West Bromwich Albion (A), 1st game of the season Options

[Marko NUFC]

WEST BROMWICH ALBION v NEWCASTLE UNITED
Newcastle return to competitive action this coming Saturday, when they travel to face West Bromwich Albion in the opening round of Championship fixtures.

Kickoff at The Hawthorns is at 5.30pm, live on BBC1.
The Chronicle confirm that Alan Shearer will be in attendance as part of the BBC's commentary team.

Here we go, still can't belive we are in the Championship...
Tough game for us, I predict 2-2 draw against the Baggies. Scorers Barton and Smith .

My first XI:

Harper
R.Taylor Colo S.Taylor Enrique
Jonas Nolan Barton Duff
Smith
Carroll

No manager, no new owner, no new players, good ones gone, turmoil surrounding our club, but still nice to see that players see that also...
Steven Taylor comments, Friday:

“I’ve read every week that Alan Shearer is going to be named manager. Then Joe Kinnear is going to get the job, then Kevin Keegan and then Alan again. I don’t get it. It’s a joke. The players are very frustrated because all we want to do is have a manager and a bit of stability. That’s all we ask for.

“The new manager should be given time to do things his way and, if he wants something, just give it to him. The chairman, if he loves the football club — not as a business, but as a club — would do that. I’m devastated that Alan hasn’t got the job. We haven’t got a clue what’s going on.

"We’re taking responsibility. Who is going to help us? Relegation has brought us closer together. Last year, we probably thought we were too good to good to go down. It was boring around the place. It just felt dead. There was no life until people realised we could get relegated.

“Until Alan took charge, we didn’t have meetings. People would walk into the changing rooms and out on to the training pitch and I wouldn’t see some lads until we were out there. Now we mix for an hour or so before we go out. We feel more humble and we didn’t have that last year.

“Now, if set-pieces aren’t right, we practise until they are. Last season, it was almost a case of thinking ‘they’ll be okay on Saturday’ . They weren’t. Maybe it was a lack of leadership. We have to hold our hands up, admit our mistakes and put them right.

“There’s no big ‘I am’. We are Championship players. It feels like us against the world. Who will give the motivational talk before kick off? It depends which players are left."

[Marat]

1-1 is a good result, i'd say.

let's try to be positive, may be we'll have a good season.
now it's a problem to find highlights in HQ, isn't it?

[Marko NUFC]

It is good result IMO... 1-1 away from home, 1st game in 2nd tier with no manager, no owner...

About highlights... there will be something like Match of the Day on BBC, if I find anything I will post it.

[Marko NUFC]

Added highlights in video section.