Newc vs Boro

Newc vs Boro

Predictions please?

a hard one to call but i thinks we can beats the smog monsters!!!

2-1 the toon!

3 - 1 to the Mighty Boro...

2-0 to the toon

i'm hoping for a good old fashioned one nil, but its much more likely to be 2-2.

hoping for a goodun as its my first visit to st james for a few years also. though im with the prawn sandwich brigade so it will be partially bearable afterwards, if we lose

3-2 toon

after taking Arsenal and Man U scalps i feel the 'toon' will make a suitable addition to Boro's collection

2-1 boro

YKTS!!!

I like you

Strange how Arsenal won the league game & the FA cup game but lost League cup games.

Sounds like a pre-arranged deal btwn both clubs.

just from a neutral perspective that sounds like toon paranoia to me spence

Do you not find it a little strange?

Neutral???? Where are you living at the moment?

Your right we could get well walloped because our right back is terrible!!!! Where is he from again.........

I've put 1-0 Newcastle in the draw at work

he is saving himself for Norway so we don't get that record

Probs cos Arsenal put a weakened team out for the League cup

1-0 to the toon!

2-1 boro init

Juninho & Zenden will be the goalscorers.

1-2

Just some stats.....

Smog on the Tyne - Premiership


2002/03: Won 2-0 Ameobi, S.Caldwell
2001/02: Won 3-0 Speed, Shearer, Bernard
2000/01: Lost 1-2 Cort
1999/00: Won 2-1 Shearer 2
1998/99: Drew 1-1 Shearer
1996/97: Won 3-1 Beardsley 2, Lee
1995/96: Won 1-0 Ferdinand

And for comparison, Toon on Smogside:

2003/04: Won 1-0 Ameobi
2002/03: Lost 0-1 No scorer
2001/02: Won 4-1 Shearer 2, Dabizas, Robert
2000/01: Won 3-1 Shearer, Goma, Dyer.
1999/00: Drew 2-2 Speed, Pistone
1998/99: Drew 2-2 Charvet, Dabizas
1996/97: Won 1-0 Ferdinand
1995/96: Won 2-1 Watson, Ferdinand

Past records count for nothing Spence... I will cook you a nice big humble pie and you better be ready to eat it!

After reading the following I hope your right:

Received wisdom has it that teams who have qualified for a cup final often ease off in the final game or two before the big day, as players try to avoid injury and generally keep their boots clean to make sure they're in the lineup shaking hands with some old buffer or other.

However, a quick look at the form of the smogsters before their recent Cup final appearances doesn't exactly add to this theory:

1996/97 League Cup final followed:
Boro 1 Forest 1

1996/97 League Cup final replay followed: Boro 3 Chesterfield 3

1996/97 FA Cup final followed:
Leeds 1 Boro 1

1997/98 League Cup final followed:
Boro 3 Norwich 0