[Archived] Other Premier League Happenings

[Hasta]

Yep. Finished 0-0. Newcastle huffed and puffed for 60 mins then ran out of ideas.

Too many pleayers past their best and too many not good enough. I think they're screwed.

[Tom]

Nice result for us, honestly shocked they didn't win, as poor as they've been I thought they'd get there on will alone against a prettty much safe pompey team.

A loss for them would have been better but we can't be too greedy. The best news is one of Newcastles easier games is now gone without a win.

[DE.]

I've said all along Newcastle are crap, and tonight proves it. can't see them getting enough points now to survive.

[T4E]

Absolutely love it. They're history, and I can honestly say if there's one team I would have wanted to go down its them.

[Tom]

They're not down yet but it's getting harder for them, lets hope Liverpool turn up next week and we can sneak a point, 3 games left and 7 points ahead would be nice

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

They are not down and out yet.

[DE.]

If Hull beat Stoke at home it is game over for Newcastle. That team will struggle to pick up another win this season. Teeside derby will definately decide one of the relegation places...

[Mozzer]

newcastle still have two winnable home games - middlesbrough and fulham..

id be worried if i was a sunderland or a hull fan-i cant either of those winning any of their remaining matches..

[philipl]

They are not down and out yet.

You didn't see them tonight then.

[DE.]

Most of the people saying they think Newcastle will stay up or that they can still survive generally have not watched them this season. I've been convinced since January that they were going down and I feel the same now. Their team has no creativity, kind of like us at times, but unlike us they have no desire and no passion. For the last 30 minutes tonight it was Portsmouth who looked like the relegation threatened team, and Portsmouth came closest (3 times) to winning the match. How many more "must-win"/"winnable" matches do Newcastle have to draw/lose before people realise the writing is on the wall? The only way they will get out of it is for Hull and Sunderland to lose all of their games from now until the end of the season. Admittedly, in both cases that is possible, but as it stands, Newcastle are staring Championship football in the face, and they have nobody but themselves to blame.

[Tom]

Toon now need to beat Fulham and Boro and take a point off liverpool or villa and we need to lose all ours for them to catch us.

A good target would be to seal mathematical safety at the pompey game to make the last 2 games a bit more relaxed.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

You didn't see them tonight then.

I watched every minute.

[tcj_jones]

I'm praying for Hull to pick up a win, because I think it will send Newcastle down.

Just imagine how busy the summer will be if the likes of Coloccini, Beye, Taylor, Duff, Gutierrez, Butt, Guthrie, Owen, Martins, Viduka, Wheater, Huth, Downing, Tuncay and Alves are all sold / released.

[BRFC1995]

I'm praying for Hull to pick up a win, because I think it will send Newcastle down.

Just imagine how busy the summer will be if the likes of Coloccini, Beye, Taylor, Duff, Gutierrez, Butt, Guthrie, Owen, Martins, Viduka, Wheater, Huth, Downing, Tuncay and Alves are all sold / released.

just wrote a message to wind newcastle fans up on their board about this point.....................as they'll all still be newcastle players in the championship as no one will pay a transfer fee for any of that lot given the wages they are on and how bad they are..........they'd all have to take paycuts to get a move, and footballers don't like doing that

£10.3m they paid for coloccinni and he is worse than amo at his worst..........he'll be there for life like that spanish defender they bought off mallorca ages ago who was terrible for £5m.

they'll never see the back of duff, butt, viduka, smith.........conservative guess at £250k per week inthe championship, would that be the administrators knocking at the door..............magic

[thenodrog]

The only person I feel sorry for is Mike Ashley.

eh? I'm guessing that you're taking the p1ss there?

[Mr. E]

They are not down and out yet.

I've calculated that they'll go down by one point. (currently 3 ahead)

They've got Pool, Villa, Boro, Fulham - 6 points maximum.

Hull have Villa, Stoke, Bolton, Man Un (who will be champions by then) - 4 points is quite achievable.

[Iceman]

I cant see Newcastle getting more than 4 points from their final games.

Liverpool- lose

Villa- lose

Boro- win

Fulham- draw

[FINRover]

Hmmm..

Liverpool- lose

Villa- draw

Boro- win

Fulham- win

NUFC total points 38.

[philipl]

Hmmm..

Liverpool- lose

Villa- draw

Boro- win

Fulham- win

NUFC total points 38.

There would have to be a dramatic improvement over last night's performance to get results like that.

[thenodrog]

There would have to be a dramatic improvement over last night's performance to get results like that.

I find it's best to always assume the worst. On that basis we need more points. It'd be stupid to take our collective foot off the gas. Not necessarily. Pompey were scrapping for their lives too. Villa and Fulham are hardly form teams are thay? End of season matches rarely pay much regard to the league table

[Guest Kamy100]

With last night's result I would say 2 more points would make Rovers safe.

[hawkiiz]

how are they going to pick up points from fulham and villa? they are pushing for europe, and playing very well. newcastle look like they have totally lost the plot. even the fans left the stadium 5 minutes from time yesterday. they are totally out of it. i believe they will win at boro, and maybe pick a point from the other three if they are lucky. even alan shearer was standing in the tunnel looking into the wall yesterday when it was 5 minutes from time. a complete mess.

[Guest Vinjay606]

how are they going to pick up points from fulham and villa?

Perhaps the same way Villa's last 9 league opponents have picked up points against them.

Fulham have still been poor away from home for the majority of this season. A couple of away wins this year though most recently at COMS.

[Eddie]

There would have to be a dramatic improvement over last night's performance to get results like that.

They didn't play very well and Portsmouth could have scored, but Newcastle had their fair share of chances.

[LeChuck]

Toon now need to beat Fulham and Boro and take a point off liverpool or villa and we need to lose all ours for them to catch us.

That's not quite right, Newcastle already have slightly better goal difference than us. If we lost all our remaining games two wins and two losses would be enough for Newcastle. Still seems very unlikely though.