Newcastle vs Wigan (20:00) - Sky Sports 1

SirDelboy18

Lineups -

Newcastle: Krul; Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini (c), Santon; Tiote, Anita;, Marveaux, Gutierrez; Ba. Cisse

Wigan: Al Habsi, Caldwell, Boyce, Figueroa, Jones, McCarthy, Gomez, Beausejour, Stam, Kone, Di Santo

Two sides in poor form here, Newcastle perhaps needing the win more. Newcastle have lost their last 4 and are facing injuries to key players such as Ben Arfa and Cabaye.

Wigan have lost 3 of their last 4, and haven't won in St James' Park over their last 6 visits.

Prediction = Newcastle to get that badly needed win, 2-1.

The_Kew_Tour

Would not surprise me if Wigan won this.

Goal in it either way.

I will go 1-1

IvySlayer

Can see Wigan nicking 2-1, then again, they are impossible to predict.

M5

Newcastle pushed up at least 10 yards further than normal. Its the correct thing to do. We ahve let pretty much every team this year have as much of the ball as they want. Route of our problems.

Paully D

Alan Parry is an embarrassment.

M5

Ref lenient today... Should have 2 on yellows already

M5

We'll take that...

applehunter

So harsh.

Looked shoulder to shoulder to me.

IvySlayer

Red card and peno

Max Power

Very harsh!!

Will I Amnt

Looked very harsh to me.

M5

Shoulder in the back, bit oof a pointless challange..

Anyway, deserve a break... GET IN

Paully D

That is pathetic.

A_Sober_Paddy

Thankfully its not just me who thought that was a very harsh decision

M5

Agreed its a harsh sending off. Disagree with anyone who says its not a foul though...

If you use your shoulder you need to make sure you contact the other payers shoulder. The wigan player contacted Cisses back.

Unfortunately he was last man, for that he had to go

Will I Amnt

If he made that challenge further left or right to see the ball out over the line he would have got a goal kick.

M5

WTF were our back 2 at????? Jasus

niallo27

Wohoo stuck a fiver on Ba to score first.

Paul Tergat

game over

M5

Get in! Santon doing that all season. Gona be ascreamer eventually

M5

Get Tiote off now

Moneymaker

Almost a positive Tiote will be going to ACON.

Guy is a total liability.

M5

I'd like to say its game over but out defense has been shocking recently... Wigan were almost in twice.

Dont think caldwells challenge was worse than Cisses

M5

Moneymaker wrote: »

Almost a positive Tiote will be going to ACON.

Guy is a total liability.

Not as much of a Liability as Perch, Jonas, Anita etc... Head and shoulders our best available midfielder.

Dont think he can play any other than 100%% though

Mars Bar

Wigan have no one going in the box when they get forward.

Will I Amnt

Knocking long balls up to Kone ain't gonna get you anywhere.

Jax Teller

Should be off

M5

Now he should be off.... Another needless tackle

M5

cambo2008 wrote: »

Knocking long balls up to Kone ain't gonna get you anywhere.

I wouldnt count anything out with the way the NUFC back 4 are playing

dastardly00

I'll be amazed if Caldwell doesn't get sent off at some stage.

markie29

commentator just said there are not many Wigan fans at the game because their buses were caught up in an accident...were the newcastle fans with them?...because so many empty seats at the ground.

M5

Need to keep it tight, a goal would for Wigan would make us very nervous! Couple of collapses this season already

grenache

Did some famous Geordie die ? SJP is like a morgue tonight.

applehunter

Game ruined by sending off.

Don't think it was a foul tbh.

bazual

Strange atmosphere alright. nice to see us pass the ball about but you can still see williamson is a liability in the back 4 and we need a quality cb in january. Anita having an ok game too but Wigan making this easy for the toon the way they are playing with 10 men.
What is Neville on about eh? It may have been slightly harsh baut cisse was in front of fig so penalty and unfortunate red card.

M5

grenache wrote: »

Did some famous Geordie die ? SJP is like a morgue tonight.

Empty and quiet. They were flogging 15 pound tickets earlier in the week.

BetterCallSaul

The atmosphere at SJP is not what it once was at all.

Been fairly dead the last few times I've been there.

M5

Tiote off for NUFC. Not really sure we can afford to be complacent...

Calwell dito

cadete

I thought anita had a great first half there and has been good in the last couple of games, im sure we all remember how long it took sasnton to settle in and i think we have a very good player on our hands, marveaux has been good aswell ba and cisse have been combining well and looking forward to seeing bigi in the second half really good young player

M5

BetterCallSaul wrote: »

The atmosphere at SJP is not what it once was at all.

Been fairly dead the last few times I've been there.

Get your ar*e over to the derby

M5

cadete wrote: »

I thought anita had a great first half there and has been good in the last couple of games, im sure we all remember how long it took sasnton to settle in and i think we have a very good player on our hands, marveaux has been good aswell ba and cisse have been combining well and looking forward to seeing bigi in the second half really good young player

Would like to see us getting a couple of FB's, let Santon replace jonas who has been awful tpday

Nervy from NUFC. Prob need a third to be sure

Moneymaker

We've stopped playing since the second went in.

Fair play to Wigan for making a game of it though.

FFS Santon off injured now! It never ends.

M5

Santon, injured too? Surely not! Groin by the looks of it

M5

Newcastle reverted to the deep lying tactics.... Giving wigan too much space, which they are using

bazual

Nice from Marveaux, he just needs a bit of confidence and could turn into a useful player for us.

Santon would be better pushed higher alright. His defending isnt the best, a bit like Olivier Bernard. Lets hope injury isnt serious but with our luck.....

M5

FFS newcastle, indicitive of Pardew teams. Foot off the gas at 2:0.

missingtime

Great run!

M5

Putrid second half from NUFC. No pressing at all. We look like the side with 10 men. Only creating on the break. Dangerous game....

bazual

Jonas, Cisse and Williamson have been pi$$ poor tonight. Ba and Marveaux have been our best players.

M5

Anita has had 2 decent games, perhaps he has finally settled?

Tasty from fergie!

cadete

if we dont pick up the pace soon we will concede for sure, wigan have been the better side in this second half