NUFC MAD SAD GROUNDHOPPIN' NEWS!

Posted '1 00pm bells' Tuesday 8th August 2017

Excitin' news reaches The Geordie Times that wor U23s forst game of the season away to 'The P*ss Potters of Stoke' iz to be played at the Ingerland trainin' complex at Burton upon Trent!
St George's Park will host the game this comin' Friday at '7 bells' and aall are welcome and admission iz FREE!
Yoo can bet your bottom dollar the the mad sad groundhoppers will be there in force!
 (6 to 8 of us!)

Watch this space for more of this later this week!

THE TOON 2 THE HELLAS ANGELS OF VERONA 0 *** FRIENDLY

Posted 'high noon bells' Munday 7th August 2017
Updated with pix

On a rain sodden pitch NUFC totally dominated wor Italian opponents and it took us just 4 minutes to break the deadlock when Perez fired home at The Leazes End from a through pass from new boy Manquillo

Wor lead woz doubled just 8 miutes later when  Shelvey knocked the baall doon the left hand side of the pitch and Atsu slid the baall into the net!

After this we shud have had more goals az attack after attack followed, but we couldn't find the net again and went in just 2-0 up at the half time interval

Verona played a bit better in the 2nd period but The Toon were still the much better team and the woodwork woz hit by Richie at The Gallowgate End where we were situated

The game ended 2-0 but it shud have been 5 or 6 to 'us'!

TOON TEAM (that started!) Elliot, Manuillo, Lejeune, Clark, Dummett, Richie, Hayden, Shelvey, Atsu, Perez, Mitrovic
'Super subs'!: Darlow, Gamez, Lascelles, Mbemba, Aarons, Murphy, Merino, ,De Jong, Diame (20 players used!)

Attendance: just under 24,000 includin' 300 or so 'Hellas Angels' who were jammed into the corner section between The Leazes End and East Stand
More pix to follow later!

The Toon pre and post match pub crawl took place here!

From top to bottom
Pic 1 TheBodega, Westgate Road
Pic 2 Grumpy Stumpy on the scrumpy!
His 3rd pint of slimline cider in 30 mins!
Pic 3 The Leazes End Club, Leazes Park Road
Pic 4 Grandson Jamie enjoys hiz coke beer!
Pic 5 Dinzzy 'on the hoy'!
Pic 6 Grumpy Stumpy post match on hiz 16th or 17th slimline cider!

GEORDIE TIMES *** A GROVELLING APOLOGY!

Posted '9 19pm bells' Sunday 6th August 2017

Wor attempt to de a live picture stream of todays game v Verona didnt gan to plan and az we tried to download pix at half time it wouldnt work!
It simply wouldnt download the 1st half pix we had taken!?

Someone said it might be due to the metal and height of the stands and the signals might be blocked because of this! (Both The Milburn and Leazes stands roofs tower 150 feet above the pitch!)

So (for this reason) in the future we will anly de live stream match reports at the end of games when we are away from the groond in the confines of the nearest drinkin dens, where internet receptions are much better!

A full match report (and pix!) will now appear here sometime tomorrow!

THE TOON v VERONA *** LIVE PICTURE STREAM FROM 'HIGH NOON BELLS' ONWARDS!

The Bodega, Westgate Road

GRUMPY STUMPYY 

ON THE SCRUMPY

(HIS 3RD PINT 

IN 3O MINUTES!)

THE LEAZES END CLUB, LEAZES PARK ROAD

Pre match warm up and 1st  half avction photos

FULL TIME

TOON 2 VERONA 0

PEREZ  ATSU

THE TOON v THE HELLAS ANGELS of VERONA

Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 5th August 2017

"KEEP THE FAITH!"
N.U.F.C.

Wor 1st teams 6th and final pre season friendly takes place tomorrow @ St James' Park when we take on Hellas Verona of Italy @ '3 bells'
Wor 'live stream' from wor match v Mainz  in Jawmany last weekend when 'The Geordie Times' published pub photos online az we did them, woz a great success and we got loads of pageviews, so we will try it again tomorrow afternooon!

See 'live stream' photos in 'The Bodega' of Grumpy Stumpy' 'on the scrumpy' and 'Scott of the Antarctic' givin' the lager some 'stick'! ('Scotty' lives in the frozen wilderness of Windy Nook, high up in the moontains of Gatesheed!)
Aalso live stream photos at half and full time at the match

These are exciting times for 'The Geordie Times' and we intend to de the same at away games!

