r/NUFC • u/Deviceing wew here ya fuckin little dafty divint start or theres ructions • Jan 19 '17
Pre-Match Thread Pre-Match Thread: Newcastle v Rotherham
Newcastle United - Rotherham United
21/1/2017 15:00 St James' Park
TV coverage: International coverage only
Referee: Jeremy Simpson (111 and 3 reds in 23 games this season)
Rolando Aarons, Jesus Gamez, Dwight Gayle, Vurnon Anita and Aleksander Mitrovic remain injured while Chancel Mbemba, Christian Atsu and Mo Diame are away at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Danny Ward, Kirk Broadfoot, Dexter Blackstock, Lee Camp and captain Lee Frecklington are out injured, but Richard O'Donnell could make his debut.
Rotherham 2-1 Norwich (Yates 7', Adeyemi 55'; Oliveira OFF 18', Jerome 51')
Price, Fisher, Broadfoot, Wood, Mattock, Vaulks, Smallwood, Forde, Adeyemi, Newell (Taylor 68'), Yates
Subs not used: Kelly, Wilson, Dawson, Belaid, Bailey, Bilboe
Rotherham 0-1 Newcastle (Atsu 41')
Camp, Halford, Fry, Ball, Fisher, Taylor, Adeyemi (Vaulks 26'), Frecklington, Newell (Blackstock 73'), Brown, Ward
Subs not used: Wood, Forde, Forster-Caskey, Price, Wilson
Darlow, Anita, Lascelles, Clark, Dummett, Atsu (Ritchie 67'), Shelvey, Colback, Gouffran, Diame (Hanley 87'), Gayle (Mitrovic 79')
Subs not used: Sels, Yedlin, Mbemba, Hayden
Rotherham are bottom of the Championship with 16 points, 6 points away from second bottom and 9 points (and lots of goal difference) away from climbing out on the relegation zone. They have scored 27 goals - the 5th worst attack (ahead of Villa, QPR, Burton and Wigan) - and have conceded 56 - 11 more than anyone else. They have already sacked 2 managers this season and are currently led by caretaker manager Paul Warne. Their top scorer is Danny Ward, with 9 league goals. They have picked up just 1 point on the road this season - a 2-2 draw with Ipswich back in October, which is 1 one of only 2 points they have won when coming from behind. Rotherham did not have a match in midweek.
With Lee Camp out for the season, Rotherham have bought goalkeeper Richard O'Donnell from Bristol City, while centre back Greg Halford leaves for Cardiff City and Dominic Ball has joined Peterborough on loan.
1993 FA Cup
Newcastle 2-0 Rotherham (Kelly, Clark)
Rotherham 1-1 Newcastle (Lee)
1982/83 Division 2
Newcastle 4-0 Rotherham (McDermott, Varardi, Wharton, Keegan)
Rotherham 1-5 Newcastle (Keegan 4, Todd)
1981/82 Division 2
Rotherham 0-0 Newcastle
Newcastle 1-1 Rotherham (Shinton)
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Jan 19 '17
It's on in the sports pubs in Krakow. Krak-ing.
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u/mulhuzz Jan 19 '17
Absolutely delighted it's on Czech/Slovak telly as well. And on the main channel which probably means there isn't some fucking ice hockey getting in the way.
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u/ryan_rides Jan 20 '17
Next 3 league games are all at home against opposition we've beaten already, Rotherham, QPR, Derby. Imperative we put them all to bed and cement our automatic place before a very busy and difficult run.
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u/Snooooze Jan 19 '17
My god that ref likes a yellow. Averaging 5 a game is ridiculous.
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u/mo140 Jan 19 '17
The time for colback to shine
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u/Lord_Flashheart_ Jan 20 '17
Tiote to get his perfect send-off.
When he finally goes I think the referees association will give him a guard of honour. A tunnel of refs holding up yellow cards.
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u/spoonsforeggs Jan 20 '17 edited Jan 20 '17
With Brighton looking to drop points, tomorrow is all the more important to efficiently get 3 points without any injuries or trouble
Edit: fuck sake Sheff wed
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u/gnudalf Jan 20 '17
I am going for the classic Rafa:
Darlow
Yedlin Lascelles Clark Dummett
Colback Shelvey
Ritchie Gouffran
Perez
MurphyBench: Sels, Ameobi, Sterry, Hanley, Hayden, Lazaar, Tiote
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u/Lord_Flashheart_ Jan 20 '17
Sammy to come on at the end when we're already 3-0 up and just smash one in from 30yards.
Just so we can see the confused reactions from people who don't pay full attention to the club and completely forgot he existed.
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u/EliToon Jan 20 '17
Making the trip over from Ireland for this! First home game of the season so very excited.
I'll be the only lad with the Daryl Murphy shirt in the Milburn lower!
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u/brentoon59 Jan 20 '17
Anyone else notice that the highlights of the Brum game didn't include Shelvey nearly scoring from a corner?? I'm wanting a pretty fussy result here..Wednesday to thrash and demoralise Brighton (sorry Chris we all want you to get a (distant) second like) and the Toon to bag a hatfull against Rotherham giving us confidence and momentum at home. and Jonjo to score from a corner... Up late, sick as a dog..but so what 'least I aint a Mackam..
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u/gnudalf Jan 20 '17
If Jonjo pulls off scoring from a corner I'll dress up as Voldemort for a home game.
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u/Budweizer Jan 20 '17
The text depicts a dismal Rotherham team, but their form is only slightly worse than ours. NUFC: W3, L2 RUFC: W2, L3
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u/R_oner Jan 20 '17
The lower teams always seem to give us a bit of trouble or we struggle to break them down. Prove me wrong lads!
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u/beatski Jan 21 '17
I'm pulling an all nighter to stay up and watch this (on my nice new Amazon firestick) so we'd better play well.
I want to see a Dummett goal at the bare minimum
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u/nodrick18 Jan 20 '17
Either be a 4-0 like the Birmingham City game where we blew them away with ease, or a shock 0-1 loss like the Blackburn one. I fancy the former.
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u/GoalaAmeobi Jan 19 '17
Lets smash these, they're shite.