Match Threads Newcastle vs Tottenham Hotspur - Match Thread

[hellava_tough]

There you go, it'll be like we made a signing after all!

I'll be down the pub during the game, waxing lyrical about our new Spanish signing and the locals will be looking at me in a sympathetic and patronising tone!!

 

[Metalhead]

I'll be down the pub during the game, waxing lyrical about our new Spanish signing and the locals will be looking at me in a sympathetic and patronising tone!!

I'm madly optimistic that Llorente will have a better season.

 

[hellava_tough]

I'm madly optimistic that Llorente will have a better season.

Hopefully - the guy's a decent enough player, who has been with some big clubs in his time

 

[Metalhead]

Hopefully - the guy's a decent enough player, who has been with some big clubs in his time

He looked a bit leaner in preseason.

 

[samsonlevi]

Has poch been hitting the gym over the summer?

Yep he’s our new CB incase we sell Toby.

 

[thePessimist]

Meltdown prediction times ladies and gentlemen. I'll go for 5 minutes after kick off.

I’ll go for 1 hour before KO with Sissoko on the team sheet

 

[aliyid]

I’ll go for 1 hour before KO with Sissiko on the team sheet

It’s a strong shout, I’m going for 6mins with the first shout of FFS Dele

 

[Matthew]

i hope due to injuries and his pre season form skipp has done enough for a start, be brave. couldn't possibly do any worse than sissoko. heart tells me 2-1 spurs. head tells me 1-1 or 1-0 loss! COYMFS

 

[Mr Pink]

2-0 Spurs.

Eriksen and Lucas.

 

[ajspurs]

Will be very interesting to see how we lineup. If Alderweireld will start, if we'll go 4-3-3, if Lucas will start and be considered more of an integral player to the team etc.

Just can't wait to finally see us playing again. COYS!

 

[knowlespurs]

Can’t see any reason why Kane won’t play , Pogba did yesterday and am sure Kane will want to , prob son Eriksen and Moura behind

 

[Dinghy]

Just a shot in the dark... anyone know if there is somewhere decent to watch this in Sibenik (Croatia)?

 

[TheChosenOne]

Match: English Premier League - Round 1

When: Saturday 11th August 2018

Where: St James's Park

Kick Off: 1230 pm

Referee: Martin Atkinson

Newcastle have lost their last two league games meetings with us, failing to score in both those games. They last lost three in a row against us in 2005 (four consecutive defeats, all without scoring)

At St James' Park , Newcastle have lost three of their last four clashes with us, with that win coming via their 5-1 win on the final day of 2015-16 season. We have only failed to score in one of their last 25 EPL meetings with Newcastle - a 0-1 home defeat in November 2013.

This will be the fourth time Newcastle and us have met on the opening weekend of an EPL campaign, more often than any other fixture in the competition. Newcastle have lost just one of their eight home league games in 2018, vs WBA in April. This run includes victories over Manu Arsenal and Chelsea, who all finished in the top six in 2017 - 18

We are playing our first match of the season away from home for the eighth consecutive campaign. In the English top - flight history, only Burnley have ever had a longer such run of playing away in a season opener (nine games between 1888 - 89 and 1896 - 97

We have lost just one of our nine away legue games in 2018 (W5, D3, L1), losing to WBA in May. Only Man City (41) have won more EPL points so far in 2018, we have 40.

Harry Kane has never scored a premier league goal in the month of August, despite playing 13 games, 898 minutes and attempting 44 shots

Cheers Bulletspur for the intro/thread start.

Harry to start, score and end this August hoodoo.

oh. A nice win again please.

 

[mckenz]

Meltdown prediction times ladies and gentlemen. I'll go for 5 minutes after kick off.

After Kickoff?


My prediction will be 1.3 seconds after the squad is announced

 

[mckenz]

Really looking forward to this, 1-2 my thinking

 

[Romulus]

COYS... Footballs back

 

[Yid-ol]

Meltdown prediction times ladies and gentlemen. I'll go for 5 minutes after kick off.

Can I say from the last few weeks?

 

[riggi]

Hope we lose so we can prove the positive people wrong!!!

 

[zinzanzee]

Finally the football can do the talking. Kane will probably demand to start, break his August drought and get us off to a flyer. Most of all this game kicks off at a reasonable time in OZ..........COYS

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Has poch been hitting the gym over the summer?

He does look rather more streamlined.