Watch this space tomorrow from 'high noon bells' onwards!

USA AALL THE WAY!

Posted 'high noon bells' Friday 4th August 2017

ONE OF THE GEORDIE TIMES'Z REEEDERS,
SEEN HERE ON THE TOP OF
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN NEW YORK!

When the Geordie Times 'crashed' last December we lost a load of wor reeders from across the 7 seas includin many of those from the USA
Thankfully quite a few have come back and we have had 780 hits from 'across the pond' in the last month, which iz very pleeezin!

Indeed thanx to everyone else for loggin in

TOP 10 LIST
1 UK  125,006
2 USA 36,965
3 Ukraine 19,884
4 Jawmany 17,265
5 Israel 11,373
6 Rushaa 7,906
7 France 5,661
8 Mee old China 4,211
9 The Guinness Republic 2,183
10 Spain 1,716

WOLFSBURG 1 THE TOON 3 FRIENDLY

Posted '6 55pm bells' Wednesday 2nd August 2017

NUFC won their penultimate friendly in Jawmany with a much better display than Saurdays Mainz
Goals from Mitrovic and Richie put us 2-0 up against Wolfsburg at the break

The Wolves of Jawmany pulled 1 back but Atsu sealed wor victory  from a Shelvey through baall

The Geordie Times'z intrepid reporter 'Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer' haz sent us some exclusive pix from the game which woz witnessed by 3,011 spectators inc 250 Toon fans
In all we used 20 players

More pix from Blondie!

THE PIT YAAKERS OF ASHINGTON 2 THE TOON U23s 4

Posted 'high noon bells' Wednesday 2nd August 2017

                               Action from last neet at Woodhorn Lane---The Toon are in blue

Wor U23s were in action again last neet, this time at Woodhorn Lane, Ashington where we won 4-2 with 2 goals from Owen Bailey and 1 apiece from Adam Wilson and Lewis McNall
690 watched on az The Toon took a 4 goal lead before The Pit Yaakers hit back with 2 late goals

Tooneet wor 1st team (consistin of 22 players!) take on Wolfsburg in Jawmany at '4 bells' this afternooon
Wor intrepid reporter 'Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer' haz promised to send us a report and pix viz carrier pigeon and they shud be online by tooneet! (wor pigeon iz deed fast now!)

Carnt gan meesel---see eřxplanation below!

THE 'RONNY GILL' GETS IT WRANG AGAIN!

Posted  '11 40 pm bells' Tuesday 1st August 2017

THE INSIDE BACK PAGE OF TODAYS CHRONICLE
WOLFSBURG MAIN STADIUM
BUT NUFC ARE NOT PLAYIN HERE!

Accordin to wor local 'rag' we are playin in Wolfsburg's main 30,000 capacity stadium tomorrow neet
We ARNT!  We are playin in their resorve, junior and womens groond next door which haz the same capacity az Blyth Spartans!

Unfotunately I wont be there az I would have needed nearly a weeks holiday from work to de both games in Jawmany and would have run oot of holidays before the end of the year (I DID  gan to Mainz last Saturday)
1st team competitve games are my main priority and I will need aall mee hols to de them!

Aa havent missed a competitive 1st team game so far this century and dont intend to miss any next season
(800 + games!)

Last season woz a nightmare az we had more than 20 midweek games in The Championship and aa had to take 5 days unpaid leave az I ran out of holidays, which in effect woz a weeks wages lost!
Luckily for me my gaffers are Toon fans az well and they were ok aboot givin me the extra time off!

With daft kick off times to come at the likes of Swanzee (4 bells on a Sunday)  and Brighton (aalso 4 bells on a  Sunday) it meenz aa have take extra time off graft to de the games!

Az mentioned previousleee its NOT EASY bein a Toon fan!

PIT YAAKERS AND WOLFSBUG UP NEXT!

Posted 1:20pm bells' Tuesday 1st August 2017

Tooneet at 7:30 bells' wor U23s are in action again when they travel to Northern Leegue Ashington aftertheir success in The Whitby Challenge Cup (see below)

Meenwhile wor forst team are in action in Jawmany again where they travel to Wolfsurg tomorrow in a '4 bells' kick off

Unfortunatleee I wont be at eetha coz of work commitments but we have some of wor 'mad-sad groundhoppers' there to send us match reports from both games
Az per usual watch this space!