Jimbo

1-0 Martins !!!

Might have to take a letcherous drive down the seafront soon to cast my eye across the sunshine fanny.

Cheers Glenn Relegation form.

Sheffield United v Newcastle Bramall Lane Saturday, 7 April Kick-off: 1500 BST Striker Danny Webber could return to Sheffield United's squad after missing the game at Bolton with a foot injury. With leading scorer Rob Hulse ruled out for the season with a broken leg Jon Stead is challenging Christian Nade for a place in the starting line-up. Newcastle defender Craig Moore could retain his place despite limping out of the defeat to Manchester City. Strike pair Michael Owen and Shola Ameobi (hip) are close to returning to full training. Sheff Utd (from): Kenny, Davis, Jagielka, Kozluk, Lucketti, Kilgallon, Armstrong, Morgan, A Quinn, S Quinn, Fathi, Tonge, Montgomery, Leigertwood, Stead, Nade, Kazim-Richards, Geary, Gillespie, Bromby, Shelton. Newcastle (from): Given, Harper, Solano, Carr, Babayaro, Edgar, Taylor, Bramble, Onyewu, Moore, Ramage, Huntington, Butt, Parker, Milner, Duff, Emre, N'Zogbia, Pattison, Troisi, Martins, Dyer, Sibierski, Luque, Carroll, LuaLua. # Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock: "I would be very surprised if (boss) Glenn Roeder thinks they are safe on 37 points because I don't think that is going to be enough. "They have not had good results of late and he will be desperate for them to get back to winning ways so they can look forward to getting on the beach. "I think we should be up where Newcastle are so that's disappointing." # Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder: "Easter is an important period and we have two good games that we are all looking forward to. "The game against Sheffield United will certainly be a scrap and we have to make sure we're prepared for a battle. "We have had a disappointing run of late and my weekend was ruined by the defeat to Manchester City last week." BIG-MATCH FACTS SHEFFIELD UNITED take on Newcastle in what have become worrying days for the Blades. Manager Neil Warnock has seen a comfortable 10-point gap above the relegation line gradually evaporate. The Blades have only averaged a point a game this season, which is relegation form. Yorkshire's only Premiership club have scored just one goal in four winless outings. That was netted by leading scorer Rob Hulse against Everton on 3 March, just one match before his season prematurely came to an end with a double fracture of the leg sustained at Chelsea a fortnight later. The Blades are vying for a 50th competitive victory over Newcastle. They won the only previous home Premiership match against the Magpies in 1994, and are unbeaten in six home League games against them. A second half goal from Danny Webber was enough to secure all three points at St James' Park in November, and gives them the chance of a first 'double' this season. They last enjoyed home and away League victories over Newcastle in 1978-79 in the second tier, and last achieved it in the top flight in 1971-72. NEWCASTLE UNITED travel south in danger of tumbling to three defeats on the trot for the third time in this Premiership season. They're also in danger of a fourth successive League defeat on the road. Glenn Roeder's side appear to have hit the wall after defeat in the Uefa Cup. They've not scored in five of the last six in all competitions, and the match against Sheffield United brings together the bottom two in the Premiership's "Last Six Current Form" table with four points a piece from the last 18 available. The Magpies have gained just two points from six League visits to Bramall Lane, and not won there in a League fixture since the 1-2 success on 19 August 1972 (top tier). REFEREE Mark Halsey (Lancashire) Premiership referees' table Mark Halsey's 2006-07 Premiership card count SEQUENCES/RECENT FORM SHEFFIELD UNITED Club stats Fixtures Going into the weekend: 17th 31 points (all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premiership fixtures) 1. Not won in four games (one point out of 12). 2. Won one of the last six League outings. 3. Lost twice as many League games as won this season (won eight, lost 16). 4. Undefeated in five home League games. 5. Won five and drawn two (11 points out of 15) at Bramall Lane since losing 0-1 to Manchester City on Boxing Day. 6. Lost one of the last eight home top flight encounters. 7. Failed to score in one of the last 10 Premiership matches in south Yorkshire. 8. Managed only three League shut-outs at Bramall Lane so far. 9. Fielded more players than any other club in Premiership matches this season (32). 10. One of four Premiership clubs, not involved in Europe, with just one Easter fixture. The others are West Ham, Blackburn and Middlesbrough. Yet to host West Ham, visit Manchester United and Charlton and entertain Watford in April. NEWCASTLE UNITED Club stats Fixtures Going into the weekend: 11th 37 points (all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premiership fixtures) 1. Lost the last three in League and Cup. 2. Won one of six in all competitions. 3. Picked up one victory in six Premiership games, and one point from the last 12 available. 4. Need to score five more goals to total 800 all time in the Premier League. 5. Not lost three in a row in the highest League in 22 since beaten by Manchester United (a), Bolton (h) and Middlesbrough (a) between 1 and 22 October. 6. Not scored in 380 minutes (six hours 20 minutes) of Premiership football, since Nol Solano's penalty in the 2-1 home victory over Liverpool on 10 February. 7. Won one and lost six of the last seven away Premiership games, including the last three since an odd goal in five success at Tottenham on 14 January. 8. Kept just five Premiership clean sheets this season - fewer than any other club with the exception of Tottenham and West Ham, who have also managed just five. 9. Lost the lead nine times in Premiership matches, and dropped 15 points from winning positions. Lost home and away to Bolton, and home to Fulham, drawn home to Everton and Manchester United, and drawn away to Arsenal, having led in all six matches. 9. Home to Arsenal on Easter Monday. Thereafter in April, there's a long journey to Portsmouth, a home clash with Chelsea and a visit to Reading. KEY PLAYER NOTES/POTENTIAL MILESTONES SHEFFIELD UNITED Squad profiles The now injured Rob HULSE is Sheffield United's leading scorer with eight goals - all scored in the Premiership. Only Phil JAGIELKA has played every minute of every one of Sheffield United's Premiership matches this season. If they participate, Jonathan STEAD and Michael TONGE will both be playing on their 24th birthdays. If he plays, Keith GILLESPIE will be facing a former club. The Northern Ireland international midfielder made 147 appearances (113 in the Premiership) and scored 14 goals (11 Premiership) in three years for Newcastle before being transferred to Blackburn for £2.25m in December 1998. NEWCASTLE UNITED Squad profiles Obafemi MARTINS is Newcastle's top scorer with 16 goals - 10 of which are Premiership goals. Kieron DYER is a hat trick shy of 50 career club goals. If selected in the 11, James MILNER will be making his 100th career League start (Leeds, Swindon, Newcastle and Aston Villa. THIS SEASON'S REVERSE FIXTURE Newcastle United 0-1 Sheffield United 4 November 2006 - Ref: Steve Bennett Sheff Utd scorer: Webber 68 HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS Home and away League: Sheff Utd 43 wins, Newcastle 36, Draws 26 Prem: Sheff Utd 2 wins, Newcastle 1, Draws 0 at Sheff Utd only League: Sheff Utd 33 wins, Newcastle 6, Draws 13 Prem: Sheff Utd 1 win, Newcastle 0, Draws 0

