Barclays Premiership - Match 4
 

Season 2008-2009

NEWCASTLE UNITED

 v

HULL CITY

  Date: Sunday 14th September 2008
  Venue: St James' Park
  Kick Off: 12:00am (AEST)
  Referee: Andre Marriner (West Midlands)
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  Weather Forecast: 17c
 

 

  Betting:
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Newcastle  win Draw Bolton win
$1.65 $3.60 $5.50
   
  Squad:
  Given, Harper, Beye, N'Zogbia, Taylor, Coloccini, Cacapa, Bassong, Tozer, Edgar, Butt, Geremi, Guthrie, Smith, Gonzalez, Owen, Xisco, Donaldson, Ranger
   
  Newcastle captain Michael Owen:
  "Whatever the events of the past couple of weeks off the field, all the players here are proper professionals, we are all paid to do a job, and we have to go out and continue to do that job.

"The only thing the players can do is play to their best and get good results for the club, and we have to focus on doing that.

"We are all in it together, we all have to pull together and we all want the best for this football club."

   
  Match Stats:
 
 @ St James' Park
 All Time: Newcastle 3 wins Hull 1 wins Draws 0
 Premier League Only: Newcastle 0 wins Hull 0 wins Draws 0
   
  Form - Last 5 games
 
 Newcastle United
PREM L 0-1 Arsenal
CC2R W 2-3 Coventry City
PREM W 1-0 Bolton W
PREM D 1-1 Manchester United
FR W 2-1 Valencia
 
 Bolton W
PREM L 0-5 Wigan A
CC2R L 1-2 Swansea City
PREM D 1-1 Blackburn R
PREM W 2-1 Fulham
FR L 0-1 Osasuna
   
 

Match Preview:

 

Caretaker Newcastle boss Chris Hughton is likely to be without Habib Beye (Achilles), while Jonas Gutierrez is also a doub tand Joey Barton serves the first match of a six game ban.

Damien Duff (knee), Mark Viduka
(Achilles) and Obafemi Martins (groin) all remain sidelined, while Andy Carroll and Kazenga LuaLua are all back in some level of training but are yet to play any games since their respective injuries.

George Boateng and Anthony Gardner are expected to return for Hull. New loan signings Kamil Zayatte and Paul McShane are in contention, but Daniel Cousin is suspended.


It has been well documented of the details of a march by boycotting Newcastle supporters and those intending to enter SJP after kick-off on Saturday as follows:

Meet opposite Tilleys Bar on Westgate Road for a 3pm march to SJP (Shearer's). Further details/signup here.

And for those who wish to vent their feelings before kick-off, there promises to be a gathering outside Old Milburn Reception from 2pm.

Presumably there's no reason why the Tilleys folk can't also be outside the Milburn at 2pm as well.

The downturn in revenue caused by boycotts of club merchandise and SJP food and drink outlets including Shearer's has already been noticed and remains a legitimate avenue of demonstrating disaffection.

And on a wider scale, boycotts of other businesses owned by Mike Ashley, including Sports Direct and Lillywhites continue. For a list of the numerous other companies and brands under the Sports Direct banner click here.

Whether are not Kevin Keegan does return to the football club or not remains to be seem, but the most important fact, regardless of your feeling towards to the current owners, is that Newcastle United must try and be helped to get 3 points in this game.

 
HOWAY THE LADS!!!

By Row 'S' Army

 
  Did you know?
- A rather shit one this time, but your writer of this match preview had his first and only experience of being on the SJP pitch following an end of season pitch evasion
when we lost 1-2 to Hull on the last day of the 1990/1991 season.