from fans.
A special edition of the match programme will include memories of the player who served the Magpies for six years.
Tributes have continued to pour in for the 42 year old who was found dead on Sunday"

TRIBUTES ARE LEFT @ THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO ST JAMES' PARK