Latest quotes from Glenn Roeder: "During the week at the training ground I sat down with the group. I don't like meetings on the day of a game when emotions are running high. I had a very positive response in the training session afterwards. "We are too quiet as a squad and I want them to be more talkative. That sort of quality will be something I am looking for when I buy new players in the summer. "We don't need any more quiet personalities. We need more loud people who voice their opinions. It's me who does most of the talking as well as the captain." "On Monday the players were down and they were hurting, like they should be. I was hurting as well. "We have two or three who are surprisingly low in confidence. There is only one way to get it back and that is hard work. You can make mistakes but play yourself through it. You will not regain your confidence if you don't put a shift in. "They will have to do it as you can't win games of football at this level if you are carrying three or four players." "We're obviously on a disappointing run. We have not shown an ability this year to not play very well and still dig out a result. Every point we have earned we have deserved. "I'm very interested to see the reaction of the players at Sheffield United. They will be in our faces and physically very strong. We have to do better than we have done against teams like that. "There are 21 points to play for to get us in the top half of the table. Then we will evaluate what happened to us this year with our horrific injuries." Couldn't resist mentioning the injuries again.

The Smiths - How soon is now ?

They might be giants - Bird house in your soul.

Olive - You're not alone.

In honor of my mate Radgina I'm listening to: Guns and Roses - Night train

I fucking hate safety winks.

oh don't say that !

Especially when there are others spouting even more shite while stone cold sober. well said !!!!1111"""!!!```111

Cheers dude, it had to be said !

Don't you ever get tired of stupidly defending Roeder? Patrokles taking the minority view just to garner more attention? Surely not. Ewerk talking shite again? Never. For clarification, Bombadil, luke and G, there's nothing in what I said that actually defends Roeder. I was simply pointing out a fact. Here's another fact; your frequent acting of the asshole is far more of an attention-seek than my quite reasonable posts. Which reasonable posts ?

Jimbo - is the youngest bairn a lass or a lad. i cant tell I'm not sure either but I think its probably a lad. i think its a lad as well but not many lads wear a pink hair clip True, and they've been careful to give him a neurtral name, Sammy.

Jimbo - is the youngest bairn a lass or a lad. i cant tell I'm not sure either but I think its probably a lad.

I've watched all 4 episodes so far, I'm really getting into it, although Eddie Izzard's American accent is terrible, although no where near as bad as Hugh Lawrie's in House, though its not done him any harm.

Not with that prick Roeder at the helm, no.

Canada or New Zealand.

There are times I wish I lived in Newcastle, in terms of getting games, seeing friends etc, but on the whole I don't wish that I'd been born a Geordie, nor does it piss me off when Newcastle fans are labeled as such.

Dunno ???