Both my dad and grandad were at this replay. No idea what the crowd was when they drew 1-1 at Newcastle the previous Saturday. Dad always wore a trilby to football matches and grandad a bowler hat. Cannot see them! Is live on TV here early Wed. morning.
Attendance at Newcastle was 63,486. Obviously due to the Geordies wanting to see the mighty Tigers and a huge travelling support.
The next game after Tuesday is six days away. So no need to mess with any squad rotation or saving legs.
Can't see us beating them, but you never know Won't see them anyway as I'm not around Team selection needs 2 up top, Mason not on the left, and Hendriksen on the bench (very odd, he might come good and it could still be not being used to a different style of play...I deliberately watched him for a while on Saturday after not realising he was playing for a fair while. Whenever we have the ball he seems to run away...he might well be going into excellent positions if we had someone looking for the pass, but it made him look like he didn't want the ball.) Oh and I'd bring in Jak. It's not unusual to swap goalkeepers for cup games so wouldn't totally make Marshall look bad, but if he had a great game I'd maybe give him a run after that (which would make Marshall look bad Im afraid)
Lucozade was concocted in a Newcastle pharmacy in 1927 by Thomas Beech, and originally called Glucozade. Greggs the bakers first opened in Gosforth in 1951. There are now more shops in the UK than there are branches of McDonald’s. Newcastle Brown is America’s most imported British ale. Newcastle had the world’s first covered railway station. The City was originally called ‘Monkchester’ . “New Castle upon Tyne” actually owes its name to a wooden castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthouse, the son of William the Conqueror. Jimmy Hendrix was discovered in New York in 1966 by Geordie music producer Chas Chandler, who brought him back to Newcastle. Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge of 1849 opened and it was the first road/rail bridge in the world. The windscreen wiper was dreamt up by club photographer Gladstone Adams in 1908 as he drove home from a Newcastle United cup final in a storm. Newcastle United was formed by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and originally played in red and white stripes. In 1881 Mosley Street in Newcastle became the first street in the world to be illuminated by electric light. The world’s first organised dog show was held in Newcastle on June 28 1859. The location of the ground was historically a place of execution. In 1650, 22 people - including 15 witches - went to the gallows. The last hanging took place there in 1844. Between 1904 and 1925, Northern Ireland International Billy McCracken played left back. He became so adept at playing the off side trap, Newcastle were often booed at away grounds for goalless draws, causing the FA to change the rules. McCracken left to manage Hull City to the 1930 FA Cup semi final before he became a scout for Watford and discovered Pat Jennings.
Newcastle's China Town boasts the most number of independent noodle bars per square mile anywhere on the planet, surprisingly outstripping both Hong Kong and Beijing.
He might go 352 with a bit of luck. Jak Harry Daws Curtis Elmo Hudd Clucas Mason/Jake Robbo Mbokani/Dio.
Cup quarter final. Give some first teamers a rest? Opportunity to try some experimenting? I ****ing despair
The Roman settlement that pre-dated Monkchester was called Pons Aelius. During the introduction to Newcastle presentation when I started uni, the head of the History department postulated that the name "Geordies" came from the large number of slaves that were brough over from Jordan to work on The Wall. This is probably apocryphal. I haven't found any other mention of it.
I've heard a number of versions for the origin of geordie, but never that one. I recall something about the Roman Legions in that area being made up of soldiers from the middle east though. From memory, I think it said they were from Iraq. Tigris boatmen spring to mind, but I could be getting confused.
Maguire did the presser this morning... please log in to view this image BBC Humberside Sport @HumbersideSport Hull City head coach Mike Phelan says they've told Robert Snodgrass they intend to discuss a new deal with him in the near future.
Christ. That means Maguires starting. That feels like wholesale changes. Phelans going to YOLO this game. It'll either be brilliantly mental or disastrously mental.
Nothing wrong with bringing in Maguire or Huddlestone but going much further than that would be silly. Talk of Bowen playing as the lone striker etc is total bollocks.
Agree with Maguire playing. Jak should start. Huddz too. 3-5-2 should be the formation and the players should run on to the pitch with clear instructions of get the **** into them and maul the crap out of them. Not gonna happen while we're stuck with lovely old Mikey.
