Location – Vicarage Road  Kick Off – 19.45pm   Date – 7th of November 2006 
Tickets - Cash seats maybe available via Watford Box Office (Call 0870 111 1881) 
Coverage – BBC Radio Newcastle 95.4FM  Referee – Lee Mason

I have a theory why Lorelle & Hardy weren’t at the game on Saturday. I think that they were at one of these stupid management training weekends because it seems that Newcastle United have installed a motivational coach / guest speaker at the training ground and he goes by the name of “Fredrick Shepherd”. You may know him in his other role at the club as the Fat Controller who is solely responsible for the mess we find ourselves in at the moment. I think the main downfall of his whole approach to his motivational speech was flawed from the very start mainly due to his complete lack of knowledge of football, man-management, business acumen and financial planning. He went on to say that he thinks that main problem that we are joint bottom of the Premiership is down to the fact that the first team has forgotten who they are playing for. To be brutally honest looking at the game on Saturday it looked like they didn’t have a ‘kin clue how to play the game let alone who they were playing for. The complete and utter nonsense that no-one else is prepared to step into his shoes couldn’t be any further from the truth just open your eyes Fat Boy. Oh well back to the football, we make a lengthy trip down the M1 to the small Hertfordshire town of Watford. Adie Boothroyd welcomes us through the gates at Vicarage road a man who probably won’t find it difficult to motivate his team before they take the pitch on Tuesday night. I can imagine we will put out a similar team to the one that won in Sicily last week mainly to give the main stars (I know, stop exaggerating) a rest. Well a place in the fifth round beckons, but will that be enough to tempt the team that turns out on Tuesday to put in a decent shift and heaven forbid a win!!

Likely Squads:

Watford - Lee, Doyley, DeMerit, Shittu, Stewart, Mackay, Powell, Mariappa, Smith, Mahon, Francis, Bouazza, Spring, Bangura, McNamee, Young, Henderson, Priskin, Jarrett, Chamberlain, Blizzard.

Man to Watch – Shittu – funny name… not overly confident who everyone else is!!

Fitness News – Ben Foster (Knee)

NUFC - Harper, Srnicek, Given, Carr, Taylor, Ramage, Babayaro, Huntington, Moore, Bramble, Parker, Emre, Solano, N'Zogbia, Milner, Pattison, Duff, Rossi, Sibierski, Luque, Carroll, Butt.

Man to Watch – Sibierski – Needs to start scoring soon.

Fitness News – Given (Stomach) Dyer (Nearly) Bernard (Nearly) Ameobi (Next Season) Owen (Next Season)

Late Fitness Tests – Emre.

”Reasons to be cheerful” – A German coke-head wants a job at SJP, Roeder has put his knitting down and piped up on the shite they call the first team and Shepherd has played the Geordie card to try and keep his job…. Sorry but that one made me laugh.

Keep On, Keepin’ On…

ES